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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 1h

This is down to Farage. Leaders establish the culture of an organisation. If they don’t, they aren’t leading. If they can’t, they aren’t fit to lead. Either way, Farage cannot escape responsibility for the culture of the party he leads.

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R B @rb3iii3.bsky.social · 4h

The stakes couldn’t be higher for Ukraine and all the other democracies of the world. Russia won’t stop with Ukraine; it won’t be satisfied.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 4h

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 3h

Apples in a barrel. The rot started somewhere.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We’ve now been covering Farage for long enough to remember the last time one of his political parties tried to set up a “TV” channel. It ended up platforming a man who was receiving Russian bribes

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Reform TV? We’ve seen this one before

📝 A guest essay...

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 3h

Reform are launching investigations into some of their councillors for racist language. One was recorded saying an area had been "infested" with Asian families, calling them "absolute parasites" Meanwhile, channels like Talk air the same language – & Ofcom do nothing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Direct fossil fuel propaganda from @lbc.co.uk in support of oil and gas extraction. Using Adura's own marketing as your headline goes beyond malfeasance.

An LBC headline that reads "Rejecting Rosebank and Jackdaw could cost UK economy £10.8 billion, study warns". The subhead reads: "Adura, the company behind both projects, commissioned research on their impact for the UK"

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 2h

OMG, the language, the views - this is beyond parody or exaggeration - scary part is it’s real. Reform are the party of racists, forget this ‘one bad apple’ nonsense from Farage - more like ‘one good apple’ here and there. buff.ly/bUSxI4i

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 4h

It's amazing how The One Weird Trick to solving youth unemployment is to just make them indentured servants in a way that perfectly fucks everyone involved except the companies getting the free labour.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2h

I, for one, am shocked that the party now very publicly stating that only white people can be English is full of fucking racists.

Robert Jenrick sparks huge row over English identity - 'millions aren't English'

The Reform UK MP has waded into a row with the Conservatives over what it means to be English, suggesting "millions" of people living in Britain don't qualify.

Suella Braverman

@SuellaBraverman

As I've said before, I'm not English.

I'm proud to be British. My family and ancestors have a link to Britain which spans centuries.

But in no way are we English. Yes, I was born in England, speak English and support the England football team. And indeed, I love England and the English people.

But to say I'm English is to take a 'laissez-faire, anything-goes' attitude to ethnicity, citizenship and identity. It also denies me my Asian heritage. The liberals (many of them in today's Conservative Party) take this cosmopolitan approach to Englishness. They're terrified of being called racist so they say that anyone, as long as they're born here, can be English.

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Unite South East @unitesoutheast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

✊ Another strong show of solidarity with striking OUP workers in Oxford today. Despite weeks of action, members remain united and determined to be heard. It’s time for OUP to engage with Unite and get around the table. 📖 Read more: www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 3h

His co-defendant, a Mr S. Doo, entered a plea of “Ruh-roh!”

WPXI-11 Pittsburgh: Man accused of planning terrorist attack enters 'not guilty' plea in federal court

Court sketch shows a man who looks suspiciously like Shaggy out off of Scooby Doo.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 5h

The question is not "why has Donald betrayed Ukraine?" The question is "how big a cut of unfrozen Russian assets will Donald get for betraying Ukraine?"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Peter Thiel said “Freedom and democracy are incompatible” He also wrote women voting is bad for democracy👇🏽 (Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson agrees) Do J.D. Vance & Trump also believe these things? What about @MarshaBlackburn? www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h

🚨 NEWS: Ukraine says Starlink connectivity is being restored at speeds of up to 160 km/h, following restrictions that threatened Ukrainian military operations, per Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 6h

After a certain juncture neither Ukraine nor the EU/UK can outbid the Putin regime when it comes to direct offers to personally and illegally enrich Trump and his inner circle. That is a problem only American voters, legislators and courts can contain

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10h

I gotta say nobody is falling for Trump’s tall tales about a great diesel deal to benefit Americans, a diplomatic strategy to restart peace talks, and the bad Zelensky who doesn’t want peace. Everyone understands what’s going on— Trump is helping Russia and trying to force Ukraine to surrender.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10h

Since 2022, I’ve been talking regularly to the media and you may have noticed that I often report having had to correct subtle preconceptions and interpretations that favour Russia’s position or take its disinfo narratives seriously. Today, I did 15 interviews across Canada and for Turkish TV and…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
POLITICS REFORM UK
• Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 7:32pm
Daniel Hewitt
Investigations Editor
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 7h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

ALL of this. But Nigel Farage knows better than the head of MI5 apparently

MI5 chief Ken McCallum said today that
Moscow did attempt to interfere in the
2016 Brexit referendum with anti-EU
coverage on RT and Sputnik media and
via troll social media accounts. But there
was a big difference between "what may
have been attempted and what actually
resulted", he added.

