Lady Smidge (HH to friends)
@ladysmidge.bsky.social
Servant to a tuxedo rescue cat 🐈⬛
Likes facts and Science 🤓
And ☕️🥂
Likes facts and Science 🤓
And ☕️🥂
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We laugh at Liz Truss, but she has become a monster.
December 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
We laugh at Liz Truss, but she has become a monster.
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Young men over-estimating their mountaineering experience is nothing new - it’s part of the point of being young - but in my day we would have had the good grace to freeze rather than bother the mountain rescue, 😄
December 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Young men over-estimating their mountaineering experience is nothing new - it’s part of the point of being young - but in my day we would have had the good grace to freeze rather than bother the mountain rescue, 😄
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Sigh
Not again
Here he goes
Not again
Here he goes
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Sigh
Not again
Here he goes
Not again
Here he goes
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The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.
December 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The rich and powerful don’t get their wages garnished when they default on a loan. They declare bankruptcy and end up paying pennies on the dollar, if anything. Like Trump did many, many times.
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It would be nice if a British leader could say the same: and stand up for London, it’s Mayor and the BBC at the same time
This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.
December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It would be nice if a British leader could say the same: and stand up for London, it’s Mayor and the BBC at the same time
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On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.
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Starmer has two modes:
1) Having to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing, far too late (e.g. 2 child benefit cap)
2) Planning the right thing, then backtracking (Lords reform, farm IHT)
1) Having to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing, far too late (e.g. 2 child benefit cap)
2) Planning the right thing, then backtracking (Lords reform, farm IHT)
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Starmer has two modes:
1) Having to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing, far too late (e.g. 2 child benefit cap)
2) Planning the right thing, then backtracking (Lords reform, farm IHT)
1) Having to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into doing the right thing, far too late (e.g. 2 child benefit cap)
2) Planning the right thing, then backtracking (Lords reform, farm IHT)
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Labour ruining a Libdem policy that liberates workers is it
Four-day week may be considered a sign of failure, England councils told
Four-day week may be considered a sign of failure, England councils told
Local government secretary writes to town halls warning them against ‘part-time work for full-time pay’
The secretary for local government has written to all councils to warn that adopting a four-day week for staff puts them at risk of being declared a failing authority, according to reports.
Twenty-five councils have discussed a four-day week policy and one, South Cambridgeshire district council, has already moved to the pattern. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Labour ruining a Libdem policy that liberates workers is it
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Good grief: a genuine, senior Reform candidate saying we should force Jews and Muslims to commit blasphamy to 'prove their sincerity to Christians'.
This is just straight up racism and the fact Reform can't disown him says everything.
This is just straight up racism and the fact Reform can't disown him says everything.
Reform candidate slammed over 'bacon' religion comment as Farage faces pressure
A senior Reform UK candidate faces fresh criticism over 'unacceptable' comments suggesting non-Christians should eat 'bacon' to prove their sincerity to the religion
www.mirror.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Good grief: a genuine, senior Reform candidate saying we should force Jews and Muslims to commit blasphamy to 'prove their sincerity to Christians'.
This is just straight up racism and the fact Reform can't disown him says everything.
This is just straight up racism and the fact Reform can't disown him says everything.
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Oh look Sauron's home
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Oh look Sauron's home
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People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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See you in 2026...
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
See you in 2026...
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CBS is toast. And Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania doc directed by a rapist.
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-24...
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-24...
December 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
CBS is toast. And Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania doc directed by a rapist.
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-24...
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-24...
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This is the first photo I've seen of the Whitchurch sinkhole.
More than 10 rescued after huge sinkhole opens in canal in ‘major incident’
People are being asked to avoid the incident location at the Shropshire Union Canal in Chemistry, Shropshire
www.independent.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This is the first photo I've seen of the Whitchurch sinkhole.
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Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev must be investigated; Reform's attack on the young; why whole-life imprisonment is rising in England and Wales; how archaeology helped the US colonise Panama; Lindsay Anderson’s If.... (1975); the World Conker Championships
The Joy of Six 1452
Peter Jukes says Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev must be investigated in a new public inquiry into Russian influence "If you are young ...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev must be investigated; Reform's attack on the young; why whole-life imprisonment is rising in England and Wales; how archaeology helped the US colonise Panama; Lindsay Anderson’s If.... (1975); the World Conker Championships
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As a child of the 70’s I think my Christmas viewing may peak this evening 🤓
December 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As a child of the 70’s I think my Christmas viewing may peak this evening 🤓
Here’s an excellent thread I wasn’t aware I needed 🐈⬛🐈
Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
📷 IWM A 10646
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📷 IWM A 10646
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December 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Here’s an excellent thread I wasn’t aware I needed 🐈⬛🐈
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A very good reason to reverse Brexit
The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A very good reason to reverse Brexit
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As the government launches its new policy over violence against women and girls, we go to Nigel Farage for Reform’s response.
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
As the government launches its new policy over violence against women and girls, we go to Nigel Farage for Reform’s response.
Part of our Christmas traditions is to watch When Harry Met Sally. We’re watching it now. Poor Rob Reiner 😔
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Part of our Christmas traditions is to watch When Harry Met Sally. We’re watching it now. Poor Rob Reiner 😔
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Liberal Democrats have won more local by-elections than any other party in 2025.
In real elections up and down the country, only the Lib Dems are taking on Reform and winning.
In real elections up and down the country, only the Lib Dems are taking on Reform and winning.
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Liberal Democrats have won more local by-elections than any other party in 2025.
In real elections up and down the country, only the Lib Dems are taking on Reform and winning.
In real elections up and down the country, only the Lib Dems are taking on Reform and winning.
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How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech
The corporation may have lost a director general, but now needs to prove it still has a spine
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM