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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There needs to be more urgency from the police to investigate + prosecute this clear incitement to xenophobic violence against asylum seekers, the platform + the online regulator Ofcom & ministers to cut off & prevent this malicious & unlawful content inews.co.uk/news/vigilan...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/08/2026

‘Between 2015 and 2024, nearly a billion pounds of public money was lent on favourable terms to developers who built almost no affordable housing – almost two-thirds of it to one company.’ @harrystopes.bsky.social on Manchester, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...

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Harry Stopes | Manchesterisms

Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council before she was comfortably elected last week to replace Andy Burnham as...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One simple message - we could afford to do this everywhere, if we stopped pretending every council had to fund it out of their back pocket.

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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

How Palantir captured the British military — a timeline How we fight back: citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

And *deliberately* being obstructive with community energy projects, which could have played a big role in making the coming shock a lot less severe.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Tory Legacy 14.2m Britons live in poverty, highest in 30 yrs. 6.8m in "very deep poverty". 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. No curbs on profiteering. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

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Number of people in 'very deep poverty' at highest level in more than 30 years, charity warns

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According to its latest report, 6.8 million people - almost half of all of those in ...

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It's not the only reason to oppose the language of takers and shirkers and all that, but people have been warning with good reason: when you establish the existence of a subclass of despised, worthless people it's acceptable to hate and abuse, everyone ends up in there eventually.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Shabana Mahmoud is showing Labour’s contempt for democracy as they, once again, clear the path for a fascist government. If Farage ever gets elected he will have most of his oppressive powers already created for him by Labour. We must fight these ghouls.

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Vikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Power not protest" is a truly fatuous formulation. Would you rather be MLK or Trump? Gandhi or Stalin? These people are so convinced of their own inherent goodness that they see their mere attainment of high office as a good thing. Even when they're using their precious power to enable a genocide

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.

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Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Thank you to those who have bought/downloaded Classifieds so far! See the link below to get your copy now (free digitally) CLASSIFIEDS is a poster-zine featuring the stories of the citizens of Parving, told through twenty unique classified ads taken from The Parving Echo. ko-fi.com/actualwillsm...

CLASSIFIEDS: Image of an advert/story from the zine Classifieds.

Story text: "REMEMBER" (written in full caps). It's never too late to CHANGE (full caps) your ENTIRE PERSONALITY (full caps). Call us: 01432 109 9067

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 29/08/2025

I just don’t think it’s unreasonable to say the public should be worried when a former senior Labour MP, who famously helped General Augusto Pinochet evade facing trial for crimes against humanity including torture, argues that Britain should ‘decouple’ from the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Pinochet set free
General Pinochet ruled Chile for 17 years Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet will not be extradited on torture charges and is free to leave the UK, Home Secretary Jack Straw has decided.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.

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Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Classifieds is now live! Please follow the link in my bio or below for the shop. Classifieds is available for free or pay what you can as a digital download and available as an A4 print for a minimum of £3.50 + shipping. ko-fi.com/actualwillsm...

Screenshot of the shop Classifieds can be purchased from online.

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Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

CLASSIFIEDS: Flight School A tutor teaches pigeon domestication for a reasonable price. See you there? This story and more will be available 22.08.25 as a digital download (free/pwyc) and in print format (paid). Watch this space for links to the store and more stories to come.

FLIGHT SCHOOL: an excerpted story from 'Classifieds', an upcoming zine by @actualwillsmith. The story is presented as a classified advertisement taken from the page of a local newspaper. Surrounding stories are blurred out.

Story text: Mans best friend was once a feathered one. It can be again. 6-week Course @THE REC CENTRE, £10 per session or £55 upfront. Lesson 1: Trapping a wild pigeon. 07425 57886785

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Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

CLASSIFIEDS: Rehearsal A young woman seeks an actor to play her father in a pivotal conversation. Do you fit the role? This story and more will be available 22.08.25 as a digital download (free/pwyc) and in print format (paid). Watch this space for links to the store and more stories to come.

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Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

CLASSIFIEDS: Big Hole A lonely man invites strangers to dig. Will you return his call? This story and more will be available 22.08.25 as a digital download (free/pwyc) and in print format (paid). Watch this space for links to the store and more stories to come.

BIG HOLE: an excerpted story from 'Classifieds', an upcoming zine by @actualwillsmith. The story is presented as a classified advertisement taken from the page of a local newspaper. Surrounding stories are blurred out.

Story text:
M, 40s. Join me (all, any) to dig big hole in Sinner's Green. Dug since kid, but always alone. Why dig? It's fun. Do we talk? After dig. Why park? Coastguard banned me from Adair's Bay. Bring a shovel but I have spares. 07812 4526849

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.

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A lonely man invites strangers to dig. A young woman seeks an actor to play her father in a pivotal conversation. A tutor teaches pigeon domestication for a reasonable price. See thread below for more information on CLASSIFIEDS...

A preview of the poster-zine CLASSIFIEDS with blurred main body text., soon to be released. See posts for more information.

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

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This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron.

Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept.

This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

WCK can use your donations. They are on the ground in Gaza, doing what they can in the face of a staggering and ongoing crime against humanity.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'm grimly fascinated by the human capacity - as cogs within systems of power - to participate in great evils such as genocide. And in this case, I'm fascinated by David Lammy's capacity to maintain his characteristic demeanor of pomposity and self regard, even as he follows Israel into the abyss.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Local councils have been reduced to essentially a vehicle that provides social care - and many can’t afford to do that. And yet despite everything we’ve lost in terms of parks, libraries, community centres, youth services etc, we’ve all ended up paying loads more for it.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting. Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.

Nearly 4 million households will also receive an income boost with the main rate of Universal Credit set to increase above inflation every year for the next four years – estimated to be worth £725 by 2029/30 for a single household 25 or over. This is around £250 higher than an inflation only increases.

The Bill will also rebalance Universal Credit rates by reducing the health element for new UC claims to £50 from April 2026, fixing a system which encourages sickness by paying health element recipients more than double the standard amount.

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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.

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Ceej @ceejoyner.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

telling a customer service rep that their soup burned me through three turtlenecks and they seem fixated on the number of turtlenecks I was wearing instead of my injuries

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Either Keir Starmer is the biggest mark to ever live or he's still hoping for a few 'freebies' from his corpo mates. I cannot understate how atrocious this is.

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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Technology companies including Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI welcomed the plan as Starmer said the “AI industry needs a government that is on their side”. Regulators will be told to “actively support innovation”, setting up a potential clash with people who believe regulators’ primary role should be to protect the public from harm.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Oliver Burkeman on The Impatience Spiral and reading books (do you have the patience to read it? It's two whole paragraphs⏱)

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...

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Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm

New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

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Will Smith @actualwillsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

saw a pigeon stuck in a Three store earlier and caught this poignant moment of self-reflection

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