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Rachel Reeves acquitted herself well when being hectored by #r4today's Nick Robinson. He did not engage with the substance of the budget at all. Instead he echoed the headlines from the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph et al., which are just vulgar abuse from people who wish her government ill.

Had DOGE gone after the resources the USA gifts Israel every year it would both have saved money and halted genocide.

The USA with Trump and the UK with Brexit are both grappling with the consequences of epidemic stupidity. Before he was murdered by actual rather than just wannabe fascists Dietrich Bonhoeffer summed it up.

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

My daughter-in-law's iPhone spent 5 days on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean before being found by a scuba diver and returned to her by a circuitous route. It is still going strong.

Just saying.

Were we listening to Gail's Bakery's Swasticar moment? He was odious.

Which stone did #r4today find Luke Johnson underneath? He countered Sharon Graham's statistics with playground insults and misrepresentations of her position. Sharon may sound like Rowan Atkinson's "Not The Nine O'Clock News" Comedic Union Rep but she remained courteous throughout.

James Harding is being disingenuous. He is actually trying to bolster the Tory takeover of BBC News and Current Events. #r4today

At the age of 69 I have just failed the age verification test. I can now testify to the uselessness of Yoti. How do they get away with it?

Yes

Not recognising a Palestinian State gives the genocidal racists running the show in Israel a free ride.

Companies list outside the UK because capital is cheaper elsewhere. The problem isn't red tape, it's the greed of London's institutions. They offer poor value to retail investors and expect unreasonable returns when investing themselves.

The BBC continue to push Reform. #r4today

The growth in self-checkout cuts staff numbers.

And it makes people like me, in wheelchairs and unable to reach, wait longer to pay them for my purchases.

#r4today

The growth in self-checkout must have something to do with the epidemic of UK shop-lifting. Why should we, the shoppers, do the shop's work for them unpaid? #r4today

Emma Barnet isn't questioning the Home Secretary, she is pushing her own agenda. Her talking over is rude and disrespectful. We want to hear Yvette Cooper, not Emma Barnet. #r4today

Pathetic Tory apologia are everywhere on #r4today. When the apointments boost was listed in the news headlines the bit about the strikes was appended. It would be less misleading to say "when the Tories were in charge". Dealing with the strikes was the first thing on the new government's agenda.

"... grasp the nettle by the horns ..." ... the mind boggles.

#r4today #mixing_metaphors

I'm not very active but I am an Indie author ...

welcome, exclusively young tiktok users! everyone on bluesky is very old. there are zero exceptions to this

Thankyou!

Since TikTok is banned and I deleted my Meta apps, I know Pinterest and blue sky are going to hate to see me coming. #pinterest #fuckmeta #booksky #tiktokrefugee

Sorry not sorry in advance for the bookspam I'm about to do but look, if there's going to be any sort of pivot from booktok to booksky & a chance I don't have to do any more fucking videos to promote my nonsense then I want to grab hold of it with both trotters

Want to be added to the booktoker, blogger, & book reviewer starter pack? Here is part 2 with lots of space left! If I was unable to get you on part 1, please comment below to be added to this one & repost so we can get it filled!
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For years I was hearing that #booktok was the future of book promotion, and I never even had an account. I join BlueSky ... and #booktok comes to #booksky ... Suddenly I feel like a Zen Master!

Highly appropriate coming from the man who fled the Rainbow Nation.

It was Justin Webb, but yes.

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The BBC still can’t accept that their beloved Tories lost the election

The humbug meter goes off the scale as Nick Robinson tries to turn the prompt resignation of a minister who was found not to have broken the Ministerial Code into an attack line against Kier Starmer. At least he was talking to a Labourite rather than another washed-up Tory has-been. #r4today

Once upon a time Facebook was a Social Network. I used it to stay in touch with friends around the world. I could see all their posts in strict chronological order, and ad-blockers worked. Now the platform controls what I see. What's Social about that?It's just a waste of time :(