Alex Wasyliw
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Alex Wasyliw
@alexofthew.bsky.social
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@eddavey.libdems.org.uk out Trump's attack on the BBC:

"President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC - not because he cares about the truth."

Trump has undermined the press freedom in the US, now he's trying to do the same thing here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
31 years!

Really?!
#InterviewWithTheVampire was released on this day, 31 years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Back home after another fantastic photography trip to #Iceland (my 34th!).

Stopped along the south coast yesterday on my way back - these river estuaries are just incredible.

#DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"... the species of trees we choose to nurture may be just as important as the number of trees we plant." Read the blog post behind the paper by Yao et al. regarding the role of #tree species in the #climate impact of European #forests. communities.springernature.com/posts/rethin...
Rethinking Europe’s Forests: Why Tree Species Matter for Climate Cooling
Yao et al. show that in Europe, forestation’s climate benefits depend on tree species. Converting conifers to broadleaves can reduce summer heat extremes and reverse warming effects of afforestation, ...
communities.springernature.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone
YouTube video by GeorgeThorogoodVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Videos sharing false claims that the government has ordered mandatory livestock reductions this month for farmers to meet emissions targets have been shared online.

But this is not a real policy.
No, the government hasn’t ordered ‘mandatory livestock reductions’ this month to cut emissions – Full Fact
Videos shared on social media falsely claim the government is forcing farmers to reduce the numbers of livestock from November.
fullfact.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump.

Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Mhari Aurora asks a pretty fair question, is booed by the crowd and told off by Dear Leader. Then Noa Hoffman, lobs a dogwhistle soft ball about making "our high streets beautiful again", not "covered in illegal migrant vape shops," to great applause.

Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.

It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"lest we forget"

Anyone watching this with admiration has already forgotten any of the lessons from WW1 or WW2.
Yes, Nigel Farage made an actual promo video of his poppy performance in Walton-on-the-Naze today.
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Getting Skyrim flashbacks...
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider.
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just a beautiful bare autumnal Beech tree from today's walk in Brandon Country Park.

The ground everywhere was a wonderful carpet of yellow orange & brown leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Because it’s drowned out by the hateful, racist shit of Labour’s immigration policies, which they drone on about pretty much every day.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Kind of familiar.

Isn't it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"
This latest defeat may exemplify a broader ecosystem/bubble problem for the right: so used now to preaching to the converted in media outlets and online that it struggles to understand how this language (the NT as run by or capitulating to "woke terrorists") might be received by the median member
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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For the last century many people have imagined what an American dictator might look like but none that I know of predicted that his approach would be to repeatedly say “Hello I would like to be a dictator.”
Trump: "I stick up for Viktor Orban. Not a lot of people do because in many cases they're jealous. They wish they did what he did. They would have no problems if they did what he did."
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Exactly. In the EU, Mamdani would be considered a centrist.

If you've never done so, you really should visit a place like Denmark and see how things actually work, versus the doom and gloom peddled by the GOP.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM