Andy
@andy2gd.bsky.social
BBQ. Walking. Music. History.
An amateur at all of these.
An amateur at all of these.
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If you reframed this as “values”, people might find it harder to pretend it’s a problem. If someone has fundamentally different values to yours, you might be less inclined to form a relationship with them. It goes beyond preference.
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you reframed this as “values”, people might find it harder to pretend it’s a problem. If someone has fundamentally different values to yours, you might be less inclined to form a relationship with them. It goes beyond preference.
Ergo, 66.67% do not. 🧐
THE GUARDIAN: One in three believe 'Britishness' is dependent on being born in UK #TomorrowsPapersToday
December 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Ergo, 66.67% do not. 🧐
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Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
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Oh ffs BBC.
My Christmases are exactly the same now as they were 45 years ago when we still went to church, just without midnight mass.
But you don't mean people who look like me, do you, you RACIST FUCKS?
My Christmases are exactly the same now as they were 45 years ago when we still went to church, just without midnight mass.
But you don't mean people who look like me, do you, you RACIST FUCKS?
December 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Oh ffs BBC.
My Christmases are exactly the same now as they were 45 years ago when we still went to church, just without midnight mass.
But you don't mean people who look like me, do you, you RACIST FUCKS?
My Christmases are exactly the same now as they were 45 years ago when we still went to church, just without midnight mass.
But you don't mean people who look like me, do you, you RACIST FUCKS?
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Irish rap group Kneecap calls for action in solidarity with eight pro-Palestine hunger strikers, warning the British state is using isolation and pressure to break them. As the prisoners face life-threatening conditions, Kneecap links the repression to Britain’s colonial history.
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Irish rap group Kneecap calls for action in solidarity with eight pro-Palestine hunger strikers, warning the British state is using isolation and pressure to break them. As the prisoners face life-threatening conditions, Kneecap links the repression to Britain’s colonial history.
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It's on eBay, Facebook marketplace, Vinted etc. achieving the same outcome of more words, meaning less.
Cooling AI used more water in 2025 than the entire bottled water industry. What the fuck are we doing?
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
Cooling AI used more water in 2025 than the entire bottled water industry. What the fuck are we doing?
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
AI may need more water than drank from bottles
Study: Environmental impacts already huge.
www.sfexaminer.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It's on eBay, Facebook marketplace, Vinted etc. achieving the same outcome of more words, meaning less.
Cooling AI used more water in 2025 than the entire bottled water industry. What the fuck are we doing?
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
Cooling AI used more water in 2025 than the entire bottled water industry. What the fuck are we doing?
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
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We finally start turning back towards the light. Let's make that figuratively/ politically as well as physically.
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We finally start turning back towards the light. Let's make that figuratively/ politically as well as physically.
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I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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If the Labour government wanted to do all they can to increase support for Reform they couldn’t do better than this.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Brighton’s struggling independent stores: ‘The nation of shopkeepers will go on the dole’
City’s small shops are reaching tipping point amid higher business rates, staff costs and big chains eager to move in
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If the Labour government wanted to do all they can to increase support for Reform they couldn’t do better than this.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dear media,
Winter didn’t forcibly displace Palestinians and destroy their homes. Israel did. Winter isn’t blocking trucks with essential winter aid from entering Gaza. Israel is.
Israel is deliberately engineering another humanitarian crisis to make Gaza unlivable.
Report it.
Winter didn’t forcibly displace Palestinians and destroy their homes. Israel did. Winter isn’t blocking trucks with essential winter aid from entering Gaza. Israel is.
Israel is deliberately engineering another humanitarian crisis to make Gaza unlivable.
Report it.
December 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Dear media,
Winter didn’t forcibly displace Palestinians and destroy their homes. Israel did. Winter isn’t blocking trucks with essential winter aid from entering Gaza. Israel is.
Israel is deliberately engineering another humanitarian crisis to make Gaza unlivable.
Report it.
Winter didn’t forcibly displace Palestinians and destroy their homes. Israel did. Winter isn’t blocking trucks with essential winter aid from entering Gaza. Israel is.
