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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2h

It's. A. Piece. Of. Software. It. Was. Designed. To. Trick. You. Into. Thinking. This.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the US is calling for a NATO mtg soon in Poland at which many NATO members, incl. the UK and the Baltics, are not welcome - meaning the US interfered in a NATO member's domestic politics and now appears to be trying to tear apart NATO itself - this is Putin's playbook

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Zelensky’s approval rating with AMERICANS is already higher than Trump’s. And my guess is the gap will become even bigger. Zelensky here speaking bravely and clearly (both factually and morally)

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The families of American soldiers who died because Russia backed the Taliban, Iran, and others must be thrilled to see Trump side with Russia and lift sanctions on Russian diesel. Another huge betrayal!

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 6h

Labour MP Oliver Ryan claimed on X that there were “0” small boat crossings before Brexit. This isn’t true. There’s plenty of evidence of small boat crossings both before the referendum and before the UK actually left the EU.

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Small boat crossings predate Brexit – Full Fact

Labour MP Oliver Ryan claimed that “there were 0 boats before Brexit”. This isn’t true.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3h

Good, but I hate “historical sex offences” as his victims are living with the consequences right now. That’s not historical.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 5h

If you provide less support to Ukraine, you have less leverage over Ukraine. Donald Trump fundamentally doesn't understand this, which is why he keeps reducing support and then he's surprised when Kyiv does whatever Kyiv wants to do

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 2h

Bruce Ackerman of Yale, a towering and affable liberal constitutional theorist I have known for the past 30 years, just distributed this remarkable statement via email explaining where he is donating his $ 1.25 million Tang Prize money. Read it for yourself: www.facebook.com/share/1Roqwi...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3h

One big down side of reopening the Brexit debate is that there will be more vacuous and misleading articles like this that say since the UK has trade deals then Brexit must be working, that don't notice the EU still has more... labourlist.org/2026/10/reop...

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'Reopening the Brexit debate would be a mistake' - LabourList

If we were to rejoin, we would not be joining a progressive trading bloc, but one dominated by the hard right.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 6h

Ukraine will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries, Zelensky told the FT. “The ban is lifted. Enough is enough.” He said Ukraine paused energy strikes for three days at the US request while Russia continued attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure and killing civilians. #Ukraine

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h

You can see Putin's lips moving

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 3h

Explosive stuff from the team at Inside Track revealing how insurance industry insiders are not a little terrified by the sector's failure to get a proper grip on soaring climate risks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537374...

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'Sounding the alarm': Insurers' retreat from climate risk coverage 'has already begun', insiders claim

Insurance and reinsurance sectors have prepared neither themselves, nor their customers, for a 'far from predictable' world, non-profit warns

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 3h

Is there a primal scream emoji?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

THANK YOU @nicoleconlan.bsky.social + Rollie Williams for covering our great big report in AI greenwashing for the 4th season of the Climate Deniers Playbook, go listen and subscribe to their bloody amazing podcast please www.instagram.com/p/DefY3QfBQxg/ linktr.ee/deniersplayb...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

You can read the full report here but honestly the podcast does a pretty damn good breakdown of the whole damn thing! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

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NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax

A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change

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Richard Burnham @eveningperson.bsky.social · 3h

The Far Right Breaks Through in Germany dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The Far Right Breaks Through in Germany

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Look, I will articulate it for you again: MANY COUNTRIES EXPERIENCED THE SAME THING AS RUSSIA DID IN THE NINETIES. ONLY RUSSIA BECAME A REVANCHIST POWER THAT MURDERS MEN, RAPES WOMEN AND ABDUCTS CHILDREN

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 6h

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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Oliver Grimm @grimmse.bsky.social · 3h

Nachdem sich Robert Habeck mit seinem neuen Buch als sicherheitspolitische Kassandra zu präsentieren versucht, eine kleine Erinnerung an diesem Meldung vom 1. Mai 2024 zum EU-Satellitensystem IRIS², das als Alternative zu Starlink gedacht ist.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sex abuse, including rape. I hope his victims get some closure but he's blighted their entire lives.

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Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sexual offences

Donaldson was found guilty in June of 18 counts of sexual abuse including one rape between 1985 and 2008

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Richard Burnham @eveningperson.bsky.social · 5h

What was wrong with the New Atheism is its domination by a group of ageing male academics with celeb status connecting it to the myths of 'evolutionary psychology' and from there into increasing misogyny and racism.

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Richard Burnham @eveningperson.bsky.social · 5h

The link is broken and I can't find any reference to that episode on the BBC page.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My personal position? I don't ever use generative AI. It offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and the companies who developed it stole copyright intellectual property knowing that is illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22h

As a side note to this, there is zero cultural reason this Christmas Market is being “axed”. Quite: “In a statement they also noted that the event was becoming financially and operationally unviable.” None of which gave any pause whatsoever to the mouthbreathers inhabiting the bowels of X.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 20h

There's been a lot of discussion since Burnham called for a new 'national conversation' on Brexit but this is one of the most helpful interventions. 'National conversation' is such a nebulous term so I think @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social is right to argue for a structure within which it could occur.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17h

London Reform councillor Dean Miller 'claimed King Charles was Muslim' and called black children ‘animals’, TV report alleges.. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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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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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 15h

The front page of the Daily Express equating some no good busybodys' purely hypothetical "concerns" with the actual concerns of actual rape victims. Beyond disgusting!

Contemptible headline on the Daily Express: "Piddington women's asylum camp concerns 'not being listened to' like rape gang victims above a picture of Kemi Badenoch and her coterie of cretins meeting some local flag-shaggers.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 19h

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/10/2026

I wonder if she has noticed how few of the Tories she (we) knew at university are even voting for the party now.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot

Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17h

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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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think that Ms. Abdi-Wali seems to have worked hard, that the UK has demonstrated its capacity for integration, that her story is examplary for how migrants can work to improve British society. THIS is the dream. Thanks to Mr. Goodwin for highlighting this positive migration story.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He concludes it had “little impact” - but how does he know? The vote was so close that just a marginal impact on a small number of voters could have been decisive. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Russia did try to interfere in Brexit referendum, head of MI5 confirms

Ken McCallum says Kremlin attempted to influence vote through social media and TV reports but had little impact

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've no idea if this claim is true - my gut says it likely is - but, if so, it would be another sign of British Muslims doing exactly what the right have always demanded; integrate, take part in institutions, be British. Another sign of how big a success British multiculturalism is.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Everyone still on X. Everyone Elon Musk has turned off his Starlink satellite in favour of Russia. He’s working against Ukraine and working against us. It’s terrifying and YOU ARE ALL working against the safety and security of all of us, including your own families.

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Proposing our armed forces open fire against unarmed civilians is disgusting. It is all an attempt to go deeper into the gutter than the Tories and distract from the sleaze Reform is drowning in. The British people will reject this toxic politics of division. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Outrage as Reform MP says navy should be allowed to use lethal force in Channel

Reform MP Robert Jenrick said that if Nigel Farage becomes PM, marines will be able to use 'lethal force' to stop small boats - a statement branded 'horrific' by Labour peer Lord A...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Would we say that political polarisation in Britain is primarily an organic phenomenon, one that has arisen from the public rather than being actively imposed upon them? And, what do we think this bland psycho’s solution to the problem is

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"You, society, are polarised; you are making it very easy for our adversaries."
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Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, says the MI5 Chief's speech today was directed at a society "besotted by social media"

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Our "independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation" would seemingly be happier in North Korea

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Richard Burnham @eveningperson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump administration restricts Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russian strikes.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A deepening of the Moscow Trump Silicon Valley axis

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