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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 1h

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 10h

A third of UK councils are projected to go bust, as is Thames Water, NHS mental care is an oxymoron and your "industrial strategy" is fully built on an AI bubble thats gonna pop.

But, by all means, focus on the football supporters.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 10h

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbBB...

Academy Fight Song

YouTube video by Mission Of Burma - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 14h

I am aware of the brainrotting nature of social media and the danger of conspiracy theories, but does anyone sometimes wonder what Mossad has on Keir Starmer?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely incredible: the for-real stance of the British government here is that a) the right of notoriously violent foreign football hooligans to attend games in British cities is non-negotiable, and b) in particular, fuck the people who live in the area, who are scum

Steven Swinford • @Steven_Swinford
X.com
Sounds like the deadlock between the government and West Midlands police over
Aston Villa vs Maccabi Tel Aviv is still very much unresolved
The government has asked the police to tell it what "additional resources" are needed to police the game safely. The police are yet to respond
Number 10 condemns 'any violent behaviour' at the Maccabi Tel Aviv game at the weekend. But the position remains - Starmer will do 'everything in his power' to ensure travelling fans can come to the game

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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 16h

Salt Pass,
10/20/2025, 9:15:07 AM

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 16h

It's emoji-bullet-points for me.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 19h

You cannot guilt me into voting for this. As long as there is an option that is not this I will put my cross there. I will not put my cross against the name of a transphobic anti-immigrant right-sliding racist party because other parties are (allegedly) worse. It is *wrong* and I will not endorse it

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 20h

Every day I hear more stories of how UK schools are actively harming trans kids.

It was always variable.
It got worse post Cass.
It is now getting so much worse post EHRC.

It is so bloody simple to support trans kids in schools - they are actively working hard to cause this much harm.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 19h

Fashion (as opposed to wearing nice clothes that you like) is the enemy of both class solidarity and the environment.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 22h

That XKCD cartoon, except AWS US-EAST instead of the random guy in Nebraska

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J Farrers @jfarrers.bsky.social · 1d

Monday

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 1d

Rakefinder General

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

Do you own a Rotring mechanical pencil?

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm deep down the rabbit hole, lxds. I've bought a Lamy Safari and a bottle of ink a couple of weeks ago, and now my Cult Pens basket is over £200.

Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thinking of becoming a Fountain Pen Guy, subscribing to all the ink forums, importing stuff from Japan, etc.

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 3d

Do you know what? It IS working. It hasn't caused tailbacks, quite the opposite actually. More importantly it's saved the lives of at least a dozen kids. Reform are actually campaigning for the return of more deaths and injuries. Absolutely bonkers.

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 1d

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

It used to be "you can't eat your cake and have it too". This pedantry was one of the reasons they caught the Unabomber.

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Colm Kavanagh @colmkavanagh.bsky.social · 1d

23 years ago, today.
Goodison erupted.
90 minutes after the game, we're in a taxi, heading down Hardman Street, and got a call from a mate -
"You'll never guess where Wayne is now?!"
"Haven't a clue!"
"Back home kicking ball on the street with his mates!"
#UTFT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJu...

Remember the Name ... Wayne Rooney! (best copy)

YouTube video by Suraj Kolarkar

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 2d

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t want to have to clean that one out

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 1d

I have a question about vampires. If a vampire gets invited into a home by the dwellers and then another vampire comes to the home, can the first vampire invite him in or does it have to be the home dwellers again?

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamit I knew the voice but couldn‘t place it

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 19 Oct 1920 Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested and charged under Regulation 42 of the Defence of the Realm Act with attempting to cause sedition in the navy by editing and publishing two articles in the Workers Dreadnought paper stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9141...

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that when people talk about "the markets" deciding this or that or the other, they are putting a veil of anonymity across a small number of people who all think the poor have it way too good and that the job of government is to punish them.

Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 4d

If you could ruin a few people's lives for us, that would really make us feel better, like we could trust you, you know?

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 2d

Ask your doctor if laudanum is right for you.

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