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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 5h

His voting record does seem to hit a nerve though. Makes a much better line of attack.

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 6h

Rank ableism.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 6h

Rank ableism.

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 23h

My daughter's know how much I empathise.

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 23h

What a state of affairs

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

In Britain and America, the voices who historically defended free markets, free speech and the rule of law are going to have to totally relearn.... free markets, free speech and the rule of law.

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent point

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Simon Wessley.

Will be writing to my Labour MP about this.

#pwME

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 2d

For the actual fucking love of god.

The person responsible for the gaslighting of thousands of people with ME/CFS with CBT and torturing them with graded exercise therapy, both of which were then tried again on Long Covid patients.

An absolute menace to the sick or vulnerable.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 3d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 1d

And it can't be made to work.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

🔵 Exclusive new polling by Best for Britain shows that Tories now believe that Brexit has failed and damaged the economy.

🚨 Even Reform voters are more likely to label Brexit as a failure than a success...

https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_voters_say_brexit_has_failed_and_damaged_uk_economy

Tory voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy

Ahead of the Conservative Party’s 2025 conference in Manchester, exclusive new polling by YouGov for Best for Britain reveals that people who say they intend to vote Conservative at the next general e...

www.bestforbritain.org

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 1d

I left about 11 months ago specifically because of Musks behaviour on it. Him mocking Ukraine was the final straw for me.

The fact that it had become such a toxic environment in general made it an easy decision.

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 1d

FFS, it's literally what the @telegraphnews.bsky.social campaigned for, 3rd party status outside of the EU.

The eternal sense of victimhood is truly pathetic.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

Coming from a man that made a conference speach encouraging a "New Order", he's openly telegraphing his ethno nationalism.

It was no slip of the tongue.

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

Such a charlatan.

And while I'm here I'll just take this opportunity to say #FarageFerries.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 2d

Thanks to Dave de Santis

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

Joy Division was equally suspect. I put it down to naively wanting to sound edgy.

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

He also mentioned New Order!

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick has gone full Nazi!

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

New Order?!!!!

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

Some good news.

Almost loath to share it as I still consider Labour a hard brexit anti-immigrant party. Their comms has been awful.

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

The Labour manifesto promised 6500 more teachers across schools in England.

The latest data shows the progress towards that has so far been 2300 additional teachers.

To help further, a new package of funding is announced today with a focus on areas traditionally ignored such as FE and...

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Pupils to benefit from more specialist teachers in classrooms

Aspiring teachers can get up to £31,000 tax free through bursaries and scholarships, as the government boosts efforts to attract more great teachers.

www.gov.uk

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 2d

The day after an American judge had their house torched.

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that ME/CFS must be psychosomatic or de-conditioning because current testing could not identify a mechanism or marker is *precisely the same* reasoning error that leads to conspiracies like anti-vax or Q.

This is complex & I don’t understand it, so it must be this thing I do understand.

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 3d

"Disservice"

Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 3d

I must have my head in the sand

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 3d

Failing how?

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 3d

Geddy & Lerxst are going on tour ❤️

youtu.be/koiX_Wspatw?...

Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans

YouTube video by Rush

youtu.be

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Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 3d

I removed their app from my phone about 5 years ago. The level of disserve became too much to bare.

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