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A warning from @pollytoynbee.bsky.social - our dangerous electoral system could propel Farage into Number 10 on as little as 30% of the vote. It’s an existential moment for liberal democracy, time to act! We need electoral reform! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Snap!!! 😍🎉 Haven‘t had a two in aaaaages, so I‘m quite chuffed!!! 🫶 Wordle 1,535 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Party time!!! 🥳🍾🎉 Wordle 1,535 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Find @carolinelucas.bsky.social here on BlueSky as well. This from 🐦
🔴‘Progressive Parties Must Start Working Together or Concede the Next General Election to the Nationalist Right’ If parties on the left can’t find a way of working together, then the Conservatives and Reform will, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/l...
@news.sky.com I‘m so sick and tired of you platforming /posting right wing /Reform opinions as headlines. No fair balance whatsoever. You contribute to rising divisions /increase in hate in 🇬🇧. You are part of the problem! I will no longer follow you/ watch your channels!
Facts matter. You do you care about working families. www.aft.org/trumps-broke...
Sail, Bremerhaven 🇩🇪 🫶 See you again in 5 years! ⛵️
Depressing. ☹️
Hi and well done! 👋👏 Not so lucky here: a huge big PHEW for me! 😮💨🤣 Wordle 1,534 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
How the Prime Minister's growing moral cowardice in taking on the politics of Nigel Farage is setting his own Government up for a historic defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/whos-afrai...
Wow! 😍 Soooo jealous!!!
The real story should be our dreadful mainstream media and their non stop right wing hate spewing /Fartarse pushing!! 😡 Please support /subscribe to independent media such as @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🫶
They sure look good enough to become your friend!!! 😜😋🤣
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
People are poor, hungry, homeless because corrupt governments funded by millionaires have passed laws to vainly try to satisfy the insatiable greed of millionaires not because of a few thousand migrants #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants #TaxTheRich
There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
Yes please!!! 👍😁
Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
Greta Thunberg: “You do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide. “Israel is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I don’t know what is”.
The enemy within. The 🇺🇸 US gvt has become the greatest enemy of its own people; its democracy. Time to repost this TED talk about people power and that SUSTAINED non violent civil resistance- really can work (~3.5% of the pop)!! A must listen on that topic 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSe...
"All the elements are being put in place for a very clear authoritarian takeover..." Former British ambassador @alexhh.bsky.social on #Trump #ICE and sending in the National Guard to #WashingtonDC @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/3209a5
Turkey has finally cut all contact with Israel, no Israeli goods or ships in Turkey, and no Turkish goods or ships in Israel. It is time for the rest of the world to do the same.
When the Alps got too wet, we packed up the tent and moved North to the river Rhein near Koblenz (St Goar, next to the ‘Loreley’). We looked for a quiet campsite, not realizing what amazing /stunning place we chose until we got there! Beautiful walks and a fab outdoor swimming pool 🫶🤩
Unpacking wet camping stuff is no fun at the best of times; even worse when there‘s nowhere to dry it, because it‘s FINALLY raining -my garden desperately needs it; but why couldn’t it wait till tomorrow!!! 😜🤣 Here‘s another holiday pic (Jenner 1,874 m /6,148 ft) 🫶
This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
🤣 Yep, the Norfolk Alps 😜
And just like that another summer holiday comes to an end 🏔😢 it was amazing!! 🫶
Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
The Corporate Media Coup: How the Establishment is Engineering a Farage Premiership dorseteye.com/the-corporat...
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Cool! 😎 Lucky guess 😍 Wordle 1,514 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
We desperately need leaders who can engage & inspire the best in us, not the nastiest.
Once AGAIN!! “You expect it from the Tories, Reform and far right in general but it is arguably more disappointing to see a Labour government engage in this sort of thing.” The optics / language are terrible! 😡 @steveracemp.bsky.social Please tell our PM that YOUR CONSTITUENTS are not happy!!
The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
Logic and luck 😜 Wordle 1,513 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
38,000,000!! 38 million!! 👏🎉
“Sweet.” 👏
Lying is a key component of this administration. Clear as daylight👇
“Brexit isn’t working +the British people know it. Poll after poll … shows that people are feeling the terrible damage caused by the deal forced upon us by Boris Johnson, Kemi Badenoch +the rest of the Conservative party +want something different.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Same here! 😁 Wordle 1,510 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Slowly gets there 🐌😜 Wordle 1,509 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Photo opportunities - my youngest in action 😎
Reporting re: 'small boats' should focus on how mainstream parties somehow felt compelled to follow the Farage/Murdoch line. Right-wing populism showed them it's easier to confirm people's bias & offer easy solutions than provide explanation, context & sustainable policies. THAT is the real scandal.
Translated: ‘Trump decides what we do have money for’ 👇 Better than healthcare??? 🤔🤔🤔 www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
🇺🇸 A nation paralyzed /perplexed 😢 340,000,000 people. Organise. Organise. Organise.
🙄 TEXAS? Comment? MSNBC headline👇 “As GOP's radical TX map is unveiled, Vance picks odd time to WHINE about gerrymandering Why complain about gerrymandering on the same afternoon that Vance's own party advanced a closely watched gerrymandering scheme at his boss’ behest?” Dodgy dealings-AGAIN 💩😡
Cute parrot 😍😍🤘
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Awesome! 🫶 Great dude (with scary cats judging by those scratched chairs! 😜🤣)!
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Neues Rathaus, Hannover, Germany - yesterday 😎 (And yes, THAT photo is the right way round 😜)
I could watch this all day! 🫶
Wow! Well done!! 👏 Not that lucky here, but an acceptable 4 again 😁😘 Wordle 1,507 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Gekauft! 👍 Danke! (Audible - wird beim kochen gehört 😁) 😘
Too late! Much MUCH too late! 🙄
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
Trump empowers people to abuse power /attempt to abuse power on a daily basis. Authoritarian threats and abuses of government power are becoming the norm! Democracy does NOT die in darkness but left in plain sight!
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USA 🇺🇸 2025 reality. The utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare 😶 And it is NEVER about one man alone! Tr🤮mp is the symptom not the root cause!
He is the evil queen; the villain who freezes /destroys /SUFFOCATES life out of everything she touches!
Trump suffocates life and beauty in ANY FORM 🤮
That wasn’t too painful! 😜🤣 Wordle 1,506 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Fair enough 😊 I consider it a well known landmark - I live in Devon but had the pleasure of sailing underneath it a few years back 🫶
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Who? To start: 5.4 million? (The population of Scotland.) …and many more like myself 😊
ZERO traffic fatalities in Helsinki during an entire year. “Helsinki verzeichnet null Verkehrstote innerhalb eines Jahres.”
Lucky guess! 😊 Wordle 1,505 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Oh dear! 😳 That could have easily been me! I had a lucky guess. 😊 Wordle 1,505 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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😶 Organise, Organise, Organise! Educate, Educate, Educate!
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB
Motherfucking wind farms…
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👇👇👇 From: B’Tselem – The ISRAELI Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Their examination ‘leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is ..[…].. committing GENOCIDE against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.’
‘We live on a floating rock just get on with it’ Brilliant 🫶
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Boarded +kidnapped 😢
Israel is illegally intercepting the Handala right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4hF...
If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
What are you sending me via DM?? I don‘t do/ open DMs? 🤔🤔
The small square on the horizon is this 👇 about to bear down on them in less than an hour after this picture was taken 😢 APL SINGAPURA, now in Dunkirk.
Just INSIDE the shipping channel outside Dunkirk 🇫🇷 That tiny black dot is an inflatable raft full off people desperate enough to risk EVERYTHING to come to 🇬🇧😢 Drifting. When did we lose our humanity? Their safety should/ MUST be our priority! They are not the problem! We are! Our ignorance +greed😢
