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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Apr 16

(from)The Second Coming
By WB Yeats

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 2h

👍🏻👍🏻 An important reminder- lest we forget…

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 2h

Robert Jenrick, the Conservatives' Farage; a racist who ordered cartoon murals to be painted over at a children’s asylum centre - because they looked ‘too welcoming’ & helped a billionaire donor avoid paying £40m in property tax. Indecent, racist, corrupt - definitely a potential Tory leader.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 2h

Great time now to join!
join.greenparty.org.uk

Robbie @huckfling.bsky.social · 12h

Hell yeah @greenparty.org.uk.

Even that dude from Free Solo couldn’t scale the membership graph of the Greens under @zackpolanski.bsky.social

UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 1d

There you go!

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 2h

A Common Redstart at the #weedypond this morning.
It's rare to see to such a clear view of this beautiful bird, only here for a brief stopover, as it heads back to it's wintering location in trans-Saharan Africa.
#ukbirds #ornithology 🌿🦉

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2h

Greta Thunberg, back in Stockholm, described the treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla detainees as “cruel and degrading,” saying they were crammed into cages and denied medicine — but urged, “Don’t make this about me. The story is Gaza.”

(Middle East Eyes)

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Steven E7#9 @steven-d28.bsky.social · 15h

Yea, I holde with that purpos.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16h

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 17h

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Hugh Terry @hugorelly.bsky.social · 18h

Please sign the petition:
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Sign the Petition

Ban all bottom trawling and save our seas

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

4000 people have signed up to sue poultry producers.

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 1d

‘The international outrage we’ve seen over the treatment of flotilla participants is necessary and justified. But where was it for Palestinians in all those decades of barbaric Israeli conduct?”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We fear what Israel will do to us if they seize our ship. But we are not turning back | Naoise Dolan

Our captured flotilla colleagues have been subjected to violence and degrading conditions in an Israeli prison. This has only made us more determined, says Irish writer Naoise Dolan

www.theguardian.com

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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 1d

Has ANY @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP stood up and mentioned this?

Called it a disgrace?

Asked how everyone is doing?

Helped them in any way to get away from the genocidal IDF & zionists in Israel?

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Trinovantian @emceegeegee.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. And better journalism if at all possible.

Folks, follow @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @thenerve.news

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

Mocking Gaza's murdered babies on national television.

We are living through a depraved period of history.

But this is what genocides do.

They're only possible because of the dehumanisation of their victims.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/mocking-ga...

Mocking Gaza's murdered babies on national TV

A nauseating case study into the dehumanisation of Palestinians

www.owenjones.news

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1d

Why hasnt Israel released all the Flotilla activists?

Given the guards behaviour towards released hostages we should be extremely worried about the welfare of anyone left behind In their charge!!

www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkish...

Turkish and European MPs issue call for release of flotilla activists

Dozens of activist from the Global Sumud Flotilla remain in Israeli detention, with their status unknown

www.middleeasteye.net

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 1d

I’m seeing some, but a lot less of it than over there. I expect that as Bluesky grows, we are bound to see an increase…

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 1d

Grifter/snake-oil merchant truth twisting from his Dubai HQ. There is a big Kremlin shadow over Reform…

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Richard Tice holidays with Russian oligarch on Riviera

The Russian oligarch Vladimir Chernukhin and his wife, Lubov, have long been known for their generous support for the Conservative Party. Since 2012 Lubov has given the party at least £2.1 million, as...

unherd.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 1d

Are the old Tory voters now considering switching their support to Reform going to heed Heseltine’s words, or have they forgotten him already?

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Aletheia @aletheia2.bsky.social · 1d

Crafty isn’t he?