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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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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 · 13h

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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Polly Billington @pollybillington.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve voted Lucy Powell for deputy labour leader

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 12h

Do it, Don. Visit the active war zone with loads of unexploded munitions lying around. You'll be fine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Would you consider going to Gaza to see what things are like on the ground?

TRUMP: I would. I might do that.

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 12h

This is down the road from me. Someone is having a firework display which has added a certain frisson to things.

Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12h

BBC’s Simon Jones: ‘Police have evacuated residents in four roads in Margate following a report of a property containing suspicious items. A cordon has been put in place and an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from the Ministry of Defence is at the scene. One person has been arrested.’

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact: if you have more than 100 tabs open in Chrome for Android, the counter turns into a smiley face.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 17h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 14h

Does being sued for libel count?

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 16h

Psychopath. I bet you have the volume on your TV set to an odd number, too.

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 16h

Unzoomed #629 4/6 🔴🔴🔴🟢⚪️⚪️
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Unzoomed

Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

The press should be doorstepping the people who funded these repeated complaints and lawsuits. Make them explain themselves

Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints

Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

www.bbc.com

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 22h

So, do we think Reform are going to announce a high profile defection the moment Badenoch sits down?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 1d

"We'll stop your kids from going to University and deport the nice woman who gets your Nan out of bed. Vote Conservative."

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints

Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

www.bbc.com

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 1d

That is absolutely splendid.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 1d

GUYS, I POSTED THIS THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN DANNY KRUGER DEFECTED. AND NOW...

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 1d

He's spending hours getting angrier and angrier when he could just have said "oh sorry, my mistake." It's fabulous.

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 1d

The latter.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 2d

"So I get nowhere, make a really annoying noise and then someone pulls the plug?"

"Yes, or you could play Scalextric."

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d

Would you like to have a go on the Scalextric, it's great fun

Kemi -

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

A work of art

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas’s Treason.

Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent.

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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 5d

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