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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Great photo. Absolutely awful headline.

Times front page: photo of Trump & Putin under ‘Peace In Their Hands’ headline.
aug 16, 2025, 10:15 am • 764 76

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boyojunior.bsky.social @boyojunior.bsky.social

OK Vlad, where's the photos?

aug 16, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Bob Booker @rabalton.bsky.social

Shaking hands with an international war criminal...the words strangely resonant to those used by Chamberlain just before the 2nd World War. Oh help....come on Europe...step up.

aug 16, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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lozzadarlo.bsky.social @lozzadarlo.bsky.social

I've just heard Starmer's love song to trump (the media called it a statement). Applauding appeasement is rarely a good look. No doubt the 'defence' will be in order to oppose appeasement he must appease the appeasers in order to influence them in some unspecified way at some unspecified time.

aug 16, 2025, 10:27 am • 3 0 • view
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Hasan Patel @hasanpatel.com

Photo says "please be my friend"

aug 16, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social

jesus, his suit

aug 16, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Kat Trimble @tangocat.bsky.social

What a rag!

aug 16, 2025, 10:54 am • 2 0 • view
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big-cat-diesel.bsky.social @big-cat-diesel.bsky.social

Utter performative distraction. Waste of the air miles.

aug 16, 2025, 10:19 am • 3 0 • view
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dudlyboy.bsky.social @dudlyboy.bsky.social

He often tries that offer to Melania, but she won't take it.

aug 16, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social

TINY HANDS

aug 16, 2025, 10:40 am • 16 0 • view
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The Ragged Trousered Philatilist @ianandriley.bsky.social

Wouldn’t a better caption be “I’m not shaking that, I can’t get over the images on the photos from that Moscow hotel room”

aug 16, 2025, 10:20 am • 0 0 • view
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DeeLee @deelee.bsky.social

Piss on their shoes.

aug 16, 2025, 10:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Deborah Mancino @debsmooth.bsky.social

Two worst humans on this entire planet and that’s the headline? 🙄

aug 16, 2025, 10:17 am • 3 1 • view
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Sonny Day @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social

It's just incredible that Putin can't find a suit to fit him.

aug 16, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Danny Lacey @dannylacey.bsky.social

Also Putins suit looks like it was pulled out of a Soviet-era closet.

aug 16, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Danny Lacey @dannylacey.bsky.social

Putin wary of that weird skin issue that Trump is not showing on the back of his hand

aug 16, 2025, 10:56 am • 1 0 • view
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maryan506.bsky.social @maryan506.bsky.social

Did they go to press too early?

aug 16, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Mark Sugrue @marksugrue.com

They would have had to

aug 16, 2025, 10:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Marc Daniels @marcd72.bsky.social

Pootin has the expression of someone thinking “ewwww. No! I really don’t want to touch that”

aug 16, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Six {So, what now?} @adhdbusiness.bsky.social

Now to wait for the savaging menswearguy will give their fit.

aug 16, 2025, 10:39 am • 1 0 • view
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Oldnfat5705 @oldnfat5705.bsky.social

Putin is taking the.....peace ✌️

aug 16, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Steff @steffd62.bsky.social

Ffs,what the hell is wrong with the Times This is better ,America burning under Trump.

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aug 22, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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déjà vu @ka7ma.bsky.social

why is a red carpet now blue?

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aug 17, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Phil Myers @philmyers53.bsky.social

Maybe it should read Piss in....

aug 16, 2025, 10:41 am • 1 0 • view
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t55nns.bsky.social @t55nns.bsky.social

Two self serving fucks meet in the North. Coffee?

aug 16, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social

⛳ Useful reminder edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p... #Anchorage ☢️

aug 16, 2025, 10:23 am • 4 0 • view
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onlyoneplanet.bsky.social @onlyoneplanet.bsky.social

Shockingly bad. Not journalism.

aug 16, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Olddogandgrump @olddogandgrump.bsky.social

Neither of them walked into that room with any intention of coming out with peace on their hands. And to suggest otherwise is naivety in the extreme.

aug 16, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Max Parker @cominagetcha.bsky.social

"Trump meets with FSB handler."

