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William Battersby

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Socialist✊ Irish☘️ Republican🚩 Anti-Zionist🔻 Celtic🍀 DeadHead☠️🌹 #Think32 #Veggie🌱 Organic Gardener🌳 1955Vintage from Coleraine Co Derry Longtime Brighton resident Banner by Gazan Artist Malak Mattar 🗝️ #Paddystinian

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William Battersby @battersby1888.bsky.social · Nov 19

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billydelion.bsky.social

@billydelion.bsky.social

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IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD

YouTube video by johnlennon

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December 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM

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Grateful Fred⚡Play Dead

@therealcavey.smokes.lol

Finished the "kitchen Island" project. Wish I had room to keep this one 😂 wish I could keep them all, anyways, I'll be selling her but thought I'd share. This was a broken $7.50 thrift find. Added the hardware & wheels, reinforced the drawer & joints & painted 🖤🖤🖤

Kitchen Island restoration added this towel bar

Kitchen Island restoration added 3 hooks

December 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM

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Just Jack

@just-jack-1.bsky.social

I have more respect for the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush than any of the cowards in the current White House press pool.

December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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BladeoftheSun

@bladeofthes.bsky.social

December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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BladeoftheSun

@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Wholesale UK Electricity is 35% cheaper than the same period in 2024, Gas is 28% cheaper.

What about YOUR bills?

December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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BladeoftheSun

@bladeofthes.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember when FIFA was about kicking balls, not sucking them.

December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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lizziec.bsky.social

@lizziec.bsky.social

This is a pure revenge mentality, deep and ingrained. Mixed with a profound sense of entitlement.
Some of the most evil and dangerous people on the planet.

December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Steph Petrie

@stephpet.bsky.social

The BBC is a propaganda outfit. No surprise to me as I stopped paying my TV licence & watching live TV in 2015 because of their appalling coverage of Corbyn-led Labour that also conflated Zionism with Judaism. Anti-zionist Jews (& there are many) don't exist for the BBC
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Every staff member at the BBC must now complete a training course that warns against criticising Zionists and implies the use of the term is antisemitic. The...

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December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Steph Petrie

@stephpet.bsky.social

It truly shocks me that they can't see the similarities between themselves & Nazis
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Deaglan O'Mulrooney (@deaglanomulrooney)

Members of the ‘Otzma Yehudit’ (Jewish Power) party on the Knesset National Security Committee wore noose-shaped pins during a discussion on a bill to execute Palestinian detainees. Has anybody not fi...

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December 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

One of a series of mixed media drawings of musicians playing at an Irish music session in Mill Road, Cambridge
#mixedmedia #musicsession #fiddle #guitar #tinwhistle

Musicians playing Irish music in a Cambridge pub painted using mixed media. From left to right a fiddler, a tin whistle player, a guitarist and another whistler. A fiddle lays on the table among the depleted glasses of beer and Guinness. The gold-embellished mirror is a great feature of this pub and the dartboard is just sketched in on the left.

December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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💢Marx was right.🕊

@paulwalker44.bsky.social

The Zionist right wing coup on free speech is official at the BBC.

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New BBC Staff Training Course Warns Against
Criticising Zionists
The mandatory exercise comes after a rightwing 'coup' at the corporation.
Novara Media
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Every staff member at the BBC must now complete a training course that warns against criticising Zionists and implies the use of the term is antisemitic.
The new guidance, a section of which was shared on X by journalist Richard Sanders on Monday, says that "antisemites frequently use the word Zionist (or worse 'Zio'), when they are in fact referring to Jews, whether in Israel or elsewhere".
It adds that "those claiming to be 'anti-Zionist, not antisemitic', should do so in the knowledge that many Jewish people consider themselves to be Zionists".
If these critics have no intention of offending Jewish people, "they should criticise 'the Israeli government' and not 'Zionists'", it says.
The section does not mention that many other Jewish people oppose Zionism, or that supporters of Zionism, including far-right and evangelical figures, can be antisemitic.

December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Susan DuBose

@houseofbast777.bsky.social

“Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.”
“They broke my heart and they killed me, but I didn't die. They tried to bury me, they didn't realize I was a seed.”
Born on this day Sinaed OConnor ❤
December 8, 1966, Dublin, Ireland

December 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Ellen Timmerman

@flbe.bsky.social

In memorial 💙

December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter

@maniisnala.bsky.social

BBC's new guidelines treat anti-Zionism as antisemitism www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/bbcs-new-g...

BBC's new guidelines treat anti-Zionism as antisemitism

The BBC has issued new training guidelines around antisemitism and they are every bit as woeful as you might suspect.

www.councilestatemedia.uk

December 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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Clare Willow

@mollymalone45.bsky.social

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Reeves claims 'I am a Zionist' while receiving over £200k from Israel lobby

Rachel Reeves has received over £200k from the Zionist lobby over the years - how the fuck is this a functioning democracy?

www.thecanary.co

December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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fogelnet

@fogelnet.bsky.social

Grateful Dead Live at Indiana Convention Center on 1979-12-07

#GratefulDead #LiveMusic #TIGDH

Grateful Dead Live at Indiana Convention Center on 1979-12-07 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

Set 1 Minglewood Blues, Tennessee Jed, Me & My Uncle-> Big River, Don't Ease Me In-> El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, Easy To Love You-> It's All Over Now,...

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December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Dead To The Core

@grateful4dead.bsky.social

Today In 1973: The Grateful Dead Live At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University (~);} archive.org/details/gd19... @marigold420.bsky.social

Charley Brown and snoopy in a winter scene by the decorated dog house and the Christmas tree outside with a stealie in the background.

December 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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ms m

@msmeredith.bsky.social

Good morning, sweet Deadheads 🌹🌹🌹

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It Must Have Been the Roses (Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 7/8/78)

YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic

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December 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM

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Sherry

@esmereldaohara.bsky.social

Remembering Gregg Allman, #BOTD December 8, 1947.
Singing, Drown in My Own Tears, on the Derek Trucks album, Soul Serenade.
youtu.be/tTdQdoJh1ro?...

December 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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TallIrishOne

@tallirishone.bsky.social

Good morning my Friends 🌲🌊🌞

An acoustic Rider to ease you into things 👌🏻💃

Be careful on the roads & gentle with yourselves today.

Be good.
🙏🏻🐙👽🐦‍🔥💙🌞❤️🐢💃🧚‍♂️✌🏻