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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 4h

1. This is hilarious and brilliant, bravo
2. The original meaning of "decimated" hasn't stuck because that meaning just isn't particularly useful anymore
3. The emotional horror of 1/10th of the people you work with being murdered makes the modern usage seem metaphorically valid to me

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 3h

They need to get their ducks in a row. As I’ve said, it needs to be a cross-party decision. Even the last referendum wasn’t run on party political lines (though it’s easy to forget this considering what came after)

How do you see that working at the moment?

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 4h

Cool

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4h

Just noticed this very nice new mural on the outside of the Broadway centre in Bradford, elegantly touching on the city’s past associations with the wool industry

The mural shows brightly coloured threads forming a weave, merging with grey industrial chimneys and their smoke

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 4h

Would vegetarian tampons be ok?
Or do they need to be British beef or nothing?

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 4h

This is not going to help them.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

A 54 year old who calls himself "Kid" and who sports a stripper's hat and indoor shades....has no right to judge what is and is not "stupid."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 4h

Recognition that reality can now be publicly discussed?

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 4h

Michelle Mone has raised shamelessness to an art form.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9h

There was an offer of £23 million to avoid the £122m verdict against the company.

In law, Mr Barrowman looks like he has lots of hurdles and shields to avoid paying the ill gotten profits back. It should become a defining albatross for him

bsky.app/profile/dann...

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 9d

This is the confidential settlement offer Barrowman/Mone made to the Government, offering to settle the litigation for £23m.

(We'd never normally see this, but for unfathomable reasons, Mone posted it on X.)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h

Without the use of threat or intimidation, it is legitimate to consider the sustained recurring use of reputational stigma & shame - in the media + in society - designed to make it much more difficult to try to enjoy these ill gotten gains until and unless tens of millions of pounds are given up

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 4h

He says funny things, but never intentionally

Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.
So it’s a massive job, that really *has to* succeed.
Everything must be in place to ensure it does - which may take some time.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 6h

Learning Greek has forced me to lean how to read and write again and, because I used to teach English, thats been a fascinating - and rather humbling - experience.

Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 6h

I want us back in, but I don’t kid myself we can achieve it just like that.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

Also, we have to ask. The EU will be wanting enthusiastic cross party commitment, not a narrow vote. They won’t want us flouncing off again after a change of government.
Not to mention the need to accept the Euro - can you imagine how that would go down in the current ‘patriotic’ atmosphere ?

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

NAN AND SUPERNAN

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, I read your article. It sounds brilliant!

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

This is why a single platform would help. In this case, she would only need to look briefly at the app, on her smartphone that she uses regularly.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

If there were just one app, it’d be fine. All council car parks where I live are JustPark, and that’s easy peasy, because all my info is loaded and I just press pay.
The private car parks are a random mess and I try not to use them.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

Are you absolutely sure it would get the result we’d want?
No one expected 2016. The British public weren’t particularly interested in leaving, never mind keen to leave, before UKIP got their teeth into it. And they were a much smaller force than Reform is now.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

How can you be so dismissive?
Nige is the only politician highlighting this important issue.

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

Not just tampons …

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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 7h

Not after they are used

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 8h

Here is why the National Parking Platform is cool:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/national-p...

The National Parking Platform is a big, exciting deal and you should know about it

How the government nearly squandered an enormous opportunity

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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