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T.O.Munro

@tomunro.bsky.social

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Reviews for www.fantasy-hive.co.uk, creative writing PhD, author of Lady of the Helm, Climate change is REAL, the Fossil fuel industry and its allies are guilty of ecocide. Loves beautiful sunsets & good books! Occasional editor https://tomunroedits.co.uk

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T.O.Munro @tomunro.bsky.social · Jan 11

Capitalism's profit motive naturally drives the very rich & the corporations into buying politicians & controlling the media.

It's much cheaper for them to do that than the alternative of allowing
regulations that protect people & the planet,
taxation that shares wealth &
an informed democracy

T.O.Munro @tomunro.bsky.social · 15h

A great day out at a beautiful venue @beechhillcountryhouse. Fantastic couple @maisiemunro & @lhol2707. Brilliant job by bridal (@ejhafer, Niamh, @theoneillmunro, Caoimhe, @kateonll and Isabelle) party and the groomal party! Very proud father and mother of the bride @aejcon!

5 bridesmaids in pink stand to the left of the bride in white. Father and mother of the bride and man of honour to the brides right.

Bride and groom standing in a forest ceremony clearing. To the brides left three bridesmaids and the man of honour are seared and leaning into the shot.

Bride and groom stand in front of the window cutting a two tiered cake!

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly at 50% - let's gooooo!

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 6d

www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

We're hopefully doing a Welsh folklore anthology - gyffrous iawn! Please back and/or share widely!

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his register of interests in months.

Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...

Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

observer.co.uk

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

In Poland authorities have captured a Russian intelligence operative carrying explosive-filled cans, drone components, and SIM cards. In Lithuania, explosives were discovered in a cemetery.

All part of a big Russian plot to commit terrorist attacks across Europe.

Rosyjski wywiad ukrył materiały wybuchowe na cmentarzu. Podejrzane puszki wjechały do Polski

Kurier rosyjskiego wywiadu wojskowego GRU odbierał polecenia: kup łopatę, jedź na cmentarz, wykop puszki, zostaw niedaleko Łodzi. Puszki idealnie pasują do uchwytów mocowanych do dronów.

warszawa.wyborcza.pl

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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T.O.Munro @tomunro.bsky.social · 7d

I love this line in the review, it rings so true

“teenagers, full of hormones, lust and stubbornness”

While antiheroes have their pros, that isn’t the same as objectionable main characters!

The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social · 7d

Our resident Monster Botherer Emma Penman decides whether or not to bother with J. T. Geissinger's dark fantasy romance BLACKTHORN:

"one I don’t think you’ll forget for a while."

Read more: tinyurl.com/3mvsd69k

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 9d

Nils was one of the first people to review my novels, and I'm so thrilled that she enjoyed Tower of the Tyrant this much

Nils Shukla @nilsreviewsit.bsky.social · 9d

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social

“masterfully fuses together sword and sorcery with philosophy and myth to create quite a special tale.”

Review link: fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

@zenoagency.bsky.social

THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT by J. T. Greathouse (BOOK REVIEW) | Fantasy-Hive

Nils reviews J. T. Greathouse's upcoming epic fantasy standalone THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT: "for those looking for an epic fantasy with some added depth, emotion and thought-provoking themes. It is an a...

fantasy-hive.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 9d

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 9d

So pleased James OB is talking about the lying media. He’s absolutely right.

His colleagues also buy in to the lies of course.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9d

Why are people saying "this is not normal" over and over again, instead of "this is illegal" or "this is unconstitutional" or "this is treason?" Not normal sounds subjective, wishy-washy and neurotic. It communicates nothing of substance.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 10d

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

“Show us your warrant!”

“Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔

*busts in the door with babies crying*

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11d

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

The image is a screenshot of an X post from the account @Re... (Really American) dated 11 hours ago, claiming that Speaker Johnson has refused to swear in newly-elected Democratic Rep. Grijalva, who is described as the decisive 218th vote needed for a discharge petition to release the Epstein files. The post questions the reason for the delay. The image also includes a video still labeled "EXCLUSIVE" from Meidastouch Network, featuring Rep.-elect Grijalva, with text stating she is ready to sign the discharge petition. The background shows campaign materials with her name and slogans like "Se hizo historia!"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11d

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.”

— head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 This is serious. Ex Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, 52, pleads guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament when serving as a UKIP MEP.

Ex-Reform leader pleads guilty to Pro-Russia bribery charges

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to numerous bribery charges relating to pro-Russian statements.

caerphilly.observer

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12d

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12d

ARE

YOU

PAYING

ATTENTION

YET?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 13d

Hi LGBT+ Labour, thanks for the email about all your fabulous conference events, but my copy seems to be missing the meeting about tackling the overwhelming wave of transphobia that has engulfed Labour policy in the last two years and has left trans people across the UK living in fear. Typo?

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Jul 23

British newspapers are exempt from VAT because they're said to serve the public interest.

But the Little Black Book of Press Barons shows that – then and now – they often serve the political agendas of a powerful few.

👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/the-...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13d

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