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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10h

Bad person seeing a good person: what the fuck, why is she faking? Is it just to piss me off?

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Sexræd @mrdanielbro.bsky.social · Jul 22

Two EPs, thats 12 songs, of Charm Wrestle here for you. Free of charge if you like that kind of thing.

charmwrestle.bandcamp.com/album/longer...

Longer Days with Venus in the Afternoon, by Charm Wrestle

6 track album

charmwrestle.bandcamp.com

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 12h

i listen to you and you are really good!

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 22h

Once again racism and racism apologia is ripping apart a community I’m part of and it’s literally the same playbook they use every damn time.

This is my kid’s school and it’s unsettling knowing who the racist parents are and how many 😬

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao feel this. We ended up putting new floors in over top and no regrets (though I’m sure some people will want to kill us but we tried to live with them for over a decade…)

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the loudest in the remain movement were only concerned about white EU citizens being protected. That’s why it finished once their security was in place and they never mobilise to support other immigrants or join antiracist movements

sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah DWP bullies are what’s needed. Not more GPs and better mental health and chronic illness services

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Sebas @sebajones.bsky.social · 2d

Why don’t they want to talk about how Covid has contributed to a huge rise in disability? Long covid is a huge issue, many people are undiagnosed, suffering unexplained health issues, and not getting support. There are millions of sufferers in the UK alone, unable to work or live their lives

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

The discourse in the West for the next few days will be e.g. "for all the caveats, let's just be relieved". And no, let's not. That's a feeling for Palestinians, not us.

Palestinians are human beings who deserve much better than the choice we've given them between genocide or colonial subjugation

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

My (relatively mild) ME/CFS diagnosis was so utterly fucked up by the NHS that I lost years of my life, so this will hopefully help other people in my situation

And as Monbiot points out, of course Streeting is bringing aboard one of the worst pricks to do a review of mental health "overdiagnosis"

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Sexræd @mrdanielbro.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky: please help me find replacement legs for an ikea Leirvik bed frame. Surely someone out there has some?

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 3d

ikea does replacement parts for free! (you've probably already looked but just in case you haven't)

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Jazz Tehara 👻 (Spooky mode) @drjazztehara.bsky.social · 4d

One of the next stops on this particular track is to strip second generation British people of their nationality…

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 4d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine if they’d done this to Farage for the past 20 years. It’s a choice

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 5d

Selling the Kenickie/Frankie & The Heartstrings tees I have doubles of. All money goes to MAP! Vintage, BNWOT, unworn or I can sweat in them for you if you want, your choice! Link here (check my seller items) ebay.us/m/KZTj2w

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sandy 🇵🇸 @okramom.bsky.social · 5d

i don't usually lurk snark subreddits but the travisandtaylor one is too good to ignore right now

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 6d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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René #FreePalestine 🟥🚩 @rcmoya.bsky.social · 7d

This is intolerable. How are we allowing this to go on?

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 8d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7d

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d

Kemi Badenoch: "Last time I checked Northern Ireland did vote to leave."

Might be good idea to check again.

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