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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · Nov 15

Peace is Possible ✨💛

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 14h

muppetized works of art: thread

Big Bird in Vincent van Gogh’s series called Sunflowers.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @bsky.pickpear.com · 17h

By way of a reminder folks...

You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse

You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse

You voted for brexit
Everything got worse

You voted for Truss
Everything got worse

If you vote for Farage

You have no idea how bad your life will become.

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 4h

Wow! Did You know that the Current Royal Family has Over 1,000 People working for Them? That's Over £40 Million in Salaries that We the General Public are paying for!
I’d rather spend that £40 Million P/A on Children in Poverty!!!

France done away with royalty, Look at their tourist numbers!😂

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 46m

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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Els Nicol 🕊️ @elsnicol.bsky.social · 3h

In England vote Green, in Scotland vote SNP and in Wales vote Plaid Cymri. That will shake things up in Westminster for the better of all!

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James Maxie @scotland50.bsky.social · 4h

In Scotland the SNP is by far the main contender and Plaid is the largest party in Wales.

It's the people of England that need to vote for a progressive party and that party is Green.

We can all do our bit.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 1h

BBC News - Plaid ready to replace Welsh Labour, says leader
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Plaid ready to replace Welsh Labour, says Rhun ap Iorwerth

Plaid Cymru is ready to replace Welsh Labour at the next Senedd election, its leader will say later.

www.bbc.com

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1h

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There is a better way….. @greensocialist.bsky.social · 1h

Nobel Peace Prize goes to…
Maria Corina Machado
Opposition leader in Venezuela
democracy activist.

Trumpty is nowhere in sight 😂
he,
couldn’t lie to get it,
couldn’t buy it.

Convicted criminals/compulsive liars/those complicit in genocide/those abusing human rights,

simply don’t get Peace Prizes.

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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 9d

📣 Let's make independence impossible to ignore in Edinburgh on 28th March 2026!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Follow this event page for updates: www.believeinscotland.org/march_and_ra...

Poster with a woman shouting into a megaphone against a blue burst background, promoting a March and Rally for Scottish Independence in Edinburgh on March 28, 2026.

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 4h

When they say, you cannot

Scotland, aye you can

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1h

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has gone to Maria Corina Machado. The committee lauded "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

Trump:

a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a tie and a white shirt .

ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a tie and a white shirt .

media.tenor.com

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 3h

These are the things that Labour stood for once upon a time. No surprise, really, that as Labour have shifted ever rightwards to try to capture the right-wing Reform vote, the English Greens are filling that egalitarian left-wing space.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11h

Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people"

"Inequality in our society is absolutely huge"

"We need to be taxing the super rich"

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 3h

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 1h

#EndWestminsterRule
#DissolveTheUnion
#AbolishTheMonarchy

Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 3h

Hilarious editorial from this English paper. Editor clearly surprised to notice how popular Indy parties are in Scotland and Wales, with no real understanding why.

Love how it calls the failing England-based parties "the established parties".

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on the nationalist surge: the SNP and Plaid Cymru are making the political weather | Editorial

Editorial: In both Scotland and Wales, politics is marching to the beat of different drums from the rest of Britain. The UK-wide parties should watch out

www.theguardian.com

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 8h

So true. This is no time to stand down.
www.youtube.com/shorts/gsxZP...

I am an antifascist.

YouTube video by HasanAbi

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13h

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 13h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3h

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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.