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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello Bluesky world!

It seems nice here, no nasty Elon Musk screwing it up?! 🤣

If you're into left wing politics, socialism or climate crisis please follow me.

Am trying to find my Twitter followers too!

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Just caught the closing credits track of the film Zombieland’ Salute the Solution by the Raconteurs. If I hear Jack White’s voice, or his guitar playing (both entirely distinctive) I cannot help but stop what I’m doing and listen. Bloody brilliant nutter as he is.

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The Raconteurs – Salute Your Solution (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by The Raconteurs

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h

Well we don't have dodge bullets at school.
Or ICE thugs coming to kidnap us if we don't have white skin.
Or soldiers marching down the streets, dropping tear gas bombs from helicopters, for literally no reason at all.

So it's not quite as hard as growing up in the USA.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 10h

Starmer blaming #Brexit for tax rises may be accurate but when only 37% of a now disproportionately dead electorate voted for it almost 10 yrs ago, based on undeliverable lies, the questions are why should the rest of us stomach it & where is Labour’s plan to change that? archive.ph/2025.10.10-2...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Freezer @freezer.bsky.social · 15h

It's been over a dozen years but every now and then I think about how my 11th grade English teacher told me I couldn't submit my short story for an assignment cause the story took place over like 6 months. She said short stories can only take place in a short period of time, like a few hours.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 1h

You can see them can't you? They're scrambling around desperately trying to find a smear that will stick to the Green party. Anything they can use to avoid talking about policies.

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Claire Waller / Claire Lunn @clairesnonsense.bsky.social · 22h

I know this isn’t so relevant here but I have to say it before I burst

POLITICS ISN’T LIKE FOOTBALL. YOU DON’T PICK A TEAM THEN FANATICALLY EXCUSE THEM WHEN THE GOALIE PUNCHES A POLICE HORSE AND THE STRIKER TAKES DIRTY MONEY FROM RUSSIA, SCREECHING ‘BUT THE OTHER SIDE TRIPPED SOMEONE UP, ONCE TOO’

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🕸️🕷️ 🥀 Nani🥀🕷️🕸️ @sinmachine.is.severed.fyi · 3h

Politicians are NOT coming to “save us.”

We are our liberators.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1h

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 45m

Since 2000, Statutory maternity pay has declined, compared with full-time earnings.

In 2000, SMP nearly matched what you'd have earned doing 37 hours a week paid at the minimum wage. By 2010 it was 57% and today in 2025 its 41%.

SMP has not kept pace with wages, not even with minimum wage jobs.

Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder what maternity pay would be if the weekly rate had kept pace with wages.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2h

Maternity pay in the UK is insultingly low. It's no wonder the birth rate is declining so much.
I don't know why this isn't more of a national scandal.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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therealfinancecharg 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🇺🇦🇻🇪🇨🇺 @financecharg.bsky.social · 23h

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 5h

“In China, the longest ultrahigh-voltage power line stretches
the equivalent of the distance from Idaho to New York City. That’s a single power line. China has 41 others. Each is capable of carrying more electricity than any utility transmission line in the United States.”

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine that

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MissTaylor1991 @feminists-areheros.bsky.social · 1h

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17h

Dear Britain,

I am a wanker.

Headline: Danny Kruger sends letter to explain defection to Reform

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

#CostOfBrexit

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 7h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

Leaked documents suggested Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact he had repeatedly hosted in No 10, and used senior contacts in the Saudi government he had met as prime minister to pitch the services of a consultancy firm.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5h

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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