Lynne Jones
@colonyofants.bsky.social
Maker of WordPress websites and walker of dogs. Collector of trinkets online and off. Like old stuff. Truth seeker. Lefty.
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Elon – truly evil – and unforgivable.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Elon – truly evil – and unforgivable.
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Yes to this
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yes to this
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This really is insane. First off, all that she listed is more important and secondly, walk in refrigeration needs a large quantity of restrictions because it would be very detrimental to our health as a country.
#USDemocracy
#USDemocracy
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This really is insane. First off, all that she listed is more important and secondly, walk in refrigeration needs a large quantity of restrictions because it would be very detrimental to our health as a country.
#USDemocracy
#USDemocracy
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Yes. As the global population sees it...
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Yes. As the global population sees it...
Push hard.
NEW: Labour MPs are pushing back against the Home Office's robust 'Danish-style' asylum & immigration plans. One MP: “The policy of chasing Reform will not build confidence but fear". Another: “Weak governments don’t get to push through controversial policy.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Push hard.
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AI and automation are changing work faster than politics can adapt. A Universal Basic Income may be the only way to keep dignity, democracy and purpose alive.
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#UniversalBasicIncome #FourthIndustrialRevolution #SustainableFuture
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October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
AI and automation are changing work faster than politics can adapt. A Universal Basic Income may be the only way to keep dignity, democracy and purpose alive.
Read more ↓
👉 vortexofadigitalkind.com/universal-ba...
#UniversalBasicIncome #FourthIndustrialRevolution #SustainableFuture
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Reform are vile. No other way to describe this.
> “It’s like a death by a thousand cuts – walking along in the autumn, seeing the leaves fall, and thinking, I might not be here next autumn,” he said. “That’s what really breaks your heart. It takes a toll on people.”
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‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reform are vile. No other way to describe this.
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WTAF?! How many people need to die before someone notices a potential pattern and does something as they're ignoring other professionals?
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‘He went to hospital as a physically healthy young man but never came home. Now we want answers’
A crisis-hit mental health trust faces questions over multiple deaths as doctors raise the alarm about an alleged culture of fear, which they say is putting patients at risk
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
WTAF?! How many people need to die before someone notices a potential pattern and does something as they're ignoring other professionals?
uk.news.yahoo.com/went-hospita...
uk.news.yahoo.com/went-hospita...
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Pretty sure this meets the definition of irony...
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Pretty sure this meets the definition of irony...
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Norman Ebbutt, Berlin correspondent for the Times, interviewed Hitler on 14 October 1930, soon after the Nazis had their first big breakthrough in the Reichstag elections.
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Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler
In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Norman Ebbutt, Berlin correspondent for the Times, interviewed Hitler on 14 October 1930, soon after the Nazis had their first big breakthrough in the Reichstag elections.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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MUST WATCH. Finally ITS ON THE RECORD!!!
Give this lady a standing O
Give this lady a standing O
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
MUST WATCH. Finally ITS ON THE RECORD!!!
Give this lady a standing O
Give this lady a standing O
Exactly right.
"The Bullingdon Club elites don’t respect our national institutions because they’ve never had to use them. They’ve built their own – private schools, private hospitals, private members’ clubs – a parallel Britain sealed off from the plebs."
"The Bullingdon Club elites don’t respect our national institutions because they’ve never had to use them. They’ve built their own – private schools, private hospitals, private members’ clubs – a parallel Britain sealed off from the plebs."
The ‘patriots’ who loathe Britain
They claim to love our country, but want to destroy all its institutions...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Exactly right.
"The Bullingdon Club elites don’t respect our national institutions because they’ve never had to use them. They’ve built their own – private schools, private hospitals, private members’ clubs – a parallel Britain sealed off from the plebs."
"The Bullingdon Club elites don’t respect our national institutions because they’ve never had to use them. They’ve built their own – private schools, private hospitals, private members’ clubs – a parallel Britain sealed off from the plebs."
