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Found this incredible project at the Green Party conference: Stitch their Names Hundreds of women stitching the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. Red are women, Black are men, Green are kids. www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Anthony Camber @anthonycamber.com · 30/09/2026

I'm looking for more reviews for Between Two Worlds. It's on Booksprout if you're a member there - free to join and review. "Everything I want and need from a sci-fi story" "I loved this book" "Clever, touching and engrossing" Claim a review copy here: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

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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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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 25/09/2026

These deeply foolish people will kill us all if we let them

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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Mike Smith @blogshank.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I assume he’s talking about the Daily Mail

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I understand the outrage at the rampant fascists but, look: our national press has been telling the public that the streets are infested with ethnic sex offenders and migrant rapists, set loose by secret communists, for *fifteen years* now. And not sotto voce either, power-blasting it constantly.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

giving $10 to a rich asshole to receive $1 in return is trickle down economics summed up in one 2 minute video

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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Mike Smith @blogshank.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very pleased to have been an early reader for this novel, which has now been published. I’m a sucker for weird and wonderful sci-fi written in a future dialect.

Cover of Between Two Worlds by Anthony Camber

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yet another begging bowl email from the Labour Party this morning. ‘There is no pretending about the scale of what we’re up against.’ If only you guys had a massive majority in Parliament and could pass legislation to protect our democracy from ‘what we’re up against’.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026

political corruption is literally an apocalyptic problem — pass it on

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A criminal investigation is underway by Met Police into allegations Reform broke the law in relation to foreign funding, following a C4 broadcast involving James Orr. James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity. Any media interest in hundreds of articles?

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Based on stats from similar 'protests' in the past, around half of those oh-so-polite men will have convictions for domestic violence or CSA. But yes, I suppose you might well be safe providing you're white and you don't happen to be with them behind closed doors.

We were on a day out. Then masked protestors got on our trian. Activists who brought Dover to a halt on Saturday refused to remove their balaclavas but were 'very polite', say fellow travellers. A headline accompanied by a picture of grinning white women, with masked men giving thumbs up in the background.

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

I’d like it if someone prominent would call this a grotesque, despicable insult to the public’s intelligence, since that’s what it is.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Anthony Camber @anthonycamber.com · 31/08/2026

Excuse the self-indulgence, but... BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is #1 in hot new releases in YA gay fiction ebooks (Amazon UK) #5 bestseller in YA gay fiction ebooks (Amazon UK) OUT TOMORROW. 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Someone has died after a relentless press campaign. The very least the public is entitled to is an investigation into the press’ role in these events and an independent body to review complaints against the press in the future. www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...

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Defensive, evasive & hypocritical: The press reaction to the death of Jason Arday

The reaction of national newspapers to the death of Professor Jason Arday has exposed a brittle defensiveness at the heart of the press, and a determination to remain outside any meaningful accountabi...

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Mike Smith @blogshank.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This must’ve been trained on LinkedIn posts

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

UK media always asks the wrong questions. Instead of hounding high achieving people of colour , perhaps they'd consider asking why white people who fail spectacularly in government so easily walk into high paying media & consultancy work once they’ve exhausted that particular racket .

UK media always asking the wrong questions. Instead of hounding high achieving people of colour , perhaps they should consider asking why white people who failed spectacularly in government so easily walk into high paying media & consultancy work once they’ve exhausted that particular racket .

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure

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Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In a world full of Trumps, Musks, Jenricks and “Tommy Robinson”, choose to be a Hannah Arendt.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reform: We're going to leave babies outside so only the strong survive to become our elite warrior class BBC: Reform will save NHS 100 TRILLION Pounds

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’d love to join in the giggling but: look at what happens when there’s even mild scrutiny on what this man is, what he does and what he wants. We could’ve done this five years ago, ten, fifteen. But he was just too useful as frontman for whatever outrage campaigns the papers were running that week.

The Telegraph • @Telegraph • 2h
Nigel Farage has refused to attend the Clacton by-election count after claiming Essex Police told him there was a plot to embarrass him on stage.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Mike Smith @blogshank.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is a public information message. I’ve bought 4 Vango camping mats in the last few years, 3 of which have quickly developed leaks after very little use. The Thermarest mat I bought 25 years ago is still going strong.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congrats on getting Hamas to say “okay fine, we’ll disarm after Israel totally withdraws” and Israel to say “okay fine, we’ll withdraw after Hamas totally disarms.” No one’s accomplished that before, better make it the top headline.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The business of the British press is the recruitment and promotion of cranks and wingnuts, in furtherance of the papers’ own wacky and nasty agendas

The Telegraph • @Telegraph • 2h
'A veritable moral panic over air conditioning is raging - rather surreally - across the West as high summer temperatures produce the usual flood of exaggerated concerns.
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'How in the world did we get here? How did something as personal as home or workplace temperature become an ecological sin requiring both state condemnation and centralised control? How did government intervention this invasive and totalising - leaving virtually nothing outside its purview - become not only the norm, but the declared moral ideal?'
In his latest essay for The Telegraph, @jordanbpeterson looks at climate change catastrophism and how environmental concerns have transformed into partisan dogma telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/3...
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Climate change catastrophism is a Leftist weapon to destroy capitalism

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/07/2026

Welcome to the frontpage of the Daily Telegraph* website... * The newspaper that has relentlessly spent the past three decades seeking to belittle climate science and undermine climate action at every turn

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

VERY SUCCESSFUL ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY THE ESTABLISHMENT TRYING TO KILL OFF A DISRUPTIVE POLITICAL PARTY HOW COME COGNITIVE DISSONANCE ISN'T CAUSING PHYSICAL PAIN TO THESE CUNTS

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So the BBC have to let all the other political leaders have half an hour of live airtime for personal grievances right?

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Birdsong & the richness we’ve laid (are laying) waste to. An astonishing, heartbreaking demonstration of shifting baseline syndrome, & what I remember. Wrote about this @environment.theguardian.com + a real recording made in my village by a fierce & wonderful woman conservationist in 1975. 1/3

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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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Anthony Camber @anthonycamber.com · 27/06/2026

Here's the cover for Between Two Worlds! To be published September 1, 2026. Ebook available to preorder now for Kindle - see 🧵 for links Fancy cover reveal video that Bluesky doesn't like: www.instagram.com/reel/DaGjxTN... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you don't want all the big money in publishing to go to celebs, talk about books you love. Write about them. Borrow books that excite you from the library. Read reviews. Listen to podcasts about books. Go to book events if you can afford it. Celebs get book deals because people talk about them.

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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not to get all ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ about things but I have very vivid memories of journalists and other cunts all laughing their heads off at the 2017 manifesto commitment to plant fucking loads of trees to help cities mitigate the impact of excessive heat.

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Mike Smith @blogshank.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The trouble is, the miserabilists always turn out to be right.

Polly Toynbee headline "Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better"

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The UK never figured out how to regulate national newspapers in a way that would stop them regularly printing false information for cynical purposes. Nobody can figure out how to regulate GB News, a national broadcaster. This is a cultural problem as much as it’s anything to do with tech

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As night follows day the media assault on Burnham will begin as Starmer steps down. The same billionaire-funded propaganda that brought one PM will smear Burnham, pretend governance is simply giving everyone what they want, & ridicule the trade-offs he makes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Transition timetable: what a Starmer autumn handover could look like

New leader could be chosen unchallenged or after a quick contest while outgoing PM has time to finalise his legacy

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