aug 16, 2025, 12:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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emucr.bsky.social @emucr.bsky.social

They’re competing for the Nobel Piece of Shit Prize.

aug 16, 2025, 10:42 am • 3 0 • view
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Louise Lopsided of St Hilda @hyarner.bsky.social

There's just a fag paper between them on that one. Putin probably just edges it with his throwing enemies out of windows shtick...

aug 16, 2025, 10:56 am • 1 0 • view
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Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social

"Small man with tiny hands meets Putin lookalike"?

aug 16, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social

Oh, 1news.co.nz has the headline but not the photo to go with it - "Trump leaves Alaska summit with Putin empty-handed"

aug 16, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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ruralriding.bsky.social @ruralriding.bsky.social

A ridiculous article and photo. Just replace this with the epic David Low cartoon, Stalin meets Hitler. Much more appropriate.

aug 16, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Neil Quinn @n-quinn67.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/g0mQG...

aug 20, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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cassian1.bsky.social @cassian1.bsky.social

Surly that should be ‘Piss in their hands’ given what VP has on DJT.

aug 16, 2025, 11:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Paul @smokeandwax.bsky.social

Is Trump asking where he should kneel in that picture?

aug 16, 2025, 10:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Sir Mal Reed #FBPE @malreed.bsky.social

A Murdoch rag appealing to the Tory/Reform loonies that are still daft (and/or corrupt) enough to support Trump.

aug 16, 2025, 10:40 am • 5 0 • view
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John Bentley @johnbentlegs.bsky.social

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George @georgecl03.bsky.social

The feet are a brilliant touch

aug 16, 2025, 10:16 am • 24 0 • view
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lozzadarlo.bsky.social @lozzadarlo.bsky.social

But not alarmingly swollen. They appear positively svelte, pro trump propaganda?

aug 16, 2025, 10:21 am • 5 0 • view
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Jamie the Amiable @jamierbrown.bsky.social

That salad looks nice, though.

aug 16, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Colin MacKean @colmack.bsky.social

Any chance you could block those that reply to your posts with AI 'art’? Too much of it cropping up,it's theft and incredibly bad for the environment. Cheers.

aug 16, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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iainrowland.bsky.social @iainrowland.bsky.social

Putins expression says it all. Even a tyrannical dictator looks uncomfortable saking his hand.

aug 16, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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keith-85.bsky.social @keith-85.bsky.social

I’m sure the residents of Bucha are impressed. Oh hang on, Putin butchered them all.

aug 16, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jake Spedley @spedley.bsky.social

If I were Ukrainian it would make my blood boil. The most powerful country on the planet making deals with the aggressor about what should happen to the victim.

aug 16, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social

Fixed it…

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aug 16, 2025, 10:25 am • 33 2 • view
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BlackCanine @blackcanine.bsky.social

The Bad Vlad-alike is looking at it like it's piss on his hand.

aug 16, 2025, 10:27 am • 8 0 • view
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Andrew H-K @beauchamp45.bsky.social

😂😂😂

aug 16, 2025, 10:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Russell Bloor @russbloor666.bsky.social

They look like some end of pier comedy duo that have reunited after several years away and are struggling to remember one of their routines.

aug 16, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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mugzi.bsky.social @mugzi.bsky.social

A Trump favourite !

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aug 16, 2025, 10:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Tedthedrummerman @tedthedrummerman.bsky.social

If I was Zelensky I wouldn't go anywhere near Washington on Monday. He'll be on the end of another bullying. And then the lie will be that he doesn't want peace. Putin could end this war tomorrow by getting the hell out of Ukraine. It's not rocket science.

aug 16, 2025, 4:26 pm • 4 0 • view
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dannybroadbent.bsky.social @dannybroadbent.bsky.social

Putin is kinda small huh?

aug 16, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Skywalker @saxrub.bsky.social

How about: "Blood in their hands"?

aug 16, 2025, 10:17 am • 5 0 • view
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stephena77.bsky.social @stephena77.bsky.social

Just missing a "?" at the end and "their" in italics, then it would work.

aug 16, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
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James Steel @jamessteel2008.bsky.social

The times lying to their readers, it was a complete waste of time nothing negotiated or any agreement. A very expensive and pointless photo op, sums up the orange idiot perfectly.

aug 16, 2025, 11:13 am • 6 1 • view
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bradholler.bsky.social @bradholler.bsky.social

Indeed. As for the photo - Putin: ‘My, what small hands you have.’

aug 17, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Damien Gribbon @omengribbon.bsky.social

Trump: Look what I nearly trod in. Nearly got that on my shoes. I'm a genius.

