Mark Hebden

Mark Hebden

@unionlib.bsky.social

Ginger Viking Librarian Trade Unionist Cricket Fan

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BBC news at 1pm reported that Jonathan Reynolds has not ruled out bringing back freedom of movement... the one minute piece finished with Nigel Farage's response. Why? He's not the leader of the opposition, he's not even the leader of the third or fourth largest party. Independents hold more seats.

At some point BBC News will face a reckoning for their constant amplification of this man and his fascist ideals for the last 15 years. Every time he farts the BBC feel the need to tell us because of their rightward shift in news policy since the end of the New Labour years.

Happy to see the far right incumbent ousted in Serbia today too. You wait ages for good election news and then two stories come along at once.

Well done Lula in Brazil - the dirty tricks of the Trump backed candidate didn't work and democracy has won! Elon Musk crying into his Ket this morning.

Don't get me wrong they still had the time to interview Richard Tice - the voice of Reform cannot be absent from the BBC for more than 40 minutes at any one time.

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The BBC have spent an inordinate amount of time this morning talking about pedestrianising Oxford Street... one street, in one city. The rest of the country doesn't give a shit lads.

The BBC have spent an inordinate amount of time this morning talking about pedestrianising Oxford Street... one street, in one city. The rest of the country doesn't give a shit lads.

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

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Another one here where the British press just smashed fuck out of a member of the public’s life for no good reason, just because they wanted to and nobody will stop them doing at. And they’re still going, even now.

Well done to Fiachna Ó Braonáin of The Hothouse Flowers this morning on 5Live saying their band rider insists on venues adhering to boycott divestment and sanctions!

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I’m not religious but I frequently pray there is a hell.

Roshan "fatigue haver" Abraham@roshanabraham.bsky.social

“We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” said Ranta. “They fled." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The grinning despair of the 'Visit Dubai it's really not on fire. Honestly, your plane won't be downed in a meat fireball. We were founded on the power of money and slave labour. Bring us your sacrifice.' ads... I don't think they're helping.

One of the Care abears films, I'd guess about 84 at the Odeon in Leeds.

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First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

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I’ve written an open letter (found IN the link below) in my attempt to help #SaveSquareChapelArts (Halifax) & managed to get a group of well-known pals to back my cause. 🙌 I’d be enormously grateful if you could read the letter & repost. 🙏🏻 Many thanks x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/open-le...

canncomms.co.ukOpen letter: Reece Dinsdale leads star-studded backing for campaign to save a much loved arts centreActor, writer and director Reece Dinsdale is putting his head above the parapet to help save Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax, with a host of familiar faces from stage and screen backing his campa...

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The protests have spread to Serbia. That is Spain France Italy Albania Greece Turkey India Indonesia all protesting at the same time. It's time to force the billionaires out of power.

Call me a lefty do-gooder if you will but I don't think the Royal Air Force has any business defending the tyranical hand and head choppers of Saudi Arabia. The exist to defend us and we're not under attack.

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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to folklore expert Professor Diane Purkiss about the darker side of fairy folk. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and you can now watch us on YouTube as well! Give us a like and a subscribe over there! X

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Thames Water line up former Labour minister John Hutton as chairman, as it tries to win over the govt. Hutton left the govt after the expenses and lobbying scandals. Now pursued by TW to fix things politically, TW is financially, environmentally bankrupt.

theguardian.comThames Water creditors secure former Labour minister to drive rescue dealStricken UK water supplier lines up John Hutton as independent chair designate if takeover goes ahead

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“Far-right” party in Canada is proposing exactly the same policies as Andy Burnham’s “Labour-in-name-only” Party in the UK…

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Far-right provincial party One BC has proposed a "gender ideology task force," which would ban trans women from women's spaces, outlaw the teaching of "gender ideology" in schools ,and force government documents to only include sex assigned at birth (among other things!) x.com/One_BCHQ/sta...

Disgusting and discriminatory for the BBC to close down BBC Scotland. Radio 4 Extra is one of the only areas where the BBC dips into its own rich audio archive - its costs practically nothing to run - the decision to close both of these channels is reckless.

I for one I'm glad we can no longer buy books by Irish authors who have links to terrorist groups. In unrelated news I'm just off to Waterstones to get a copy of Before the Dawn, the autobiography of Gerry Adams.

Sky have surpassed themselves with the ad breaks on Crystal Lake... Cut to break right as an axe goes into someone's head. Remember when professional editors would splice and breaks in rather than automation?

Scott Boland is the key to understanding that stats don't tell the whole story. On stats he's on of the best bowlers of all time for Australia, in reality he's getting in no one's all time Aussie XI, decent though he is.

I feel like the issue of people playing music on public transport is nowhere near as bad as it once was. Now kids have bluetooth headphones they usually take a bud each and listen together, which is what they were doing before. More often than not its middle aged people watching reels if anything