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Philip Payne

@philipsw16

Retired librarian, gay, interested in history, travel, politics, gardening, genealogy etc πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ. Originally from Leicester, now in London.

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Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

02.06.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 23143 πŸ” 2527 πŸ’¬ 722 πŸ“Œ 269
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Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth

03.06.2025 12:35 πŸ‘ 19932 πŸ” 14839 πŸ’¬ 362 πŸ“Œ 712
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BREAKING NEWS: New water aerobics class gets off to a great start.

30.04.2025 20:09 πŸ‘ 10802 πŸ” 1397 πŸ’¬ 156 πŸ“Œ 100
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

01.05.2025 05:26 πŸ‘ 2462 πŸ” 1032 πŸ’¬ 153 πŸ“Œ 89

I get that the pope is an important person to around 9% of the UK, who identify as Catholic, but is there nothing else going on in the world apart from the death of an 88 yr old? It's complete media overload.
#Pope

23.04.2025 07:07 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 1
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Why St George of England? A humorous look at the St George tradition

Why St George of England?
A humorous look at the St George tradition

northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/why-...

23.04.2025 07:34 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

And it's the mistake that the Labour Party is making. Trying to appease those who hate the Labour party and will never vote for it.

22.04.2025 22:54 πŸ‘ 706 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 11
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🌈In honour of #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we want to highlight a blog written by a lesbian woman from Uganda with refugee status in the UK, who we supported in seeking safety here.

Read the full blog: buff.ly/lZPU1Hb

23.04.2025 07:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Aboriginal community co-curates exhibition at Manchester Museum following repatriation - Museums Association Ongoing collaboration formed after museum returned 174 objects to Warnindilyakwa people in 2023

News | Aboriginal community co-curates exhibition at Manchester Museum following repatriation – ongoing collaboration formed after museum returned 174 objects to Warnindilyakwa people in 2023

08.04.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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😁😁😁

04.04.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 2075 πŸ” 372 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 10
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

28.03.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 14741 πŸ” 4881 πŸ’¬ 543 πŸ“Œ 497
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How can we ever forget !

22.03.2025 09:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

17.03.2025 18:15 πŸ‘ 16808 πŸ” 7048 πŸ’¬ 535 πŸ“Œ 847
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Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938.

History doesn't change it just repeats.

12.03.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 2598 πŸ” 1014 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 61
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Trump claims he's the only US president who was shot.

Six US presidents have been shot.

Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

The first four died as a result.

12.03.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 212 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 15
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11.03.2025 22:57 πŸ‘ 1525 πŸ” 364 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 27
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

09.03.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 4960 πŸ” 3560 πŸ’¬ 191 πŸ“Œ 787
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In case of confusion

07.03.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 326 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4
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08.03.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

27.02.2025 10:01 πŸ‘ 3395 πŸ” 955 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 54
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Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 32 MILLION! πŸ‘

LETS DO THIS!

21.02.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 5536 πŸ” 1273 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 37

In Westminster it's all about who you know

20.02.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 2006 πŸ” 197 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 4
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74% of Brits also believed it was β€˜reasonable’ to postpone elections during a war with just 12% saying it was β€˜unreasonable’

20.02.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 778 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 4
At the centre of a bright and bustling library, the librarian sets like the smiling captain of a spaceship at the controls. Numerous school children examine the books in the library and seem completely absorbed.

At the centre of a bright and bustling library, the librarian sets like the smiling captain of a spaceship at the controls. Numerous school children examine the books in the library and seem completely absorbed.

On Library Lovers Day, enjoy this optimistic 1950s magazine cover

β€œStand aside television. The library holds the stage as the curtain rises on this new age of the written word” (1957)

Artist: DL Mays

14.02.2025 08:20 πŸ‘ 428 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8
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Joel organised Nigeria’s first Pride in 2019. He came to the UK to seek safety, but the Home Office detained him when he arrived.
This government urgently needs to recognise the dangers LGBTQI+ people face.
✍️ Help #EndLGBTQIDetention: https://buff.ly/4hHaRu1
#NoPrideInDetention

05.02.2025 08:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

01.02.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 32970 πŸ” 12183 πŸ’¬ 482 πŸ“Œ 581
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Royal Mail: Second-class letters may be delivered every other day The regulator says reforming postal services could save the loss-making Royal Mail up to Β£425m.

Privatisation Robbery.

UK's second-class letters may be delivered only every other day, not on Saturdays. Already worse in many areas.

Royal Mail fails to meet any targets.

1st class stamp Β£1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30.01.2025 08:23 πŸ‘ 439 πŸ” 216 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 21
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Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals) Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

24.01.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 36283 πŸ” 11044 πŸ’¬ 997 πŸ“Œ 369
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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

24.01.2025 11:25 πŸ‘ 56117 πŸ” 14883 πŸ’¬ 793 πŸ“Œ 475
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Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press - After 'Monumental' Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case Murdoch's newspaper group apologises for 15 years of privacy breaches in landmark settlement – but the Prime Minister's office quickly dismisses calls for a fresh investigation

We need Levinson 2.0

Repost if you agree πŸ”„

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...

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