LaurenceM

LaurenceM

@biglarry2k23.bsky.social

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Retired ex IT: social fairness campaigner: praying for Tories to be wiped from politics and independence for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 if it chooses. Morton Fc fan for my sins.Home is West of Scotland on the River Clyde. Sometimes Yamaha T7 🏍️ rider: VW T5

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Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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Re: what I said yesterday - credit where credit is due to @rbreich.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025 | Robert Reichwww.theguardian.com The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more

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The Economist has some astonishing figures on Russian losses in Ukraine. They surpass all losses by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation from 1945 to 2022 combined. Up to 728,000 soldiers eliminated, confirming Ukraine’s figures. 1/2

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BBC News has been community noted on Twitter for their appalling headline. Time to put the BBC “back in the service of the people” as a public, not Tory & ReFUK, broadcaster.

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Reform spent £108,413 on Meta ads for each seat they won, the Lib Dems just £3,700.

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Michelle 💙🌊😷🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Posting this again to drive the point home.

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What’s revealing about Donald Trump loudly disavowing Project 2025 and falsely denying any knowledge of it is that clearly he knows how damaging it can be to his election bid.

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Stolen from that other place, but made me laugh! 😅 Baker?… Gullis?… Mercer?… Mordaunt?… Rees-Mogg?… Shapps?… Shapps, using any other name?… No?… Truss?….”

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This will be doubly awkward as the number of NOMINATIONS required for a candidate to make the Tory Leadership ballot ISN'T a percentage. It's a fixed number. 100 MPs. I'm sure it sounded reasonable at the time. Good luck getting 100 Tory MPs to agree on something when there are only 121 of them.

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My latest post on where we are with Covid in England (likely at, or just after, the peak but it's been a big wave). And a look ahead... open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Is the current Covid wave in England peaking?open.substack.com Yes - probably. Plus looking ahead to the future.

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For people like this is why, as a Spaniard, I don't have respect for those who defend facism and everything it did. And seeing how the country is going just makes me sad.

Amada García Rodriguez (1911 – 1938) was a Galician Communist activist. She lived in the Galician village of Mugardos. She was arrested while pregnant, and after she gave birth she was shot along with seven other people at St Philip's Castle by Francoist military forces during the Spanish Civil War.

@chadbourn.bsky.social anyone wants a simple list of who won , and another who lost , by constituency, here’s a link to House of Commons Library - two download links to excel files and you can sort and filter them - brilliant to look down the losers lists commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

General election 2024 resultscommonslibrary.parliament.uk Interim summary results of the 4th July 2024 general election, where Labour won a majority in Parliament

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Jess Phillips and Shabana Mahmood speak of election intimidation

Jess Phillips and Shabana Mahmood speak of election intimidationwww.bbc.com "This election has been the worst election I have ever stood in," Labour's Jess Phillips tells the count.

Aw shucks ! Poor George Galloway is dumped ! He was so distraught he didn’t turn up for the podium .. hardly worth the by election victory a few weeks ago - forced to take his hat off and all !! Who knew he was a wee bit thin up top ??

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GB News hilariously gets exit poll wrong Close them down www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/g...

GB News hilariously gets exit poll wrongwww.thelondoneconomic.com GB News messes up exit poll during live broadcast. The poll numbers suggested the Conservatives had 410 seats and Labour had 131.

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Despite having a third the speed and a different processor entirely, Sonic the Hedgehog (SMS) was successfully ported to a Commodore 64 - and the music and motion look great on the old breadbox.

Commodore 64 Longplay [158] Sonic the Hedgehog (Homebrew/NTSC Mode)www.youtube.com World of Longplays (YouTube)

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A fake Instagram account in my name (with underscore) is messaging people who know me. Don’t know what the scam is, but please watch out… and if people on Insta could report it, I’d be really grateful.

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What Gary says.

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Poop in rivers not always the fault of water companies Farm fined after collapsed slurry store polluted 12km of rivers www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/2442579...

Farm ordered to pay £13,000 after collapsed slurry store polluted 12km of riverswww.westerntelegraph.co.uk A FARM has been ordered to pay more than £13,000 after a catastrophic collapse of their slurry store polluted at least 12km of waterways.

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Rishi Sunak lowered tax on champagne the same day he cut funding to rebuild schools... Watch this then go and vote. youtu.be/cKAeO-5saqQ?...

2024 Election Specials. 4. The Conservativesyoutu.be Pie's last rant about the Tories before the election.

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🔊Sisters across the UK - it's voting day! Get out and vote. Exercise the right that our great-great-(great) grandmas fought so hard for. #UKElection Suffrage procession, Princes Street, Edinburgh, 1909 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿"A gude cause maks a strong arm" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿"Better say that it is than it was or it will be"

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Portillogeddon.com tonight anyone?

PORTILLOGEDDONportillogeddon.com Conservative Wipeout Bingo 2024

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Bereaved Lancaster mum's warning over social media craze

Bereaved Lancaster mum's warning over social media craze www.bbc.com Tommie-lee Gracie Billington's mum says she does not want anyone else to suffer like her family has.

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4 of us at my dad’s funeral. While they demonstrated their contempt for the people and country, by not adhering to the law, and not being professional, in any way.

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Election eve...

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People think the Murdoch press is bad now. It’s not, not remotely, compared to how it used to be, and magnified because they had huge sales then. Here, via historian Robert Saunders, The Sun consulted a medium to discover Stalin would have voted Labour, Churchill for Thatcher. Genghis Khan was a DN

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a.k.a #LiarJohnson

Christian Adams Yes, never forget what the 🤡 did to this country! #GTTO