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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@andyburnham.bsky.social why on earth are you letting the far right run riot, targeting RNLI heroes? Stand up for what is right, or your name will forever be synonymous with letting the far right prevail. You hold the most powerful position in the UK, and a massive majority. Fucking use it

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/04/2026

The UK government must ACT NOW and: • Condemn the Israeli Navy’s illegal actions against the Flotilla • Demand the safety and release of all British Citizens involved in this mission • Stop all arms exports to Israel immediately • Do everything in its power to end this ongoing genocide

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I knew without watching it that @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com would tell it how it is - luck means so much to how everyone’s life pans out, the world would be a better place if more people would recognise it. Great speech 👏🏾

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Fully agree on this. Such a corrupt organisation, yet there’s literally nothing to stop national FAs to just tell them to go suck a bunch of dicks. Would 100% be backed by fans as well

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just another reason amongst the endless reasons for the rest of us to ditch any connection to the US.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Reform sells itself as an anti-establishment party fighting for ordinary people. Yet its deputy leader, Richard Tice, stashed profits in an offshore trust and dormant companies to avoid paying nearly £600,000 in corporation tax, screwing over the rest of us. Reform is the establishment.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 25/02/2026

A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?

Multiple bar charts comparing milks across a number of environmental metrics: land use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and eutrophication (the pollution of ecosystems with excess nutrients). These are compared per liter of milk.

Cow’s milk has significantly higher impacts than the plant-based alternatives across all metrics. It causes around three times as much greenhouse gas emissions; uses around ten times as much land; two to twenty times as much freshwater; and creates much higher levels of eutrophication.

The data source is based on a meta-analysis (by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek, 2018) of food system impact studies across the supply chain, which includes land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport, and packaging. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is insanely grim. Fuck Israel and their international backers (US, UK and Germany especially)

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Perfectly incapsulates the disdain these traitors have for the UK. May they never know a moment of peace

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just highlights further why the rest of the free world should diverge from the US, in every sense, ASAP

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Really great speech from Mark Carney; a proper statesman. Compare it with the vacuousness of Keir Starmer’s mutterings

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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

How to trespass: It often doesn’t come naturally - we’re conditioned to stick to paths, obey signs, and respect boundaries. We’re going back to basics to share core principles for roaming respectfully and interacting with the world around you with care.

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Signed. Surely animal testing should have had its day long long ago.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/01/2026

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

Billy Binion tweet, it reads:
"Politicians shgouldn't say "fuck" in public. Unbecoming, reeks of pick-me energy. You're the mayor. Act like it."

It's QTing @Acyn who is quoting the Mayor Frey saying "I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Reposting so that I can easily refer to it when the topic inevitably comes up for debate in real life!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is a fascinating and scary little video. And what South Korea is experiencing is only slightly ahead of where the UK and many advanced economies are. Without immigration, we are FUCKED. I mean TOTALLY FUCKED. Yet all parties compete to stop migration. It's madness. youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...

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SOUTH KOREA IS OVER

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 19/05/2025

🕵️ 🚨 We’ve unmasked Morgoth, one of Britain’s most extreme far-right influencers. • His real name is Michael Wright. • He’s 49. • He’s from Seaton Delaval, but now lives in Northern Ireland. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/05/19/u...

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Unmasking Morgoth, the British influencer who inspired a terrorist

Morgoth, the writer of the far-right blog Morgoth's Review, is today unmasked by HOPE not hate as the Geordie man Michael Wright.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The view over St David's Head & Ramsey Island, west Pembrokeshire, this afternoon during @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey ☀️🛩️ Glorious clear air but a bumpy north wind & freezing 🥶 with the window open for photography 📷 Mobile phone pic from 2000ft #AerialArchaeology

Aerial photo with long rocky headland in foreground & an island in the blue sea beyond

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you haven’t already read @brookmyre.bsky.social novel The Cracked Mirror, pick it up and immerse yourself! And then vote for it for crime novel of the year!

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Signed. Fuck elitism and the never ending damage it does to the UK’s natural habitats and fauna

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is about as Nazi as you can go, minus the uniforms. Illegally and without trial, extraditing individuals to forced labour camps in a country they likely have no connection to. First they came for…

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Some much needed optimism from @labourlewis.bsky.social Be great if voices like Clive’s led Labours decisions and direction…can only hope Starmer pays attention!

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

How much better off we would all be had he flipped and both of the ghouls died in the wreckage. Seems all the worst ones get a pass…

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yet further proof that the takeaway delivery industry is just a smokescreen to screw consumers over. ✔️Increased prices for consumer ✔️Below minimum wage pay for zero hours ‘employees’ ✔️Bogus providers, even harder for the genuine independent But hey, billions for the ‘disruptors’.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ever wondered where the dozens of supposedly independent gourmet burger outlets in your local area suddenly sprung up from? Well it turns out many of them are being run out of the exact same pub kitchens, using the exact same food, under entirely different names. bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

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Burgers and Lies: The Corporate ‘Ghost Kitchen’ Food Delivery Outlets Posing as Independent Restaurants

A Byline Times investigation reveals how consumers are being offered the illusion of choice, while being sold the same food, from the same kitchens, under entirely different brands

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Thanks Carole and colleagues. Can’t overlook how important your sacrifice is here in trying to keep the Guardian/Observer free from billionaire influence. I’ll support the only way I can, by boycotting the Guardian during the strike days

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

With billionaires buying up and using legacy media as mouthpiece’s for their fascistic agendas, this is incredibly concerning. Feels like the Guardian/Observer is the last bastion of trustworthy journalism, and it’s in great peril. Please boycott during the strike days!!

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think what George is sharing is the worst thing about the reality we are living in; consequences have all but disappeared for the powerful. Aside from my own fiery doom, it makes the idea of hell quite appealing to know these fuckers would get their comeuppance

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Whether it's Tim Walz expanding his state's school lunch program or Matt Gaetz giving cocaine and Ecstasy to underage sex workers, both sides have taken controversial approaches to feeding children.

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Al in Helsinki @alinhelsinki.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

FFS, as if there aren’t a million more important things than targeting smokers. Sort out the water companies first and foremost. There’s so many fucking open goals…bank them www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Smoking could be banned in UK’s pub gardens and outdoor restaurants

Leaked Whitehall documents reveal plans to extend indoor smoking ban to a number of open-air spaces

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