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Rob Hughes

@huzee.bsky.social

People's Republic of Barnsbury

created August 18, 2024

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The fascists will be furious; Cooper acting against the interests of women and children

1/9/2025, 9:48:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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goodness me! From $8 trillion to $20 billion, that must be like a 1400% or 1500% reduction. Amazing!

1/9/2025, 3:07:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sure we'll be reading, tomorrow, about "huge anti-racist protests in Stoke"

30/8/2025, 10:07:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cracking movie and the RZA soundtrack is a gateway drug to the Wu Tang Clan

30/8/2025, 9:33:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's a descendant of The Goodies Kitten Kong

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30/8/2025, 5:55:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sigma Dom: the ultimate lone wolf

29/8/2025, 8:31:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putin: So wotcha gonna do bout it?

28/8/2025, 10:46:43 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah man... I'd almost forgotten about her 🤦🏻

28/8/2025, 10:44:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now we finally know what he was speaking to the (former) Pope about

28/8/2025, 10:25:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Closing in on that Nobel Peace Prize

28/8/2025, 5:39:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well clearly it doesn't bloody well work

28/8/2025, 5:34:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you @guardianheather.bsky.social and Katie for the education. In reverse order to the normal rebuke to my 17 year old... It's not just yourself you're letting down; you're letting down your mother and I, too

28/8/2025, 5:28:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's not gouda

28/8/2025, 4:45:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Does anybody have a map to show me how to get to Manchester Airport?"

27/8/2025, 9:36:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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£130 million! 🤣

27/8/2025, 9:32:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fair play though. The young lads who missed the penalties for Man U only cost around £130 million.

27/8/2025, 9:19:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If they think it's a reasonable concern, that is

27/8/2025, 5:16:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You've just gotta love a genius

27/8/2025, 11:50:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh. So that makes it alright, then?

27/8/2025, 11:47:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shall we call that "100 Bell Hotels" (if we're being very generous to the "reasonably concerned")?

27/8/2025, 11:44:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If these guys have been around over 400 million years, my suspicion would be they'll be alright

27/8/2025, 11:15:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's bollocks, Nick

27/8/2025, 11:00:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He really does have presidential AIDS

25/8/2025, 4:36:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watched by a crowd of police

25/8/2025, 1:53:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks Matt. I wouldn't have seen this without your comment. I can't vote for him, although I suspect I would if I could, but he made me feel good, positive; pleased and relieved that there are folk out there, like him, wanting to represent their communities

19/8/2025, 10:13:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elland Road?

18/8/2025, 6:52:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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could he be fired for talking in assembly, when the headteacher was speaking?

18/8/2025, 4:53:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this a new event for the LA Olympics?

18/8/2025, 4:46:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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what? No torture?

18/8/2025, 4:45:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤡

17/8/2025, 1:18:50 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, if only dogging could become an Olympic event...

16/8/2025, 9:35:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love that they were meeting in the Billy Mitchell Room

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16/8/2025, 6:11:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You could really take that to 2011/2, when the father of tonight's TV host (Kenny Dalglish and Kelly Cates, respectively) defended his player, Luis Suarez, who had racially abused Patrice Evra. A dark chapter for Liverpool FC

15/8/2025, 10:38:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"no, but they told me they were real businessmen, crossed their hearts ..., the works!"

15/8/2025, 10:26:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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like an American David Watts

15/8/2025, 5:28:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 11:31:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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but, if Leoni gets a song like Federico we're in business

14/8/2025, 9:37:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it all depends upon how much sugar I've rammed down my throat

12/8/2025, 4:14:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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damn that Biden economy

12/8/2025, 3:13:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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might come in handy if a group try to storm the Capitol

12/8/2025, 11:41:52 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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just spare a thought for the children. Her children

12/8/2025, 11:34:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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not to be confused with the CEO Self-Confidence Survey which has remained at a constant 110% since the survey began

12/8/2025, 11:32:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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circular firing squad?

12/8/2025, 11:30:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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reason enough?

12/8/2025, 11:28:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oooooh, ouch!

12/8/2025, 11:00:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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no Donald, European leaders find you as welcome as hemorrhoids

11/8/2025, 4:48:40 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I asked Gemini about available courses ... "Based on the available information, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania does not offer a course specifically on extortion." The Orange eejit must be riffing it. Shows imagination, at least

11/8/2025, 4:45:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he represents the Lollipop Guild

11/8/2025, 3:28:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The subject certainly inspires passion, be it from those who use (and love) it and those who live elsewhere in the country, frustrated to high heaven that they don't have anything like it

11/8/2025, 9:13:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And any news outlet that even intimates at the IDF assertion about "terrorists" should be shouting that no verifiable evidence supports this

11/8/2025, 9:10:11 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shocked, but not surprised?

11/8/2025, 8:28:46 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And there I was, having no idea he liked this kind of thing. There were no clues

11/8/2025, 7:06:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All those dangerous terrorists; armed with Voltarol and their thermos flasks

11/8/2025, 6:53:53 AM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uber journeys are the only times the children get into a car and don't call "shotgun"

10/8/2025, 11:25:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On the bright side, at least they've a better chance of being warm this winter

10/8/2025, 11:21:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To put this into context ... there were more than 7500 people at Prention Park, yesterday, to see Tranmere play Shrewsbury

10/8/2025, 9:35:06 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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by "swap", do we think they might mean "give up"?

9/8/2025, 10:40:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Goodness knows how The Brit Lad might describe the number of people gathering, shouting and chanting at Wembley this coming Sunday afternoon. "Really really really huge numbers" doesn't really even start to work

8/8/2025, 10:07:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fun, serious and daft in the same thread. Great stuff!

8/8/2025, 10:03:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You'd get more sense from this Rupert

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8/8/2025, 9:55:09 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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...'Reform MP (former, current or future) = utter tosser'

8/8/2025, 6:42:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What could possibly go wrong?

7/8/2025, 9:04:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks Mehdi. Love your work

7/8/2025, 8:52:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/8/2025, 7:55:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For or from?

7/8/2025, 5:30:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"retires...after NASA refuse to pay time and a half for overtime for the extra hours worked"

7/8/2025, 5:18:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or to rewrite the headline ... "People who don't like paying tax get their friends at the FT to write about how it's not fair, and it's their ball and they don't want to play any more"

7/8/2025, 5:15:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We do not know...", the "report" has been debunked and I'm relying on anecdotes from those with a vested interest, but I need to churn out 600 words so I'll make something up. V poor FT

7/8/2025, 5:11:00 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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goodness me! The man is brand kryptonite

4/8/2025, 4:45:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's fair to say that Hassett's economic analysis can, sometimes, be subject to challenge. That he's a permagrinned gobshite cannot

3/8/2025, 10:21:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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now, people snuggling gangs might be a different matter, I don't know

3/8/2025, 10:16:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I do hope there's a follow up article on how to offset losses on your French vineyard against gains elsewhere. Surely this rather dark cloud has a glimmering silver lining

3/8/2025, 10:13:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautifully written, as ever, Barney. Thank you. I really do agree with almost everything, apart from the omission of the tut, the roll of the eyes, and the kick up the erse (which he ought to have got) for not bringing home one of the greatest victories. Here's to Jerusalem at 10:55 in the morn

3/8/2025, 9:32:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for sharing, Rhiannon.

3/8/2025, 9:06:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or browsing on AliExpress

3/8/2025, 3:49:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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but it could be worse; he could be the most powerful man on the planet who orders the repositioning of nuclear submarines in response to the Friday night, drunken tweets of a madman. Ah! Oh dear

1/8/2025, 11:02:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah, they're not really. They'll tell Reeves that the growth of the economy is under threat if any of this muck sticks to them, and make her an offer she can't refuse

1/8/2025, 10:59:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree with you a gazillion percent, Ron

1/8/2025, 10:57:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"a bit below what Wall Street expected...but in line with expectations" Sheesh, he didn't even need to start a new sentence before contradicting himself

1/8/2025, 2:42:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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swings and roundabouts ...🤨

31/7/2025, 8:34:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shill, baby, shill!

30/7/2025, 9:21:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And what a song! Especially with it's anti-fascist history

30/7/2025, 8:56:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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and Farage. He hates this kind of thing

28/7/2025, 6:38:54 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Much the same as the Japan "deal" last week

28/7/2025, 9:12:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lacking balls?

27/7/2025, 11:02:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bring in the experts. These lads know abuse when they see (or do) it.

26/7/2025, 1:12:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hmmmm. Not this, then (by William Holman Hunt)

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25/7/2025, 8:52:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And, seemingly, an utter twot

25/7/2025, 6:21:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Prince of Fluffness

25/7/2025, 11:07:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks Martin. Love your work

25/7/2025, 8:13:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤦🏻🤣 In that case you can repeat read this and lick your lips www.theguardian.com/football/202...

25/7/2025, 8:00:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But remember that the cricket starts in a couple of hours time, so you won't need to move all day. Ditto tomorrow, with the addition of the rugby. Likewise on Sunday with a bit of footy thrown into the mix. Perfect reasons to rest your gammy paw. And if you need a drink you can stick to beer.

25/7/2025, 7:54:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why does the BBC repeat this charade? What do we learn? Just that the Israeli machine will attack and attempt to undermine anyone who questions it

25/7/2025, 7:25:37 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fair play to him for having the energy to make up new stuff every day, but goodness me he's absolutely off his tits

23/7/2025, 11:20:18 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You were probably too busy singing & dancing, or getting yourself a fresh lucozade sport

22/7/2025, 10:21:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I loved the bit in the post match interview where Sarina thanked Mark Watson for his guidance

22/7/2025, 10:15:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was a game of four halves, Saint

22/7/2025, 10:04:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But on the bright side... The more these swivel-eyed loons spout this cobblers, far fewer of their ilk will feel brave enough to darken London's streets.

22/7/2025, 10:03:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Puts the miserable critique by The Boomtown Rats in the shade

22/7/2025, 7:50:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's sometimes good to have a government with Purpose

22/7/2025, 7:35:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view