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Do you live in Welwyn Hatfield? Is this your MP?

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The joys of soft play. My almost 2 year old granddaughter has just taken me to the top of this. I was terrified! 68 year olds shouldn’t be allowed on this!

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ChatGPT is asked to create a map of Ireland and ends up doing the "if your nation wore jeans would it wear them like this?" meme. [Posting with alt-text I've spent far too long writing, in an attempt to convey just how gloriously, horrifyingly shit this is]

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I'm still watching this

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I support US Senators who don't wish for me to DIE...Just a bare standard...🤔

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A glowing commendation for Durham county council’s new Reform UK leader Andrew Husband from his party’s spokesman: “Andrew is a business leader with a proven track record of growth in start-ups and building successful teams.” 🧵 1/3

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mondoweiss.net/2025/05/poll...

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Petition has passed the threshold for a response: "Impose economic sanctions on Israel." The government will respond to this petition as it has 10001 signatures #PetitionAwaitingResponse

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Petition has passed the threshold for a response: "Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza" The government will respond to this petition as it has 10002 signatures #PetitionAwaitingResponse

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HUGE: The Co-op just voted to ban Israeli products — but the board are already facing pressure to ignore the vote. Let’s build pressure so they follow through. Add your name: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

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Petition has passed the threshold for a response: "Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel & seek ceasefire in Gaza" The government will respond to this petition as it has 10003 signatures #PetitionAwaitingResponse

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"Where should I go? There is no safe place in Gaza"

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Labour complicit in profiteering from creating destitution

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This goes for getting ANY advice from ANY Large Language Model (LLM). They are designed to speak like a human and nothing else. They will just make things up or reference false information or jokes as serious because LLMs do not know anything! They have no cognition or theory of mind!

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#OtD 29 May 1984 2000 police used horses and baton charges to force lorries through picket lines into the Orgreave coking plant during the UK miners' strike. It was the police's first use of riot gear during the strike stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1012...

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Donating to a starving Palestinian family so they and their kids can eat is not a crime in the US. If you are helping with a fundraiser for Palestinians, and have questions about how to make sure your fundraiser complies with applicable law, just talk to a lawyer. Please stop fearmongering.

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Thanks @dumbfounded104.bsky.social

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STAY IN YOUR LANE! You dog killing bitch! Could you imagine if a foreign politician came to the US and told us how to vote!! WTF!? I guarantee we’re about to see MASIVE protest in Poland! This administration is so EMBARRASSING!! 🤬😡

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Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

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Confirmed - Radisson Hotels say they're pulling their ads from the GB News website following our joint action with @goodlawproject.bsky.social 👏👏👏 A huge thank you to the 6,000 people who have already taken action - let's keep this going! goodlaw.social/sfh

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Telling how when the attacker is a middle class, white company director who "lives in a cul-de-sac" it's automatically framed as an "out of character" moment of madness

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I think about this every day

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If Wes Streeting is so concerned about rebuilding the NHS, he should ensuring that there are enough training jobs for doctors and jobs for GPs to care for patients. He is the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, after all. 🚨 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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We don't have a migrant crisis. We have an austerity crisis brewed by a Prime Minister without a spine. I sat down with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social to talk about why it's not time for slow, incremental change. It's time for bold leadership. #BackZack youtu.be/J7zmTZYQVzw?...

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More than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges have written to the prime minister urging him to impose sanctions on the Israeli government. We need to see definitive action from Keir Starmer to meet fundamental legal obligations to prevent and punish genocide in Gaza.

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We shouldn’t cut support for disabled people - we should tax the ultra-wealthy instead. Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts. Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...

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Zero leadership. Labour are just doing whatever Reform does. It's embarrassing. They have no ideas, no principles and just chase headlines and focus groups. Vote Labour get Reform.

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The best defence I've heard of the Labour Party today is: Vote Labour because Reform lite is still better than Reform. I say F*** that! Vote Green.

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'...exposing the war's psychological toll: nearly half of Gaza's children are now suicidal, asking, "Why didn't I die with my family?" "You cannot claim ignorance," he concluded, "when children no longer want to live."' youtu.be/W5B1MO1PW3M?...

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Taking a train should be cheaper and more convenient than flying or driving. For that we need public ownership & control of the whole rail network and rolling stock, now. Not just expiring operator franchises.

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UK approach to bank frauds. HSBC fined $1.9bn in the US for money laundering. UK Chancellor Osborne, regulators protected it. No investigation. £1bn HBOS frauds: FCA/SFO passed the buck to LLoyds Bank. Promised report in 2018. None published. No inquiry. Corporate crime facilitated by the state.

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Amidst the driest Spring in 69 years, the National Drought Group says many water companies’ plan for drought is « simply praying for rain. » Selling off reservoirs, failing to invest, polluting our water – these acts undermine our national water security. It's time for public ownership.

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Rest in power. Another journalist in Gaza killed 💔 Moataz Rajab was a cameraman and editor, killed by an Israeli air strike. Journalists killed by Israel since the start of the genocidal war has reached over 220.

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My view has always been that flags and nationalism are for football fans, children and dickheads, and the thing that won me over to Scottish independence is basically the same thing that makes a fox caught in a snare stop and ask itself: do I really need four legs.

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