Jalata
@jalata.bsky.social
European 🇪🇺 Life-long language learner, most recently 🏴 and 🇵🇹 Lover of literature. Deplore the divisions caused by Brexit and the whipping up of xenophobia.
Spent about 8 hours in A&E with a friend who was sent home after a fairly serious procedure yesterday. If she had been kept in overnight this could all have been avoided. 😢
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Spent about 8 hours in A&E with a friend who was sent home after a fairly serious procedure yesterday. If she had been kept in overnight this could all have been avoided. 😢
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I can see a total inadequate like Maurice Glasman getting off on this but did Shabana Mahmood really get into politics to inflict such cruelty? It won’t stop a single racist being a racist. It will stop a lot of Labour voters being Labour voters.
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I can see a total inadequate like Maurice Glasman getting off on this but did Shabana Mahmood really get into politics to inflict such cruelty? It won’t stop a single racist being a racist. It will stop a lot of Labour voters being Labour voters.
Shite. Home to a communication from Reflum, telling us they are our “last hope” in Wales. Not while I breathe 😡
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Shite. Home to a communication from Reflum, telling us they are our “last hope” in Wales. Not while I breathe 😡
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Turns out the head of comms for Reform called me a c**t.
It's not often I agree with them but fair play they were bang on money with this one.
Full story: nation.cymru/news/reform-...
It's not often I agree with them but fair play they were bang on money with this one.
Full story: nation.cymru/news/reform-...
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Turns out the head of comms for Reform called me a c**t.
It's not often I agree with them but fair play they were bang on money with this one.
Full story: nation.cymru/news/reform-...
It's not often I agree with them but fair play they were bang on money with this one.
Full story: nation.cymru/news/reform-...
Feeling concerned for the man who drank two pint glasses of a kiwi and spinach smoothie in our hotel this morning 🤢
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Feeling concerned for the man who drank two pint glasses of a kiwi and spinach smoothie in our hotel this morning 🤢
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RIP Jimmy Cliff
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Notes to men on planes: 1. Put the seat down or it’s all too obvious you’ve missed the target. 2. Don’t sleep while playing a film on your tablet. 3. If tall, don’t stand right next to me with your arse in my face.
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Notes to men on planes: 1. Put the seat down or it’s all too obvious you’ve missed the target. 2. Don’t sleep while playing a film on your tablet. 3. If tall, don’t stand right next to me with your arse in my face.
Why can’t we have lovely stamps like this? Instead of ghastly green monarch -headed, barcoded monstrosities?
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Why can’t we have lovely stamps like this? Instead of ghastly green monarch -headed, barcoded monstrosities?
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
My partner did an “AI edit” on a photo of me. It removed my glasses, a core part of my identity. Unforgivable.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My partner did an “AI edit” on a photo of me. It removed my glasses, a core part of my identity. Unforgivable.
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“Nobody at the BBC is sweating about displeasing Zack Polanski or the Guardian or even the current prime minister.”
Very good on the deeply cynical and dangerous right wing manoeuvres to compromise and ultimately destroy the BBC.
“Because everything is stupid”
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
Very good on the deeply cynical and dangerous right wing manoeuvres to compromise and ultimately destroy the BBC.
“Because everything is stupid”
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey
www.thenerve.news
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“Nobody at the BBC is sweating about displeasing Zack Polanski or the Guardian or even the current prime minister.”
Very good on the deeply cynical and dangerous right wing manoeuvres to compromise and ultimately destroy the BBC.
“Because everything is stupid”
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
Very good on the deeply cynical and dangerous right wing manoeuvres to compromise and ultimately destroy the BBC.
“Because everything is stupid”
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
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It's an obscene act of irresponsibility. Inward-looking, solipsistic, self-interested, playschool fucking bullshit.
Was any of last nights briefing from Number 10 done with the public in mind? Hard to think of a more perfect example of why so many people are now thinking, whatever the risks we may as well roll the dice on Reform/the Greens/someone else because it’s perma chaos as it is.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It's an obscene act of irresponsibility. Inward-looking, solipsistic, self-interested, playschool fucking bullshit.
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It was clear my 11-year-old daughter was seriously ill when she collapsed on Friday.
And yet, she wasn’t entitled to an ambulance when I dialled 999.
nation.cymru/opinion/wale...
And yet, she wasn’t entitled to an ambulance when I dialled 999.
nation.cymru/opinion/wale...
Wales’ new ambulance strategy is cruel and distressing for patients and those dialling 999
Emily Price Call handler: “Ambulance, is the patient breathing?” It’s early on a school day and my worst fears have happened before my eyes. My 11-year-old daughter has collapsed in front of me. B had...
nation.cymru
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It was clear my 11-year-old daughter was seriously ill when she collapsed on Friday.
And yet, she wasn’t entitled to an ambulance when I dialled 999.
nation.cymru/opinion/wale...
And yet, she wasn’t entitled to an ambulance when I dialled 999.
nation.cymru/opinion/wale...
The flag at the US Embassy in Malta appeared to be at half mast today so we did wonder … but it seems not ☹️
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The flag at the US Embassy in Malta appeared to be at half mast today so we did wonder … but it seems not ☹️
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Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings and Rye, suspects the beads may have been spilled by a local water treatment centre and has written to the Southern Water chief executive, Lawrence Gosden, demanding an explanation.
Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings and Rye, suspects the beads may have been spilled by a local water treatment centre and has written to the Southern Water chief executive, Lawrence Gosden, demanding an explanation.
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
MP asks for explanation from Southern Water amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
www.theguardian.com
Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings and Rye, suspects the beads may have been spilled by a local water treatment centre and has written to the Southern Water chief executive, Lawrence Gosden, demanding an explanation.
Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings and Rye, suspects the beads may have been spilled by a local water treatment centre and has written to the Southern Water chief executive, Lawrence Gosden, demanding an explanation.
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Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.
This is insane. Is there *any* race that was expected to be at all close that the GOP won?
What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.
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Tory policy: Let's spend 14 years asset stripping the country for our own ends & when we're finally voted out & things begin crumbling around us, we can blame the current government.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tory policy: Let's spend 14 years asset stripping the country for our own ends & when we're finally voted out & things begin crumbling around us, we can blame the current government.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas - at Costa in Magor Services anyway. Too much already.
Bah 🎅🏼
Bah 🎅🏼
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas - at Costa in Magor Services anyway. Too much already.
Bah 🎅🏼
Bah 🎅🏼
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Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer
Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.
www.bigissue.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
I will have it known that I am not “bad to the bone,” whatever my grandmother might have said.
With some sadness I must confirm that I am *not* the magnificent, backed by the shack of a soul boss.
I must confirm that I am *not* the one and only.
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I will have it known that I am not “bad to the bone,” whatever my grandmother might have said.
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Finally caught up on #GBBO in advance of the finale ... goodbye my sweet princes 😭
Enjoying the two guys on this year's Bake Off who look like they could be rival chieftains in Iron Age Gaul
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Finally caught up on #GBBO in advance of the finale ... goodbye my sweet princes 😭
If, if, if. Clegg’s complicity, Cameron’s complacency, Osborne’s austerity, Corbyn’s duplicity, Johnson’s egocentricity, Truss’s stupidity, Sunak’s nonentity, Starmer’s timidity.
A plague on all their houses.
A plague on all their houses.
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If, if, if. Clegg’s complicity, Cameron’s complacency, Osborne’s austerity, Corbyn’s duplicity, Johnson’s egocentricity, Truss’s stupidity, Sunak’s nonentity, Starmer’s timidity.
A plague on all their houses.
A plague on all their houses.