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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 9h
“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
NEW: Why did Grand Theft Auto VI take 8+ years to make? How did Rockstar's culture change along the way? I went to Scotland and interviewed the company's top developers for this exclusive Businessweek cover story. Inside the making of the biggest game of all time: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI
Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to be biggest video game blockbuster ever. Here’s the inside story of how Rockstar made it.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.
"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C
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Wor Flags @worflags.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Morning! 🔔 Today’s the day of our fundraiser at St, James’ Stack. We’ve got lots of great prizes for you to win with all funds raised used to fund future displays. 🎟️ Not got a ticket yet? Don’t worry you can buy on the door!
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...
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Digital Journalist Scheme
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: is there a doctor on board FRANKENSTEIN: *starts to stand* DR FRANKENSTEIN: *pulls him back down* i think they mean me
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 24/09/2026
The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
you have not lived until a guy in a posh accent weirdly aggressively threatens to strand you in iceland
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Davey, speaking later on the BBC, is invited about three times by Laura Kuenssberg to say that asylum seekers do not pose a greater proportional threat to women than men in general. He does not.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me:
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Retweet if you're eating 2 Wet Eggs at the gas station
Two wet hard boiled eggs in a plastic pouch in front of a gas pump
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026
maybe let's not worry about the very hot drinks for now
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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finch fans - I’m performing a work-in-progress show at the Soho Theatre in November. Live music with readings. sohotheatre.com/events/matth...
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Polls have closed in Saxony-Anhalt and exit polls put result on a knife edge (AfD 41 seats, others 42). First projections based on actual results due out soon. But if exit polls are right this is a rupture in the history of the federal republic.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/08/2026
Having a sense of the traffic figures Harry and Meghan stories get, I am reverting to my usual explanation of the public when asked about their media habits, which is that they are all stinkin' liars.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
oh suddenly there's a dark side to this???
VICE YouTube Video: The Dark Side of Inhaling Rare Xenon Gas
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Adam Hurrey @footballcliches.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Do we really need near-real-time referee audio? 🔊 Three incredible utterings of John Stones’ name 🔊 The meaning of being "Premier League-proven" 🔊 Keys & Gray: Unleashed...in 120 seconds 🔊 AND MUCH MORE @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social
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New: Football Clichés: Counter-attack calculations, club nickname knowledge and Keys & Gray in 120 seconds
Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker. On the agenda: how referee match audio will pump up the football news machine in 2026/27, Chelsea's youth tea...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Number crunching: Compensation Fujitsu has so far paid to victims of the Post Office scandal vs value of contract for police network software awarded to Fujitsu by the Home Office. From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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disaac83.bsky.social @disaac83.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I'll be running the Royal Parks half marathon in London in October, for a local homeless charity St Mungo's. Any donations gratefully received! www.justgiving.com/page/duncan-...
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Duncan's fundraiser for St Mungo's
Help Duncan Isaac raise money to support St Mungo's
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Think of how many laughs you can bring to children if you wear this
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Wor Flags @worflags.org.uk · 06/08/2026
17 days to go until our season opener and what feels like a new era beginning against Liverpool. We’re finalising our plans to pay tribute to Kevin Keegan so please if you can, donate to help us create a special spectacle. worflags.org.uk/donate/
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It would be very useful but I wonder if the tectonic plates on this are shifting regardless, and because of the weather. One might also conclude the same thing from some Telegraph writers' recent jottings.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Absolute joke for a Green Party to oppose solar panels. But very much in keeping with why the UK and whole of Europe are failing on energy policy. Other priorities... www.ft.com/content/6fe7...
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The one climate issue uniting Greens and Reform in Kent
Insurgent parties of left and right find common cause in stance over major solar farm scheme but UK government will have final say
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Flags on the Abingdon Road
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/08/2026
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
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London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones". bit.ly/45sIFqu
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 31/07/2026
This week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Two frames from the This Is Fine cartoon - one shows a dog in a hat sitting among flames with a mug of tea, in the second the dog would normally have said "this is fine" but I've crudely pasted the headline from The Telegraph: ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Evening.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/07/2026
Growing up, I would watch football on TV or listen on the radio, from the safety of my own home, after I was racially abused on the terraces and my brothers were chased away from a different stadium by National Front extremists.
independent.co.uk
Racist and homophobic abuse on the rise in English football as new figures released
Reports of abuse soared last season, with Kick It Out claiming discrimination is ‘deeply embedded’ in English football
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/07/2026
President Trump dozed off almost immediately after delivering his eulogy. trib.al/Tg5xEEM
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Trump, 80, Falls Asleep After Mocking Lindsey Graham at His Funeral
President Trump dozed off almost immediately after delivering his eulogy.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Kotaku is looking for bilingual freelance writers covering gaming who are based in Japan. If that's you or someone you know, please DM me!
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The thing about saying Burnham "will want to be able to say immigration has fallen" is... he can already say that! It fell significantly under Starmer - and no-one cared!
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