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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Brexit means Brexit" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
British widow, 78, told to leave Sweden under Brexit rules after living there for 21 years
Authorities say application to stay was made too late, as UK officials say Sweden takes ‘stricter approach’ than other EU countries
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Labour's new EU "negotiator": "We’re committed to our manifesto red lines" FFS. Moronic. Definition of insanity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour seeking ‘deeper relationship’ with EU under Burnham, new minister says
Exclusive: Hamish Falconer wants ‘sense of renewed pace’ in post-Brexit talks while staying within Labour’s red lines
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"This is fine"
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"this is too silly"
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Chef Rocky @chefrocky413.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Jobs site Adzuna said graduate vacancies fell by more than 40% in May compared to a year ago, down to around 8,400. That’s the steepest decline on record." - guardian
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.declassifieduk.org/inside-labou...
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Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn
Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
FFS
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
ref: George Galloway and Saddam Hussein.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
FOLLOW THE GOURD!!
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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is the second authoritative study to show an economic hit of this magnitude. If another change of PM is to prove worthwhile, Burnham must at least start making the case for the single market, which Starmer, despite his warm words, has refused to do. #Makerfield www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
you'd think the Labour government would be acting to shut down X and Facebook or other channels given the severity and extent of Russian involvement in creating conditions for a race war and a far right government. But McSweeney's 2020 authoritarian pivot says no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I like the red arrows but...
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New Barnier staircase just dropped.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
yeah but you can prove anything with facts. (screenshot from Simon Nixon's newsletter email)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
TS LOMBARD: “.. The stock market’s fate is tied to the sustainability of AI capex .. “.. The risk is circular revenue: hyperscaler spending is still funding much of AI demand.”
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 19/05/2026
No, we wouldn't want to reopen the political issue that's been a national disaster and that most people hate, because that might be a national disaster, and most people might hate it.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Something very dispiriting about the lazy assumption that a people in a place that voted a certain way 10 years ago would be incapable of reacting to new information (and of course plenty of the original voters are now in the great polling booth in the sky).
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StoptheFarRight @stopthetories.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
fascism in the UK latest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group
Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
on what basis do they make these assumptions?
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
good article. Misses the baked-in economic failure from McSweeney/Glasman's red lines on brexit ensuring the political failure of the project as without economic growth and public services, the Labour party has no hope of re-election tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/mcsw...
tribunemag.co.uk
McSweeney’s Death Rattle
In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire ...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson: “The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. You are the ones who created the war out of nothing and closed the strait to the rest of the world.”
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Can't believe Orban didn't rig the election Putin-style.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Pope Leo is also weak on the Causes of Crime (Blair)
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Ten years after Brexit, this is the UK: a divided nation frozen in time | Aditya Chakrabortty
Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just my local Tory MP pretending to be representing the Green Party and not mentioning the party she works for (the Conservatives) anywhere in official electioneering material.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If Mideast Gulf supply cannot be replaced, and if the impact spreads proportionally across importers, then the UK could exhaust kerosine stocks in three months and gasoil in nine, according to Argus calculations
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UK most at risk in Europe from jet and diesel squeeze | Latest Market News
Stock, demand and trade data suggest the UK is the most exposed country in Europe to tightening diesel and jet fuel supply, with Denmark and Portugal also at risk.
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The bold patriots of Brexit invariably responded to my long threads about the real-world impact of Brexit with zero curiosity, zero empathy, zero compassion. Abuse was the order of the day. They'd swallowed every lie fed to them and had no interest in listening to the truth. 6/18
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
hat tip John Ganz(lionel_trolling)
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Iran wins in many ways: 1. Collects tolls on strait of hormuz 2. Following backlog glut, 45% of gulf infrastructure is damaged = high prices post war 3. Sanctions lifted by US on floating oil 4. Iran is already exporting more oil during war than before
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Top 10 Signs of No Kings, 3/28/26. After reviewing thousands of photos from yesterday, here are my Top 10. Links to my Top 10s from No Kings in April, June and October are included. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Top 10 Signs from No Kings, 3/28/26
Another amazing turnout for No Kings all over the country despite cold weather in many parts of the country as we build our moment to turn out in big numbers for the midterms.
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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Approaching a majority on 27%, party in fifth as official opposition. Isn't FPTP a brilliant system that really represents and delivers what people vote for?
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 29/03/2026
General Election Nowcast - 29/03/26: RFM: 283 (+278), 27.0% (42 Short) LDM: 84 (+12), 12.5% LAB: 74 (-337), 18.8% GRN: 64 (+60), 15.9% CON: 63 (-58), 18.2% SNP: 46 (+37), 2.7% PLC: 11 (+7), 1.3% Oth: 6 (+1), 3.5% electionmaps.uk/nowcast
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
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‘Just drinking the Kool-Aid’: Inside the White House divide on Iran
Senior aides describe a widening internal divide over a conflict the president has grown bored with — and a communications strategy some call embarrassing.
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
brent crude now up 6%
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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 26/03/2026
hot_dog_man.gif
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Suspect Guilty GIF
Alt: hot dog man Suspect Guilty GIF
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dasv @dasv.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NATO is a defensive alliance, not a bunch of henchman that back you when you start an illegal war.
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
A screenshot with a block of text:

Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Now all we have to do is wait patiently for another 10 years before the then UK government will agree the Brexit Red Lines were pretty much a self inflicted disaster too. And then maybe we can start doing some real undoing of the damage. Onwards to victory!
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