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Roger Hughes
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Another herring.

Neither gives nor expects follows back.

NFFC, pub milhist, 5-string fretless, bikes, trans rights are human rights
Going through some family history stuff and found this. Can any #fww #GreatWar people confirm that this is a cap badge from the British Army's Training Reserve (active during the period of conscription 1916-1920)?

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December 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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This is the sort of solidarity we so desperately need.

Love & respect to all the volunteers prepared to stand up & be counted.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Hundreds of Girlguiding volunteers threaten to quit organisation over trans ban
Announcement that Girlguiding will only allow those recorded female at birth to join could see mass departures
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
One for the #NavalHistory crew, ephemera found among a bunch of family history stuff, the back page of a theatre programme from 1937.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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If you're wondering how our week is going, one of our team just looked at this section of an OS map and went "Wow, that's a weird shaped lake!"

It's the letter 'I' in 'Buckinghamshire'.
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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On Tuesday, Keir Starmer said he was concerned that racism was returning to British politics.

This morning, his Home Secretary is loudly letting the world know that the government intends to make the lives worse of even those found to be genuine refugees.
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect

Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Top thread.
Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Please sign to protest the closure of Modern Languages programmes at Nottingham.

Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
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c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
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November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I just poisoned a friend’s brain with figuring out the are of irrational numbers of the Battles of Isonzo. This cruel to do to a math major with an interest in military history.

You see, there were battles on that site prior to WWI and the enumeration as a function of the commanders’ mental state…
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"...she appeared from nowhere..." should be treated as a guilty plea.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My name is Ozymandias
With a Z you cunt
"They don't mind" said the arsehole to the disembodied legs
Look upon my works, but it's all so fucking boring.
I have looked upon
the works
that were in
an antique land
and which you were
probably saving
for eternity

Forgive me
they were decayed
so boundless
and so bare
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I have looked upon
the works
that were in
an antique land
and which you were
probably saving
for eternity

Forgive me
they were decayed
so boundless
and so bare
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Just adore this
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's 1940, and the British Prime Minister, Cabinet, BBC, War Office, and the Royal Society are all merrily broadcasting on Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft

Because that's "where the conversation is...."
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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They are PEOPLE before anything else.
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM