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Books, Podcasts, Poetry, Films! Join us for #LBC3Reads, #LBCHorsforth, #LBCWSwan. Off Twitter mostly.

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

LBC has been meeting since 2010 now, discussing books (films, podcasts, comics, tv - anything with a faintly literary bent!).

If you’d like to chat books with delightful friendly people, who enjoy zany weird tangents, then we might be the #Leeds based book club for you!

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

Spotted in the wild! @theleedslibrary

[@edithmayhall @edithmayhall]

Blog on the Pope's possible sources for his most unwelcome and irresponsible advice to the Ukrainians https://t.co/fDLW5rhUuU @philosophybites

[Nachama Soloveichik @nachamasol]

No peace, bitch.

[Chris Brookmyre @cbrookmyre]

It is hard to feel compassion towards someone who goes abroad to support a radical group that detests our country's values, but she was clearly not bright enough to know better, and that's why I don't think Liz Truss should be stripped of her citizenship.

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

Don’t respond to the uninformed. Waste of time and effort.

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

@MabonMedrod @BocktheRobber Then own your racism. Don’t pretend Ireland is full. 🙄

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

@delicto_pi97218 @BocktheRobber https://t.co/iKqYlb9bBH

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

@MabonMedrod @BocktheRobber https://t.co/iKqYlb9bBH

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

Fucking hell.

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

This is an AI-generated video of a Pakistani candidate telling voters to boycott today's general election.

The fake clip is taken from a real video he recently posted on X, with an AI-generated audio clip of him and fake graphics overlaid on top of it.

https://t.co/WioIn6BBfW

[Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen]

Kudos to @SIRIUSXM for being on top of this.

[Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen]

THIS is an example of Russian election interference: fake influencers.

"Jasmine" here isn't a real person. Her account is 4 months old, her profile pic is a stock photo, and her Sirius XM radio show doesn't exist. Yet, she has 12.3K followers!

She shills for Trump quite a bit.

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

@Joannechocolat Glad to hear he’s home and in a green space he loves. Also that you and your mum are getting support - sending best wishes to you all.

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

How embarrassing for the Oxford Union & all involved. 🙄

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Tonight, the Oxford Union debated the motion "This House Does Not Know What Labour Stands For." Past Union presidents include Michael Foot, Tony Benn & Tony Crosland, but despite inviting more than 50 Labour figures to oppose tonight's motion, not one agreed to do so.

[CanterburyWithTheT @CTWithTheT]

When you're so riddled with hate that you have a kneejerk response to the word 'inclusion'.
(The theme actually focusses on education, training, science and health, but sure go off)

[Bernardine Evaristo @BernardineEvari]

Just published, my piece on the Royal Society of Literature, which has been under attack by a group of fellows who rolled out their grievances in the media last week. It's been terrible. Please do show support for @RSLiterature https://t.co/vIPBqN66iX

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

I may have gotten this wrong but I think the book burners all turned out to be the baddies.

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

You and your party do not get to bring up shame right now.

Appalling. Absolutely lacking in decency.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Every murder is a tragedy. None should be trivialised by political point-scoring. As a mother, I can imagine the trauma that Esther Ghey has endured.

It was shameful of Starmer to link his own inability to be clear on the matter of sex and gender directly to her grief. (1/2)

[Avid Reader @LeedsBookClub]

Appalling.
Register to vote people.
I do care who you vote for but that’s your choice.
But do vote*.

*because I have to believe the cast majority people of this country are more decent than politicians who behave like this.

[Maria Caulfield CBE @mariacaulfield]

While people debate what was and wasn’t said in PMQs.The reality is not having politicians able to stand up and say what a woman is and erasing women out of health care is having a negative impact on women’s health. It is why we have the Womens Health strategy so women are heard

[Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea]

@KemiBadenoch Are you seriously trying to argue that mocking transgender women is fine, but being shocked and offended at the PM doing this in front of the mother of a murdered child is "political point-scoring"?