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maryan506.bsky.social
@maryan506.bsky.social
Angry old woman, railing at the parlous state of the world.

That was my profile way back when. Seems a little inadequate now.

Can’t access DMs due to silly govt regs.
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More ballistic missiles have just hit Ukraine.

This time Kharkiv is the target.
At least one hit in the Slobid district - there may have been another strike outside the city in Chuhuiv.
More on that later.
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Can you lovely lot song and share this around please

@greenparty.org.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

www.change.org/p/allow-tran...
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
www.change.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Chinese citizens will be allowed visa-free travel to Russia for up to 30 days, per an executive order signed by Putin yesterday. Beijing took the same step for Russian passport holders in Sep.

Saudi Arabia and Russia also signed an agreement on mutual visa-free travel yesterday.
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The Home Office has started taking action on cases of Syrian refugees with pending settlement applications. People are being sent letters saying they have 21 days to provide evidence as to why they should not be returned to Syria. Panic is spreading.
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Oh dear Chris. And BBC.

Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense.

Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#alphabetchallenge
#weekWforWindows

Lots of windows in the Liver Building and surrounds.
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
S’okay. He can’t remember where he put them.
The man with the nuclear codes
The president is a lunatic
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month

www.iflscience.com/18-asteroids...
18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month
Watch this nifty little graphic of their orbits.
www.iflscience.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Sudan is offering Russia a 25-year deal to establish its first naval base in Africa, giving Moscow a strategic foothold on the Red Sea.

The proposed facility would host up to 300 personnel and four warships, including nuclear-powered vessels.
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Putin's made the US appeasers wait!
Instead, Witkoff and Kushner were shown around Moscow (again) until the Fuhrer decreed they could see him. It enabled a Dim-Wit reunion (Dmitriev on left in pic 1)

Good optics for the Kremlin media, and the Americans only too happy to oblige.
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The Russian State Duma has ratified an agreement allowing Russia and India to send their troops and military equipment to each other’s territory.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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BLOODY HELL
India demands installation of government app on all smartphones

“The ministry-developed app, called Sanchar Saathi, will have access to the phone’s call log, memory and camera, according to the app’s privacy statement.”
India demands installation of government app on all smartphones
Privacy advocates raise concerns about potential snooping
on.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Join in, download, get colouring!
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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@freedom-fighter05.bsky.social Last night Starmer made a speech referring to Brexit having damaged Britain. Right on cue today the Daily Express is published spouting Kremlin propaganda that he is cosying up to Brussels. The sooner we have an enquiry into Russian influence the better.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Great development, with some fantastic individual and organisational supporters. Please share widely, and put 28 March in your diary for a march in London
Unity is stronger than division.

That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.

#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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"The British government is considering a ban on cryptocurrency donations to political parties — in a move that could set off alarm bells in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK."

www.politico.eu/article/uk-c...
UK mulls ban on crypto cash in politics — putting Farage in firing line
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was the first U.K. political party to accept donations in cryptocurrency — and now the government is considering a ban.
www.politico.eu
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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So much for all that bleating about being misled by the Treasury from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason .....
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
UK Politics: OBR says Reeves did not mislead public over Budget forecasts
Fiscal watchdog faces Treasury committee after accidental publication of key report prompted chair to resign
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The israelis are holding 6,000 trucks full of humanitarian aid: what’s inside them, would be enough supplies to last Gaza for three months

english.palinfo.com/news/2025/12...
UNRWA: Israel is holding 6,000 trucks, enough supplies for Gaza for 3 months
Adnan Abu Hasna, the media adviser for UNRWA, said that the Israeli occupation authorities are holding 6,000 agency trucks loaded with food supplies sufficient for the Gaza Strip for three months.
english.palinfo.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest

By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽

Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM