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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 8h

It’s quite a feat for Isabel Oakeshott to be the only white person in a London tube carriage given she lives in Dubai

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 10h

At this point I just dont find anything shocking, it's absolutely disgusting.

D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 12h

This is really exciting- I have friends whose lives are ruined by CFS and who are treated appallingly by government agencies, family, even doctors who "dont believe it exists".

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 12h

Today I saw Israeli kids- 7, 8 years old- saying when they see Arabs it makes them angry and they want to kill them.
That's extremism.
This is extremism.

It's naive to think it's not.

People in the UK can and should live in peace with each other. The extremists are the ones who say we cant.

Stephen Daisley @stephendaisley.bsky.social · 1d

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 13h

wooooo I <3 Lesbians

Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 16h

Happy International Lesbian Day to me and the rest of us!

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 14h

Remember guys, free speech but don't say some things and dont protest too much or too loudly or in certain places!

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15h

Keir Starmer has threatened to crack down on the chants used at pro-Palestine protests in England

Keir Starmer threatens crackdown on pro-Palestine protest chants

www.thenational.scot

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 14h

There is A LOT of genocidal transphobia in the UK btw (it calls itself "gender critical"), at the highest levels of the political and media establishments, but this isn't an argument for dropping bombs on random UK residential neighbourhoods.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 15h

The invocation of queerphobia to justify indiscriminately dropping bombs on people - including, inevitably, *queer people* themselves - is so obviously morally bereft that I can't believe it even needs pointing out, especially to supposedly intelligent people.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 14h

The entire raft of potential policies shes launched are insane. Gutting the public service would see tens of thousands of jobless people in an already unstable market. shes fucking daft

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 14h

surely she'd prefer people study computer programming so they can hack their opponent's websites

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 14h

I mean ok but have you tried making policies that aren't a transparent bribe you boring weirdo

Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 15h

Kemi Badenoch's conference speech - snap verdict - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Tories would abolish stamp duty, Badenoch tells party conference – UK politics live

Party leader says measure is a ‘bad tax’ and scrapping it would free up the housing market and improve social mobility

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1d

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 15h

is nobody on her side even mildly perturbed by her talking about how she can threaten GOVERNMENTS.

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 16h

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 15h

I cant even get the fucking meds Helen but sure- sincerely, a quality assurance and compliance manager who claims nothing for my ADHD.

Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 15h

Helen Whately said on stage at Tory Conference that "millions" of people with anxiety and ADHD are getting benefits and a free mobility car.

Hands up anyone with ADHD or anxiety who got a free car?

No? No one? Didn't think so. #

Lying Tory bigot.

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 15h

One of the things I've loved about this country my entire life is our nature and its spectacle and the government's failed to protect it in any meaningful way- and yet they demand flag based fealty.
Pathetic.

Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 15h

Almost 4,000 people in England and Wales are taking legal action over what they allege is six years of sewage pollution that has devastated three rivers, including the Wye.

Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers

Environmental group seeks damages from Welsh Water and two chicken producers, alleging responsibility for pollution in Wye, Lugg and Usk

www.theguardian.com

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 15h

A conservatism?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

There should be a word for a huge but pointless event, such as a leader making announcements in a conference speech that will never be implemented and which not even the faithful will pay any attention to because the leader will be gone in a matter of months.

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 15h

This from the absolute goose whose party couldn't spell "Britain" right on its shitty leaflets.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 18h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

Tories- shit. Reform- shit. Labour? Demonstrably, shit. Our freedom of speech and right to protest is once again under attack. It's time people realise that all the bigger options are crap & castigating people for choosing genuine left options only works when your option isn't abysmal.

The latest goose-step

This weekend, Labour announced plans to legally curtail protests that are recurring. The government who, much like the tories, insisted on the importance of individual free speech drags us another step closer to state level repression.But that's not all. In November of 2016, British newspapers dubbed judges who were examining the legality of the Brexit referendum as 'enemies of the people'.

politicallyenraged.wordpress.com

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow, he did...

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

1- the numbers are disingenuous, see one of the first people's replies. 2- half a million cars in a country of 350 million people... so what. 3- hey, so they need that medicine to live?

I see CNN has also decided to start being another part of trump's axis of evil.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Sleeping Giants FR in English @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social · 1d

Same problem in France, where although "opinion" (i.e. editorial) channels are prohibited to broadcast via the public distribution system, ARCOM ( French equivalent to Ofcom) has done little to nothing against #Cnews since mid-2024.

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

"Ofcom appears to be unwilling to intervene and unwilling to regulate this channel in the same way as it regulates other television news channels." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer's trying to frame it that pro Palestine is anti jewish. It's so facile. I don't want jewish people to die. I don't want Palestinians to die. I do want our government to stop giving succour to an obviously radical theocratic government committing genocide.

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

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

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

weeee I didnt know if this would happen this decade but it has :D

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

God she really is such a dickhead.

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus. my sympathies.

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D A V I E M O O @daviemoo.bsky.social · 1d

The... the leader of his party is a black woman?

Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick's Tory conference speech - snap verdict - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jenrick accused of racism over ‘no white faces’ comments as he also claims judges biased in favour of migrants – UK politics live

Labour mayor of the West Midlands says Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth were racist

www.theguardian.com

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