Flaming June
@juneussell.bsky.social
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I used to be a lot of things. Scouser in Bradford. Printmaker.
https://junerussell.co.uk
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Jonathan Coe
about 10 hours ago
This morning Iāve seen Olly Robbinsās appearance before the select committee described as ābox officeā, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ābring the popcornā. Thatās one of our main problems right there.
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I know Mandelson is a long word and hard to spell, but Keir isnāt.
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Iain
about 20 hours ago
The BBC integrating a specific political party's branding into a live to-camera report that lists that party's main (dubious) talking points is a gross dereliction of the broadcaster's editorial duties. If you live in the UK, you can complain to the BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Kingfisher & Wombat
about 18 hours ago
I support the right of everyone to block me for any reason whatsoever, including that their dog farted while they were reading my post. That said, occasionally I do go through three stages of being blocked: 1) Huh? 2) Seriously? 3) Yeah, thatās probably for the best. We were not gonna be friends.
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Gavin Werbeloff
about 21 hours ago
My reflection on COVID is that it sucked for everyone, but it sucked for everyone differently, and a lot of broken friendships and family strife are the result of people assuming that everyone else had the exact same COVID experience they did.
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45 years ago I did a charity parachute jump. I was taught how to fall by army types who aimed to make it instinctive. It was painful, boring and we hated them. Today I tripped on a steep slope and did a perfect rolling fall, to the astonishment of two nice young boys who ran to help. Not a scratch.
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Olaf Falafel
26 days ago
Surely Iām not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?
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Mr Roger Quimbly
1 day ago
If the past really is a foreign country Iām surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.
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Peter Ellis
2 days ago
proof that nature truly abhors them
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I was in a wonderful cemetery in Porto this morning. This was my favourite thing. A portrait in stone of a dog missing its owner
2 days ago
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Iām adding āErr, no.ā to my list of blockable phrases, alongside āJust sayingā and āSpot onā
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David Bowman
about 1 year ago
The existence of Tim Curry and Tim Rice leads me to hope that somewhere there is a Tim Naan.
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Dan Sohege
2 days ago
For those keeping track at home. The Iranians have now blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US blockading it because the Iranians had blockaded it, in response to the US attacking Iran to ensure that the Strait which was fully open at the time wasn't blockaded.
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The Secret Barrister
3 days ago
I remember seeing Unaccountable Albatross headlining the Hammersmith Odeon in ā83. Good times.
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Janus
3 days ago
rotatingsandwiches.com
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Rotating Sandwiches
that's it
https://rotatingsandwiches.com
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Kingfisher & Wombat
4 days ago
Hadnāt been clothes shopping for a dogās age, so bit the bullet. ME: This is kinda cute⦠CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Hand wash, lay flat to dry in shade, do not leave in direct sunlight, do not dry clean. ME: This is not a shirt, itās a mogwai.
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Emma Monk
4 days ago
Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? š¤·āāļø Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... š§µ 1/25
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David Bowman
4 days ago
*gasp* I have been accused of being a snob by a colleague because I include the diaeresis in "naĆÆve." Now admittedly, it was probably ill-advised of me to briskly say "It's not an umlaut."
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dag
4 days ago
If, as is probably truth of matter, Mandelson was to be appointed Ambassador, come what may, because Trump was a sui generis problem which needed addressing in a sui generis way - a Trump-whisperer - then PM should just say that. The faultlines are developing from pretending that was not the case.
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Otto English
5 days ago
The Covid 19 vaccine roll out was an extraordinary feat which may have saved upwards of 475,000 lives. In the face of a deadly virus dedicated professionals worked hard to make it happen and millions did the right thing and took the jabs. That's to be celebrated.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
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Covid-19 Inquiry: UK's vaccine development and rollout was 'extraordinary feat' - live updates
An estimated 475,000 lives were saved in England and Scotland, but the inquiry says a lower vaccine uptake among some groups should've been predicted.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgrllgrk2x1t?at_link_id=29325ADE-3985-11F1-92D6-C0F78DDFFF5B&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_origin=BBCBreaking&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_format=link&at_medium=social
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Mark Chadbourn
6 days ago
Trump did this.
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Britain preparing for food shortages as Iran war bites ā The Times and The Sunday Times
Britain could face shortages of chicken, pork and other supermarket goods this summer if the war in Iran continues, a secret government analysis has found. Officials have drawn up contingency plans fo...
https://apple.news/AAV3i5vj6Qm-94GR_23yANQ
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Robert Hutton
6 days ago
If one of my party's recent prime ministers had redecorated the Number 10 flat in a way that ended up involving TWO separate inquiries and a Wikipedia page, I would simply not have put out a press release confirming that the current prime minister had spent less than the allowance he was given.
