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Dianne Woodward @diannewoodward.bsky.social · 2h

Some estimates put it at half a million.
Keep it up UK.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 7h

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of London today in a massive demonstration for Palestine, expressing solidarity with Gaza and calling for justice and an end to the occupation.

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 1h

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One day, lad, all this will be yours...

YouTube video by FILMYOLK

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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 10h

Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 11h

Looking forward to seeing them again in Nottingham next June. But getting tickets was WAY too stressful.
You can’t beat TEE on a European train ride.👏👏

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 15h

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For Art Blakey botd 1919 . With outstanding trumpet work at no extra cost.

Freddie Hubbard sets the Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Big Band on fire with Moanin'

YouTube video by Jazz Video Guy

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 15h

Morning Des. Is that two nuns on the run in the background??

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 15h

If you’ve never read this, then go out and buy it- it’s an amazing read.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16h

CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

Continued below ⬇️

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Quid Pro Qatar Quo

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 1d

He did at least find time to remember that he did know Nathan Gill quite well after all 🤪

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize was won by María Corina Machado.

Venezuela's opposition leader.

Her biggest policy, privatising Venezuela's Oil Reserves, the largest in the world, worth nearly $100tn.

Hmm... I wonder why she won?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 1d

Cat reading The Telegraph.

a black and white cat is sitting on a toilet holding a roll of toilet paper .

ALT: a black and white cat is sitting on a toilet holding a roll of toilet paper .

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 1d

Not many misty autumn mornings so far this year, but here’s one today.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: SJ to discontinue successful Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper train after 31 August 2026, a month after Swedish government subsidy ends.

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like Queen, but this popped straight into my head. Let’s all just get back on planes and forget about any climate crisis 😡😡

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Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (Official Video)

YouTube video by Queen Official

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 2d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 2d

Now playing. Ahead of tomorrow’s ticket sales.

Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 2d

I woz there. She dislocated her knee- ouch, at least I think that’s what she said.

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 2d

He’s got an inexhaustible reservoir of cuntishness

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d

Ieyasu-kun, the mascot of Hamamatsu City, is modelled on Tokugawa Ieyasu, a shogun who once lived there. He has piano keys on his hakama skirt (Hamamatsu is home to keyboard manufacturers Yamaha, Kawai, and Roland).

A round-headed mascot with a helmet and a hakama with piano keys decorating it stands on a stage.

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