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autistic, liberal, democrat, and Liberal Democrat Crawley Town season ticket holder

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · Mar 1

Heaven, heaven is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not suprised I see either of those users in that screenshot. They're both very annoying but they're also independent thinkers

Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 4h

You're all missed over at X..

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1h

Cricket doesn’t mind a draw

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1h

All it seems to be doing is boosting the far-right at the expense of the right wing (hang on a second this also feels familiar)

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 2h

This is true and correct

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think he’s going to win a war against the National Trust

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 16h

ITS SO GOOD

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 16h

it feels like he's abusing game mechanics here

Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 16h

France: President Emmanuel Macron (RE-RE) has re-appointed Sébastien Lecornu (RE-RE) as Prime Minister four days after accepting his resignation.

Lecornu will now form a new government strengthened by these two days of "last negotiations".

➤ europeelects.eu/france

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 22h

TF2 is 18 years old today

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

It’ll be a shame to lose one of Scottish politics’ great entertainers

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Who knew that rather than British politics becoming similar to Japanese politics the reverse would be true

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for the multipolar era of Japanese politics...lots of parties, none with much of an identifiable advantage over the other, few critical constituencies to leverage, little public sympathy for anyone

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Exeter has been Labour for a long time, or was until this May where they got wiped out on the county council there

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Don't always agree with them but they're often good reads

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Don't describe myself as either of those things but Biden set "red lines" month after month which Bibi ignored and in response he did... nothing. Easier for Trump to pressure Netanyahu because he leads the cult of the American right-wing but even so it was a little pathetic

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes feel on the verge of falling apart

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

And, on the other end, Biden wasn't prepared to put any serious pressure on Netanyahu either

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 1d

Might be an unpopular opinion here but I do believe in parliamentary democracy, and you shouldn't functionally ensure state bodies have no accountability to it

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Tuchel's right about atmosphere but it really doesn't help it when you charge £200 a ticket

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Oh Greece…

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Montenegro wanna talk about it

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

I really think this England side has enough in it to do something memorable

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry Wales. Been a long time since we've played this well.

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

None of my votes in my lifetime have mattered to the overall outcome of my seat, and that is true of millions of people in the country

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

It saved them in Cambs & loads of PCCs though!