Liz
@duckiboo.bsky.social
Nerd. Software dev. Star Trek Enthusiast. Someone who never knows what to write in these things.
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"To understand what England will look like with a Reform government, just come to our town. Racists & thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents & people of colour, who are living in fear." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"To understand what England will look like with a Reform government, just come to our town. Racists & thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents & people of colour, who are living in fear." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
Brexit – an unwelcome truth
Labour’s continued silence on Brexit might just reveal an unwelcome truth; another reason, perhaps, to use the Brexit telescope?
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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Everyone else is making Starter Packs, so I decided to join the fun. Here’s one devoted to people who create or are otherwise involved in making #StarTrek professionally, in a variety of media, or who cover it as news, or poke fun at it.
go.bsky.app/Gt9LRwa
go.bsky.app/Gt9LRwa
November 15, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Everyone else is making Starter Packs, so I decided to join the fun. Here’s one devoted to people who create or are otherwise involved in making #StarTrek professionally, in a variety of media, or who cover it as news, or poke fun at it.
go.bsky.app/Gt9LRwa
go.bsky.app/Gt9LRwa
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Big wins in the US for measles, mumps, rubella, polio whooping cough, diphtheria and hep B! 🙌
#ComebackKids
#ComebackKids
November 15, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Big wins in the US for measles, mumps, rubella, polio whooping cough, diphtheria and hep B! 🙌
#ComebackKids
#ComebackKids
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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Doctor: your leg is broken
Me: so what happens now?
Doctor: we put in a cast and it'll recover naturally
Horse *sticks head around curtain* WHAT?!!
Me: so what happens now?
Doctor: we put in a cast and it'll recover naturally
Horse *sticks head around curtain* WHAT?!!
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Doctor: your leg is broken
Me: so what happens now?
Doctor: we put in a cast and it'll recover naturally
Horse *sticks head around curtain* WHAT?!!
Me: so what happens now?
Doctor: we put in a cast and it'll recover naturally
Horse *sticks head around curtain* WHAT?!!
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So there's a lot of this this morning, the people who ruined Twitter attempting to do the same over here. Just block them. You'll never have to think of them again.
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM
So there's a lot of this this morning, the people who ruined Twitter attempting to do the same over here. Just block them. You'll never have to think of them again.
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Now that a shift had really started to happen, re-upping this. These pundits only matter if you follow and listen and elevate them (even if you’re doing it to make fun of what they’re saying or to break down why they’re wrong). Starve them for attention so they don’t get a foothold here.
lets shake hands & agree to ignore every single garbage pundit & the terrible pieces they write for clicks. let them fade into obscurity so they're all sitting together at the bottom of a well yelling about the need for centrism so when it echoes back at them they think they still have an audience.
November 15, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Now that a shift had really started to happen, re-upping this. These pundits only matter if you follow and listen and elevate them (even if you’re doing it to make fun of what they’re saying or to break down why they’re wrong). Starve them for attention so they don’t get a foothold here.
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Could we just not pay any further attention to Boris Johnson, please? I think he’s had quite enough.
October 4, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Could we just not pay any further attention to Boris Johnson, please? I think he’s had quite enough.
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UK school librarians told to remove LGBTQ books, including titles like Heartstopper.
This is Section 28 by the back door.
You can’t teach children to be gay but you can teach them that it’s ok if they are.
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/hear...
This is Section 28 by the back door.
You can’t teach children to be gay but you can teach them that it’s ok if they are.
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/hear...
Heartstopper among titles targeted as 53% of school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, study says
"I feel frightened, intimidated," one school librarian has said on her fear of stocking LGBTQ+ books
www.attitude.co.uk
August 21, 2024 at 8:23 AM
UK school librarians told to remove LGBTQ books, including titles like Heartstopper.
This is Section 28 by the back door.
You can’t teach children to be gay but you can teach them that it’s ok if they are.
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/hear...
This is Section 28 by the back door.
You can’t teach children to be gay but you can teach them that it’s ok if they are.
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/hear...
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England still scratching its head over this complex mystery.
August 20, 2024 at 9:43 AM
England still scratching its head over this complex mystery.
I'm glad that rioters are actually seeing serious consequences for their serious actions.
I'd also really like to see Farage and all media and politicians that have been blaming immigrants/foreigners for everything and provoking people just for their own gain also see serious consequences.
I'd also really like to see Farage and all media and politicians that have been blaming immigrants/foreigners for everything and provoking people just for their own gain also see serious consequences.
August 16, 2024 at 12:16 PM
I'm glad that rioters are actually seeing serious consequences for their serious actions.
I'd also really like to see Farage and all media and politicians that have been blaming immigrants/foreigners for everything and provoking people just for their own gain also see serious consequences.
I'd also really like to see Farage and all media and politicians that have been blaming immigrants/foreigners for everything and provoking people just for their own gain also see serious consequences.
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Remember, if you didn’t get the A-level grades you wanted, don’t panic. I got six As yet I’m posting advice to imaginary teenagers on a social media retirement home for geriatric millennials
August 15, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Remember, if you didn’t get the A-level grades you wanted, don’t panic. I got six As yet I’m posting advice to imaginary teenagers on a social media retirement home for geriatric millennials
It's always a bit demotivating when you join a new social network and you're totally Billy No-Mates!
August 14, 2024 at 1:06 PM
It's always a bit demotivating when you join a new social network and you're totally Billy No-Mates!