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I’m really just here to pick up my car. Used to be on twitter.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 12h
I can't help but feel the answers here rather undercut the claim they want a single state with equal rights for all those living there. Its not equal rights if one group gets the seize the land, and have a 'justice and reperations process' over the other.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 21h
Was curious about the whole going "we need to be where we were 40 years ago" thing. Found this from the ONS - real disposable incomes today are almost twice that of 1986. Obviously there's a lot that needs fixing (housing!). But I feel like this is relevant...? www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gros...
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Households: Real disposable Income, per head: Chained volume measure (reference year = 2024) £: Seasonally adjusted - Office for National Statistics
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The worse Trump gets, the more the journalist need to take him seriously gets ever more outlandish. He just made it up! He probably hadn’t even been briefed on it!
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Specifics of this story aside, it’s quite something seeing a mainstream journalist using the R word in 2026.
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joining in on the discourse: The Best TV Shows of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, knock me down with a feather
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Dan @danmin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My main view on Taylor Swift’s latest effort is that she’s clearly just reached her “1980s”. All artists have a spiritual 1980s, and it’s roughly 20 years after they’ve been in the business. Dylan, McCartney, Harrison, the Rolling Stones, they all reached their true nadir around then.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is a dril tweet
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@Serene Necrosis
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It's not lost on me that I have received a huge amount of hate from so-called "leftist" accounts since changing my pfp to include a hijab-inspired secular accessorization.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is going to get so bad www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
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Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI program hacks government health portal
Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg saying, of Zia Yusuf, ‘if he doesn’t want to be English, why does he want to govern this country?’ is quite the line.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"In her day, they didn't really do it, did they?" "How old is she?" "Thirty-eight."
Twink telling Bren about sex.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Find it both grating and frankly, deeply weird, that Zack Polanski’s leaflets are simply dishonest about where he lives. Literally nobody cares. It’s normal to move within London. “Hackney man seeks job in Camden” is not something you need to play word games around.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The term “lame duck” would be haunting any other president’s sleep. But the concept is alien to Trump. He spends more of his time telling people about his architectural plans than he devotes to Iran, AI or the economy. Insoluble problems hold no interest." My column. as.ft.com/r/928f5cb7-6...
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Trump is checking out of his presidency
With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sky’s Wargame was a great start. Looking forward to the rest of the week.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Those Germans up to no good as usual
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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A single can of diet coke from the little Sainsbury's on a Sunday afternoon is known in the trade as "The Gentleman's Purchase"
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🔥 The defense forces massively attacked Moscow and the Moscow region: one of the largest oil refineries, CHP-22, which supplies electricity to a large part of the region, and a warehouse were hit. ❗️Strikes were also reported in Voronezh, Ryazan, and Dagestan.
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kinda odd this beginning to get traction when the idea any UK government agreeing to any “reparations” has probably never been further away in 30 years?
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. cnn.it/4y9MBJO
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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The sun is at its peak in Wyoming. Warren Bridge, 9/18/2026, 1:34:00 PM
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The press have, collectively, stopped paying any attention to The Samaritans' guidance on how to report suicide appropriately.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every time I'm on a train and someone is playing music or video out loud on their phone, a strange tension comes over the whole carriage - people look around at each other, wondering if anyone will have the courage to say something, and then when someone does, whether there will be bad reaction
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received - and that consequently, this country is at war with Piddington.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In the age of peak Euro snobbery, wealthy Europeans used to imagine Americans living in monster trucks, eating only guns and dying at 55 of obesity. Now with peak Euro anxiety, when they imagine Americans, they think of somebody like them, only earning 5x more money at a start-up in San Francisco
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
disagreeing with Urdu election material is silly. the more interesting question is why Polanski is campaigning in Urdu in a constituency with hardly any Urdu speakers
Census 2021 data on main language in Holborn and St Pancras. Only 156 people listed Urdu as their main language (compared with 3,471  for Bengali, 2,488 for French, 2,153 for Spanish)
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Big up UCL’s captain on University Challenge doing a BA in Icelandic! We are legion! (If a legion comprised about ten people)
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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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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I read this every anniversary. What a hero. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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The Courageous Life and Death of Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 Hero
The Vietnam veteran helped save hundreds of lives on September 11th, before he was swallowed by the South Tower collapse. “For Rick Rescorla, this was a natural death,” his best friend said—a hero’s e...
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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
MPs vote against the Assisted Dying Bill Yes: 270 No: 286 Huge moment in the life of this parliament
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two days after the funeral of her brother, King Harald, Princess Astrid, 94, has died www.nrk.no/norge/prinse...
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Prinsesse Astrid (94) er død
For to dager siden fulgte hun lillebror, kong Harald, til graven. Nå er prinsesse Astrid død, 94 år gammel.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10/09/2026
Say goodbye to the SaaSpocalypse and hello to the RenaiSaaS ft.trib.al/uEz684s | opinion
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Say goodbye to the SaaSpocalypse and hello to the RenaiSaaS
Software companies have shown they can be beneficiaries of AI, rather than easy targets for it, though some risks remain
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why is the BBC top story some nonsense fake pledge from the “Republican mid-term convention” (??) and then a fact-checking 90 second video?? What are we doing???
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An utter scandal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'My cancer spread while I waited 128 days for an op': The cost of England's care gap
Cancer care has got worse since the government announced plans to speed up waiting times and save more lives, BBC analysis shows.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
I think one thing you really notice in right leaning Westminster circles is how off their perception of what the median person thinks about Gaza/Israel is.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just seen a white van drive past that had a copy of the London Review of Books on the dashboard and that’s restored my faith in humanity slightly.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A Sunny Day, Connemara, Ireland, c.1940, painting by Paul Henry (1876-1958), Belfast-born artist.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘In science, the study found that pupils who used AI “almost every day” were significantly less able to summarise or draft texts that they had read than those who “almost never” used it — although the effect was less harmful for those who used it “to help me learn”.’ www.ft.com/content/0b38...
Students who use Al almost every day score lower in science reading tests
Mean score, by frequency of Al use, for summarising science texts students read for schoolwork
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Andrew Neil suggesting on the other place that Israel are responsible for the cyber attack on British air traffic control which is 1) a baseless unevidenced claim that you probably shouldn’t throw around as a professional broadcaster 2) not a good argument from someone who opposes today’s sanctions
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s a particularly weak argument for the actually existing assisted dying bill, which explicitly does not provide for the number one reason people consistently give for wanting the right to die.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think today was the first day going to work in the rain since probably May???
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Devolution created a natural experiment here and we have the results. bsky.app/profile/tom-...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It may seem odd that the AfD has both former Stasi officers and ex(?)neo-Nazis in its ranks of elected officials, but what brings these people together is their hatred of the liberal democratic constitutional and social order that came out of 1989.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/09/2026
Homer protecting his sugar
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