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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 · 2d

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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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about Thunberg is that you don’t have to like her or think she’s doing anything ‘meaningful’, any publicity to a cause is good and she holds a mirror or to world leaders being cunts and it may seem hollow but it’s not really

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 2d

Fully deserving of each other

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 2d

And the king has to authorise the government's existence.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

It wasn't the noisiest place but gave them a go. I could hear everyone else at the table fine and they definitely cut down on the people behind me talking as well as the background music. Only thing I wasn't sure about, they made my voice sound quite boomy to me, but my other half said I was quiet.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

NB, for the technicality, the delegated control of the armed forces is not to parliament, but to the defence council, less than half of which is made up of ministers.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

So he's not the highest rank in the army? Might want to let him know.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

I mean he does already have an army doesn't he? Not sure they got their uniform printed online though

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

You're a nonce or a bot, either way nobody cares what you have to say

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody gives a fuck about America, you always thought you were more important than you were and you're now a dying country under a fascist regime.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

If I had more tin foil in my wardrobe it would be enough to make me highly suspicious of the government's current behaviours.

DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

The extremely bad faith argument that people shouldn't protest a genocide because of a horrific terrorist attack on a synagogue is so deeply offensive to me. It pitches the protestors against Jewish people which is not in any way true.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

Violence is universally bad, even if you consider it justified you should still acknowledge that it is bad, and it is vanishingly rare that anything other than in the moment self defence is justified.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

I've only taken them for a few test runs, but tried in a full Lowry pre show and could still talk to my friend with ease and definitely dampened the hubbub.
I'm going out for lunch today to a busy place, so taking them to try in that setting

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Netpol @netpol.org · 4d

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
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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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 3d

I got the 3 pack with those, gig ones and sleeping ones. Engage are the only ones I've tried and they seem a good balance for high background noise environments. They just take the edge off and you can both still hear the background noise and hold a conversation.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 4d

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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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 4d

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 7d

Please watch (iPlayer or BBC1 9pm tonight). The culture of racism+misogyny in the police force (not just the Met) is so deep rooted. It affects the way officers deal with victims+suspects. None of it is surprising to those of us who work in the criminal justice system www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Panorama - Undercover in the Police

Secret filming by Panorama reveals evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at one of London’s busiest police stations, Charing Cross.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7d

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons.
He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" - $375,000 for one performance - and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way."
But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 9d

The paradox being if they're ill informed enough to not know whose flag it is, then they're going to struggle to read that as well.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 9d

It really isn't the point, but seriously racist guys, get taller ladders. All these nonce flags are all the more ridiculous for flying at half mast.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9d

'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9d

Cooper "This intolerable suffering must end.. the Israeli govt must end the moral obscenity of this campaign"

So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No
So you'll impose sanctions? No
So you'll end all military ties? No

So just empty words from a govt complicit in genocide

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 10d

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · 10d

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

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