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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. This year I will wear one to a memorial service on the 11th, and on the Sunday, and that's it. I see people on TV are wearing them already, in a sort of pre-emptive defensiveness. It's ridiculous.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 4d

I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · Dec 13

Apparently Kennedy has decided that all US citizens should have the opportunity to experience the lifelong disability the late, great Ian Dury endured. He caught polio in a swimming pool. Watch the unfallen tears of a man whose destiny was shaped by a virus. youtu.be/cBsHSbVRNJI?...

Parkinson - Ian Dury Pt 1

YouTube video by haroldturkeypants

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 6d

I made a handy flow chart for confused men…

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 5d

Trouble is if Amber's going to be in the dance-off every week then it's not really a dance-off #strictly

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 6d

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 6d

Coveting Lauren's dress #strictly

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 7d

“Now go to sleep, Kevin—or once again I’ll have to knock three times and summon the Floating Head of Death.”

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 7d

And you can sod off too @theguardian.com, can't wait to predict the end of Strictly, can you? Mark Lawson drooling with excitement to write off a bit of popular culture.

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 7d

I am so, so bored with the lazy "everything is down to Netflix or TikTok" genre of analysis. Heard on Radio 4 tonight the shift to voting for smaller parties described as"the Netflixisation of politics". Uh, or just a shift to voting as countries without 1st past the post have always done?

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Jack-Yeo-Lantern 🎃 @jackryeo.bsky.social · 8d

Look, I'm just saying, if I had recently acquired lots of priceless jewels in a heist at a famous museum, and gotten away without anyone realising it was me, I would probably quit my job. #Strictly

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING - Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are to leave Strictly at the end of the current series.

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 8d

Zoe Ball would be good I think, and she's covered for Claudia before?

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Siobhan Moore @siobhanmoore90.bsky.social · 8d

get mel and sue to host #strictly

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 9d

Not all nostalgia is for something worse.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 10d

This is all horrifyingly cruel but condition 3 is staggeringly awful: “if P OR dependents of P have been in receipt of social protection”

So just if a *dependent* of someone with ILR gets any sort of welfare benefit whatsoever the original person can have their ILR revoked? This is insanely evil.

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

The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.

ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.

If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)

The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

What a huge indictment of all of us!!! MY GOD.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10d

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Three small children ran through dust and gunfire, dodging rubber bullets to escape armed agents from ICE, FBI, DEA, and ATF. “I didn’t get caught,” one boy said. “Nobody got handcuffs on me.” No child should have to run from men with guns in America. But in Idaho, they did.

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 10d

Why is everyone on #ITT this year in dull black and brown? It's a weird style decision for #strictly. Just not to clash with the weirdly noisy new set?

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Erin, a bee 🐝 🏳️‍⚧️ (Ms Fidget era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 12d

Parliamentary petition here:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Require female CPR manikins in all certified first aid training programs

The Government should implement minimum standards for first aid training providers to ensure every trainee practises CPR and first aid on a manikin with female anatomy. All training providers should b...

petition.parliament.uk

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12d

Israeli Police announce they have canceled a derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv that was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Police cancel Tel Aviv derby after fans riot at stadium

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www.timesofisrael.com

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah I understand the racism row, and women do definitely tend to come off worse than the men, but "not" voting for one person out of 13 when you have a max 5 votes... I mean are people less prejudiced against disabled & gay people? Not from some of the shit I've heard about the programme. I dunno 🤷‍♀️

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah: at any rate as soon as it's 1:1 there's no point giving the third person a vote so it should have gone straight to Craig. Maybe if a different judge every week forfeited their vote instead of effectively getting 2?

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Marion Jones @marionjones100.bsky.social · 12d

Icons Week is so dreadful. I wish the powers that be would stop thinking they need more themed weeks. Crowbarring dances into music and concepts that don’t fit. Relax, guys. Just ‘keep dancing’! #strictly

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 12d

Thought that was an explosion at the start of the #Strictly final dance. Or that Karen had got at the drums after all.

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CFS @cfreresmith.bsky.social · 12d

I say again what I said yesterday with a bit of a rephrase: anyone who is complaining about Balvinder being in the dance-off but hasn't voted cannot complain. #Strictly

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melissamajoria.bsky.social @melissamajoria.bsky.social · 12d

Chuffed that Karen's safe; gunning for whoever's decided to make her do the rumba next week #strictly

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