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JeanneDawn
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Looking for humour, News, current affairs, honesty and kindness. No DMs, please.

Now early retired and loving my adopted dog Winston. Novice allotment owner - approaching my second growing season with gusto, and optimism for a good English summer.
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
I’m sure Rupert Lowe can be relied on to ‘fight’ for a radicalisation engine that spews out racial hatred, disinformation and AI generated sexual abuse and CSAM.
It pays him for his posts, gives him influence he otherwise couldn’t dream of and boosts his needy nasty ego. There’s a lot in it for him.
January 9, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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jonathanpienews.bsky.social
"Instead of doing the job I'm paid to do by the taxpayers, I'll be earning myself some extra dosh by skiving off to do a radio show."
January 7, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.
January 7, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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spawn03.bsky.social
In your last battle, you got your ass whooped. Maybe you should sit this one out.
January 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
I wonder if these people will ever figure out we weren't funded by USAID in the first place?
therealwiles.bsky.social Low drag sloperator @therealwiles.bsky.social · 3d
Jfc, didn't know if the Bellingcat crowd were still getting paid after the usaid cuts. Or just for the love of the game?
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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anonopin.bsky.social
Linux would be the dominant operating system right now if it wasn't for the gatekeeping by geeks who have no idea how to explain the benefits in plain English to the ordinary user. Spoiler, that 10 year old laptop that you think is slow will still work fine with Linux.
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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explaintrade.com
I love the idea that governments have to stay on Twitter because that's where "their audience" is.

Like if you only announced your cabinet reshuffles on Bluesky Harry bloody Cole wouldn't make an account to read about it.
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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reecedinsdale.bsky.social
When doesn’t @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social nail it? 🙌
13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d
Aaagggghh! The raging inadequacy of these fascistic wankers; wanting to control everything that challenges the limits of their own brains and idiotic notions of patriotism… which is a lot..
Please god can we make reason and decency persuasive again. This relentless horseshit is beyond tedious.
January 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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cornishskipper.bsky.social
Sign & share to stop the US food the orange fascist wants to send here. #Brexit disaster.
💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone
💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat
💥Brominated Vegetable Oil
💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs
💥GMA Crops
💥No Country of Origin Labelling
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/No-chlor...
Keir Starmer: Stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals
I just signed the campaign calling Keir Starmer to stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals
act.38degrees.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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charlesfourier.bsky.social
Still overpriced…
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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niallharbison.bsky.social
Huge rain here today but that doesn’t stop these 2.

Stormzy was told he had to be put to sleep 2 months ago with his brain damage and Big Red was shot 5 times.

Would you just look at them now. That’s the joy of being alive❤️
December 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer.

Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
December 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
I discovered yesterday that in advance of our meeting with Westminster Council to discuss the Adelphi tent encampment, they secretly brought forward the eviction to present us with a fait accompli. The community is now fractured. Here is my open email from today to Adam Hug, Council Leader.
An empty building terrace with security fencing along the area where a homeless tent encampment used to be Dear Adam I hope you are well and thanks again for facilitating the meeting which took place yesterday. David was very nice and gave some assurances over the planned interventions for some displaced members of the Adelphi encampment community over the next eight weeks. However, the actions of the council the previous week do raise some doubts as to whether any of our communications/discussions so far have been in good faith. I was bitterly disappointed to discover yesterday that the council had moved to pre-emptively clear the encampment last week in advance of that meeting and without informing me or MoH. When I spoke with members of the community in November, they all told me that they had been informed by council officials that the date for the clearance had been set for 1 January. I had planned to attend from 6am that day, with my press card, to document the evictions for the media and for the public record. I had planned to do follow-ups with members of the community documenting the longer-term consequences of the decision to evict them. This will not now be possible as the community has been fractured, with some at the Connection and others dispersed along the Embankment or elsewhere. I had wondered why David kept putting back the date of the meeting, after we had said we would be flexible, offering several dates and times early in December but it all now becomes clear. The council was playing it long on the meeting while in the background bringing forward the date for the eviction. It does create a perception that this was an underhand strategy by the council designed to present us with a fait accompli at the meeting and to avoid any embarrassing photographic record of these evictions ending up in the media or on social media. I understand from community members who I spoke with yesterday that officials from the council turned up at midnight one day last week, completely out of the blue, and informed people that the camp would be cleared at 7am the following morning. They then turned up mob-handed and cleared the encampment. One community member told me yesterday that people they knew in the camp lost all of their possessions through this action. After yesterday's meeting | tried to track down people from the encampment and found some at the Connection and one sleeping rough on the Embankment. Two of the most vulnerable members were nowhere to be seen and appear to have fallen through the gaps. I really appreciate that there are no easy answers to a situation like this but must question whether pre-emptive clearance was justifiable on public interest grounds. I asked David who the decision-maker was for the early clearance and when the decision was made but he couldn't or wouldn't tell me. I can't help feeling that the decision was made by the council as a response to the article in The Big Issue, and to avoid media momentum building around the story if emotive images of vulnerable people being evicted were to be published. I have always believed that any democracy thrives where there is transparency, especially when it comes to making life and death decisions like these. Five participants in the Outsiders project have subsequently died while sleeping rough. In 2024 at least 1,611 homeless people died. These are difficult decisions and people's lives can literally depend on what public bodies like yours do in situations like the Adelphi. I would hope that officers at the council can reflect on their actions and understand that public scrutiny of the evictions of the most vulnerable members of society is a good thing. It provides checks and balances on the overwhelming strength of public bodies and the imbalance of power between them and those who must live with the consequences of their decisions, especially when those decisions have been made in secret and the subsequent actions are done surreptitiously to avoid any visual record of what happened. It sends all the wrong messages when it comes to trust and public confidence. Critical friends on issues like homelessness are something that the council should be nurturing - that only works where there is mutual trust, respect, and transparency. I hope you have a good Christmas, if you celebrate it, and hope perhaps that you will spare a thought tomorrow for those who have been displaced and cast aside by society just before such an important day for reunion and reconnection. Best Marc Davenant
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
Democracy dies in darkness. Getting the below post seen by as many people as possible would be very helpful 👇
marcdavenant.bsky.social Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 16d
I discovered yesterday that in advance of our meeting with Westminster Council to discuss the Adelphi tent encampment, they secretly brought forward the eviction to present us with a fait accompli. The community is now fractured. Here is my open email from today to Adam Hug, Council Leader.
An empty building terrace with security fencing along the area where a homeless tent encampment used to be Dear Adam I hope you are well and thanks again for facilitating the meeting which took place yesterday. David was very nice and gave some assurances over the planned interventions for some displaced members of the Adelphi encampment community over the next eight weeks. However, the actions of the council the previous week do raise some doubts as to whether any of our communications/discussions so far have been in good faith. I was bitterly disappointed to discover yesterday that the council had moved to pre-emptively clear the encampment last week in advance of that meeting and without informing me or MoH. When I spoke with members of the community in November, they all told me that they had been informed by council officials that the date for the clearance had been set for 1 January. I had planned to attend from 6am that day, with my press card, to document the evictions for the media and for the public record. I had planned to do follow-ups with members of the community documenting the longer-term consequences of the decision to evict them. This will not now be possible as the community has been fractured, with some at the Connection and others dispersed along the Embankment or elsewhere. I had wondered why David kept putting back the date of the meeting, after we had said we would be flexible, offering several dates and times early in December but it all now becomes clear. The council was playing it long on the meeting while in the background bringing forward the date for the eviction. It does create a perception that this was an underhand strategy by the council designed to present us with a fait accompli at the meeting and to avoid any embarrassing photographic record of these evictions ending up in the media or on social media. I understand from community members who I spoke with yesterday that officials from the council turned up at midnight one day last week, completely out of the blue, and informed people that the camp would be cleared at 7am the following morning. They then turned up mob-handed and cleared the encampment. One community member told me yesterday that people they knew in the camp lost all of their possessions through this action. After yesterday's meeting | tried to track down people from the encampment and found some at the Connection and one sleeping rough on the Embankment. Two of the most vulnerable members were nowhere to be seen and appear to have fallen through the gaps. I really appreciate that there are no easy answers to a situation like this but must question whether pre-emptive clearance was justifiable on public interest grounds. I asked David who the decision-maker was for the early clearance and when the decision was made but he couldn't or wouldn't tell me. I can't help feeling that the decision was made by the council as a response to the article in The Big Issue, and to avoid media momentum building around the story if emotive images of vulnerable people being evicted were to be published. I have always believed that any democracy thrives where there is transparency, especially when it comes to making life and death decisions like these. Five participants in the Outsiders project have subsequently died while sleeping rough. In 2024 at least 1,611 homeless people died. These are difficult decisions and people's lives can literally depend on what public bodies like yours do in situations like the Adelphi. I would hope that officers at the council can reflect on their actions and understand that public scrutiny of the evictions of the most vulnerable members of society is a good thing. It provides checks and balances on the overwhelming strength of public bodies and the imbalance of power between them and those who must live with the consequences of their decisions, especially when those decisions have been made in secret and the subsequent actions are done surreptitiously to avoid any visual record of what happened. It sends all the wrong messages when it comes to trust and public confidence. Critical friends on issues like homelessness are something that the council should be nurturing - that only works where there is mutual trust, respect, and transparency. I hope you have a good Christmas, if you celebrate it, and hope perhaps that you will spare a thought tomorrow for those who have been displaced and cast aside by society just before such an important day for reunion and reconnection. Best Marc Davenant
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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adamwagner1.bsky.social
An absolutely enormous amount of work over 5+ years to get to this result.

