Nik Thomson
@nikintheuk.bsky.social
Horticulturalist, Environmentalist, Educator, European Citizen and Anti Brexit activist and studying Dutch for a year now
#FBPE
#FBPE
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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Just had to post this because it seems so appropriate for anyone in DC right now.
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Stealers Wheel-Stuck In The Middle With You Lyrics-HD
YouTube video by Sean Dolan
youtu.be
January 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Just had to post this because it seems so appropriate for anyone in DC right now.
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
Wish I could get the Village People to sing it during the inauguration 😂
youtu.be/surb8FzjWfg?...
I've tried to avoid the news today, sadly impossible. My fears are the climate damage and that we may have seen the last US Presidential election. I feel this evening for my lovely American Friends, many of whom were so supportive during Brexit. Decent people need to stand together the world over.
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I've tried to avoid the news today, sadly impossible. My fears are the climate damage and that we may have seen the last US Presidential election. I feel this evening for my lovely American Friends, many of whom were so supportive during Brexit. Decent people need to stand together the world over.
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump, Russia
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump, Russia
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A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.”
Big-Shot Lawyer: I Won’t Represent Meta Any More Thanks to Zuckerberg
A lawyer representing the social media giant in a copyright dispute with famous writers said he could no longer “in good conscience” keep working with the company.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.”
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Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:
January 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:
Never did this on twitter but I will here for my first Christmas on Bluesky 🎅
December 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Never did this on twitter but I will here for my first Christmas on Bluesky 🎅
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Do the maths! 💥💥💥
Even when added together, our new CPTPP membership plus our Brexit trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand still mean a loss of -3.74% to British GDP compared with EU membership. That means less money, poorer services and higher taxes because of Brexit!
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Even when added together, our new CPTPP membership plus our Brexit trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand still mean a loss of -3.74% to British GDP compared with EU membership. That means less money, poorer services and higher taxes because of Brexit!
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
December 15, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Do the maths! 💥💥💥
Even when added together, our new CPTPP membership plus our Brexit trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand still mean a loss of -3.74% to British GDP compared with EU membership. That means less money, poorer services and higher taxes because of Brexit!
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Even when added together, our new CPTPP membership plus our Brexit trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand still mean a loss of -3.74% to British GDP compared with EU membership. That means less money, poorer services and higher taxes because of Brexit!
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Says the peer with a cushy pension who receives money simply for turning up at the House of Lords and would probably require disability benefit if he didn’t enjoy a life of immense privilege. What a prick.
December 15, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Says the peer with a cushy pension who receives money simply for turning up at the House of Lords and would probably require disability benefit if he didn’t enjoy a life of immense privilege. What a prick.
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Thread. But frankly let's simplify this, Labour won a huge majority with a manifesto committing to better EU relations. So now this is being implemented (probably too slowly).
This is a very silly headline with a v narrow constituency outside the media classes. Seems esp weird for MoS (quite a shrill pro-Remain voice in 2016) to object in such an OTT voice to closer UK-EU post-Brexit links beyond Windsor within Starmer's red lines (no single market, customs union, FoM)
December 15, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Thread. But frankly let's simplify this, Labour won a huge majority with a manifesto committing to better EU relations. So now this is being implemented (probably too slowly).
Finding myself very emotional tonight. There is so much, too much, going on in the world bringing you down but the Syrians have given the world a lot of hope today ❤️
December 8, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Finding myself very emotional tonight. There is so much, too much, going on in the world bringing you down but the Syrians have given the world a lot of hope today ❤️
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Bluesky is proving well up to the task of providing helpful & informative Syria coverage. Some amazing footage around. Verification etc can only make things better moving forward.
December 8, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Bluesky is proving well up to the task of providing helpful & informative Syria coverage. Some amazing footage around. Verification etc can only make things better moving forward.
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Massive celebrations across Europe, these are the scenes in Berlin as hundred of thousands of people can now return home from Syria. Assad made at least 12 million into refugees worldwide. #freeSyria
December 8, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Massive celebrations across Europe, these are the scenes in Berlin as hundred of thousands of people can now return home from Syria. Assad made at least 12 million into refugees worldwide. #freeSyria
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Amazing -
I've just worked out that we now have more Bylines Network followers on Bluesky than we accumulated on Twitter/X over *years*.
On Bluesky, we started with just a "Bylines Network" account as a placeholder for all publications -but now we've brought all titles here individually too. 👇
I've just worked out that we now have more Bylines Network followers on Bluesky than we accumulated on Twitter/X over *years*.
On Bluesky, we started with just a "Bylines Network" account as a placeholder for all publications -but now we've brought all titles here individually too. 👇
November 30, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Amazing -
I've just worked out that we now have more Bylines Network followers on Bluesky than we accumulated on Twitter/X over *years*.
On Bluesky, we started with just a "Bylines Network" account as a placeholder for all publications -but now we've brought all titles here individually too. 👇
I've just worked out that we now have more Bylines Network followers on Bluesky than we accumulated on Twitter/X over *years*.
On Bluesky, we started with just a "Bylines Network" account as a placeholder for all publications -but now we've brought all titles here individually too. 👇
Now you can see why Reform is a company not a party. Surly the law must be changed.
Saw Paul Mason on #TrevorPhillips casually deny Musk could give the far right racist Reform co. ltd. $100m because "our election laws ban foreign political donations"
It's amazing how so many commentators & politicians wilfully ignore how our democracy is being destroyed by foreign billionaires
It's amazing how so many commentators & politicians wilfully ignore how our democracy is being destroyed by foreign billionaires
The craziest thing about this story? It’s all legal
Britain’s election laws are awful - as successive governments have been told this for years and done *nothing*
And Musk has shown that he is very, very willing to funnel cash to distort democratic politics…
www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...
Britain’s election laws are awful - as successive governments have been told this for years and done *nothing*
And Musk has shown that he is very, very willing to funnel cash to distort democratic politics…
www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...
December 1, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Now you can see why Reform is a company not a party. Surly the law must be changed.
Now just past 21M and rising :-)
November 21, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Now just past 21M and rising :-)
Bluesky hits 18M 😀
November 16, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Bluesky hits 18M 😀
amazing watching Bluesky user count go up by a steady 12 new users per second
bsky-users.theo.io?fbclid=IwY2x...
bsky-users.theo.io?fbclid=IwY2x...
Bluesky User Counter
bsky-users.theo.io
November 16, 2024 at 5:38 PM
amazing watching Bluesky user count go up by a steady 12 new users per second
bsky-users.theo.io?fbclid=IwY2x...
bsky-users.theo.io?fbclid=IwY2x...
Yes, just like this
This place feels like moving into a new home and having to use a bowl to drink your first coffee because you haven’t found the mugs yet
But you love it and the mugs are around somewhere
But you love it and the mugs are around somewhere
November 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Yes, just like this
Well it looks like my posting elsewhere that I was joining in the fun here flushed out some Musk snowflakes and lost me some 'friends' 😂
November 16, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Well it looks like my posting elsewhere that I was joining in the fun here flushed out some Musk snowflakes and lost me some 'friends' 😂
First post here, having a break now to catch up, strangely quite exciting, keeping x for a while so I can catch up with everything I want to keep following :-)
November 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM
First post here, having a break now to catch up, strangely quite exciting, keeping x for a while so I can catch up with everything I want to keep following :-)