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aug 16, 2025, 10:48 am • 3 0 • view
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Gary Lewis @seasidegaz.bsky.social

A picture paints a thousand words @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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aug 17, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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robert-w.bsky.social @robert-w.bsky.social

Putin seems to be looking at Trump's open hand ?

aug 16, 2025, 10:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Niall Taylor @ameliesdada.bsky.social

Peace off?

aug 16, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
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snoozezzzzzzz.bsky.social @snoozezzzzzzz.bsky.social

Piss*

aug 20, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
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michael-martin22.bsky.social @michael-martin22.bsky.social

A piece of Ukraine in their hands.Convicted felon greets a war criminal.

aug 16, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bob Medley @bobmedley.bsky.social

Tragically, it's Ukraine in their hands.

aug 16, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
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E. Summerspoon @brizzlerobin.bsky.social

We’re screwed.

aug 16, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Mike Pod @podmanietzsche.bsky.social

How was I, an old faht who spends his final years at a workbench able to precisely predict, a week in advance exactly how this was going to turn out?

aug 16, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Mark Patrick Lynch @markpatricklynch.bsky.social

"Peace off" might have been better.

aug 16, 2025, 10:42 am • 4 0 • view
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Ashfromenfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social

“Please Vlad… don’t release the Epstein Files… pretty please….please”…

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aug 16, 2025, 10:36 am • 20 9 • view
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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social

Hygiene not a strong point, obviously.

aug 16, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Rory @origamiwolf.bsky.social

"Dictators waste three hours"

aug 16, 2025, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social

It could've been written by the White House press secretary 🤷‍♂️

aug 16, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Gordon @gb4g.bsky.social

Touch of the quite “Peace in our time”

aug 16, 2025, 10:24 am • 2 0 • view
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Jon Kingsbury @jonathankingsbury.bsky.social

The Times was an excellent newspaper

aug 17, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Wren 💙 @wrenkh.bsky.social

It's typical of The Times & our grovelling Right Wing media. I prefer George Takei's comment "He’s gone from orange to red." bsky.app/profile/geor...

aug 16, 2025, 1:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social

It's true, when Trump and Putin shook hands there was a piece of shit in each.

aug 16, 2025, 11:16 am • 2 0 • view
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Seán Connors @seanconnorswrites.bsky.social

Never offer empty hand to your father, Krasnov. Where is my appearance fee?

aug 16, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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kevincloona.bsky.social @kevincloona.bsky.social

Someone should tell Trump the story about the snake

aug 17, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
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RickBean @fenmonkey.bsky.social

Especially given the Russian rumours about Trump and the video tapes.

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rodmoss.bsky.social @rodmoss.bsky.social

Disagree. The headline is not as good as your description.

aug 16, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Karl @battlscarredbear.bsky.social

That’s the fascist take on this

aug 16, 2025, 12:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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JonnyGoo @jonnygoo.bsky.social

Pissed on my hands

aug 16, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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benl1981.bsky.social @benl1981.bsky.social

I dunno I'm sure she was a very good editor of Hello 😏

aug 16, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Teresa De Pelegrí @teresadp.bsky.social

Big baby wants his Nobel.

aug 16, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Anne Collinson @ancey.bsky.social

If my memory is correct, I once heard a body language expert say that in a handshake situation the hand of whoever is the more dominant would be on top. I have noticed that often (can’t say every time) when they shake hands Trump’s hand is underneath. Anyone else see this?

aug 16, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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kingless2.bsky.social @kingless2.bsky.social

Trump certainly delivered ... ....Donbass to Putin.

aug 16, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

‘Blood on their hands’ would be a far truer statement.

