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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 9h

This sort of expensive nonsense is everywhere on the HS2 Phase 1 route. I'm so glad I moved from Buckinghamshire before the juggernaut really got going. Failure at every level of government and governance. No public good whatsoever for any element of it.

Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 11h

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere

A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.

martinrobbins.substack.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9h

Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21h

This man is clearly deranged

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 19h

19:29 Train leaves Peterborough
19:39 First 999 call.
Driver acts
Signal staff act
19:44 Train stops in Huntingdon
19:49 Armed police arrest suspects.
The speed of the LNER staff, the Network Rail Staff and the Cambridgeshire police response was astonishing. Extraordinary professionalism.

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 23h

60 plus anti racist people vs eight fascists. (Including their bored spouses). I’m far too ill to sit in my wheelchair for that long.

The flags don’t represent the friendly Devon town that welcomed me 20 years ago. Kind actions represent this country not pieces of cloth.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

The kindle version of Notorious is back up to full price I'm afraid.

But you can still snap a bargain on Kobo for 99p.

Probably last chance

www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Up to the right to Goredale Scar? I was there in September at the LDWA One Foot in the Gargrave. Nice memory. 😄

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

I need to read that book. The exploits of Lucy Gossage, the UK 24 hour women's team, Elsey Whyman-Davis, Tara Dower and Sarah Perry this autumn have had me completely spellbound.

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Fighting Matters @fightingmatters.bsky.social · 3d

New Fighting Matters! FASHION, FITNESS, FIGHTING: HOW HATE GROUPS ATTRACT YOUNG MEN

In this episode, Steve Kwan sits down with journalist @colborne.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com to expose how far-right movements use aesthetics and martial arts culture to recruit young men.

youtu.be/lpSN4lNn_IM

Fashion, Fitness, Fighting: How Hate Groups Attract Young Men

YouTube video by Fighting Matters

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Things to be scared of locally on Halloween? Children dressing up and having spooky fun in the dark = not that scary. Young fascists organising combat training just up the A1 in Newark = effing terrifying.

HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 3d

💥NEW: A new generation of fascists are fusing combat training with extremist ideology. HOPE not hate investigates the Midlands chapter of the secretive Active Club network, and exposes the figures driving its expansion.

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/30/a...

Active Club Midlands: Fascist Fight Club Exposed – HOPE not hate

A new generation of fascists are fusing combat training with extremist ideology. HOPE not hate investigates the Midlands chapter of the secretive Active Club network,...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 3d

Huge congrats to community group Bridestones Rewilded, who this week brought Bridestones Moor in west Yorkshire into community ownership:

www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environ...

Find out more about their project here: bridestones.love

'A huge milestone' - Community group takes ownership of Bridestones Moor

Bridestones Moor, the dramatic 114-acre expanse above Todmorden, has been officially brought under community ownership.

www.halifaxcourier.co.uk

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Exile in North Norfolk then.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

It's all getting a bit Tudors & Stuarts. How about the tower for the "accomodation arrangements"?

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 4d

Those purchases completed in 2011-2.

Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in 🇬🇧 where £100m bat tunnels are all the rage, HS2 Phase 1 completion? 2036-39. I moved out of a Buckinghamshire village where properties had already been purchased on the route in 2009. The magic money black hole.

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 4d

Madrid ↔️ Lisbon in just 3 hours – we're on board 🚄

Today, we adopted a plan to complete the Madrid–Lisbon high-speed rail connection by 2034.

This is a key step in fully integrating Portugal and Spain into the European high-speed rail network.

More → link.europa.eu/kqjJHM

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 5d

I'm loving this book so far. The section about the Illuminati is both mind boggling and extremely topical. The Kindle deal helped too. 😆

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Some mind-blowingly kind reviews for my latest book NOTORIOUS.

I don't know who you all are, but genuine, heartfelt thanks from the bottom of my heart.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Oh without a doubt a diminishing percentage. This subject always makes me grumpy, especially when it's raining. I'd better go for a run. 😂

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jimcrock.bsky.social @jimcrock.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re still driving a Tesla and if you’re still on Twitter then you fully support this racist arsehole. That’s who you are. Own it.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5d

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5d

The National Trust has offered me the chance to "win a scone experience". Intrigued by what this might entail. I have to assume it's more than just eating some scones and at least the chance to become a scone for a day, get covered in jam & cream & experience the full range of emotions of a scone.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 5d

And those individuals who point to a follower count they need to "hold on to"? Most of us who left over the past year didn't delete accounts. Why be arsed with that and let some nutter take your handle? But we are not there any more and follower counts are meaningless on there now anyway.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 5d

How is any respectable UK organisation still on X? Musk is a cigarette paper away from outright sedition. I find it indefensible that our government uses the platform. Who do they think they are reaching? And don't they realise what they are enabling? Does anyone read replies to posts?

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Wait until you hear about their other sport that also has a World Championship where every team is from the USA. Don't question that, or you will get a proper pile on!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 6d

The worst ever Atlantic storm by NOAA measurements, with current wind gusts of 387 km / hour at less than 1000 feet up. And incredibly slow moving so all the more destructive. Oh Jamaica 😔😢

Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 6d

La Terre vient d’enfanter ce qu’elle sait faire de pire. Depuis les satellites, on a probablement sous les yeux l’une des pires catastrophes météorologiques modernes.
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