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Berty Trouser

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Tinker with music, play keys/ synth/samples with skapacollective.bandcamp.com and me soundcloud.com/berty-trouser. Concerned about climate change and right-wing post-truth era.🚲🎛️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎹 Won't follow people who don't engage or use AI slop

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 30/09/2026
A week-long celebration of DIY music and culture, inspired by a local artist’s residency at one of the USA’s oldest surviving punkhouses is coming to Cardiff Music City Festival
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US punk house inspires five-day celebration of DIY culture in Cardiff
Nation.Cymru staff A week-long celebration of DIY music and culture, inspired by a local artist’s residency at one of the USA’s oldest surviving punkhouses is coming to Cardiff Music City Festival. Ch...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unaccompanied children as young as 2 are forced to represent themselves in immigration court without any legal services: "The kids who are unrepresented, they can’t read the form, much less figure out how to file it. ... No one is asking a single question — who will you go to? Will you be safe?"
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's me
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
how many freudians does it take to change a light boob?
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The diesel scandal isn’t over. Since 2009, there have been 30,000 new cases of childhood asthma in the UK because of excess diesel emissions. Without action there’ll be thousands more. Watch our film, then email our leaders. www.mumsforlungs.org/news/the-die... #AirPollution #Diesel
Young boy on a bus blowing white smoke from a small metal exhaust pipe, overlaid by the bold caption "DIEsel" and a Mums for Lungs logo — a visual metaphor linking diesel exhaust to harm to children's lungs.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘It’s a bloody long way to Congo’: my week as a swallow Each week, Simon Barnes hears what the past seven days have been like for a member of the animal kingdom ✍️ Simon Barnes bit.ly/4iWeoIV
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‘It’s a bloody long way to Congo’: my week as a swallow
Each week, Simon Barnes hears what the past seven days have been like for a member of the animal kingdom
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This person went on GBNews to attack Labour & call for tax cuts but it turns out her parents took out £2.5 million from the business and that is the cause of her problems. But of course, the BBC simply takes her claims at face value because it suits a certain narrative. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bakery owner calls for Budget help for firms
Frankie Dyer has written to the prime minister urging Budget support for businesses.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Ancient Romans enjoyed an afternoon watching people being thrown to wild beasts or burned alive or crucified. And this chap identifies with that... while dubbing other people "barbaric"
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So let's take a look at where that terrible headline came from and what other misinformation is loaded into the article itself. All put there by Kemi Badenoch. 2/
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is true .
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch was gifted an £8,177 trip from News Corp to meet Rupert Murdoch and other senior executives in Greece over the summer The Conservative Party leader has just reported a donation-in-kind for the summer jaunt with the Murdochs worth thousands - as has her deputy
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anti-Jew activist charged after starting Holocaust
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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Climate misinformation and press regulation Fifteen factual errors in a Daily Mail piece on wind power. Almost a year at IPSO. The result: one sentence amended. www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/c...
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Climate misinformation and press regulation
Chris Goodall took a complaint to IPSO over fifteen factual errors in a Daily Mail article on wind power. Almost a year later, the regulator ordered a single sentence to be amended.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Map Of Africa in 1880: 5 Years Before the Scramble More about the states & higher resolution map: brilliantmaps.com/map-of-af...
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©️garethaethwy 2024 @garethaethwy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone's started a thread over on the Hellsite for nicknames for "man" of the moment Daniel Thomas, including: > Captain Thugwash > Thickbeard > Vasco de Gammon > Sir Francis Fake > Long John Grifter > Wrong John Silver > Long Con Silver > Tugboat Fanny > Moby Prick > Captain Kidnap Any more?
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And lo & behold this beast is a white Scottish man. NOT an immigrant or an asylum seeker. Where's the gammon outrage? www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2657689...
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'Depraved' former teacher guilty of sexual offences against 14 teenage boys
A "depraved" former teacher has been found guilty of sexual offences against 14 teenage boys in Paisley.
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have also emailed Points of View (pov@bbc.co.uk) to suggest that their omission in the ‘Danny Tommo’ story is either a professional failure or a moral one, which may be another way to vent frustration this morning if you want to join me...
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#TwoTierPolicing

