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Politically opinionated account of an otherwise normal human. [Social] Liberal. Liberal Democrat (UK) Member. I block bigots liberally too. Obligatory collection of flags: 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇰🇪🇮🇳🔶️🕊🇵🇸
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NHS Staff - Waste Not Want Not Currently the UK is training & losing large numbers of staff & then increasingly relying on overseas graduates Many reasons, pay, workload, stress, better opportunities abroad or alternative careers @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Seriously, a good rule of thumb for life is, if you find yourself on the opposite side of a contentious argument to the Quakers, you need to take a deep breath and consider the very high likelihood that you’re the one who’s wrong.

They’re Quakers. They’re nice people. This isn’t hard

If you want a good example of how to confront these goons, hold them to account and record it all and follow through. This is a proper headline, as well. Stalked and Abducted: Federal ICE agents grab a local gardener from his job site in Great Barrington. theberkshireedge.com/stalked-and-...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Israelis protesting outside the foreign office in London in support of steps that the UK has taken against Israel over the Gaza war and calling for more. Chanting: “Starmer, Lammy pick a side: human rights or genocide” , “war planes, no! Sanctions, yes!”, “Israelis say: stop the genocide today”

Liberal Democrats are standing up to the divisive, destructive brand of politics that is threatening to sweep our country.

Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit. These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.

Not just impossible, but criminal under international law

“Saturday protests in Tel Aviv. The attacks on Gaza must stop. Now.” www.breakingthesilence.org.il/about/organi...

I love Eurovision. But the event and results should have clarified that it needs to be regarded as a propaganda platform for a country committing genocide. It suppresses every form of protest against this propaganda. Either hosts and artists find a way to change that or you can‘t justify to be there

Yeah. They aren't stupid, are they. They know everyone's busy. #Eurovision

When your country definitely cares about women

Are you on Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Employment Support Allowance? UK govt will compel banks to hand information to it about your money. You can't prevent it even if you never committed fraud. Same won't apply to PPE, tax, subsidy fraudsters, corporate crooks, disqualified directors.

Tel Aviv, Begin Gate Masses of concerned citizens have joined families of hostages still held captive in Gaza, starved and tortured in Hamas tunnels for 589 days, demanding Netanyahu secure an immediate deal for their release and end the war. @orlybarlev.bsky.social

“Week by week it's growing, people are holding pictures of innocent children we killed in Gaza” - Iris Leal

I haven't actually seen any Zionist genocide defenders on Bluesky in months. But they're out in force under the #Eurovision posts! That shows you how much Israel values @eurovision.tv for hasbara & whitewashing their Genocide of Palestine. It's why you #BoycottEurovision til they kick Israel out

🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4

I have not and will not be watching #Eurovision whilst the apartheid state is involved. That they can be murdering thousands of children, yet still be allowed to participate is abhorrent and ruins the whole event. The manufactured famine continues and EBU countries are all complicit.

Sadly, and those who know me from the before times know how sadly, I just cannot enjoy a party that the perpetrators of an ongoing genocide have been invited to, so my Eurovision fast continues for another year.

Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092?st=sF3Wvo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Today is IDAHoBiT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia. This year it hits particularly hard. We need to do better: as a society, as a Party, and as individuals. We have a great record, but can't rest on our laurels. We're in the fight to do better, and won't let up. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💛

Can't disagree with a word of this

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

That Wes Streeting, a gay man who used to work at stonewall, is having to attempt to rebuild bridges with his own community because he burnt them by selling us out in the hope of getting his slimy hands on the keys to 10 Downing Street is shameful. May he never be welcome in an LGBTQ+ space again.

The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill gives the UK state unprecedented powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving benefits. You won't be told, can't appeal against it and no court order is needed. Are you ready for it?

This is what you get when an ideological void with no political backbone becomes Prime Minister, a speech that would have sounded harsh coming from a Tory happening purely because they are terrified of local elections results.

Dear everyone surprised by Keir Starmer echoing Enoch Powell... @teamlabouruk.bsky.social has been taking you for mugs since before 2015 - they have taken every opportunity to lean into UKIP Brexit / Tory rhetoric. The anti-immigration noises aren't new. Even Corbyn was incredibly weak on this.

At this level of politics there is no way someone didn't know Starmer's "island of strangers" line would be heard loud and clear as a dog whistle by far-right groups in the vein of Powell's "found themselves made strangers in their own country". Just stop with the defences of it. It was deliberate.

Immigration hasn’t caused incalculable harm to the U.K.. The opposite. It has caused incalculable benefit to the U.K.