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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🏆 HISTORY MADE AT JURBY! 🏆 Congratulations to Marcus Simpson, the first ever winner of The Reejerey of Jurby! 👏 A new race, a new Manx tradition & the first name in the history books. 🏆 Marcus Simpson, Reejerey of Jurby 2026. 🇮🇲🏆🇮🇲 #ARA #Jurby #Isleofman #CelticMatchRaces #AndreasRacingAssociation

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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CELTIC MATCH RACES 2027! 📣 Celtic Match Races are heading to Ireland in 2027, with the next battle between the Celtic nations set to take place at Mondello Park! 🏆 After a fantastic weekend here on the Isle of Man, we’ll see you in Ireland next year! ☘️ #ARA #Jurby #Isleofman #CelticMatchRaces

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...

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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CELTIC MATCH RACES END OF DAY ONE 🏁📣🇮🇲 That’s racing complete for Day One at Jurby! Here’s how the points standings look at the end of the first day, with the Isle of Man leading the way on 250 points. 👀🔥 Everything still to play for tomorrow! 🏆 #ARA #Jurby #Isleofman #iom #CelticMatchRaces

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something very strange and disturbing is happening in this country, of which Braverman is just the most pitiful example. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-return...

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The return of race politics

Ethnic minority politicians on the right are engaged in depraved acts of self-hatred, in order to capture a movement which will never accept them

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 24/09/2026

"Deliciously British Flavours"? WTF? Is ethno-nationalism infecting everything now?

Photo of a box of Thorntons chocolates, with the text Deliciously British Flavours

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Want a peek behind the curtain of this distressing (to me) poll headline? Then read this excellent thread...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, there are technical, formal legal reasons why terrorism law is applied to protesters carrying placards, but not to political activists slashing boats. But stepping back, there is something wrong with a legal regime which criminalises one more than the other. A triumph of form over function.

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 23/09/2026

Today's job: scouring the internet for people claiming that today marks the end of summer/start of autumn, and putting them right The meteorological seasons start on 1st March, 1st June, 1st Sep & 1st Dec, these are the only boundaries that make sense, and this is the hill I will die on

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2026 Final ARA Championship Standings! 🇮🇲🏆🇮🇲 Congratulations to all our 2026 champions! 🙏🇮🇲🎉🥂🍾 #ARA #Jurby #isleofman #iom

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Keep politics out of music, like in the old days when Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture about how nice the weather was that year, or Beethoven composed his “Emperor” concerto in honour of his favourite kitten, and Dylan sang A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, all about the fun of splashing in puddles.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...

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Piddington, you're welcome to leave the UK. Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Ian Dunt: The village that ‘roared’ has swallowed the far-right’s lies

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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Entries Close at Midnight on Friday 18th September! ⏰🇮🇲 Entries for the support races are open via the Andreas Racing Website: www.andreasracing.im/members/home #ara #Jurby #CelticMatchRaces #iom #isleofman

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey team, when the AI bubble collapses, what are we going to do with all the empty data centres? I vote we turn at least one of them into a giant soft play.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 09/09/2026

These weren't 'protestors' these were racist thugs who saw some brown people going to a hotel. They wouldn't have confused a Norwegian football team for migrants.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of those two looks like an invasion to me.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 07/09/2026

This is lovely, and spot on about love, regret, and living your life

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 07/09/2026

I expect @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social to be watching Mastermind this evening - specialist subjects include the essays of George Orwell and 2000AD comics in the 80s and 90s

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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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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Me on some new @policyatkings.bsky.social research underlining some of the problems confronting Reform giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Hostility to Reform UK leaves Farage with a dilemma

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Hostility to Reform UK leaves Farage with a dilemma

Toning down its positions in pursuit of wider appeal would risk an exit of supporters on the right

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 06/09/2026

*All* good drama? C'mon Bluesky, help me list some exceptions!

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As @sundersays.bsky.social just pointed out, these “costumes” are really uniforms, banned under the Public Order Act 1936

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 06/09/2026

OpenAI claims to have achieved AGI with Chat-GPT 6 Astra In unrelated news, OpenAI is preparing for a stock flotation close to $1 trillion Should I be angry that they think we're so gullible, or angry that some of us actually might be?

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ENTRIES CLOSE MIDNIGHT SUNDAY! 🏁⏰🏁 There’s still time to get your entry in for the final ARA race meeting of the 2026 Championship season! 🏍️💨 We’re heading back to Jurby on 12th & 13th September ⏰ Entries close at midnight this Sunday 👉 Enter now via the ARA website. #ara #jurby #isleofman #iom

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 02/09/2026

I enjoyed the NatGeo thing about 9/11 but this bit really struck me. It's barely a full-formed thought, but if you're already at the stage where dead children are just business as usual then maybe terrorist attacks aren't your biggest threat.

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Andreas Racing Official IOM @andreasracingiom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🇮🇲🏁FINAL ARA CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND OF 2026! 🏁🇮🇲 Entries are NOW OPEN for our final championship round of the year at Jurby on 12th & 13th September! 🏍️ 👉 Enter now via the ARA website. www.andreasracing.im/members/home #AndreasRacingAssociation #ARARacing #Jurby #MotorcycleRacing #ara

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 31/08/2026

My new favourite substack continues to make me laugh "Sensible governments issue travel advisories about dangerous destinations. America skipped the paperwork and elected one: a one-man travel advisory, self-updating and visible from space" ifloz.substack.com/p/holy-fucki...

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HOLY FUCKING SHIT! CANADIANS ARE STARTING TO SKIP THEIR RELATIVES TOO

A BILLION DOLLARS OF GET FUCKED FROM THE MAN WHO MADE THE POLITEST PEOPLE ON EARTH RUDE

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, Iceland are an independent sovereign state. Who also happen to be in the Single Market, the EEA and the Schengen zone, with freedom of movement for people, goods and services. But if the UK did that I'd be screaming about Brexit betrayal and being an EU puppet.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Vaping could save millions of lives. The reason people hate it is because it is pleasurable, and some innate puritan part of their brain insists that quitting smoking should involve suffering iandunt.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...

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Lost in the cloud: How vaping was undermined by a moral panic

New data shows that vaping is by far the most effective way to stop people smoking. It’s about time we acclimatise ourselves to the evidence.

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 26/08/2026

Changing Westminster’s voting system shouldn't be left to the politicians. An independent commission could get the public and experts together in one room to examine the evidence and build consensus for reform. Add your name today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform to review the electoral system

I ask the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, as advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. It should be an independent, time limited, expert led re...

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