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Josephine Kavanagh

@ourhaus.bsky.social

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Blackpool grown. Join a Union. Retired public health researcher and shop worker. Conan the Librarian. 🏳️‍⚧️ More books and bookshops please, & history science & music & Comedy & art. #Parkinson's #MDANT ☘️ I block ruthlessly.

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨🚨 🚨 Essential 🧵
He's deploying troops to occupy opposition-held cities, openly solicits bribes from dictators, threatens to annex democratic neighbors, & sends innocent people to foreign prisons to remain until they die.
Canada & G7 must ban him.
USA must mass protest the regime now.
Read & RP 🙏

John Hatchard @johnhatchard.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ban Trump? Top genocide scholar issues dire warning:

“Negotiating with Nazis didn’t prove useful in 1939. It won’t now either," says founder of Genocide Watch

⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' BASE thread (6 min) with added links 📖🍿🔊

Ban Trump? Top genocide scholar issues dire warning

“Negotiating with Nazis didn’t prove useful in 1939. It won’t now either," says founder of Genocide Watch.

www.salon.com

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 4h

Fuck. Me. Backwards.

He really is a scumbag.

ᒍOᗩᑎᑎE 🦓 ⛷️🏳️‍⚧️❤️💋 @shakyjoanne.bsky.social · 8h

I bet his parents are proud of the scum they hatched.

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 21h

Calling Stewart Lee.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 22h

The mocking absurdist whimsy of the Portland protests need to be repeated across the USA.

Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 22h

Me too!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

New show ‘Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club’ is amongst five new documentary series commissioned by the BBC.

@lucyworsley.bsky.social ☺️

#Skystorians

BBC Factual orders five new history commissions

A range of documentaries for BBC Two and iPlayer includes a new historical crime series with Lucy Worsley and a sixth series of A House Through Time with David Olusoga

www.bbc.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 22h

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 22h

Truly horrific. 🤢

Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 23h

Really useful - clarified a lot for me.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2d

Matt is one of my favourite people on here, witty, smart & kind.
If you could repost this I’d appreciate it.

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 2d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

Wordle was tough today - so many struggled with that first letter.

Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is cool cool, nothing of any importance happening anywhere. 😉😊

Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

Came here to post the same excellent piece.!

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

Connections
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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

Phew.

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece by Cadwalladr - as ever. Kilimnik connection to attempts to destabilise UK & US. Given the number of flag-waving 'patriots' it's disconcerting to say the least, that this Faragist traitor isn't a greater topic in UK MSM.

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn

Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn, who Gill now admits paid him to make pro-Russian statements, is not some small-time two-bit player. The Nerve can reveal that Voloshyn is also connected to efforts to destabilise the US

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Just brilliant by @thenerve.news - I can just imagine Stewart Lee running around on bypasses snatching flags.

Well done that man.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 2d

He's right. But what if 🇬🇧 had truthful MSM & public services broadcaster?

December 2024, after 8 attempts, Farage finally became an MP.
But with just 5 months *service*, mainly to paymasters in 🇺🇸 🇷🇺, it was his 38th appearance on BBCQT.
See the connection

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 2d

Allies and soulmates of Trump may well become the next UK government. This why special needs parents plead with Labour ministers: do not take our hard-won rights away, from us or families who might face this in the future

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 3d

A wedding last night in Portland!
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“The bride, resplendent in a unicorn outfit, and the groom, dressed as Kenny from South Park, tied the knot in front of a crowd of about 30 onlookers, some decked out in Care Bear and pickle costumes.”

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3d

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

The absurdist whimsy of the Portland protests is wonderful - totally countering the "it's a war-zone" narrative of Trump, Noem & Miller. Love it!!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland 🔥

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 2d

John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 2d

Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.

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