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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, stunning house.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 2d

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 2d

And the payoff was sublime.

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 2d

And then the payoff at the round table

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 2d

New meme just dropped #celebritytraitors

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a picky tea. The king of meals.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d

So, happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys – who had gone to bed the three previous nights “in some pain”, “in great pain”, and “beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be”

Diary of Samuel Pepys, 7 October 1663: I did keep my bed; and my pain continued on me mightily, that I keeped within all day in great pain, and could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr Hollyards, but he was not at home; and so home again. And whether the coach did me good or no I know not, but having a good fire in my chamber, I begun to break six or seven small and great farts; and so to bed and lay in good ease all night, and pissed pretty well in the morning, but no more wind came as it used to do plentifully, after it once begun, nor any inclination to stool.

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 6d

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Jane Goodall 🙏

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 7d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 10d

There’s a fair chance its been hacked to bits. Anything with Adam ant on it generally went straight on the wall

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 10d

Edition please, I’ll check my collection 😁

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 12d

There are no words to describe how happy shit like this makes me. Absolutely masterful set-up and reveal from 1:07. I howled

1972: 84-year-old woman has an INDOOR CARAVAN | Nationwide | Classic BBC Clips

YouTube video by BBC Archive

www.youtube.com

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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · Jul 21

Look how angry he is that I won’t let him in to the house that isn’t his

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 14d

Bryson absolutely losing it there. What a pathetic spectacle. Delightful to see.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 14d

Doesn’t beat this version though 😁😁😁

youtu.be/gilkXv_KVQs?...

Paloma Blanca - The Greatest Music Video Ever!

YouTube video by Mike Flatow

youtu.be

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 15d

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15d

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 16d

"We will find out whether we are the sort of people as a nation who would attack a mosque because we’ve heard a rumour about a person of colour”

“Or whether we are the people who will come out the next time and clean the mess up”

“And I know whose side I’m on”

Billy Bragg

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aquinn07.bsky.social @aquinn07.bsky.social · 16d

Thought I’d better check the replies before posting this same link!!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 17d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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