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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026

Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

theguardian.com

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.

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Ziggy @bigad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Definitely NOT a coincidence.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Holding up a piece of paper : TERRORIST Interfering with Border Force operations : legitimate concerns

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DavidP @davidp-p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This should be an ad for every D candidate everywhere:

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Jansen Mann @hellojansen.com · 18/09/2026

Arf

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...

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Trump DOJ ORDERED To HAND Judge UNREDACTED EPSTEIN Files!?!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Help! My children are drowning!” “Sorry, mate, you’re brown.” Who wants to live in a country where people don’t go to the rescue of men, women and children in danger of losing their lives? The racists do. Please support the wonderful RNLI rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Alister Perrott @aperrott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does anyone recognise this old building that was photographed in Bristol, England in 1968? I'm guessing that it could have been a factory or warehouse and that it was demolished sometime after the photo was taken.

A photo of an unidentified building in Bristol, taken in 1968. It has an old clock at the top and a more modern one two thirds of the way up, above a double-gated arched entrance.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

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Alister Perrott @aperrott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How low have we sunk as a nation when people are being arrested for sitting quietly with a poster in front of them?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A pro-Palestine protester is arrested for holding a poster reading "l oppose genocide I support Palestine Action" Over 3,500 arrests have been made since Palestine Action was labeled a "terrorist organization" by the UK.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The difference between this and the Danny Dumbo Balaclava masked black-clad louts conduct is huge….yet the police are treating them very differently..

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know:

theguardian.com

Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train. But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK. Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When Jesus jumps up on the counter even though he KNOWS he's not allowed

Two women are cleaning the church in Leipzig in 1938/39 and have hauled the silverware and crucifix out onto the steps, where they spray Jesus with water from a hose.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They told us Brexit would save lots of money (that would all go to the NHS). In fact it’s costing us a fortune (and constraining our ability to fund everything).

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.

Wildfire in Clacton
AS temperatures soared on Friday, Essex fire authorities reported things were so bad that a man's pants had caught fire.
The individual, identified as Nigel Farage, had claimed Essex police had told him to keep away from his by-election declaration.
"We've never seen such an enormous fire coming from a single pair of Union Jack Y-fronts," said a police spokesman. "We urge members of the public to avoid pants on fire by at least coming up with a half-decent excuse for their cowardice."

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I did a talk about love, compassion , neurodivergence, and why I keep burning bridges at the brilliant @emfcamp.bsky.social - here it is #adhd #autism #bbc #podcast #poetry m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn-Z...

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Robin Ince: Why The Monkey Escaped the Cage - EMF 2026

YouTube video by Electromagnetic Field

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Alister Perrott @aperrott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lame duck president flees Turkey in catering cart...

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Randy Fair @southerngayteacher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat

Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The endless rain at the beginning of the year, the endless heat and drought now….its so obvious what’s happening and the thought of worse to come is pretty frightening. Everyone’s taking about it…except politicians. So let’s make them 👇

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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Morning Bluesky.

A miserable looking cat with a trophy. Caption: ‘The most beautiful cat in the world ‘
The title was earned at the Paris Cat Club's show, and Southway Reveler, a four-year-old Persian Blue born in England, obviously took a poor view of the whole business.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is two years today since this dimwit gave us the most hilarious demonstration of karma in history.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 28/07/2026

A short thread explaining trans exclusion in the law, and the Code of Practice, in response to a load of questions 🧵 Obviously this is necessarily simplified. I cannot write a legal textbook on Bluesky.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 19/07/2026

Concerned that those ads and a few others would vanish from the public record, I archived them here too, along with the PDF files they arrived in. tjrh.uk/vlads

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Leave Ads

Albums of Leave adverts used before and after the Brexit Referendum

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

theguardian.com

Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future

Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/3 of Reform UK Councillors have failed to attend Essex County Council full council today, giving apologies. Jaymey McIvor, Reform UK Head of Local Government (and one of those councillors) wasn’t there, representing his constituents, because he’s in Clacton campaigning for Nigel Farage.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/07/2026

They’ve learned they don’t have to defend their actions because they keep getting away with it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

These deaths are on the hands of politicians who failed to act over years. Putting profit over our safety refusing to take action - now failing to protect us from its impact. We need maximum working temperatures. Insulated homes. Cooling in schools, hospitals and care homes.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

every so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/07/2026

Don't harass my family, says man who harassed the families of at least two murder victims and countless immigrants.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 07/07/2026

Ukrainian ground robotics maker Tencore donated 29 TERMIT unmanned ground vehicles to 25 Defense Forces brigades and training centers, Militarnyi reported. The systems are intended for logistics, casualty evacuation and strike missions. #Ukraine

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The majority of humanity lives within a relatively small bandwidth of latitude. This #map is one of my all time favourites. It was created by radicalcartography.net in 2008 and remains a true classic today: buff.ly/2DJXO9z

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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Weird, though, when a plane or train crashes, victims are not sorted into disability & age groups to determine how bad the crash really was (by discounting disabled & elderly victims), nor is it said that they died with a crash not of a crash.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Angela Rayner now uses phrases like “removing regulatory burden” and “cutting red tape”, aping the neoliberal playbook word-for-word. So while Labour publicly bemoan inheriting the chaos of Tory policies, they are actually endorsing and accelerating them behind the headlines.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Apparently posting about Donald Trump's dodgy stock trades is 'too much free speech'.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

£5 million from a crypto-billionaire, £700,000 from GB News, £685,000 as a "brand ambassador" for Direct Bullion, £220,000 for Cameo videos ("Up the Ra!"), £50,000 from crypto-companies, five properties worth £4 million... What a shame "There's no money in politics" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Nigel Farage’s £4m property portfolio — and the transparency question

From ‘skint’ in 2017, the Reform UK leader now owns five mortgage-free homes with his partner Laure Ferrari. Only two have been declared to parliament

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh and now this… Reform’s biggest donor is profiting from Russian oil money. Jeezus. Traitorous, corrupt and funded by filthy foreign money. Our democracy is being bought by these dismal people. £5Mill Farage is brokering the sale.

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Reform UK's biggest donor owns a company contracted to supply fuel to aircraft from refineries that make extensive use of Russian oil, The Times can reveal.

Susan Hawley, the executive director of Spotlight on Corruption, said: "These revelations raise real questions about whether a major political party in the UK is being bankrolled by money made from selling fuel sourced from states that are hostile to our democracy."

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