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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 31m

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 6m

Maybe he can flog off some of Catholic church's vast wealth and put it to good use?

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 22m

Maybe Pope will flog off some of his church's vast wealth to help the poor?

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 41m

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 39m

Can you imagine how quickly Labour would change their stance on FPTP if the Greens were polling like Reform are lol

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 5h

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 37m

My Dad used to cycle to work every day. When he was in his 50s, someone pulled out of a side road without looking, ran him down, and hospitalised him. He bought a car, never cycled again, and eventually died after years of awful obesity related health issues.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1h

🌍 | Highest ever Green polling (15%).

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15h

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1h

"It sent 110,000 bullets last month to Israeli snipers who we know have been using Palestinian children as target practice at times"

On #PoliticsLive @fisherandrew79.bsky.social mentioning the complicity of our government.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1h

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty disappointing attitude from the White Hotel here www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... Their comment seems to rely on the myth that charitable donations are more efficiently redistributed than state funding when the complete opposite is the case (by degrees of magnitude).

There’s a £1 idea that could save small music venues. Is Live Nation holding it back?

Artists including Coldplay and Katy Perry have got behind a plan to fund small venues from big gigs – but owners say that without Live Nation on board, it could fail

www.theguardian.com

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socialistnan123 @socialistnan123.bsky.social · 1h

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1h

NEW REPORT | Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank

Netanyahu’s government is moving towards establishing permanent control of the occupied West Bank. Outside powers should commit to pushing Israel to change course.

www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

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Revolution UK @revolutionuk.bsky.social · 3h

Every single person in Reform is simultaneously the worst person you’ve ever met. Probably realised you actually have to do work rather than just blame migrants and science for everything

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4h

Reform UK’s Councillor Rowland O’Connor, St. Columb Major, has resigned from the party.

A conspiracy theorist who claimed 17m people have died from the COVID vaccine, among many other claims.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 4h

The Clacton MP has declared his earnings for the first time since May, revealing he has earned almost £1.2m through 12 'second jobs' since the general election.

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 5h

💥 Bombshell investigation: Hungary operated an illegal network of spies to infiltrate the EU institutions while Olivér Várhelyi, who's currently a European Commissioner, served as chief ambassador.

„Súlyos ügy volt” – így bukott le Orbánék titkos kémhálózata Brüsszelben

A 2010-es években a magyar hírszerzés elkezdett kémkedni Brüsszelben, és ehhez uniós intézményeknél dolgozó magyarokat próbált beszervezni. Viszont a magyar szolgálatok ezt annyira nyilvánvalóan és üg...

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 8h

Israeli attacks persists in Gaza after ceasefire agreement announced - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced

Israeli attacks persists in Gaza after ceasefire agreement announced

Heavy bombing rocks Gaza City and Khan Younis before ceasefire takes effect

www.middleeasteye.net

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 3d

Best titles of autobiographies?

Starting with:

- Vic Reeves, Me: Moir
- Dennis Waterman, Reminder (thanks @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
- AA Gill, Pour Me
- Gene Simmons, Kiss and Make-Up
- Julian Clary, A Young Man's Passage

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 2d

Disturbingly, one of the guys having a piss appears to have pulled his trousers right down to his ankles, like that one weird kid in primary school

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Update on Craig Holmes, candidate in the Skelton East by-election.

Seems Reform UK candidates don’t see what’s wrong with urinating on random peoples’ property.

“The bus driver told me to do it” isn’t really the level of decision making you want in a councillor.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Update on Craig Holmes, candidate in the Skelton East by-election.

Seems Reform UK candidates don’t see what’s wrong with urinating on random peoples’ property.

“The bus driver told me to do it” isn’t really the level of decision making you want in a councillor.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 2h

When someone flees dictatorship in the middle east we say "why don't they stay and fight?" Yanks regretting electing an obvious fascist, we welcome with open arms.