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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 8h

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 8h

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 9h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, go on, whack your signature on this one too!
Let's get our voices heard everywhere.
See the link in the post below.
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And if you can possibly help with legal costs (via @translucent.org.uk), please do donate here: translucent.org.uk/keep-hampste...

Madeleine Moore @matheleine.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is likely to be one of the first big tests of how far down the bigotry rabbit hole this country has gone. Everything we can do to fight back helps - please sign!

goodlawproject.org/petition/kee...

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting - never occurred to me either!

Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 6d

Think you might need a couple

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 6d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing! 🤣😻

Photo of Neil Hannon kneeling down next to some dogs. Below the photo, the headline reads ‘Neil Hannon: my wife set up My Lovely Horse, an animal rescue charity’

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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 8d

The only Christmas song that should be legal to play before mid November…

An MP3 player playing ‘Fairytale of New York’

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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 8d

👏🏻😂

Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 8d

Starting a spud van in Westminster and calling it Political Hot Potato. Park it near the Red Lion so it can get the spads after they're pissed up. Van tagline! Spuds 4 spads.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 12d

Vile. Recognising a Palestinian State is NOT a convenient get out clause for allowing and enabling a genocide. Also ‘We are a party of government, not a party of protest’ - exactly you fucking ghoul, so you have the ability and responsibility to do something about it

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Rich Thrift @richthrift.bsky.social · 13d

Lovely stuff - nice one, Newcastle!

Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 14d

Newcastle says no to fascism.

The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.

Newcastle united.