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Lindsay

@revteapot.bsky.social

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Recent émigré to Ireland†. Priest, writer*, owned by a greyhound. Mildly obsessive about tea. Liberal lefty tree hugging type. † my blog - https://revteapot.wordpress.com * my book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B181VTSJ/

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · May 12

One of the nice touches in the game #CivVII is that a migrant is a *reward*, a little bit of free population you didn't have to work for.
That, my friends, should be said more often.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 1d

This is the feast of Æthelburh (Ethelburga), 1st abbess of Barking. 🕯️ Bede describes in the early part of Bk4 of the HE how her brother Earconwald founded 2 monasteries, 1 for him and 1 for her. Here's a screenshot (BL, sigh) from BL Harley 3680, 108r, w/her name (&dilburgȩ!) & Barking's underlined.

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 1d

An Unlikely Hero Emerges In Portland. He Stands UnCowered In The Face Of His Oppressors. Ignoring Their Demands. Impervious To Their Weapons. Portland Has Found Their Hero. Who Will Be The Next Hero To Emerge In Our Fight Against The Tyranny Of The Trump Regime? #ProudBlue

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 23h

With the good people of Chicago under siege from their own government, a gesture of solidarity seemed appropriate...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 2d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

It's very nice to come out of purdah and discover one has been - and will be - missed.
Which, having written it down, seems a touch self obsessed.
But there, I'm a creature who apparently likes to be missed ... possibly more than I like to be welcomed 🤭.

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 2d

"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty.

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

Took me a while to work out why it looked so odd.

Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

Or, as my mother would say, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

Huzzah! Incumbent has given me leave to use the CofE version 🙌.

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

"Often the simplest and most effective way of parsing a politician’s meaning is to listen to the words coming out of their mouth."
@iandunt.bsky.social on the dead man, walking, that that is the modern Tory party.
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The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

Quite
When I worked in the prison service we were firmly told, you will not notice when someone is manipulating you. Instead, you have to look out for your colleagues, and rely on them, in turn, telling you.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 2d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 2d

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee surely is sending a message to the world with this award.
Excerpt from their press release:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 3d

People who said the Online Safety Bill was too big, or warned about the danger of scope creep, were too often dismissed as "not caring about child abuse", or "giving criminals a safe space online", or simply as paranoid or "privacy extremists". Well, I've got news for you.
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