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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16h

To the corporations celebrating Black History Month: post your staff group pics let’s see how many Black people you’re employing in your London office

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 16h

Private equity was coming up on the rails in the race to destroy Premier League football, but it looks like state ownership will be the one to finish it off after all.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 21h

Some interesting surrogates in the media in this Man City case, some for the club and some for individuals associated with it. Fascinating to see it play out. Good case study for media studies students.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 21h

Getting a bit sick of the narrative that Chelsea FC received a lenient punishment because they self-reported. Many of the offshore payments exposed by the Guardian and media partners were not self-reported (possibly because the new owners didn't know, although we can't be sure of that).

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Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success

Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man City’s Emirati chair was granted diplomatic immunity 6 yrs ago in a move that could complicate any legal action resulting from findings that the club artificially inflated its finances by more than £900mn - scoop by Caroline Binham @journosooz.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/d717fb9e-2...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026

I'm considering writing something up on the Man City stuff for non football fans, why it's so much bigger than football and how Andy Burnham is already putting his thumb on the scales in favour of authoritarians. Anyone interested?

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I don’t believe in psychics, but I believe in curses. A curse is misfortune, with a storyline. Inside, a curse, tragedy, is a natural force. Like the wind, or the sea. It makes certain activities on certain days impossible."

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“You were right about Palestine” - pensioners still getting arrested “We need to reform social care” - after 2029 “Water can be owned publically” - but he’s not nationalising it “Electoral system needs reform” - after the next election Do you see the pattern? He talks a good talk

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"it's interesting that you can make that argument" is a new (to me) response I just heard on a podcast (from Juliet Jacques) for when someone says something potentially problematic you don't have time to engage with.

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A quarter of Anthropic revenue (which is dwarfed by their stratospheric costs) comes from 2 (two) clients. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The "This is Fine" meme with the word "fine" substituted out for the term "AI"

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the worst state pensions in western Europe, 2 million pensioners in poverty and increasing numbers of pensioners still paying rising rents… triple lock being removed is not a left wing position just because you don’t like rich boomers

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid fools would doubt them).

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

~"What makes this decades-long body of work so powerful is that, rather like life itself, the stories happen to the participants, and to us, while the director is making other plans." @stephenkb.bsky.social ensures an all day earworm with this lovely article giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece

This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unless there is deep structural reform of football in the wake of the apparent outcome of the Manchester City case, and obviously there won't be, then it'll largely be banter justice you see.

Zohran Mamdani posting on "X" about the apparently impending decision on Manchester City's alleged financial corruption.

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Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I had a wobble, And Ray said, ‘Let’s keep that in mind’ – and also probably something along the lines of: ‘never listen to salespeople’.” On Fitzcarraldo as a chic publisher, despite - or partly because of - their (some might say Routledge 90s monograph) cover designs www.ft.com/content/fad8...

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Fitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earth

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I usually put the telly on something that happens to be on to distract my 8yr old when cutting his nails. This morning I tried to put Into The Wonderful (Bitmap Brothers) on. Now he he wants to watch the whole Amiga Gods gameplay (~35 years after I played it through) youtu.be/LlzkVua2db4?...

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Gods (1991) Amiga 500 Longplay

YouTube video by ReignOfVictories

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The prison service is now the UK's biggest provider of residential care for older men"

PRISON NEWS

PRISON bosses were last week asked to squeeze ever more inmates into already overcrowded wings by converting laundry rooms and libraries into cells while the Ministry of Justice races to build 14,000 extra spaces.

However, nobody seems to be looking at the bigger picture: evidence shows prisoners are more likely to have serious and advanced health problems than their age group in the general population, making community sentences a more suitable option for many. Up to 90 percent of prisoners aged 50 or over have at least one moderate or severe health condition, and over half have three or more.

While there are 10,500 fewer 18- to 29-year-olds in custody in England and Wales than in 2015, over-50s have increased from 10 percent to a quarter of the prison population since 2010.

There are thought to be around 16,700 over-50s prisoners, projected to rise to more than 18,000 within two years. The prison service is now the UK's biggest provider of residential care for older men, many at the end of longer sentences or jailed for historic sex offences, yet is run primarily for younger offenders.

Campaigners say secure hospitals, geriatric nurses, dementia training and more humane end-of-life pathways are needed, plus more community sentencing and early releases for prisoners who are too old or disabled to pose any threat to society.

An insider told the Eye: "One old boy who was on end of life died shackled to his hospital bed. His feet had been amputated, he wasn't going anywhere. We need to provide for an

older, more compliant generation and ask how many of them really need to be incarcerated for the sake of public security in the first place."

In August an inquest heard how Mark Jones died aged 54 of pancreatic cancer while a prisoner at HMP Oakwood in Staffordshire, where he was serving four years for assault.

The clinical reviewer said Jones would have received better care in the community despite healthcare staff seeing him 10 times in five days be…

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Boredwalk @boredwalk.com · 22/09/2026

Some people are architects of their own misfortune, but not me. I'm the engineer, project manager, carpenter, electrician, plumber, and welder of my misfortune. I am extremely hands on with my downfall.

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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Love this... (artist: Janis Goodman)

Image shows a drawing by artist Janis Goodman and it shows a huge computer that is plugged into 4 electrical sockets and is guzzling water via a hose attached to 2 taps. There is a woman sat nearby. This drawing is titled "The Data Centre Who Came To Tea"

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, at the end of a long and awful week I’d like to say thanks to everyone who has been so kind and supportive. I’m also reminded of this magnificent Gogglebox exchange which university staff everywhere will appreciate.

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oasis on 0.7 speed in Y2K it seems, like a group of people walking too slowly through an outlet village when you need to get on with your shopping #totp

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#totp presenter Jayne Middlemiss infected with the rise of Top Gear inflection, once memorably described as "a kind of overemphatic irony and exaggerated indignation that, such is its popularity, threatens to become the blokeish lingua franca of Middle England." www.theguardian.com/media/2008/j...

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Andrew Anthony on television: When Tim is sent to commentary

Andrew Anthony on television: Wimbledon BBC1, Euro 2008 semi-final, Top Gear BBC2, Gok's Fashion Fix C4, Upstairs Downstairs Love C4

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

to a certain extent you have to admire the harmony of form and content inherent in Tom Watson going to work for a company when nobody really understands what they do, everyone hates them, but for some reason we are stuck with them forever because of their important friends

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

via lethargic.talkative.fish/@suricrasia/...

The IBM slide but it's edited to say management can never be held accountable, therefore management must never make a management decision.

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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...

Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the latest episode - @natashalennard.bsky.social on how ubiquitous talk of our current epoch being characterised by radical uncertainty and doubt can obfuscate the fiercely held, and intensifying certainties that structure social relations:

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But did you use Paste Special though?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of a meeting: could this be an email? Of an email: could this be a text? Of a post: Could This Be A Thought?

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

National and Internal Borders 2029 might look something like this

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tried to watch O, Brother Where Art Thou tonight on the basis my older son loves The Odyssey movie. Ended up watching Creed. Monumental failure of manipulation from yours truly.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Richard Syemour on what's really behind the "criti-hype" of AI doomerism ... www.patreon.com/richardseymo...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 12/09/2026

I’ve been OBSESSED with the Shard apartments for at least a decade. Priced at up to £50m. Visible across London. Empty since 2012. Unsellable. No pictures online. Now London Centric has found out what’s happened to them - and the first pic of the interior. www.londoncentric.media/p/the-shard-...

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‘Airbnb for sheikhs’: The first look inside the Shard’s £50m apartments that won’t sell

Ten “cursed” apartments have sat empty since 2012 • The Qatari state can’t find buyers • The local council has approved plans to turn them into short-term lets at up to £18,000 per week

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twenty Five years since Liverpool FC's first fixture in the UEFA Champions League, a 0-0 against Boavista. Trying to find a pub in Camden showing that was... impossible.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

congratulations to Amol Rajan for winning the coveted "most divorced vibes" award

Amol Rajan connection screenshot, with him in shades

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Football clubs and associated fan accounts pumping out clip after clip following every fixture, from "every angle" to "behind the scenes" really kills the magic, eh.

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Bush declares that countries with which America has 'unfinished business' constitute a 'spindle of atrocity'." share.google/5Etkb0JOmZtN...

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Terror's march backwards

Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris present a timeline of the months following September 11.

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