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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, so you just care about the freedom to drive penis extension vehicles while not driving one yourself, fair enough.

Meanwhile, the USA has more than double the road deaths per capita than Europe.

Wonder why that is? Oh, yeah, it's because Europe actually has safety standards for pedestrians.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations on reinforcing her point.

Nobody even mentioned taking away your penis extension vehicle of choice.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 1d

Can you guess what the bright object is in the hands of this professional driver for Pollock Transport is?

Seems that @policescotland.bsky.social aren't really discouraging the behaviour with their 0.06% daily detection rate for mobile phone use while driving.

A Pollock Transport truck with its green and red tractor unit and red curtain sided articulated trailer is pictured driving through an urban road junction, With the railing and the lights of a pedestrian crossing in the foreground.

While blurry, there is a bright object in the hands of the driver that was seen to be a mobile phone that he was checking as he drove along the road.

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 3d

🚲 edi.bike | issue 113 | 6th Sep '25

Roseburn Link wins award, date for @infrasisters.bsky.social Glow Ride, and a bicycle beset by barnacles from @wolct.bsky.social; plus events, route closures & more:

https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-113-6th-oct-25/

#bikeSky

A bicycle is posed on a wet set of concrete steps; it is almost entirely encrusted with barnacles. Another, non-dredged-up bicycle leans against a step in the background.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 3d

My ebike is speed and power regulated from the factory because lawmakers see it as a safety threat to people in cities if left unchecked.

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 3d

Today on Flatbush/Clarkson. This kind of wreckage should not be possible on residential streets.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 4d

I know how you feel. Wasn't covid for me but I too miss the purpose of my old life even if it was partly why I ended up here.

I do some volunteering when my health allows to have a little purpose.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/QWmnBcNijvo?...

Frank Turner - 1933 (Visualiser)

YouTube video by FrankTurnerVEVO

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 4d

"Don't go mistsking your house burning down for the dawn."

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

Allan Grant, Fire Resistant House, 1949

The USA and the Democratic Party, or at least what it looks like to the rest of the world.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 4d

I was the same but it seems to be working now.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 4d

You're in for some incredible cinematography!

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 5d

Hah complaining fixed it.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 5d

Anybody else's mutal feed not updating?

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 6d

The later HMS Swift was a bit more swift till it wasn't.

HMS Swift, S Class destroyer founders of sword beach after hitting a mine. Her bow and stern protude from the water, her keel broken. The mine was placed the night before by an E boat at HMS Algonquin's anchor buoy. She had taken Swifts place on Operation Decoy due damage suffered by air attack.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 6d

You can also get combined carbon monoxide and smoke alarms that might save you an extra device.

Gas stoves are exempt from requiring a co alarm too.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 6d

More an issue of nothing in the UK is built in a cost effective manner rather tram over trolly bus.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 6d

It's about speed of detection rather than hearing the alarms. 6 seem excessive though, is your house half hallways?

I can recommend aico alarms though. They come with a base that you can just swap a new alarm onto once they are age expired.

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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sure some subscriber will see it and think,"I can fix that right up!"

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 7d

If I were the lobbying classes I would:
- buy right wing govts
- when the public get sick of that lot, for being patently bought, pivot to buying the opposition for a bit
- buy the new left wing govt
- when this lot get rightly castigated for being bought, buy the opposition again
- back to normal

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 7d

Still happening!

Greenpeace activists have blocked the liquified gas terminal in Zeebrugge ALL NIGHT, tankers carrying gas from Putin and Trump can't get in

The EU must break free from fossil fuels that are funding war, driving the climate crisis, ruining our air and pushing up people's bills

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 8d

Edinburgh: but what if a driver got mad?

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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