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A refugee from Twitter, now stupidly known as X. If you ban my right to reply to your posts then there is zero point me viewing your posts (block). I support Palestine action. #BollocksToBrexit #NoToAgeVerificationAndMassSurveillance #USEAVPN

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Gary Stevenson on taxing the rich and why you're getting poorer | WTCTW podcast

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

Why do we have to be pragmatic? When has the other side ever been pragmatic? Pragmatism is a losers strategy

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

And if they dont get a majority will they finally STFU about independence?

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

18,000+ children killed in Gaza

This is mass murder on a biblical scale

Those who support the monstrous Israeli regime, and carry out or facilitate it's genocidal crusade, MUST be brought to justice

And that includes the US President and UK PM

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

It is but it clearly works hence why I remember it and you recognise it.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

Domino who who

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

The problem with these delivery apps (whether Deliveroo or JustEat) is that the prices arent low at all because many restaurants charge more for food through those apps than they wd do independently.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

Some do. And its often cheaper to go direct. Many places just add the fees they are charged by the platform to the food cost.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 3h

Deliveroo isnt the answer to that in that it often adds 20-25% to the bill when you add on the markup places make through those apps plus delivery and service fee (wtf is a service fee?!).

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 4h

Champagne socialist supernova

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 4h

Gaza peace will last about 5 mins

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 7h

Same here. Dont regret it for a second.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 7h

It doesnt shape policy.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 7h

No. What was the point in staying? It became a RW platform with RW algorithms the moment Musk took it over. Its no longer a town square, its a dive bar where RWers yell at each other.

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 21h

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

Paedophiles will love this - a great way to identify and target their victims.

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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 1d

The Palestine Action ban is now being challenged through the High Court AND the Scottish courts.

This could lead to a constitutional crisis.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

This is the man who didnt know how to pay for petrol with a contactless card right?

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

Well yes, so dont claim a simple fix for a complex problem as the Right are doing by blaming immigrants

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Wayne 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺 @waynereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Talk like that puts the Labour party in a very difficult position: try and appeal to Reform UK Ltd followers, or appeal to the people who agree with what Zack and the Greens have to say. It can't do both. They're incompatible. I hope they get the same exposure now, but I suspect they won't.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

Labour have a problem. Zack is very eloquent and without the baggage of Corbyn.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

#bbcqt

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

'Starmer framed it wrong by mentioning immigration. He never should have played that line.' He played that line because that is the only context in which he wants to deploy it, its all about being beastly to migrants and trying to pacify Reform.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

And? That is totally different to 1 all encompassing ID that stores all your data in one place. Thank god neither M&S nor JLR have our ID www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

The hack has caused severe disruption at manufacturing plants globally, with some staff told not to come into work.

www.bbc.co.uk

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