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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 16h
From the steelworks to the synthesiser: Sheffield’s electronic music scene Sheffield’s pioneering electronic music scene builds on the progress of the past and continues apace thanks to grassroots initiatives By Alex Martin
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From the steelworks to the synthesiser: Sheffield’s electronic music scene
Sheffield’s pioneering electronic music scene builds on the progress of the past and continues apace thanks to grassroots initiatives
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h
Alan J. Pakula’s brilliant THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974) If you haven’t yet, I cannot recommend this highly enough. #WarrenBeatty #TheParanoiaTrilogy
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19h
🔴 NEW Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 21h
"The bond markets won't allow it." Not true. The Bank of England sets interest rates. Markets don't veto a currency issuer's spending. Build your counter-argument. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics
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Argument Builder — MMTAction — Economics for People
Paste the economic claim you're struggling to counter and get a fact-based rebuttal, built on Modern Monetary Theory. Free, no account needed.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 14h
Beckert opens up our perception to the wide range of ways that capitalism causes destruction. He therefore opens us to a wide range of ways to fight against it.
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How Can We Build a World Post Capitalism?
In Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin 2025), Sven Beckert’s original approach to understanding capitalism helps us to see possibilities for challenging it in the present precarious time we are living in.
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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 15h
The amazing West Midlands Unity March and Rally that took place in Birmingham on Sunday. Over 1000 people marched for migrant rights and against the hatred and division of the far right.
The front of the March passes Pigeon Park, led by drummers and the Women Against the Far Right blocThe Climate Justice bloc led by protests carrying the BrumCJC banner which reads

BIRMINGHAM SAYS CLIMATE JUSTICE NOWThe front of the protest comes to the end of Corporation Street before it turns the corner into New Street Protesters return to Victoria Square and confront a small number of ‘patriots’ who had tried to disrupt the event 
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Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 15h
"As a Christian, these challenging times call me to stand for truth against untruth, for hospitality against hostility, for solidarity against division, for faith against fear, for love against hate." - Al Barrett, the vicar of Hodge Hill Church
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Moment anti-racist protestors outnumber handful of far right in Birmingham
Hundreds turned up for the West Midlands Against Racism Unity March and Rally
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h
Holy shit.
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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 13h
Is Zionism Racism? Mouin Rabbani mouinrabbani.substack.com/p/is-zionism...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 23h
IT’S A GENOCIDE This Jewish woman was arrested under the Terrorism Act outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool for peacefully holding a sign. Her sign stated “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action”.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 22h
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026
We're in the middle of a race to the bottom, where authors use LLMs to generate more and more proposals, so funders use LLMs to screen proposals to keep up with increasing submission volumes. At some level of "LLMs evaluating LLM-generated submissions," you've gotta ask what we're even doing here.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Victor Gao, dismantling western arrogance in the most satisfying, non-threatening manner. (An old clip, but very relevant)
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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From 2012. This should never be forgotten. How the BBC betrayed the NHS: an exclusive report on two years of censorship and distortion www.opendemocracy.net/en/how-bbc-b...
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Cupid Stunt @mary-hinge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac - 1997
YouTube video by Chris Salmon
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember that Farage deifies Thatcher and wants even more privatisation designed to make the super-rich wealthier and the rest of us poorer or destitute 'Absolutely everything rotten in the UK can be traced back to Thatcher' via St Helens Resistance
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Draconid meteor shower is active for one night only: October 8th to 9th! 🌠🧪 Most years you can see up to 10 meteors per hour, but rates can spike without warning to as many as 600 per hour, as seen in 2011 and 2018.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
Armchair “S1” designed by Adolf Krischanitz in 1986 and produced by Wiesner-Hager Möbel GmbH germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/8294601...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2026
#OtD 3 Oct 1973 the trial began of famous actor Ricky Tomlinson, then a plasterer, with five other building workers for their role in a national builders' strike the previous year. Tomlinson was unjustly jailed for two years. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e65-...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Upstream methane from LNG will make these gas fired data centres a clinate disaster Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
foxglove.org.uk
Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📣 The first screening of the People's Emergency Briefing in a national parliament! The film was shown at Holyrood last night. Grateful to First Minister John Swinney for committing to helping ensure it is “shared and understood very widely within Scotland”. #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing
The First Minister John Swinney with Gillian Martin msp cabinet secretary for climate and rural affairs, and Prof Mike Berners-LeeThe First Minister giving an address next to a large screen about to show the Peoples Emergency Briefing A packed room of MSPs and staff watching the film
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Economic participation has become a trap, leaving people stuck between low pay, astronomical housing costs, collapsing public services, & the disappearance of meaningful social connection.” Generation Despair - @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
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Generation Despair
Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Stevevsninjas @stevevsninjas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
in your moment of greatest peril, every animal you ever swerved to avoid appears to fight on your behalf
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"BREAKING: HOPE not hate has uncovered plans by neo-Nazis to disrupt an anti-racist demo in Birmingham this Sunday. On the 90th anniversary of Cable Street, they claim they will mobilise dozens of masked neo-Nazis. Behind the plan is the Nationa..." www.facebook.com/hope.n.hate/... via Hope Not Hate
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy birthday to Phil Oakey
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Fall released Bend Sinister 40 years ago this week #FallFriday 🟢 open.spotify.com/album/42dkh9... 🍏 music.apple.com/gb/album/ben... ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Ng...
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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Even today ... roads, schools and hospitals are often still being built according to standards developed in the 1980s. ... Extreme heat should be treated as a systemic public health threat, much like seasonal influenza risks, not as an occasional hazard."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
This is a good @billmckibben.bsky.social post - and this specific part is extremely important and touches on a tension right deep at the heart of all this It is worth repeating this point persistently, because it has been forgotten in so many spaces billmckibben.substack.com/p/reform-or-...
The first thing to remember is, the real goal for people who care about the climate above all is not to build more renewables, it’s to drive down the amount of carbon flowing into the atmosphere. Building more renewables is a key way of doing that—but only if they displace fossil fuel.

And here is an important divergence: for many people working in the clean energy industry, victory looks like doubling or tripling their output, even if fossil fuel is growing fast at the same time. Even if they got into this fight for the right reasons, their commitment is—because, capitalism—to their bottom line. It’s important not to confuse the two motivations, because physics only cares about the carbon. If transmission corridors are matched by new gas pipelines, we haven’t made much progress.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
servola.de
Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.
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Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022
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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Irish government has announced new #retrofit grant measures targeted at households exposed to high energy costs & increased grants for switching to #heatpumps. The new grants will be available from 6 October, contrary to reports that they would apply from January. tinyurl.com/4w3eyxsr
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New and enhanced Irish retrofit grants go live on 6 October - passivehouseplus.ie
Irish government and SEAI announce new enhanced retrofit grants
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026
New Study Finds Ashing Cigarette Out Cracked Car Window On Cold Morning Still Best Way To Start Blue-Collar Workday theonion.com/new-study-finds-ashing…
New Study Finds Ashing Cigarette Out Cracked Car Window On Cold Morning Still Best Way To Start Blue-Collar Workday
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I would have written your name in gold leaf on parchment but all I had to hand was a penknife and a park bench.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mass funerals held for over 100 Palestinains unearthed from rubble in Gaza City - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Mass funerals held for over 100 Palestinains unearthed from rubble in Gaza City
<article data-history-node-id="448647" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mass-funerals-held-over-100-palestinains-unearthed-rubble-gaza-city" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mass-funerals-held-over-100-palestinains-unearthed-rubble-gaza-city" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Mass funerals held for over 100 Palestinains unearthed from rubble in Gaza City</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hundreds of Palestinians have gathered for mass funerals for some 105 Palestinians whose remains were recovered from beneath the rubble of buildings which Israel destroyed in Gaza City in October 2023.</p> <p>The mourners gathered around the shrouded bodies- belonging to children, women and elderly people crushed by the debris of fallen residential towers- which emergency workers had recently recovered.</p> <p>The ceremony is being held in the rubble of the Taj residential complex which Israeli war planes razed in the early days of its genocide in Gaza.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reported that one man held the remains of his three-year-old son.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many thanks for the hankies - my stock was low and disreputable.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We’ve noticed that Robert Jenrick has been silent on Grenfell. Is that because from 2019 to 2021, he was responsible for dealing with the building-safety disaster it exposed? His record isn’t good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’
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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 30/09/2026
Honeybee silk could power smarter wound dressings Biodegradable films made from engineered honeybee silk could form the basis of a new generation of "smart" wound dressings, according to researchers at CSIRO and Adelaide University. phys.org/news/2026-09... #bees #medicine #science
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Honeybee silk could power smarter wound dressings
Biodegradable films made from engineered honeybee silk could form the basis of a new generation of "smart" wound dressings, according to researchers at CSIRO and Adelaide University.
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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stop bankrolling the royals. Cut the half billion royal budget. Scrap the Sovereign Grant - it's that simple. #AbolishTheMonarchy
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: Defra to buy 10,000 copies of The Very Hungry Caterpillar to improve advice to farmers.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Independent journalism is essential in a modern Britain where most legacy media journalists choose not to push for the truth. We’re grateful to all those who capture these important moments. Watch the full video on Novara’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/-Ua7BZB-3Is
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Michael Walker CONFRONTS Yvette Cooper On Palestine Action
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The insurance companies seem to be well aware of what climate change will mean www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Aviva boss warns more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. - Khalil Gibran
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