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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 10h

Some moon pics from Southsea

mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 10h

Back in Spain

mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 13h

Spain again

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 14h

Very much looking forward to seeing footage and reading articles about this 😀

Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 17h

There are a lot of people on Instagram saying they don’t agree with EES fingerprinting/face scanning and plan to “opt-out“ when they get to an EU border as “they can‘I make you”

spongebob says well good luck with that in a cartoon

ALT: spongebob says well good luck with that in a cartoon

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h

Worth noting at the same time during the Canadian election cycle a few years ago the overwhelming consensus was that Justin Trudeau would go down to brutal defeat at the hands of Pierre Poilievre in the summer of 2025

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18h

“It’s far too soon to predict how the next election will shape up. We are roughly the same distance from Labour having to call a General Election, as we are from the last pandemic lockdown. Try to conceive of that amount of stuff still to happen.”

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 18h

🆕 Anti-Woke Wake: It the Tory Party dead or just resting? ☠️

💥 Tory Conference debrief
💥 France latest political soap
💥 A deal on Gaza - but antisemitism on the rise

An amazing episode with special guest @samfr.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5JQF...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 14h

Tim Stanley was calling her “mummy” in his DT article yesterday. A very weird individual.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The Geat X-Tinction.

From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history.

The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter.

And why I left.

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 1d

Seeming some of the ‘good speech’ takes from commentators re Badenoch, really brings home how public speaking has gone backwards since the late 90s. Speech writing and delivery of all main parties comes across as if there was too much copy and paste. The delivery is leaden.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch is flunking in part because she wants to speak as if her party has been out of power more often than not in recent years, which was true of Thatcher in 1975 and is comically untrue of Badenoch in 2025.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

There's a touch of the Liz Truss about Kemi Badenoch. Both in the tax cut paid for by fantasy figures and also a belief there's This One Special Trick The British State Doesn't Want You To Know About! that will somehow solve everything.
Be rude to some civil servants and the UK's problems vanish!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 1d

Still find the story behind this young artist so tragic. I play the album once a month & just think about the lost talent.

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Anxious by Nell Smith on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 10 Songs

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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 1d

The US vulture fund that bought Nama’s Northern Ireland loans for £1.1bn would likely never have been allowed to do so if it had been known that Frank Cushnahan stood to make money from the deal, as the Crown allege, Nama’s former chairman has said.

If Cushnahan was being paid by Cerberus, we’d never have done £1.1bn deal, Nama’s ex-chairman tells jury

The US vulture fund that bought Nama’s Northern Ireland loans would likely never have been allowed to do so if it had been known that Frank Cushnahan stood to make money from the deal, Nama’s former c...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem.

Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Noem slams Zach Bryan ICE lyrics: 'Completely disrespectful'

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Noem slams Zach Bryan ICE lyrics: ‘Completely disrespectful’

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 1d

Notice that Badenoch said stamp duty would not be paid “on your home”, does this mean it will only be on sale of main residence?

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 1d

Those pesky SM kids!

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 1d

Sánchez isn't Cicero but he's very good indeed at replies in parliamentary debates, watch to the end if you don't understand Spanish you'll get the point. I'll explain in the next tweet

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Feijóo cita a Sánchez en la comisión del ‘caso Koldo’ del Senado y este le responde: “Ánimo, Alberto”

El líder del PP anuncia que llamará al presidente a comparecer este octubre. El jefe del Gobierno contrapone sus medidas en Sanidad y sobre el aborto con la mala gestión de comunidades del PP

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

New EU strategies on the use of AI - the 'Apply AI Strategy' and 'AI in Science' strategy ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission launches two strategies to speed up AI uptake in European industry and science*

Today, the European Commission set out two strategies to ensure Europe stays ahead, driving adoption in key industries and putting Europe at the forefront of AI-driven science. The Apply AI Strategy s...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a word for a huge but pointless event, such as a leader making announcements in a conference speech that will never be implemented and which not even the faithful will pay any attention to because the leader will be gone in a matter of months.

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 2d

This is first and foremost very bad news for mackerel and the ecosystem that is being destroyed by industrial supertrawlers

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Fishing industry facing 'economic Armageddon'

The Irish fishing industry has warned it is bracing for catastrophic fishing quotas next year that "could collapse the Irish fishing sector and devastate major fishing communities".

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

EU Commission proposes safeguard legislation to protect EU farmers from possible effects of EU/Mercosur trade deal ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission proposes safeguards to strengthen protections for EU farmers in EU-Mercosur deal

The Commission today proposed a Regulation to strengthen protections for EU farmers in the context of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA).

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