Israel is deliberately engineering another humanitarian crisis to make Gaza unlivable.
Report it.
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For a long time I've been saying that the BBC is a lot more than just its current affairs and political programming, and was thus disinclined to throw the whole baby out with the bathwater. But organisations follow the shadow of those who lead them, and the BBC is infested with transphobia.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
For a long time I've been saying that the BBC is a lot more than just its current affairs and political programming, and was thus disinclined to throw the whole baby out with the bathwater. But organisations follow the shadow of those who lead them, and the BBC is infested with transphobia.
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You have to wonder why this headline isn't 'SNP have a 17-point lead in the polls'.
news.stv.tv/politics/ref...
news.stv.tv/politics/ref...
Reform surges behind SNP as Labour support falls, poll shows
Ipsos Scotland Political Pulse survey gives John Swinney's party a 17-point lead over Reform UK ahead of next year's Scottish Parliament election.
news.stv.tv
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
You have to wonder why this headline isn't 'SNP have a 17-point lead in the polls'.
news.stv.tv/politics/ref...
news.stv.tv/politics/ref...
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Dad was a senior churchman and in ‘73 we moved into central London. The NF was the leading far right ‘party’ of the day and its initials were scrawled on walls, bus stops and Tube trains. Dad took to carrying a biro wherever he went.
December 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Dad was a senior churchman and in ‘73 we moved into central London. The NF was the leading far right ‘party’ of the day and its initials were scrawled on walls, bus stops and Tube trains. Dad took to carrying a biro wherever he went.
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🇮🇸 Iceland confirms WITHDRAWAL from Eurovision Song Contest 2026 because of Israel’s inclusion.
A brave and just stand from a principled nation. Iceland joins Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Slovenia in boycotting Eurovision 2026 because of the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel.
A brave and just stand from a principled nation. Iceland joins Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Slovenia in boycotting Eurovision 2026 because of the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel.
December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🇮🇸 Iceland confirms WITHDRAWAL from Eurovision Song Contest 2026 because of Israel’s inclusion.
A brave and just stand from a principled nation. Iceland joins Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Slovenia in boycotting Eurovision 2026 because of the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel.
A brave and just stand from a principled nation. Iceland joins Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Slovenia in boycotting Eurovision 2026 because of the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel.
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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Supermoon looking good. #moon #supermoon
Handheld OM Systems Om1, 1122mm equivalent lens (400mm+1.4x teleconverter micro 4/3rds), 1/250s, F16 -2ev, ISO200
Handheld OM Systems Om1, 1122mm equivalent lens (400mm+1.4x teleconverter micro 4/3rds), 1/250s, F16 -2ev, ISO200
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Supermoon looking good. #moon #supermoon
Handheld OM Systems Om1, 1122mm equivalent lens (400mm+1.4x teleconverter micro 4/3rds), 1/250s, F16 -2ev, ISO200
Handheld OM Systems Om1, 1122mm equivalent lens (400mm+1.4x teleconverter micro 4/3rds), 1/250s, F16 -2ev, ISO200
A rather outstanding Friday night at Helm Gallery in Brighton, reliving my youth, to the tunes of Fat Boy Slim.
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A rather outstanding Friday night at Helm Gallery in Brighton, reliving my youth, to the tunes of Fat Boy Slim.
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Petition for the BBC to stop spending money on Mrs Brown’s Boys and make more episodes of the Sky at Night instead.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Petition for the BBC to stop spending money on Mrs Brown’s Boys and make more episodes of the Sky at Night instead.
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box of cereal is like a quid more than it was six months ago but at least now disabled people can't put their own money towards a car that's nicer than the government thinks they deserve
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
box of cereal is like a quid more than it was six months ago but at least now disabled people can't put their own money towards a car that's nicer than the government thinks they deserve
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Bad news for anyone thinking of responding to the consultation on the new electric vehicle duty.
The consultation opens today, and closes last March.
The consultation opens today, and closes last March.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Bad news for anyone thinking of responding to the consultation on the new electric vehicle duty.
The consultation opens today, and closes last March.
The consultation opens today, and closes last March.