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Grumpy Old Git
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An escapee from twitter.
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨Now closing on 83,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.

Let’s keep going!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Was forced to see Anaconda this afternoon.

Please save your time and money, it is the worst film I have seen in decades!
January 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Back on Bluesky for the first time in a few months, have I missed anything?
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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jessmccabe.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
July 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Norman Tebbit has died at the age of 94. Proving that the good really do die young.
July 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's always sadder when famous people die. They are so much better than ordinary people.

/s
July 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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siana-georgi.bsky.social
So this idiot is a Lord. Who made him a member of the House of Lords? I’m pretty sure that Britain needs to change its constitution. All these lords should be removed along with the House of Lords. This is a fucking joke🤬
February 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
BBC News - Rachel Reeves and her expenses before she became an MP - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The BBC giving Reeves a hard time, which is ok, if only they hard done even half of this for the tories we might be in a better position as a country.
Rachel Reeves and her expenses before she became an MP
BBC News has learnt that there was an expenses investigation into Rachel Reeves, and two other senior managers, when she worked at HBOS.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Yes. This!
iandunt.bsky.social Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Feb 7
@bsky.app guys can you bring back @vizcomic.bsky.social please? They're one of the foundational institutions of British comedy. Absolute filth of course, but that's how we like it.
February 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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richardcottrell.bsky.social
"Any salute is a Nazi salute, if the person doing it is a Nazi." Superb @alicefraser.bsky.social on @thebugle.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
This.
A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon
January 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So it turns out that the fake priest really is a fake priest now.
January 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Every time my BBC News notification goes off on my phone it's nearly always something terrible Trumplethinskin has said or done.
January 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
If Elon can do for America what he did for Twitter, we should be an illiterate Nazi chatroom by the end of the month.
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
BBC News - Glasgow child sex abuse gang given life sentences
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not excusing any particular group of course, they can all rot. But how much will farage and Musk say about the names listed in article?
Glasgow child sex abuse gang given life sentences
The victims were abused over a seven-year period in a Glasgow drug den which became known as "the beastie house".
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Given that the maga supporting Americans wore nappies on their ears in support of Trump, how long before they do stiff arm salutes in support of Musk?
January 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
Fuck this.
A freeze frame of Musk doing an apparent Hitler salute at the lectern. Photo credit to CNN coverage.
January 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

The 'for context' is ridiculous. The context is the orange manchild will go after them otherwise.
Trump inauguration live updates: Trump arrives at Capitol to be sworn in as 47th US president
Tech billionaires, former US presidents, social media influencers and foreign dignitaries are in attendance.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have a theory that Elon might have a testosterone deficiency. He seems unable to grow even a rudimentary beard.

It might explain why he is such an inadequate and over compensating.
January 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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newsthump.com
Number of Reform MPs in attendance for today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls = 0

Number of Reform MPs with criminal convictions for violence against women or girls = 1
January 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wow! Farage not right wing enough for Musk. What a time to be alive.
January 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Genius.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Dec 2
Wow. This Boris Johnson column about Gregg Wallace is absolutely wild.
I had the great privilege of spending a Saturday with Gregg Wallace recently. Unfortunately, I had to leave our banter fest early to attend Lord Lebedev of Siberia’s annual festive soiree. So I missed the moment the media began a concerted campaign to discredit the barrow boy turned plucky pudding evaluator. At one point during our game of Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, Gregg turned and looked at me through his full-rimmed Silhouette varifocals: ‘Do middle-class women of a certain age have it in for you?’ he asked probingly as he consolidated Alfred the Great’s victory over the Danelaw at the Battle of Edington. If by ‘women of a certain age’ you mean ‘totty half my own’ then look, I told him, I have always found them very kindly and friendly and polite – until that is, you get one pregnant and they start making ceaseless demands about maintenance and remembering your children’s birthdays, and names and the like. Poor Gregg. This is no misogynist, or hubristic grocer turned gourmet. This is a 60-year-old man who had the sheer guts and resilience to get out there, day in, day out, and eat desserts between Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti while occasionally making a wildly inappropriate comment. Predictably the left-wing establishment are throwing everything at him, including umpteen remarkably similar reports of the same behaviour, in a shameful and counter-productive attempt to keep his working-class palate off our screens. And never has the expression ‘Let he has not ruined everyone else’s deconstructed roast pork belly with chargrilled peach salsa with chauvinistic overtures, cast the first peach stone’ been truer. We are at a crossroads. We can keep going with the hair-shirted miserabilism of women who believe they have some sort of inalienable right to go through life without being demeaned and objectified by their inferiors. Or we can listen to Gregg. Yes, the estuary epicurean is a bit unreconstructed, like those deconstructed Eton Messes he’s sound fond of sampling. But I say, don’t listen to what he says, or the parodies of what he says. Look at what he does. Which is coordinating the Saxon reoccupation of London whilst weathering the Great Heathen Army and increasingly irate calls from his PR team. Gregg is in the shape of his life and he doesn’t mind letting people know it. Will he want to go down as the first factory inspector on the Beeb to be thwarted by women of a certain age? I just can’t see it. The astonishing events of the last week have proved one thing. This man is a supreme competitor. And when the cakes are burned, he remains the only man on national television with the courage and tenacity to keep sampling them.
December 2, 2024 at 6:04 PM
@qatar.bsky.social thank you for a fantastic 4 days. We love your country and people,so friendly.

I will be back.
December 2, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Just watching Nadine Dorries on news night. She is completely hatstand!
November 20, 2024 at 10:50 PM