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RV 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 12h

This should be on every political leaflet in the local elections next year.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22h

Reform UK’s DOGE is DEAD

EIGHT Reform UK councils are considering raising council tax because they haven’t found anything significant to cut.

That’s TWO Reform UK local election pledges broken.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12h

O dear Diana

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 13h

Diane Keaton, who starred in Annie Hall, The Godfather, and many other movies, has died at 79

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 13h

The Removal Man Murders

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like the 737 has an integral front airstair, surprised Ryanair happy to carry that weight penalty

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 13h

But we all love you more here ♥️

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 13h

Did he have a smoke rocket concealed in it do we know ?

alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 13h

Sadly this is quite typical and says rather a lot about the folk committing the crimes.

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 13h

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 15h

Are you in a left hand drive car, anyhow no need to worry about the 'key deadline' because it only applies to personal number plates and the article explains -

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 17h

Global and regional climate in 2024 🌡️📈

The latest annual assessment from the Hadley Centre @metoffice.gov.uk published in @rmets.org Weather

Free to read: doi.org/10.1002/wea....

Screenshot of the Weather article page "Global and regional climate in 2024" led by Caroline Sandford

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 16h

The latest climate review from the Hadley Centre is detailed but for the Man on the Clapham Omnibus this selection of charts must surely be pretty compelling

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17h

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 17h

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 17h

Which is surprising as neither of them know a jot about birds.

alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 17h

I myself had the beginnings of a headache about it

alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 18h

but don't worry I didn't challenge their idolatry with the facts.

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 18h

Get your diaries out. Hostage to fortune here -

alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 18h

on grounds of cost alone, since there are plenty of local disreputable directions to choose

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn't he that bloke I saw at a party in the kitchen studying the grouting ?

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social · 1d

Splendid - 🐴🫎🫏🐎🦓🦌🐪🐐🐃🐂🦬🐮 or 🦄

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