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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 51m
Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Honey I Shrunk The Kids For Tax Purposes
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 2h
In the past 10 days Russia has killed 23 sailors from NATO countries. Why isn’t this getting more attention?
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 8h
This will kill people
bbc.co.uk
Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says
New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 4h
NEVER - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEON SCREAMMEN AT A PEACE OF SHIT "AGENT" , THE ONLY POSSIBLE USE FOR THIS IDEA IS TO PUT MORE OF US OUT OF WORK, AND YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT THERE NOT GONNA START GIVVEN US BASIC INCOME , SO FUCK ALL AGENT'S, FUCK CHAT BOT'S ,FUCK GENERATED MEDIA, AND IF YOUR DEEP INTO THIS HORSE SHYT THEN IM SORRY THAT THEY GOT U SELLING OUT YOUR FELLOW HUMAN'S TO DA RULING CLASS, JUST KNOW THAT THERE GONNA REPLACE U NEXT, BECAUSE AMONG THE VAMPIIRES OF THE RULING CLASS LOYALTY IS A LIABILITY NOT AN ASSET, THERE ONLY ALLEGIANCE IS PLEDGED TO MONEY, AND YOUR ONLY VALUE TO THEM IS WHAT THEY CAN GET OUT OF U BEFORE DISCARDING YOUR A$$,,, DA TEXT "I REFUSE TO TALK TO AN AI AGENT, GET A SOUL, SUFFER THE INCARNATION OF HUMAN FLESH, OR, SHUT DA FUCK UP!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 12h
You’ve seen stutter step penalties but how about this stutter walk penalty in the Caribbean Cup semifinal?
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12h
This is a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone striking a supermarket in Odesa in broad daylight today. ​This is terrorism. Terrorists shouldn't be rewarded with lucrative business deals. They must be repelled, arrested, and prosecuted.
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Alt text is an art form @bsky.app
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
More proof that anyone who says "I'm not racist" is absolutely a racist.
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This post doesn't even mention diesel at all. I really think the only reason you write something like this is your handler knows as well as anyone else what the result of the mid terms is gonna be and is extracting the maximum value from you before a democratic majority stops you doing any more.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
‘Idea for a programme - Alan’s racist canvassing’
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)
From Doug Mills on X: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and Special Assistant to the president Natalie Harp join President Donald Trump in Marine One he arrived in Wasilla, Alaska yesterday.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive. ​Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph.
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
All the far-right 'patriots' are on Russia's side
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin
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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
After tiring of the logorrhea of my LinkedIn feed, I decided to see if I could turn the first few words of ~20 posts into poetry. I present "PSA to Anyone." It's dystopian, but so is LinkedIn.
PSA to anyone
Today is a big day
Great day

Last year, we focused on escaping
After years of building
Rather than asking

Behind the scenes
Boards are starting to ask
I’m not asking for sympathy

After six and a half years
The numbers are in
I’m looking forward
I have been waiting

Tomorrow I start
If you’re looking
If you asked
I’m excited
I’ll be walking
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For those who think @cjayanetti.bsky.social is being hyperbolic. These are the current three "top stories" on the Times app. How this is taken as anything other than a targeted attack on disabled individuals, especially neurodivergent ones, is beyond me.
THE TIMES

Tuesday October 13 2026

TOP STORIES

UK

WORLD

COMMENT

LIFE & STYLE

NEW

ADHD coach got £56,000 taxpayer grant for personal assistants

Access to Work is a job scheme for disabled people but insiders warn that substantial claims for taxis and aides mean it is 'out of control'

22m ago

NEW

'Pip is killing people': addicts spend benefits windfalls on drink and drugs

1h ago

NEW

I spent my benefits on cocaine. Only my family saved me

1h ago
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Latest in a three-year-long seam of reporting by the Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the BBC and international media partners. The project, known as Cyprus Confidential, was co-led by the ICIJ and Paper-Trail Media, based on documents first shared by Distributed Denial of Secrets.
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Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
Accountancy firm Deloitte Cyprus among those that appear to have backdated records outlining the Russian billionaire’s assets
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Such a failure of politics that a hostile state interfered in a historically significant democratic process and most of the governing party didnt give a shit and a lot of them benefitted from career advancement, titles and zero consequences.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We're already at war with Russia, exhibit 2342:
ft.com
Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn
Companies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly just a ploy by Putin to get Trump to pressure Ukraine to stop its attacks on Russian refineries. It carries virtually no economic benefit to the US (& can Russia even produce the fuel, far less supply it?). Putin dangled the bait of diesel, and Trump swallowed.
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When everyone else has brought charlie for the riot but you could only get hold of pills
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ooo, he's got the special tense that's normally reserved for the NYPD or the IDF.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kids those days will never appreciate how much less rail capacity there used to be between birmingham new street and old oak common
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
here’s the original, to save you scrolling: bsky.app/profile/roel...
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This should not be difficult for Burnham, saying "this country will not let people drown in the channel" is not controversial.
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is getting to a point of no return and the state needs to put a stop to it now or it will quickly become too big
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The home of national conversation such as every newspaper story for credulous idiots which we will now read out incredibily credulously with zero critical thinking
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More like boomer house amirite #bbcbh
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I was sort of aware of the mercator story but didn't really know much about it and this article from the guardian gives a really great explanation with very cool interactive graphics too www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
theguardian.com
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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brocking @brrrocking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Lisa Nandy is so unserious about her role as a Secretary of State that she will credulously respond to the equivalent of a facebook hun poll by the parish council in Piddinglittlebrainton then she shouldnt be surprised that no one else is either
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026
I'm sorry, but what on *Earth* is that quote from Lisa Nandy? Who does Labour think its voters are? Does anyone in the party have any kind of theory of how they win the next election that isn't just slammjng the "appease racists" button over and over again until it starts working?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sometimes I think 'all that Andy Burnham has done is bring professionalism and direction to the same policy mix as Keir Starmer', then I remember that the absence of 'professionalism' cost £860k on this one instance alone.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 08/09/2026
This story is incredible. Haaretz is reporting not only that UAE President warned Netanyahu a week and a half before Oct 7 that a major Hamas attack was coming, but that he did so at the instance of SINWAR. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Jim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bluey Theroux As requested by Alex Charles Painted on Microsoft Paint
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How bad can it be? Oh.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We've had a "Number 10 spokesperson" briefing to journalists, and reported comments from Burnham in a closed door meeting That's pissweak. If you can make videos about chicken nuggets or whatever, you can make videos about violent fascists
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