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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 25m

I feel like today will be 10/10.

Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 43m

I anticipate 50 seats being the ceiling, unless the local gains and momentum are truly exceptional. Similarly, Reform aren't going to get more than 250 seats. I'm expecting 100-200 seats for each of LD/Con/Lab/Ref, with the remainder shared between Green & Indy, but a lot rides on LEs until GE.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3h

Labour cucks love to say "it's about building homes" or "it's about growth" and a) no it's not, because fuck all is affordable due to the nature of the UK housing market that Labour only wants to emboldened and b) growth for who, fuckers? Growth for developers and their shareholders, that's who

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 2h

exactly!

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3h

Labour wants to perpetuate and strengthen the problems with the UK housing market and homeowner culture because they see it as a shortcut to wealth and because they're in the pockets of developers, and they will destroy the environment to do so because they hate environmentalism. It's that simple.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3h

This right here is obviously disastrous, but Labour's awful anti-environment planning proposals will have a far worse effect than impacting on "resort" nature like national parks.

Say goodbye to that little field or park near you, that place you walk the dog or go to chill out.

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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go loud @stillicides.bsky.social · 13h

as T said, seeing penis while they're all just hanging out naked together is basically fine, I am not a prude!, but a straight down the lens anus shot was more than I had anticipated

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 13h

I suppose it's often best not to be a paedophile at all.

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 13h

Autist-dick

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

Anyone have "your dick makes you autistic" on their 2025 bingo card?

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 13h

I think circumcision is more dangerous with age!

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 13h

Prepuce-terous!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 15h

Not helped by the fact a centrist government is undoing our freedoms by attacking the right to protest and banning organisations it finds politically inconvenient.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16h

The UK is in collective denial about the damage a populist nationalist government could do given thd absence of checks and balances in our system. Not sure why, since we had a pretty close run a few years ago.

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 16h

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 19h

Little pootle in the sunshine to check out some emerging sexy infrastructure. A new *rubs thighs* machine-laid stepped cycle track complete with what will be a bus stop bypass (second picture, use your imagination).

Photo looking along and almost-complete, newly surfaced stepped cycle track. The road has been closed in one direction and there are orange plastic barriers separating the traffic from the works site, extending into the distance.

You have to really use your imagination here but the photo shows a dug up road and layby, with orange barriers on one side, and a line of kerbs yet to be installed. The layby was for a bus stop, and this will be moved forwards towards the road, so that the stepped cycle track can go around the back of the new bus stop and shelter.

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 14h

You'll never guess what

Northern places pronunciation guide:

Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, Pronunciation Mithumroyd.

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 15h

Does anyone say Barlick?

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18h

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 16h

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 1d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 16h

I think if you are caught using your phone when driving your phone should be seized and crushed into a cube

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sticking with stream pressing your trousers while you're at the footie.

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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 20h

I was going to highlight this to @regretteruane.bsky.social on the other thread, but this seems relevant.

Tweet from @_rach_ael: I saw this on someone's tattoo page last night and I can't stop thinking about it.

Picture is of a rope-bound s&m style Mr Blobby with a multicoloured blobby scarf gag and blue & purple hearts around him on a green cloud background.

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 1d

Lets be honest, taking a bicycle on a train is an absolute pain in the arse, even folding ones. It’s difficult to get them on and off, the storage is extremely poor, and buying tickets is way too complicated.

It didn’t need to be this way, that used to put them in a guards van. Wide doors, simple

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 1d

Thing is, they're right to be worried. Older folk have comprehensively let them down and created a world that's increasingly hard to live in.

Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social · 1d

‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown

As study shows 78% of UK under-12s worry about the issue, people in their 20s around world share their experiences

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown

As study shows 78% of UK under-12s worry about the issue, people in their 20s around world share their experiences

www.theguardian.com

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