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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 18h

Not soon enough.....

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

I’d like to ask Omid how the comedy gig will stop journalists being abducted and beheaded. There’s a reason Steve Van Zandt wrote Sun City…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/08/riyadh-comedy-festival-omid-djalili-saudi-arabia

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 13h

My wife's auntie was one of the hidden Brits in Spain. She sort of died of it. She was scared of going to the doctor in case she got caught, and died of liver failure.

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 16h

There are many more all around where I live in Normandy.

The Normandy American Cemetery near Bayeux in Normandy, France. Endless white crosses in a field, each with a small French & US flag next to it.

Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 17h

Quelle Surprise.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

Democide in our times

Austerity, wage & public service cuts kill, but are govt policy.

Millions can't get good food, housing, education, healthcare, pension.

Men in poorer UK areas live 9.7 yrs less than those in least deprived areas. Women 8 years.

Govts silent on the human cost of fiscal rules

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 19h

In summary…

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MikeG @memike1.bsky.social · 19h

What a great idea, after all who needs to read, or listen to music, see a play, or do anything they enjoy?
Just get in that factory and work 15hrs a day and be thankful.
FFS.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19h

These days, if you study English, they arrest you and throw you in jail.

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British Dental Association @thebda.bsky.social · 19h

Over 75,000 people have now backed our call for fair funding for NHS dentistry.

For a generation choices made at the Treasury and the Department of Health have left millions with no options.

Our patients deserve better.

Join us: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fund-nhs-dentistry-now

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 20h

This isn't really news. It's been the case since Brexit, it's just that it's going to be easier to catch people.

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Olivier Roth @olivierroth.bsky.social · 23h

J’ai bien une idée pour la nomination d’un nouveau premier ministre, mais je sais pas si c’est très constitutionnel.

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 21h

One of the joys of being a legal French resident with an ID card is being able to join the lovely fast moving EU Nationals queue.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

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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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 1d

But imagine Reform get elected and what they would do with it.

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 1d

Soon to be hauled off to a prison camp by ICE because Trump is jealous.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 1d

Shocked to hear that a populist radical right party is threatening judicial independence in the UK.

If only there were a little academic literature on this topic.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Jenrick waves wig at Tory conference and attacks judges as ‘open borders activists’

Robert Jenrick said judges have spent their entire lives fighting to keep illegal migrants in the UK

www.independent.co.uk

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🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of putting these flags up consists of four elements:

1. To radicalise individuals by means of getting them used to carrying out clandestine, nighttime activities which may or may not be legal.

On the left people call it "killing the cop in your head". It's a training exercise.

🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 1d

The people putting these flags up aren't a grassroots movement, they're being astroturfed via Tommy Robinson and Turning Point by US Christian Nationalist money, and the second their message starts to get lost you'll see all those flags replaced by British Movement or BNP or Britain First ones.

🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 1d

"It's our flag too". I don't fucking want it. Fuck off.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 1d

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer:
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit.

thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Ex-Israeli war chief confirms issuing Hannibal Directive to kill own civilians, soldiers on 7 Oct

Israeli forces used attack helicopters, drones, and tanks to kill their own civilians and soldiers while blaming the deaths on Hamas

thecradle.co

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 2d

But you're preparing for war anyway, right?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

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Chris Smith @chrissamsdad.bsky.social · 2d

I read it. One of the reasons that Grok cites as a reason it's not true is that DHS say it's not. But besides that it's Grok FFS - you wouldn't believe anything Elon musk says, so why would you believe this?

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