Mick Brooks
@mick666.bsky.social
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Anything but Mike. Poole-based, retired from the NHS, with birdy, movie, music and politics interests 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️. Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). PhD in neutron physics. Full bird list on eBird.com Films: https://boxd.it/mBT
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.
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roseschmits.bsky.social
Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy
boldpolitics.bsky.social
Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions
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joannahastings.bsky.social
Per the US National Institute for Health, over 40 *known* intersex variations exist. More are still being discovered. Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes –– even a person's cells can be female in one part of their body and male in another, and they may not even know it.
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kestrus.bsky.social
I love the way Zack stays calm while those on the losing side of the debate get angrier and angrier.

Debating talents aside, I guess its one of the benefits of knowing your brief and being backed by facts and science rather than prejudice and vested interest!

Well done for even engaging with PM.
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions
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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975
Black and white shot of Diane Keaton in a tank top with her hands behind her head. I like this photo for its simplicity; you can feel her personality.
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matineemode.bsky.social
Never underestimate the power of a goofy-ass scene with a great needle drop.
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lexialex.bsky.social
Remind me tomorrow to tell you about this magical place I visited today, where the people are all descendants of original resistance fighters and therefore understand how important it is to not only feel pity for an occupied people, but to support the fight against their occupiers as well.
Beautiful church on a lake in Gougane Barra, Cork, Ireland.
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stevethdemocrat.bsky.social
Monica's back! 😀
And still on the good side!
🔥🔥🔥🔥
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?
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warren.senate.gov
For Trump, the cruelty is the point.
mick666.bsky.social
I have done a section of the Dorset bird report for a few years now and we were getting separate BirdTrack and eBird tabs that had been QC-ed. This year we had a combined spreadsheet tab, which was nice…
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lexialex.bsky.social
Why does this look so familiar lol
realqrampage.fightins.online
LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly
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dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social
Middlebere - A bonanza of birds from late morning: Curlew Sand 2, Spotted Redshank 2, Knot 7, Avocet c450. Blackwit c250, Curlew 11, Green Sand, Marsh Harrier, Pintail 27, Present; Redshank, Dunlin, Lapwing, Wigeon, Teal 🦉🌎🦜@harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
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Good, it's about time somebody called their bluff!
bradfordgreens.bsky.social
" @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a sort of raving communist, really"

The right-wing media are losing their minds as the Green Surge continues.

Join us > Join.greenparty.org.uk
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dropsitenews.com
Thousands of Palestinians returned to Gaza City after ceasefire took hold Friday—returning to a wasteland of rubble. Abdel Qader Sabbah (@AbdelSabbah91) captured the devastation as survivors searched for what was left of their homes - full report (www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-...) + video below
Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس via X (@sharifkouddous): "The Israeli military destroyed as much of Gaza City as it could before being forced into a ceasefire agreement which took effect yesterday. Watch the video from the ground (2nd one) by the indefatigable @AbdSabbah91 embedded in this piece: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-palestinians-return-gaza-city-ceasefire-destroyed-wasteland-rubble?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"
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katelynburns.com
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.
If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
leftfootforward.org
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anthonymoser.com
This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate