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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 1d

By autumn 1322, Robert the Bruce held the upper hand. Edward II’s failed invasion of Scotland had ended in famine and retreat, giving Bruce the chance to strike south. In October, his army swept into Yorkshire, where Edward was staying at Rievaulx Abbey. OTD 14 October, the

Memorial commemorating the Battle of Old Byland

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Markeye @markeye.bsky.social · 2d

He’s absolutely right. You see it with Farage and Tice all the time.

Ask them tricky questions and they get really aggressive, so weak interviewers back off. They just don’t like being held to account. And there’s a lot of account to hold them to.

We need to keep pressing on their Russian links.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 4d

A one-year-old boy with his father were subjected to an alleged racially aggravated attack outside their home in Worcester. West Mercia Police confirmed a man and child were sprayed with an unknown substance and racially abused with "threats to kill" which led to a 77 year old woman being arrested.

Muslim leaders speak of shock after 'racist' spray attack on baby

Muslim leaders at Worcester Mosque spoke of their 'shock and sadness' following the alleged racist attack when a baby was sprayed with an unknown…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 3d

Mobiles are both a gate to the world & a wall separating us from it. We can explore or keep ourselves to ourselves, talk or avoid conversation, seek confrontation or shut it down. Like most things, mobiles aren't all good or all bad. They're what we make of them.
#GoodMorning, everyone.

Cartoon by steinbergdrawscartoons (Instagram). In a black space, a row of planets: the sun, the moon, the stars, and a huge rectangular white field with the description: "My phone when I check it at night"

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting

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

Imagine that

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

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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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

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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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 4d

Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *Sun Life *Boxt *Avanti Travel Insurance *AllClearTravel *AliveCor *City_Moves *WeFix_London *PolandTravel_UK *WorldOfCruising *AprilKingLegal *Emerald_Cruises *getdrafty *TonicSurgery *HousingUnits *CandlelightUK *moneyfactscomp *Staysure *SimplyFactoring

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5d

The aftermath of the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia last night

A 7-yr-old boy died in the hospital from severe injuries.His parents are in the hospital.The boy's dad returned in the spring from Russian captivity,where he had been held for 3 yrs.Now,the doctors are fighting for his life.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is hugely important. I have done a lot of research on religion and politics for my book (about 🇬🇧) and I cannot overstate the difference between the pundits and politicians who talk aggressively
about "cultural Christianity“ and the people you meet when you actually go to church.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4d

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity

Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Britons travelling to EU to undergo new biometric checks at border from Sunday

Non-EU nationals entering Schengen area will have their photo and fingerprints taken as part of entry-exit system The first British and other non-EU citizens will be subjected to new biometric checks when travelling to Europe from Sunday, when the long-delayed entry-exit system (EES) is finally launched. However, a phased implementation to avoid chaos at borders means it could be another six months before every traveller is checked, with passport stamping continuing until the system is fully up and running. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 4d

Superb

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 6d

Shortish thread.

It's been a while since I have written any poem or song parodies, but the speeches at the recent Tory Conference sparked an idea.

Dedicated to @caroljhedges.bsky.social , and with apologies to Lewis Carroll

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 6d

She promised fiscal probity
To calculate the price
Of every new initiative
That really would be nice
As she hands out needless tax breaks
No, the poor won’t get a slice

7/10

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 6d

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi claims “work is the best way out of poverty" on the same day analysis finds an avg earner would need to save almost all of their income for 52 years to become as wealthy as the top 10%.

Individuals working harder won't tackle income inequality; we need a wealth tax now.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

So the business model is dependent on theft.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

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