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Nick Durant

@skeowsha.bsky.social

Playwright, librarian and children’s writer

212 Followers  |  290 Following  |  78 Posts  |  Joined: 29.12.2023
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This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US.

His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism.
And he failed.

01.03.2026 15:23 — 👍 3570    🔁 770    💬 127    📌 64

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

01.03.2026 15:25 — 👍 5638    🔁 1698    💬 199    📌 73

Wealthy, white, tax-avoiding people … who will now expect support from the country whose taxes they avoided paying maybe?

01.03.2026 17:03 — 👍 135    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

01.03.2026 15:32 — 👍 1517    🔁 432    💬 40    📌 22

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...

...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

01.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 777    🔁 191    💬 24    📌 9

This is total nonsense and has no regard for any actual policy content it’s just a vibe. Meanwhile I’m yet to see a single decarbonisation policy from Polanski that isn’t wealth taxes but apparently that’s acceptable?

01.03.2026 14:32 — 👍 80    🔁 24    💬 6    📌 1
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A concerning number of people on the far-left / anti-imperialist left treat geopolitics like their favorite sport cheering for “their side” as if this were a football match.

Human lives become secondary to their ideological fantasies. (1)

28.02.2026 10:32 — 👍 147    🔁 32    💬 13    📌 9
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City councillor Ayah Al-Zubi calls on Monday for Cambridge to gets its municipal accounts the hell off Twitter within 60 days of enactment.

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28.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 3
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'Nasty and violent' Kent councillor jailed for coercive behaviour Ex-Reform UK councillor for Cliftonville, Daniel Taylor, receives a prison term and loses his seat.

Former Reform councillor jailed for coercive behaviour
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

22.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 112    🔁 55    💬 7    📌 2
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'I like technology - when I can see it's benefiting humanity.'

Natasha Devon gives reasoning for why she thinks Generative AI chatbots should be banned whilst still in its early stages.

21.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 55    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0
@nathithehumbleguy on threads: 
Ladies if you're always walking around with earphones or headphones on whether jogging or at the mall don't be surprised if no one approaches you. Most guys won't ask you to take them off just to start a conversation.
Sometimes you might be blocking more than just the noise

@nathithehumbleguy on threads: Ladies if you're always walking around with earphones or headphones on whether jogging or at the mall don't be surprised if no one approaches you. Most guys won't ask you to take them off just to start a conversation. Sometimes you might be blocking more than just the noise

he’s so close to getting it

22.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 7583    🔁 938    💬 215    📌 88
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This one hits hard.

21.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 35586    🔁 10533    💬 777    📌 595
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As AI leaps forward, concerns rise that innovation is leaving safety behind

As AI leaps forward, concerns rise that innovation is leaving safety behind

22.02.2026 02:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Boris Johnson colluding with right wing Americans to undermine the UK.

Where have I heard this before?

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

22.02.2026 06:15 — 👍 791    🔁 326    💬 53    📌 12

Nationalise AND imprison board members, executives and the politicians who allowed this with impunity.

22.02.2026 07:58 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Water company bosses rake in £15million bonanza while bills and pollution soar Before a hard-hitting Channel 4 television drama about the water industry hits our screens, research has shown the ongoing rewards for company bosses and their owners

England water company bosses raked in £15m+ in pay/perks last yr.

£900m dividends paid. Customer bills up 26%.

Companies have 1200 criminal convictions. Fines not collected.

Sewage dumping killing people.

No exec prosecuted.

End the scam. Must Nationalise.

22.02.2026 07:54 — 👍 579    🔁 313    💬 29    📌 16

And he withers in the face of strength.

The EU has that economic strength. Us being out of it, regrettably, do not.

In our case survival is the only option.

22.02.2026 08:15 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Ideally you also resist your own politics being corrupted by the psychopath. You may sign but try to limit implementation. You work with others. You don't use their language or suggest they have a point unless for survival. You focus active resistance to where it matters.

22.02.2026 07:50 — 👍 43    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Ministers to consider removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from line of succession Move would follow any police investigation after former prince questioned on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Ministers to consider removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from line of succession.

Govt can also use legislative time to create laws to prosecute
Water company execs.
People behind the Post Office and Grenfell scandals.
Corporate execs for tax abuse.

22.02.2026 08:39 — 👍 266    🔁 87    💬 19    📌 3

The odds of a UK F-35 ever firing a missile at a Russian jet are exceedingly low. Russia is mired in Ukraine, terrible at warfare, and not in any position to fight NATO.

The odds of the UK having to fight for the hearts and minds of people all over the world against Russian propoganda are 100%.

15.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 202    🔁 40    💬 4    📌 0

The ‘Arc de Trump’ has yet to be built but already Americans are looking forward to its demolition before a wildly-cheering crowd

15.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 36    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 4
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Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class

🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’…

15.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 99    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 0
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

15.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

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15.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just days after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was exposed for his complete lie about cutting off contact with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, yet another Trump official was discovered to be in the Epstein files. trib.al/Q6lCrD8

15.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 117    🔁 47    💬 14    📌 13
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This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...

15.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 1084    🔁 430    💬 29    📌 17

Don’t want to encourage the white supremacist but even the amount of American culture informed by German culture, by Scandinavian culture, Eastern European Jewish culture. Lots of that with social democratic impulses he’d reject even from the white Europeans

15.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Musk, like Trump, is a monster. They contribute nothing, and take everything they can.

15.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 55    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Why does Trump need executive orders? If his ideas are so great they can be implemented via procedural norms, right? If US institutions are so great, why is Trump undermining them all? Can't wait for all the European leaders to ask Rubio these great questions

14.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The issue is that, having raised the question as real, these guys decline to acknowledge the consequences of their own claims. In that, it seems to me they declare either mendacity or monstrosity, and they should have to wear that.

15.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 121    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 1