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Felt existential angst this morning. I had apples and puff pastry. Made custard. It was supposed to cheer me up. I made something that looks like dread with cinnamon.

White enamel baking dish, lined with crumpled baking paper on which an open puff pastry concoction spills baked apple. There is not a lot of logic to it. The crust looks nice and crunchy though.

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Psssst…. *whispers*… “the call is coming from inside the house…” ‘Stand on the right side of history’: Starbucks urged to close stores in China’s Xinjiang

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AOC should run for President and convert this into the Office of Butlerian Jihad

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today marks 26 years since Muhammad al-Durrah, then 12 years old, was captured on camera as he and his father, Jamal al-Durrah, were caught in the crossfire in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. The incident saw Muhammad get killed by bullets that came from an Israeli post.

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The Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was

All five men arrested in RAF base plot are British nationals
The five men who were arrested and subsequently released on bail are all British citizens, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has just told the Labour party conference.

She adds that the scene is “now safe” and the residents living near to the RAF base are now able to return home.

“Let this be a reminder: you will never defeat us,” he says.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If it feels pain, we can kill it"

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He also doesn't think that an elected politician should support their local community, apparently. If there's ever a case of 'legitimate concerns' this is it - but Labour once again manages to cozy up to the wronguns.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2026

Burnham, as expected, fuelling far-right narratives instead of addressing them He knows painting these as "legitimate concerns" will only embolden and legitimise them He knows they are minoritarian but he makes them "the people" He's comfortable for the rest of us can suffer the consequences

Burnham says concerns of women in Piddington about camp for asylum seekers 'understandable'

Q: What would you say to the women of Piddington concerned about having a camp for asylum seeker near their village, or women in other villages with similar concerns?

Burnham replied:

Those concerns are understandable and they have to be addressed in whatever solution is finally agreed.

There were also concerns expressed about the use of hotels and the reason why the nature of accommodation is changing across the country is because a commitment was given to end the use of hotels, and that was what many people were calling for a few years ago.

Burnham says he will be 'relentless' in dealing with small boats, but sidesteps offshore processing question

Q: Would you consider more radical policies, such as sending asylum seekers to a country like Albania to have their claims processed there?

Burnham avoided the question, but stressed there was some evidence that “things are going in the right direction.”

He said he would be “relentless” in addressing this issue.

And he praised what Shabama Mahmood, the home secretary, is doing on this.

She’s got a strong grip on this issue. What we have been doing is working, but more is needed and more will be done.

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Christopher Chiu-Tabet @cctabet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship."

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Omg, this and Stornaway Black Pudding and my reason for existing here has become clear. I have the yin and yang of life in Britain. Completion.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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Peter du Marchie van Voorthuysen @dumarchie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm glad I never bought a Harry Potter book. If you did, you can make amends by sticking this on the door of a single-sex toilet.

J.K. Rowling as Uncle Sam, with the caption:

I want to exclude YOU

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026

Andy Burnham says this whilst sitting on the most aggressive anti-protest laws of our lifetimes, which have been used to arrest and charge nuns for holding signs protesting a genocide.

It was because Manchester’s humble mill workers took a principled stand.

During the American civil war, despite the hardships it brought them, they refused to touch raw cotton that had been picked by slaves.

In 1862, people with little power used it to help those with none on the other side of the world.

The best change is change like that, bottom-up change led by people.

And whatever distorted view social media offers today, the world is still full of good and decent people who are ready stand up for what is right.

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mohamed's GFM has been taken down. He's written and appealed but to no avail. They don't have any reasons why, are just pointing to some made up 'risk' to GFM and he's cut off from his donors and campaign. This is devastating. He will start another campaign on Chuffed probably but for now,

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adesperate mother plea amidst genocide My baby disappearing into darkness💔 Every second we wait,her tiny body fades into gloom.We have one last chance to save her life,but we cant do it alone.Please dont letme lose my baby Be miracle we pray for Every help gives us hope🥹🙏 tinyurl.com/save-my-baby...

