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Andrew Burnie @andrewburnie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Turning up to a community event you've never been to before and completely misunderstanding the point because an ex-pro athlete on Twitter willfully refuses to understand it. Then insisting said community event needs to change and make members of that community less welcome. Baffling arrogance.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Andrew Burnie @andrewburnie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what we apparently can't call a war crime as part of what is clearly, even openly stated by some members of the Israeli government as, a genocide. Another new Prime Minister who can't seem to find the words for what we can all see and must be in his briefings. Shame on all of us.

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John Finn @seanfionn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad Ireland only has 2 goal keepers in squad EUFA regulations require 3

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have done interviews with two trans women in cycling and their stories will stay with me forever. Instead of talking about trans people, talk with them and hear their stories. One of the worst things about the current culture wars, is the war on trans people. It makes me angry and very sad.

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Andrew Burnie @andrewburnie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well that sucks. The reduction of trans experience to them being people "who are male and who think that because they put on a dress, and they put on make-up" is horrible. The argument that it's all just made up has been used against LGBT people for so long, they're not new. Still vile.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ed Sheeran wanting to remain neutral is sending me lol. Dudes worth £200m+. My brother in Christ if you cannot speak freely who the fuck can lol

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Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TUC says: Migrant rights are workers' rights

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026

If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hearing him get grilled on Today this morning was chilling tbh. Any Jewish person targeted should be protected from the idiot conflating them with the Israeli govt, not a Foreign Secretary undertaking a rational course of action

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 07/09/2026

I regret to inform you that the Doors Open Day poster on the @thecockburn.bsky.social website is AI slop. If only this city had any awesome photographers and/or designers that our heritage champions could have turned to instead then we might have avoided this machine-generated embarrassment 🤦

Poster for Doors Open Day 2026 in Edinburgh & East Lothian

Zooming in on previous image we start to see some telltale signs of AI use, such as a door with 2 handles, a vista that it is not possible to see in Edinburgh and some odd placement of columns on a monument

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:

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Andy Mitchell @andymitchellmedia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've been going through some 1880s cycling programmes and I'm loving the contraptions that were advertised for sale in Edinburgh. Tricycles, tandems, racing bikes and the 'Psycho Safety'.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And next month I am moving northwards. It's Glasgow on 11 October, with more Secret Histories of Rome (uncovering some of the ordinary people, cold cases, graffiti and chamber pots). Come along! www.atgtickets.com/shows/mary-b...

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Mary Beard - The Secret Histories of Ancient Rome Tickets | King's Theatre, Glasgow in Glasgow | ATG Tickets

Renowned historian Mary Beard returns to the stage after her sold-out 2025 tour, stepping once more into the world of Ancient Rome — a civilisation whose stories still shape the way we see ourselves t...

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I can tell you for a fact he's responsible for more radicalisation than Shamima Begum ever will be

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Andrew Burnie @andrewburnie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Tadej vs the road race has been lost by Tadej. Now the best of the rest race gets a jersey. Gutted to lose Tadej, always such a classy rider and I was enjoying his prodding Jumbo / Wout this morning. Don't think UAE have the team to crush this race like they did in the Giro. #LaVuelta #Vuelta

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/08/2026

JK Rowling has engaged in Holocaust denial. She denies the fact that nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld institute and burned all their books which contained the first research on trans people.

Screenshot of a post on X by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) quote-tweeting another user.
Rowling's caption reads: "I just... how? How did you type this out and press send without thinking ‘I should maybe check my source for this, because it might’ve been a fever dream’?"
The quoted post states: "The Nazis burnt books on trans healthcare and research, why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender?"

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

900+ academics and others have so far defended this man on grounds of academic freedom. That’s how easy it was for them to support a openly racist man. They didn’t even bother to double check whether the racist happens to also be against academic freedom. Total surprise, he is.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Sadhbh O'Shea @sadhbhos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Love that the hotel that housed the peloton yesterday has been flooded with 5* reviews, including from the peloton. Sounds like they really rose to the occasion. I hope they received a tip for helping out.

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Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every morning I sent out a selection of news to some colleagues. I have now made this channel available for all of you. So if you want a morning round-up of news plus breaking news as it happens (M/F peloton), give me a follow. whatsapp.com/channel/0029... (NB Maybe I will add Signal too)

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Daily Cycling News by José Been

Follow Daily Cycling News by José Been's WhatsApp Channel. Daily cycling news updates, transfers, race reports from the men’s and women’s peloton on both road and in the mud.. Get the latest updates d...

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The “free speech movement” and the anti woke movement has always had the same ambition - make the oppressors look like the oppressed - and the press didn’t fall for it, they actively want it - hate is the simple choice of the narcissist, here’s to advancing with love

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GDwarble @gdwarble.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've increasingly seen the terms "Biological [male/female]" used to talk about trans people, even by people trying to be supportive, and I wanted to get my thoughts down about that. The tl;dr is that the terms are slurs and factually wrong, and pushing back when you see them is appreciated.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Cofnas signatories just served to out how many universities have their own Prof Whitey-McHeadmeasure on their payroll.

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Every time I see those pictures of him beaming with pride and joy at his achievements, it just breaks my heart over and over.

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Andrew Burnie @andrewburnie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Everyone involved in this witch hunt and ongoing attempt to hide from the truth that it was utterly unfounded should be out of work. Disgusting that every mainstream press outlet continues to pretend they did nothing wrong.

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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The original post has to do with ongoing platforming of Nathan Cofnas. But if like me you have not been following years of developments at Cambridge, this article is enlightening.

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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As a child abuse survivor #Google have paired my name and picture with a #BBC news article about a “Richard Barlow” a peadophile who’s abused girls… What the actual fuck?

Richie Barlow
Author
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk
Nottinghamshire man who groomed and sexually abused girls jailed
14 Apr 2022 - Barlow, 39, of St Edmund's Avenue,
Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, was found guilty of eight child sex offences at Nottingham Crown Court.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Careful of the bike racks at Morrisons on Ferry Rd, Edinburgh - a couple of them can be lifted right out of the paving. #EdTravCyc 🚲 🔐

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 07/08/2026

Edinburgh is the city that on one hand officially advises visitors to "consider walking or cycling wherever possible" during the Fringe and on the other does naff all about its useless, painted, advisory, uphill cycle lanes in the centre with Military Tattoo-branded Range Rovers parked on them

A pair of Edinburgh Military Tattoo branded Range Rovers parked on an uphill advisory cycle lane on Market Street in Edinburgh

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Trans people who lie sick, injured or maybe even dying deserve the same treatment as any cis person of their gender. This is an outrage to human dignity, and yet another moment of intense shame for the Labour Party in their crusade against trans people.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/08/2026

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am appalled by this. @amnestyuk.bsky.social what even are you doing?!

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 31/07/2026

Edinburgh's transport convenor just 6 months ago: "I’ve done more to encourage cycling in Edinburgh in 4 months than he’s done in 40 years!" 🤔

Screenshot of Bluesky post from Cllr Stephen Jenkinson including quote "I’ve done more to encourage cycling in Edinburgh in 4 months than he’s done in 40 years!" Referring to Green councillor Chas Booth

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."

The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in
FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.
This model has no place in world football. Football's future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return. Nor can the interests of national associations, leagues, clubs, players and supporters become subordinate to investor returns. Football cannot mortgage its future for financial gain.
Europe's position is clear. We will never lend this model our legitimacy. No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.

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