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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 8h

A sane, fair, just society would have safeguards to bar politicians like this who lie - repeatedly - from the privilege of participating in political public office. The very idea they think they are ‘public servants’ is risible deceit.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 8h

“One of those, a woman in her 40s, was buried without a single person attending her funeral.”

Homelessness could so easily be ended by spreading the riches. Every stupidly wealthy person in the U.K. should have this on their conscience.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 20h

What has the world done to deserve all this ?!!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

www.theguardian.com

Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 1d

For all their bragging about “thinking outside the box” (like they have a monopoly on it) here’s what this toe-rag, con-trick mob are up to in my area. The week after one of their councillors blighted our street by erecting a ludicrous flag pole in front garden.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK likely to raise council tax in Kent despite promise to cut costs

Kent becomes latest local authority controlled by Nigel Farage’s party to signal intention to raise council tax

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 4d

Not on its own it isn’t

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4d

Zack Polanski turned up as a surprise speaker at the packed Greens Organise party last night - the year-old left wing internal group, many of whose members helped propel him to victory.

He said: "You can see that fascism is on the creep in this country. The Green Party is the antidote to that."

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 4d

“Did he get the milk?”

Kent and Surrey Bylines @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk · 4d

A mum received a call from a shop security officer: her 17-year-old son had been caught shoplifting. What to do, she asks? | Charlotte Mbali

My teenage son was caught shoplifting

A mum received a call from a shop security officer: her 17-year-old son had been caught shoplifting. What to do, she asks?

kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 5d

An excellent, blistering exposition of the History Reclaimed & Nigel Biggar wagon wheel of British ‘history’ pressed through their culture wars mangle.
Having recently spoken with a flag-flying neighbour professing to be a ‘woman of faith’, Christian Nationalism is not abstract, but proselytising.

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 5d

In the current issue of Ab Imperio: a defence of scholarly integrity against right wing historical propaganda:
Full text here:

alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5d

Like something from *The Boys*, except he’s not a fascist superhero, he’s just a fascist.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 6d

In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d

'In a tragic turn, Mākereti Papakura – believed to be the first woman from an Indigenous community to study at the university – died just weeks before completing her thesis, and in the decades since, her family has fought to have her degree recognised.'

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 6d

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 6d

And I have to wade through crazy crap like this

Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 6d

Why are there so many different beard trimmers?!! My long-serving cheapo one has finally conked out. I just want to go into a shop and say “a new beard trimmer please” and they say “certainly, there you are; that’ll be twenty quid.” But no. Capitalism has its own stupid ideas.

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Netpol @netpol.org · 7d

The Metropolitan Police is braced for an undercover documentary screening tonight showing Charing Cross police station is full of violent, racist and outright fascist officers and staff www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson

BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about Charing Cross station after sending evidence to police chiefs

www.theguardian.com

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 7d

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8d

Hotels housing migrants are now YouTube content farms. Outrage = clicks. Clicks = cash: £10k–£20k a month, just for filming cruelty. Division is the business model.

Details here ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks

YouTubers are cashing in by harassing asylum seekers at hotels, turning human misery into profitable, divisive entertainment

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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The Channel Monitoring Project @channelmonitoring.bsky.social · 7d

Last weekend, as the weather improved, more people tried to cross the Channel to reach safety in the UK. Four lost their lives in three separate incidents — one was a child. The government’s deterrent policies don’t work; they push people to take greater risks. We need #SafeRoutes now.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Aw diddums. Did the nasty man call you racist just because you make racist comments, push racist policies and support racists being racist?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 8d

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists ⬇️

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

www.thetimes.com

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 8d

This is some horrific bullshit #FreePalestine

Headline from The Daily Telegraph reading Trump to govern Gaza with Blair

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 9d

We need joy, hope, peace and the best of humanity - not this kind of anti-social excrement.

Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 9d

The bozo who has put it up says he ‘wants his country back’ and is being patriotic. He also says he has ‘special protection’. Nasty, self-entitled, exceptionalism. It takes a particular type of character and personality to create such an out-of-place eyesore in our habitation.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 9d

Some people put up sheds, some people put up a fucking flag pole. Such an obnoxious, provocative, aggressive thing to do. It blights our street and has diminished good feeling in our community. I feel dreadful for the people who this ‘erection’ (not our shed) is intended to intimidate and exclude.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 11d

Fun fact to add: In 1935 German Defense Minister Blomberg - the one who introduced the new oath of loyalty to Hitler renamed the German Defense Ministry… wait for it… the “Ministry of War”.

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 12d

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway.

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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 11d

The “They’re eating ‘Royal Swan’” libel is a racist motivated xenophobic trope. Constant, moronic, libel and confidence tricks is all we get.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 11d

“Tigger Tig! Tig Tig Tig. Ti-i-ig! Tig Tig Tig Tig Tig Tig !”
Just me signing my cat’s name to him to the tune of ‘The A-Team’.

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