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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1h

The author of this article appears to be the sort of person you edge away from, gently, once they've been talking for a minute or two.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 7h

You get that 88ft Badenoch Tapestry for pride of place in our conference like I asked? Sure did boss, real lazy, old ai that can't tell which head and hand skin tones should go together and still fucks up fingers like you asked. What?

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 1h

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2h

Strangely from the moment that you could infer from a brief introduction that I know how to perform a swift and almost bloodless castration, I got so much less random shit from dudes.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2h

A news story? It would have been damn near a civil war... This is literally what the impeachment power was written to deal with.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3h

Who could have foreseen that the Conservatives' 88 foot reworking of the Bayeux Tapestry would end up looking like a far right promotional ad, complete with "plague carrying asylum seekers"? Okay, sorry, apart from anyone with a brain cell.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3h

That ol’ tree of liberty in dire need of watering again…

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11h

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4h

People often wonder how they will be remembered, the stories that are left inscribed into the historical record about us, etc etc. I guess "sex arse tycoon and pugnaciously red-faced Brexiter" is one way

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 6h

"No one elected you." LOL.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5h

You can Google “hard problem of consciousness“ and read for hours…

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

Trump enriches his bribe, and here's the cost to the US Treasury

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

It’s wild how every (putatively independent) federal agency has focused their social media messaging around the GOP’s midterm strategy of “stopping communism.” Also, how many American voters do you think could identify this “loser” who died 102 years ago and never set foot in the US?

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With Communism, everything turns to og and under @POTUS, America will NEVER be a Communist country.
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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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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 9h

Intelligent arguments about complex realities are HARD. Stupid arguments about prejudiced fantasies are EASY.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 10h

Narrator: Badenoch is not favourite to win the next general election

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 10h

The eighteenth century looks on, weeping.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 11h

the plainness with which this is put covers up a sort of powerless rage that you feel as a parent of a trans kid. it’s, to say the least, an alienating experience to see people bicker over the niceties of this or that pension policy when the party and the government has done this to your family

This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children.
They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter. We have tried so hard to help her grow up with happiness and self-esteem through a childhood in an increasingly transphobic UK.
At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.

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South Dorset Liberal Democrats @sdlibdems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good to see our Lib Dem Mayoral Candidate for Hampshire actively supporting the RNLI.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 10h

It is essential for the sake of the UK's future as a democracy based on the rule of law that the right does not take power in 2029. Nothing - absolutely nothing - is more important than that.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder if they all do the little wave goodbye at the end of the G7 Zoom summit.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 14h

A Christmas Carol --> The Female Man How does that work? That's the essay. Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com (it's by @effjayem.bsky.social, who knows their stuff)

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10h

well this is a bit "do you still think you can control them"

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 11h

"What government support for airport expansion shows is that 'growth' is simply an excuse for giving powerful lobby groups what they want... Now we wait on Burnham. Will the flight of reason continue? Or will human and planetary welfare at last outweigh the lobbyists?"

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 10h

The Fate of American Democracy hinges on people who were absolutely OK with Trump 1.0, and pretty much OK with Trump 2.0, right up to the point that filling up their truck with gas got really, really expensive...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11h

Polls have shifted so much in the Democrats favour that they're marginally ahead in Kansas (where they haven't won a Senate seat since 1932). And only 1 point behind in South Carolina where Lindsay Graham's sister Darline is running for the GOP to be his permanent replacement.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 11h

On the other hand, there *is* such a thing as a must-miss podcast

Title of podcast includes There's No Such Thing as Democracy and the words Yanis Varoufakis

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 23h

Elon you’re the great inventor of the age. Get to inventing it, dickhead.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11h

New name for tennis just dropped.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11h

South-west London, c. 1977. There are, in my primary-school class, at least 1 Irish lad, several Pakistanis (1 of whose older sister, at a birthday party, was a vision of loveliness that echoes 50 yrs later), several West Indians, as we said then, & a lad from Spanish Morocco, my best mate Oscar.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 12h

So what *should* be the sentence for setting off a bomb in a public place, Sarah?

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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 12h

I'm no fan of Rees-Mogg, but Carlson's ignorance and xenophobia is something to behold.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12h

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing what AI can knock up in a few minutes...

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

There’s so much extremism in this demographic they literally wouldn’t know where to begin. Seriously - if calls for the drownings of children & public executions of politicians were taken as seriously Islamic extremism, you’d be talking about a terrorist movement of a half a million in the UK alone.

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new edition of A Practical Guide to Studying History is out, just in time for anyone starting a history degree. Want to see my material on trans history? Check out 'Identities' in the Activities and Annotated Bibliography sections. www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/a-practical-... 🌈🎓

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A Practical Guide to Studying History - Home

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12h

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 12h

If you give everyone UBI I guarantee we will think of ways to spend our time that give us all the benefits of paid employment.

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Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler) @amalkc.eurosky.social · 14h

Burnham's going after the young disabled. When he could support them, and tax the tax-dodgers. Starmer's father was a toolmaker, Burnham's from the North, that's all the change the UK's got.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h

Just one of many problems with Braverman's definition of 'pureblood' Englishness (all-English parents/grandparents) is it excludes millions of white, English-speaking people with English-sounding names, who she/everyone would just assume are 'English'. #MudbloodsAreUs

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14h

“Fifty thousand! A hundred thousand! A MILLION new jail cells! Prison for everyone! Prison everlasting!!”

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