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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 16h

Gore would have had an unassailable victory if it weren't for Ralph Nader.

#GreenParty voters gave Bush and the Republican Party the (disputed) victory.

A lesson that resonates for modern times.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 16h

At least it's not another travel bore involving Susan Calman.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 17h

All NT members, don't forget to vote in the current elections. Deadline 31st Oct.

The reactionary would-be entryists of Restore Trust are running another right wing slate to try and deny NT it's honest history, climate commitments and popular appeal.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 18h

Carry on Jim. Feel free to kill a football team but not the planet.

Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 1d

Dylan didn't turn up for the award ceremony but Patti Smith was there to represent him. Her rendition of 'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' is raw, hesitant and beautiful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=941P...

Patti Smith performs Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2016

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 1d

WTF are you thinking????

Both of them are the bad guys.

www.amnesty.org/en/location/...

Human rights in Venezuela

Stay up to date on the state of human rights in Venezuela with the latest research, campaigns and education material from Amnesty International.

www.amnesty.org

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

Neil Kinnock!
Owain Glyndŵr!
Charlotte Church!
Nye Bevan
Shakin' Stevens!
Shirley Bassey!
Harry Secombe!
Ivor the Engine!

Your boys took one hell of a beating!

#ENGWAL

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 2d

SAD!

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

I share my birthday with the late BB King but, after so many years, I just don't find it thrilling any more.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

Who says that the Tory Party has no future?

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 4d

#C4News new has just done a piece on a play about #ExeterChiefs bottom to top success story and they would have you believe that it's ground breaking to put rugby and theatre together.

Back to 1984 and #JohnGodber and #HullTruck might want a word with these southern, middle class media types.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 5d

While I've been on my travels in France, they've had three different days of national protest and three different Prime Ministers. Quite a feisty country at the moment.

But they do still give good chateau.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 5d

And yet, every time I watch afternoon sports TV, all the adverts are of elderly white people promoting cheap funeral plans or dental fixative.

Far be it from me to suggest that the Daily Mail is racist click bait but...

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 5d

Entirely predictable opinion from the mumbo-jumbo mystical radio show host and faux intellectual columnist.

He's a short step from conspiracist rabbit hole addict.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 8d

It's the go-to accessory for a certain type of guy.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 8d

Brendo, we're not in Kansas anymore.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 8d

Nottingham charges £500 per workplace parking space and has trams as well as a much more efficient bus service. Blue Badge and health workers exempt.

40% city centre travel now by public tpt. Over 2,000 new businesses in city since 2012.

Business groups objected at the time predicting disaster.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 8d

"All that public money we took for useless PPE? I haven't seen a penny of it. It's in a trust for our kids."

She's just a mother trying her best for her kids like any mother would with a £160m of our taxes.

Have a heart.

#MichelleMone #Medpro

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 9d

150K new homes but no large developments and no Green Belt involved, only brownfield sites whatever the local availability or need. Plus local primacy over planning applications.

It's a non starter and, ahead of the #GreenParty conference, Zack was gently taken apart on BBC SW tonight.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 9d

Also, I have a similar suggestion...

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 9d

Shiny trophies don't pay for themselves.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 12d

If the paintings don't sell, the trader can always find a use for the rat.

🫣

www.etsy.com/market/taxid...

www.etsy.com

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 12d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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