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Paul B

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Demographer turned public health researcher

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IKEA, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch's Talk Radio: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Image of a Talk Radio commentator alongside the image of an IKEA logo and the Talk logo, with the text "The vermin that is washing up on our shores".
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SO WHAT - dashare.zone ADMIN
SKELETEN'S GETTEN BLOWN AWAY BY A DISENTEGRATING WORLD, "SO WHAT IF EARTH IS HOTTERN THEN ITS BEEN FOR CENTURIES, IT WAS WORTH IT, MY BODY IS FULL OF MICROPLASTICS, MY TELEPHONE SPIES ON ME, ADVERTISERS BUY MY DREAM DATA WHIEL I SLEEP, I WAKE EVERY MORNING TO ADS, PROMISING TO STOP MY TEETH FROM FALLING OUT " - I WROTE MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS AT patreon.com/dasharez0ne GO THERE FOR DAILY WRITTING AND MORE EXTRA SHYT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future
Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists, use of terrorism laws against protesters must end
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Reminder Elon Musk received $38 billion in government welfare support.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *SagaUK *WeFixLondon *RangefordLiving *FreedomShowers *Tufferman *AllClearTravel *Boxt *InheritanceLegalServices *CopperhouseFilms *RepairMyKitchen *HarringtonAndByrne *DrHoVitadora *ArdenParks *TonicSurgery *CityMoves *Belgicaweb *QuingoScooters *Haltonlifts
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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drnedflanders.bsky.social @drnedflanders.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I thought it was just the fact that we see who advertises with GBNews and we never buy any of their products. I wasn't aware that I could write emails to them telling them about all the hateful and disreputable views that GBNews harbours. Thanks Nigel for making me aware of this.
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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.eurosky.social · 19/11/2025
'The Movement was founded in Belgium with the aim to unite “populist and conservative movements in Europe”, defending “national sovereignty”, “effective national borders”, the “fight against radical Islam”, and “the defence of Israel as a sovereign state on its historic land”.'
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
Clear out toys now!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
State Visit Souvenir Giant Charity Postcard! First 50 orders signed! 👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Oh.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Trailfinders *VinceTheVet *Whitescar Cave *Hafren Furnishers *Tonic Surgery *Reclaim Nation *Dormeo *London Mint Office *Freshpet *Belgica *Freedom Showers *Boxt *Moneyfacts Compare *AllClearTravel *Polish Tourism Organisation www.desmog.com/2025/09/03/m...
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M&S Shelled Out on GB News Ads as Broadcaster’s Owner Bet on the Retailer’s Failure
Marks and Spencer (M&S) continued to advertise on GB News even while the broadcaster’s boss was betting against the company, DeSmog can reveal. Since the start of the year, Marshall Wace – the hedge f...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/08/2025
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“Public broadcasters are doing a core part of their job badly,” is a saying for our times.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
President Macron: We are talking about an imperialist and revisionist power that is today's Russia, which since 2008 has constantly sought to conquer new territories, has constantly revised international borders, and has never kept its promises of peace and non-aggression.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist… The report exposes glaring scientific failures from a health secretary who earlier this week threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals.”
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RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies
Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 29/05/2025
NEW PAPER, NEW THREAD! 👀 We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯 A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩 1/x 🧵👇
A sewage overflow valve in Simpelveld, the Netherlands. One of our sample locations where raw sewage mixes with the Eyserbeek stream. Yes, it smelled. Photo: Auke-FlorianA caddisfly casing, Chaetopteryx villosa, with green flat particle (RMNH.INS.1658129). On the left, beneath the specimen, a colourised SEM photograph of the artificial particle, and on the right, EDX mapping visualization showing the chemical elements found, in this case titanium, chloride and sulphur. This casings is retrievable in jar BE.2289652 in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Images credit: Isabel van der Velden and Auke-Florian Hiemstra.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *Boxt *HME Logistics *Brook Taverner *Vintage Cash Cow *Freshpet *Bullards Gin *Lawn Master *Dormeo *Staysure *AliveCor *Housing Units *All Clear Travel *Mane UK *Desira *MyClaim Group *Solar Centre *Polish Tourism Organisation *TrailFinders
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 29/05/2025
huh. almost like widespread automated police surveillance of motorists might have some civil liberties implications after all
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Did not expect to start crying before I'd even done wordle
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem.
It's not a very long poem, folks
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Bringing the heat
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/04/2025
We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.
You want to know what non-compliance looks like? It looks like whatever the hell you want it to look like. It’s not about heroism or martyrdom. It’s about being a magnificent, ungovernable pain in the ass. It’s about weaponizing inconvenience, absurdity, and joy against a system that demands fear and obedience.
Throw a wrench in the works—everywhere, all the time. Fill their inboxes with existential poetry. Tape absurd messages in public places: “Authoritarianism gives you hemorrhoids.” Get petty. Get weird. Flush their toilet paper. Release crickets in inconvenient places. Spoil their scripts, trip their rhythm, yank the narrative from their hands.
Because here’s the ugly truth they don’t want you to hear: authoritarianism only works when the people allow it to work. It’s a performance, a bluff, a collective hypnosis. Break the spell. Mock it. Undermine it with your refusal to kneel.
But here’s the thing—this has to be everywhere. Everyone. We need resistance so widespread, so creatively chaotic, so utterly unmanageable, that the regime cracks under the weight of its own overreach.
Be bold. Be clever. Be feral.
And above all—DO NOT COMPLY.
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Large Johnson @flytyingguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If a couple of Congress members switched their party affiliations right now they would be heroes and have statues built for them.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today's GB News TV advertisers also include *Rangeford Living *Dormeo *City Moves *5 Star Windows *Belgica *Madison and Mayfair *RagingBull Snacks *Pink Sand Group *Retirement Villages *Reclaim Nation *Housing Units *Channel Recliners *Faster Property Solutions www.thenational.scot/news/2478417...
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GB News is an 'anti-Muslim hate channel', two-year study into output concludes
GB News “accounted for almost 50 per cent of all mentions of Muslims or Islam on UK news channels” in a two-year period, a study has found ...
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Oran Rouse @orandwightrouseiii.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
👀🤨👍🇺🇸 #SlavaUkraini #FUCKPROJECT2025 #FuckOligarchy #fuckelon #fucknazis #fuckdoge #fuckfascist #FuckRacist #FuckDictatorship #magaextremism #TrumpAgenda #TANGERINEMUSSOLINI #fuckKRASNOV #WeTriedToTellYa #WeToldYouSo #NOSYMPATHY #wearetheflood #RevolutionNow #ResistanceMovement #FAFO
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
At some point the Labour leadership have to openly face up to the fact that the far right, domestically and globally, and the groups bankrolling their rise, are their and anyone else committed to liberal democracy and human rights’s principal adversary and need to be confronted directly.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIDAtyB...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 04/04/2025
turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
💛WIN A BOLLARD💛 The most popular competition in the history of social media is back. It's the prize you've all been waiting for. Repost and follow to be in with a chance of winning this gorgeous Monoscape Bridgeford Smooth Grey Concrete Bollard worth £252.42. #WorldBollardAssociation
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Belgica *Polish Tourism Organisation *Simply Factoring *RagingBull Snacks *Dormeo *Ideal Home Show *Madison & Mayfair *Selectspecs *Housing Units *Freshpet *TrailFinders *AllClearTravel *Salus Mortgages *Bullards Gin *Desira *Boxt hiasjcore.org/gb-news-must...
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GB News must take action on antisemitic rhetoric - HIAS+JCORE
Jewish refugee charity HIAS+JCORE calls for GB News to take urgent action against appalling recent antisemitic content.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
You truly could not make it up. You could not.
Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants"
The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.
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