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AndCouldHePlay7 @andcouldheplay7.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“We can speak about what this means for the game going forward, but we can also admire what they’re doing on the pitch”, says Carragher like they aren’t fucking linked. They’re only doing what they’re doing on the pitch because they cheated. The players aren’t there because they love LS Lowry.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 19/07/2026
When mum came back from the rave with her new pals
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It seems that several commentators have set themselves a challenge: to write a thread or article expressing disbelief as to why Starmer was so loathed without mentioning his stances on AI, Black Lives Matter, Gaza, trans rights, and then dismiss that loathing as the hysteria of out-of-touch elites.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
And we just waited around all day thinking millions of people would die horribly because he was bored with his pointless war
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
To sit and dine with this man and his cronies, drink his wine, toast his health, while his gov't and the businesses that support this government ruin the lives, bodies, and careers of hard working journalists across this country is just unconscionable Blegh, gross. Take your hankies and shove it
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A meme where a small domino at the start of a stack says "Gerardus Mercator devises map projection to make navigation easier in 1569" and a big domino at the end of the stack says "Trump invades Greenland"
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
no matter what, if Musk is involved, it's gonna explode
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ashamed to be a citizen of a country that arrests people for ‘dissent and protest’. Recalling that the slogan ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ originated with the Quakers.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So that means that any attempt to neuter a hippo is: A) Exploratory Surgery B) Done under "best guess" conditions C) Where the drugs are *going* to wear off D) On an animal that weighs more than a Ford F150 E) All of which is muscle F) On testicles that are hiding from you G) And it is mad about it
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a large hippopotamus is standing in the water with its mouth open
Alt: a large hippopotamus is standing in the water with its mouth open
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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
a secret fifth thing
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Grim as fuck
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Leon is upset people are calling Teslas Swasticars Hundreds were tagged with this sticker in London
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/01/2025
Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Searching #liberal or #democrat on Instagram now returns "We've hidden these results", #Republican has no such problem. Seems bad.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/01/2025
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
Zuckerberg, Mrs. Bezos, Bezos, Pichai, Musk
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/01/2025
I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
When a woman named Datâ wrote the equivalent of “per my last email” to her brother in the 8th century BCE, she was actually trying to tell him about someone’s death. “The lady Gagâ has died and your brother is troubled” oracc.museum.upenn.edu//saao/saa19/...
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daveockop.bsky.social @daveockop.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The gif we've all been waiting for.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
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Sean O’Connor @seanoconnz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If Bluesky is the new social media app of record, I thought we should move the Jesse Eisenberg story over here.
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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I’m starting to understand what it must have been like when Caligula made his horse a senator.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
📣 🏺 A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack! Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment) go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.
CBS Graphic: 

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