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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 4h

Too many blind and partially sighted people have their lives put on pause because vital services are reduced and delayed.

If you believe they have the right to access support quickly, then sign our petition to Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care rnib.in/OutOfSightPetition

"Everyone with sight loss has a legal right to support. Sign our petition: call on Wes Streeting to take action."

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 3d

Five women have asked for an apology from Nigel Farage after he suggested they weren't victims of grooming gangs.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 3d

🚨 NEW: The rapid spread of Active Clubs, a network of fascist martial arts groups, is among the most concerning trends on the British extreme right.

We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 4d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/twi...

Twilight Flock 1 - yellow

Original painting by Moose Allain from world of moose

www.worldofmoose.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5d

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."

Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.

open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Coventry South needs a by-election soon

Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine

open.substack.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡

I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

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Symmaria @symmaria.bsky.social · 5d

#TerrierTuesday #Halloween Scary skeleton dog.

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 6d

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Pet Portraits By Hercule @portraitsbyhercule.bsky.social · 6d

We our countdown to Halloween with some of my favourite spooky, frightening, or unusual portraits. This terrifying creature was originally drawn in 2023.

This…..erm…well it belongs to the wonderfully lovely Jo Hawley.

I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Walter Shipdown.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6d

Adam Root shortlisted for the global Earthshot Prize after he built a unique design for filters that remove microplastics from water, from his mother-in-law's dining table.

A lovely bit of news. British ingenuity at the service of good. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Essex inventor up for Earthshot Prize for tackling microplastics

The engineer says his invention was created at his mother-in-law's dining table.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 6d

Farage: epic grifter

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Over 79,000 have now signed the petition. We are getting so close to 100,000🙏

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers.

You can support the campaign to change the law here 👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7d

I give this a little boost occasionally. It’s becoming a nice little repository in the replies of lovely stuff people make that you can buy. Please feel free to reply to it with yours. And if you find something you like but can’t afford, reposts always help!

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Mar 28

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.

(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).

www.worldofmoose.com

Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain

Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.

www.worldofmoose.com

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 7d

An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7d

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

That's racism. Plain and simple.

No other word for it.

It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 8d

Refuk’s fiscal prudence appears to extend only as far as their next vanity project, their Nottinghamshire council leader, Mick Barton, blew £75,000 on flags while public services rot. It’s less ‘responsible governance’ and more an extravagant circle-jerk of faux patriotism at the taxpayer’s expense.

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Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social · 8d

Good people of Yeovil!

Come along to Westlands tonight at 6pm! I’ll be talking all things India and crime and it’s going to be funny! Click on the link for tickets!

www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all...

Abir Mukherjee

www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk

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Saskia Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 9d

Also, I did not know this was a thing.

Picture of a toilet in the far east which is part of the toilet twinning project that raises fund for communities that don't have one.

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Symmaria @symmaria.bsky.social · 8d

My son bought his Dad one for his birthday a couple of years ago. 😁

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Pet Portraits By Hercule @portraitsbyhercule.bsky.social · 9d

New commission finished!!

This speedy fella belongs to the wonderfully lovely Kerry McDowall.

I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Linford Quickly.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 11d

Possibly unpopular opinion - Farage’s ‘listen love’ moment should have been a much bigger deal, if not career ending. Especially as he’s spent all summer lecturing us about cultures which have a ‘medieval attitude towards women’.

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