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katyshep.bsky.social
@katyshep.bsky.social
Elon stole my account. Starting all over again. Always woke, always European, not quite brave enough to start throwing milkshakes (yet). England UK
Thin skinned, insecure tossers. I find it a handy shorthand description that can be applied to any one of them.
Lovely interview with the CEO of The Onion.

english.elpais.com/technology/2...
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Why is it that all this government and several of the opposition parties seemingly have to offer is 'tough, tough, tough' on everything? What happened to empathy and compassion? What happened to working hard to make as many people's lives as possible better?
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.
My guess is they will end up u-turning on the jewellery thing (you can already see it being softening in interviews) and possibly the 20 years (which is way longer than Denmark).
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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It appears that our Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been inspired by Kirsti Noem - and finds her to have an “under appreciated intellect and eye for detail” and is now following her lead.

Isn’t that just utterly horrifying.

Of all Starmer’s picks for cabinet, she has to be the worst.
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.

How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Just another of those days when I hate this government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Yeah, they've done a lot of good stuff and it's buried beneath all the media hatebait on immigration. But now they're leaning into it, tacking with it, applauded by the most miserable joyless fucking people on earth and I reckon this is the bleakest I've ever felt about a Labour government...
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I'm taking🌲etsy orders for just a few more days:
🌿Real flowers cast in silver+ tiny hand-sculpted silver wren necklaces
💐Victorian ink bottle kits to improve mental health
🗓️A very few calendars*
🪸Ltd ed'n art prints of my photos*
*Looking at them's likely to ⬇️⬇️ anxiety:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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There was fear & flags on one side.

Compassion and humour on the other.

Peterborough shows love wins.
Protesters and counter protesters face up to one another
An anti-migrant group's protests in Peterborough drew many counter-protesters showing their support for the asylum seekers accommodated in a local hotel
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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THIS.

THIS is what I'm talking about.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Know a lot of my Bsky friends are in the US & lord knows you've got plenty going on over there today, but if anyone is scratching their heads over the BBC story & Trump & Co sounding off about left wing bias, can recommend this. Tories have done to the BBC board what Trump did to the SC #greyhounds
🎙️ Issy & Poppy Investigate: The BBC’s Five-MP Fixation — satire, sunlight, and scandal from The Flexible Chef. 🐾
👉 tinyurl.com/4ymybzwr
#politicalsatire
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Took Herbie on a new walk through the marshes today. Didn't realise a train line ran along the edge. Seems Herbie has never heard a train before & he was a bit concerned. Not the nicest weather, but a sausage roll in a steamed up car seemed to help.
#greyhounds
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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We can’t get enough of Stella’s happy face! 😄🐾
From scared to smiling, that’s what love does. 💛
#RescueDogs #LoveHeals #HappyDog
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Jacket dammit, jacket
Nice jacker Cora. Bet the alpaca's jealous.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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My hokey, hastily thought out opinion on Celebrity Traitors

People shouldn't fear diversity. Not just of race and sexuality though, but of education, skillset, personality type, ambition, financial leverage, cultural taste, sense of humour. Aspiring to monoculture is to waste the richness of life.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Using a GIF or vid, share your mood for the weekend! 🖤
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Daddy took me for a trip to the beach. He said it was a gentlemen's outing, but Mum pushed her way in & took photos. She managed to chop my nose off again.
#greyhounds
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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OMG!!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The sunrise was quite something today*. Even Herbie was impressed.
*picture doesn't do it justice.
#greyhounds
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM