Going to go back to staying the hell away from social media again now.

Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).

I spend weeks off social media and feel much happier. Then drunkenly think "let's check into Bluesky, see what's happening". Instant bad mood. See next retweet.

“Rather than getting despondent - which is easy, at the moment - we’ve got to mobilise, we’ve got to get active." — HOPE not hate CEO @nicklowles.bsky.social, speaking to @theguardian.com today.

It's time to tell the racists to fuck off Anti-racism norms are good and should be socially enforced

It's time to tell the racists to fuck off (FREE TO READ!)

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I have some books to read, some TV series to watch, some friends to chat to and some music to listen to instead. See you anon.

I'm going to take a bit of a break from here, as I already spend too much time thinking about politics as it is ... and trying to resist the urge to respond to people's "takes" is not helping me on the mental health front, quite frankly.

Imagine actually being in a relationship with this fucker. *shudders*

Some advertising execs must have decent tastes in music, I suppose.

This is a thought that pops into my head a lot.

CRICKETERS. Shout "CATCH IT" when a ball is hurtling towards your team mate's face in case he hasn't thought of that. HP., Arbeth Narbeth

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Bloody hell, they're using The Slits' cover of Heard it through the Grapevine in an advert.

Yes, it's a great little ground

Good of the players to allow themselves to get absolutely stuffed, for some real Heywood Road nostalgia 😉

Thank God for the Rugby season. Now I can give my brain a break from worrying about, well, just about bloody everything, by worrying about fifteen blokes chucking an oval-shaped ball about instead.

So proud of Angela Rayner, caught out by the complexity of trust law and acting with the highest standards of ethical responsibility to resign . Unlike ‘seven flats ‘ Jeremy Hunt and he was only one of very very many .

Now for Farage to resign as MP for tax dodging .

The Sale Rugby enormodome at Heywood Road

The walk in to the The Heywood Road enormodome

Back at Sale's old ground, in yer' actual suburb of Sale. Small but perfectly formed. Here to watch a pre-season friendly against Connacht.

Top 10 areas for productivity growth in England. Greater Manchester is top in recent years.

Greater Manchester has been the fastest growing part of the country in the past decade – measured either by total growth or by productivity growth. I’ve had a look into the data to try to work out what is growing and why.

Below are some of the things I have found.

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A sea of bluebells in our ancient woodland

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour

William Blake

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A picture of the musical group Foreigner, announcing their new tour

Bloody Foreigner. Coming over here, with their 50th anniversary tour.

I am genuinely astonished by all those American patriots who go into raptures over trad, based, family, Christian, the thin blue line, the spirit of '76, minutemen, brave underdogs with weapons in hand kicking ass, revolutions for freedom, nation, and values...

Replace 'key' with 'security pass' and this could be someone's working life now. Good to see some things haven't changed after several centuries.

We're only making plans for Nigel

Labour in government

Want a summary of the bills/acts the Labour government have been working on since they came in power?

I've put one together here.

44 bills, 24 of which have got Royal Assent and become law.

You can see when each bill passed each stage in each house. I've highlighted those still progressing.

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I love this. So much movement!

As far as I can tell, Rayner has actually gone out of her way to pay *more* tax.

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang.
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It's full of excellent quotes, albeit in translation.

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