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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 5d

Selling the Kenickie/Frankie & The Heartstrings tees I have doubles of. All money goes to MAP! Vintage, BNWOT, unworn or I can sweat in them for you if you want, your choice! Link here (check my seller items) ebay.us/m/KZTj2w

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 16h

The amount of liberals I know who still piss their knickers about Obama like he isn’t a corrupt scumbag like the rest of them. Probably worse.

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 1h

in the first hours after the ceasefire was started and people walked over to their destroyed houses over 100 skeletal remains were found just lying in the streets.

the skeletal remains of a Palestinian lying in the streets of gaza, found in the hours following the ceasefire

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 1h

haters and losers will call this “blatant and open corruption” but smart sensible politics knowers like me understand this is just good business

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 16h

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 2h

I CBA setting my drumkit up at 19

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 20h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2h

Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...

Two headlines in a row

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone will have to get their fix of aggro-centrists writing about the Transes and wild swimming elsewhere I guess

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 2h

Cool there’s now half a million dead and Gaza has been destroyed so finally @theguardian.com can finally start printing these stories they didn’t give a fuck about at the time. Can’t wait until this fucking rag ceases to exist.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3h

this person posted an AI video (the reporter has three arms, for a start) and then turned off comments when people pointed it out, so i have to insist everybody block them. block this account right now and i'll give you a thumbs up in your mind

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 14h

It‘s their Charlie Kirk calculus all over again! “Oh they’ll love this!” and nobody gives a fuuuck

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Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸 @stitzch.bsky.social · 14h

They’re gonna need to do about 50 Nuremberg’s over there. China should send in peacekeepers

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 14h

The journalist feds grabbed this morning is reportedly Debbie Brockman, per her LinkedIn info a producer for @wgntv.com.

WGN gave a statement for this Trib story, but WGN's website has yet to mention one of its producers being seized by masked federal agents.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 14h

Out of the frying pan

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a certain type of girl who one day gets tired of the shouting-at-her-on-the-bus-as-she-didn’t-like-Oppenheimer fuckboy. they always, always marry a Woody Allen.