Bartek
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First #parkrun after long (over a year) break, it felt nice to be back! Weather and the scenery certainly helped! #peckhamrye
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Want back into the Single Market?
Then Freedom of Movement comes with it.
Good.
Because Freedom of Movement wasn't something Britain gave to Europe.
It was a freedom WE had too.
It's time we started talking about getting it back.
Then Freedom of Movement comes with it.
Good.
Because Freedom of Movement wasn't something Britain gave to Europe.
It was a freedom WE had too.
It's time we started talking about getting it back.
Macron says ‘welcome back’ to Burnham suggestion UK could rejoin EU
French president, speaking alongside Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez, says EU bid would be good news for UK and Europeans
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Want back into the Single Market?
Then Freedom of Movement comes with it.
Good.
Because Freedom of Movement wasn't something Britain gave to Europe.
It was a freedom WE had too.
It's time we started talking about getting it back.
Then Freedom of Movement comes with it.
Good.
Because Freedom of Movement wasn't something Britain gave to Europe.
It was a freedom WE had too.
It's time we started talking about getting it back.
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Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
September 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Given where we are at economically I’d honestly be fine with just pausing the next generation of consoles for a few more years. There seems to be little excitement, they will cost too much, and the current gen is still delivering eye-popping visuals.
August 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Given where we are at economically I’d honestly be fine with just pausing the next generation of consoles for a few more years. There seems to be little excitement, they will cost too much, and the current gen is still delivering eye-popping visuals.
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A reminder that foreign-born UK citizens include Boris Johnson, Daniel Hannan, Allister Heath, Katharine Birbalsingh, Cliff Richard, Emma Watson, Millie Bobby Brown, Mo Farah, Emma Raducanu, Princess Lilibet of Sussex, Zia Yusuf's parents, Suella Braverman's husband and Robert Jenrick's wife.
Reform says it would put foreign-born UK citizens lower on social housing list
UK-born married couples under 35 with children would get priority under proposals to be outlined by Farage’s party
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM
A reminder that foreign-born UK citizens include Boris Johnson, Daniel Hannan, Allister Heath, Katharine Birbalsingh, Cliff Richard, Emma Watson, Millie Bobby Brown, Mo Farah, Emma Raducanu, Princess Lilibet of Sussex, Zia Yusuf's parents, Suella Braverman's husband and Robert Jenrick's wife.
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Today’s politicians should not bind generations of tomorrow any more than Brexiters who gave us Brexit should oblige us to be outside the EU forever more.
I don’t agree with your framing that the euro or economic conditions are restrictive on EU members. Presumably they are glad to be in the euro.
I don’t agree with your framing that the euro or economic conditions are restrictive on EU members. Presumably they are glad to be in the euro.
August 18, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Today’s politicians should not bind generations of tomorrow any more than Brexiters who gave us Brexit should oblige us to be outside the EU forever more.
I don’t agree with your framing that the euro or economic conditions are restrictive on EU members. Presumably they are glad to be in the euro.
I don’t agree with your framing that the euro or economic conditions are restrictive on EU members. Presumably they are glad to be in the euro.
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The newly independent Double Fine is laying off staff today, three weeks after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring.
July 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The newly independent Double Fine is laying off staff today, three weeks after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring.
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What about the elephant in the room of cars still increasing in size and weight, being more dangerous for other people participating in traffic. Cars with shapes that make them more dangerous so they look "better" and more "muscular". Cars with more powerful engines designed for reckless driving.
🚨 New research by us! 📣
Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs
Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10
Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs
Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10
July 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
What about the elephant in the room of cars still increasing in size and weight, being more dangerous for other people participating in traffic. Cars with shapes that make them more dangerous so they look "better" and more "muscular". Cars with more powerful engines designed for reckless driving.
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Anyone resigning in anger is IMHO making a huge mistake. I cannot believe there will not be other candidates.
June 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Anyone resigning in anger is IMHO making a huge mistake. I cannot believe there will not be other candidates.
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I will NOT be giving up my membership because to do so would give the far right one more tiny victory towards their aim of taking over the UK. We may not like what's happening, but Labour remain the ONLY bulwark against the far right.
June 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I will NOT be giving up my membership because to do so would give the far right one more tiny victory towards their aim of taking over the UK. We may not like what's happening, but Labour remain the ONLY bulwark against the far right.
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What if he proves to be good?
June 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
What if he proves to be good?
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Be a David Attenborough in world of Trumps, Farages, Musks, and Putins.
