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Deeply affected by Emily St John Mantel's excellent book 'Last night in Montreal', about how deeply bleak and inhumane winter is in that city

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No that's the set for the next series of Doctor Who

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This is where Milibandism leads

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To be fair, the (mutual?) Loathing between Kemi and Bobby J is quite amusing

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Ain't no party like a communist party antisemitic purge

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love the idea of Mountbatten trying to impress *Stalin* with his *Tsarist connections*

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Two Iranian nationals have been charged with a terror plot against Manchester's Jewish community, allegedly in contact with "overseas third-party" possibly in Iran. The Home Secretary has confirmed that both men arrived on small boats, in 2020 and 2023. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

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Two Iranians charged over suspected terror plot on Jewish community

Counterrorism police said that they had charged Salam Ahmadyan and Rahman Salehi over the suspected plot in Manchester

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Inventing Asimov from first principles

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My favourite bit of the NYT article was this:

A Rabbi told Anthropic that he personally didn't believe that they were creating conscious beings, but that if Anthropic truly believed they were, then by that definition they were creating slaves, which would obviously be an extremely bad thing

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Anyway the funniest move was when Trudeau, not really expecting to win a majority, declared 2015 would be the last election under FPTP, set up a commission and then ignored it

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Yeah obviously it should be 'Brokey-cokey'

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pretty sure there's still some houses with original bomb shelters in the garden, hanging about

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Been saying for ages that streaming is v weird: you can have the first mover digital only platform (Netflix), the add-on for a tech company (Prime or Apple TV) or be a studio colossus with a galaxy's worth of content (Disney) I guess this is an attempt at the latter?

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Similarly, a lot of people try to do a 'gotcha' about Eugenics being a not unpopular idea floating around the West at the time but that only shows that those ideas were in the milleu: the Nazis had it as a central part of their state ideology

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Bro you can just reference Fiddler on the Roof its fine its a popular piece of media

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Should the bbc be peddling outright dangerous advice?

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Famously this was a tactic beloved by the Stasi, right

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I see you lot are obsessed with Middle Class Big Brother again

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More generally, wasn't Music Hall type singers or the whole genre absolutely enormous, and essentially never recovered from the invention of television?

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- Man who really really wants to impose a congestion charge on Manchester

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I actually think that youth unemployment approaching levels last seen in a world financial crisis, is quite concerning actually?

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Thinking about how if they made Mad Men now they'd probably do a shitty sequel about Pete in Kansas

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'There's nothing like a good cup of tea .. and this is nothing like a good cup of tea'

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Incredible and a savage review in which the director doesnt appear to notice that if you create three seasons worth of material about a protagonist, you can't (or won't) turn her into an unlikeable maniac? Cus obviously you make audiences like her which defeats the point

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There were some fascinating court cases i think in Israel about this- people on the fringes (failed businessman, teenage outcast etc) encouraged online to idk take a photo of their laundromat for 50 shekels. Then graffiti a wall. Then idk... take a picture of an airbase

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See: sometimes older technology is better. You try tying up a terrorist with Bluetooth enabled headphones

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Esther Rantzen hosts Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust youtu.be/OqqbM1B-mPY?...

youtu.be

Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton (That's Life - 1988)

YouTube video by Tops of the top

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Mildly amusing that the enclave once known as Konigsburg is still named after a long dead communist that nobody these days likes, because they can't go back to the old name and dont have a new one on offer

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[Sits backwards on chair]: and is pulling a 737 out of a tailspin after taking down a failed hijacking.. not like a Sukkah

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Claiming, essentially, that Mandela's post apartheid South Africa was wrong is .. a Take

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See: sometimes older technology is better. You try tying up a terrorist with Bluetooth enabled headphones

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Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Few things more irritating than Professional Northerners who've lived in london for twenty years. Who do you you're kidding pal

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Amazing to spend 18 months “investigating” and never give your readers any idea what events may have caused the massive expansion of checkpoints in the years since 2000. Seriously, this entire piece amounts to trying to actively deceive your readers about the sad history of this conflict.

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Relatedly, it's amusing how iirc every town and city put up a statue of Queen Victoria in her time, only for a great many to be unceremoniously moved circa the 70s, because of a ring road or the like being built

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Insane. Crazy that there was a repeat of United 93 (the delayed plane on 9/11 where the passengers learnt about the twin towers and fought back, with the plane ultimately crashing)

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The biggest issue I think is that this is just slop? Obviously something silly slipped through, its slop

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hear Man City have to move out of their swanky stadium and back into the housing development that used to be Maine Road

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Some mothers are never happy/some sons never have the career they'd like

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Sorry but the only Bond market crisis i want to hear about is when he's racing to defuse one of Blofeld's bombs at Covent Garden

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Randomly thinking about Odenigbo in Half of a Rising Son, who constantly takes the idealistic committed radical choice, and it always makes things worse for him and his family, and he becomes a bitter alcoholic

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