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Woman sentenced for hurling milkshake at
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...
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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared
While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.
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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I respect our British culture. DO YOU?
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Lauren And Hacker: We're Just Innocent Men
ALT: Lauren And Hacker: We're Just Innocent Men
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Ignaz Semmelweis - Wikipedia
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Any more evidence needed to lock up this prick? Or does racist entitlement never end now? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Wesearch.press @wesearch.press · 22/09/2026
101-acre data centre proposed on Cardiff hospital park-and-ride. Local resident calls it heartbreaking, fears industrial estate. #terrifying wesearch.press/s/terrifying-101-acr…
'Terrifying' 101-acre data centre plans would be 'heartbreaking', campaigners warn
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Know what is cheaper than importing gas? Sunlight and wind - it's everywhere It's almost like he is wilfully ignoring the actual cheaper less damaging option www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Know what is cheaper than importing gas? Sunlight and wind - it's everything It's almost like he is wilfully ignoring the actual cheaper less damaging option www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That Jim Radcliffe is a right cunt Trying to push for cheaper gas to burn for power No you sick rich cunt put up some panels Or just fuck off and live in flood plain by a glacier.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Declaration of policy intent, not error. bsky.app/profile/marl...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is quite striking if Meta thinks it has the tech + the policy + the will to ban/filter out feminism (but not misogyny, obvs). It sounds like there may be an analogous ban on antiracism (but not racism). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just like normal summer or something www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Japan typhoon: More than 1.9 million urged to evacuate as Dujuan batters Tokyo
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and some rail services suspended as Dujuan barrels towards Japan's eastern coast.
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
we all die in 2031 !
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is a bit depressing that Phillipson was questioned about the views in Piddington as if it's a given that a camp of male asylum seekers necessarily poses a greater threat to women than a collection of any type of men, despite the lack of any evidence on this.
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Momentary burst of joy at the idea that Kemi finally gets the climate emergency. Rapidly deflated by clicking through (cut welfare, increase defence, rpt until fade)
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp... they air, promote and do not challenge this pricks 'legitimate concerns ' fairly frequently . When anyone talks about north sea oil they should also speak to someone's house and family destroyed by climate change. Give someone from Nepal's take .
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Complaints | Contact the BBC
These pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. If you would like to unders...
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Brutal 🤣
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19/09/2026
A children’s procession through Swansea city centre has been cancelled after a far-right march led by a convicted criminal was announced for the same day and location ✍️ Emily Price
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Far-right march forces cancellation of Swansea children’s procession
Emily Price  A children’s procession through Swansea city centre has been cancelled after a far-right march led by a convicted criminal was announced for the same day and location. A 100-foot Future G...
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 19/09/2026
"I don't like to use expletives on this podcast, but what the actual f**k?" says Jon Sopel. How will Trump and MAGA "wiggle out" of scrutiny over why Russia paid so much for Don Jr's wedding? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why did Putin’s mega-rich mate spend so much on Don Jr’s wedding? | The News Agents
A senior Republican has told Miles Taylor he is “very concerned” about Umar Kremlev, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, giving a huge amount to Donald Trump Jr and his second wife, Bettina Anderson.
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I suppose you could ask people to define these 'legitimate concerns'. And it would be a concern that is based on lies, press and prejudice. So perhaps these concerns need questioning Not validation
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1/2 This summer, Reform-led Kent County Council voted to include Oaken Wood in its minerals plan. If approved, at least 41 hectares of this ancient woodland would be destroyed, making it the largest loss of ancient woodland in England this century.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can't go around saying "go woke, go broke" and then say that Macklemore et al are just jumping on a bandwagon for cash.
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Sefydliad Dysgu a Gwaith | Learning and Work Institute @learnworkcymru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎬Meet Javier, winner of the Young Adult Learner Inspire! Award. After returning to education at 25, Javier found a pathway into medicine through Cardiff and Vale College.🩺 Now, he's secured a place at the University of Bristol to study medicine. #NeverStopLearning
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Berty Trouser @bertytrouser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The book ( half of the new series ) was set in Pembrokeshire .... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Suffolk takes centre stage in new series of Apple's Slow Horses
The award-winning spy show returns for its sixth series, featuring scenes shot in Suffolk.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When it’s left-wing protesters, Home Secretaries have changed the law so they are now criminals. When far-right criminals break the law, they’re asked not to break the law again 🙄
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