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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 11h

Because happiness is poison to their politics of hate, fear & division.

Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 11h

Wait, what, Tice thinks WE are the decadent ones, not the ones building fucking luxury island residential developments?!

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 15h

I was just thinking yesterday about how anxiety re: assimilation is weirdly modern; in most large cities (and often in the countryside) for century after century it was considered completely unremarkable to interact with people who would never be expected to know your language or share your religion

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 1d

This Rod Hull tribute act is a bit shit isn't it.

Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 1d

Also not mocking the model, but does he really make it look wearable? Not to me.

The fashion industry jumped the shark a long, long time ago imo.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Jenrick's "team have compiled and passed to the Telegraph a mega dossier of 35 judges he reckons have “pro-migration bias” — and he wants to sack ‘em all"

This is a Trump tribute act. Dangerous "enemy of the people" stuff here.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 2d

More shocking than the bollocks spouted by a caller on Tom Swarbrick on @lbc.co.uk was his failure to challenge it

”You go on a left pro-Palestinian & take out a union jack and they’ll rip you apart”

There were union jacks on the last pro-Palestinian march I went on an nobody was ripped apart

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

Far from being a distant colleague, insiders told Byline Times that Reform's former Welsh leader, convicted of bribery, was a close Farage aide and worked on the Kremlin's plan to crush Ukraine

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

www.bylinesupplement.com

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 2d

Thanks to the Daily Mail for correcting an article, which wrongly said that Korean researchers claimed they had found proof that the Covid vaccines had raised the risk of getting cancer.

As we explain, the researchers said no such thing.

Daily Mail corrects article about Covid vaccines and cancer – Full Fact

The article wrongly said a study claimed to have found proof the vaccines raised the risk of getting several types of cancer.

fullfact.org

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 2d

Hello BBC, Sky, LBC 👋

The party you won't stop telling us will be next in power are full of Russian shills.
One, Farage's favourite, just got convicted.

Maybe ...report on it?

a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

media.tenor.com

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Luckily we can still enjoy shows like The Mash Report & Mock the Week.

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe not "precisely"...

They are also quite dumb.

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 3d

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 3d

When you are so far right that you accuse Fox News of being the "politically correct".

😂😂

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 4d

Not only that but him & Farage no doubt had plenty of time to chat on their flights to Russia together...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Thorough, important, and gripping journalism.

Please take time to read.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 4d

I do love a fair few of the covers of a lot of those folks songs...

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely this.

They don't care what it is, it just gives them something to fight over.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.

It's Brexit 2.

And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.

Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 4d

@guitarmoog.bsky.social been on an REM trip since seeing your posts. It's been... a while.

It strikes me that Final Straw could well be an anthem for our times.

open.spotify.com/track/0kghVv...

Final Straw - Live In Dublin

open.spotify.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that entirely depends on how the government behaves.

It should be patently obvious that those who most want to remove our human rights protections are the same ones we should most want to protect ourselves from by keeping them from getting anywhere near power.

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Alex Wasyliw @alexofthew.bsky.social · 4d

It's just staggering that these incredibly unserious, clearly ridiculous, obviously nasty people continue to swamp our media.