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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My personal position? I don't ever use generative AI. It offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and the companies who developed it stole copyright intellectual property knowing that is illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/10/2026

*weary voice* AI agents are not "going rogue". They are doing what they're told to do by humans who are not thinking hard enough about the guardrails and restrictions they explicitly need to set for the agents.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In a tiny corner of the world, the cao vit gibbon sings for joy. Conservationists fear the species could fall silent for ever. Report from a remote corner of Vietnam on the world's second most endangered ape. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🚗 "Britain’s decline came in two Brexit stages: years of uncertainty post-referendum weakened the industry, before the trade arrangements that replaced EU membership did more lasting damage." @shepotylo.bsky.social explains how Brexit has damaged the UK car industry. ukandeu.ac.uk/from-pace-se...

A chart showing comparative levels of UK and German car production. UK performance was much stronger than Germany's from 2010-2016, slightly weaker from 2016 to 2021, and much weaker from 2021 onwards.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Imagine how much coverage this would get if Gove were Green - or if she were Black

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding 800 adverbs to every chapter

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just a reminder: 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned. Same outlets: 13 articles on Cambridge academic James Orr after allegations of misconduct & a broadcast showing him seemingly engaging in illegal activity. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All thanks to the tireless work of @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social who were ignored for years, and in Carole’s case hounded through the courts for years. I’m glad the PM is at last speaking the truth; but the real heroes surely deserve a Pulitzer!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

UK friends: in the words of Tesco, every little helps.

Post on Threads describing how the Reform party are sending out 8 page flyers to 15 million homes and if you send them back to Reform's Freepost return address, they have to pay for the extra postage.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.

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Patrick Hurley @patrickhurley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harry Hill's TV Burp is better than almost all of these.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Andreas Wiedenhoff @andreaswiedenhoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Weekend in Valle Vigezzo, where the little trains of the #Centovalli🇨🇭#Vigezzina 🇮🇹 railway, from #Domodossola to #Locarno operate. Some regionals on the Italian side are still being worked by the lovely ABe8/8 #SSIF units from the 1950s. They’ve got opening windows, a delight on a late summer day.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He understands 💯 but wants daddy to watch….

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/

NASA image from the surface of Mars, showing its red dusty surface with rover tire-tracks running across it.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, this went bonkers. Thanks to everyone who leapt into the comments to teach me something! Honestly, that's why I post these things - it's as an enthusiastic student, learning as I go. And, as usual, a tiny but noisy minority arrived to tell me I'm a ****ing ****. Enthusiastically blocked. 😁

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We think it will be of public interest that the most expensive house in British history was acquired in a way that saved £18.5m of stamp duty.” Sold by Reform's treasurer, no less open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

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London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill

A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 21/09/2026

Must everything be an opportunity to bombard people with adverts?

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing…

F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As predicted, unions are going to be kicking themselves for opposing a donation cap. There is no way they can compete with this. One guy, giving more than 16x what the three biggest unions gave Labour over the past year, in one go. They don't stand a chance.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪

Meme. Drawing of the eels' life cycle, surrounding a map of their migration range, centered on the mid-Atlantic. The drawing shows the evolution cycle:
1. Silver eels spawning
2. Eggs
3. Larval stage
4. Glass eel
5. Elvers
6. Yellow eel
7. Silver eel

The inconsistency in singular/plural drives me a little crazy, because it suggests that eels shift from being multiple animals to one animal and back several times over their lives. Which is silly. Nobody does that. Not even my neighbors, who might be werewolves.

Meme text reads:
"There's history in here somewhere"

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Absolutely everyone on the sane side of this argument should buy something from the RNLI with RNLI branding and wear it. Shop here: shop.rnli.org

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RNLI Shop | Lifesaving Gifts

We have the perfect lifesaving gifts for you and your crew. Order them online at shop.RNLI.org and help us to save lives for another 200 years.

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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Charles (king) could do something useful for once and do a high profile visit to the RNLI right this minute

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here’s Kati Karikó, whose Nobel Prize winning work on mRNA technology saved THE WORLD, thanking the world’s educators. 🥹

‘It was the work of teachers that allowed this child of two laborers in postwar communist Hungary to understand the world... and then, in her own way, to help change it.

One doesn't grow up in an agricultural community-or, for that matter, become a biologist—without developing a healthy appreciation for seeds. Seeds are potential. They are promise. They are sustenance. Seeds are the difference between a bleak future and a bountiful one. Planting a seed is, in every case, an act of conviction, and of hope.

So thank you to my own teachers. Thank you to educators everywhere. You are planting seeds.’

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s a lot that’s disgusting here but what stuck with me is the indignity of the visitors having to prove their bona fides to a puffed-up mediocrity like councillor Madgwick to gain his and the mob’s consent to stay in a hotel.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The UK land speed record of 403.1 mph (648.7 km/h) set by Donald Campbell on July 17 1964 has just been broken by a paper shredder at Reform UK HQ.

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Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Must-read for @louisehaighmp.bsky.social by the excellent @hannahkeenan.bsky.social - Don't just call it a taskforce and parachute new people into centre duplicating others - Do have a small agile core - Do keep asking if the taskforce is working www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/task...

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A collaborative taskforce can help a government deliver its priorities | Institute for Government

Andy Burnham and Lousie Haigh have an uphill battle to overcome taskforce scepticism.

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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Appalling behaviour. These brave volunteers save lives at sea, no questions asked. They deserve our support and gratitude, not hate and intimidation.

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 08/09/2026

“Between 15 and 20 million hours of human endeavour” are spent filling out Brexit paperwork every year. Speaking on BBC Radio 2, Dr Mike Galsworthy set out the extraordinary scale of the bureaucracy now facing British businesses.

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.

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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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johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And yet more… bsky.app/profile/irri...

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage is making it very plain that if Reform wins power they will permit no change or scrutiny to their plans from parliament, the judiciary or officials, under a state of emergency. Anyone who objects will be replaced.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why didn’t Chris Mason mention Reform being caught red handed getting polls funded illegally on the main BBC News? He seemed to want to rush through only the evidence of eliciting illegal donations before covering Farage’s speech.

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