forestlights.bsky.social
In the darkest places, look for those pinpoints of light. I’m happy to be here and no longer in the cesspit.
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No elections this year. EFDC is being replaced by a new unitary authority shortly.
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I want to know what political capital Starmers advisers reckons he will get from selling us out to the US versus closer ties with the EU. Because I bet they are out of touch with public opinion and favouring the former will do Labour much more harm than good.
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We are letting the right wing build a large future voter base by failing as a society to recognise and tackle this insidious ‘manosphere’ indoctrination that plays to base instincts. Misogyny, anti-woke, it’s all about breaking society and pitting us against each other.
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It’s not the chlorine that’s the problem so much as the appalling animal husbandry and food preparation standards that it is used to cover up. But US consumers only seem to care about the bottom line rather than what goes into their bodies.
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You Americans need to spend less time claiming unfairness about our food standards and instead get your farming practices improved. Then people who aren’t forced to buy your food might choose to buy it. But you seem obsessed with your ‘right’ to ignore rules.
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Just look at all the desperate US tourism and airline adverts online at the moment. They will be giving holidays away soon and still people won’t take them up on it.
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www.independent.co.uk/life-style/c...
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People had European stocks down as ‘boring’ and the US was where all the action was. Now it is the wrong sort of action investors may relish investing in Boring!
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I really didn’t have ‘Dollar losing its reserve status to the Euro’ on my list!
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Did we have ‘Dollar losing its reserve currency status to the Euro’ on the Bingo card?
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Oops - crimes = times!
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I would add socks to that. Although t-shirts can go more than 1 day as long as you haven’t had reason to get sweaty.
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Apparently they have issued official guidance in France about the number of crimes you should wear clothes before washing due to the energy and ecological issues it causes from washing following every wear.
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There has been an explosion in adverts for the US and particularly US airlines over the past month. Seems they are getting a bit concerned.
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I know no reason was given, but the situation with the steelworks seems a possibility.
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And wouldn’t need early check in. You would lose time at the frontier station but gain it at the origin stations. If you didn’t have the right paperwork you would just land up being dumped in a field in northern France!
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Then you wouldn’t need any special facilities at all in the European destinations.
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Are we expecting to station UK Border Force at railway stations all over Europe? This could be the limiting factor. Maybe better to plan for a big ‘UK frontier’ station with numerous platforms in a field in Northern France where everyone gets off, through immigration, and then back on again?
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Which is what anyone would expect a leader to do as your focus is on your teams operation. Her only mistake was referencing the ‘US Administration’ in her email.
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So do the public need to know if dangerous / desperate criminals may be hiding in their gardens and outbuildings?
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According to right wing MAGA fanboys we have no freedom of speech in the UK 🤷♂️
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Grift as you Drift.
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When media organisations calculate oligarchs wealth they do it based mainly on their publicly registered equities holdings. Not many people know how much hard cash he actually has access to.
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Panopticon?
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Everyone is trying to buy one before the price increases next Wednesday.
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They were going to drop that for transfer passengers, but I guess if you go through the border control they have no idea where you are then going to go.
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Nope - from 9th April 2025. Next Wednesday. Which is why try the system is struggling with everyone rushing to get one before then.
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£16 from next week.
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Making his base think he is going to reinstate blue collar manufacturing jobs is very different to actually doing it. It’ll now turn into a ‘jam tomorrow’ fantasy to keep them onside whilst he strengthens his grip on power further. Surely his tech bros have told him those jobs are never coming back?
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We are in danger of this government using this ‘win’ as cover to agree a trade deal with the USA that sells us to the tech giants whilst simultaneously destroying our links with the EU. Supine appeasement to Trump whilst everyone else is standing up to him.
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Or a smuggler.
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Exactly what it is - doing his usual whitewashing of reality by playing the ‘Making America Great again’ card over and over and over again. His supporters lap it up.
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Probably didn’t want to go below 10% in case it ‘sounds weak’.
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Any dog can turn without warning. But not any dog can do the damage an XL Bully can.
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Yes it was a rescue dog, but again there are thousands of dogs needing rescuing every year. Having had a family member with a powerful dog I know full well that a major reason is ‘intimidatory home & personal security’ but this is never admitted openly by owners.
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I read the story and it didn’t answer its own question. All it got from the owner is that she doesn’t consider her dog a weapon or status symbol and is sad when people get attacked by ‘bad’ dogs. The question for her is why an XL Bully and not one of hundreds of other breeds that are less dangerous.
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The new lease might give him more control and certainty over Diego Garcia than the previous agreement with the UK - who ‘may not be an ally in future’.
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You got in there quick 🤣
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About time!
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Is this the less capable version that Trump was saying we would get?
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Unfortunately the only years I have missing were back in the mid-90s, so too long ago.
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Rather than point fingers at organisations in other countries maybe we should be focussed closer to home at the lack of funding for mental health counselling given the huge societal problems we have in this area.
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We have worked hard to improve our food production chain standards in the UK - now Farage wants to undercut and thus destroy the UK industry with by letting in low quality product from the USA.
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The point about chlorinated chicken is not so much the chlorine but the fact that it is used to ‘cover up’ poor animal husbandry and food preparation processes. Practices that we find unacceptable but are widespread in the USA.
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This explains the huge rise in airline & Visit USA advertising of late. Yesterday Waterloo station was covered in Visit LA adverts. They are wasting their efforts which would be better spent lobbying Trumps administration to stop harassing tourists. In the meantime start cancelling flight capacity.
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We have kids in the UK who quote more about Trumps agenda than our own government. Because of how much we allow ourselves to be dominated by it. FFS why is my teenage niece telling me that Trump is better than Harris who ‘would have been a disaster’
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Yes - but not to the level we are allowing ourselves to be drawn into Trumps narrative domination game.
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Personally, for all our sanity in the UK, we need to stop allowing ourselves to be sucked into the ‘flood the zone’ tactics of Trumps game and instead concentrate on our own governance. This is caused by our journalists not giving the necessary distance.
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They might have to stop pretending they have the same access to MAGA as US journalists and instead start treating reporting the USA as they currently report Russia - with a certain distance.