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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We have released an updated and more accurate version of Operation Fortress.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 31/07/2026
This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops
EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
sing, muse, of the director who ys not goinge to accept AI bullshytte anymore
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Follow me and the first thing I see is that you trade in hours of AI video and ambience and it's a block. Not to my door. Generative AI is a planet-killing theft engine hollow of lived experience. The bubble will burst, but that's not why we oppose it, we refuse AI because it's morally bankrupt.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Brighton today, the Police are having to protect the handful of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson's racist thugs, from the hordes of normal anti-racists who aren't blinded by hate. We are going to beat the racists back into their caves.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Cold War Steve World Cup 2026 Wallchart! Printed on A2 (59.4cm x 42cm) uncoated paper stock. £9.99. Available now!👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
politico.eu
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
That’s how you do it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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Andy Muirhead @andymuirhd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/05/2026
Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film
theguardian.com
Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film
Documentary makers seek to start ‘informed conversation’ in country where public is allowed on just 8% of land Anger and momentum are building for Scottish style rights of access to mountains, meadows, rivers and woodlands in England where the public is allowed on just 8% of land, a new documentary suggests. Our Land, a film whose title is a nod to the protest song by Woody Guthrie, explores the rise of the right to roam movement in England. Continue reading...
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"It's not about the money" pt 2: "She is not auctioning her items for monetary reasons but hopes her finds will go to "someone who loves history"". If ONLY there were places which display old stuff to which she could give her finds so anyone "who loves history" could go and look at them for free
bbc.co.uk
Bedfordshire detectorist to sell hundreds of treasure pieces found
Nettie Edmondson is auctioning off her collection of hundreds of items she has found over 20 years.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Lithuanian folklore alert! On 16 March I'm speaking on the theme of 'Laumės as mirrors of women’s work, enforcers of taboos and deity-substitutes in Baltic folklore' at an online conference 'Living with Elves and Fairies' hosted by the University of Iceland and Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
War is hell, mash meme
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Language is lens. Language codes reality. Spelling really is a spell. Words do matter and that means we have to choose them very carefully.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19
Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account:

Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and
gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police.

Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Hey UK archaeology. Let's all just cash in our years of knowledge, understanding, professionalism, trust, integrity, stakeholder partnerships, land owner networks, Professorial privilege, university accreditation. Buy a metal detector and make some (more) money. 🏺
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Mate, it was 1066. Move on.
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Everything connected to Mandelson must now be under suspicion? Thiel and Palantir links must be reexamined. McSweeney must be investigated for his involvement with both Mandelson and Thiel.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/01/2026
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org
Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 30/12/2025
On the 6th day of Christmas... Wise prophet or foolish coward – the goose has been both. Revered at Michaelmas, mocked by Shakespeare, feared on the battlefield and loved for feathers, fat and flight – here's how this bird shaped medieval life. ⤵️
eastangliabylines.co.uk
The haunting cry that brings a creature from another world
Folklore heralds the goose as guardian, soothsayer and companion of the gods
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It's a sad day when patriotic hero Tommy Robinson can't visit a Muslim country and get his arse handed to him and publicly shit himself.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 11/12/2025
NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres. #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵 TW: human remains 🏺 #Archaeology
Reconstruction of Roman Londinium. Aerial view of a miniature city. Buildings have white walls and red-orange, sloped, tiled roofs.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yes. Yes they did
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
TOND is here, and it’s put the Broken Vell podcast channel back in the top ten! Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend. It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I'm told that if enough people download this, it's more likely that there will finally also be audiobooks of Villager, 1983 and Notebook. But no pressure, obviously.
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Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If you're still looking for a Christmas present for a postman/woman, a retired postie, someone who wants to be a postie or someone who just loves walking Britain's beautiful footpaths, can I recommend The Postal Paths by... er, well, me 😉?
The Postal Paths book
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/12/2025
Diagram 
Do I need Ai?
No
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The issue is that a woman working full time on a decent salary cannot afford rent on a one bed flat and the cost of childcare to allow her to work THAT’S what should be being called out But the RW media don’t want people questioning THAT Better to vilify those struggling to make ends meet 8/
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written. This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this. open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
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We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Good luck forcing me off the pavement you fucking bin.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 27/11/2025
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 23/11/2025
"Instead of unbroken golden sand, the shoreline is littered with millions of tiny plastic pellets – bio-beads – spilled into the sea by Southern Water and now washing up in waves. They are a chilling reminder of how fragile our environment is, and how carelessly some treat it." Worth a read ⤵️
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic. This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record. Cc @Tess_Machling🏺 #FindsFriday www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom. To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027: www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi... Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
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