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kalliades.bsky.social
@kalliades.bsky.social
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ledbydonkeys.org
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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scottsgameroom.bsky.social
I made a fleet building site for Leviathans: The Great War #Leviathans
Leviathans Fleet Builder
I received my pledge for the Leviathans: The Great War Kickstarter campaign earlier this month and have been digging into it. I got a lot of stuff in my pledge. Thankfully, the miniatures are all pre-painted, so they are ready to play out-of-the-box. I've gotten a few small games in with Stef and Lexi at this point, and have been having fun learning the rules and trying out different ships.
scottsgameroom.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
kalliades.bsky.social
I look forward to Labour looking at this and deciding to court Reform votes even harder 🙄
politicshome.bsky.social PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · May 17
More than half of people who voted Labour in July say they are considering switching to the Lib Dems or the Greens at the next general election, according to new @thinksinsight.bsky.social shared with PolHome

These voters appear easier to win back than those considering Reform, the poll found
Over Half Of Labour's 2024 Vote Considers Switching To Lib Dem Or Greens
More than half of people who voted Labour in July say they are considering switching to the Liberal Democrats or the Greens at the next general ele...
www.politicshome.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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tanjabueltmann.net
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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davidfrum.bsky.social
A savvy UK government would prioritize EU ties, not talks with Trump. His word is worthless, his intentions are malign, his method is chaos, and his preferred partner is Putin. There is no time to waste building strategic autonomy for EU+UK. Trump talks will only waste time. END
April 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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cyberciti.biz
Lmao 🤣 savages
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero
Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…
March 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Letter to the Chancellor in advance of the Spring Statement, from @mazzucatom.bsky.social @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social me & others.

www.ft.com/content/4b0d...
March 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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adamzyglis.bsky.social
Democracy dies in primer… #bezos
March 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
By suspending all military aid to Ukraine, Donald Trump has humiliated the people who pretended he was a reliable ally only in search of peace.

The UK and Europe must seize frozen Russian assets to resist Putin’s unjust and savage war.
March 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
kalliades.bsky.social
If there was ever any tiny shred of hope that the olive branch of a state visit would move the needle at all, then the news of Trump pausing aid to Ukraine whilst contemplating the lifting of sanctions on Russia shows that hope to be false. Accept that Trump is a Russian asset and cancel the visit.
zoejardiniere.bsky.social Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Mar 3
We have got to stop kidding ourselves that appeasing Trump & trying to please him gains us any leverage, any guarantees, any reliable favour.

Trump has chosen Putin and the oligarchy. We must cancel his state visit. @ukstoptrump.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Excellent post from @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social on Con to LD switchers - we all need heuristics to make sense of complex results, but when simplifying sketches curdle into misleading stereotypes then they do more harm than good. A great corrective: jamesbreckwoldt.substack.com/p/2019-conse...
2019 Conservative to 2024 Lib Dem Switchers are Not Liberal
Why it's important not to stereotype voters
jamesbreckwoldt.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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roberthutton.co.uk
BREAKING: Critic magazine proprietor Lord Kronsteen announces an important change of direction for the SKETCH.
February 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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dansinker.com
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Ukraine has fought too hard for its freedom, only to have its future dictated by Putin and Trump behind closed doors.

Any peace must guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty and security on terms acceptable to Ukrainians, not just to Moscow and Mar-a-Lago.
February 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’?

What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?

I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.
February 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
kalliades.bsky.social
Got to play a demo of this at the UKGE. It's worth a look if you want a historically themed asymmetric 2 player game.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...
Siberian Manhunt
A cat-and-mouse game of pursuit and survival in the frozen wilds of Siberia
www.kickstarter.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
🔥 AMAZING.

Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.

It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
February 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis
The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
kalliades.bsky.social
I really enjoyed this Tales of the Periphery interview with Bryan Young www.talesfromtheperiphery.org.uk

Lots of details about how Bryan got into the hobby and some background on his #BattleTech novels in advance of the release of Voidbreaker
The cover for the Battletech Novel Voidbreaker: a Mech and and suited individual plummet in freefall through clouds.
January 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
kalliades.bsky.social
For any friends who are on the fence about giving another minis game a try:

youtu.be/mWg9dPBPTik?...

#Battletech
#TabletopGaming
Why Play BattleTech in 2025?
YouTube video by Mechanical Frog
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January 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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debcha.bsky.social
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM