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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 8h
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Braverman, completely predictably, just has the legs knocked out from under her by the first black Englishman she has to communicate with face to face.
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Işıl Arıcan @isilarican.com · 20h
Quick and easy guide on how to prevent sexual assault. You are welcome.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this account is not a safe space for MMTers
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leupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GET ON THIS GUYS. I just checked and a standard one-year subscription in $50 which may be a reach, totally get it; if you want to try a 6-month subscription it's only $30 and you can see if it's a good fit. (Alternatively, hmu and I'll send you a gift sub for 6 months.)
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The NEET rate basically hasn't changed for the whole of this century (except post-GFC and post Covid). It's been the same with tougher welfare sanctions and weaker. More apprenticeships and fewer. Higher employer national insurance and lower. I draw two conclusions from this....
Neet rate 2001-26
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Jonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How Manchester City fans can begin the process of redemption and rebirth. #manchestercity #mcfc #premierleague jonawils.substack.com/p/manchester...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No she’s not.
TLS: Mary Beard on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today I heard someone use the Human Centipede as a way to explain why large model AI is inevitably heading towards its own self destruction by tainting its future inputs, and honestly? It was a beautiful teaching metaphor.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bless.
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Coach Dan Casey @coachdancasey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Get ready to see more of this! ✍️✍️✍️
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/26 In August 1942, an island was weeks from surrender, and everything depended on one tanker. She was torpedoed, bombed, had two aircraft crash onto her, broke her back, was abandoned twice, and arrived with her decks awash, lashed between two destroyers. The SS Ohio. A🧵 #maritimehistory
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a) That evidence given by a number of important factual witnesses called to give evidence on behalf of the Club was false in a number of key respects, and b) That certain of those factual witnesses had given evidence at the hearing that they knew to be untrue and so had been dishonest.
a) That evidence given by a number of important factual witnesses called to give evidence 
on behalf of the Club was false in a number of key respects, and
b) That certain of those factual witnesses had given evidence at the hearing that they knew 
to be untrue and so had been dishonest.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The word “sham” is used eight times.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outstandingly dishonest even by Nigel Farage's standards. Farage knows that the men arrested at Fairford would not have been released if they were still suspected to be terrorists. He's stirring up fear, hatred & resentment against both immigrants & the police. Pure malice.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 29/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 28/09/2026
Incredible scenes, I suspect the Trump DoJ will do nothing but still wild stuff.
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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime
Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.
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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real "Saxons inherit London, don't really know what to do with it, just live alongside the crumbling ruins of what was once the Roman city" energy to this.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.
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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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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For centuries, Oxford made graduates swear that they would "never consent to the reconciliation of Henry Simeonis". The odd thing was, nobody could remember who the hell he was.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/09/2026
Hey, who remembers that time that Arnold Schwarzenegger said that nazis and confederates were losers, and that if you support them, then you are a loser too? And then half of the GOP turned against him and said "Don't call me a loser?"🤡 And so Arnold told them again, louder this time? I remember!
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*For us to be mired in this level of discussion is kinda bad for us, actually *We need a new dispensation where we don't have to pretend that the likes of Claude are a Speak-n-Spell *Also Claude doesn't "feel pain." Its structure lacks pain neurons
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes...
Article header from Stand.earth showing a large headline that Microsoft is quietly backing away from a major West Virginia data‑center project, with the site logo and date above and a cropped photo of a Microsoft building and logo.
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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The investigations/charges only go up to 2018 but make no mistake: everything - absolutely everything - that City have done in the years since was built on the foundations of these breaches as well. And everything they continue to do in the coming years. There is no separating these things.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Richard Unwin @rdunwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another outstanding thread... 👏👏
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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*Super Intelligence just killed Grandma arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It takes a loading error to produce such candour.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Andy Burnham has plunged the plan for a third runway at Heathrow into doubt by privately telling MPs he has always opposed the project, and the new prime minister is said to be “open minded” about whether it should go ahead. www.ft.com/content/0206...
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Burnham’s opposition to Heathrow expansion puts third runway in doubt
New prime minister has been a longstanding critic of the project
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not just us then
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Relatedly: More could be done under existing legislation against platforms that host videos of criminal activity and individuals or organisations who profit from posting videos of crimes they & their members commit. This is also relevant to curbing stuff like dangerous driving video content.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*Well, mathematicians and programmers understand modern "Artificial Intelligence" if anybody does, and yet, lo and behold, they seem to be the easiest marks of all. www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...
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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I wrote after two quite...different speeches at Davos, writing is thinking. Politicians need not be the final author of what they say but they do need to be the first drafter of it:
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Carney, Trump and the power of a good speech
Leaders don’t need to write every word themselves, but they do need to make sure it clearly represents their vision
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Duncan Martin @duncanm23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Ian Clark (@warehamphotographer)
A comment from a former RNLI lifeboat volunteer: “It's somewhere in the twenty-tens, before the country lost its mind. I'm floating under Brighton Pier on my back, holding — incredibly gently — onto ...
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