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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Ian Quayle @ianhquayle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have long felt that the USA's adherence to civilised values has been a thin, fragile veneer covering a society some of which is as different to Western Europe's as any in the Middle Easr.

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?

Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just imagine if the UK had some sort of national broadcaster that had a duty to act in the public interest.

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Cordelia de Chair @cordelia-dechair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What is it either these US colonisers are the raping and murder of local women? Recollections of creepy crimes by US Airforce men in Cambridgeshire. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of killing woman, police say

Suspect allegedly killed woman at hotel in Okinawa as prime minister calls crime ‘exceptionally brutal and vicious’

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...

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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years

Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council

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Matt Eason @matteason.me · 02/10/2026

Ctrl+F "bomb" 0 results It was a bomb. He planted a bomb on a residential street. The police have called it a bomb. Why aren't the BBC calling it a bomb? (rhetorical)

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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mic drop moment at our event on the sidelines of #labconf26 in Liverpool, when @labourlewis.bsky.social revealed a letter from Tom Watson showing Palantir has tracked his mentioning them nearly 130 times. Is there anything Palantir doesn’t want to know about us?

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How the AI boom could make you poorer youtu.be/7nDJ23DK_Eo?... You may not use AI, but it's going to cost you dearly, from increasing the price of your mortgage or rent to hiking the price of electricity. AI will not be coming cheap.

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How the AI boom could make you poorer

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The iPhone - a good product that people like and want, and are willing to pay a lot of money for - makes about 200 billion per year.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026

Loyalists - offended by everything, ashamed of nothing

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026

The march was supposed to start ay 8, it hasn't yet, Sinn Fein seem to believe it will not be going ahead. The last time this all happened they rioted across NI for years, children died, property was torched. All because the Orange Order and their loyalist supporters won't accept 'no'.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 27/09/2026

Resistance and morale still strong on Garvaghy Road. We're now about two hours from the planned Orange Order sectarian march Police expected to move in soon.

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over the following decades skulls of Irish men, women and children as well as usnea (moss growing on the skulls) became a common export, with 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮 found on shipping manifests as well as export/import tax records. A century later and the English were the skull suppliers of Europe.

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In 1599 Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar and the Earl of Essex unleashed a larger tragedy, slaughtering the Irish by the thousands and leaving them in fields to rot. Francis Bacon later wrote that the "heaps of slain bodies" in Ireland were an excellent source of medicinal ingredients.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But Mr R, shouldn’t We band together, in Our shared interests? Lads, you just spent ten years angrily stating, pointedly emphasising, dramatically re-emphasising and furiously underlining that there is no “us”, and that “we” are not a thing, and “we” never were.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You owe nothing to people who openly hate you.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is IMO something absolutely spot on about the British ruling class not at all recognising that smashing up the state to sell it for scrap and cocaine might be a problem, until it started to somewhat impede their ability to wage a really serious war.

I've spent a few weeks asking people if Britain is prepared for war, among other doom scenarios. The short answer is no and the condensed reason for why that happened is that we spent the last forty years stripping off and selling the most resilient systems in the country for parts.

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Cordelia de Chair @cordelia-dechair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kincora and the British state are not talked about publicly enough, wouldn’t you say?

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Never under-estimate the power of the billionaire owned mass media to shape opinion and deflect all criticism away from the super-rich meme via The Unheard Majority

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Last chance to sign our petition calling for new rules on media ownership: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... mediasovereignty.org/petition/

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026

The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.

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Israel Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor for ”NAZA” Film on Gaza Genocide

The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venic...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

"Just protecting children" "‘Paedophile’ diplomat smuggled out of Britain in US ‘dawn raid’"

‘Paedophile’ diplomat smuggled out of Britain in US ‘dawn raid’
The Daily Telegraph14 Sep 2026By Emily Smith
AMERICAN officials secretly flew a US diplomat out of Britain without informing the police after he was accused of possessing indecent images of children.

The diplomat, working for the embassy in London, was flown to the United States after child abuse images were allegedly found on his phone.

American authorities are said to have sought a court order in the US before storming the diplomat’s home in Putney on Aug 25, seizing him and taking him to an American air base for removal.

US officers have no powers of arrest in Britain, and there was reportedly no formal request for the man to be extradited. British authorities were apparently only informed after the diplomat’s removal.

