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Jorge

@antartica81.bsky.social
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Turnip shepherd (job share) and volunteer soothsayer. Post alot on social justice issues. May contain traces of fruit. #HumanityUK

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h
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Trump Mobile doesn't seem to have FCC authorization for phone service, senator says
After hack and data breach, senator asks why Trump Mobile lacks some FCC filings.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 3h
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds
Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21h
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 15h
That thing when a neighbour is cooking something which smells delicious and the smells waft through the air
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A Reform Council tried to cancel Black History Month celebrations Local people had a different idea...
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Black History Month to be 'bigger than ever' after Reform UK move
After St Helens Council leader withdraw support for annual celebration, locals in the town have had another idea
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17h
Rough times for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, who since being taken into US custody appears to have undergone breast enhancement
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 18h
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 21h
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 21h
Oh to have been a fly on the wall on the FCDO's Israel desk in recent days
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21h
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No pressure but if this gets to a million views, I'll be able to pay the mortgage this month. Thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUv...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very good, this, on why does nobody care about the disaster at the BL, from @hetanshah.bsky.social www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Using phone calls, travel movements and location data, Der Spiegel has traced the recent drone attack on a German airport back to the elite SSD unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. When are the authorities going to start saying we’re at war and have been for a long time?
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(S+) Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein
Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Gehei...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 07/10/2026
'The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who only four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now-disabled social media account.' - as.ft.com/r/6656c567-2...
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The online life of the Flydubai attacker
Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RIP www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87
Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser
Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, add to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@wulfhelm.bsky.social Seeking Mr Pip's views on Febreze bin fresheners
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These Radio 4 programmes where the creative brief is "make it sound chatty like a podcast" are just excruciating to listen to
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
French wine grape harvest set to hit historic low
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French wine grape harvest set to hit historic low
According to Agriculture Ministry estimates, France's total 2026 wine harvest is predicted to reach some 35 million hectolitres, down 14% on the 2021-2025 average, after several summer heatwaves and declining cultivated areas.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s not been fully spotted but to pay for 50,000 extra prison places the Conservatives have said they would cut foreign aid to £1bn a year, or 0.03% of GDP, a 90% cut. This would not even cover UN and World Bank contributions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Conservative plans to slash aid budget would ‘irreparably damage’ UK’s global credibility, charities say
Party’s pledge to reduce aid budget from £9bn a year to £1bn to fund new prison places branded as ‘posturing’
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone on BBC PM talking about mice who sounds like a mouse would, were it given a human voice
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Midweek suggestion box. Instead of being horrid to each other, shooting each other and dropping bombs, why not just suggest everyone spends an hour a day listening to the BBC's archive of In Our Time.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"If we want peace, we must prepare for war"
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The husband has found an excellent re-purposing of bad music. He rescues the CDs from charity shops and then hangs them around the plants we want to discourage birds from eating.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...
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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy
FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy
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Forbes @forbes.com · 06/10/2026
The hacking group has claimed Trump Mobile does not have a designated team to address the hack.
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Trump Mobile Hack Exposes Personal Data For Thousands Of Customers
The hacking group has claimed Trump Mobile does not have a designated team to address the hack.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Although I did know the answer, am privately disappointed that these doors don't lead to Narnia.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 07/10/2026
Baffling decision by Press Gazette to call these jobs 'journalists'!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Update US warning on Russia:
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a new one on me
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The evidence is literally on video
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
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Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The strategy spun out of Project 2025. Dubbed the Donroe Doctrine, a ludicrous name designed to echo the 19th Century Monroe Doctrine, the aim was for total US control of the Western Hemisphere which Trump and his backers see as America’s sphere of influence.”
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Trump In South America
The Far Right shift is almost complete
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember those interminable ads for New Ash Green? What we really want to know, a generation or two later, is how the pernickety resident committees work in a hypefinancialised and narcissistic time?
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Could postwar Span housing offer a template for tomorrow?
Humane design, open space and community were the hallmarks of pioneering architect Eric Lyons’ 73 modernist estates. As two of them turn 70, the principles seem more relevant and vital than ever
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I understand the desire to speak well of the dead, and am sure that Archer, like all of us, was a mix of good and bad. But the tendency to indulge dishonesty, so long as it's by a loveable scamp, has done real damage to British politics. We should be a bit wary of the "isn't he a card?" thing.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fashion marketing email. A plain black or white unfitted t-shirt for €160,00. World gone mad.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're a social housing association tenant or know someone who is, useful to be aware that the Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements (STAIRs) regime came into force on 1 Oct. It's the equivalent of a FOI for the sector. #housingUK www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/home/social-...
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Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements (STAIRs)
Find out what Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements (STAIRs) is and how it applies to residents and landlords.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On this day In 1996 the Fox News Channel began broadcasting. Though not an anniversary worth celebrating. via @blondemoney.bsky.social
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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made
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The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made
Current auto-industry wisdom holds that no car without cup holders will sell in America. Though this also seems to have become increasingly true across the rest of the world, I like to imagine there s...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer in occupied West Bank
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Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer in occupied West Bank
Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old Palestinian photographer, suffered injuries to his head and torso and was taken to the hospital by ambulance, according to the international news agency. The agency's news director, Phil Chetwynd, condemned the incident as a 'serious' and 'unacceptable' attack.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 06/10/2026
Halfway around the world from Russia, in a Caribbean tourism hotspot, men, both young and old, are being lured by Moscow with tantalizing job offers, only to find themselves en route to the front lines in Ukraine. u.afp.com/S9F5
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