May 8, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Be a David Attenborough in world of Trumps, Farages, Musks, and Putins.
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REMINDER FOR INSTAGRAM USERS: Starting this Friday, May 8th, Instagram DM's will no longer be end-to-end encrypted.
Read more about it here: https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
Read more about it here: https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
May 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
REMINDER FOR INSTAGRAM USERS: Starting this Friday, May 8th, Instagram DM's will no longer be end-to-end encrypted.
Read more about it here: https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
Read more about it here: https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
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Been meaning to write about the MacBook Neo, so I’m finally sitting down to gather my thoughts...
April 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Been meaning to write about the MacBook Neo, so I’m finally sitting down to gather my thoughts...
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This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
Starmer announces that the UK is pursuing closer EU relations:
“Brexit did deep damage to our economy. And the opportunities to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore. We want to be more ambitious. Closer economic cooperation. Closer security cooperation.”
“Brexit did deep damage to our economy. And the opportunities to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore. We want to be more ambitious. Closer economic cooperation. Closer security cooperation.”
April 1, 2026 at 3:47 PM
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
@radio-357.bsky.social Oh là là ! niedzielny poranek bez “Merde” ☹️ mam nadzieję że wszytko ponaprawiane. 👍👍
March 22, 2026 at 8:18 AM
@radio-357.bsky.social Oh là là ! niedzielny poranek bez “Merde” ☹️ mam nadzieję że wszytko ponaprawiane. 👍👍
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Due to the way French elections are counted, local counts at the polling station that are collated, rather than moving all ballot boxes to a central location, counts are very quick compared to the UK.
March 15, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Due to the way French elections are counted, local counts at the polling station that are collated, rather than moving all ballot boxes to a central location, counts are very quick compared to the UK.
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A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.
I made the group and invited six people.
SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.
... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)
I made the group and invited six people.
SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.
... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)
February 21, 2026 at 3:37 PM
A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.
I made the group and invited six people.
SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.
... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)
I made the group and invited six people.
SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.
... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)
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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 AM
There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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We apologize. We’ve tried to put him down but he has a wet nappy and it makes him cwanky. Do have a spare Nobel prize? They’re shiny and he likes to suck on them. They keep him entertained. Do you have a royal he could play with? Perhaps a play date with prince Andrew? they have much in common
Oi, America - please come collect your geriatric orange demagogue.
He’s threatening Europe again and we’re all very tired. Enough of this shit now.
Signed,
Europe
He’s threatening Europe again and we’re all very tired. Enough of this shit now.
Signed,
Europe
January 18, 2026 at 8:56 AM
We apologize. We’ve tried to put him down but he has a wet nappy and it makes him cwanky. Do have a spare Nobel prize? They’re shiny and he likes to suck on them. They keep him entertained. Do you have a royal he could play with? Perhaps a play date with prince Andrew? they have much in common
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us.
But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.
But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us.
But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.
But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.
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I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
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Świadomość polskiej historii? To nie “rana, która nie chce się zagoić, ale … jasność moralna”.
Nieufność do instytucji? Zdrowy sceptycyzm zrodzony z twardego doświadczenia.
Piękny i wzruszający list miłosny @benstanley.eu do Polski, Polaków i polskości.
kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/12/30/b...
Nieufność do instytucji? Zdrowy sceptycyzm zrodzony z twardego doświadczenia.
Piękny i wzruszający list miłosny @benstanley.eu do Polski, Polaków i polskości.
kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/12/30/b...
Brytyjczycy w przeciwieństwie do Polaków ufali państwu. Niepotrzebnie
Ben Stanley, Brytyjczyk od lat mieszkający w Polsce, odpowiada na esej Jarosława Kuisza o polskości.
kulturaliberalna.pl
December 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Świadomość polskiej historii? To nie “rana, która nie chce się zagoić, ale … jasność moralna”.
Nieufność do instytucji? Zdrowy sceptycyzm zrodzony z twardego doświadczenia.
Piękny i wzruszający list miłosny @benstanley.eu do Polski, Polaków i polskości.
kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/12/30/b...
Nieufność do instytucji? Zdrowy sceptycyzm zrodzony z twardego doświadczenia.
Piękny i wzruszający list miłosny @benstanley.eu do Polski, Polaków i polskości.
kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/12/30/b...
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France Info: Brigitte Bardot est morte à l'âge de 91 ans.
December 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
France Info: Brigitte Bardot est morte à l'âge de 91 ans.