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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder, the iPhone 18 is made in Israel and it is full of unremovable hardware spyware. It is made to track everything its user does. You shouldn't use one even if you get it free. Definitely don't pay for your own surveillance.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Book festivals, please, PLEASE don’t use AI to write author bios and book descriptions. Currently, I am being advertised as attending a festival next month for a talk about a book that doesn’t exist…
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
bylinetimes.com
Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Went to the Ashmolean today and saw a Colonial View of India exhibition- a room of photos by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey. The museum descriptions were fair enough I guess, but I suspect some people really don’t see why the images are off.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating project by Ian Howorth photographing the last working men’s clubs in Britain. The loss of shared social spaces like these has had profound consequences when it comes to belonging and social cohesion. amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo...
amateurphotographer.com
Last Orders: these photos from Britain's last remaining working men's clubs are somehow wonderfully serene | Amateur Photographer
Ian Howorth is fascinated by the peculiar visual grammar of Britain: social clubs, old-school hotels and the small rituals of communal life.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Learning now that private school kids are often taking their weird initiation rituals with them to certain universities. Hockey and rugby especiallly. Why? Awful, sick and essentially bullying.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Duncan Poundcake @duncanpoundcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Burnhim Meet the latest terrorist. 94 year old human rights lawyer and OBE. Nicked at Burnham's conference... morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
morningstaronline.co.uk
94-year-old human rights lawyer among hundreds of protestors arrested in test of Burnham’s mettle
ANDY BURNHAM faced growing calls to deproscribe Palestine Action today as hundreds of protesters as old as 94 were arrested for supporting the banned group during his first Labour Party conference as ...
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great piece of spin from Miliband’s office, but the question the spinner didn’t address is critical: will the Burnham Government rescind the ban on Palestine Action and drop the charges against those who support it? Will it cut the ‘terrorism related’ sentences? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love the Starmer slamming that’s going on A BIT LATE IN THE DAY.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well, while I agree no one is owed an inheritance and holidays are nice let’s hope that the state will fund their social care and their kids aren’t so busy working that they can’t help with advocacy and/ or care of the old codgers.
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Meet the pensioners spending the kids' inheritance
The phenomenon sees retirees spend all their money on enjoying life to the full.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026
Al Jazeera Media Network categorically rejects the remarks made by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where he described Al Jazeera as a "toxic" media outlet.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. The Trump regime has refused to arrest him and corporate media continues to ignore his war crimes. I break down the 9 most egregious lies told by war criminal Netanyahu at the UN, and I bring all the receipts. www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
qasimrashid.com
Debunking The 9 Biggest Lies from War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN Speech
On September 24, the Israeli Prime Minister delivered a speech devoid of any facts or truth
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
🤔 ICYMI: Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license over a fraudulent, now-retracted study that falsely claimed a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
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RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Publication day! Thank you to everybody who has bought a copy and, to those who haven't, there now follows an embarrassing scene in which I'll beg you on my bleeding knees whilst clawing at your legs, spluttering about the hardships for creators in these AI-driven times.
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Well, these sad f’ers are best avoided then, but there will undoubtedly be some Oxford smarty pants who’ll want a debate - may well ‘win’, but won’t get the airtime. @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social do you grant permission for these stands?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
’Activists’ and ‘Campaigners’ don’t you know 🙄
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Activists? Activists?
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Watching Pakistan - England cricket. Jeez 🙄
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Mail reports on the balaclava-led vigilante army visiting their offices to protest the newspaper's coverage of Daniel Thomas's background as a middle-class privately educated man jailed for armed kidnapping [the wrong person, over allegations of drug money being nicked]
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/09/2026
Seven-year-old Wafaa Aqila and her father killed by Israeli strike while returning home with school supplies.
aljazeera.com
Israeli attacks on Gaza kill five Palestinians, including two children
Seven-year-old Wafaa Aqila and her father killed by Israeli strike while returning home with school supplies.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/09/2026
Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023 aje.news/7nhfyx
Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023
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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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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 05/09/2026
What have PG Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, Bob Monkhouse and Nigel Farage got in common? They all went to this fancy school, Dulwich College. On this day in 1913, the school was subject to an outrageous arson attack 🔥…
A stock photo of one of the UK’s most expensive boarding schools. It’s in South London. If it looks familiar, it’s a filming location for both Legally Blonde and Lara Croft Tomb Raider - nice to see strong women disrupting a boys school hehe
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A series of signs beside the road to the Kilpatrick Hills on the outskirts of Glasgow. Whatever else you might say about us Scots, we do tend to get straight to the point! #glasgow #scotland #signs #keepscotlandtidy #keepglasgowweird
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Despite years of calls from MPs across the House to ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements, the last govt failed to take genuine action in the face of war crimes and human rights abuses. The new Foreign Sec cannot repeat the mistakes of the old; we must act to end Britain's complicity now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/09/2026
Pogroms in the occupied West Bank continue, with Israeli forces demolishing homes and settlers attacking residents.
