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All Valley Champion, Climber of the 39 steps, I’m on Rogue one, on The Road to 1984, with chocolate and cats hoping for a (better) Brave New World.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Digital sewer socialism; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/f... #Pluralistic 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Arron Banks is helping us send a nice clear message - if you scrutinise the dodgy finances of Reform, you will be sued or put under surveillance. Perfectly normal behaviour from people who want to govern a democracy.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The "party of free speech" strikes again
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SirKidStarverIsGone @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This shit has been happening since New Labour and FUCK'ALL has been done about it WHY? ANSWER: Labour MPs are funded by ISREALI SETTLERS with BRITISH PASSPORTS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Charles Muccia @badartbeatnik.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Deconstructivism #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #urban
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James O'Flynn @jamesoflynn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Also for small businesses, why wasn't there a 'Here is a low cost/free platform where you can have a shopfront for your products and an online payment system available so you don't need physical footfall, but can still trade.' It felt like some basic stuff that could help wasn't even considered.
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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
DfE is utterly obsessed with attendance and sees poor mental health as a price worth paying for "better" attendance
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 02/08/2026
It is quite strange how little the actual public inquiry we're having into the UK's Covid response - the one that's publishing in-depth reports every few months - factors into the "you're not even allowed to ask these questions" complaints. We are, in fact, officially asking these questions!
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Remember, in January 2021, after the govt lost control of Covid infections for the second time, a thousand people a day were dying in the UK. Without lockdowns, we still had no means of slowing that explosion. And that’s apart from all the other ways this claim is just stupid.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I go back to that Times Radio show where Matt Chorley and a colleague were giggling about their favourite Boris Johnson, What A Legend moment and another colleague said she didn’t have one, because Covid 19 had killed her mother and everyone else on her floor of her care home within a few weeks.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The funniest - and least discussed - aspect of this is that Farage, having reportedly told RefUK he'd only lead them if compensated for the £1m a year income he had outside politics, pocketed their five million, then kept earning from outside interests at the same rate anyway. He scammed even them.
Nigel Farage’s income since being elected MP has hit £2m, analysis shows

Reform UK leader has registered wide range of financial interests on top of his Commons salary since July 2024

Cameo, speeches, pushing gold bullion: how Farage has made millions since becoming an MP
Helena Horton and Anna Isaac
Wed 6 May 2026 19.57 BST
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Nigel Farage’s income since he was elected as an MP has now reached £2m on top of his parliamentary salary, analysis of the register of MPs has shown.
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
All I’ll say here is: these papers were also poisonously destructive and hateful 15 years ago. What happened in the interim period is, they realised that they are holding all the microphones, so they can decide on the public’s behalf what is and isn’t real, and nobody can stop them doing it.
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The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
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Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The Third World War is already underway, has been for a while, but remains unrecognised because it doesn’t follow the patterns we know.”
chadbourn.substack.com
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We could have had this 10 years ago and avoided the disaster of Brexit if the media had done its job right. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Esteban 🚲🐶 @echolimamike.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Prof Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"‘Major victory’: Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in everyday products ahead of EU" www.euronews.com/2026/07/24/m...
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Sweden to ban cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’ sooner than EU
Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in kitchen appliances and clothing by 2028. When will the EU follow suit?
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Rev Steve Openshaw @steveopenshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reform UK... Jenrick, Tice, Farage, et al... are on the back foot with no answers in regard to potential money laundering investigation. #ReformUK #Jenrick #Tice #Farage #UKPolitics www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026
Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You can actually budget all you want and stop eating out, but it doesn’t change the fact that people don’t just make enough money for this economy anymore.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/07/2026
in 2019, there were more people in America struck by lightning than consumers who got monetary awards from an arbitration panel. Matt Stoller www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
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Monopoly Round-Up: How to Stop the Enshittification of America
Cheating as a business model exists because Americans can no longer sue big business. A Democratic Congress could fix this problem with one simple law. Plus, a defeat for Paramount-Warner, and more...
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
But aren’t they just a limited company with no particular governance that could justify special treatment?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
'For years, Nigel Farage could dismiss every scandal as a “lefty media witch hunt”. That works brilliantly when the only people asking questions are journalists. More difficult when the Met Police, National Crime Agency, the Electoral Commission and HMRC start getting involved." via Keith Anderson
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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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
England water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites since May. All water companies have criminal convictions, violated terms of their licence. All defended by govts, allowed to trade, inflict harms.
morningstaronline.co.uk
Water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May
WATER firms discharged more than 100,000 of hours-worth of sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May.Sewage overflow pipes released a total of 117,001 hours between mid-May and July 21,...
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Tony Paradis @tparadis27.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The next Dem presidential candidate should propose a sliding scale for corporate tax rates tied directly to the percentage of their employees who receive SNAP or other public benefits The Walmarts and McDonalds' of the world have sucked us dry for far too long now by not paying people a living wage
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.


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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 23/11/2025
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We all know this is true. The SC knew it too, which is why they gave him immunity. But if the immunity was supposed to just be for official acts, why are they using it to cover everything, including insurrection and treason?
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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The U.K. police has a specialist unit dedicated to football crime & violence. We pay 56 million pounds to fund it, with £14 million paid by the clubs. Does it seem weird to anyone else that we spend so much money on a specific type of violence and don’t… address stopping the violence?
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Presidency of Proud Ignorance By Murry Evans Dave Holmes’s Esquire article, “Welcome to the Era of Big Stupid in America,” describes the next stage of what I previously called the stupidification of America.
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Gary Lineker and 120 other UK millionaires have signed a letter, organised by Patriotic Millionaires UK, to Andy Burnham. It says: 'our new government must raise taxes on extreme levels of wealth for a fairer, better, more hopeful Britain. 'It's time to tax us, the super rich. #TaxTheRich ✅️
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Bloody hell.
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Why do HMRC have to be pushed to take action after passively watching this story unfold for weeks? What is it about this man that he is considered by some in authority to be above the rules that govern everyone else?
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Category error to call today's economy neoliberal. It is more like globalised corporatism in which the largest players work with and against national governments for the most advantageous conditions. www.ft.com/content/b41a...
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JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon warns of ‘consequences’ if Andy Burnham taxes banks
Chief executive says any tax raid by new UK prime minister would threaten bank’s planned £3bn London office
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The latest Covid Inquiry report omitted a chapter on PPE Medpro, Baroness Michelle Mone, and her husband due to ongoing criminal investigations. But what happened with all the other allegations around PPE contracts? 1/8 🧵
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In a business, £10 billion being ‘wasted’ — a polite euphemism here for defrauded — would result in arrests and imprisonment. Lives were lost as a consequence. Because politicians were involved, no police involvement. No talk now even of withdrawing ‘honours.’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/07/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The ICE account is the same lies we’ve heard time and time again. This case also shows why masked agents operating from unmarked vehicles should not be conducting enforcement actions without clear, visible identification. When people don’t know who is confronting them,confusion quickly causes chaos!
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
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