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@dotdarling.bsky.social
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Dual US/Dutch citizen living in UK. Freelance translator. Ink drinker & over-thinker. Wülferhampton

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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 16h
You couldn’t make it up😂
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have one house.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know this made some bigoted heads explode 😂
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was suspected from the beginning.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every bit of this. I’m sick of rape culture and rapists getting away with it.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage. They claim lifting people out of poverty is inflationary. Can't recall millionaires restraining on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Have they tried living on minimum wage? archive.ph/h0pVc
ft.com
Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage
Companies warn that a steep rise in labour costs will fuel inflation and cut jobs for young people
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fleabag at #5? Really? Tried to watch it but just couldn’t get past the completely unsympathetic main character and the smug self-regard. (Andrew Scott was brilliant though). 
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rich white Men want to decide who has worth & who doesn’t.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Note that arrested far right rioters have been found to have a much greater than average number of convictions for violent offences, including domestic violence meme via We Demand UK
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sure does 😕🤷🏼
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah, WTH??? 😆
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
USPS in Utah dumped 300 mail-in ballots into a parking lot garbage bin. USPS’s current defense? “Laziness.”
deseret.com
Utah postal worker accused of throwing away 300 mail-in ballots in church parking lot
Over 95% of Utah voters rely on mail-in ballots, making destroyed ballots critical loss.
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@wulfhelm.bsky.social when are you going to give the order to launch the long boats to deal with this Tommo twat? 
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/
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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cartoonist: Daniel Boris
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 19/09/2026
Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Happy Sunday
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?
variety.com
FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomatoes taking over the greenhouse. Can’t complain though. 😋 #Food
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😆 🤣
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 17/09/2026
At -61, the margin of error is basically “good Lord.”
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😂
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"What's that you say Lassie?" "It's Wednesday?" "It's #buyastrangerabook day?" "I should have started it about 30 minutes ago" "Well then, what are we waiting for. Let's go!"
static.klipy.com
Cute Collie Dog
Alt: A Collie Dog barking.
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nandy has been such a disappointment.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
So much winning
Today's oil/gas news:
— Brent ~$108, WTI ~$104-105 on Saudi supply fears
— Saudi East-West pipeline still shut; repairs may take weeks
— Oil loadings suspended at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia's main Red Sea port
— No Red Sea Saudi crude exports since
Saturday
— Houthis seize Red Sea islands and attack
Saudi airbase
— US diesel hits record $6.27 a gallon
— Ukrainian drones hit Russia's top diesel refineries
— China's yuan crude futures at a record
- Goldman: oil could reach $120 if fighting escalates
— Aramco delaying/canceling some late-September European cargoes
— Costco starts rationing motor oil as prices spike
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fred works on a chimney and smokes like one too. Best thing you will see today.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Horror hits of the summer From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13/09/2026
oh wow I'm so surprised "American officials secretly flew a US diplomat out of Britain without informing the police after he was accused of possessing indecent images of children"
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US smuggled 'paedophile'
diplomat out of Britain
Embassy staff secretly removed man without telling British police
after indecent image allegations

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Published 13 September 2026 9:45am BST

American officials secretly flew a US diplomat out of Britain without
informing the police after he was accused of possessing indecent images of
children ...
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Didn’t know you golfed @wulfhelm.bsky.social
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Same. When did we become slaves to technology instead of it being a mere tool for us? 
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
😂
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So, according to the BBC, the balaclava-wearing thugs are ‘anti-migrant activists’. #BBCwhitewashing
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Burns.
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Jay @jdbatts79.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It really sucks that collectively as a country we’ve spent most of the 25 years after 9/11 being the absolute worst versions of ourselves 
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really hope all this backfires on Trump‘s corrupt FCC 
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