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@calm3r.bsky.social
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Looking for calm and purpose as the storms rage around us. Science, Oncology, Covid, Politics, NHS, Forever European, Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦

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Bob Van Brabant @bobvanbrabant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🔥 “What did HIS health care book say? Did you read it? He doesn’t have one. I actually write my ideas down… he takes money from Blue Cross Blue Shield.” Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social eviscerates Mike Rogers on health care, and expertly makes the case for #MedicareForAllNOW
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ICYMI — “It’s not just that you’ve hired half the third Reich to staff your congressional office… if John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery Mike Collins would be grabbing a Billy Club…” 🔥 @ossoff.bsky.social did not hold back
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Zelenskyy is a hero. Trump is a coward. Full stop.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can’t tell you how much I needed this message of hope from the great President Barack Obama. 💙👊
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Peter the Saint @railrider-56.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨Holy shit, brilliant animators just made a devastating ad against Republican corruption: “A massive flood of money… impacts every part of our democracy.” Trump’s corruption is putting our democracy, our rights, and our future up for sale. VOTE. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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bassdokter @bassdokter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's a baby Strandbeest! youtu.be/Pj-NqWDH2qE?...
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Theo Jansen’s Wind-Powered Sculptures | The New Yorker
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“This is poetic in a way I can’t explain…” IG: @timnunhead www.instagram.com/timnunhead?s...
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Well said 👏♥️ "Without immigration, we would be much poorer, actually, as a country as a whole, not just as a city."
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 03/10/2026
Phenomenal women. All of us. ♥️ Maya Angelou #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Geophysicist & space physicist Marcia Neugebauer made the first direct solar wind measurements via instruments on the Mariner 2 spacecraft. She developed instruments used on Earth-orbiting satellites, Apollo lunar experiments & the Giotto mission to Halley’s Comet. Born #OTD in 1932. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white historical photograph of pioneering geophysicist and space physicist Marcia Neugebauer (born September 27, 1932) working at her desk during the mid-20th century. Sitting in an office setting, she leans forward slightly over her desk, looking directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and focused expression. She has short, bobbed light hair and wears a short-sleeved, collared white button-up blouse adorned with subtle vertical embroidered details down the front. In her right hand, she holds a pencil over large documents and charts with plotted scientific data curves spread out on the desk before her. To her right sits a large, vintage mechanical calculating machine with columns of buttons, characteristic of the 1960s computing era. The background features window blinds and office storage, creating an environment of rigorous research. The image captures the historical significance of a trailblazing woman in STEM whose work with these charts and calculations would confirm the existence of the solar wind via the Mariner 2 spacecraft.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm no fan of installation art as a whole, but this is brilliant.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.
TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love." 

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Being the undisputed worst POTUS in history is pretty cool, but I think we can do better on this approval rating
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another example of when hope overcomes hate.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Day 1672 is upon us. How many people thought this war would still be going on after so many days? Hands up, I didn't. I knew Ukraine's people wouldn't give in. But I rather hoped the insipid Russian people would follow Ukrainian defiance & revolt. Instead they remain revolting
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 19/09/2026
🌹 | Highest Labour Polling (30%) with any pollster since December 2024
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔥Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley wouldn’t allow Scott Bessent to gaslight her.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ICYMI: 😐Rarely at a loss for words - I got nothing. Kash Patel needs to be fired!
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Final point: I don’t think individual Substacks or legacy title propped up by millionaires are sustainable models for news. Hence @thenerve.news. We’re trying to forge a new path that bridges these 2 worlds.Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported both of these efforts🙏 www.thenerve.news/membership
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membership | The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism on culture, politics and tech
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Observer announced another share issue today for an additional £10m funding as print circulation drops from 114k to 90k. It’s notable that in the same time period I have built a circulation of 124k for my personal Substack..having set it up amid fears I would lose my job (as I in fact did).
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AfD leader Alice Weidel on the EU: “We are simply no longer going to co-finance all this fun for our neighboring countries. We want our money back. Very simple. “We want our money back, and we will make substantial cuts.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I predicted a month ago that Trump was going to say exactly this. I said he was going to try and blame Ukraine for diesel prices and tell Zelenskyy to stop. And here it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army. Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My brain hurts.....
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13/09/2026
Look up next time you're crossing Trafalgar Square. Perched above the crowds, Lady In Blue brings a fresh perspective to one of London's most recognisable landmarks. A bold new chapter for the Fourth Plinth programme.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?"
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Paul Simon pays tribute to the victims of 9/11 by performing “The Sound of Silence.”
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Watching 2,977 drones form the outline of the Twin Towers over NYC is a breathtaking reminder of what was lost 25 years ago. One light for every life. We hold their memories forever. 🕯️ #NeverForget #TwinTowers #911Memorial #momsky #sheshed #voterizer
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is big news for Ukraine and very bad for Russia - the failure of Putin’s summer offensive. 🧵
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏
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