NellyNerd
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NellyNerd
@nellynerd.bsky.social
Just me, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
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Some people do my head in.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas.

That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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CALIFORNIA: “Crops ready to be harvested were abandoned - left to die in a field simply because there wasn’t enough labor… workers are showing up less because of (Trump’s) ICE raids.”
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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🔴Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?

Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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September 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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I run a charity that tries to look after victims of press intrusion. The first question we always ask ourselves is whether we are sure our intervention won't make matters worse for them.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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We should not rest until the last food bank closes due to a lack of demand
Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..."

er, no.
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Mean spirited old git! He wants young people as slave labour. It's the old Thatcherite 'Youth Training Scheme' or YTS. These young people trying to get a start in life and they want to pay them less than they'd get on the dole. How much tax does he pay I wonder?

www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/c...
‘I’m not hiring untrained 18-year-olds any more – their pay is too high’
Employers say taking a punt on young workers is too risky and expensive after Labour’s tinkering
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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A number of people have been arrested outside HMP Bronzefield at a protest calling for an ambulance to be allowed in to treat hunger strikers
Doctor among arrests at protest calling for hunger strikers to receive medical help
www.thenational.scot
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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A Brexit reset deal is on the verge of being agreed for the UK to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus programme

EU sources have indicated, meaning student exchanges can restart from January 2027

trib.al/ZJjvAKF
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This is very good. If Reform win the GE, it'll be too late for those who voted for them to say, like this disillusioned Reform member: "I thought they were going to come and change everything. And all they’re doing is coming in and tearing people’s lives apart.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reali...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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GB News grilled me apparently?

Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.

They lie - obsessively.

Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:

Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Latest in “AI is Just Plain Evil” news ...
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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my latest
Those opposed to the ECHR will never be satisfied by tinkering, just as Brexiters were never satisfied by the many opt-outs and rebates the UK received, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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So rarely hear the phrase “legitimate concerns” being used with climate change protestors, hunger striking peace activists, trans people who want to live without fear, and on and on
For so long , many who could have challenged bigotry & bullying have bowed down meekly to the notion of “but these people have legitimate concerns” - at the same time they have found it easy to attack and belittle progressiveness - still the cowardly kids that cheer the bully
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Heartbreaking night where I told the final audience for Monkey Cage that I will ever play to that I had no choice but to resign
In the audience today at the amazing Niamos theatre in Manchester for the Christmas recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. Devastating news from @robinince.bsky.social - what must have been an incredibly difficult decision but absolutely the correct and humane one. Robin remains the best of us.
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Thank you to those who supported me - I believe there are so many kind people who do many organisations are conveniently forgetting exist
I hope you saw your standing ovation just now. Thank you for maintaining your principles.
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Ce n'est pas votre grand-mère
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM