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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Great advice…. #BookSky

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I live in a country where people get outraged by people given parts in historical films like odyssey, but it's a country that saw nothing wrong in a programma called The Black And White Minstrels!! If you don't know what I mean, Google it

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Had a wander around the gorgeous village of Dean in Edinburgh

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Went to the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester tonight to see Road, the cast were brilliant and the staging around the module was such a plus to the experience, wonderful

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Suburbs share.google/sBJkxPcIGXrd... the scenes at the end are almost mineapolis

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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life. Crank it! 😀 🎸

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Last night at Moth Night, we saw a lot more than moths. The highlight was happening upon this beaver absolutely chowing down on some wood, corn on the cob style. You’re gonna want to put your sound on for this one.

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This #dog has a PhD in #physics or what? How did she learn that?

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” -John Waters.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Gary Stevenson, "I would advise people to look at what happens to American living standards over the next few years, because that could happen here if we vote the wrong way in the next general election" #BBCQT

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Cartoonists Rights @cartoonistsrights.org · 23/03/2025

The full statement from the family of R.E. Burke clarifies that there were no grounds whatsoever for the British cartoonist to be detained by ICE for almost 3 weeks – she held a valid ESTA, had broken no rules or laws in the US, and was ready & able to return home. downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

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Comic Creator RE Burke: Her Visa Story

Full family statement after her welcome return to the UK

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s really very simple , not a single penny should come from the public purse to businesses or individuals that don’t pay their way in the UK. Tits like Ratcliffe and Dyson that talk the talk about wanting the best for Britain and then fuck off at the first tax break can do one. #mufc

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

When you make sure your friends get to eat too. #dogs

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Did not imagine to repost something as disturbing like this in my lifetime. But here we are.

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Am I the only person who founds it grating when people say 'I love food' ? The fact is you have to

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It’s that time of year - people asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to. Please #repost. Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year! This is important! 1/9

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

“Illegal immigrant” was their first success. Now comes “Illegal boycott” “Illegal protest” “Illegal votes” “Illegal posts” Until the “illegal” is you. #3E

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Just watched a program called Humpback Whales, A Detective Story. I they explained many cases where whales have protected other species from danger. Empathy. A sense of caring, basically whales are WOKE.

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I might just watch this on repeat for a while 😊

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“That’s why Tate got the following he got. So maybe I’m part of a similar phenomenon..." Nigel Farage, July 2024.

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

11 weeks apart. They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House. Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump and vance were absolutely disgraceful, they have shamed the US on the international stage, the US will lose so much respect because of these Putins puppets. Who can trust a country whose leaders lie and offend like that

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Wh would they do that I wonder?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism" Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?" Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

FOOT-IN- MOUTH
ANOTHER Brexit "control of our borders" success story last month, with the entry into the UK of animal food products banned after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany.
The cause was the failure of an IT system called "import of products, animals, food and feed system" (IPAFFS) - one of many border controls that had to be created when the UK left the EU and lost the use of existing IT systems (ie the EU's food safety Traces platform).
When Germany declared its foot and mouth outbreak on 10 January, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) immediately banned the import of cattle, pig and other animals and associated products. But it took a week for controls to take effect "due to failings in Defra's communications and IT systems, specifically IPAFFS" , according to a
letter last week from Commons environment and food committee chair Alistair Carmichael to the Defra minister responsible, Baroness (Sue)
Hayman. "As a result" , testimony from port
operators showed, "prohibited German goods made it through the UK border"
The head of health and public protection at the Dover Port Health Authority explained that the banned imports had gone through due to another feature forced on borders thanks to Brexit: the timing out of checks if they're not completed within a certain number of hours.
Oh dear, another unreliable IT system necessitated by that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up.

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Alyn Johnson @alynjohnson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

For any who follow across the pond, brexit made us poorer, take notice if this starts to look the same

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/02/2025

Where did DOGE's recruits come from? Here's what we've discovered. In late 2024, a group of young software engineers fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers. At least three were associated with Palantir or its cofounder—and Musk ally—Peter Thiel.

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The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army

At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Column. On Pornhub. www.thetimes.com/article/878b...

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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This week ITV announced ‘The Hack’ a new drama about the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World and spotlight the work of @bynickdavies.bsky.social and then Guardian editor @arusbridger.bsky.social At #SirHarrySummit, Davies spoke of the importance of an editor who won’t let go.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

ICYMI: Three House of Commons Select Committees have called on the Government to sufficiently resource the BBC World Service so that it is less reliant on the licence fee and short-term funding cycles. It comes after the BBC announced further major cuts to the BBC's global news arm last week

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