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🌸🌺Cindy Alexander Capaldo🌺 @cyn1422.bsky.social · 2h

PORTLAND IN RESPONSE TO TROOPS BEING DEPLOYED...

EMERGENCY WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE !!!.....
OCTOBER 12 @ 230pm🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Only in Portland do we respond to troops being deployed with glitter, bikes, and zero pants. The Naked Bike Ride hits the streets Sunday, October 12 at 2:30 PM from the Oregon Convention Center Plaza ...

TikTok video by Jacob 💙🏳️‍🌈

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 11d

Great moments in Conservative Party History.
Part 38 of an occasional series.
The romantic photo of 2019 capturing the moment when Prime Minister Boris Johnson showed his wife Carrie his spaffing machine whilst proposing to her on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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YD @inertyd.bsky.social · 10h

The Jewish guerrilla fighters who broke out of the Warsaw ghetto and weren't killed were also tattooed

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 11h

A 654% price cut? Wow, that’s amazing maybe next he’ll announce gravity is down 900%. At this point, 🍊💩’s math is less about economics and more about pure fantasy like he’s trying to outbid reality itself.

Trump: As an example one particular drug that's hot, very hot. 654% on inhalers... They will be averaging 654% reduction in price. Can you believe it?
lan Gillespie @IanRGillespie
No, I cannot believe the price of this medication will be reduced by 654% since it's mathematically impossible to reduce the price of anything by more than 100%
TheSteadyState • @steadystate2025
Trump announces a 654% reduction in prescription prices. Great news! If you usually pay $200, you'll now get a $1,108 refund. Dictators always promise miracles
—they just never deliver math that works.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 14h

A fascist tapeworm & faux patriot who “loves giving interviews. But ask him about his connections to Russia & the consequences of #Brexit, he'll put a stop to the conversation.”
“Brexit was the best thing to happen for Russia...”
Where is the UK? 👇
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 11h

Own goal in Brighton that.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22h

A demonstrator wearing a frog costume stands outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Tuesday

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curiouskittyk.bsky.social @curiouskittyk.bsky.social · 13h

One Richard Tice comes to mind multi-millionaire who spends his time in Dubai while holding a part-time role as an MP and claiming a full-time salary, and has taken upon himself to speak for the ordinary people just like his mate Farage. It’s more fool’s those who fall for these snake oil salesmen.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 12h

Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets.

This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.

They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.

FILIA calls itself "Europe's largest feminist conference."

In reality, it is a hub for all the worst and most authoritarian politics that hides under the feminist label. FiLiA's approach is not feminist, it is cruel, rigid, and hurts the people most vulnerable under patriarchy.

Anti-trans politics

FILIA advertises more events and speakers which focus on transgender people than any other topic. This includes a workshop for individuals to learn how to set up groups to exclude transgender people, and an event celebrating the recent supreme court ruling that threatens to push trans people out of public life, and has already increased harassment and violence faced by trans people.

Real feminists understand that transphobia is a manifestation of patriarchy, and that liberation for women cannot be seperated from liberation for trans people.

Anti-sex work politics

FiliA advocates the Nordic Model - where selling sex is legal but buying it is a crime. Compared to completely decriminalising sex work, the Nordic Model results in less abuse being reported, and more sex workers being targetted by police.

Opposing adult content online, including in video games

FILIA signed a recent petition that resulted in hundreds of video ga being banned from online distributors, and have invited the organ Collective Shout to speak at the conference. This goes against TRANS artistic freedom.

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 12h

We can, all of us, debate til the cows come home, the merits of direct action against property in Brighton.

But that horse has bolted.

It is the usual storm in a teacup, and stand by for multiple finger-wagging op eds from the usual suspects.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot

Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

If insurers believe the liability arises through malfeasance or deception by their clients, they would then either seek to recover the money or return the liability to the client. It would not be the get-out-of-jail free card it is today.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 23h

Oh. So pretty

Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 1d

Hope is our four letter word

Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 1d

Just so we're clear.

Any party who tells you who you can love, what gender you are, which books you can read, what history you can learn, what prayers you can offer, what you can say, where you can piss, what you can do with your own body ...

Doesn't believe in freedom.

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 1d

a woman says this one time at band camp while wearing a headband

Alt: a woman says this one time at band camp while wearing a headband

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disgustedandsick67.bsky.social @disgustedandsick67.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus wouldn't give Charlie the back of his hand.

And Jesus isn't seeing Charlie, who is burning in hell.

We should have taken the gloves off dealing with the blatant religious interference in our Government years ago. I know they're Hypocrites and pedophiles, too, but enough.

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 1d

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

María Corina Machado may not be regarded as a fully intersectional and inclusive feminist, but she generally backs the individuals' bodily autonomy and rights of LGBT+ folk

Way more deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize than Donald J Trump - a convicted felon who abuses people’s bodies and their rights

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 won by a woman - Maria Corina Machado

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to the #CMHP25 Memorial Lecture given by Colette Lane, Professional Lead for Lived Experience Development at Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, who is going to talk about Embedding Lived Experience at the Heart of Transformation.

Colette is joining live via Zoom.

THREAD 🧵

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 1d

#MAGA HAHAHAHAHA...

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Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner

Venezuelan opposition leader and pro-democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

news.sky.com

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Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 2d

IPS employment specialists already exist. Before people melt down, it's not compulsory & people request their support.

It's unfortunate that the Work & Pensions Secretary appears to be unaware of the fact.

Melody. @melodyfair.bsky.social · 2d

10 years stealth. Donttell Glincel..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Berries show ancient Fortingall yew tree is 'changing sex'

The Fortingall Yew, an ancient tree in Perthshire believed to be thousands of years old, has partially changed sex to female.

www.bbc.co.uk

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