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James 🏳️‍🌈
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Into sport (Spurs), politics (Labour) and Eurovision. Probably hiding in a gym 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (He/him)
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🚨 The Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru has published revised constituency proposals for the 2026 Senedd election.

Most constituencies remain unchanged from the initial plans released in September, but Cardiff's two Senedd constituencies have been adjusted.
December 17, 2024 at 10:20 AM
trained legs tonight for the first time in an actual year and I definitely took it too far. I am going to die
December 16, 2024 at 8:29 PM
thank u Tottenham for I needed this boost greatly today
Scenes in Southampton 🎬
December 15, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Romania really showing everyone how it’s done fp
Romanian TikTok influencers who helped propel an ultranationalist, pro-Putin candidate to the brink of the presidency have fled the country, pursued by tax authorities investigating their alleged role in swaying the election.
TikTok influencers flee Romania amid tax probe into their election role
Romanian tax authorities are now investigating ultranationalist Călin Georgescu and the TikTok activists who promoted his campaign.
www.politico.eu
December 15, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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5. When Sky News reported an unexpected escalation in the farmers’ protests.
December 10, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Huge, if true.
December 14, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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Day 14 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - A Sky Full of Stars. Open cluster Westerlund 1, some 12,000 light-years away, is a super star cluster: containing hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of a million Suns www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
December 14, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Tottenham’s ability to just sprinkle an extra bit of pain and awfulness into any day is unmatched
December 12, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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I can't remember the last time I saw something so beautiful. Astonishing. Heart breaking. Politically affirming.
December 12, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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This immediately stood out to me at the time; the mental gymnastics you have to do to support the farmers protests whilst vilifying climate protesters is mad, but the media completely promotes it.
🔴Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?

Media outlets condemn climate campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners @josiah.writes.news reports
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring even more disruptive protests by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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FREE HIM NOW!
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 PM
storm of the century I can deal with, Christmas shoppers I simply cannot
December 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
ever so slightly emosh i cant lie. They did it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Congratulations to Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

They have qualified for their first major tournament after beating Republic of Ireland in the #Euro2025 second play-off round.
December 3, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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📊 Here's our Seat Projector results at a local level when you look at the new electoral regions - based on the twinned constituencies currently out for consultation.
December 1, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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📊 Here’s our seat projection for today’s ITV Wales/ @WalesGovernance poll.

Senedd voting intention figures:

Plaid Cymru - 24% (+1)
Labour - 23% (-4)
Reform UK - 23% (+5)
Conservative - 19% (+1)
Lib Dem - 5% (-1)
Green - 6% (+1)

Some caveats.. 🧵
December 1, 2024 at 1:05 PM
hardly terrible for Labour if Reform just keeps morphing into dustbin for failed Tory MPs tbf
BREAKING: It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear former Tory Minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns has defected to Reform and will stand to be Greater Lincolnshire Mayor
November 28, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Boris Johnson must have like reverse body dysmorphia
PM’s official spokesman on Boris Johnson blaming obesity on the Church of England: “I don’t quite follow his line of argument”.
November 26, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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The Russian Ruble continues its death march.
November 26, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Pretty sad about the John Prescott news today tbh. Cannot overstate how many working class people will have, or will get involved in politics as a result of the path he managed to forge. Complete ledge 🌹
November 21, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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rip to a real one 🫡😪
November 21, 2024 at 8:08 AM
it’s so incredibly difficult to tell which of these Trump Cabinet picks are memes and which are real
November 20, 2024 at 9:58 AM
most depressing morning in history

#glastonbury
November 17, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.
November 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Seeing old Twitter friends join Bluesky
November 15, 2024 at 6:26 PM