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Trump's 'Noble' Peace Prize @laboomer68.bsky.social · 3h

"It's not like it's a horse."

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The Rocky Hannah Picture Show 🦭 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 1h

Walking home from work and came across a couple of hate stickers 😒 thankfully one had shite adhesive but the other did not, so it required an @ungagged.bsky.social sticker for covering.

Two stickers staying 'stop the boats' attached to a metal thing outside a church in my area. One has a Union Jack design and the other is black and white.

An Ungagged sticker covering the UJ hate sticker. The other mostly peeled off.

Incidentally, if you would like to cover hate stickers in your area, contact Ungagged and get some of these printed off for yourself.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1h

@scotnational.bsky.social Facebook page is dreadful. Full of incredibly awful -unmoderated- comment. There is "free speech" and there is a duty of care. If you cant moderate it, dont have it.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 7h

We all took a few moments to rejoice that it wasn't Trump. Then went ...oh

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 7h

A six-panel meme in the style of the "Hyperbole and a Half" comic, featuring a pink blob character with arms flailing and mouth open in an excited or shouting pose in the left panels, and a line of three pink blob characters with whole cooked hams replacing their heads in the right panels.
The text is laid out as a call-and-response:
Panel 1 (Left): "WHAT DO WE WANT"
Panel 2 (Right): "FREE SPEECH"
Panel 3 (Left): "WHEN DO WE WANT IT"
Panel 4 (Right): "NOW!"
Panel 5 (Left): "FREE SPEECH FOR EVERYONE"
Panel 6 (Right): "EXCEPT GARY LINEKER, GARY NEVILLE & THE WOKERATI!"
The meme suggests hypocrisy regarding the concept of "free speech" by illustrating a group who demands it but then immediately places exceptions on who should be allowed to exercise it. The hams replace the heads of the characters making the exception.

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kat @katcary.bsky.social · 1d

maybe it wasn’t the worst thing to cancel @colbertlateshow.bsky.social after all

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Zohran Mamdani says the ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ producers pitched a ‘thumbs-up or thumbs-down’ segment with prompts like ‘Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state.’ ‘I just couldn’t believe what was happening,’ Mamdani recalled.

The Late Show Pitched Zohran Mamdani a ‘Game’ About Palestine

Zohran Mamdani says the ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ producers pitched a ‘thumbs-up or thumbs-down’ segment with prompts like ‘Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state.’ ‘I just couldn’t believe what was happening,’ Mamdani recalled.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 23h

Do you know who Jane McAlevey was? Karen Orr has written an intro...

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

We need Unions. Karen Orr tells us about one organiser that should inspire us all... Jane McAlevey.

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Jane McAlevey: Unions Against Poverty - Ungagged!

The Unwavering Backbone: Why Trades Unionists Stand as Guardians Against a Rising Tide… by Karen Orr The forest, in its vast complexity, teaches us that collective strength is paramount. A single tre...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 23h

Melania competing with Nodlid Gumpf for next year's Nobel?

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 23h

I'd say that channel has been open for 30 years or so...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

We need Unions. Karen Orr tells us about one organiser that should inspire us all... Jane McAlevey.

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Jane McAlevey: Unions Against Poverty - Ungagged!

The Unwavering Backbone: Why Trades Unionists Stand as Guardians Against a Rising Tide… by Karen Orr The forest, in its vast complexity, teaches us that collective strength is paramount. A single tre...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 6d

Indybag: My walk through post Storm Amy and post stupid Maryhill. Collect your Yes flags for free!

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Indybag: Stop giving our streets over to stupid - Ungagged!

I took a walk through Glasgow’s Maryhill area earlier today. Storm Amy had brought down a few trees, some older than my grandads da’, and a few black bins and rubble were in places they shouldn’t be. ...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 3d

Jock Mulligan:"Sci-fi's a warning, not a blueprint for an elite escape..." On billionaires loving Iain Banks, but not understanding his socialism and on building Torment Nexuses, not Star Trek or The Culture. #TechDystopia #SpaceCapitalism
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The Musk/Zuckerberg/Bezos Dystopian Novel... - Ungagged!

Fucking tech bros; those billionaires who read a bit of sci-fi and think they’re building the future, when really, they’re just building bigger cages. It’s enough to make me fucking spit, fo sure. Fuc...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

We need Unions. Karen Orr tells us about one organiser that should inspire us all... Jane McAlevey.

leftungagged.org/2025/10/10/j...

Jane McAlevey: Unions Against Poverty - Ungagged!

The Unwavering Backbone: Why Trades Unionists Stand as Guardians Against a Rising Tide… by Karen Orr The forest, in its vast complexity, teaches us that collective strength is paramount. A single tre...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

She is a huge defender of the rich and oil companies. Trump approves of her. It's pretty much like Thatcher getting the prize, rather than Pinochet.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

Machado is no friend to Venezuelan boats... or the poor, let's be honest.

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prize has gone to a right-wing conservative, who is approved by Trump. Fuck him- and Maduro is no hero- but Machado will be no friend to the poor in Venezuela.

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Kevin M Stevenson @kmcisaacstevenson.bsky.social · 20d

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 21d

Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

Who gives a Fox what Fucks News says about the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1d

Just so you know. Ash Regan has left yet ANOTHER party.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brilliant that Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. A defender of democracy who put herself in danger deservedly rewarded

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 1d

hiddenwingsandbloodlust.podbean.com/e/episode-62...

I spoke to @rosariolebronentomology.com about Trump's attacks on entomology

Episode 62: Entomology under Trump with Armando Rosario Lebron | Hidden Wings and Bloodlust

I interview Armando Rosario Lebron, an entomologist who has recently moved from the USA to Wales, about the Trump administration's policies and how these are affecting entomology in the USA. Mentione...

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Wally Kibler🇨🇦 @wallykibler.bsky.social · 2d

“she was 13 years old”

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All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped

Their charges range from an unwanted touch from behind to aggressive, sudden kissing to fingers groping up their skirt and into their underwear. Donald Trump and his campaign insist all of the stories...

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