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Calum Brough

@calumbroughingham.bsky.social
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(He/Him) Dilletante and biology enthusiast. I do bits and bobs of writing and editing and some autism advocacy. Fairly Gay.

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
S.Peggie loses on every point apart from the administrative failures of NHS systems. GC lawyers have wasted NHS time and resources for a vanity project with net-zero result for them or Peggie. The aim is never to win legally but use the story to lobby politically through media.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Allison Pregler 📼🎃 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting, they've invented Even Worse BonziBuddy
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.
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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 27/09/2026
So many boomer woes come from "tradition" and "family values" as spackle over cruel abusive self-excusing behavior. Now they're upset because the spackle isn't doing what it said on the tin. They expect their kids to tank years of abuse, but can't tank hours of therapy or even minutes of remorse.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even 12-year-olds don't believe this kind of cringe shit.
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
remember how people debated if the dog in Good Boy was an actor? and its owner went, No of course not, he just follows instructions well. this is like that except Tilly Norwood hasn't been in a movie and the owner is saying, Yes of course, because it follows instructions well, and then it doesn't
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't watch the new Harry Potter series. Not even if you plan on keeping your HBO subscription because of other movies and shows on the platform. Not even if you pirate it. Do not watch it.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
🧐 www.axios.com/2024/10/25/m...
axios.com
Scoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
It's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era.
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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A familiar ally joins the fight in Final Fantasy VII Revelation, coming Spring 2027!
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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do you remember where you were when the Sector 7 plate fell? I saw it happen from my office... Helplessly watching on in horror at the destruction... Praying my wife and daughter were okay... There was also this weird cat watching outside my window which was... distracting, but I'll never forget...
View from Shinra Middle Manager's office (which shares a bizarre similarity to the office seen in The Stanley Parable), watching the fall of the Sector 7 plate. Cait Sith is also watching from this view outside the window.
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Liam Robbens @liam.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Worth noting — as most coverage omits it — that Peggie called Dr. Upton "a freak", "a weirdo" and "it". Peggie said she would like to post bacon to a mosque. Peggie reacted to news of deaths in flooding in Pakistan by saying "What goes around comes around, they've been flooding Britain for years."
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
George will be coming on my show this weekend to discuss this very important article.
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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
SHINRA NEWS: January 31st, 1997 Edition

Bisexuality

Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.

Also includes the articles:

PRES. SHINRA'S FIRST NAME - What Was It

EGG AND CHIPS - A New Frontier In Bar Food
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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20/09/2026
In retrospect, glad the Proclaimers were busy when they expressed an interest at playing at one of the @ourrepublic.scot rallies. They'd have hated seeing what the modern movement against the Monarchy looks like. Or, you know, society.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20/09/2026
I'm totally ok with Sandie Peggie, noted racist who mocked Pakistani people drowned in mass flooding, being the "poster girl" (her own words) of transphobia.
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is absolute perfection.
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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
medium.com/@missfredawa...
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The Organised Dehumanisation of Dr Upton
How Rowling Weaponised a Simple Employment Tribunal.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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Mr Socko @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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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This afternoon's debate on hyperscale AI datacentres shows that far too many MSPs seem ready to vote for a fudge, instead of giving real clarity to communities. The Greens will keep putting the Scottish Government under pressure to put the country ahead of the big tech industry's profits.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16/09/2026
Add your voice 👇 www.greens.scot/datacentres
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Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
The Labour Party did this. That's why trans people are pushing back on Dems capitulating on trans issues. We have seen what happens when the liberal party abandons trans people after saying you must vote for them or it without be worse under a conservative government.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Calum Brough @calumbroughingham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yeah, can confirm, nobody in Scottish schools was watching TV at that time, I walked home after classes at 15h30, and my dad was watching it on BBC, but it was only one tower at that point
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really important from @ellinoralseth.bsky.social & @brownlab.bsky.social - a framework for defense as an evolved adaptation, in a world where ‘defense’ & ‘immune’ are often used to mean anti-infection The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
Recent years have witnessed a rapid expansion in bacterial defense mechanisms. Alongside established defenses against molecular parasites, hundreds of novel mechanisms are being described annually, co...
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think less of anyone who believes this or finds it funny btw.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trying to think of what to post for Star Trek’s 60th anniversary but I post about Star Trek a lot already so just enjoy Worf wearing jeans
Worf wearing jeans
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is going to be one of my default anti-AI arguments from now on.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
this isn't how i wanted any of you to find out, but the chair and i are now in a committed long-distance relationship and it's convinced me I've discovered a new kind of physics.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Phil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
(See R v Brown [2022], AG's Reference 1 [2022], Public Order Act 2023.) There's nothing stopping every one of those masked men in Dover being treated just as harshly as if they'd pushed over a statue or stopped traffic with a banner about stopping oil.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Look, I'm not doing this for bants and likes, which seems to put me at odds with most of the political culture these days. This issue literally keeps me awake at night. How the hell do we get government - which exists above all to protect us from harm - to wake up to the scale of this threat?
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Some cis people will literally leave their jobs over Joanne's bigotry, and others are mad they're being told not to watch a TV show. Who our allies are is very obvious to us, and we remember who they are.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Martin James Flanagan @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I endorse this message
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Nancy Reagan's Throat Double @c3nric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Don't watch it, don't pirate it, don't talk about it, don't discuss it. Act as if it's gone from this world. And then go watch and read something else.
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