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TeeDixie 📎

@teedixie.bsky.social

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Here from Twitter; mixed up chick 🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hate right wing nonsense, we should all fight injustice & disinformation. UK based; hate what Brexit/Tories did but trying to be optimistic about it. Trump is ruining the US for the world to see. Up the revolution✊🏼

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · Feb 11

FINNNAAAALLLY got round to adding 150 of you lucky, lucky people on to my first starter pack.

I say first because there's got to be people I've missed but in the meantime, it's a pretty good list of great people.

go.bsky.app/PPKy8Ro

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1h

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a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a window with a sticker that says ugg

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a window with a sticker that says ugg

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Mine’s all online. I logged on the other day.

Was going to pay an amount but then got sidetracked. I’ll get to it.

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Cancelled my direct debit. I’ll pay what I can, that I deem sensible. Thames Water hiked my bill up from £19 per month to £50 per month. I haven’t started using a gazillion more gallons per month so I don’t wish to subsidise their bonuses or dividends thank you very much.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Hence my post further down the thread. bsky.app/profile/teed...

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Now they’re by no means perfect, there’s some integral shit that is infuriating (granted) but their communications really do need sorting out because I had no clue this existed.

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Hence my post further down the thread. bsky.app/profile/teed...

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Now they’re by no means perfect, there’s some integral shit that is infuriating (granted) but their communications really do need sorting out because I had no clue this existed.

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Morning!

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

#Portland #DancingUnicorn

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Someone posted this on LinkedIn and I’m so there for it. I’ll pop the video in the next thread because there is, indeed, a dancing unicorn. #Portland #DancingUnicorn

I live in Portland, Oregon.
We have been labeled a "war zone."
Last night, while federal officials were in town declaring the need for more force, the "war" escalated to dancing unicorns.
This is all happening in one block south of downtown.
Thave seen with my own eyes and heard directly from friends and journalists on the ground what has been happening where I
live.
I have been told by even members of my own family that I must not be "fooled" by my own eyes ... based on the stories they've heard.
Facts will never change minds.
Stories do.
That is a propagandist's dream.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

National Pizza Day? Says 9th Feb on here?

awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da...

National Pizza Day | Awareness Days

National Pizza Day is a delicious excuse to enjoy your favourite pizza and try new flavours with friends or family.

awareness-days.co.uk

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Will do!

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I agree with this. They really don’t help themselves sometimes 🙄

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

I know!!!! Crazy eh?

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I agree, however they don’t help themselves sometimes.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t but I am now, thanks for the tip!

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Like I said, they aren’t perfect and they infuriate me but why isn’t this common knowledge?

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

I find that really hard to fathom.

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Well quite, Christ knows what kind of situation we’d be in by now.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed.

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Not me, until now.

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Had no idea it existed!

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

Now they’re by no means perfect, there’s some integral shit that is infuriating (granted) but their communications really do need sorting out because I had no clue this existed.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

fullfact.org/government-t...

Government Tracker – Full Fact

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

fullfact.org

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

I was quite surprised, given the amount of negative press that would have you believe that this government is the worst we’ve had yet.

I’ll put the link in the next post but given we had a complete shit show with the Tories, this is astonishing. Do reshare or bookmark the link, it’s handy.

Under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, of 42 Manifesto Pledges, only
2 were delivered in 5 years.
Under the current Labour Govt, elected in 2024, of 83 Manifesto Pledges, 57 are delivered (18), on track (19), or in process (20).
In 1 year.
(FullFact Tracker)

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