FredCairns
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Grumpy old dude.
This does not further inster-specific relations.
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Greenpeace EU
about 20 hours ago
If companies can't run data centres without polluting our air and water, pushing up energy bills, abusing workers' rights, harming local communities or wrecking the climate – then they shouldn't be allowed to run them A safe climate and healthy environment are necessities – tech bro profits aren't
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EU weighs weaker data centre climate rules in win for Big Tech
Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows
https://www.ft.com/content/21358a9a-b93b-443c-8a68-6fed89c8b3a6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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It works in the UK too. And in Northern Ireland. Oh boy, does it work in Northern Ireland...
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Starmer gutted the Labour party, declared protesters to be "terrorists" and left a legacy of right-wing f*ckery.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼
about 20 hours ago
Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.
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Gee! Do ya think he is on the side of the millionaires? (Rhetorical...)
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omallj.bsky.social
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So he admits that they have committed crimes...
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5 days ago
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Oh, let's double the price on all European imports. What an eejit.
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"Logic? What's that?" AKA "There's no reason for it, it's just our policy."
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6 days ago
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Why are these immoral bonuses allowed to exist? [Don't think too hard...]
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6 days ago
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He's bought and sold. He's on the Capitalist side.
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Thieving Magpie Morris Troupe - a Border Morris side based in Marsden - are looking for a Melodeon player.
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An important point.
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Been there. (Underneath.)
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦
11 days ago
Under reliable protection ❤️
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It's not "Jobs for the Boys" these days, it's "Let's Loot the Room!"
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Prem Sikka
13 days ago
Curse of private equity For quick profits it destroyed: Monarch Airlines The Original Factory Shop Payless Shoes Poundworld Silentnight Southern Cross Thomas Cook TM Lewin Toys R Us. PE uses excessive debt, tax abuse, financial engineering, opacity to devour. Town centers became economic deserts
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The finance curse is devouring the UK
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/06/the-finance-curse-is-devouring-the-uk/
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...they would have to care...
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Prem Sikka
15 days ago
NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record. All down to Trump's wars, Brexit and British deindustrialisation. Too much reliance on imports. The state can easily mitigate by manufacturing generic drugs. It was a Labour 2019 manifesto pledge.
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NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record, say pharmacists and GPs
Supply problems pose risk to health, with common painkillers, epilepsy medication and HRT affected
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/18/nhs-patients-face-worst-drug-shortages-on-record-say-pharmacists-and-gps
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Someday someone will fit a helicopter with a leaf-blower, a strimmer and a pneumatic drill, and cover all the bases. Half-past five in the morning!?!? I know a kid in Soweto brought down a helicopter with a catapult. I am tempted to buy a catapult...
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Did you hear that Essex's Reform council have banned libraries from "promoting" LGBTQ+ events and materials? It's outrageous - have we gone backwards a generation?! Sign the petition now to make them scrap this hateful decision!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/li...
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Essex libraries should be for everyone!
Did you hear that Essex's Reform council have banned libraries from "promoting" LGBTQ+ events and materials? It's outrageous! Sign the petition now to make them scrap this hate-filled decision!
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/libraries-for-all?source=bluesky&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=1e257a58-c53d-430b-94a0-9796ab9c07d1
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ContempraInn 🌹
17 days ago
Epic Cat Slide into dinner 😺
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Randy Douglas
18 days ago
If you would never drive a Tesla, you should also consider not buying cheap crap from Amazon. Stop funding the oligarchs.
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Do it!
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Prem Sikka
24 days ago
Tory Legacy 1980 onwards govts sold council homes at deep discounts. Many tenants sold cheaply acquired houses. Some made profit of £200,000+ 41% of the 2.8m houses cheaply sold now let in the private market Home ownership down from 71% in 2003 to 64.5% now. Social housing in deep crisis.
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The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.
Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/06/the-housing-crisis-is-manufactured-we-can-end-it/
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙
23 days ago
⚪️💛 she's on the nip 🤭🤣🙃 🪄💛⚪️💛⚪️🪄⚪️💛⚪️💛🪄
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Prem Sikka
23 days ago
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies. More coal, oil and gas production for years as planet overheats. Your savings used to fund food, water, seas, climate crisis. People have no say as execs, shareholders enrich themselves.
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World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/09/world-banks-pledge-billions-fossil-fuel-industry-2025
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Deregulation means CORRUPTION.
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Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts
Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/07/billions-spent-hypothetical-returns-the-ai-boom-explained-with-six-charts
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Democrat Cats
27 days ago
Morning Kitten
#Caturday
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MickDundee58
27 days ago
"I switched all the labels on my wife's Spice Rack." "I'm not in trouble yet, but the thyme is cumin."
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Prem Sikka
27 days ago
Dreaming of a home? UK workers' share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975 to 59.3%. Employee median wage £31,524 (£26,217 net). Can you buy a home? Private sector rents up 28% in the last 3 yrs. Social housing decimated since the 1980s. Govts still besotted with neoliberalism.
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The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.
Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/06/the-housing-crisis-is-manufactured-we-can-end-it/
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆
28 days ago
This makes me miss my Great Dane. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. 🤣😂😂😭😭
#GreatDane
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...and nothing has changed.
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28 days ago
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Prem Sikka
29 days ago
The state we're in. Clean drinking water, rivers under threat. Unchecked profiteering by energy companies, vets, dentists, banks. Roads full of potholes. Rocketing rents, millions can't afford to buy home. Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Govts besotted with neoliberalism
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Because PFI never reneged. Much. A bit. Okay, Always.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Toxic identity politics ‘tearing’ us apart, says former Oldham council leader
Exclusive: 25 years after race riots in north of England, Arooj Shah says extremist groups and lies about grooming scandal are poisoning Oldham
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/01/identity-politics-greater-manchester-oldham-arooj-shah
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See, when parasites are sucking the organism dry, it doesn't operate so well.
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Harry Dunn
about 1 month ago
Happy to share our first campaign ad!!
Www.Harrydunnformd.com
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I would like to know who is owning Mr Blair right now. We know Mr Starmer is owned by the Israelis...
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about 1 month ago
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐
about 1 month ago
🔭 PK 164 +31.1: The Headphone Nebula Image Credit & Copyright:
Bernard Miller
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Keighley Rockcliffe
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Glittertooth @ pilk 🍉
about 1 month ago
oh I almost forgot, the swans hatched
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That's them "Invisible exports", I bet.
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about 1 month ago
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Who are the terrorists? The people with placards or those locking them up?
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about 1 month ago
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Kenny Kenoir
about 1 month ago
He is... the most interesting cat in the world.
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Prem Sikka
about 1 month ago
Farage's Reform UK handed £15m by offshore millionaires, while patriotic Brits pay taxes Wealthy people, big business, foreign-linked money funding Reform, shaping UK politics. What have they been promised in return? End political corruption. Criminalise receipt/payment of all political donations
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Farage's Reform handed near £15m by offshore millionaires while Brits pay taxes
Analysis of Electoral Commission records shows that 18 Reform donors with offshore links gave the party almost £15million in 2025 — out of a total £18.6million in registered donations
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/reform-offshore-donations-farage-investigation-37194486
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Mother Earth
about 1 month ago
No truer words were ever spoken...
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Here's a farthing, peasants! Have a feast!
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