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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 1m

Photo edited to change caption to "We demand to be taken seriously"

Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 5m

The actual article has some even more incredible photos.

I imagine James Glossop is going to have trouble getting a pass for any future Tory events.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 55m

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14m

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 10m

I'm now trying to decide which one looks most likely to think that.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1h

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 25m

"Filling out a self-reported fantasies survey" storming to the top of the LibDem list.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1h

I feel the need to draw everyones attention to this truely cursed bit of polling

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 58m

This must be one of the better examples of the misalignment between politicians and their voters.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 1h

Just look at the Ruhrgebiet. More systems in that region than the whole of the UK. And the varying quality of the services offered gives people a good reason to get out and vote in local elections!

JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 1h

The map below shows how far behind France and Germany we are in mass transit. In France, every place with over 150,000 people has some form of tram or metro.

But if mayoral areas can 'become builders' as @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social puts it in the foreword, we can turn this around.

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The UK has very few mass transit systems compared to peers

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JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 1h

The map below shows how far behind France and Germany we are in mass transit. In France, every place with over 150,000 people has some form of tram or metro.

But if mayoral areas can 'become builders' as @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social puts it in the foreword, we can turn this around.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 1h

Reform would need to clarify if molestation counted before throwing their support behind it.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 2h

I think they should have marketed the later opening as a sex/fertility thing. More fun, more alcohol, more unprotected sex, more babies, lower dependency ratio in 25 years.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 1h

Are they embracing the challenge of demonstrating the problem?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8h

Donald Trump had his annual physical examination on April 11, 2025, at Walter Reed. This Friday, he’s scheduled to have his *annual* physical again — less than six months later. Something isn’t right.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 11h

Showaddywaddy

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 18h

editor’s note: you forgot to tell them the change you wanted to see in the world was supposed to be good

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Ludwig Börne offering to spy on himself for half the price the police spy is being paid. (From Heinrich Heine’s book on Börne.)

And yet he knew that he was surrounded by spies, and he once said to me, "there's a fellow walking constantly behind me, following me through all the streets, standing in front of all the buildings I go into, and certainly is well paid by some government for it. If I only knew which government, I would write to it to say that I should like to earn the money myself, that I myself would submit a reliable daily report about how I had spent the whole day, with whom I had spoken, where I had gone; yes, I am ready to deliver this report at a much cheaper price,

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 17h

The Smartest AIs In The Room.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 19h

Kemi Badenoch has insisted there is a “buzz” at the sparsely attended Conservative party conference in Manchester. However, images of empty seats are hard not to see as a symptom of her faltering leadership.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4mQbLGF

A sense of decay prevails at the Conservative party confe...

Kemi Badenoch is shifting her party further to the right to fend off Reform. It might not work

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 17h

Nice outing for the two mall cops though...

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 21h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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