A huge credit to my client Ian McGrail who has kept going despite the many barbs and arrows flung at him over that period.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Gibraltar’s chief minister made ‘sinister’ interventions to protect friend from police
Inquiry finds Fabian Picardo was ‘grossly improper’ to protect James Levy from a search warrant
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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fullfact.org
An image of a planning notice detailing a new application to house up to 800 asylum seekers in Greater Manchester has been circulating online.

But the planning notice is fake, and Stockport Council has confirmed no such application has been submitted.
Fake planning notice falsely claims application lodged for Stockport asylum seeker housing – Full Fact
Stockport Council says it has removed bogus planning notices which had been put up detailing a fake application for a temporary structure to provide accommodation for up to 800 asylum seekers.
fullfact.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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dolidaydream.bsky.social
As seen on Facebook.
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Spain has fined Airbnb €65 million for continuing to advertise short-term rental properties that were banned or lacked proper licenses to operate under new laws.

The company has also been ordered to remove the illegal listings immediately.

www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
Airbnb fined €65 million as Spain tightens rental rules
The fine is equal to six times the profits Airbnb made while the properties were still listed despite being in breach of the rules.
www.euronews.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Dec 9
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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electrifygb.bsky.social
🎄 Electrify Britain’s Power-Up to Christmas: Day 22 ⚡

🚗 22% of all new UK cars this year are electric - right on track with the Government’s ZEV mandate.

Britain’s EV transition is working exactly as planned.
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Facewatch: The controversial tech that retailers have deployed to tackle shoplifting and violence which is facing a growing backlash from civil liberty campaigners

news.sky.com/story/facewa...
Facewatch: The controversial tech that retailers have deployed to tackle shoplifting and violence
Facewatch is facing a growing backlash from civil liberty campaigners but retailers argue they have no choice.
news.sky.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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gunkle.bsky.social
Andrew Tate getting his arse kicked by a guy in pink gloves has made my weekend.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Fun Fact: the ‘People’s Party’ spent £16k on helicopter rides and even £5k on a chauffeur for Anne Widdecombe in 2024.

2025 spend is likely more. If you donate to them, remember ‘they understand working people’.

Criss-crossing the UK like hate-filled Thunderbirds.
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM