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@paulfreedman.bsky.social

Tech, history, politics and photography. Despairing at the state of the world since 2016 & lack of action on climate change. #LibDem activist #FBPE

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Latest posts by paulfreedman.bsky.social on Bluesky

Trump kisses Putinโ€™s ring

Trump kisses Putinโ€™s ring

20.02.2025 08:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1766    ๐Ÿ” 521    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
Screenshot of petition  to join EU as full member.

Screenshot of petition to join EU as full member.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures!

Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!

Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

10.02.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1256    ๐Ÿ” 719    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44

It is worth putting in context that Findoutnow were the panel used by People Polling ahead of GE2024 which tended to show more favourable numbers for Reform and lower numbers for the Conservatives...

09.01.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thank you Gary. Can I ask your help everyone to report & block this FAKE account๐Ÿ™

@peterstefanovic1.bsky.social

28.12.2024 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 129    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Have to admit I wasnโ€™t expecting sequins

01.12.2024 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@thenewsagents.com The anticipation #thenewsagentslive

01.12.2024 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NEW: Former MP Andrea Jenkyns, who received a damehood in Boris Johnson's resignation honours, quits the Tory party for Reform, saying it was "not an easy decision" but "the truth is undeniable, the ship is sinking".

28.11.2024 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 224    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 108    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59

give it a few days and there will be a surge in politicians posting here

19.11.2024 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 454    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Yes pretty much the same for me. Still look at Threads quite a bit but treating that more like a text version of instagram than anything more

19.11.2024 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

19.11.2024 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15405    ๐Ÿ” 5086    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 465    ๐Ÿ“Œ 193

Welcome. About time Jon!

19.11.2024 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Which.... is the case for all other property owners as well. The gap between the coverage of this proposal and its reality can be seen from space.

19.11.2024 07:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2110    ๐Ÿ” 459    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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I have just set up this account on Bluesky. I wonโ€™t be deleting my Twitter account because thereโ€™s a bit of history within it. I will also confirm on Twitter & Facebook this is my account.

18.11.2024 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3863    ๐Ÿ” 786    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 537    ๐Ÿ“Œ 84

Hey, imagine what might happen if all the Brits that have recently joined this platform were to sign this?
Wouldn't that be something?
It would be millions!
#Bluesky
Please REPOST LIKE FURY
Worth a bash, yeah?

18.11.2024 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Poster Giveaway at 10k followers on here?

18.11.2024 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Kemi account is fake according to @samcoatessky.bsky.social

Shows the verification issueโ€ฆ

17.11.2024 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 179    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Itโ€™s from the other place but I enjoyed this after this morning.

17.11.2024 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brave new world that has such people in itโ€ฆ

Hello BlueSky.

The world is scaring me & Iโ€™d like to get offโ€ฆ

13.11.2024 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1593    ๐Ÿ” 187    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 135    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
Profile of an X account for "Ben Smith", with photos of puppies and a biog that reads: "Peace, Happiness and Pancakes".

Profile of an X account for "Ben Smith", with photos of puppies and a biog that reads: "Peace, Happiness and Pancakes".

QT which reads"I'm waiting for you to get fucked, fascist", of my post: "I'm surprised at the number of reasonable people expressing absolute unreserved outrage at police interviewing Pearson, with no knowledge of the content about which she's being questioned. Is the view that a columnist can never be questioned on any post? If not, then maybe wait."

QT which reads"I'm waiting for you to get fucked, fascist", of my post: "I'm surprised at the number of reasonable people expressing absolute unreserved outrage at police interviewing Pearson, with no knowledge of the content about which she's being questioned. Is the view that a columnist can never be questioned on any post? If not, then maybe wait."

Popped over to the other place for my regular "come over to Bluesky" post.

First notification on my feed was this. Incredible, the extent to which I had become used to this abuse and came to see it as somehow normal.

16.11.2024 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 525    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 77    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Have just added a load more people to my starter pack of UK political journalists, commentators, politicos and experts, for anyone who's just arrived here, or looking for some more familiar faces

go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN

15.11.2024 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 413    ๐Ÿ” 131    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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The Bluesky User Counter now going at serious pace.

See โ€”> bsky-users.theo.io

And no service outage tonight. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

15.11.2024 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 457    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

Thanks! Just followed all.

15.11.2024 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...

13.11.2024 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 868    ๐Ÿ” 613    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

To all the newly-arrived Twitter refugees, I've created a starter pack of UK political journalists, experts, commentators and politicos to follow here

go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN

17.10.2024 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3354    ๐Ÿ” 1106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 554    ๐Ÿ“Œ 143

A quick social experiment.

The same tweet, posted at the same time on here and on Twitter, commenting on @joannahs.bsky.socialโ€™s brilliant piece on the exodus of criminal barristers.

Bluesky replies on the left.

Twitter on the right.

12.11.2024 08:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2588    ๐Ÿ” 686    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 146    ๐Ÿ“Œ 74

I'm trying to build up BlueSky and Threads with a view to quitting twitter soon. Breaking news here would be good although they may need to fix the algorithm before it's usable for that kind of thing

07.11.2024 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The UK must now forge closer ties with the EU "For the UK, for Ukraine, for European security, and for building a bastion of decency in the world, we must urgently forge much closer ties with the EU."

"For the UK, for Ukraine, for European security, and for building a bastion of decency in the world, we must urgently forge much closer ties with the EU."

06.11.2024 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 668    ๐Ÿ” 222    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Inevitably, all this will fail. People who voted for it will learn the hard way - and just like Brexit, they'll continue to blame everyone else

07.11.2024 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 934    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Totally this. The failure to plan for this is not the issue now. The issue now is to get on with it.

06.11.2024 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 214    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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