aljazeera.com
Israeli forces raze West Bank homes as EU weighs ban on settlement goods
Pogroms in the occupied West Bank continue, with Israeli forces demolishing homes and settlers attacking residents.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘George Osborne is Chair of the British Museum. He's also a partner at Robey Warshaw LLP, a boutique investment bank. Prior to this, he was the Editor-in-Chief of London's Evening Standard newspaper & was the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010–2016 & First Secretary of State from 2015–2016’
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Today this song and the weird video are my favourite thing m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_j...
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Major Lazer - Jessica (feat. Ezra Koenig) [Official Lyric Video]
YouTube video by Major Lazer Official
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026
US President Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ aje.news/xinz0b
US President Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Stewart Lee coming to Oxford in November - tickets £20, all proceeds to saving the Ultimate Picture Palace campaign uppcinema.com/show/stewart... #oxford #cinema #upp
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Stewart Lee Live: Pea Green Boat - The Ultimate Picture Palace
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton understood something that too many of my public health colleagues have not grasped: a good idea isn't sufficient — you have to sell it. So she got vaccinated in front of cameras, and literally begged her fans to not hesitate, to vaccinate — to a reworking of Jolene
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Dolly Parton, Public Health Hero, Dies at 80 | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Dolly Parton donated $1M USD to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2020 to fund the research that resulted in the Moderna mRNA vaccine
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The inestimable Dolly Parton being interviewed by the inestimable Jane Graham in Letter To My Younger Self. I’ve thought about this lots of times since I first read it in the @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oxford signatories include Nigel Biggar, a moral theologian who has defended colonialism and who wrote last week that white people should be free to use racist slurs; gender-critical professor of sociology Michael Biggs; and 'climate-change agnostic' Jonathan Jones. spectator.com/article/who-...
spectator.com
Who decides if a word is racist?
I swear Rod Liddle was smiling down on me last week, as I found myself tussling with an editor. I’d written a sentence containing the word “Chinamen.” She wanted me to remove it, because, she said, “C...
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A dozen academics at Oxford University have signed an open letter defending self-proclaimed 'race realist' Nathan Cofnas as a whistleblower. Cofnas, who received his doctorate from Balliol in 2020, has been suspended from Ghent University. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Toby Young got his Dad, Lord Young, to take advantage of a clerical error to get into Oxford. Toby was given an incredibly low conditional offer in the first place. Why? (Ironically, Lord Young coined the phrase "meritocracy".) Here is Toby writing about it in The Spectator: archive.is/FT3AH
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 22/08/2026
Penguin group logos via dustyburrito.blogspot.com/2009/12/peng...
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chil-blanez.bsky.social @chil-blanez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Urgh, it’s just going to be a whole load of shitty tripe about Meghan and Harry etc. I really could not care less. I need to start knitting again, very soon.
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s a big allegation but a fair one.
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Felt Mistress @feltmistress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
These guys now available in my shop. I have a few other smaller items in my store and every sale helps me spend time making my bigger pieces so very much appreciated. 💕 feltmistress.bigcartel.com
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A good home needed urgently for one of the most significant libraries of housing and planning in the country (via @municipaldreams.bsky.social) substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country
The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UK govt to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants. Continuation of policy started by Thatcher; opened the door to privatisation, PFI, outsourcing, deregulation, consultancy cult. Firms mired in scandals get govt contracts, inside access to ministers, policy makers. archive.ph/hTdhS
ft.com
UK government to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants
Deal marks largest contract awarded to Big Four firms in at least a decade
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"at this moment, there are people who are not worthy of life, they should not live" How much more explicit does he need to be?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/08/2026
Report by NGO 7amleh, Utrecht University analyses 3,520 cases of digital rights violations against Palestinians.
aljazeera.com
‘Platformicide' of Palestine: Activists struggle to be heard on Meta
Report by NGO 7amleh, Utrecht University analyses 3,520 cases of digital rights violations against Palestinians.
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