jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Ends with T and it's spelt just a little bit differently from an old English King, who proved that he did not have command over the tide?
He's just this guy, you know? ___ Happily married. Human rights, animal rights, socialism and environmentalism. No other interests (apart from the usual).
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Ends with T and it's spelt just a little bit differently from an old English King, who proved that he did not have command over the tide?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I cannot adequately express my disgust at the British government in its complicity in this. I'm surprised this BBC reporter didn't start with getting that poor woman to condemn Hamas over and over, before going to an IDF spokesperson to say how it was all lies, but they're going to do it some more.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Chuck Schuner is waiting for 'the Baileys" to get back to him, and say whether it's a priority for them. Oh yeah, and he's concentrating really hard on making sure the Dems support Israel. (Current approval level 8% among Dems, so he's doing a heck of a job.)
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Help me out here.... why is the media so utterly obsessed with Farage? Sure he wants to "be the Farage" of anything, when he says he despises his politics? Can't you media guys get over Reform / Farage and making all discussion around that frame? Good grief.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
If this clearly very thoughtful young man gets a rap for 'terrorism', it's a serious blight on his life. Is this what we want - someone to become economically inactive for decades, for some BS charge? Do we want HUNDREDS of people in that situation, unable to work or contribute to the country?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Can we help out with moving expenses - crowdfund it maybe? I'll even help him pack.
Marko Silberhand (@markosilberhand.bsky.social) reposted
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Reminds me of Germans back in the day, feigning ignorance of what was going on in the concentration camps. "Why, we just didn't know!" Are our craven, disgusting politicians really going to try pulling the same? Starmer brags about having been a human rights lawyer. He has no excuses whatsoever.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, another picture of Farage with a wide-open mouth! Thanks guys, that's the second one this morning. And I've only been looking at BlueSky for five minutes.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh good, a picture of Farage with a wide-open mouth ( © All media outlets). My morning would not have started well without it.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed. And genocide is obviously not a concern of yours.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I took a quick look at your posts/ replies. Not a single mention of Palestine, not a peep of criticism against the Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It's kind of tough to take someone's advice seriously, when they appear to lack any interest or concern whatsoever in that cause.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Gah, TO not 'too' ... I blame predictive text 🙄
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
X is less toxic too Nazis, racists and sundry bigots, granted. Out of interest, is it now called X because Twitter might as well be dead?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
How SAFE are Palestinians currently being genocided with your explicit approval? Warmongering, bloodthirsty freak. We need to become SAFE from YOU!
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
It's got to the point that whatever they say, you can take the exact opposite to be the case.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno... always seems easy enough to me to do it in a jiffy, with whichever hand happens to be free
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Even if you could separate these TA fans from their genocidal country, they ought to be denied any foreign fixtures just by dint of their own thuggish behaviour in previous matches - rampaging through their host country's city, beating up people, destroying property and flaunting their racism.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
As they destroy these neighbourhoods, they're also burying evidence of their crimes. Bodies under rubble being ploughed under by bulldozers.
Libération (@liberation.fr) reposted
L’armée israélienne conseille aux Gazaouis de se déplacer dans des zones impraticables ou déclarées dangereuses Par CheckNews ⬇️
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I like this.... RFK caused outrage when he announced: "... new Covid-19 shots would be authorised but with severe restrictions limiting them to people 65" What a lunatic! Why aren't they available to everyone, like in the UK, where... errr... they're only available if you're over 75 years old.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Who he?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
The amazing thing is, they announced all this. Then it happens. Then they say it's all lies, it's not happening and in any case it's nothing to do with them. .... and if you don't believe our ludicrous, self-contradictory denials, you're an anti-semite.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social)
From Craig Murray: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Great track track, really energising... just what we need in the morning 👍
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Angela Rayner's "property empire", according to The Torygraph, get it straight! 😀
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Unbelievable.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
What you call an 'anti-semitic act' probably differs from normal people's definition. A Zionist seeing a Palestinian flag, "Free Palestine" or a "Stop the war" protest is not anti-semiticism. Not - that is - unless you want to cheapen and water down the definition so much, it becomes meaningless.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Immigrants are the gift that keeps on giving. Use them as cheap labour, for jobs the natives don't want to do, and they're scared to demand decent wages & conditions. Then immigrants can be blamed for poor outcomes of government policies, get your nationalism going. What's not to like about them?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
A highly intelligent black woman with a solid track record.... what could Trump possibly have against such a person? 🤔
All Our Yesterdays (@allouryesterdays.bsky.social) reposted
Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Awful lot of conjecture here - did I (or any of your correspondents) remotely suggest we were "something wonderful"? On the other hand, Ms Sultana IS doing something about it, and what do you do? Sit back, scoff, say she's never going to be elected, and cast negativity on everyone supporting her.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this really substantially different from colonialist massacres across the Americas, Australia or the Crusades, much of which was in the name of Christianity? Of course we recognise these as terrible wrongs, but still benefit from it. To our collective shame, Zionists are counting on the same.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
We have to separate Zionism from Judaism - never give up on that. Make the division absolutely clear, particularly now there is this utterly depraved demonstration of what Zionism actually means in practice - it cannot and should not ever be allowed, no more than Nazism can be tolerated.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Agreed, but the Zionist lobby is doing its best to play up this dishonest conflation. Jews for Justice and so on... Jews are over-represented in support of Palestinians compared with the population as a whole. Blaming Jews as a whole is the absolute last thing we should be doing.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
She - like a lot of us - have a problem with genocide. Clearly, you do not. Ever hear of "The Good German"? It's a mindset that describes you to a tee.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
In fairness, they're subjected to massive propaganda, pumped into their heads since birth. Starving refugees are a desperately serious threat to them, and should bombed, shot, starved to death and survivors driven out. All while Israelis are hanging out in coffee shops or getting their nails done.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks... eventually got it by following the link, rather than trying to watch it inline on the bsky app.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Dang, it's saying "Sorry, we're having a little trouble right now" and not showing the clip. Has it been taken down?
