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Tony Barlow

@saltbar.co.uk

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Deaf / BSL user / Derby (You Rams 🐏) / born bred Gloucester / Director of Signing Network CIC, iNet Interpreting ltd & CWBSLI Ltd. Manager for Leicester Deaf Centre.

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · Nov 9

Hiya. If you're new here and you're deaf and/or a BSL user from the UK. Here a starter pack of Deaf/BSL users from UK.

go.bsky.app/7ZyymtN

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 3d

Almost had me googling for "transparent plywood" 😂

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 8d

Being pro-Palestinian is not being anti-Jewish.

Just as being pro-Jewish is not being anti-Palestinian.

Irresponsible language and framing from the Home Secretary.

It is perfectly right that people both protest the Gaza genocide and mourn the Manchester attack.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 8d

In memoriam...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

President Trump has posted this AI video of him and JD Vance in band, while the US gov is shut down

Good luck America, its bonkers there!

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 8d

I see misogny is still rife among sub-editors. She got a flipping name and what her husband got anything to do with. Flipping heck.

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 9d

Should have never got rid of that Nuno Santi. What was the fat Greek thinking!

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 10d

No backbone. You're enabling him.

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 10d

*curse in Klingon*

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 10d

Is corporate manslaughter a thing?

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 11d

He's so shockingly naive. They won't vote him cos he's Labour and part of the old elite party system ie "Same old Labour. Same old Tories. They never deliver." Starmer need to start delivering and making profound effects improving our lives if anything

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 11d

Me checking my timeline this morning...

arnold schwarzenegger in a blue suit and white shirt is standing in front of a crowd of people .

ALT: arnold schwarzenegger in a blue suit and white shirt is standing in front of a crowd of people .

media.tenor.com

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 12d

We must explore other fundraising platforms that doesn't profit from charity and hard work that people have done in raising money for good deeds.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 12d

In its strategic report the company cited “unfavourable media coverage” as a potential risk to its business, warning that negative publicity for its service fees “could have an adverse effect on the size, engagement and loyalty” of its customer base. Let's hope so!

www.thetimes.com/article/1b9a...

JustGiving pays £25.8m dividend to American owner

The charity platform made the payment to the Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud after revenues rose by 9.7 per cent to £64.5m

www.thetimes.com

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 12d

I didn't get that cos I'm deaf and clip isn't subtitled. So I went back what the original post said.

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 12d

My point still remain tho. Working and paying taxes should be sufficient contributions. Soon they will edging to apply this for all citizens. It's a slippery slope.

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 12d

And... Isn't working as a ruddy doctor for NHS a significant contribution enough to stay in UK, Rachel? Good grief.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 13d

“It is astonishing just how fully right wingers have come to dominate social media. The default for teenagers who are on the internet is for them to be sucked into a world where they are bombarded with content from Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate, Fuentes, Peterson.”

Dreadful but important 🧵

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13d

I try to resist doomerism, but I have to admit that hearing Gen Z "conservatives" describe their media diets made me want to walk into the sea. Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, etc. Ben Shapiro framed as a moderate. Bari Weiss as the go to for "liberal opinions."
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What Young Conservatives REALLY Think About Charlie Kirk (w/ Will Sommer) | The Focus Group

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 15d

He's clearly not well. He need an intervention.

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 16d

The one positive I can see from this scheme is that everyone will be able to vote as currently ppl without passport or driving licence are being denied their democratic voice.

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 16d

Yep. It's all about protecting the nation's wealth - not the nation's health, which is expertly rigged for the wealthy.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 18d

Whenever you legislate for more powers, you shouldn’t think about what your government would do with them, but what a future bad (evil or incompetent - or both!) government might do with them.

Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 19d

So we're putting in a mass digital id database immediately before a potential Reform government that will use it to deport and brutalise millions of people?

Your local supermarket refusing to let you buy food without your id card in 2030 cos right to work checks morphed into right to eat checks.

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 19d

It's a tough choice.

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Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 18d

Blatant corruption. Trump and whole lots of them should be sacked if USA electorate have any sense.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz.

people.com/what-is-leuc...

Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk · 21d

One thing about being a hearing aid user, you will always feel alone. At least, you know what they are saying.