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mitchbligh.bsky.social @mitchbligh.bsky.social

Or insert “of shit”

aug 16, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Peter Wilkin @weetyuk.bsky.social

The Times doing what its owners tells it to If it actually reported Truthfully on what’s happening, the editor would be sacked

aug 16, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jeff Scroggie @jeffscroggie.bsky.social

Tagline is “what small silly little hands you have babooshka”

aug 16, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Fraser Wylie @fraserw.bsky.social

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iskragoch.bsky.social @iskragoch.bsky.social

Asset offers hand to handler.

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Fortuna @meccanised.bsky.social

“ Two criminal fvckheads “ has a better ring to it.

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Andy Squibb @squibbmeisteruk.bsky.social

To be honest, that image puts me in mind of an old song by Terry Scott, (the English comedy actor) called: 'My Brother'… and specifically the line(s): 'What have you had in your hand? Have you? Phaw!' For my sins, I remember Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart playing it on his 'wireless programme' on BBC Radio 2

aug 16, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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James Foster @jamesfoster83.bsky.social

Putins thinking 'Blimey! They are small!'

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Harry Bobs @harrybobs.bsky.social

The Times used to be one of the “serious” newspapers. It looks like the front page of “Hello”. All it needs is a link to a story by Melania of what shoes to wear in Alaska as you watch your John kiss ass.

aug 16, 2025, 12:00 pm • 3 0 • view
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Wallace Mayne @wallacemayne.bsky.social

Murdoch didn’t only use the Sun newspaper to dumb down the British public

aug 16, 2025, 12:25 pm • 4 0 • view
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Paul Haviland @runtotorun.bsky.social

I first noticed the decline in the early 1980s, shortly after its sale to News Corp, in an article on something or other that baldly claimed "recent research shows that..." with no source or name or any kind of identifying detail. I knew then that its status as "newspaper of record" would fade fast.

aug 16, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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clatch.bsky.social @clatch.bsky.social

Better photo

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Beach Boy @sandandsea.bsky.social

What on Earth are the Times thinking? They should stick to stories about offsetting the nanny against VAT on school ski trips.

aug 16, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sean of the FFS @sheepbop.bsky.social

It's not actually a picture of a handshake though is it. Like Trump is offering and Putin is looking at his hand like being offered a three-day old dead rabbit. Maybe I'll put the internet down for a bit...

aug 16, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sean of the FFS @sheepbop.bsky.social

His tiny tiny hands

aug 16, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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chopmasteronion.bsky.social @chopmasteronion.bsky.social

Did you notice how Trumps body language is after being alone with Putin? I have NEVER seen trump act like this around anyone else.

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Steve Marsh @whysospurious.bsky.social

Why do they both look like they're mystified by his hand??

aug 16, 2025, 10:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Matt Farrow @mattfatmarrow.bsky.social

There will be piss in our time

aug 16, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
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-{Wisteela}- 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @wisteela.bsky.social

No good will come of this. It's all for show. A show of stupidity too.

aug 16, 2025, 10:24 am • 2 0 • view
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southernreiver.bsky.social @southernreiver.bsky.social

As they seek a deal just like the Sudetenland. Appeasement of the dictator doesn't work. Only this time, the only one trying to buy time is the dictator.

aug 16, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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fukreform.bsky.social @fukreform.bsky.social

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𝔸𝕟𝕕𝕪 𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕫𝕫𝕖𝕝𝕝, 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘻 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘻, 𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 🔔 @andrewjfrizzell.bsky.social

“Peace off loser.”

aug 16, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
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John Rob @dennisobell.bsky.social

Piece of Ukraine in their hands.

aug 16, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Looking out to sea. @wildwildwind.bsky.social

Breaking REUTERS News: 'Trump adopts Putin's preference for route to Ukraine solution' Am I surprised by TЯump's learnings - not at all

aug 16, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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mitchbligh.bsky.social @mitchbligh.bsky.social

…of shit?

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Simon Evans @evssimon.bsky.social

Blood on their hands.

aug 16, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
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Mike @michaelroberts71.bsky.social

Reality... Realpolitik.

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Peter @downthetunnel.bsky.social

Dumber and Dumber works

aug 16, 2025, 10:16 am • 1 0 • view