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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 1d

WTF

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump to Milei: "Do you need any Tomahawks in Argentina? You need them for your opposition, I guess, because in this country they use Tomahawks on the opposition. I don't do that. I'm much nicer. The Democrats would use them if they had the chance. They're sick people."

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

A tale as old as time: Guy uploads his entire stash of 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy network so he can train an AI to "make better 'robot pornography,'" gets caught, gripes that the DOE (which is charged with maintaining nuclear secrets) is "spying on him a little too much."

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

www.404media.co

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 1d

US Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal against $1.4bln Sandy Hook shooting defamation ruling

US court rejects Jones' appeal of $1.4bln Sandy Hook defamation ruling

The former Infowars host described the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in which 20 children were killed as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

www.euronews.com

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest priority is to flatten Reform in the polls.
Bury them under an electoral landslide from which they will never recover.
They are the biggest threat to Britain and our nations since the Second World War.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

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Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 1d

Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? is brilliant.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

As red flags go, it doesn’t get any redder or in your face than this.

All politicians, commentators and organisations who care about our democracy should heed the warning, call it out and then *do something* about it.

First stop. Leave X.

Musk has in recent months switched his support from Nigel Farage's rightwing populist Reform UK party to the far-right movement led by Robinson.
Musk appeared via video link at a
"Unite the Kingdom" rally in London organised by Robinson last month, and the Tesla chief executive predicted that
"violence is going to come" to the UK
"whether you choose violence or not" and told Britons to "fight back - or you die".
After the first day of the trial before Westminster magistrates, which is expected to last two days, Robinson posted on X: "A huge thank you to Elon Musk today. Legend."

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 1d

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I said months ago that Badenoch was trashing a key convention regarding opposition in matters of security.

Today was sadly a continuation of it. Imagine declaring that it's UK criticism that has "strained relations with Israel", rather than Netanyahu's war crimes.

Desperate, immoral, and so cheap.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Mar 5

Badenoch is treading an unasavoury line at #PMQs. She supports the PM, but not really. She supports Ukraine, but not really. She supports our troops, but not really.

I know it's difficult for LoTO to get noticed in a crisis, but her unpopularity and lack of grip does not override national security.

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, I haven't got round to making an appointment yet 🤦

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland.

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FOSSILHEADS: CLIMATE CRISIS CABARET! @fossilheads.bsky.social · 1d

$a headline that reads "vandalism of our countryside" ed Miliband signs off Britain's largest solar farm" accompanied by the Britta from Community "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty" meme, only here she is saying "I can excuse the countryside being desecrated by toxic pesticides, chemical fertilisers, improper disposal of poisonous industrial and agricultural waste, raw sewage dumping, expanding road networks, transport pollution, fracking, monocropping, soil contamination, industrial emissions, expanding mega-farms, industrial plastic pollution and the climate changing from burning fossil fuels but I draw the line at the countryside being vandalised with solar panels"$

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 2d

She Sells Sanctuary.

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 2d

You have to be officially classed as immunosuppressed to get it (or be elderly, pregnant, or care worker), so I don't get an automatic invite.

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 2d

Connections
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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

I'm getting my flu jag today, but I'll have to ask the doctor if I can have the covid one as I'm not technically eligible, despite being a sickly creature.

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

Such unwarranted cruelty.

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

Haunted - Shane MacGowan and Sinead O'Connor.
'I wanna be haunted by the ghost of your precious love'

Haunted

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

There's A Ghost In My House - R Dean Taylor.

There's A Ghost In My House

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

Heart And Soul - Joy Division.

Heart and Soul - 2007 Remaster

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

Satisfy My Soul - Bob Marley and The Wailers.

Satisfy My Soul

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Rupert Murdoch International Tribunal 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 @hey.rupert.murdochbait.click · 3d

Ace clickbaiters at the New York Post join in:

** You won't believe what SHOCKING thing the pope just told a room full of reporters **

nypost.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Larky McRory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @lmcrory.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous. I'd love to see it in the flesh.