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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"I loathe the word identity. An Identity is never an objective category. It is a deeply personal& emotional choice. If you want to explore that for yourself, fine. But the moment you try imposing your definitions on others and sort people into categories, I, as a historian&a German, get v.nervous.“

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Huge respect for Caroline Lucas this week, repeatedly standing up to antisemitic entryism while remaining staunchly critical of Israel and the government's failures on that front. You can see why she used to be leader

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is absolutely damning. A must-read.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 06/10/2026

A glowing stellar nursery 👶⭐ Webb’s infrared sensitivity has revealed the protostars & stars of NGC 7129, a stellar nursery that lies 3,300 light-years from Earth. In the centre, lies the massive star LkH(alpha) 234, which has carved into its cloudy surroundings 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

$A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. There are several background galaxies strewn throughout the image. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)$

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David Futyan @davidfutyan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The article explains well. Thanks.

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David Futyan @davidfutyan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The proposal is to change from triple lock to double lock isn't it?

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David Futyan @davidfutyan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Indeed, I do think it will need the Tories to change tack, and unfortunately it’s extremely difficult to imagine that happening.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

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All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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David Futyan @davidfutyan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I really don’t get how this is being so hyped. Rory had been expressing an opinion on AI sovereighty, and the presenter asked Ailbhe for her view, and Rory looked towards her with clearly intense interest.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A 1000 times this.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the midst of a storm, Canada and the EU can anchor our ground.

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am sorry, I may have said this before, but there really are moments when British politics are astonishingly naive, and I really think this may have something to do with the fact that the British have not experienced occupation, tyranny, displacemen within living memory.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊 And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥 Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !

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Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage tells his conference that if the House of Lords frustrates a majority Reform government, he will flood the upper house with peers to gain a majority, or hold a referendum to sweep them away; and if the judiciary frustrate them, they will “look at how judicial appointments work”. Hmm…

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David Futyan @davidfutyan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The EU needs to agree, and it won't unless it can be completely confident the UK won't re-Brexit under a future change of government. So no. No way back in until eurosceptic parties become an insignificant electoral threat, and the UK is a long way from that.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.

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David Futyan @davidfutyan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In the UK pretty much all wildfires are started by humans, either accidentally or deliberately. Chris' position nonetheless stands though: accidental or deliberate ignitions would not result in large uncontrollable fires in the absence of climate change leading to increased hot weather and drought.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

And so in another splendid Order in this case, the court sided firmly with the BBC. Nothing in the litigation rules means that disclosure can be delayed. Trump’s lawyers wanted to hide behind an “expert report” at trial setting out the purported damage. But the court said the documents need to be produced now.

Trump’s representatives even contended that producing the business records would be “overbroad” even though they are claiming an astronomical amount of damage to Trump’s commercial interests. Trump and his lawyers essentially wanted it both ways: to mount a wide-ranging damages claim but with the narrowest range of produced documents to support that claim. The court said no.

As with many other things to do with Trump, this case smacks of bluster but little tactical (and still less strategic) thought. What seemed a powerful first move was not really thought through. Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC also said no.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/08/2026

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

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Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 28/07/2026

When it comes down to it Brits would prefer any current main party leader as Prime Minister over Farage.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Mer de Glace 1992 | 2026 Largest French glacier, 32 years ago and today! 😭 Glacier retreat 100% due to anthropogenic activity over this period! 📷 via @MiguelMorenatti

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David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“Badenoch has effectively committed the Conservatives to a policy of conflict, and possibly even rupture, with the EU…. That’s because the UK’s continued membership of the ECHR underpins every element of its post-Brexit relationship with the EU” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Nobody in Europe knows or cares what Kemi Badenoch thinks. That’s a big mistake | Simon Nixon

The opposition leader wants to pull the UK out of the ECHR, wrecking treaties from the Good Friday agreement to the Gibraltar deal, says economics commentator Simon Nixon

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And yeah, immigration is complicated - with winners and losers and increased supply and increased demand - by it is fascinating to see people make such noise about tiny sums on ie bus fares when they never think to ask about the massive economic effects of one of our main policy areas.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The BBC and other broadcasters have swallowed the right's small boat invasion narrative hook, line and sinker. They have no interest in reporting a fall in crossings - especially as the weather cannot be blamed. Normal service will be resumed if numbers start rising again.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dent Blanche (4,357 m asl, VS) July 2014 | July 2026 It's hard not to be moved by what we've done to these places in such a short time...💔 📷 2026: @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social

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Wiley Ecology, Environment and Sustainability @wileyecology.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Observations continue to show unprecedented changes in the UK’s climate. Recent decades have been warmer, wetter and sunnier than the 20th Century. 📖 Read the latest analysis on the State of the UK Climate: bit.ly/4wyWuzw @rmets.org @metoffice.gov.uk @noc.ac.uk #climatechange

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Aletsch Glacier from Konkordiahütte 2020 | 2026 Here you can see the deepest ice in the Alps! 🧊 But, everything is moving too fast...🔥 📽️ Via Matthias Sänger (webcam Konkordia)

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Objectively it’s pretty funny. The U.K. voting to Brexit has led directly to the removal of the Spain-Gibraltar border posts.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Quite a significant Brexit moment happening, with the removal of Spain-Gibraltar border posts in preparation for the UK-EU agreement being signed & implemented next week. Effectively, this marks the end of the process triggered by invoking Article 50 in 2017: etias.com/articles/spa... 1/3

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Spain removes Gibraltar border checkpoints after 300 years

Spain tore down its border checkpoints at Gibraltar for the first time in 300 years. See what the new frontier deal changes for daily crossers.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

CERN broke the universe and we're trapped in a singularity and the more we get stretched to infinity, the less sense the world makes... Exhibit 373737

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MétéoSuisse @meteosuisse.ch · 08/07/2026

Un courant de nord-ouest sur les Alpes a généré des ondes qui se sont matérialisées par de magnifiques #nuages lenticulaires ce matin. Photos : Observations Météo, App MeteoSwiss Merci pour vos contributions!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Zia Yusuf claims Farage is bravely "bringing forward" the judgment of "the ultimate authority": the people of Clacton. Two problems here: 1) He's insisting they judge *before* the full evidence has been heard, not *after*; 2) No constituency can exempt its MP from rules designed to protect us all

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

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