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Brit immigrant in Germany & happy to have escaped the Other Place. Pro-EU; history PhD, teacher, former Victoria County History researcher and writer; ‘Indian’ food fanatic with ridiculously full spice cupboard. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦
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In other news, Kremlin encourages Russian citizens to have lice: “They’re the only friends we’ve got now.” www.dw.com/en/russia-wh...

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Don’t let Andry be forgotten. #FreeAndry 🏳️‍🌈

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Zelensky wore a sweater and pants to show solidarity with his troops and he got destroyed, but Bukele showed up looking like the manager of a Staten Island nightclub and no one said a goddamn word.

submitted 3 days ago • 350 comments

French activists successfully prevented former RT France director Xenia Fedorova from presenting her book cynically titled "Bannie" (banned) at a book show today in Paris Well done! Russian propaganda poison must be eradicated.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Washed down with a bucket of cold vomit. I understand the gene pool for UK politicians is thin stuff these days, but come on, you want to sanitise this catastrophe?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

submitted 9 days ago • 523 comments

HE HAS MADE HIS FILM AGAIN AND I AM HERE FOR IT. AGAIN. youtu.be/GEuMnPl2WI4?...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I hope we aren’t sharing this with the treacherous crooks in the US government.

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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

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Having accepted that the DM is a hate-sheet aimed at morons, racists and the very worst in society, Johnson’s boilerplate bigotry becomes part of the circus and outrage dissipates. Just because they put a top hat on a swine don’t expect it to have human qualities.

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Lithuanians in Vilnius paid more respects to the 4 American troops who died in Lithuania than Donald Trump…who ran off to go golfing.

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