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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 45m

Reminder there are 1.53m unemployed people in the UK.

There are 0.11m jobs, and most of these are part time.

They are screaming at people to get jobs that don't exist.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

Daniel Levy: "Netanyahu has reneged on these deals in the past & may well be looking for the first opportunity to be able to resume hostilities when he can in Gaza. In the meantime one should expect the destruction, displacement, killing in the West Bank will continue"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Claire Manera from MSF: "Not only have the Israeli forces prevented us from safely receiving medical supplies, food & fuel for more than 6 months now, they've killed more than 1,500 healthcare workers, & one week ago Israeli forces attacked our MSF colleagues, killing 2 of them"

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Simona McKenzie @signoramac.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if they ever listen to their same drivel and feel as frustrated as we do...doubt it. They should have realised by now that people are totally fed up with slogans.

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Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 59m

Hollow slogans that either mean nothing or will be U-turned at the earliest available opportunity. An embarrassment of political vacuity, fifteen years of it (at least).

Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 1h

All I’m seeing is socialism for the wealthy, and capitalist gruel for the rest of us.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 2h

Smashing through a glass ceiling x

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/president-...

President Trump set to become first known sex offender to win Nobel Prize

In hugely exciting news, President Trump could be about to smash a glass ceiling by becoming the first known sex offender to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

www.normalisland.co.uk

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2h

#OtD 9 Oct 1967 Argentinian doctor and revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who had been wounded and captured, was summarily executed in Bolivia by the country's special forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 2h

I can’t believe how unBritish this is.
#RedTories

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

There was a 19% increase in recorded religious hate crimes against Muslims last year in England and Wales, according to new ONS figures.

This compares to just a 3% rise over the past year among all religious groups targeted by hate crimes

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 3h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 4h

The only “rip off degree” is Oxford PPE.
#BadEnoch #BadEnough #ToryBollocks

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 22h

“It is hard to grieve for nature when no one around you is doing the same. You are made to feel like you are grieving an imaginary friend that never existed”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t say this loudly enough. If you have cold like symptoms test because you need to differentiate and even if you don’t have any symptoms test occasionally because asymptomatic is still a thing.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 1d

it is easier to avoid feeling shame and humiliation if no one sees or cares what you do. Which is why Kemi Badenoch is still talking.

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Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 7h

Rewriting history, with the aid of their Play-Doh media, is what they do best.

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 7h

We are about to see the truly grotesque spetacle of the very most repulsive, cowardly, cynical, & self-serving toads claiming this moment as their own & making political capital out of what they've in fact strained every sinew to delay & frustrate

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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I do not have a cold @septicshockingpink.bsky.social · 9h

watched the Kneecap movie and it pisses me off how in England you have this naked contempt for education and art and the young while Ireland is having a great cultural moment. all this wank about defending heritage and 'englishness' but hostility to English degrees, every museum under attack, fucked

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 15h

“BadEnoch’s speech”
#ToryBollocks #Rubbish

a woman is holding a large bell in her hands

ALT: a woman is holding a large bell in her hands

media.tenor.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19h

Don't care about the massive damage done to native ecosystems by the constant release of vast numbers of invasive pheasants for shooting?

Maybe you'll care about catching Lyme disease instead.

British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 11d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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John Ranford FB99% @johnranford.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. The arts are the source of critical thinking. Any authoritarian regime wants to ban them.

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Rutilus Yūgen @rutilus-yugen.bsky.social · 17h

They’re so unoriginal.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
X.com
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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