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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 26/09/2026
I am so deeply deeply bored with the middle classes and their stupid incurious conservative thinking
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
or to put it another way, good news for first time buyers
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The way you win over voters to the right is to say you understand their concerns and that they’re right about everything. The way to win over voters on the left is to tell them you hold them in total contempt.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
devonlive.com
Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims
An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death
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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...
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Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids
Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
musk endorsing this would have been the number 1 story in the world a few years ago, governments investing in him would've had to comment, investors would've got nervous now, nothing. we've just given up bsky.app/profile/polp...
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
after the press drove caroline flack to suicide they all turned around and said "ah! what a tragedy. who did this." this time they're just like "that guy deserved to die and we're going to keep going"
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The closure of the iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory would be a tragedy for UK science that undermines the mission to be a science superpower, says Prospect. Read more ⬇️ prospect.org.uk/news/closure...
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Closure of Jodrell Bank a ‘tragedy’ for UK science, says Prospect
The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, home to one of the world’s largest steerable telescopes for more...
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well so long DSIT. That is a hell of a swing - might seem like a junior dept of little consequence from within govt, but putting science and innovation in with business is a pretty solid Tory move. One can only hope all the non-innovative tech, that keeps everything ticking over, gets a home too.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
we can move further and faster than the US by, wait up a second let me check my notes here, adopting a lot of US AI tech and then putting it into all of the below
a cartoon drawing of a worried looking man with a beard and glasses. he is wearing a yellow and blue rosette which says "fell for it again award"
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Appalling: Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 @wildcard.land have run a noble campaign trying to get the CofE to see sense But this demonstrates exactly why Ministers can't rely on landowners to voluntarily support 30by30: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The centrist waltz in full swing again. Propose something abhorrent; face a backlash; retreat to 90% of something abhorrent; get lauded for your clever moderate compromise while the right wing continue to call you race traitor communists; gain nothing while hurting millions; repeat.
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 06/07/2026
Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."
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declant.bsky.social @declant.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#arsenal
Holloway Road lined with Arsenal fansA lot of pyro and flags Declan Rice and William Saliba on top of the coach with the premier league trophy, and a lot of pyro.Gunnersaurus at the back of coach (and more pyro).
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy
bbc.co.uk
UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026
Reform pledged to build a concentration camp where I live to punish us for voting Green. Their leader in Glasgow made a special video about it. That's because they are fascists and they like building camps. If you want that politics to have a place at the table, you are pro-fascist.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
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Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Sure, billionaires are monstrous amoral pedophiles who look at other human beings like disposable trash, but at least they contribute absolutely nothing of value to civilization and are actively contributing to the destruction of humanity
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
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Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Hell of a set of top BBC politics stories for the government
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David Cake @davecakes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I did a post on X ages ago that being on there was like drinking in the best pub in town despite knowing the landlord is a pedo. That metaphor has gotten a little bit more on the nose now.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/01/2026
this is why you must always oppose every act an imperialist country does, because then they’ll soon come for everyone
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Another way AI leads to suicide is that hearing people talk about it makes you want to jump into a jet engine
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
An English local council innovates, evaluates what it did, finds it works (replicating an earlier study in Scotland) … and all councils are told by the Labour government not to try it. What message does this convey? Another victory for ideology & cowardice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Councils warned against adopting four-day week
Local Government Secretary Steve Reed has told council leaders to not introduce four-day working weeks.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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Wes Streeting must stand up to the
ADHD activists
I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life
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pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone.
Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on.
2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 25/11/2025
the bbc coining the phrase "teenage trans woman" in their coverage of the linehan case is driving me insane. it's so subtly revealing
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Sure, but this stuff really is just a rung or two up the ladder from e.g. “this drivel we made up shows domestic traitors and the ethnics are conspiring to undermine and destroy Britain”, and all the lads have been just fine with that one for decades and longer.
It's impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X
- a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.
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Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV.
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News
Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise.

    But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.
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