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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ironic that Placebo was a watered down version of The Cure.
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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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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the roving uniformed thuggish gangs in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 05/09/2026
We have reached the fascist militia stage of mainstreaming and this emboldening is a direct consequence of mainstream elite treating far-right politics as "legitimate grievance" rather than tackling them head on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026
Welcome to Bluesky.
Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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actually madeleine is the scientist🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🦇 @webway.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
section 28 all over again from a government motivated by nothing but hate
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/08/2026
Be really embarassing if your paper, using an anti trans reviewer, also gave it a four star review, wouldn't it
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just saying, the trans community told everyone that once The Guardian had successfully dragged trans rights into the mud they'd move on to the nuerodivergent. And they were right.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the Guardian’s review of ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’, Lucy Mangan writes that the mother of a boy featured in the documentary “decides to keep him off the drugs”. In the end credit sequence of the programme, it says she put him back on the medication “after poor exam results”.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
oh shit, does she? fully fuck off to Lucy, then
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
aw,shame, I liked Lucy Mangan. But in the bin she goes! Live with and love my kid for a bit, Lucy, and rethink whether this bullshit is 'compassionate'.
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Infinity Connect @infinityconnect.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@fbpech.bsky.social How is this even possible?
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
*Rightwing newspapers and the bloody Guardian
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
PSA for anti-americanism warriors: 'can I get' is SCOTTISH.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
20 sounds blindingly obvious but it has to be well-written. I don’t care how perfectly the plot fits my interests, if the sentences are clumsy it can’t be my friend. And conversely I will read anything if the prose is up to snuff.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
19 got to be Dan Brown
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
18 I love Georgette Heyer, and I was obsessed with Anya Seton’s Katherine when I was 14
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
17 Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I will not ever never eat a tomato, Mog the Forgetful Cat, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Room on the Broom There are so many brilliant ones though
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
16 I have no idea. Generally about three or four a week? I read really fast. Quite a lot of them will be rereads though.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
also 15 - can’t review a book in a tweet but read some Colson Whitehead he’s INCREDIBLE, god he’s good, and I don’t generally get on with American novels. Nickel Boys is a good first one, short and stand-alone.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
15 If people haven’t read Pride and Prej I always recommend that.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
14 I bash them to shreds, I am on third copies of some faves, I have NO TIME for this reverence for book-as-object.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
13 nope!
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
12 almost all of it. hated Hardy though, jesus CHRIST man life is hard enough without the Tomes of Doom and Misery
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
11 loads, what a strange q. history, particularly those very specific ones like Salt or histories of places, books about books, political stuff
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
10 never any guilt! enjoy your jilly coopers!
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
9 always bedtime or i can’t sleep, but everywhere. buses are good.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
8 something in the Ladybird Read it Yourself books. Goldilocks I think?
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
idk, Ladybirds?
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
6 The Ballad of Peckham Rye, To the Lighthouse, The Nickel Boys, Nonesuch, The Unicorn Murders, Double Turn (British Library Crime Classics love of my life) buncha Cadfaels, The Enchanted Wood
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
5 Waterstones. I can walk to it.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
4 fiction, poetry
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
3 Golden Age detectives my beloved
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
2 hmmmm Howards End, P and P, 1066 and all that, Night Watch, To the Lighthouse
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
1 Probably Gaudy Night? For study definitely Return of the Native, damn it to hell
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I will also do the book thing
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'holiday reading is serious work.....I took eight books for a three week holiday' hahahahaha fucking casual
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What your summer reading list says about you
Just picked your holiday book? Our choices can subconsciously reveal important parts of our personality, studies show.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's the link to tell them what you think. Obviously keep it polite but do consider letting them know. www.amnesty.org.uk/contact-us/
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We'd love to hear from you
If you would like to get in touch please fill our the form below and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When every single person who’s heard of you is gutted you’ve died, that’s the sign of a life well lived. Well played, Sam.
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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At birth, and I probably would have taken my mum with me.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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