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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My ambition is to have at least 3000 followers (free to sign up) and 300 people signed up to a tier at patreon.com/robinince by the end of the year - there will be at least one major podcast a week - currently Liberation Conversations - and lots of smaller ones like Science Gossip #podcast #science

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nothing warms the cockles quite like hearing a bunch of gacked up bucket headed bellends are crying on the hellsite that their £500 Oasis tickets shot up to £1,500 at the checkout. The Gallaghers are simply not worth the contempt they hold you all in.

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're not an army. They're refugees not migrants. Most come from places we've abandoned (eg. Afghanistan) No safe route like Ukraine hence boats Almost all are found to be legit. Labour not resp for Tories slashing armed forces. OTHER THAN THAT GREAT JOURNALISM

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two people I knew took their own lives last week - we still view mental health with too much cynicism and not enough compassion - remember @samaritans.bsky.social and @calmzone.bsky.social - it is not weak to share how you feel #mentalhealth #depression #suicideawareness

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

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David Carrington @dwcarrington.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Short gig tonight then a big one tomorrow.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Currently somebody in Thailand can immediately influence British politics by simply paying £5 million...

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David Carrington @dwcarrington.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you happen to be in Southend, or the vicinity, next Friday please come along to a fantastic night of comedy headlined by the wonderful @robinince.bsky.social, with some fantastic supporting acts, all in aid of Save The Children.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thou shall have forty days of heat and scorched earth. And then thou shall have forty days of drizzle and soggy ground. And only then, if thou can still small talk about the weather, shall thou be a Briton.

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David Carrington @dwcarrington.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There’s so much more, way beyond music, but as legacies go this one day would be enough for anyone’s lifetime

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A true legend as a performer , writer , and humanitarian - and incredibly witty too - “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.” - I reckon she’s going to investigate the whereabouts of Mitch McConnell

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the main reasons academia has so few black people (more likely to be working class) at the top is the same reason why academia has so few white working class people: money The amount of money, and financial risk, you have to be willing to take to get to PhD or professor level is immense

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The banality of media evil

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you to everyone joining up and joining in

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David Carrington @dwcarrington.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Lengthy drought… first day of a test match… England start well… time for rain.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday resigned from Jesus and the education faculty and asked people to stop nine days ago in his resignation letter That should have been the end of it, but instead it became a blood sport for the press and monetised social media alike - the money was too good, the attention too valuable

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

3/3 The scale of the attention Arday received was not reflected in the story, or what he may or may it have done Anyone trying to pretend otherwise is being intellectually dishonest and probably has their own sinister motives for doing so - or are attempting to assuage their own guilt

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

2/3 I found the attention excessive and corrosive, and was concerned one unusual story was being used to demonise the existence of black people in high places in academia Despite the fact that data, including research I did while at Cam, shows black people face an uphill struggle in academia

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

1/3 I am black, autistic, studied modules at the education faculty at Cambridge & was a student at Jesus College. If anyone should have been interested in the Arday story, it should have been someone like me - right? After all, he could have been my supervisor if I’d been a bit younger. Instead…

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The bots and arseholes are out in force today

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indeed. SS embodies the whole sorry mess, in that hardly anyone in it ever saw Arday as a person. For Cambridge he was a way to buff their credentials, to be discarded when he became embarrassing. For Sodha he was a prop to air grievances about “gender ideology”.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was quite telling how at a time when an authoritarian American President and a reactionary American tech oligarch clearly left the bounds of sanity so much of the Anglosphere Right became obsessed with the frailties and blunders of a relatively obscure black British professor

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 15/08/2026

We need another word for the rancid collective that we call ‘the British press’ - the nexus including ‘journalists’, commentators, think tankers, politicians, everyone that makes up this group that sets the British agenda. Rod Liddle was its embodiment. They brought us Brexit, Diana, & now this.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There is a difference between scrutiny and entertainment. Jason Arday’s career posed questions, but they shouldn’t have become obsessional. Journalism should seek truth, but not public humiliation.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Haunted by Arday story. In that state where you surprise yourself by how upset you are.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Engagingly coy press note from the Labour party inviting journalists to “a Labour leadership announcement“ tomorrow. What could it possibly be?

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“This is a People Vs The Establishment Election” says millionaire and career politician.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

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mmothnadine.bsky.social @mmothnadine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

OMG 😱 did you hear how bad socialism is? It’s so bad that it feeds the poor, takes care of the sick, makes our streets safer, life less stressful +more affordable and costs the majority little and the Uber wealthy only their fair share in taxes that they have gotten away with not paying for decades!

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Right ok I’m out you broke me Donald you broke me

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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Every religion has a food rule that sounds like somebody got diarrhea once and made it everyone’s problem.

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just listen to this. This is the "good ol days" culture Farage & Tommy have fought so hard to get back to - 🧵 1/3

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

The Woman yelling at a cat meme, but the woman is now Gene Wilder's Dr Frankenstein ("Fronkensteen!"), his friend is Terri Garr's Inga, and the cat is now Igor ("Eye-gor!"), who is sitting behind the table with a big smile on his face. The table in front of him is taken up by a large glass jar with a brain in it. The label on the jar reads: "DO NOT USE THIS BRAIN! ABNORMAL". For the sake of argument, the massive hand resting on the chair behind him belongs to Peter Boyle's Monster. Although Mel Brooks does not personally appear in this image, it would not exist without him.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I was in South Africa. Looked everywhere for white genocide. Went from the Cape to Hodespruit to Johannesburg. Shockingly, I couldn't find any evidence. In fact, compared to Black Africans, the white South Africans are doing very well. Who would've thought? It's as if racists have been...lying!

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Also don't forget that Starmer was PM longer than Ncuti Gatwah.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 24/06/2026

All these people mad that Socialists are winning are ignoring that adhering to Centrism is what got us where we are People want change and they're sick of watching Congresspeople turn into millionaires while they struggle to care for their families

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Which of us is really the villain here, sir? You, refusing to help a stranger in need, or me sipping from the straw in your iced latte? I guess now that I’ve been asked to leave this train we will never know.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Arteta will be loving this

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