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Roland Butter

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Lopin' along through the cosmos, looking for the Veedon Fleece. Foot soldier in the war against Fascism.

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 19d

Isn't it weird how Nigel Farage shares his initials with the National Front?

What a strange coincidence, huh?

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 13h

No Kings, huh? We have our own maybe.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 14h

But there's lots between them now. The US has a REAL King!

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 14h

UK Kings have literally no power, in reality there isn't too much in that regard between the two. Both FPTP, both two houses, both fully representative democracies, in theory but probably not in practice, for decades.

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 14h

It looks to me that at least 99% of professional UK horse jockeys are white.

I wonder why that might be?

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 16h

I'm surprised it's as few as that. Derbyshire lost one on Wednesday and are about to lose another if he doesn't show up this month. Other peripheral councils have lost many.

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 16h

Complacency seems to be the general tenor of Keir Starmer's government. They seem to care more about AI than about poor people. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #Hypocrisy #UKLabour ... And more about conserving wealth than about alleviating poverty.

Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 households with no-fault eviction notices

Exclusive: firms run by five of the party’s councils have used legal loophole to serve section 21 notices

www.theguardian.com

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone surprised about this? I'm not. For this growth-obsessed environment-wrecking bunch the little swifts can get in the bin alongside the bats, newts and snails.

Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes

Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

www.theguardian.com

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 1d

With a casual few phone calls, planet destroyer Trump can wreak climate havoc and undo the equivalent good, energy saving work of an entire nation.

Maybe Nostradamus had something to say about this fella.

Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats

President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a "green scam".

www.bbc.co.uk

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 1d

We seem to have reached a position where dangerous football fans can not be banned from coming to Britain if their country of origin is Israel.

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 1d

With the assistance of much of the media.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 1d

Would he have waded in to overturn a police decision had it been a team from another Middle Eastern, or European country?

We should call it the Starmer test.

I think we know the answer.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I think it's shameful and bad, one of many bad things that have happened. But wrong thread for this discussion. You're putting the cart before the horse as we say in the UK.

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 3d

You seem to have missed his drift completely. He's discussing strengthening the US constitution so a self coup can never happen again. I have no idea what he'll do about Palestine, his thread is about something else.

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 3d

This is obviously true, why have so few big leaguers said it?

The Democratic Party has some very big self searches to do.

The run up to this started in January 2020 and was an obvious risk. No effective action was taken.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 3d

For a supposedly Western aligned, fully developed nation, this is pretty damning testimony.

If this is true, this Israeli administration is barbaric.

And so typical of our media to downplay it

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 4d

Almost no media coverage and very little political attention paid to the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails. So much focus only on the Israeli hostages. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

www.theguardian.com

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

They walked back on it. The pre budget press brief contained five new freeports, they actually weren't announced in the end. New funding for existing zones were what appeared.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

Who were the two interviewers who laughed? I didn't see them.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

Is it true that if you block a stalker on your mobile, their voicemails will still reach you, and you can't stop them?

A friend is being harassed.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

"Ok babe, slow way way down".... Maybe he's just binge watched Jason King?

Cringe doesn't get cringier than that!

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

Twitter is the Microsoft of short post social media. I wish it were not so, Musk's a thoroughly evil man, imo one of the two worst influences in the West currently (guess who the other is). But he bought it as a fully fledged behemoth, it was never going to be easy for Jack to develop another as big

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

Well, there we are then. She's a perfect fit for the role! 🤑

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 4d

And even if he's not on the ballot, he'll still win!

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 5d

In their case, outreach I'd guess (X10 BSky), and scared to blink first by leaving

I'm kinda embarrassed to still own an account, I never use it but for talking to my phone company, my energy provider, royal mail, bank, etc. It's literally the only place they'll listen and immediately provide help.

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Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 5d

They do false equivalence galore where there is none and air it as "balanced news" (the economic case for and against Brexit; the case for and against net zero), the loony side usually presented by Farage or one of his minions.

Then they ignore real equivalence.

Roland Butter @rolandbutter.bsky.social · 5d

Why all the dozens of BBC broadcasts featuring families of hostages re entering Israel, and literally none with those "prisoners" (aka hostages) re entering Palestine?

This is typical of the issues I have with our national broadcaster.

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