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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 15/09/2026
Hello there, may I interest you in switching to a European web browser that has: ❌ Zero AI slop. ❌ Zero tracking. ❌ Zero external investors. 🤩 Endless ways to customize your setup. 🤩 Tons of powerful features. Oh, and it's an employee-owned alternative to the Big Tech giants. Welcome over!
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 7h
You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 8h
It all really started to go wrong when we just accepted the word 'banter' as an acceptable way to express bullying someone.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 12h
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 7h
Benjamin Bottomley Crapper www.findagrave.com/memorial/234...
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Benjamin Bottomley Crapper (1831-1901) - Find a...
Stuff Finisher of 65 Prospect Street.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 8h
Really interesting interview with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on what has/hasn’t changed since she exposed Meta’s alarming safety failings www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Top Comment - Frances Haugen: exposing Facebook five years on - BBC Sounds
Meet the whistleblower who inspired new movie The Social Reckoning
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callook67 @callook67.bsky.social · 9h
Not only that, BMW is still owned by the Quandt family who trace their lineage by blood to a Nazi-supporting wealthy industrialist *and* by marriage to Joseph Goebbels and they are still pointedly less Nazi than Tesla.
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 14h
Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.
A paragraph from Brian Blessed’s autobiography:

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these student gatherings.
I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 10h
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 11h
The joke with GTA has always been that it is a British, Scottish even, pisstake of all the worst aspects of America including this very mindset and that Americans are too stupid to realise the depth of the contempt in which the developers hold them.
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 11h
Another 'wow the Eurozone crisis is a long time ago'-moment - Greek (seasonally adjusted) youth unemployment has now fallen below EU average, something that would have seemed absurd 10 years ago:
Graph of seasonally adjusted youth unemployment, with Greece below EU average.
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Myles na gCup O'Lean. @executivesteve.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We once convinced an American friend to go into Paddy Power to pay the electricity bill in cash.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 15h
Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.
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Hitler Mussolini wins local election
Peruvian voters pick their new mayor, despite his unusual name.
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 17h
This week's post: Misconceptions following Burnham’s speech mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/10/misc... My biggest concern is whether Labour has understood that their agenda for a second term will require additional increases in taxes on incomes.
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Misconceptions following Burnham’s speech
The Prime Minister’s conference speech was a week ago, but there is still plenty of confusion about how it should be interpreted. Indeed t...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
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Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health The British government must be honest about the scale of the threat posed by climate and nature breakdown, researchers have said, after nine out of 10 people surveyed after watching a briefing on the issue felt more motivated to act. Last November, in the “first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall in London of the scale of the changes needed in the UK to adapt to the rapidly changing climate and ecological landscape. Continue reading...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30
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How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? 

Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Burgess @burgess.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
A slippery one for you @actualnames.bsky.social www.farminguk.com/news/lubrica...
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Lubricants industry veteran Nigel Bottom appointed VLS chair - FarmingUK News
Nigel Bottom has been appointed chairman of the Verification of Lubricant Specifications (VLS), the UK body overseeing lubricant standards.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
can't stop laughing
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It’s called talking down to you. He thinks your skills are inferior to his


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It's actually called condescension.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Conor @tiduslaughing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We told our American college flatmate that no electricity is used on St Brigid's Day and flipped the trip switch for added effect. When he noticed that other flats nearby seemed to have lights on, we said they must be Protestant.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The chances of Reform taking aggressive legal action (rather than briefing a threat to do so to pitch for media gullibility) would seem to be v slim, given what would come out in the court
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Indeed. Some Cambridge graduates have such difficulty finding employment that they have to make a living writing shitty opinion columns. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Finn McRedmond: University education has become meaningless - and now it doesn’t even promise a job
We have made education transactional and have forgotten that learning is a good in and of itself
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🤣👏 @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Avoids social media
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The Verge @theverge.com · 07/10/2026
X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social:
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The vigilante doxxing campaign against Cornell’s Jane Doe happened in plain sight
X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t.
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Fare network @farenet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Switzerland 🇨🇭 Switzerland's women's footballers will decide for themselves whether to play their 2027 Women's World Cup playoff against Israel. The Swiss FA says it will respect any player who chooses not to take part on moral grounds. buff.ly/AZO7ftl
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Swiss women could boycott controversial Israel game - Inside World Football
October 6 - The Swiss women’s national team will decide collectively how to approach this week’s politically charged World Cup playoff against Israel, with the Swiss Football Association leaving open…
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Burgess @burgess.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Where do I apply?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
George Galloway contests London byelection without setting foot in UK
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George Galloway contests London byelection without setting foot in UK
Veteran leftwinger has been ‘in exile in the east’ in Russia and not been to Holborn and St Pancras constituency since campaign began George Galloway has been elected seven times to parliament, but his attempt to succeed for an eighth this week, in the London seat formerly held by Keir Starmer, is undoubtedly his most curious effort yet. Since the byelection campaign began, the leader of the Workers party of Britain has yet to set foot in the UK, let alone the Holborn and St Pancras constituency, because he is in what he describes as “self-exile” after being questioned by counter-terrorism police at Gatwick airport a year ago. Continue reading...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/10/2026
WHO seeks details from Russia on media reports of a second lab worker with pneumonia reut.rs/4y2FpOJ
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WHO seeks details from Russia on media reports of a second lab worker with pneumonia
The World Health Organization said it ​had requested information from ‌Russian authorities on media reports of a ​second laboratory employee ​with pneumonia of undetermined cause.
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Tom Hayes @tomhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Manchester City announces that, after an internal investigation conducted by its own staff, it has been found not guilty of all charges against it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform clears its own officials of breaking party funding laws despite police investigation
Internal inquiry clears Dan Jukes and James Orr, who were filmed talking about scheme involving US donor
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
or did he mean "dead"
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8298154...
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Pardeep Cattry @pcattry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is melodramatic, narcissistic, unprofessional, unforgettable and truly, deeply hilarious his fans have been saying it for years but today, it finally rings true — there will never be another Cristiano, not because of what he does on the field but because of how it makes him who he is off it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 06/10/2026
kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
to me this is what a tolerant and open society is
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I'm not a defence expert." Even by Kemi Badenoch's lamentable standards, this is agonising. Just give thanks she will never, ever be Prime Minister. 🙏 #politicslive
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The best and most accurate obit of Jeffrey Archer you will read ... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 06/10/2026
Today is the 117th consecutive day somewhere in the UK has recorded a temperature of 20°C or higher. The 11th of June was the last time we didn't reach this threshold. Fresher air comes in on Wednesday allowing temperatures to fall, and likely to stay just below 20°C.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement #RaiseTheColours
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've stumbled across an image that sums up 1979 during the Scarred For Life era, combining ITV's 11 week strike with the Yorkshire Ripper...
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jesus Lube Mexico, Michoacán, Catholic Church Records, 1555-1996
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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