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David Thomas

@davybuoy.bsky.social
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Welshman born within the smell of the Taff, living lá Vida craic in Ireland. Does not host a podcast.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 22h
Irony needs a big drink of water. Video: buff.ly/9gY6qSY
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 9h
Updated Google Maps (2023, left & 2026, right) imagery from Gaza portray utter devastation wrought on a once-teeming society. With civilian death toll far beyond 100,000, Israeli genocide on Gaza is one of best-documented war crimes in history, yet Ireland is Israel's 2nd biggest trade partner.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 11h
A seemingly-coordinated cognitive influence campaign I’m seeing right now on other platforms appears to try to absolve, and redirect, shame around alleged sexual assault. I discuss the powerful incentives to absolve shame in this short clip. youtube.com/shorts/a0bS1...
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Disinformation Campaigns to Absolve Shame
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 14h
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 13h
The stars at night on Glastonbury Tor. St Michael's tower looking like it might take off.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 23h
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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David Thomas @davybuoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Crime pays
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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GeorgiaBlue @georgiablue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel has left Gaza devastated: 134K+ buildings destroyed, 74,000+ Palestinians killed and mass displacement. In the West Bank, Israeli settlement expansion and settler attacks are accelerating as Palestinians are expelled from their homes and land. It is genocide. Survivors ask: "Where do we go?"
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'Systematically erased' by Israel: 74,000 dead, 82 per cent of Gaza in ruins and the West Bank burning
An investigation into death, destruction, hunger, genocide findings, settler violence and annexation across Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, October 2023 to September 2026.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This two tier policing is disgraceful. It's as if there is one approach for people who helpfully film themselves committing crimes and another approach when there is insufficient evidence.
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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.
Chart showing standardaised mortality rates for England and Wales. After a steady improvement 2016-2019, and then a bunch of pandemic-driven bumps 2020-2022, the lines start improving again 2023-2026 which is shaping up to the best ever.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 29/09/2026
The brilliant Janet Ellis, President of Humanists UK, on discovering humanism and the global community that comes with it. Find Janet's #HumanistBookshelf recommendations on our website! Link in bio.
‘Humanism is important for me because it puts a name to the beliefs and values that so many non-religious people like me already have. It gives those values a proper place in our society and in our lives. It’s not just me saying ‘I think this’. In fact, I’m part of a community of like-minded people with similar ideas, approaches, and moral convictions. And we’re so much stronger when we come together.’
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I said they were Iranians arriving in small boats, I meant British nationals living in London.
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alaintwigger.bsky.social @alaintwigger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's "very English" because in minutes the far right started shouting about small boats and it turned out to be the usual Farage bollocks.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have completely lost the plot in America, when seven men can drug and gang rape a woman who was in no condition to give consent and so much of the concern is for the “men’s” futures. There needs to he a reckoning when it comes to male-first framing and societal expectations.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now that Nigel Farage has had his demands answered in the RAF Fairford investigation can we all demand an update from the Parliamentary standards commission and Met police regarding their investigations into him and Reform.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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David Thomas @davybuoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The problem is America elected a corrupt, incompetent, felonious, adjudicated rapist who is pro Russia because they offer him business opportunities as President.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage. They claim lifting people out of poverty is inflationary. Can't recall millionaires restraining on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Have they tried living on minimum wage? archive.ph/h0pVc
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Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage
Companies warn that a steep rise in labour costs will fuel inflation and cut jobs for young people
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia spent another night attacking Ukrainian civilians. At least eight people were killed across Ukraine in the latest Russian strikes. Zelenskyy: “Anywhere in the world, this choice of targets would be called by one word – terrorism.”
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But Alternative Parade Route Wouldn't Allow Us To Pointlessly Create Tensions" Orange Order Confirm waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
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Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not into that, sorry Benny.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ukraine is conducting a daring and heroic mission to bring aid to the residents in Russian-occupied Oleshky. So far 4,000 kg of food, water and medicine have been delivered to 100 locations. It's a race against time as Russia targets aid drops and civilians.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another cartoon
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is right on…….
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
The affordability crisis looks very different from their table.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 26/09/2026
Or — and just hear me out here — it's the wanton murder and abject, almost gleeful disregard for human life they continually show.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Banks have had £100bn in subsidies in last 3 years. Hear politicians shouting about cutting welfare bill but never hear about cutting subsidies to many private enterprises.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2026
If only they could cover the other half of the Network State ideology....you know, the part about using tech wealth and influence to take control of existing governments and create parallel media/education/economic/political systems. Someone should write a book about it. Oh, wait...
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Notorious Hacking Group 'OpenAI' Claims Credit For Breaching Australia's Medicare System waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Delighted (& definitely happy!) to finally be able to share this properly: my new book, 'How to be a Happy Human: Seven Humanist Foundations for a Better Life' – out on 19 November & available for pre-order now. www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-...
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How to be a Happy Human by Andrew Copson out for pre-order now
Humanists UK has announced the forthcoming publication of How to be a Happy Human: Seven Humanist Foundations for a Better Life, a new book on living well by Chief Executive Andrew Copson. Published b...
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bonus episode out – John Rawls. This week the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the 20th century is the topic for @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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