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Pro EU, gay, definitely know that trams / light rail can transform our cities 😊 Love travel and photography. Retired Controller for Uk TOC.
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just in case you needed to see the bigger picture… these are all galaxies. galaxies with hundreds of BILLIONS of stars and BILLIONS even TRILLIONS of planets and this is just a small portion of the sky. there’s no way we could possibly be alone in this universe.

Dear Mr Eliot I read your novel, The Mill on the Floss, with interest, however at this agency we specialise in giving a voice to female writers. Do you have a sister? Little Point Literary #WritingCommunity

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#photography #Nature #Bird #Birds #Finch #Goldfinch

It’s clear when some wish to divide us. Let’s steer away from scare tactics and undermining human rights - and actually focus on protecting and upholding human rights that help us all. That includes the European Convention on Human Rights. 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Foliate heads Down Cathedral

Even Zionists admit #ItWasAScam - but they're still playing the antisemitism card, and politicians are pretending to lap it up

Friday’s NY Post cover is pure gold

It's amazing how the same politicians can describe VAT on public school fees as an attack on aspirational parents and then argue that free school meals for poor kids are a waste of money

Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car.

😡 "Labour's Planning and Infrastructure Bill will allow developers to circumvent an EU-derived Habitats Directive which protects animals including otters, salmon and dormice. It will also allow potential development of EU-designated special protection areas and sites of special scientific interest."

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Why would it be the “wrong signal”, @aussenminister.diplo.de? Because it would give starving and maimed children hope? Because it would acknowledge an ethnic group as a people? Never in my lifetime did I expect I’d see Germany backing a govt committing persecution, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

⭐️ 50 YEARS AGO TODAY ⭐️ 17.4 million people voted “Yes” to Europe… …the single largest vote for any single proposition in the UK’s history. This 17.4M was from a pop at the time of just 56M - and represented a massive 67% of all votes cast. Let’s do it again. #RejoinEU

Let's get real.

🔴 Scottish Labour win pivotal Holyrood byelection, beating incumbent SNP and surging Reform UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour wins Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election www.bbc.com/news/article...

via Coral Fineman

The president of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itnoo announcing a reciprocal travel ban on Americans: "Chad has neither airplanes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad does have its own dignity and pride."

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.

The Burqas question at PMQs was not a mistake, it was a carefully choreographed rhetoric to distract the press and stop them asking embarrassing questions about how Reform will fund their policies ahead of this weeks by-election!

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government.

Superhero pose. #birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #photography #audubonsociety

“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich

Just making some more popcorn

Netanyahu's only argument is, "If you point out we're committing war crimes and crimes against humanity every day, then you're supporting Hamas". But that exposes the neverending lie behind his narrative of only wanting to "wipe out Hamas". Because for him, everyone who criticises him is Hamas!

Three simple phrases to continuously repeat until he is truly defeated: Farage created Brexit. Farage wants to remove the NHS. Farage doesn’t understand Climate Collapse.

📷 The Opening Ceremony of the #Jerusalem Train Station (Paİestine), September 26, 1892 #RailroadHistory

‘Interesting’ that the BBC desire for balance never extends to defence issues. It conveys UK policy on nuclear weapons uncritically. No dissenting viewpoint from, e.g. CND or Trident Ploughshares. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Raise your hand if you’re not even a meteorologist and you still know there’s a hurricane season.

And there it is... the greatest header in modern history.

Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

Keir War-monger Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... #WelfareNotWarfare

I don’t get the fascination with Farage, is it the creepiness, the lies, the blatant racism, the elite pretending to be man of the people schtick, maybe it’s the double standards, the fakery, the manipulation, perhaps it’s the money grubbing and Nazi sympathies that appeal

Oh look! Tax rises. Can’t do it to improve services, fund welfare, improve infrastructure etc. But of course, we can do it for weapons and destruction. apple.news/AKAAnraHWThy...

It’s simple & it’s clear & it has to be said.

France is our closest ally. Isabel Oakeshott is ridiculous. Two facts you will never read on the pages of the Telegraph.

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

No one wins in a nuclear war, this bravado of increased nuclear capability means nada as it doesnt offer any more protection than you currently have, disgusting waste of money. apple.news/A4CMg0N4yQbO...

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

We don’t want war. We want hospitals that function. We want children who aren’t hungry. We want properly-funded schools.

Funny how we can never find money for public services, welfare etc…but we can suddenly find £12 fucking billion for war isn’t it? apple.news/A4CMg0N4yQbO...