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Lorna Sixsmith
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I'm an Irish dairy farmer who writes books about farming. Also doing a MA in History. Addicted to reading, tea and cake.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Apologies in order.
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The decades of granted powers that lead to a US dictatorship.
July 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Holy Crap look at the posted job applications for Alligator Auschwitz! The amount of money these so called Guards will be making is insane! 🤬🤬
July 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
June 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Terrible
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked
Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Listen to this speech from the president of Ireland. The days of using baseless accusations of antisemitism as a rhetorical weapon to bully people into staying silent are long gone.
May 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...
Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night
Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"
www.attitude.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Excellent keynote by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social at #WHAI2025 I particularly enjoyed the use of photos in the presentation- made it very moving too
May 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Having a great day at #whai2025 learning, laughing and making connections. A huge well done to the organisers and speakers. Feeling really inspired towards the end of the first day.
May 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Off to a cracking start at #WHAI2025 up first Helen Doyle Maynooth University on the history of dangerous lunatics
May 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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My weekly post from the farm debbiekingsley.substack.com/p/calves-and...
Calves and piglets
At 5am I check that new calf Pebble has been suckling.
debbiekingsley.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
@elainepf.bsky.social I should have taken a photo of you during your presentation and posted it! Really enjoyed your talk and excellent delivery too
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow:

George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.
May 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump.

This is a REAL section of the transcript.

It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
April 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
April 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is beyond disgusting by the White House (I went to X to check it was genuine because I could scarcely believe it). And yet Trump was bleating about Easter and Christianity earlier. Yeah, Christian values right here alright.
The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.
April 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Circle up
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM