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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Skipping along singing Blaydon Races.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just to add that the animated Bert and Ernies Great Adventures really is the very best Bert and Ernie.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So nothing new then huh?
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m confident that the Lib Dems will be every bit as effective in saving us from fascism as they were in rescuing us from austerity, Boris Johnson and diamond-hard Brexit.
theguardian.com
It’s easy to ignore the Lib Dems, but they could soon hold the balance of power | Rafael Behr
Ed Davey’s strategy is meant to build a ‘firewall’ of MPs to prevent Reform UK entering government. The stakes are high if he gets it wrong, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shite research which, ironically, will be taken most seriously by the people who actually do the most to suppress opposing views (transphobes, anti-immigration xenophobes, Israel supporters) then used to buttress their usual cry-bullying.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They train AI on her.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your reminder that there is nothing progressive or liberal or left-leaning or moderate about transphoia. Do not vote for transphobes of any party, because to do so is to vote for the fascists' chosen wedge issue. Fuck these bigots.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She'll have this solved in a jiffy, mark my words.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have no doubt.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh aye, I'll have a piece of that, looks braw.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Taking the waters.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pale and wan
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's so egregious they shield me from it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/09/2026
Mascot Doing Fentanyl Fold
Mascot Doing Fentanyl Fold
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looks like this.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're good at this getting blocked business. Never get to see what shite they posted.
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Z. Doom - Official Compact Disc Lover @world0fecho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the tide is high but i’m holding on i’m gonna be your pokémon
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was very vocal about not voting for Labour, but of course the alternative was worse. And what worst choices, are the British voter going to be faced with come the next general election?
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dr Strangelove but it's Ed Davey astride the bomb.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shed pickles looking fine. Fermented homegrown courgette and chillis. Fermentation almost finished for first jars but a couple fizzing away still. Leave for a few weeks more but smells good and a quick taste of the brine is salty sour and spicy. Get in there.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 19/09/2026
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct www.wearequeeraf.com/scottish-lab...
wearequeeraf.com
Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You mean they are going to give them… gender affirming care? With hormones? 🧐
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Your regular reminder that Matthew Syed, who has his own BBC radio show, enthusiastically endorses the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory.
An opinion headline that reads "Migration is being used to enfeeble us, so it's clear what we have to do", by Matthew Syed.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I like the way she’s willing to believe in endless multi-tentacled globe-spanning conspiracies, but “Labour are corrupt and they work for millionaires, against the public interest” immediately explodes her brain.
Carole Cadwalladr Y @carolecadwalla
X.com
I'm still reeling from the @tom_watson / Palantir news. But I also think it will blow up in both their faces. It's so transparently desperate.
@andyburnham is going to have to respond to people's disgust & anger at Palantir's role in the
UK state.
Read the thread
THE NERVE @thenerve_news • 1d
Good morning @tom_watson
Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palanti...
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a literal freebie for journalists to note how Ben Dilo is still Nina Power’s landlord to protect her from paying up after losing her SLAPP suit and, according to Dilo, good friends with her, while she has gone on Claire Khaw’s podcast. Come on. This is free. This isn’t ‘online bullying’
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Finding a screenshot of @magnets.eurosky.social on YouTube shorts makes me feel like Leonardo DiCaprio in that meme
Youtube shorts
It’s a screenshot of:
@PerthshireMags
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey, I thought you'd died? It was all over Twitter.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026
this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cos he can can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@churnwell.bsky.social this sounded familiar, but details seem a bit off?
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah, but Spencer is saying it was in the following days, not on the day her death was announced. Charles could have just got over it by then.
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
3 panel comic titled “Logging into Bluesky”

Panel 1: 
A Pink Guy bursts into Bluesky wearing a t-shirt that says “Fun”. His little face looks so happy.

Panel 2: 
Six Bluesky users turn to look at the Pink Guy. They all look dour and angry because they have been overdosing on the discourse. Having the current state of the world mainlined into their veins for 22 hours a day has left them real grumpy.

Panel 3:
Pink Guy slowly removes his t-shirt and quietly says “sorry”. He won’t soon forget that Bluesky is the home of Serious Discussion. If he wants “Fun” maybe he should log into the Barney the Dinosaur forums.
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From earlier this year - Mandelson + Watson working for Palantir (Watson joined Palantir in 2024) are part of a general move from the Labour Right to Corporate Lobbying which has run since the Blair years morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
As deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson did all he could to undermine Labour’s left, paving the way for the return of the right under Starmer.

Watson is now a paid adviser to Palantir, the sinister US tech company run by pro-Trump billionaires which is chasing British government contracts.

Palantir were also a client of Peter Mandelson’s consultancy Global Counsel. Watson is also an adviser to betting giant Flutter PLC and another lobbying company, Lodestone.

Claire Ainsley was Starmer’s “head of policy” until 2022. She was considered one of the slightly more leftish Starmer advisers — and hence didn’t make it to government.

However, even Ainsley is now a “senior adviser” to lobbying firm WPI Strategy. She runs their “Building Back Britain” commission were firms like Pennon Group (owners of privatised South West Water) — Microsoft and Mastercard try persuade the government that “growth” will come through deregulation or letting them influence NHS policy and so forth.

Jonathan Ashworth was the biggest member of “Team Starmer” to leave Parliament: he would have been a Cabinet minister, but lost his seat to a pro-Palestine independent in the 2024 election.

Last August Ashworth became the “UK chairman of public affairs” of lobbyists Weber Shandwick.

Their recent clients include Facebook owner Meta. Weber Shandwick said Ashworth would be “providing strategic counsel on government relations” and “helping clients navigate the ever-changing political and regulatory landscape” using his experience “as a long-standing senior member of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet” and “years of political experience at the highest levels of the Labour Party and government having worked in 10 Downing Street and HM Treasury. He previously served as a senior political adviser to Gordon Brown.” To me this seems like a polite version of Mandelson’s manoeuvres.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You know how we smashed the EVF in Dover? Big fuckin black bloc. You know how we smashed the March for England in Brighton? Big fuckin blac block. You know how we smashed the EDL? Big fuckin black blocs. You know how we smashed the BNP? Big fuckin black blocs. I'm just throwing ideas out there.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it
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Al Giardello @diligentslacker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The sock on the left has now pulled out
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That's every one of his books is it no?
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The only folk complaining that Hun is sectarian abuse are yr Rangers and assorted bigot lads. It's like ruddy cheeked, sweaty bald old guys fuming that getting called gammon is racist.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'll refer this to Footfoot on X the everything horrible App.
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Congratulations to Ed Sheeran's newly announced live support act, the Eve Barlow Jamboree Jug Band
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yuck.
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davebucket.bsky.social @davebucket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why she have to be so wretched?
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