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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1h

Easy - just don’t eat or spend any money during your entire career!
Meanwhile, the super rich double their wealth every few years and big corporations make billions in profit (and push up prices when a slight blip in PROFITS, not losses, is forecast).
We are not all in the same boat

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1h

No hospital, let alone a children’s hospital, should ever look like this!
It is disgraceful and unforgivable how the western governments supported and “normalised” this.
The world will never be the same again. Anyone who allowed or supported this can STFU about caring about humans or peace.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 5h

The massive destruction caused by Israeli bombardment at Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Al-Nasir area, west of Gaza City.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don’t know what’s triggered it, but this phrase from Tacitus keeps coming to mind today:

“They make a desolation and they call it peace”.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly! We should all be standing up for vulnerable refugees out of principle (supporting them to work & contribute) but Brexit taught EU nationals that this is about racism, fascism & othering, and will expand to include other immigrants and the poor/disabled/old etc.
We have to fight this now!

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 9h

This 👇👇👇 Tories stitched the country up big with Labour 's endorsement. And you wonder where all the money has gone ? All on post Brexit deregulation, you pay for private equity, big corporates to pay no customs and excise taxes. @zackpolanski.bsky.social this needs exposing big time.

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10h

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 9h

That's true. But they need to stop the anti migration rhetoric now , which is how Fascist Farage sold Brexshit too. I am still very angry about this shit show, not content with wrecking the country ,Farage is coming after my family again, with his German passport and his EU pension too, hypercrite.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

Rachel Reeves set to blame Nigel Farage for tax rises in the Budget, saying he delivered Brexit with “easy sloganeering” and then walked away

It’s about time

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone can see through his lies and what he is doing = transparency.

Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 21h

Still find myself often listening to that album - so raw and visceral!

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

Someone seeing this photo without seeing the preceding posts might think you have just washed your dog in the dishwasher 🫣🤣

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 1d

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Dr K WILDSCHUT @drkwildschut1984.bsky.social · 1d

Disgusting! Gambling disorder wrecks lives.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

The polititicans are very aware of the threat but have ACTIVELY decided that rather than try do something remedial (and unpopular) now, they are instead planning for the future fallout = cutting aid to countries, blocking refugees, banning the inevitable protests (when the public realises).

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

That is always the way with these trips...fortunately lots of more exciting things in Vienna (and no shortage of museums!!)

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

I note you had to spend some "quality" time at the airport...

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

If only there were some historical precendents to predict how this would turn out...

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

I read this at the time and again now, and was moved both times. Too often not spoken about or acknowledged, so important to see it articulated in beautiful language and in the context of routine daily life, which these events crash into.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Christopher Walton @christo-walton.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see the right-wing lies being totally demolished. Poverty & the increasing inequality gap has been a political choice in the U.K. for far too long.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

Reality = Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Man who hates everything else about Britain hates our schools too.

Hardly news.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 2d

It would be easy to reposition this headline as 'Billionaire author vows to keep interfering with Scottish democracy', which doesn't look too pretty.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

This is a vulnerability map for 8 key bodies: ONS, OBR, Food Standards Agency, MHRA, Met Office, UKRI, Natural England, & UKHSA.

ONS has the most independence. All but ONS have ministerially appointed leadership. 3 could be abolished with no oversight as they have no statutory basis.
6/11

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

bylinetimes.com

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