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middle aged man in lycra, dog walker, dad [bridged from mastodon.green/@angusjordan on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.
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Angus @angusjordan.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Ride curtailed on Saturday when I hit something hard on the towpath. Bent rim and sliced tyre. I have attempted to undent the rim and plugged the hole i think! Hopefully it holds. I'm glad I can't afford carbon rims. #cycling #gravelride
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This piece by @djbduncan.bsky.social is such delightful writing, like a gift wrapped in many layers of pretty paper (please forgive the tea stains, he didn’t provide those)
A friend and decided to start
a band. We needed a drummer so we tried out a few, but the one we really liked told us that she was also auditioning for a different band. They were pirate-themed.
She played with us a few more times before announcing that she had resolved to commit to the pirates. We put on a compelled valour, but it was to no avail. She never came back.
I was reminded of my antipathy to pirates this month when I saw a new black flag on the horizon: another author called Dennis Duncan. A few years ago I wrote a history book about book indexes. One of the things that happens when you bring out a book is that you are subjected to email spam from the service industry that exists just outside the publishing mainstream and feeds on the struggling and the selt-published. For example, the reader engagement' company, a kind of search engine optimisation for books, which pledges to bring your work the 'sustainable, meaningful visibility' it deserves. I was about to delete one of these messages when I noticed the title of the book they were offering to promote: Gasparilla and the Winds of Fortune. Odd, I thought. Not one of mine. Not even close. But a quick Google search revealed how the mistake must have occurred: Gasparilla is a real book, and its author is called Dennis Duncan. Another click took me to the cover illustration - a young man in tricorn hat and ruffled shirt - and that old sense of wounded outrage started up again. Gasparilla his best work. is a pirate novel.

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run-in with usurping pirates, I'm inclined to feel delighted about the whole thing. How funny to have a literary double, especially one whose work is so different - wilder, sexier, odder - from my own. A Mr Hyde to my Dr Jekyll. Perhaps I should lean into it. My editor at the Washington Post - before they scrapped their Books section - was called Nora Krug, a name she shared with a German graphic novelist who lived in New York. After the latter's Heimat won a Natio…
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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody leaves a country because of the traffic in the capital. These people are all rats deserting the sinking ship, which they drilled holes into with their Brexit idiocy. And this idiot specifically has made quite a few racist comments lately, gleefully repeated and amplified by right wing media
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
"I don't think they've got anything to do with patriotism... I think that this is small penis behaviour, quite frankly" #AshSarkar on the far right racist thugs #bbcqt #ukpol
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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
The all-purpose 2026 Venn diagram #WTF
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Yes, I think we can all agree on that, right?" RIGHT. #EpsteinFiles
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Republican headliner JD Vance lied to a crowd in Council Bluffs, Iowa, today, telling them that Trump banned Wall Street from buying up everyone's homes.  FACT: Donald Trump refused to sign the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, so it became law WITHOUT his signature on July 11, 2026.
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Jesper Padkær Petersen @padkaer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People have forgotten the purpose of the EU. It’s not trade – that’s a tool. And it’s most certainly not about protection against the outside. It’s about protecting the members (and the world in general) against each other.
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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Danny Kruger getting openly laughed at by the Question Time audience for claiming crypto billionaires want "nothing" in return for £72m shows public tolerance for spin has run out. Nobody hands over tens of millions without expecting influence. Why treat voters like fools? 🤔 #FBPE […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hot take: Dave Matthews probably not joining @edsheeran’s tour
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
Absolutely devastating news. This is the impact of the radical right's hate. People who are saving lives are under attack. Appalling.
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RNLI suspends Portsmouth services after volunteers abused for saving migrants
Andy Burnham earlier this month hit out at 'appalling' abuse directed at hero crews after they were labelled as traitors
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Red Riccardo @redriccardo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dudes been prez for last two years.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Heads up cryptocunts. These guys will be needing a new cash injection soon.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/1172806298… Give them the succession they desire.... #UKpol #UKpolitics #Racists
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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Byline Times exposing Reform UK councillors embedded in masked anti-migrant patriot networks linked to Tommy Robinson acolytes is horrifying. Pitching as mainstream while officials back extremist vigilantes erodes democratic norms. Why allow this extremism? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#protestsigns
Photograph of a person holding up a large red poster board protest sign with hand-painted white text reading: "IF YOU CAN SEPARATE CHRISTIANS FROM THE KKK, YOU CAN SEPARATE MUSLIMS FROM aL-QAEDA !"
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/09/2026
🇪🇺 Von der Leyen: "Do we want a strong and independent Europe that stands up for its values in this world?" "Do we want to rally around our European idea that together we can decide our own destiny?" "Or do we let our democracies be undermined by the proxies and puppets of authoritarians"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
It is not a "transition" for stack overflow to be 'replaced' by ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a copy of stack overflow automated to regenerate . It's the same thing, entered into the Rewording Program An LED bulb can exist without an incandescent. ChatGPT cannot exist without training data.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey everybody shut up for a second and listen to Rick
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of the arguments that @martinlodge.bsky.social and I put forward in our essay on Brexit in JEPP a few years back was that the referendum was symptomatic of a ruling class that had lost interest in governing. Seeming unwillingness to tackle party finance rules seems consistent with that.
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Brexit, the tides and Canute: the fracturing politics of the British state
The result and aftermath of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union has generated considerable attention, not just among observers of British politics. Even if some of wider con...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The thing is that Farage is acting like he’s Trump but Trump is an actual president and can therefore get away with a lot. At the same time, we haven’t yet seen Farage face any consequences for clearly illegal actions. Until that happens, all bets are off.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Will we FINALLY stop the #WarOnWalking and build better cities for EVERYONE? #UrbanTruth
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.
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Angus @angusjordan.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
enjoying this slice of loveliness today listening to this.....#ChineseAmericanBear #chinese_american_bear #dancedancedance youtu.be/0XHDALKpr58?si=PHbgYaPxtrb…
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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
This badge delights me. I’m 52 years old.
A badge. It’s a sign saying “CHICKEN GAME. DON’T LOOK AT THE CHICKEN”. Hanging on a chain is a chicken, it has “Game Over” on its chest.
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Angus @angusjordan.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Great AI piece by #EdZitron #wheresyouredat #ai www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-norm…
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Hyperscale Normalization
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/08/2026
He doesn't get enough attention, but Coinbase's Brian Armstrong is one of the most radicalized billionaires in the USA. He's part of the Network State cult that seeks to build new tech nations. Now he's leading the crypto cartel's takeover of our electoral system newrepublic.com/article/1857...
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The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his h...
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
The world is a poorer place this evening. Her last album, _Rockstar_ , was so typically Dolly. When she was nominated for entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Dolly Parton declined the honour saying she wasn't a rock singer. And then turned around and made an album of rock covers […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@associatedpress/poli… This headline is misleading; the Court didn't "clear the way" for the vote-by-mail restrictions executive order, but rather dismissed one of two lower court injunctions currently blocking […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Do, you notice it? "can be frustrating" I didn't say I was "frustrated" I just asked for more photos because most of the papers in the first response didn't have any. HOWEVER, the guess that I was frustrated was correct. It even felt nice to read that some one else was having the same […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
The slight of hand is to make you forget, or stop caring that "there isn't anyone else" -- the quality of the list of links was better than when I have used the tool in the past, but looking at it again it didn't really find anything I couldn't have found myself in the same time... even with the […]
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
how did I not spot that relentless data centre shill Andy Masley is funded by the Effective Altruists and calls himself one specifically Coefficient Giving, previously known as Open Philanthropy, bankrolled by Dustin Moskovitz cite: his front page lol truly, fucking data centres everywhere […]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Farage increasingly providing the kind of dividing lines which will spark cheers in No.10. 'Vote for us to continue homelessness'.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"furious" old, stale drivers come together to protest against proposals that will force them to drive responsibly. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Furious Northumberland villagers hit out at 'nightmare' cycle path proposals
Many Seaton Sluice residents have criticised plans for a new cycleway which they claim will 'hardly ever get used'
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Darline Graham The Contrarian Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social Aug 19
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
WHY PUTIN HATES UKRAINE Thirty-five years ago today, tanks rolled into Moscow and Soviet TV played Swan Lake on a loop instead of the news. It was the beginning of the end for the USSR. Our new deep dive looks past the treaties to what daily life actually […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fibonacci Sequins - clusters of sequins forming a fibonacci sequence.
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