@piebirdsong.bsky.social
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Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Pamela Jo Bondi has decided that none of these photos of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein (or Trump's quote about Epstein) exist. If you saw them, you are instructed to forget them. Do as you are told.
July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Pamela Jo Bondi has decided that none of these photos of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein (or Trump's quote about Epstein) exist. If you saw them, you are instructed to forget them. Do as you are told.
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Vegan, because once you know the truth about the way the animals die, the environmental issues and the benefits to your health, you can't unknow it. Remember facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored by people
July 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Vegan, because once you know the truth about the way the animals die, the environmental issues and the benefits to your health, you can't unknow it. Remember facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored by people
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This seems to have now disappeared from the Express website but can still be read in the archive.
archive.ph/mQIec
archive.ph/mQIec
June 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This seems to have now disappeared from the Express website but can still be read in the archive.
archive.ph/mQIec
archive.ph/mQIec
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IT’S NOT TOO LATE for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment
Contact your MP, NOW
Contact your MP, NOW
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink its cruel, shameful & completely irresponsible plan to cut benefits which will plunge 250,000 people, including 50,000 children into poverty - on its own impact analysis
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the Gov’t to rethink its cruel & shameful plan to cut benefits
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
June 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
IT’S NOT TOO LATE for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment
Contact your MP, NOW
Contact your MP, NOW
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Just for the idiots in the back Nigel Farage will get rid of the NHS, he WONT cut your taxes, and you will have to pay £10,000 a year just to have the option of paying 10x what healthcare costs to get it.
Everyone else can die at home like they did before 1946.
Everyone else can die at home like they did before 1946.
June 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Just for the idiots in the back Nigel Farage will get rid of the NHS, he WONT cut your taxes, and you will have to pay £10,000 a year just to have the option of paying 10x what healthcare costs to get it.
Everyone else can die at home like they did before 1946.
Everyone else can die at home like they did before 1946.
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'Economically illiterate': How Nigel Farage's net zero maths fail to add up – and could cost the UK £92bn
www.businessgreen.com/4414417/
www.businessgreen.com/4414417/
'Economically illiterate': How Nigel Farage's net zero maths fail to add up – and could cost the UK £92bn
Reform has promised to save £45bn a year for tax cuts by 'scrapping' net zero, but the government spends nowhere near that much on decarbonisation
www.businessgreen.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
'Economically illiterate': How Nigel Farage's net zero maths fail to add up – and could cost the UK £92bn
www.businessgreen.com/4414417/
www.businessgreen.com/4414417/
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I fear we will see many more tragic stories like this when Labour deliberately withdraws benefits - from millions of people with disabilities. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Disabled woman killed herself after DWP mistakenly withdrew benefits
Rare second inquest hears that Jodey Whiting, 42, left notes saying she had no food and could not pay bills
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I fear we will see many more tragic stories like this when Labour deliberately withdraws benefits - from millions of people with disabilities. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Figures show Farage’s tax plans would benefit the wealthiest
www.independent.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Brexit fishing and Farage. The EU were our partners. We had power. Now we're out on our own.
May 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Brexit fishing and Farage. The EU were our partners. We had power. Now we're out on our own.
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Former MP for party that doesn’t believe in a social safety net would like a luxury social safety net for MPs www.politico.eu/article/brit...
May 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Former MP for party that doesn’t believe in a social safety net would like a luxury social safety net for MPs www.politico.eu/article/brit...
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Ultimately, this is just the standard tech bro lament:
That their "vision" justifies the means.
It's no different from Uber, AirBnB etc. saying regulations shouldn't apply to them.
"Disruption" often just means avoiding the rules or exploiting unclosed loopholes that need to be closed.
That their "vision" justifies the means.
It's no different from Uber, AirBnB etc. saying regulations shouldn't apply to them.
"Disruption" often just means avoiding the rules or exploiting unclosed loopholes that need to be closed.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ultimately, this is just the standard tech bro lament:
That their "vision" justifies the means.
It's no different from Uber, AirBnB etc. saying regulations shouldn't apply to them.
"Disruption" often just means avoiding the rules or exploiting unclosed loopholes that need to be closed.
That their "vision" justifies the means.
It's no different from Uber, AirBnB etc. saying regulations shouldn't apply to them.
"Disruption" often just means avoiding the rules or exploiting unclosed loopholes that need to be closed.
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Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.
May 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.
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"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
May 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
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So important
"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
May 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
So important
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IT IS TIME
The man looked up from his beach chair.
"Really?" He said. "I've only just retired."
Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't.
CURIOUS
Vetinari shrugged.
"I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17
The man looked up from his beach chair.
"Really?" He said. "I've only just retired."
Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't.
CURIOUS
Vetinari shrugged.
"I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17
August 16, 2024 at 8:26 PM
IT IS TIME
The man looked up from his beach chair.
"Really?" He said. "I've only just retired."
Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't.
CURIOUS
Vetinari shrugged.
"I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17
The man looked up from his beach chair.
"Really?" He said. "I've only just retired."
Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't.
CURIOUS
Vetinari shrugged.
"I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17
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The disgraceful EHRC misconduct is now drawing fire from the United Nations. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts warn of legal uncertainty and rights implications following UK Supreme Court ruling
GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed concern about the implications of the recent UK Supreme Court judgment interpreting the definition of “woman” under the Equality A...
www.ohchr.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The disgraceful EHRC misconduct is now drawing fire from the United Nations. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.
May 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.
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We have a chance to improve our relationship + trading terms with the EU, give musicians + young people more freedom and make travel easier…
And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration.
Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.
And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration.
Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.
May 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We have a chance to improve our relationship + trading terms with the EU, give musicians + young people more freedom and make travel easier…
And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration.
Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.
And Brexiters are howling about betrayal, fish, ‘holding all the cards’ and immigration.
Same lies. Same prejudice. And same failure if we don’t ignore them.
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Here's a gorgeous song + video for a Sunday afternoon in May. Worlds Apart by The Mary Column. Video by Chloe Kaufmann-Trappes. Signed copies of the forthcoming album, Very Sparrow here... monorailmusic.com/product/very... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybep...
The Mary Column - Worlds Apart (Official Video)
YouTube video by Errol's Hot Wax
www.youtube.com
May 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Here's a gorgeous song + video for a Sunday afternoon in May. Worlds Apart by The Mary Column. Video by Chloe Kaufmann-Trappes. Signed copies of the forthcoming album, Very Sparrow here... monorailmusic.com/product/very... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybep...