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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yall wanna see some raccoons fuck up a piñata
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A reasonably insightful article, until this weird slip. Why would independents or moderates be more alienated by Platner's misogyny than progressives, who are far more consistent on this topic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Graham Platner debacle puts Democrats in grave danger of blowing it in the midterms
The meltdown in Maine’s Senate race risks the Democrats’ opportunity to turn Trump into a lame duck president.
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It truly feels like Count Binface has been setting up the punchline for this joke for decades. #farage #reformuk
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why isn't it called Air Qatar? #engcro
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Has anyone else noticed that houses with Reform UK posters invariably have neighbours with estate agent boards?
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If Downing Street / Starmer weren't told that Mandelson failed his vetting, that's because they had made clear they did not want to be told about any impediments to appointing him. And for those impediments to be made to go away. There is absolutely no other plausible explanation.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As always, the urtext of Trump: “The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing ‘the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.’"
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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Think you know the story of 1066? New UEA research insights says otherwise... Prof Tom Licence has uncovered that King Harold’s famous 200‑mile march to the Battle of Hastings never happened and was the result of a Victorian mistranslation. 📜 #HistoryNews #ResearchMatters
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
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Family Tree Plus @familytreeplus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Join us 11 March, as Prof. Tom Licence tells the story of the Bayeux Tapestry. Book your spot today 👇🔗. Sign up to Family Tree Plus and get access to this webinar and more every month
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Bizarrely, this post ISN'T about BORIS Johnson...
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ice, by Anna Kavan. A masterpiece, brutal, difficult to read, and every time I do, I discover a completely new book to the one I remember. (Oh. And the author's biography is extraordinary too.)
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Have the Republicans won anything this cycle?!?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Am I really to understand that there are people who believe that someone faked the birthday letter from Trump, and did such a bad job that they didn't use any of the publicly available examples of his signature, and this failure to do basic forgers due-diligence is what proves the fake? #trumpletter
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
So, am I to understand that Republicans are claiming that someone faked the birthday letter and when they did so, that person didn't use one of the obviously very well-known signatures which Trump uses? Imagine believing that.
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Bertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The Line We Crossed follows climate activists as they cross the line into civil disobedience. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the quiet unravelling of our protest rights, as the UK’s sweeping new anti-protest laws are enacted. 📆 23 Jul + Q&A bit.ly/TLWCbdh
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The Line We Crossed - Bertha DocHouse
The Line We Crossed follows climate activists as they cross the line into civil disobedience.
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Rural Freedom Network @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Make sure everyone you know sees this before Saturday.
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Dr Dyi D. Huijg @drdyidhuijg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
So, as I understand it, the UK Supreme Court's position is that if a board has a requirement to appoint 50% women and does so, if some of those women are trans women it won't have satisfied the requirement - even though nobody involved in the entire process could (legally) know the women were trans?
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
1/9 I stress that I’m writing this in a personal capacity, not as a representative of the University of Sussex. It seems Lisa Nandy spoke too soon when stating that the culture wars are over.
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Mac William Bishop @macwbishop.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s only a War Plan™ if it comes from the War Room region of the Pentagon. Otherwise it’s just sparkling unclassified policy discussion.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 23/03/2025
I’m just saying if they come here to our country and live in New York City, the greatest city in the world, they should learn to speak the goddamn language, which of course is the Umani dialect of the Algonquian language family
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This research looks solid enough, but the interpretations of it seem wildly off-base, lecturing the Left on how they need to move right. The Greens did historically well last election, and Labour, despite a landslide from FPTP, got a worryingly low vote share. 1/n
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The most naive take on what is happening in America right now is that Trump is pursuing ‘his objective’ of shrinking the Federal Government. Anyone who thinks that is his true objective needs to put their thinking cap on and sit in a dark room for a very long time.
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot... Perfection.
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Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 14/02/2025
The quickest way to a man’s heart is to insert a needle between the xiphoid process and left costal margin at a 15-to-30-degree angle, directed towards the left shoulder
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/01/2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters
MENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Hardle 15/12/2024 | 1/10 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0️⃣5️⃣ Play #hardle on hardle.org It happened.
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Hardle | The harder word gameHardle
Hardle - The harder word game. Guess the word in 10 tries without knowing exactly which letters are yellow or green! | Hardle - Das härtere Worterrätsel. Errate das Wort in 10 Versuchen, ohne exakt zu...
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@laurapricewrites.bsky.social Welcome! The water's nice here....
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S J Watson @sjwatson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It’s a man running away. Until it’s a dog.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19/10/2024
So if it wasn't completely obvious back then, the Olympic boxing scandal was basically a kremlin op. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...
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The Putin-backed strongman who threw the Paris Games into chaos
Banned from the Games, Russia wanted to upend the Olympics. Enter Umar Kremlev and the boxing ‘gender controversy.’
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,242,143! Which feels like I got in early, when it was just a blink of the eyes ago...
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
I feel very stressed by the possibility that tomorrow's polls will say Trump won the #debate despite what I'm watching. He's both gross and incoherent.
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Wow. The moderator's first question was, "Kamala Harris - you and President Trump were elected four years ago..." - he's already screwed up the basics! #debate
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Hardle 10/09/2024 | 3/10 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 0️⃣1️⃣ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 0️⃣0️⃣ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0️⃣5️⃣ Play #hardle on hardle.org
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Hardle | The harder word gameHardle
Hardle - The harder word game. Guess the word in 10 tries without knowing exactly which letters are yellow or green!
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Ben @benzross.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Excellent thread on why AI is about to kill us all. Or at least, if it is, pop scientists explaining why aren't explaining it well.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 31/05/2024
Oh look. No riots.
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michael @mcyost.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
That's exactly right. Anyone with basic stats training could pick apart the medical literature on trans health. "High quality" studies are almost impossible to get because of the nature of the issue. And Cass takes that and says "therefore teen gender affirming care is dangerous" which is BONKERS
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 29/02/2024
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