Ministers are reportedly in contact with the US embassy over the incident, which could further strain relations between London and Washington.

A source told The Sun: “They should have told Scotland Yard when they carried out the raid, and certainly when they found material.

“Instead we think they have taken him to a US air base and flown him 4,000-plus miles to where his brother was being investigated. We think it was a dawn raid before they then took him to the base in a US military convoy.

Flight data showed that one day before the raid, on Aug 24, Kalitta Air flight K49709 flew from Chicago to RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

The same plane then flew from Fairford at 5.33pm the next day, arriving at Dover air base in Delaware at 7.44pm local time before departing to

‘We think that it was a dawn raid before they took him to the base in a US military convoy’

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Cordelia de Chair @cordelia-dechair.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The kiss of death from Tommy for Ed Sheeran.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This, my friends, is one of your legislators. We didn't elect him, but he sits in the House of Lords as a reward for bringing us Brexit, injecting his bigotry, perversity and ignorance into our lives. Daniel Hannan in the Daily Mail today, once again grossly misrepresenting history.

Meanwhile, Caribbean countries are demanding ‘reparations’, not from the African states that enslaved their ancestors, but from the nation that poured its blood and treasure into a relentless campaign for abolition.

Incredibly, African countries – which became British colonies, in no small measure, because we were trying to extirpate slavery – also straight-facedly demand compensation.

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1treehill @1treehill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Weisel, Holocaust survivor

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 16/09/2026

I would hope that one thing you get to do as a musician when you get to be Ed Sheeran rich — and Ed is worth nearly half a billion dollars — is to not allow yourself to be dicked around like this by a cartel of stadium owners.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that any aspect of this is remotely legal simply erases any pretence that the UK maintains a democracy.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

If you want to know how much you can trust your news source: if they're reporting artists are dumping Ed Sheeran's cowardly ass for Macklemore, they're not to be trusted. If they're reporting they're dumping Ed Sheeran because he's a spineless coward afraid to speak up against genocide, you're good.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Coxon could've mentioned the environmental catastrophe of AI data centers, or how ChatGPT has led people to killing themselves and others. Instead, he retold a dramatized and manipulative version of the Hugging Face attack that left the AI labs blameless. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

At no point did Coxon bring up how ChatGPT was used as a “suicide coach,” directly caused a murder-suicide, or aided and abetted in mass shootings in Florida and Canada, or the horrifying gas turbines poisoning black communities. His own discussion of the Hugging Face attack — much like all of his criticisms — focuses on the anthropomorphization of large language models as this unknowable, unstoppable force, with no real responsibility for anyone involved.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Last week, the media fell hook, line, and sinker for an unbelievable grift when former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said he was quitting the industry over fears it was moving moving too fast, though he never really defined what that meant. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

Late last week, everything exploded when former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon, in an exclusive interview with the Wall Street Journal, warned that he was “quitting the AI industry” (he wasn’t) over “...fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control.”

His fears were centered around the creation of “recursive self-improvement,” a still-theoretical concept of AI that trains itself autonomously” and otherwise expressing few specific concerns beyond that “AI labs are unable to control AI,” always phrasing things in the terms of impossible-to-control entities rather than poorly-programmed cloud software running on the infrastructure of the largest companies in the world.

Emily Forlini of Fortune put it best:

Hear me out: He claims the AI could kill us someday, but doesn’t point to any projects in the pipeline that could be shut down to avoid this. He says AI companies are moving too fast, but neglects to share screenshots, emails, or specific examples of when this behavior went sideways—when it became clear to leaders at AI companies that the technology was slipping beyond their control, for instance, and how the decision-makers disregarded the warning signs. He doesn’t suggest any new legislation, name problematic leaders that should step down, or post an in-depth look at how Anthropic researches new models and propose a new approach.

This is because, in my opinion, Jacob does not really care about the actual harms of AI, whether we’re talking about Large Language Models or something he imagined while working with the non-profit or PR firm that set up a CBS interview where he claimed that AI that, if we’re talking about LLMs, have model weights of terabytes of memory, would make ten thousand copies of themselves.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Two crypto billionaires donated £36 million each to Reform UK, how does that compare to donations in European countries?

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

NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/

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Candy Gregory @candyrn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Be careful what you wish for #Farage

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.

The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.

Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"

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