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Rachel Coates

@coatescan.bsky.social

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Mother, writer, musician, dreamer💫 Plotting revolution from a houseboat in a ditch Forever European 🇪🇺, multilingual #FBPE Somewhat of a shouty madam; prone to witchcraft and explosions of lefty swears

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

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They’re eating the swans, they’re veganing the manpons

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Here blows the confected rageocoaster again

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 4d

Kind of excited for all the Tory slops to defect to reform and sink it into a puddle of sludge like the Conservative Party

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Compounding the Brexit travesty of ending youth mobility and programmes like Erasmus.

My kids might watch an unfeasible number of TikTok people punching themselves in the face, but they’re unlikely to vote for someone to do it to them.

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The difference being that in 1930s Germany, nobody had read about 1930s Germany

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Tom @thomfromla.bsky.social · 11d

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Please no one mention this to Nigel Farage

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 11d

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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 11d

A woman on the news was talking about the prices going up & how she voted for trump but "not for this"

My wife is talking to herself & mocks the bitch by saying, "I didn't vote for this. I thought I was voting for a membership to be a Klan Member. I didn't vote for prices to go up on me"

Me: 🤣

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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 15d

I didn’t read it like that. My autistic kid is also smart and kind.

Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 15d

Mine too.
They also think Trump is a cunt.
I’d take it again for those causal effects.

Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 15d

Anyone told Tommy Robinson, the great protector of women and girls, that his mates Steve Bannon and Elon Musk are in the Epstein files?

Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 15d

Much as I agree, he’s a universal wanker, how embarrassing the notion of Farage as an export.

Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 16d

What a royally depraved individual he is

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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 16d

Sarah Ferguson has been dropped by all charities she patroned in the U.K. since publication of this letter, and the release of her upcoming book is now paused (as well as major booksellers dropping her other titles).
I’m in no doubt that she deserves this.
But where are the men being punished?

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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 16d

50% tariff on toilets.

He is the first "President" to make shitting more expensive.

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Personally I object to it being framed as a knee jerk reaction to a right wing narrative. The very name Brit card is chauvinistic and trite. At a time when U.K. racism is out from behind the net curtains, it seems ill considered.

I’m sure Palentir have thought it through though.

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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 16d

Tony Blair who took us into a war about non existent weapons of mass destruction? Who declared a religious war on a secular country? Who walked away when Afghanistan was suitably razed to the ground? That guy?

Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 16d

No I will not be carrying a ‘Brit card’.

Who the fuck is advising Starmer (other than Palentir)? Jo Bloggs on year ten work experience?

Whoever it is clearly hates him.

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Tom Irwin @tomirwin.bsky.social · 17d

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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 17d

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 16d

Brit card?
Who has Starmer got advising him on this kind of simpering chauvinism, Jo on year ten work experience?