Ghazal is a beautiful baby held in pink blankets

Ghazal is a beautiful baby with a bandaged foot laying on a torn mattress next to a tent

Same beautiful baby at a different angle

Close-up of Ghazal, a beautiful sleeping baby

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/09/2026

I can't get over how visibly insane he is these days. This is like reading a note from your great aunt who insists she used to be married to Winston Churchill.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s good to see that mainstream UK papers are now, finally, after many years, covering esoteric hitlerist Nina Power and DC Miller’s connections to Ben Dilo. It is a shame, however, that this FT column does not go into detail about their egregious antisemitic and racist conspiracy thinking

A crypto billionaire who made a record-breaking £36mn donation to Nigel Farage's Reform UK financed a defamation case against an artist who claimed to have been the victim of an antisemitic harassment campaign.
Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to a former academic, Nina Power, which was secured against her home, to help her bring a joint libel suit against Luke Turner, a Jewish performance artist.
The case shines a spotlight on Delo's support for individuals and organisations whom critics accuse of having at times tested the boundaries of legitimate free speech.
Power and her fellow claimant lost their defamation case in 2023, and she was declared bankrupt. Afterwards, Delo enforced his rights over her London home as a way of recovering the money he had lent her.
That has meant that her other creditors cannot seek the sale of the home to recover other debts, unless Delo's security is deemed invalid in some way.
One of the creditors is Turner, the artist, who had originally sought the bankruptcy petition against her in order to reclaim his legal costs. The court had ordered Power and her co-claimant to pay him an initial £250,000, which they have not done.
Delo considers Power a friend, according to people close to him. The billionaire is in effect now the landlord of the bankrupt former academic, and receives monthly rent payments from her as a means of recovering the debt, according to people familiar with their financial arrangements. She remains the legal owner of the property.

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They'll have their own ghetto schools and shops and GPs isn't the kind of message you want to send out. Sure, cool, use the law to go after this git but the concerns are still not legitimate! When people get to know their neighbours they usually get on better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Second breakfast time. Or post lunch snack?

Golden apple slices (4), 2 cheese swirls and 2 mini cinnamon rolls cool on a rack in a white countertop.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I simply don’t grasp the desire to compromise one iota with people like this. They have no desire to compromise with us, or with their clueless enablers and fellow travellers. They will not be merciful or understanding if they win. Every inch we give is a victory for them. Enough already, now.

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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Either we speak out wholeheartedly in favour of international law, our moral obligations to refugees, the fantastic diversity of our country, everyone’s right to respect & the centrality of the rule of law to our democracy, or we‘re giving ground to people who want none of that

theguardian.com

‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Legitimate concerns“ rhetoric & increasing restrictions on migrants’ rights have led directly to Piddlington & to RNLI staff being doxxed as traitors. There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far-right thuggery

theguardian.com

‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yesss hahaha yessss

Times Politics
@timespolitics

Palantir hires Tom Watson to fight left-wing campaign against US firm

[thumbnail of tom watson speaking while doing that stupid thumb gesture aggrocentrists think makes them look commanding]

10:06 PM · Sep 17, 2026

https://twitter.com/timespolitics/status/2100692993925619796

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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fa-BOO!-s @fabius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"demanded that the homes of the Film-makers' families be demolished" gee I wonder where they got that particular idea for collective punishment from

On Wednesday evening, dozens of rightwing activists gathered outside the home of the parents of Rachel Szor, one of the directors of NAZA. Among the organisers were activists and campaign staff linked to the far-right Otzma Yehudit party of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister. Messages circulated in activist groups earlier on Wednesday urged supporters to gather outside her house. Some of the messages included explicit calls for violence.

Police and border police officers were deployed at the scene.

One protester called for the “death penalty for traitors” and demanded that the homes of the film-makers’ families be demolished.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, that’s refreshingly blunt.

The Times and Sunday Tim... » • 33m
We must start weaning the nation off the state pension

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16/09/2026

"Guys, before we put this live, should we check if there's any symbolism to the closing date?" "Nah, should be fine."

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness

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Astrid @astarte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My spidey sense for effective altruism is triggered, what are the chances that he is adjacent?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 08/09/2026

🚨 THIS IS BAD! 🚨 Palantir’s stated goal is to disrupt democracy by getting control of the systems in the name of technofascism. Their MO is wedging people into positions of power then shoehorning themselves into critical infrastructure. Now they control the grid. www.ft.com/content/f6a2...

ft.com

Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids

Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative

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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I interviewed @reallandsend.bsky.social on @conspiritualitypod episode 101, "Eugenic Pandemic." Anyone making fun of this work is reactionary and not serious. #HealthCommunism, #DeathPanel, #DisabilityJustice, #MassDisablingEvent, #ComradeDefense

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you're going to lie to people why the *fuck* would you call up a journalist and say "can you put it in the newspaper that we are liars? thanks pal!" What is the fucking reasoning here?

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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