The head of the Security Service said that
he agreed strongly with what the prime
minister had said on Sunday and Monday,
when he raised the issue of attempted
Russian interference a decade ago
though Burnham then backed off when he
was challenged by the Conservatives as to
whether this meant he regarded the Brexit
vote as illegitimate

McCallum did not put any new evidence
into the public domain but cited already
known concerns about Russian
broadcasters who "came in pretty
strongly around the time of the
referendum" in favour of Brexit. He also
said that "there was a second line of

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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 6h

Reform is a racist party, its leader is a racist, its MPs are racists and its policies are racist. Anybody who supports Reform is supporting racism, either because they themselves are racist or because they are too stupid to realise they are supporting racism, but they can't say we didn't tell them.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7h

Reform UK has said that ‘there’s no room for racism’ in the party. Is that because it’s already chock-full of racism, from head to toe?

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 16h

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 8h

Traitor Trump proudly does a deal with Putin that will kill Ukrainians—and his sycophantic FBI director heads to Russia. You do the math.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions

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Are We The Baddies? Meme

ALT: Are We The Baddies? Meme

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11h

I called Trump’s deal with Putin “a deepening betrayal” on Monday. Now it’s clear he’s a despicable traitor with blood on his hands as Ukraine’s civilian deaths mount—and who’s making all of us less safe. www.americaamerica.news/p/another-be...

americaamerica.news

The Deepening Betrayal By Putin’s Servant

In his deal with Vladimir Putin for Russian diesel, Donald Trump assists Russia’s war against Ukraine and our democratic ally’s fight for survival

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 8h

Please stop talking about deporting people you don't like, I know they are loathsome, it still sucks

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14h

More proof that anyone who says "I'm not racist" is absolutely a racist.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 14h

It is entirely pointless for the UK or any other European democracy to pretend that the US is not a hostile power, actively seeking to imperil our security.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The party belief the vetting is too tough is undermined by so many extreme & racist candidates getting through before being exposed by those outside the party www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Reform social media vetting process is brutal, says councillor

Reform councillor says the candidate vetting process has been "corrected" ahead of Welsh elections.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17h

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

ft.com

Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps

Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15h

Standard buries the lede Reform Cllr "clsined King was a Muskim" when Reform Cllr calls for King to be behesded as 'secret Muslim' is the stronger story here www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

standard.co.uk

London Reform councillor 'claimed King was a Muslim'

Bromley councillor Dean Miller has resigned from Reform UK, according to the party

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15h

"Behind that image is someone who isn't bright" UKIP founder Alan Sked recalls giving Farage grammar lessons: "I spent two hours trying to explain to him the difference between 'it's' with an apostrophe and 'its' without and he just flounced out the office saying, "I just don't understand words"

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Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'

He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Have you read the John Sweeney book? Was genuinely shocked at how badly Farage did in exams at one of the highest fee-paying private schools in the country - Sweeney makes a compelling argument that a lot of what has followed is a frustration at not performing as well as his peers turned toxic.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP @lsrplaid.bsky.social · 21h

Reform’s Robert Jenrick said his party would use “lethal force” against people crossing the channel in small boats. This inflammatory and inhumane rhetoric does not reflect the values of the people of Wales. We have a duty as politicians to call out such dangerous language.

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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

OUP must change tack and enter into meaningful negotiations. This is disgraceful behaviour from a well-known employer and our members deserve better - they will always have our full backing.

oxfordmail.co.uk

Oxford University Press defends job cuts as Unite launches further strike action

Oxford University Press says it acted in "good faith" before a union launched more strike action.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” On the recent trove of math proofs released by the evil robots

nytimes.com

‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet