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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 17h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 23h

YOU - “The wind told me to talk to children. Let's roll.”

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 1d

Been playing a lot of Virtua Tennis 2 on the PS2 (actual masterpiece, one of the best-feeling games ever made) and apparently it's been almost 15 years since the last proper game in that series? Failed civilisation.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 2d

Streeting looks like the less cool version of the ventriloquist doll from the first season of buffy, so surprised ham is a legitimate upgrade

JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 2d

Credit where credit's due. Whilst the PM does seem to be a callow, juvenile and entitled leader, it is very funny that he looks like surprised ham.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 4d

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d

You know I think we're going to have a 'did Labour win or did the tories just lose' type question when green membership overtakes Labours.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

It shouldn't be as hard as some people seem to make out to recognise that islamophobia, anti-semitism, hate in general, all needs to be absolutely, unconditionally, condemned every time without any form of whataboutery or "but this..." etc.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, of course he did. But also I don't think that's too bonkers With current polling. The two dominant parties in the UK imploding one after the other would be something.

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is "moving into" a contest between the Greens and Reform, the former's leader Zack Polanski told PolHome

He said he was "very open" to “progressive, particularly left-wing" about defecting to the Greens

@sophiealichurch.bsky.social reports from the party's Bournemouth conference

British Politics Is Already Greens vs Reform, Says Green Leader Zack Polanski

The Green Party is already on its way to being the main opposition to Reform, leader Zack Polanski claimed in an interview with PoliticsHome at the...

www.politicshome.com

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d

What are they gonna do? Listen to experts and treat people with dignity and not contempt? They'll run out of issues to weaponise if they do that.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

Until the government stops repeatedly carrying out actions that harm and kill people and have a cumulative effect, like genocide, repeated protests will always be necessary.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday #FOI request offer:

• Are you using FOI request for your research or project?

• Have you maxed out your 30-day FOI cost limit with a specific government department (or other exemption)?

If so, please feel free to reply below with the gov dept and your request, which I’m happy to submit

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d

All the people breathlessly defending this government and trying to guilt people into ignoring reality with threats of a reform government are just not the sensible serious people the branding they enjoy implies. And they're twats.

JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d

Kids are hungry and the rivers are full of shit

Labour: How about more attacks on freedom of speech?

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Nick @nickjg50.bsky.social · 3d

We really need the @greenparty.org.uk to do well. The news today is awful more crackdown on protest. More restrictions on immigration that will do even more social and economic damage to our country. Higher energy bills. If it wasn't for the Green Party, I'd be lost in despair.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

LATEST: Police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests by allowing them to consider the 'cumulative impact' of repeated demonstrations

Police to be given greater powers to restrict repeated protests

www.thenational.scot

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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JonDonDaDonDon @jononcomms.bsky.social · 3d

My partner was getting something out of my car and found a pair of ladies undergarments that weren't hers. Upset, she confronted me, and I said 'dear, that's just student politics' and she got embarrassed and hasn't brought it up since. That was 80 years ago and we're still together.