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Mikey Smith
6 days ago
Donald Trump keeps moaning about Starmer not drilling for oil - but not for the reason you think
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Trump moans about Starmer not drilling for oil - but not for reason you think
Donald Trump's deep desire for the UK to allow firms to "drill baby drill" in the North Sea is the end product of a feud he's had brewing for more than a decade, which involves golf, Alex Salmond and ...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-keeps-moaning-starmer-37022521
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When I joined Bluesky there was a limit on characters in handles. Thatās it. Sorry.
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Tim Onion
7 days ago
A+ headline.
defector.com/president-ex...
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George Takei
7 days ago
It's Schrƶdingerās joke: It only decides to be a joke when you open the box to ask why Trump said it.
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Coral King
7 days ago
Time for šļø
#sunset
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Peter Ellis
7 days ago
it's like the first wave of covid except it lasted 16 years non-stop seeing a press conference where the press could ask questions for example truly caught me by surprise it's a political cliche trotted out by all sides that "now is the time for healing" but this time it is genuinely true
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Parody Nigel Farage
7 days ago
Many thanks to the people of Shetland for their warm welcome. Photo from
@hughharrop.bsky.social
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Simon Pegg
7 days ago
One thing this leaflet promotes, & indeed is probably a general 'view' of planning, is that you only comment when you want to object. WRONG. You can, & should, always write to Planning to support something if you think it is worthy. It IS recorded, & noted, as part of Officer reports.
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Jonn Elledge
7 days ago
I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.
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Sam Freedman
7 days ago
New post out: "The fall of OrbĆ”n" PĆ©ter Magyarās victory in Hungary is a key moment in the global battle against the radical right. I look at the three big lessons we can take about how they can be defeated. (Ā£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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The fall of OrbƔn
What it means for the global battle against the radical right
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the-fall-of-orban?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Jonathan Portes
8 days ago
Further point on the "[almost] everyone feels poorer despite fact median incomes are (slowly) growing" AFAICS it's just not true. Vast majority of people (80%) say they are very/relatively comfortable/can "comfortably cover essentials", and this hasn't changed much.
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Arthur Snell
8 days ago
But we can be sure the crew of Artemis II cares about you, Jess.
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Hetan Shah
8 days ago
Surely the Pope will have to reconsider now that he has lost Melanie Phillips
www.thetimes.com/article/2123...
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Pope Leoās attitude to the Iran war is shocking
Leo XIV appears to ignore the murderous history of the Tehran regime in his call for peace
https://www.thetimes.com/article/2123bcd0-7c61-46f3-8a25-3d2c78242c41?shareToken=97ca0132c7e39e6de9d9ae9a49bf4c05
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Amanda Mull
8 days ago
This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. Itās hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they donāt have.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
8 days ago
as a non Christian I am wildly impressed by how well they predicted Trump in the Know Your Antichrist section of the Bible
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Coral King
8 days ago
Iāve been accused of passing off AI as my photography multiple times since starting this page. Part of me is upset. Photos canāt compete with modern AI, the days of extra digits are gone, so the other part of me is absolutely thrilled š Fuck off with that shit tho, all pics my own š” Love and light š
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Tom Nichols
9 days ago
The key to democracy is showing up in large numbers
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Andy Craig
9 days ago
Me, sowing an electoral system so I can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, reaping an electoral system where they can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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AndrÔs Tóth-Czifra
9 days ago
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
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dag
9 days ago
āApart from all that, Mr Vice President, how was your trip abroad?ā
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Marie Le Conte
9 days ago
christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
9 days ago
in addition to this (which i agree with), something that should put some wind in your sails is that orbƔn actually *was* the competent competitive authoritarian (relatively) everyone worries about, he had a stronger grip on power than i think trump ever has, and he had it for far longer
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Matt Steinglass
9 days ago
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the worldās smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
9 days ago
initially i thought it extremely inappropriate for jd vance to travel to another country and try to meddle in their elections and now i think he should go stump on behalf of every right wing reactionary party in europe, give him a special budget for it, i don't care, get him on the local news
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Trump and Vance seem to have no idea how deeply unpopular they are outside the US. Perhaps this will help?
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Enjoying your evening, Froggy?
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Marie Le Conte
9 days ago
walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded š„°
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Oh wow! Well done!
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