Naomi Klein (@naomiaklein.bsky.social) reposted
Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza. But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah yes, wonderful stuff that "alternative medicine" with its associated evidence-free theories. Know why it's called "alternative medicine"? Because it didn't make the grade to be called medicine.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll literally be caught red-handed. The BBC isn't blameless in all this - they've been breathlessly reporting about boat crossings and refugees on every news cycle for weeks.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like the BBC - they report on this like it's some natural disaster, when they bother reporting on it at all. Incidentally, "Israel says..." is not journalism - I wish someone would point this out to our fearless news-hounds in our MSM.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Unbelievable.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is the UK mass media - pretty much in its entirety - ginning this up as a 'crisis', as if it's our primary national concern? I have not met a single person who's brought this up. Not one. Plenty of people talking about Gaza, rotten public services, cost of living. Those really are crises.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I got Peter Leaky's book The Sixth Extinction, back in the late 1990s while living in America. That concluded that the 6th extinction is most definitely underway, and it is undoubtedly caused by us. It's astonishing, more than 1/4 of a century later, that it's still considered a matter of debate.
Owen Jones (@owenjones.bsky.social) reposted
Why isn't this on the BBC?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Fantastic. Great quote. No, I'm not being superior - I don't even think commonly slaughtered animals should die for my benefit. I'm quite happy to live entirely on plants instead.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Funnily enough, we get sympathy for being British while on the continent. They (Spanish, Portuguese, Irish etc.) understand the UK is run by incompetent cowards (at best), for the whims of a mal-informed public, and we're forced to go along as if we like it and are happily going along with it.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it's because they really do eat human flesh whenever they get the chance. Usually through grave robbery.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Signed. (I don't usually say when signing the petitions you recommend, but thought it was worth mentioning - they do reach people.)
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd say pretty much all apartheid ethno-states are, if not illegitimate - you can be the judge of that - then at least not worthy of our unqualified support. Particularly when they are currently perpetrating a genocide. Which other ethno-states were you thinking of?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Good for you. A lot of decent Jews are too - all of them should be by now, in fact.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Perhaps these other ailments were caused by lack of nutrition and medical attention - specific policies of this genocidal Israeli administration? Wonder if any of these conditions were also found in Nazi concentration camps. Oh wait - perhaps deaths there were simply down to natural causes too?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social)
From Craig Murray: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202... Yvette Cooper asserts PA are terrorists in the once great Observer: observer.co.uk/news/opinion... - offering no evidence whatsoever beyond her assertion. Her claims are negated by the actual report quoted by Craig Murray (top link).
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Fry reckons catching sight of a Palestinian flag, or suggesting genocide is bad, is 'anti-Semitism', a hate crime. Screw him and his Israeli apologia.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Given how thoroughly trustworthy this government is, and with such a solid track record of honesty as a cross-party institution, we can be confident in taking their word for it and consider the matter settled. Like trusting children. What need have we for evidence, from such noble people as these?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you think bombing starving refugees in tents is going to help?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
And people wonder why bird populations are in decline. Next time you're in a museum, take a look at old paintings depicting the countryside. There are birds _everywhere_. Literature from the time says the same. The decline is gradual, new generations do not to recognise the scale of it.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Note that the interviewer treats what he said as a joke. No, he didn't say, "Yeah, like, legalise pot maaan", BBC. It was not a joke. It could not be more serious. Yet that laugh - like, how wacky! How cheeky! - was the reaction it got.
Rejoin Campaign (@rejoincampaign.bsky.social) reposted
IT’S DEFINITELY ETHNIC CLEANSING AND PROBABLY THE EXTERMINATION OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE…but our ‘Zionist without qualification’ prime minister refuses to send the Israeli embassy packing. Starmer is a disgrace. He’s not fit to be prime minister.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social)
@naomiaklein.bsky.social Just finished Doppelganger - fascinating read, thank you. Huge insights, particularly... actually, too many to mention even briefly in one post. Appreciate your work as always.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Those badged-up cowards don't even know _why_ they're attacking that citizen. They just saw a couple of their fellow uniformed thugs beating on the citizen, and piled on. Totally disinterested in the reason, or any threat presented. Just a mentality of "Get him!" because he'd been singled out.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like he's directly conflating Judaism and genocide!
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone tell him this was actually a Ukrainian appeal to Russia, see if he maintains consistency. Just as a thought experiment, you understand.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay... so this blows away our US/UK stated plans for a two-state solution. It's over. Major foreign policy change - our government has nothing to say about this?
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Kind of difficult to give whole-hearted support to someone who finds your very existence objectionable.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Nôtre Hitler des temps modernes ne peut même pas nous dire où se trouvent les frontières de son pays
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Hundreds have been arrested - give the star chambers a chance, it was only last weekend.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Please don't extend this to all veg*ns - very few of us are that daft. Among our ranks, this sort of nuttery is no more common than the population as a whole.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Might it be the same country where people openly sell and wear T-shirts depicting a pregnant woman (Palestinian, of course), in the cross-hairs as if seen through a gun sight, with the caption "One shot, two kills". This isn't just ignored or treated as a regrettable necessity - it's celebrated!
Ryan Grim (@ryangrim.bsky.social) reposted
In a statement to media, the Israeli military is claiming credit for the attack on reporter Anas Al-Sharif and other journalists in a targeted strike. They clearly believe there will be no accountability or prosecution.
Ali Esbati (@aliesbati.bsky.social) reposted
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jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry to say it's less centre, and more straight-up right wing now. :(
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
The latest Big Lie from Israel is that Hamas detonated all the buildings in Gaza - wired them to explode while the kindly IDF were looking for people to help. Lies like this make Germany's Nazis look like honest truth-tellers. You don't like Nazi comparisons, Zionists? Stop behaving like them.
Lyndsey (@lyndseydoob.bsky.social) reposted
Please sign and share if you can. Robbie Gibb, a BBC board member and one of just five on the Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, is censoring Palestine blocking vital coverage of Gaza’s genocide. The BBC must remove him & end the censorship. action.eko.org/a/bbc-remove...
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
See some Labour MP posting about "cleaning up the high streets", gloating and bragging about this? Labour is now full-on racist.
Lyndsey (@lyndseydoob.bsky.social) reposted
This is the bare minimum we should be doing. Please sign and share if you can to stop all UK support for the Israeli military in Gaza. 38d.gs/ohvm
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
"Cleaning up our high streets" - by arresting people for working?? This racist BS might well work in Trump-Town. But this is Britain. We're better than this. Shame on you.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
He's unapologetic - just being a responsible citizen. So remember - whenever you see a boat of any description approaching land, call the authorities! (And tell them Rupert Lowe told you to do so)
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Men talking on women's issues is to speak from almost pure ignorance - this is well understood. Anyone speaking of and for another they have historically and culturally dominated is equally ridiculous. So any cis person thinking they can authoritatively speak on non-cis issues is just strange.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Not bad at all! Watch for increasing the distance too early. Tempting to do, but recovering from a re-injury seems to take many times longer.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Unbelievable.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Trans people are the primary whipping-boy (and not in a fun way) for 'populists' like Farage, along with migrants of any non-white English speaking variety. No idea why trans or trans-supporting people would have a good word to say about him.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
"Secret evidence" indeed. Well, the Government as a whole - Labour in particular, and most especially Starmer - they'd never lie about anything, would they? 100% trustworthy and honest, along with the entire 'security' establishment. Now let's all believe them like trusting children.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Hasbara are getting desperate...
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
They're lucky they didn't say that publicly in the UK, and especially Germany - they would have been arrested
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure why you're offended, but believe me - I'm certainly no nationalist.
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
Saint Geldof, if you don't mind! 😀 Actually my wife's old man came from Ireland, and I'm very grateful about that :)
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
No offence to the Irish whatsoever, but when they do occasionally get the odd right-wing thug bastard, why do they have to send them over to the UK mainland to work mischief there? I can quite understand why they don't want them (eg Morgan McSweeny), but FFS neither do we!
jimspriggs65.bsky.social (@jimspriggs65.bsky.social) reply parent
That really looks like the leader of a country that is beset by war, terrified of enemies all around, and desperately afraid that its very existence is under threat. Zelensky - take note, if you want the world to treat you seriously!