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Alistair Leadbetter
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Fop, likes ideas, food, beer, books, and Sunderland AFC. Doesn't like fascists, bigots, bullies, or celery.
"Lest we forget"

Heaven forbid that we should mention anything about learning from the horror though.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I realise that the BBC may have clumsily / stupidly edited a speech by Trump. I'm not convinced that this created a view that Trump incited the January 6th rioters. Trump did incite and encourage the trouble 🤷
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I get pissed off with the BBC's pisspoor news offering but I'd rather they sorted themselves out than it was abolished. There's a good and strong argument for a state backed broadcaster. Private business cannot be trusted to provide reliable news.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.

So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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It's not okay to say nice things about monsters, just because they are dead
It's not okay to say nice things about monsters, just because they are dead
Some say that when someone dies, if you don’t have something nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything.
www.councilestatemedia.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Live footage of centrist pundits being permanently surprised by how cruel fascists actually are.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
Alt: Lucy withdraws the football just as Charlie Brown is about to kick it.
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1970s, by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Today's pie at Men's Pie Club was a cassoulet pie, with duck, sausage, and pork belly. Fancy I know, but I had a tin of confit duck in the cupboard. I mean, who hasn't? 🙄🤣

#food #recipes #cookery
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A London protest tonight will demand action for Sudan

London for Sudan campaign: "El-Fasher (North Darfur) is bleeding. We are witnessing one of the most heinous crimes in modern history

"We are gathering outside No 10 to demand urgent action, accountability, & an end to the genocide" (from 6pm)
October 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I think we all know that Trump is ill, mentally certainly, physically maybe. But we all need to remember that he's just a useful stooge for the hardcore fascists funding and directing the US's current* far right wing turn.

*It shouldn't need pointing out that the US has always been right wing. 🤷
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
www.gavi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Eh?
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Any people using the phrases "this is not who we are" or "this is not who this person is" really need to take a good look at the evidence right in front of them.
October 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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🥪 It’s Crispmas Eve! Tomorrow, make sure you tag any posts with #CrispSandwichDay and give us a prod
vole.wtf/crisp-sandwi...
Crisp Sandwich Day 🥪🎉 25th October
An annual celebration of the magic that happens when crisps (potato chips) are placed between two slices of bread.
vole.wtf
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM