Richard Pierce
@tettig.bsky.social
He/him. Novelist, poet, Spoken Word artist, painter, champion of new music. Debut novel DEAD MEN nominated for Guardian First Book Award. #StandUpToRacism. European. #RejoinEU. www.tettig.com. Don't DM me unless you know me.
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Richard Pierce
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· Sep 29
This stays pinned until we have overcome racism. #StandUpToRacism
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Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
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Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Dangerous times for the freedom of the press. Regardless of the BBC's rightwing bias, this is not a positive development.
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Dangerous times for the freedom of the press. Regardless of the BBC's rightwing bias, this is not a positive development.
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🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1.
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1.
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
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Gary’s thoughts on yesterday’s happenings
Wouldn’t it be nice to talk about actual football #ncfc
Wouldn’t it be nice to talk about actual football #ncfc
🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1.
💥Knapper out!
💥Webber out!
💥Adams out!
💥Dunn out!
Our club needs rid of these people before they destroy it.
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/the…#ncfcfc
💥Knapper out!
💥Webber out!
💥Adams out!
💥Dunn out!
Our club needs rid of these people before they destroy it.
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/the…#ncfcfc
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Gary’s thoughts on yesterday’s happenings
Wouldn’t it be nice to talk about actual football #ncfc
Wouldn’t it be nice to talk about actual football #ncfc
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Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today.
The system is rigged.
The system is rigged.
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today.
The system is rigged.
The system is rigged.
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Absolutely this 👇🏻 #ncfc
Have some humanity when you consider Liam Manning's time at #ncfc.
Just a year ago he suffered the most devastating thing a human can go through. He may have just wanted to get back on with the job, but he's not "over it" and never will be, & he probably should have taken some real time out.
Just a year ago he suffered the most devastating thing a human can go through. He may have just wanted to get back on with the job, but he's not "over it" and never will be, & he probably should have taken some real time out.
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Absolutely this 👇🏻 #ncfc
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The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
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Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!
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For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act.
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act.
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Good thread on the revised assessment of the previously-presumed 'Pictish-to-Norse' transition site at Buckquoy, Orkney. It looks like that interpretation needs to be put to bed.
NEW Were the Picts of northern Scotland wiped out by Viking conquest? New radiocarbon dates from the 1st millennium AD settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney paint a more complex picture of cultural interaction in the Northern Isles.
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Good thread on the revised assessment of the previously-presumed 'Pictish-to-Norse' transition site at Buckquoy, Orkney. It looks like that interpretation needs to be put to bed.
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Makes more sense now
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Makes more sense now
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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Hundreds killed in hospital atrocity in El-Fasher, Sudan
There yet more truly heartbreaking news from Sudan. Again, we see innocent people being massacred
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
There yet more truly heartbreaking news from Sudan. Again, we see innocent people being massacred
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
Hundreds killed in hospital atrocity in El-Fasher, Sudan
There yet more truly heartbreaking news from Sudan. Again, we see innocent people being massacred
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hundreds killed in hospital atrocity in El-Fasher, Sudan
There yet more truly heartbreaking news from Sudan. Again, we see innocent people being massacred
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
There yet more truly heartbreaking news from Sudan. Again, we see innocent people being massacred
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
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Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t.
In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵
In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵
Letter to the editor: Every child’s ambition matters – whatever their background
A former teacher fears children’s dreams could be limited by prejudice and urges us to protect their potential
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t.
In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵
In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵
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Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.
Human trafficking.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.
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🟢🟡 Patience Has Its Time and Place - But Not Here and Now.
🗣️@stewartlewis3.bsky.social
▪️Twinge of sympathy for Manning - over-hyped & misrepresented by Knapper
▪️BK’s firing of JHT & appointment of Manning wasn’t a touch on the tiller
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/07/p...
#ncfc
🗣️@stewartlewis3.bsky.social
▪️Twinge of sympathy for Manning - over-hyped & misrepresented by Knapper
▪️BK’s firing of JHT & appointment of Manning wasn’t a touch on the tiller
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/07/p...
#ncfc
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🟢🟡 Patience Has Its Time and Place - But Not Here and Now.
🗣️@stewartlewis3.bsky.social
▪️Twinge of sympathy for Manning - over-hyped & misrepresented by Knapper
▪️BK’s firing of JHT & appointment of Manning wasn’t a touch on the tiller
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/07/p...
#ncfc
🗣️@stewartlewis3.bsky.social
▪️Twinge of sympathy for Manning - over-hyped & misrepresented by Knapper
▪️BK’s firing of JHT & appointment of Manning wasn’t a touch on the tiller
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/07/p...
#ncfc
#NewMusicFriday on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk at 10-13 UK time on 07Nov25. Playing 33 brilliant new tunes, plus one from 1876 (a soundtrack to an Ibsen play) as the #ClassicalMusicInterlude. You'd be a fool to miss it.
Radio Stradbroke
The Website of Stradbroke Village Radio Station.
www.radiostradbroke.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#NewMusicFriday on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk at 10-13 UK time on 07Nov25. Playing 33 brilliant new tunes, plus one from 1876 (a soundtrack to an Ibsen play) as the #ClassicalMusicInterlude. You'd be a fool to miss it.
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Very sad, but one would hope a life well lived.
Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85
Family pays tribute to actor who was ‘bright, sparky, witty presence on stage and screen’
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Very sad, but one would hope a life well lived.