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Hike, bike, bothy, belay, veg, politics, Can, quirky, community, film, gigs. “I have moments”.
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Greetings good people of Clacton. Nigel is putting his entire being into his job as your M P. He cares about you very deeply. M P’s earnings from not being an M P …

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Oh! It turns out that the Chair / Former Chair / Chair of Reform UK is an idiot prone to misunderstanding the basics of political machinery, and rushing to politically motivated conclusions. Well done Bear!

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Is it normal, when buying a company, to ask for immunity for crimes that the company might then commit? Anyone know any examples of this happening? Thought not. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Emma strikes again.

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Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop. If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

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How these anti-20mph gasbags must hate live children. etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

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It’s in my brain. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Stop! It hurts!!

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Do people on Bluesky not realise that if you copy someone else’s topical joke and the subject is trending (which is probably why they saw it in the first place), then their appropriation will end up in a long list of other appropriations? (Musk Trump Drake Lamar two Drakes).

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J D Vance denies the evidence seen by, well, hundreds of millions of people.

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Anyone seen a Republican tweet or post or press release about the US troops who helped defeat fascism on D-Day??

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I just want to say that I’ve been at a few French campsites over the last 2 weeks with gender neutral toilet and shower blocks. You didn’t know who was in the next cubicle to you - could have been male, female, gay, trans, bisexual, undecided … No problems to report.

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The ballad of Elon and Trump 🎶 Cry baby Trumpy Elon’s gone all grumpy Gone to stick his dagger in To baby Trumpy’s very thin skin 🎶

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So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

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Shocked, I tell you, shocked!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Oh dear - we’re not very good at this government malarkey are we?

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You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can often judge a man by his hair-do. www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

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And - in US political news today - a ketamine addled man-child describes a narcissistic man-child’s policies as abominable. And we have to care about this playground rumpus?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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It’s mine, all mine I tell you, mine. I’ve bought it. With money. So you can’t have it. Ha ha! Bridehead not to be revisited. Dolts! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment