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Alex Hughes

@alexphughes.bsky.social
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Yet another Twitter refugee. Same name there as here. GTTO, RejoinEU, Abolish the Monarchy.

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 29/09/2026
www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727... This is incredible. £900m. Almost a billion that we know about, between 2010 and 2018 (if it stopped right there). The scale of it is enormous.
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A club guilty of a decade-long scheme to submit false financial information to the league, for the purpose of securing an unfair on-field advantage, should not only be thrown out of the league and have all its titles vacated, its owner should be compelled to sell the club.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another round of "brilliant" negotiations is completed. The only difference this time is that Witkoff and Kushner came to deliver Putin's demands personally after kissing his boot in the Kremlin. We are on, what, 9th circle of this cycle? 1,5 years wasted and countless lives.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The new Class System.
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 31/08/2026
I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read. 1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped. dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Israeli election isn't going to lead to peace. Whoever wins will be right-wing. But if the new government doesn't include this fascist piece of shit it will be an improvement.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
American political funding is a catastrophe with global spillovers
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.
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Alex Hughes @alexphughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
WTF @support.bsky.team? The polls only just opened! 🤦‍♂️
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
_...Trump is actually copying Russia—attacking neighbours, committing war crimes, mangling truth...replacing public servants with loyalists, sending masked paramilitaries to terrorize the population, and methodically removing any challenges to his power—in exactly the same way as Putin..._
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Say what you like about the Nazis, but they put the bins out on time.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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Alex Hughes @alexphughes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid."
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you’d like to join our class action lawsuit against corruption in FIFA, which we are planning to make the biggest in history, please click here - rebootfifa.com/sign/ - and please share.
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/07/2026
FIFA headquarters are in Switzerland the Swiss FA have come out against FIFA's decision.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
In other news, DomCums wants to nuke the British state in 2029
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just watch Thierry Henry once Lalas is done
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"This Farage parody account on X is more factual and truthful than Farage himself, which is hilarious in itself." via Susan Kovbasyuk
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I know a Polish couple. The husband works as a nurse in the NHS, the wife is a special needs assistant in a state school. They live in social housing where their kids (a boy & a girl, both teenagers, both born here) share a room. Reform’s stated policy is to deport them. What the fuck!?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 22/05/2026
"That's what happens when you elect Nigel Farage fans..." @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to two new Reform councillors admitting they don't know what they're doing.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 19/05/2026
Never in doubt ❤️ ❤️
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 19/05/2026
Mikel Arteta when he spoke to us at Union Chapel last year. #champions
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Rallen @rallen78.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 10/05/2026
Not just one foul, two fouls.
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bloody hell.
Thread - on Threads - of three posts from someone whose screen name is 'blueskies 1977':

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 | have been an election agent for the Labour Party for 8 years Yesterday, for
the first time ever, | cried at a count. Was it because we'd lost a lot of seats,
because we had? No. | cried because a very hard working, dedicated, British
born Councillor of Pakistani descent had the word "deport' written next to her
name on a ballot paper with a Reform vote. When the doubtful papers were
shown to candidates and agents, | challenged the Reform agent to disown the
vote and he refused.

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 | saw a number of other ballot papers with racist, islamophobic and antisemitic
comments. I'm used to the abusive comments about parties and policies on
papers, we tend to have a laugh with them. I'm also used to the many pictures
of penises on ballot papers (you guys are all so original), but | haven't seen so
much hatred written on ballot papers. What are we becoming as a country?
Why do people feel emboldened to put their hatred out there? It's vile.

blueskies 1977
For those commenting that the ballot paper should be rejected, in law it can't be. If a
clear voting intent is shown for the correct number of candidates, it will only be
rejected it there is anything, such as a signature, initials or name, that could identify
the voter or the official mark is defaced or damaged.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
You'll only drive it underground.
Should potholing be banned?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It’s not an advert. It’s a threat.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Reminder.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/04/2026
1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...
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Why I went to Moscow
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/04/2026
Palantir’s UK boss has urged the government not to give in to “ideologically motivated campaigners”... who could that be? 👀 Join the movement 👇 goodlaw.social/48yr
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 31/03/2026
"AI isn't going to go away" dipshit asbestos didn't 'go away' either but we made a choice to stop using the shit because of the harm it did and it's easier to get rid of AI than asbestos.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18/03/2026
"High bills, impossible debts, filthy rivers, minimal investment and no resilience: that is the gift of privatisation...as we now discover in the case of Thames Water, it becomes our problem." Thames Water should be in public hands. If you agree, sign our petition: vist.ly/4vajx
Photo of George Monbiot accompanying a quote from The Guardian, July 2025: "Instead of borrowing to pay for infrastructure improvement, water companies borrowed to pay for dividends. Just as the water companies dump their sewage in the rivers, they have also dumped their liabilities on the public. The country becomes their dustbin.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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JHSPHOTO @jhsphoto.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
All of these dick farts deserve to be known. They willingly did everything to include steal info to use later. They deserve to be shown the light of day.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970. Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us) And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it
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WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
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Andy Kelly @goonerak.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Someone asked me if the 97 years between the two Mansfield games is the longest period between two games for Arsenal playing an opponent in a competitive 1st team game. The answer is no. There were 102 years between Arsenal playing Lincoln in Division 2 (6 March 1915) and the FA Cup (11 March 2017)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/02/2026
Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde
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Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde
A big loan to keep the case out of court doesn’t quite add up to ‘thoughts and prayers to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’. Working with the police might be a start, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Mary Hilton @maryhilt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
For context:
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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