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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17h

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Anna @foodyfocus.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone watch #bakeoff last night? Nataliia's grandparents wedding photo! So gorgeous. Might watch again just to see it

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 1d

“Hi Felicity, we’re looking to collaborate… incredible visibility… a real opportunity”

Guys, when you mean ‘3 days of unpaid work’ at least have the guts to SAY it rather than make it sound like a favour.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"The Big Green Books 500 Club".

UPDATE

We reached our first £500!

I contacted the first school to let them know I was going to send them £500 of books.

They sent me a long list of stuff they want.

I'm posting the books tomorrow.

I LOVE THIS!

Thanks!!

www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 2d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart

Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

We had this rule in fringe, where if the total number of punters in that night was smaller than the combined cast and crew, you offered a refund or a ticket for a busier night.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Anna @foodyfocus.bsky.social · 4d

So Norwich turns out to be rather lovely. This is the cinema cafe

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 4d

Typical gardaí who've allowed the far-right bigots block roads, stop traffic, discommode people going about the daily lives. But, pro Palestinian marchers get battered & pepper sprayed with vicious intent.

Where's the 'softly, softly' approach now?!

(Credit Pádraig Drummond)

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Anna @foodyfocus.bsky.social · 4d

@modernnature.bsky.social at The Holloway, Norwich. Much joy! Thanks for a cracking gig

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Anna @foodyfocus.bsky.social · 5d

If I was on Desert Island Discs. This would be my luxury. I doubt the people of Norwich would approve though

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 6d

The 'misunderstanding' was we live in a country with a free press…

buff.ly/81pUmow

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 6d

By "support for the farmers" he is essentially saying "we've lost you your customers, but we'll have blue states pay you for that loss this season, and then you can decide if you really want to keep farming now that your business is untenable... Hey! How about selling your land to our buddies?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Bessent: "It's unfortunate that Chinese leadership has decided to use American soybean farmers as a hostage or pawn in the trade negotiations. American farmers overwhelmingly voted for President Trump ... you should expect news on Tuesday on substantial support for our farmers."

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 7d

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

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