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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The right hate public service broadcasting specifically because it seeks to hold all politicians accountable, whereas much (not all) of privately owned media outlets serve conservative interests. When you're accustomed to client journalism, accountability hurts.

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Hubertine Auclert @sabine34.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025

Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal So much for sovereignty isn't it ? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal

‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 15/04/2025

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I long for a time where I don't need to know about bond yields, or the meaning if autarky, or the name Scott Bessant

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

He's never wrong, just occasionally a little less emphatically right than usual.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I just solved Bellingcat's 'Camouflage' challenge 🏆 Try it yourself! challenge.bellingcat.com

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Bellingcat Open Source Challenge

Test your open source research skills.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I just solved Bellingcat's 'Spot the Location' challenge 🏆 Try it yourself! challenge.bellingcat.com

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Bellingcat Open Source Challenge

Test your open source research skills.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/03/2025

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

When America has your back — the weekly illustration from The Economist

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the wheels are falling off folks, buckle up.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Our cover this week. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Economist cover showing Putin and Trump at an otherwise empty table with empty chairs around.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The Discord link isn't working.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Did the first two in 15 min but stuck on the third...

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

So out of character for Allister Heath, a man who has never knowingly used hyperbole...

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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

France: PM Barnier and government will resign 🚨 🇫🇷 331 MPs in French parliament - more than absolute majority of 289 - have voted for non-confidence motion. Motion was sponsored by the left bloc and supported by MPs from other groups as well. Source: @lemonde.fr

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If Bluesky is to replace X for news, global coverage is key. There are consequential events happening in Syria, Ukraine, Georgia, Sudan & Gaza right now. This pack includes reporters on the ground there & analysts. Pls consider following these to share their reporting & build Bluesky's news value

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Can't quite get the last one yet

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Satellite data analysis suggests that algal blooms may have caused the 2020 deaths of more than 350 elephants in Botswana—part of an "alarming trend" in climate-induced toxic poisoning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Climate-induced poisoning’: 350 elephants probably killed by toxic water

Satellite data analysis suggests algal blooms could be behind mass die-off in Botswana that sparked flurry of theories in 2020

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

BREAKING - Assisted dying passes its first stage in the House of Commons

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Which was likely known to Jenrick, but why let that get in the way of a bit of political opportunism? The man is a howling chasm inside.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is a massive story with potentially huge implications for the Middle East if Assad's regime really is collapsing.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Betwixt Literally (when used incorrectly) Sat (when used as past continuous) Normalcy Fragrant Holibobs

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Perhaps it is The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper? Part of a series, I gather, and published around the right timeframe.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

William Hague has been elected Chancellor of Oxford University. (I appreciate this is niche interest but still... Mandelson wasn't in the top three)

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

And so easily replicable in any public library across the UK. A really lovely idea.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Struggling to see the sense in this argument; we have inadequately funded palliative care right now, and the absence of assisted dying legislation has hardly been an impetus for investment. Meanwhile, people die in pain and indignity.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Bill includes robust protections for terminally ill people while giving them a chance to die in dignity and to end their suffering. No one should be unnecessarily forced to end their days in pain or indignity.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Tell that to people in Valencia.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Marie Curie's notebooks, which are RADIOACTIVE & must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

A photo of the notebook, open to show the writing inside.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Yes! But also really hoping you're not planning to drink from that straw...

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 18/11/2024

#EXCLUSIVE: At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how human-caused #globalheating is supercharging extreme #weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity

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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal

Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's a tiny team for now, but it needs to get bigger and the platform needs the funders to enable that. I want Blue Sky to succeed, and I do see the lack of authentication as a barrier to long term growth. The need it on their roadmap.

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Ben Buckley @benbuckley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It clearly isn't working, which is why a large number of reputable journalists and commentators were fooled by an inauthentic account. Reading the username isn't nearly as straightforward as you suggest, and in any event the system is open to username squatting as demonstrated in the Badenoch case.

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