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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the first MP to take the oath on a Quran was Chaudhry Sarwar in 1997. this isn’t new.

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Same goes for voicenotes, tbh. Dictate it if you must but I don’t want to spend 2 minutes of my life waiting for the important bit of a message which would take me 10 secs to read.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Most bath times this guy saves the day. Over the years he’s rescued dinosaurs, superheroes and sea creatures. Our kids are pretty clear this is unambiguously and definitively one of the good guys. I think the vast majority of grown ups would agree with them.

Photo of a bath toy - RNLI boat & crew member

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today I watched #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing. Some takeaways: > The climate today is the least extreme that’ll be from now on > The UK could become too hostile to grow food with winters that dip to -20C and summers at >40C > The crises will domino > We can limit the damage #EndFossilFuels.

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bertrand Russell's reply to Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain's most prominent fascist leader: I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us. Bertrand Russell

A scanned typewritten letter on Earl Russell's personal headed notepaper dated 22 January 1962, addressed to Sir Oswald Mosley. The letter declines further correspondence, signed 'Yours sincerely, Bertrand Russell.'

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gregcatar.bsky.social @gregcatar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Colleen Parker

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Check in eight. Impressive.

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The latest instalment of @freewheeling.info History of Europe in 75 Train Journeys is out. Today’s theme: Revolution historyofeuropein75trainjourneys.substack.com/p/journey-8-...

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Journey 8: Paris to Berlin

Chapter 31: The Revolutions of 1848

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Point 2 hadn’t occurred to me.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To "protestors" with "legitimate concerns": instead of throwing paint over my Polish neighbour's front door, go after the tax-dodging millionaires, the fuel companies ripping you off, and the media tycoons laughing at you. Go after them, you stupid cunts.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

''Time is slipping away" by Romanian artist Darius Hulea.

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As my kids would say, “burn”

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good if not very encouraging lunch with the FT, with the head of the Met Office. www.ft.com/content/bde8...

The agency's latest modelling suggests that by the middle of the century, Britain could endure long stretches of 40C days, with temperatures hitting
45C.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“I look at these images now and I realise that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world, it was an illusion. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying.” — Sir David Attenborough

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Weirde & obscure wordes are not an elitist control thinge. Thei have hidden all thys tyme, & thei carrye wyth them great poweres & unforeseen futures. Wordes you have to looke up are wordes that businesse hath not bent ynto sad smooth chains to harness desyre. Lookinge up wordes ys rebellion.

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“Guys, guys! Data is the new oil.”

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"I'm selling all 70 of my rental homes because of the renters reform bill" - Good. You can think it's gone to far, but if you own dozens of rental properties and can't afford to comply, you're a crap landlord providing inadequate housing. You're the reason the bill exists.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 28/06/2026

Ex-Treasury official Sharon White says on BBC One that Britain has "the highest debt, the highest overdraft if you like, across any of the developed countries". Erm, no we don't?

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/06/2026

I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat. So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard? I can think of 5 million reasons why…

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Liz Davidson @davidsonlizzie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“Investment in the UK has fallen behind other countries by 18%” 🤬

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/06/2026

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that the global sea-surface temperature hit yet another new record daily high yesterday. Let's get ready to party like it's 1929!

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 29/05/2026

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We will be leathery husks dragging our dying bodies across the endless desert that once was Earth and the media will still say we're 'basking' in 'glorious weather'.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

‘Probably’ is often pronounced /probly/, losing the syllable ‘ba’. This is called haplology. Some people have an issue with that, but what they don’t know is that ‘probably’ is the result of haplology too: in Middle English, it was ‘probablely’. Click my new graphic for more cases of haplology:

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

ME/CFS steals whole lives.

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Go Jauntly: walks & nature trails @gojauntly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

🌿👣 The Bristol Ring. A brand new 33 mile circular walk around Bristol and it’s available on the free Go Jauntly app now. Complete in 6 easy-to-follow sections: walks.gojauntly.com/collections/... There’s a “challenge” too: walks.gojauntly.com/challenges/b.... 📲

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The three stages of life: 1. Too young 2. Too busy 3. Too old

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Every US Pharma company should try to find out the meds taken by Trump and his ghouls and GOP members of Congress and threaten to stop manufacturing them.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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