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Burnley fan, confounded by people often

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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders — Max Colbert Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This map is absolutely fascinating
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KaterFritz 🐔 🤔 🥚 @konkretbitte.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026
🎯 That's right
Eine humorvolle Grafik, die den Größenvergleich von Teilchen darstellt. Von oben nach unten sind zu sehen: ein großes orangefarbenes Proton mit Pluszeichen, ein gleich großes blaues Neutron, ein deutlich kleineres grünes Elektron mit Minuszeichen und – als Pointe – ein winziger schwarzer „Close-Ad-Button“ (Schaltfläche zum Schließen von Werbung), der noch kleiner als das Elektron ist.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 16/05/2026
The government isn't forcing churches and community centres and town halls across the country to fly the Ukrainian flag. People are doing it themselves because we see a battle and we know which side we are on. There are lots of ways in which Reform is wildly out of touch with Britain.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 15/05/2026
The largest vote share drop at the 2026 Elections was recorded by Labour in Burnley's Daneshouse with Stoneyholme ward, dropping 78.6% (from 86.9% to 8.2%).
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Me explaining what the £5 million was for.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As Lucy Connolly tweets then deletes a post about Keir Starmer, it's good to see that she has learned her lesson about irresponsible social media posts having consequences.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Byline Times has had over a dozen exclusives about Nigel Farage, his candidates and his wealthy donors this week alone – stories the rest of the press ignored. Support our work and help build a better, more democratic media 👇 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/7years/
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Towards a New Mainstream Journalism – Built by You On our seventh birthday, help us bring independent reader-powered journalism to more people than ever before. #SevenYears Byline Times launched seven...
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Claretsmad @claretsmad.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I’d love this to be true but I’m not sure we can know what comes next will be better can we?
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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is really good
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Scott Butterfield @soldwindle.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#burnleyfc
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Claretsmad @claretsmad.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Do Spurs still get to play in the Champions League next year if they win it this year and are relegated?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/02/2026
Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow. Read the full story below. 🖇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 15/01/2026
Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...
Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform.

Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a
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Alex Anderson @fateck.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Great BBC stat: Port Vale now off the hook for most league places between FA Cup giant and their killer (117 V 108). Even better is that the last non-league side to eliminate the holders was in 1909... and it was Crystal Palace. They beat Wolves, who won the 1908 final at... The Crystal Palace
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Excellent bit of journalism to avoid mentioning that there are now 12 more private schools than there were in 2024.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It's interesting that Russia withdrew all of its personnel from Venezuela exactly 14 days before Trump's invasion. China didn't withdraw their personnel. Cuba didn't withdraw theirs. Just Russia. It is almost as if someone called Putin to warn him what's up as part of a quid pro quo. Not almost.
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 31/12/2025
I did hope that @fesshole.bsky.social would be 100k followers for the new year, but Christmas miracles didn't happen and it's only 99.9k
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
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The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Even I thought this was one of mine!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/11/2025
🔊 'Just the sheer volume, right? I mean, 15 billion exposures to paid scam attempts every day just on Meta's platforms. It’s a lot.' On the Reuters World News podcast listen as we discuss a Reuters Special Report on how Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads reut.rs/47EM8mI
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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
You know why people aren't having kids? Its stuff like this really
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/
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Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨 These are not even the worst, but cant show ones reported to the police. The far right think they’re winning. They’re wrong! We are the firewall. Join my fight against the far right. ✊🏾 Are you with us, or with them? #ButlerBlocks
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Claretsmad @claretsmad.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
media.tenor.com
a girl with her mouth open and the words it 's leviosa not leviosar below her
ALT: a girl with her mouth open and the words it 's leviosa not leviosar below her
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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A key attack line in the next few years coming from Trump/MAGA and Reform is that university teachers (lecturers/professors) are poisoning the minds of young people, brainwashing them into leftist thinking. Make no mistake, this is a pretext to defund the sector. 1/n
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/06/2025
Italy cracks down on violence against referees reut.rs/3HPNtOk
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Italy cracks down on violence against referees
Referees in Italy will now receive the same legal protection as police officers and other public officials, Sports Minister Andrea Abodi said, to help curb a rise in cases of assault in sports such as soccer.
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Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A wonderful quote by Herbert Simon: "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. [...] It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"In your last conversation with Trump, what did he say?" @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He never brought up the National Guard. Stone cold liar. Said he did. Stone cold liar. Never did. Didn't even really want to talk about LA."
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 30/05/2025
me and about nine hundred of my most trusted mates (can't tell you who exactly but don't worry) would love to have some of your data (can't tell you why exactly but again don't worry about it, it's all good) and if you're not okay with that, here are one million buttons you have to press to stop us
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Burnley F.C Independent Supporters Association @burnleyfcisa.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 BFC ISA HAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED🚨 Burnley FC Independent Supporters Association (BFC ISA) is a fan-led, democratic group aiming to connect supporters with their club. Read our launch release: www.burnleyfcisa.com Please consider joining us 👍🏻 and Please re-post 🙏🏻 Thank you! #BurnleyFC 💜
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Claretsmad @claretsmad.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
5 laps timed, just like a ski race or Giro time trial. Best time wins, can’t race round Monaco anymore so let’s embrace it
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/05/2025
President Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans reut.rs/4mI3S7w 1/3
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz345bs
Change your computer password into a line of star symbols so you can see it as you type it in. Honker Bill, Manchester
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Just the official account for the US government portraying a convicted fraudster, rapist and sex predator as God's representative on Earth. Americans must be so proud.
AI image of trump as the pope
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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Britain's shoplifting problem has gotten so bad you need a log scale From my latest for @economist.com: www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Tweeteresse @tweeteresse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Right...
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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Morning.
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Tom Baldwin @tombaldwin66.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 14/02/2025
Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
10 minutes ago
Jonah Bromwich
The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation has resigned from the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan rather than agree to file a motion seeking to dismiss the corruption case against the mayor. In his resignation letter, Hagan Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor
"would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials." He added: "If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
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