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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 5h

If Tommy robinson was a journalist he wouldn’t have thousands in cash and a flash car

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5h

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6h

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

It’s about time

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

www.independent.co.uk

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5h

“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care

youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 22h

Previously inactive people who started lifting weights showed significant changes in their gut bacteria within eight weeks.

Does resistance training really improve your gut microbiome?

Previously inactive people who started lifting weights showed significant changes in their gut bacteria within eight weeks.

tcnv.link

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

All perfectly normal

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 22h

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin, court told

Tommy Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is standing trial after being charged under the terrorism act

www.standard.co.uk

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sure it’s just his breath.😂

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 2h

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John Wilkins on X: "Why not make it 5000 years? This is 10,000% true! Is he referring to the Biblical stuff here — David vs Goliath, Samson in Gaza etc. Philistia vs Israel?" / X

Why not make it 5000 years? This is 10,000% true! Is he referring to the Biblical stuff here — David vs Goliath, Samson in Gaza etc. Philistia vs Israel?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

‘After the reading, the poets hold each other’: what happens when Ukraine’s largest literary festival comes under Russian attack

Fiona Benson was invited to Lviv’s BookForum by Ukrainian poet-soldier Artur Dron’. She recounts falling in love with the city and its thriving literary culture, before an air raid siren sounds

www.theguardian.com

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 20h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 22h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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a3minutewonder.bsky.social @a3minutewonder.bsky.social · 2d

#signsonSunday
East Putney

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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 1d

Though could there be a confounding impact of IQ difference upon schooling extreme difference — bidirectional causation?

John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 1d

www.psypost.org/people-on-th... unsurprising really given that some people switch extremes easily!

People on the far-right and far-left exhibit strikingly similar brain responses

New research shows that people with strong political beliefs react more emotionally to political content. Brain activity patterns were similar among ideological extremists, whether liberal or conserva...

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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 1d

www.psypost.org/what-weve-le...

What we’ve learned about the psychology of narcissism over the past 30 years

Narcissism has two surprisingly different faces: one is bold and grandiose, the other is vulnerable and hypersensitive. Both stem from a common core of self-importance, but their emotional experiences...

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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 1d

www.psypost.org/major-iq-dif... heritability

Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research

A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different ...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist, "What's harder, peace in the Middle East or a gov shut down?"

President Trump, "This, it's been going on for 3,000 years"

Technically not true

They had peace for 400-500 years under the Ottoman Empire

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk

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