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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I argued hard for "Poop Scoops" as the name of this series but then made the mistake of going on holiday. Alas, what might have been

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do British editors simply not correct American authors on their language choices any more? I'm reading a novel with a Scottish POV character who keeps thinking about sidewalks and car hoods, baseball bats and running track etc and it's terribly distracting

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is excellent

stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was always visibly having the *most* fun of anyone in any scene – even when his scene partners were children or muppets www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1l7...

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Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate

YouTube video by Tbrands88

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 26/08/2026

It’s like 2016 all over again

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Truly one of the most delightful places I have ever been. I watched the Monaco GP there about four times. Also there's a button you can press in the America room that's very rude and at a perfect height for children, just fantastic

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What do you *mean* the US didn't have speed cameras? This is like chip and pin all over again

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

you’re not doing a coverup by running 2-3 stories about a niche academic drama instead of 30

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the concern with the Arday story isn’t the fact of the media coverage, it’s the volume. it’s perfectly reasonable that there would be some coverage of the story, and basically indefensible that there was as much as there was.

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sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Actually, having a media class full of bigots ready to hound people to their deaths over relatively minor misconduct is what makes it harder to ethically expose said misconduct.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We're all agreed that you can take the special glasses off and sneak a peak right at maximum eclipse, right?

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New fixation: paper theatres. I remember having one as a kid that I adored. Is there any reason I should not get five to twelve of them now?

A toy theatre made of card and paper that shows a Victorian production of Cinderella

A toy paper theatre of Shakespeare's Globe

A toy paper theatre decorated with mermaids and shell motifs

A toy paper theatre with a stylised painted proscenium

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Extraordinarily recently, a doctor asked me if my asexuality had been diagnosed I wasn't aware that it could be

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've started listening to my Halloween playlist. Only one month until the start of the pre-spooky-season

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If we're talking exactly a hundred years ago I think my great grandmother had left her 'messing about on boats in Egypt' / 'having affairs with much older married men' phase and was a typist at The Times. Evidence suggests I could probably manage that.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That’s nice how they’re just calling them what they are now: anti-transgender views. I suppose constantly having to use bullshit euphemisms like “women’s safety” can get tiring.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Far right marches. Racism on social media. Relentless headlines about the so-called ‘migrant crisis.’ Britain has never felt more divided. Help us tell a different story.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 07/07/2026

You can sign up for both D4S's and TBIJ's fantastic newsletters in one click right here: trustfnd.com/democracyfor...

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Trustfnd | UK investigative journalism

2 creators collaborating.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 07/07/2026

If you don't like the orange app, this is also going out to our Youtube and LinkedIn and @tbij.bsky.social's Youtube and Facebook. Can't miss us. www.linkedin.com/events/74801... www.youtube.com/@Democracy_f... www.facebook.com/thebureauinv... www.youtube.com/channel/UCPg...

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 07/07/2026

Join us Thursday – well join @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @wildfranz.bsky.social, I'll be backstage – for a chat on how the rich and powerful are using UK courts to silence journalists, campaigners and citizens & how both newsrooms are fighting back. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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LIVE SOON: How the rich and powerful use libel law to silence criticism, with Franz Wild (TBIJ)

Starting Jul 9 at 8:00 AM EDT

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 19/01/2026

News outlets treating prediction markets like news are traitors to their mission and communities.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As per yesterday's Reuters on the heatwave: 'At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car' - and this is the picture they chose It's not new that the media is complicit in climate denialism, but that doesn't mean we have to accept it.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

NYT wades into the back to the office debate, citing two studies that found it produced no financial benefit at public companies and increased employee turnover.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There is, as I say, no maximum temperature at which workplaces should be closed either! We have not caught up with the climate crisis! It is an absolute scandal! (I get cross about this every year and I wish I didn't have to on every dimension.)

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Genuinely wow

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/06/2026

The fact that neither Telegram nor Discord is on this list is absolutely *wild*. Driving teens from YouTube to those two: clearly a great and well thought out policy.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 11/06/2026

Colleagues, please watch your language. These are not immigration riots. Immigrants are not rioting. They’re racist riots started by racists because of racism.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

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Frankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Anthony Head deserved to live for a hundred years and then a hundred more. Damn, this one sucks

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Does anyone who isn’t a bad faith actor seriously believe there is ‘two tier’ policing in the U.K. that has white people on the bottom tier?

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 25/05/2026

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

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Change to Rowing Clubs' Rules of Racing for transgender athletes sparks backlash - Cherwell

A change to Oxford University Rowing Clubs’ (OURCs) Rules of Racing means that only athletes assigned female at birth may now row in a Women’s boat.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

People who still think “gender criticals” are all basically liberals with reasonable concerns really should notice the language that is now being used and the demands being made and ask how this differs from what the American religious right says

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

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