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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 22h

Keyboard-based comedy is my Roman Empire (and future Mastermind specialist subject) 😂

Off to hear JS/GF talk tonight about his new book as part of the Off The Shelf Festival. Praying the keyboard makes an appearance! 🙏🏻🎹

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing has aged me faster than attempting to explain the concept of John Shuttleworth to a 22 year old. How do you even begin. “There’s this man. With a keyboard. He drives a Nissan Micra.”
I’m crumbling to dust as we speak.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

#bbcqt

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 1d

Tumblr, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn

Four pics of four Young Conservatives, each with different visual characters because of their clothes and presentation

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 2d

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 2d

Penistone 😏

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Neville will face no action from Sky.

The tears of middle aged men who are racists is overflowing.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 2d

Due to a misunderstanding, someone at work thinks I’m going out with [*redacted to protect the guilty*] and I’ve never been more insulted in my LIFE. All you need to know is it is a hate crime against my taste and HR will be hearing about it.

a man stands on a stage with the words " never before have i ever been so offended "

Alt: a man stands on a stage with the words " never before have i ever been so offended "

media.tenor.com

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a top hat says stop don 't come back .

ALT: a man in a top hat says stop don 't come back .

media.tenor.com

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

I can taste the panic these two felt doing their little stencilling. So casual with ‘own goal’ thinking they had all the space in the world. Look at the chasm between own and goal! Then sudden panic about whether there’s enough room for ‘Neville’. Eventually settling for ‘Nev’ after a crisis meeting

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 3d

This is a ratbag move, even for a proven ratbag like Starmer

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 4d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 3d

Labour: “Pro-business”, anti-wildlife 👎🏻

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy.

But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country."

Let's make that description Labour votes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve never seen Cillian Murphy this happy lol youtu.be/v4Ze7Yo9jgY?...

Cillian Murphy’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

youtu.be

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 3d

They’re still at it… The pipeline from dumb MF to casual transphobia is complete.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 4d

This is one of the great threads.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 4d

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

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 4d

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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Mia @miapia.bsky.social · 4d

It’s restorative to finally have a little cry over GOOD politics for once. 💚

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely nails it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 4d

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 4d

Piracy is fine when Israel does it - Starmer.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Becky Fox @thebeckster.bsky.social · 4d

What a deadly bill! 😍

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

finally saw that wonderful Jane Goodall clip and I can’t tell you how delighted I am to learn that in addition to being a genius and a pure soul and a phenomenal advocate and a cultural revolutionary, she was also a hater

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

We must all keep speaking out.

Thanks for all the kind words for this pretty combatative interview.

The truth is simple. Let's just all keep telling the truth.

youtu.be/goTgeKyJNaQ?...

'A classroom of kids is massacred everyday': Zack Polanski on Gaza

YouTube video by LBC

youtu.be

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