Reposted by Duncan MartinMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 8hThe 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. 933114508
Reposted by Duncan MartinPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Braverman, completely predictably, just has the legs knocked out from under her by the first black Englishman she has to communicate with face to face. 54110
Reposted by Duncan MartinIşıl Arıcan @isilarican.com · 20hQuick and easy guide on how to prevent sexual assault. You are welcome. 0286113
Reposted by Duncan MartinTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this account is not a safe space for MMTers 1271
Reposted by Duncan Martinleupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026GET 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.) 123
Reposted by Duncan MartinAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 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.... 66239
Reposted by Duncan MartinJonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social · 01/10/2026How Manchester City fans can begin the process of redemption and rebirth. #manchestercity #mcfc #premierleague jonawils.substack.com/p/manchester... 13196
Reposted by Duncan MartinThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NEW 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 2123593
Reposted by Duncan MartinJames Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Asked 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...theguardian.comJürgen 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’ 18675150
Reposted by Duncan MartinAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No she’s not. 21711119
Reposted by Duncan MartinDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Manchester 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: 611035439
Reposted by Duncan MartinBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today 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. 718366
Reposted by Duncan MartinCoach Dan Casey @coachdancasey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Get ready to see more of this! ✍️✍️✍️ 1407
Reposted by Duncan MartinBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 29/09/20261/26 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 35720
Reposted by Duncan MartinMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026a) 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. 2283
Reposted by Duncan MartinMartin 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...premierleague.comPremier League Statement: Manchester City FCAn 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. 622188
Reposted by Duncan MartinThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The word “sham” is used eight times. 510211
Reposted by Duncan MartinTom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Outstandingly 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. 108828254
Reposted by Duncan MartinGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For 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. 901304261
Reposted by Duncan MartinGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 28/09/2026Incredible scenes, I suspect the Trump DoJ will do nothing but still wild stuff.wsj.comExclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian RegimeWallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats. 814724
Reposted by Duncan MartinKarl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Real "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. 17512
Reposted by Duncan MartinReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17% 132639478
Reposted by Duncan MartinStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It 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*. 471176350
Reposted by Duncan MartinDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As 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. 8318100
Reposted by Duncan MartinVirginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nobody 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. 39527
Reposted by Duncan MartinPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026See, 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. 1220768
Reposted by Duncan MartinDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If 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. 132498831
Reposted by Duncan MartinDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury 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: 6496225
Reposted by Duncan MartinJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For 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.jonn.substack.com 56611
Reposted by Duncan MartinMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/09/2026Hey, 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! 9777133
Reposted by Duncan Martin#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 3292
Reposted by Duncan MartinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026I 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... 418573
Reposted by Duncan MartinLewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The 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. 1229452
Reposted by Duncan MartinEmma 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 321005543
Reposted by Duncan MartinRichard Unwin @rdunwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Another outstanding thread... 👏👏 23311
Reposted by Duncan MartinRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This 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 🧵 41658249
Reposted by Duncan MartinGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...leftfootforward.orgOutrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseriesMembers of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans 40774300
Reposted by Duncan MartinJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 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 3629054
Reposted by Duncan Martin#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026*Super Intelligence just killed Grandma arstechnica.com/health/2026/...arstechnica.comTrump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experimentVendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible." 45919
Reposted by Duncan MartinThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It takes a loading error to produce such candour. 3958172
Reposted by Duncan MartinJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Andy 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...ft.comBurnham’s opposition to Heathrow expansion puts third runway in doubtNew prime minister has been a longstanding critic of the project 2411127
Reposted by Duncan MartinAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Relatedly: 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. 327181
Reposted by Duncan Martin#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...reddit.comFrom the ClaudeAI community on RedditExplore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community 4253
Reposted by Duncan MartinTHE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026Good 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 🧵👇 19418168
Reposted by Duncan MartinStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As 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:ft.comCarney, Trump and the power of a good speechLeaders don’t need to write every word themselves, but they do need to make sure it clearly represents their vision 2436
Duncan Martin @duncanm23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026substack.com/@warehamphot...substack.comIan 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 ... 011