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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 12h

Completely agree. Our scurrilous press keep gunning for women from a working class background having contributed to a culture of mendacity and forgiveness when it comes to wealthy privileged Tory men. Just look what Johnson got away with for years…

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 12h

I’m 100% with Warren. It is ridiculous. Reeves gets told to resign for £945 mistake her letting agent should have sorted whilst Farrage can avoid telling us who bought his £900,000 house. Double standards. Not good enough

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 13h

If ANYTHING happens to Rachel Reeves over this letting agent stuff, then I will call for the entire scrapping of the ministerial code & the independent advisor.

The Tories essentially didn't abide by anything and I no longer care about requiring Labour prove to be more above board than others.

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 13h

Up there

#photographyislife

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Thursday street photographers

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 15h

Two of the worst elements of our society - gutter journalism and exploitative gambling - united in a murky cause
Tax them into the ground

Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 1d

It’s getting out of control in our city and any complaint is met with spectacular whataboutery by the offenders

*Nothing* should be on pavements other than pedestrians and mobility aids

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 1d

And again some more red sail magic from this summer…
I’m far to be done with the Greenland folders, so except more red sails & ice images 😅.

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Clara @asummerghost.bsky.social · 4d

Minimalism.

Black & White Photography.

© Helen Georgiou

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Candid Mike @candidmike.bsky.social · 2d

A puppy through the crowd.

#photography #photographersofbluesky #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanphotography #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #eastcoastkin #art #candid #bnw #monochrome #blackandwhite #pets #dogs

A black and white photograph of a dog laying under a vendor tent. There are people all around walking in the foreground.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 1d

And another

For #photographyisart

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 1d

Now for a photograph

For #photographyislife

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 1d

Similarly, the appalling Pochin deserves every word of this

A crazed racist

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's the noblest battle of our new free-speech age: Sarah Pochin's anti-woke couch crusade | Marina Hyde

The Reform MP was driven ‘mad’ by the number of black and Asian people on the telly. What totally settled non-issue will her party tackle next, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve always instinctively loathed Kruger, not least for his attitudes to LGBT+ people. A no-mark and a bigot.

He deserves this humiliation at the hands of the excellent John Crace:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace

A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

In their minds maybe but it wasn’t in any way a valid reason. It was an outrage.

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

No. There was no susceptibility if you were ‘openly gay’. Don’t make excuses for them. Pure discrimination.

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

That might be where the thread started

Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

I console myself with the thought that my inability to work for people whom I don’t respect, along with my disdain for bureaucracy, probably would have made my career there short lived 😂

Their loss in any event

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

Same day

Just around the corner

Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

And another

My cup ran over that day

Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

Back to the photos; another from the same shoot

#streetphotography

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

On the one hand it's good to be able to see them and call them out; on the other they are emboldened and feel able to say what they want without sanction.

Freedom of speech, of course, but not without social consequences. And hate speech is exempt. Punish them.

#sanctiontheracists

Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

There was a time when we couldn't read each others' minds. There was a filter for most, driven by what is socially acceptable. We had rancid racists, plenty of them, but the worst thoughts were private.
Now there is no filter; rancid racists think into social med posts and apply no self-censorship

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

There was a time when the rancid racist in your street would keep their opinions to themselves as they knew it was unacceptable. Now they can find other rancid racists vis social media and create a gang, virtually and irl.

#smashtheracists

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

Tyne Bridge, 1977, photo by Graham Smith (b. 1947).

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 2d

Also a reminder: this happened in many parts of Government:
I applied to the Foreign Office as a languages graduate and the info pack I received stated, in black and white, “homosexuality, admitted (sic) or not, is a bar to service in the FO”. This was 1987.

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