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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16h
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BTW 121.5 is the International emergency frequency and Always monitored. In case off-duty pilot not available, use that frequency to communicate and air traffic will talk you down, i.e. give instructions to land the plane.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Perfectly reasonable conditions for ANY new industries, especially one ASW questionable as this
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
4/ Countries are looking to foreign firms to set up plants, hire & train their workers, insert into global supply chains, do joint R&D, indigenise their technologies, upgrade their economy, To support policy, we made & analysed first comprehensive data of cleantech FDI: cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things that were taken as a given for the last 80 years but apparently some people thought they knew best
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The report also found old electric vehicles stay on the road at double the rate of combustion vehicles: at age 15, the road exit rate for BEVs is 5.4 per cent, compared to 11.9 per cent for petrol vehicles.” thedriven.io/2026/09/24/e...
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Electric cars are more durable than petrol equivalents, and last longer - major report finds
A study of millions of vehicles reveals that EVs are much less likely to fail compared to petrol equivalents, and will last a lot longer.
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fascinating article
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is how you deal with shysters in the pay of Moscow.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"So where are all these new cases of autism coming from?" My brother in Tyr, we literally just discovered an entirely new species of cat within the past month. Don't even get me started on astrophysics. Our means of detection and diagnosis are improving. That's it. Case solved. Calm down.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
resharing for alt text cause this is amazing
Feelings About Trump Leaving Office

Poll participants were asked "If you woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following news headlines, how would you feel?" for each of the five scenarios listed below.

Reason
Positive
Negative
Net sentiment

To "safeguard the Constitution", a group of U.S. military leaders have removed President Donald Trump from power and assumed control of the United States.

Positive 59%
Negative 28%
Net Sentiment 31%

Using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, President Donald Trump has been declared unfit by a majority of his cabinet and removed from office

Positive 84%
Negative 7%
Net sentiment 77%

President Donald Trump has been impeached and convicted by both houses of Congress and has been removed from office

Positive 86%
Negative 7%
Net Sentiment 80%

President Donald Trump died overnight in his sleep

Positive 56%
Negative 16%
Net Sentiment 40%
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Great Fuel Crisis sponsored by Dunning-Kruger
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fellow Brits, read it and weep
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 17/09/2026
In the new book “End Times Fascism,” co-author Naomi Klein argues that a far-right coalition of tech billionaires, Christian extremists, and ethno-nationalists are hastening and profiting from global catastrophe. “They’re not just building their own arks, they're also causing the floods.”
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really pleased for Canada, but as a European Brit, I rue the idiocy and spinelessness of our timid, shortsighted ruling class. For shame!
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This isn’t what winning looks like, America
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is an admission of Cheating….
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Systemic hypersensitivity puts me at risk of anaphylaxis - that’s why I’m getting a beard of bees”
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
FFS
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’ Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel's extreme… bylinetimes.com/2026/09/09/israels-…
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‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’
Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel's extreme response to the UK shows it is now losing the argument
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What Sam said. Meanwhile, in Denmark, migrants' kids lag 20/30/40 points behind on average -and there are still people here who think *we* should copy *them* on immigration/integration.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Show this next time normies ask you why you vpn into nsfw websites
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/09/2026
A liberal is a conservative who just got mugged by the police
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I hate it when people claim we got a promise from NATO. It makes us look like such idiots for signing all the treaties that made it clear we didnt. It's why I am forced to post this video of Gorby confirming we didn't get one.
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If I ever meet the vampiric techbros who, in the middle of me saving MY file on MY computer, pop up to tell me to subscribe to OneDrive so they can landlord my data for the rest of my life… So help me god, I’ll make their very breath a subscription-only model for the rest of theirs
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely terrific work tying together a series of stories- we are watching the death of the American Empire in real time.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flock takes their privacy very seriously. But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways. Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Fascism under the rule of law.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 25/08/2026
This was a great thread
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qhange.bsky.social @qhange.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A Finnish joke from the 1980's: Reagan and Brežnev were reading the Heavenly Times in afterlife. Brežnev showed a headline to Reagan: "US gets its first communist president!" Reagan then showed another headline to Brežnev: "A border conflict has broken out between Finland and China in the Urals."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Reform supporters strongly opposed to UK tech being given to Ukraine to hit Putin. Shocker.
28% of Reform supporters strongly oppose, the largest percentage
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
EU carefully placing chocolates on the pillows and putting out the good towels…
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The figures here are shocking but I suppose not exactly… surprising? Trump’s personal Gestapo WOULD be a magnet for rapists and paedophiles.
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bluesky can’t quite manage this video, but it is SPECTACULAR: www.reddit.com/r/DelusionsO...
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This seems TERRIBLY significant. Morocco is also a key plank in the EU energy strategy as a site for mass wind and solar. The US & Israel gaining a strategic foothold there is uncomfortable, at best.
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The Northern Sun @thenorthernsun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The MSM completely missed the gravity of last night's Ukrainian missile strike on the Progress Rocket Center in Samara, Russia. This isn't just another industrial fire. This is the definitive end of independent Russian space dominance and a massive blow to their national pride. 1/5
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Russian-broadcast “News” being 100% hot air is a tradition as old as radio. Fascinating Winter War thread 🧵:
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If this is so, it surely follows that X should now be considered a threat to national security.
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
To properly use AI you have to push back on its answers. When you do you get different answers. Here's the thing - you do that until you like the answer. But that's what's known as "confirmation bias." LLMs trained on the internet are nothing more than "what some guy on the internet said."
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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Exactly my feeling. AI is one of the worst things we as a species could be doing, and it's clear to me that tech oligarchs have decided to simply set the world on fire so that they may more fully rule the ashes
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Flakmagnet @flakmagnet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just made my first contribution to Wikipedia after decades of free use. It’s one of the last human-sourced, human-edited information sources (with citations!) left, in an ocean of billionaire-pushed AI slop. Please do the same when you can 🤘
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This actually spooked me over 2 years ago -- I did a Google query of something I was researching and it fed me back material that *only* could've been available to it if it had used my private Google docs as training data. Should've been "the line" for me then.
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Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Clean power was 50% cheaper than natural gas *before* the Iran war began. Clean power is how we make bills affordable for everyone.
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