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notrob 🇺🇦
@notsobravenewworld.bsky.social
Immigrant, expat, world traveller.

No time for your bullshit, even less time for my own.

People are generally nowhere near as good as cats are.

Reform and MAGA are a cancer.

#RejoinEU
#SlavaUkraine
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Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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But not ban foreigners from giving money to British political parties?
February 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Well said. The problem is that the leaders of the US government and the people around them are more interested in their ability to profit from the resources of Ukraine and business deals in Russia than a lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.
February 16, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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We used to stand outside Dixons and watch the tvs 😭 😂 😭
Also conversations about social media bans need to consider what we want young people to do instead. What will they do? Because concerts cost £££. No youth clubs. No libraries. We used to entertain ourself hanging out on the High Street. There is fuck all for young ppl on High Streets now
February 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.
February 16, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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What an utter disgrace Marco Rubio is.

"'I can say to you with confidence that President Trump is deeply committed to your success because your success is our success,' Rubio said during a joint press conference with Orban after their meeting."

www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Rubio tells Orban ‘your success is our success’ during Hungary visit ahead of elections
During a visit to Budapest Monday, just weeks before Hungary’s parliamentary elections, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the nationalist leader’s “succ...
www.france24.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
this is a no-brainer. the parents must be held accountable, there is no excuse for this, none.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
North London measles outbreak: Unvaccinated pupils could be excluded from school
Children identified as close contacts of people with the disease could be excluded for three weeks
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
look, at this point, no one is doing this to him but himself.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government abandons plans to delay 30 council elections
Ministers had planned to delay the polls until 2027 to help deliver a major reorganisation of local government.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Oh dear Starmer tried to remove people’s right to local elections is another u-turn
Politics latest: Starmer announces social media crackdown
The prime minister has given a speech on social media and online safety, and has pledged new restrictions and stronger powers to take on big tech companies. You can follow the latest below.
news.sky.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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I think I’m going to go in a different direction for health advice.
February 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school
The fact that Reform want people to have more kids and also want to end working from home shows how incoherent their world view is.
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.

We really are not a very good-natured country.
February 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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The UK was declared measles free in 2017.

Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.

Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
“Seven schools and a nursery have reported more than 60 suspected cases of measles in an area of north London, and labs have confirmed 34 cases since January 12. Some children have been treated in hospital.”
archive.md/2026.02.1...
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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In other words, he will say nothing to Orban and Fico about this because the US only seeks to encourage European leaders who are aligned with Putin.
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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And not by management or her colleagues, but by the British press as part of a years-long hate campaign now increasingly focused on harassing and harming individual members of the public
if this has to be a news story it should be that a qualified and competent doctor has been run out of a struggling NHS simply because she is transgender
The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
February 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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If you want to understand why the BBC's stance on trans rights - only platforming cis people (and only those with a sceptical perspective) - is so outrageous imagine if it only platformed men talking about women's rights (and only those with a sceptical perspective).
February 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year.

youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU
February 15, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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I imagine all the lads are horrified and devastated to discover Labour Together compiles bullshitty dossiers of nonsense designed to damage people they want to wreck, especially these journos, who took dossiers from Labour Together and presented them to the public as a terrifying national menace.
February 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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It shouldn’t be harder for a woman to register to vote than a man…
February 15, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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European leaders are now pushing back against the "great replacement theory" and other "White Christian Nationalist" propaganda that JD Vance spewed at the Munich security conference.

Good for them.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
EU foreign policy chief criticises ‘fashionable euro-bashing’ by US
Kaja Kallas says other countries ‘look up to us’ and rejects idea Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.

But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.

There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.

Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM