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Retired journalist from Liverpool, married for 57 years to Janet, now living in Surrey. Left-wing jazz fan who despises fascists and ignores god botherers. Blocks anti-LGBTQ. No DMs. I wonโ€™t reply and may block. No requests for cash. Supports ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆโšง๏ธ

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Crowd: jump, jump, jump.
Trump: yes, yes, they love me. Theyโ€™re shouting my name.

06.08.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pathetic crap. As far away from journalism as Mickey Mouse is from Mozart.

06.08.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another Palestinian footballer murdered by Israel and FIFA is silent.

06.08.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

How real leaders behave. Do not engage with the clown.

06.08.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah, so are we allowed to criticise this person or does she get a free pass because she is yet another woman who has bought into the Starmerite cult of Cruelty? I have noted a tendency of late to attack any male brave enough to point out that females can also be complete bastards just like us.

06.08.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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two men are sitting at a table in a restaurant laughing and talking . ALT: two men are sitting at a table in a restaurant laughing and talking .
06.08.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice that he knows that he is a shit, though.

06.08.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not sure that โ€œsticking the boot inโ€ is a good description. When you consider all the evil things that Labour has done, this is just a footnote. Actually, if he had wanted to get nasty, and Iโ€™m not sure heโ€™s capable of it, which could be considered a weakness, Cooper would be a better target.

06.08.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fuck Starmer and his bunch of genocide enabling autocrats. #NotInMyName

06.08.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good grief, these people are supposed to be the adults in the room and they act like overgrown entitled adolescents. What kind of numbskull gives their vote to lowlifes like this?

06.08.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Not really my conclusion. I reckon the allotment story was planted (pun not intended) to cause mischief for both Rayner and Corbyn. He seems to have swallowed it without checking. Not good but Iโ€™m not liking the way he is being accused of attacking her because sheโ€™s a woman. Not in his nature.

06.08.2025 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man with a mustache wearing a military uniform and beret ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a military uniform and beret
06.08.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We have confirmation David Lammy was lying and the UK has been assisting Israel in genocide Foreign secretary David Lammy recently admitted the UK has been conducting surveillance flights over Gaza but denied that intelligence was being passed onto Israel.

open.substack.com/pub/councile...

06.08.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve had to mute a few. Canโ€™t argue with people who defend the pro-Zionist Starmerite Cabinet with the same old claptrap about Corbyn. In a way I wish he would let Sultana lead the new party with someone else to give us all a break from their vicious lies and smears. Itโ€™s bound to kick off again.

06.08.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why are we commemorating Hiroshimaโ€™s 80th anniversary with new nuclear weapons? The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be a reminder of the horrors of nuclear attack โ€“ not a chance for Britain to announce it is spending billions on submarine-launched atomic warheads, says ...

Why are we commemorating Hiroshimaโ€™s 80th anniversary with new nuclear weapons? And why is the Govt backing idea of a glossy new PR campaign to persuade us we need nukes whilst simultaneously trying to block inquiry into impacts of nuclear war?
Me for @indyvoices.bsky.social
@cnduk.bsky.social

06.08.2025 11:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 198    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Meanwhile on Planet Starmer: โ€œCorbyn is a hypocrite who writes for the Torygraph and attacks powerful women who threaten his cucumbers.โ€

06.08.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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While the world choruses
'never again'
Zionists vie to prove
whatever the Nazis did
they can do
with more racist zeal,
more brutally,
more inhumanely

06.08.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Murdoch still doing his evil work for his boss, Old Nick. Another billionaire who seems to delight in making people who have nothing suffer even more. #IsHeStillAlive

06.08.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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John Oliver not mincing words: "Gaza is starving, is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive. Gaza is being starved by Israel,"

04.08.2025 03:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 573    ๐Ÿ” 171    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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Given that E = mcยฒ, and the mass of a standard paper clip is approximately one gram, the energy in that massโ€”if fully convertedโ€”is roughly 90 trillion joules, equal to over 20,000 kilograms of TNT. Which naturally raises the question: why hasnโ€™t Donald Trump released the Epstein files?

25.07.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Derbyshire council buries talk of Angela Rayner's 'war on allotments' Bolsover hit the national headlines over the weekend after being named as a key battleground in the Governmentโ€™s โ€˜war on allotmentsโ€™ โ€“ but a bit more digging has revealed very little dirt in the story...

The whole things seems to have been kicked off by the sell off off of a few allotments in Derbyshire, all conducted perfectly above board.

www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/politic...

06.08.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It looks like McSwine set up both Rayner and Corbyn with this one. The Torygraph and, subsequently, the BBC and other Right-wing media outlets reported that Corbyn attacked Raynerโ€™s plan โ€œwritingโ€ in the paper. He seems to have answered their loaded and inaccurate question. He was naive. See more.๐Ÿงต

06.08.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every day, one seems to hear another area of science the US is abandoning. mRNA vaccines are a much researched area. The COVID example saved millions of lives worldwide. In some ways mRNA are superior to standard vaccines & safe. Thatโ€™s not just my view as a biologist, itโ€™s that of science. [1]

06.08.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Every day and in every way this Home Secretary is becoming more like Farage, either because she is heartless or because she thinks that there are enough heartless voters out there who will vote for yet another stupid policy designed to garner headlines in the usual Right-wing rags.

06.08.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Several red Snapdragon/Antirrhinum flowers and their narrow green leaves emerge from a crack in a concrete car park next to a lighter coloured concrete and brick wall of a barn. A small white bird feather rests to the right of the plant. The wooden porch and white window entrance of the building can be seen in the distance.

Several red Snapdragon/Antirrhinum flowers and their narrow green leaves emerge from a crack in a concrete car park next to a lighter coloured concrete and brick wall of a barn. A small white bird feather rests to the right of the plant. The wooden porch and white window entrance of the building can be seen in the distance.

#ColorADay #RedWed #photography #EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge#FforFire
A fiery red Snapdragon (is that OK?), growing in a crack in the concrete car park outside a barn now used to house a local health centre. The seeds must have come from an old hanging basket that had once perched nearby.

06.08.2025 07:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Killer Joe
YouTube video by Quincy Jones - Topic Killer Joe

#DavidsMonthofMusic
#musicchallenge
Artists no longer with us

Day 6: Quincy Jones

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWY4...

06.08.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nudistsโ€™ barbecue.

06.08.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Keir Starmer called for many things back then but seems to have forgotten about them. Maybe he isnโ€™t the same man. Just a possibility.

05.08.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m not a cult member but I do think Corbyn was smeared and ousted from Labour, which is now run by a bunch of austerity zealots. Corbyn gives one misguided interview and is set upon by the Starmerites. Another witchhunt ensues. Good job heโ€™s no longer in your crappy party. Nor am I. Or any other.

05.08.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You use the word whataboutery but I mention Starmer because it is relevant as he is a liar. I am not a cultist, not disappointed and he is no saint but a decent man who has been proved right many times. Maybe the interview was misjudged but the vicious attacks show how he is feared. Admit it.

05.08.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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