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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Cauldron Bendy 👻 @auldbendy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a good article but it really should've focused more on landlords squeezing every penny from people. This man earns £34k a year and needs to earn more just to rent a shared room. Something needs to change and quickly. We can't end homelessness without dealing with landlords.

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I live in England's least affordable city - I have a job but still ended up homeless

Every night I spent in temporary living felt like a step further away from being able to get out of my situation

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's typical of the nature of the Labour Party, and of the Guardian, that this is wholly about factionalism and a self-absorbed concern with how it plays among the paper's favoured contacts. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s a funny new version of th crowding-out argument. In the old days, we were told fiscal tightening was needed to solve the problem of weak private investment. Now, we are told tightening is needed because private investment is so strong. Austerity: always the answer! www.ft.com/content/d96c...

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very fun how Americans are always “remember Tiananmen Square” and never “remember Kent state”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This doesn’t mean “damage” in the sense of “give people the wrong idea”. It shows them what it actually is, and what it has been for decades at least.

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BalthazarBlaze @balthazarblaze.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What 'rules' Vikki? You've made a statement. You should be able to explain it. What rules are these barbers not playing by? Rules that do not already exist under other employment, tax and commercial laws?

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Flintlock. Why do all these nerds follow me? I'm not a nerd. @flintlock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Been thinking about this (from Huw Lemmey) a lot again recently.

You come to understand that the class system soaks into everything in Britain: how, at the top, they’re all essentially the same. The socialists are all aristocrats, the satirists are all bullies. Everyone is related to each other, or went to school with each other, and all are invested in keeping the class motor running. I myself went through a process that I think is a common disillusion. As an socialist eighteen year old, full of rage, you think Britain is a cesspit of conservatism, ruled at the top by a parasitic monarchy, where everything is rigged in favour of the rich. You think Britain is a closed shop where an Oxbridge elite perpetuate a system of patronage, of jobs for friends and the children of friends, where mediocrities rise to fame and fortune and where those who are talented but aren’t rich and white and usually straight and male rise only as performing seals or in order to line their pockets or flatter their egos. You think Britain is only a simulation of a democracy, where opposition is tolerated only so far as it shores up the establishment, tarts up the place to look a bit more modern, or where criticism is allowed only as an escape valve, to release pressure, where satire is a jester to a court that laughs then continues just the same.

Then you grow up a bit, and realise, of course, things are a little more complicated than that. Change is a slow process, realised in incremental steps that might seem invisible in the short term. Negotiation is the British story, the slow accretion of progress, the winning over of heart and mind. You get over your youthful idealism and realise that, while change is slow, the process does perhaps work. Not ideally, and not every time, but the power elites that once dominated British culture and society are seeing their power eroded in favour of a more open, egalitarian, and democratic national culture. Then you grow up some more, and realise you were right the first time, and the joke isn’t funny anymore.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Nooo we can't break the cycle now but we promise we'll break it later, no it was a previous generation of our party that made the same promise before so it's not fair to blame us for doing exactly the same thing, c'monnnn just one more go of the cycle, just one we promise, get under the wheeel

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

lotta reasons i keep saying that what looks like fandom and team sports shit for the democrats is actually wrangling with self-perception of one's own morality and goodness

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026

You’ve got priests, pensioners and disabled people who’ve been arrested for terrorism charges for peaceful protest, while the national public broadcaster is glazing a uniformed paramilitary for launching a campaign of attacks on infrastructure. Forgive me for seeing a scale and a thumb.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, look. You were offered a democracy in which the public funded the Labour Party voluntarily, which freed them to pursue politics in the public interest. You had your chance to get behind this project, you had all the time you needed to say: yes I like and want this. Now, you will get

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This is absolutely extraordinary, and a record donation to a UK political party by some margin.
Reform UK has received a record £36million donation in a major boost to Nigel Farage after a difficult summer for the Reform leader.
Ben Delo, a cryptocurrency billionaire, told the @Telegraph: "I'm giving £1m per month to Reform UK until the expected 2029 general election, to help them get ready for government."
Nigel Farage said: "I am honoured and humbled that Ben Delo has shown such confidence in Reform.
"Ben knows that we are the only party that can turn the country around and reverse Britain's decline."

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 11/09/2026

Just one example of the real world effects of UK Labour’s cowardice. If Labour won’t defend the RNLI then they certainly won’t defend us immigrants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers

The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In five minutes, more reality on Israel/Palestine than I’ve seen from the Beeb in long years. The power of the bully pulpit there: the government can force issues into the public eye with whatever framing they choose, if they want to do it.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And, crucially, that will have been the last time it happened. They consider any worldview based on compassion or equality "student politics" because uni was the last - and possibly the first - time they ever had to engage with left-wing people or ideas.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 08/09/2026

This is a microcosm of the UK's problems. A stupid decision taken off the back of an unpublicised commercial deal which places UK energy security in the hands of a company owned by an extreme right wing agitator. And nobody in government seems vaguely interested.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026

Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...

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Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters

Up to 500 activists dressed in black with their faces covered brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If they can manage to bring up hypnoboobs every time they interview @zackpolanski.bsky.social about literally anything they can bring up a woman protesting getting beaten while Farage yells "BORING! BORING! BORING!" at conference with Reform reps.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026

a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists!

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All the academic freedom pearl clutchers from the other week seem oddly silent on this

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Democrats have spent 3 days attacking a streamer btw

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death

Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The venn of people getting angry that Polanski is pointing out £350k worth of bungs versus the circle of people who were once *seriously concerned* about canal boat tax status is just a circle.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The UK media put their colleague, Boris Johnson, in No. 10 and defended him to the hilt during his disastrous response to covid until the precise moment they turned on him. They defend fascists rioting in the streets. They are dangerous both in who they harass and abuse and who they choose to defend

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everything about the Grenfell fire and the cladding company, building management and the government itself: pure Fallout logs stuff, the kind of thing you’d find in the ruins of bombed out basement of a regional corporate HQ

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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims

Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.

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Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Jimmy Saville carried out the most reviled crimes at a historically significant level for decades across multiple organisations. He had about two-minutes uncomfortable questioning in TV shows he agreed to. That's how seriously you should take the British media's claims to hold people to account.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New from Kathleen Stock: I am too dumb for climate change

Climate change discourse leaves me cold

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Inevitably, the usuals are using the fifth heatwave of the English summer to hammer home their preferred theories about the origins of about climate change. But I can't be bothored to attend, and it isn't just because of the brain fog. *I find it impossible to navigate such large-scale intellectual terrain, where the very nature of the problem is radically contested, let alone the solutions.*

Whether apocalyptic or deflationary, every point in this area seems to be delivered with identical confidence, in
equally technical language. So who do you trust? A popular way to negotiate the thicket seems to be to pick the political side you hate most, then lampoon everything its representatives say on the matter, and conclude the opposite must be right. Unfortunately, though, I dislike Right and Left equally for different reasons, so that doesn't much help.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you haven't already, can you please take a minute to sign this demand for a public inquiry into the role of the media in Prof. Arday's death? Thanks so much. Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project share.google/yglZz4Gw42RJ...

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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The columnariat are, quite simply, some of the worst people in society. They will murder you, cry at your funeral, and turn in 800 words on how your death is the fault of the wokes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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BalthazarBlaze @balthazarblaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Marie Le Conte has no idea what the numbers were here, its her and her mates who hungrily absorbed it. Newsrooms are not chasing audiences with Cambridge academics.

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