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Can we have more of this web design please and thank you - www.nicchan.me
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Can we have more of this web design please and thank you - www.nicchan.me
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Our studies have systematically tracked patterns of coverage over long periods of time, assessing the accuracy and impartiality of broadcasters through an analytical framework. Broadly speaking, we have not found evidence of systemic bias as alleged by Prescott.
theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Say what? $180 million for bounty hunters? This is beyond ridiculous.
#USDemocracy
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
#USDemocracy
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ICE wants to spend $180M on bounty hunters to track down thousands of immigrants
Homeland Security seeks ‘skip tracers’ for physical surveillance of more than 1 million homes
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Say what? $180 million for bounty hunters? This is beyond ridiculous.
#USDemocracy
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
#USDemocracy
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
E-scooters are being used everywhere here. So tempting as a cheap form of transport yet so dangerous atm. Also a nightmare for drivers before and after dark.
#NoEmptyChairs - Jacob’s Journey - The most important Christmas advert you will see.
YouTube video by Jacob’s Journey - Life over Death
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November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
E-scooters are being used everywhere here. So tempting as a cheap form of transport yet so dangerous atm. Also a nightmare for drivers before and after dark.
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If you’ve got a racist granny or a flag-obsessed uncle, vote accordingly, you already know what they’re pushing.
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
If you’ve got a racist granny or a flag-obsessed uncle, vote accordingly, you already know what they’re pushing.
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Rango is a handsome lad who came into our care after being a stray. He had been being fed by some kind people but had no home of his own. He is a cheeky, greedy boy who will make a lovely companion. More: shorturl.at/NKgBU #adoptdontshop #rescuecats #catsky #northwales #northwestengland #caturday
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Rango is a handsome lad who came into our care after being a stray. He had been being fed by some kind people but had no home of his own. He is a cheeky, greedy boy who will make a lovely companion. More: shorturl.at/NKgBU #adoptdontshop #rescuecats #catsky #northwales #northwestengland #caturday
I think Trump should really focus on his current problems. Epstein anyone?
"Many people arrested after January 6 said the only reason they rioted was because of what Trump said," says Lewis Goodall.
“Yet, if you listen to all of this, the conclusion is that the sin of that day is a 10 second edit on a BBC programme"
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“Yet, if you listen to all of this, the conclusion is that the sin of that day is a 10 second edit on a BBC programme"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...
Inside the BBC bias allegations | The News Agents
The News Agents, all of whom spent years working for the BBC, discuss the “existential moment” facing their former employer, with top-level resignations after allegations of systemic bias in its…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I think Trump should really focus on his current problems. Epstein anyone?
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Hopefully, one day, in the not too distant future, even the mouth-breathing Brexiters will understand that Farage & his Reform IS JUST ANOTHER FUCKING GRIFT you stupid marks. Thanks, once again, to Private Eye magazine for shining a light on this absolute charlatan.
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hopefully, one day, in the not too distant future, even the mouth-breathing Brexiters will understand that Farage & his Reform IS JUST ANOTHER FUCKING GRIFT you stupid marks. Thanks, once again, to Private Eye magazine for shining a light on this absolute charlatan.
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Oh fuck off GB News.
Andrew Windsor "settles".
Donald Trump "settles".
The BBC does not.
Andrew Windsor "settles".
Donald Trump "settles".
The BBC does not.
A GB News presenter has said the BBC should hand “several million pounds” of licence-fee payers money to Donald Trump.
We must defend our BBC from those who want to destroy it.
We must defend our BBC from those who want to destroy it.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Oh fuck off GB News.
Andrew Windsor "settles".
Donald Trump "settles".
The BBC does not.
Andrew Windsor "settles".
Donald Trump "settles".
The BBC does not.
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Lucy traveled from Ethiopia to Prague in a custom box, with police escorts, to meet her great-great-great grandchildren (of sorts) in Europe for the first time. Hundreds of thousands showed up. Me for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🏺
Meeting Lucy: How a World-First European Exhibition Brought Visitors Face to Face With the Fossil That 'Shrinks Time'
Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lucy traveled from Ethiopia to Prague in a custom box, with police escorts, to meet her great-great-great grandchildren (of sorts) in Europe for the first time. Hundreds of thousands showed up. Me for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🏺