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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 02/10/2026

This episode is a one-hour dramatisation of this tweet. Funny (especially Glenn Beck trying to pronounce "East Anglia") but also absolutely maddening.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

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Bill Tubbs @billtubbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Copenhagen during rush hour. If they were in cars it would be grid lock.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Words to live by

Roadside sign saying “phone down eyes up, stay alert”

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Caterpillar pal who was seriously hauling ass across the forest floor today.

A photo of a fuzzy yellow caterpillar with black stripes and fluffy fronds all around its sides, back, and front. It’s partially behind a stick, because it was moving so fast I could hardly get a clear shot of it!

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wife and I are about to cough up her second round of visa and NHS surcharges. £4,000. She works full time, paying into the system twice over. The application process is, once again, extraordinarily demanding and overtly hostile. This must be an extremely stressful burden on lower income households

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ever since mr joshua started writing alt text it has become required reading. a wonderful insight into his process. thank you pants

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No notes.

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I thought the problem was all us snowflakes buying avocado toast. If only people made their own lunch, they too could afford a house in the Home Counties.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Turntable slipmats are back in stock. Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/slipmats

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the Imelda Marcos of party funding

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Read this to my daughter last night: “What’s more?” said the Lorax (his dander was up) “Let me say a few words about the Gluppity-Glupp Your machinery chugs on, day and night without stop Making Gluppity-Glupp, also Schloppity-Schlopp

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So annoying. Someone I work with sent me a doc the other day and said she'd value my view on some of the arguments made. The bloody Ai prompt kept saying 'this seems to be a long document, do you want a summary?'. Reader, it was ten pages. She wanted a view, mine, not a summary. Useless.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m doing a podcast called The Rest is the Rest where I talk about every subject not covered by all The Rest Is podcasts. So please subscribe if you want a weekly podcast about shoes, clouds, Tuesdays and otters.

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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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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Big Deezy @didodesigns.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

All of it just feels like another rendition of “women are hysterical” and I’m sick of these fucking idiots who can just be bigots online unchecked.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My first cartoon for adults for a while, on the Dover business

A one panel cartoon showing three male-looking figures in all black wearing balaclavas, so you can only see their eyes. Below it says: 'Spontaneous' protest. The figure on the right is saying: 'OMG, SO EMBARRASSING, WE ALL WORE THE SAME OUTFIT!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bluesky: Thoughts and prayers for the good people of Sachsen Anhalt please. Because there are good people there too.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is the People’s Army a good thing or a bad thing? And does ‘not going anywhere’ mean ‘not going away’ or ‘not going to achieve anything’? And everyone in this room? Will 11 book sales really make a difference to anything?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If these allegations do bang a few more nails into the coffin of Reform's ambitions, it is important that some solemn thought is given to the shock, horror and dismay now being experienced by their recent defectors, some of the finest and most principled politicians of modern times.

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You have to watch this. Brave journalism must now be followed by brave law enforcement.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Well, it's By-Election Day in Clacton... again."

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is not known whether or not Labour will choose the Camden Council leader, or another potential candidate for the by-election. It is racial prejudice for Yusuf to object to her on birthplace. "Can you see what is going on" is a lurid replacement conspiracy. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pure racism. "Do you understand what's happening?" Yes, you're being disgustingly racist

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hyperscale data centres are a great example of the tech industry's inability to read the room. The vibe is *all wrong*. They're the physical instantiation of extractive "repent never" capitalism and no amount of whatabouting about "actually they use less water than you think" makes that better.

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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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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hmm I’m guessing fixing leaks like this one which has been wasting 100’s of gallons of water a day for 2 months would help avoid water shortages..

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have literally got into trouble at work because I can't do a neutral face when my boss talks rubbish. How these people keep a straight face, I honestly don't know.

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Unbelievable. Our tech overlords are actually crime barons. No point pretending otherwise. It would be pretty uncontroversial electorally, I am sure, to ban such shite.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors. Reportedly, favours a cap at £500k. How many people have £500k to buy influence? A game only the super-rich, big corporations/unions can play. Can't end political corruption without banning all political donations.

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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors

PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I want to live in the timeline where he's dead and Dolly is not

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I bought my very first £5 cup of coffee today. Didn't check the price before ordering. And yes, I do feel that if you charge £4.50 for a cup of coffee, you can add some oat milk for free. Call me old fashioned.

Receipt for a cup of coffee in London that came to £5.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I honestly don't get it. The whole point of competitive sports is to see what humans can do. Someone on a moped would be faster than someone running. A train is faster than a moped. This is not news.

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