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Thomas Penny
@thomaswpenny.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, bereaved single Dad, Quaker, allotmenteer and very amateur musician. Lover of strangers.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 7h
Our statement: Quaker Lobby Welcomes Gaza Ceasefire Announcement, Calls for Justice, Accountability, and Enduring Peace

www.fcnl.org/updates/2025...
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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 7h
"Pro Life"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
www.npr.org
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 7h
Farage couldn't care less about the safety of teenage girls.
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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 7h
Oh: the guy who told the Covid inquiry that he couldn't use WhatsApp has now got jobs with two tech firms.
Funny old game.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser
The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 11h
The #CountryNWestern bros were #Antifa

Real men hate fascism.

(To watch the original programme, check out the post by @classicnal.bsky.social further down the thread).
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d
Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
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Ozzy @karohemd.bsky.social · 7h
To save you the search, here's the youtube link to the full interview: youtu.be/V6_FWKLuY2s
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 11h
Thinking of this today...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUn...
Donald Trump unable to name one verse from "favourite book" The Bible
YouTube video by Kris Griffiths
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 20h
From the archive, 5 years ago: #Top10 TV Shows That Lasted Longer Than the Events Portrayed independent.co.uk/voices/tv-sh...
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 13h
I tell you who did win the Nobel Peace Prize: The European Union, in 2012, for" promoting peace, democracy and human rights for six decades".
And they deserved it.
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 21h
Robert Jenrick and Liz Truss were Remain campaigners too!
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 21h
Meanwhile, I don't take anything Donald Trump says as especially insightful. But his quote that "you can't fight the entire world" should be taken very seriously in Israel.
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 21h
Hoping very much that one of the positive outcomes of any truce will be the start of a process whereby Benjamin Netanyahu is out of power and finally held accountable for the unforgivable errors which led to October 7.
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Exorbitant Rosin Violation @jewelsnbinoculars.bsky.social · 1d
Lucinda Williams played downtown Portland last night, walked on stage, and said: "This city doesn't seem like a burnt-out hellhole to me."
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 1d
I bet that was a great show too!
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Michelle Hart @michellehart99.bsky.social · 1d
Heck, people can see it on isportlandburning.com
Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
isportlandburning.com
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 1d
An amazing story from the new biography of Billy Bragg, told through the eyes of his fans.
Geoff had taken his 15 year-old son George to see him during a trip to France in 2008...
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 1d
You're now going to have to buy hundreds to get a good enough sample to test the hypothesis.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d
One Small Step: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch, a leader unconstrained by reality.
One small step… | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“I thought you’d like that one!” Kemi Badenoch shouted as the Conservative Party rose to its feet to cheer. She chuckled happily. There’s nothing Tories like more than a tax cut, and she’d just…
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 1d
The season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and APPLE PIE!
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d
The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d
There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d
"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 1d
If you have the time to watch it, it's here.
www.c-span.org/program/inte...
Conservative Party Conference
William Hague closed the 114th Conservative Party conference. He spoke about the accomplishments of the meeting, especially making the party more open and responsive to members and constituents. He al...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d
I reviewed a book about why the UK nuclear industry has declined and there were many reasons but I swear the author didn't mention gender identity once
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