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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.

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bwildered2 🚩 @bwildered2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who would have thought that a deeply unpleasant petrostate’s sportswashing project would end this way?

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT is important because without it Newton would just have discovered gravy.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC

What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Keep politics out of music, like in the old days when Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture about how nice the weather was that year, or Beethoven composed his “Emperor” concerto in honour of his favourite kitten, and Dylan sang A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, all about the fun of splashing in puddles.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Huh! Priests!" said Mr. Shoe. "They're all the same. Always telling you that you're going to live again after you're dead, but you just try it and see the look on their faces!" 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

oh oh shit, no Goodye Dolly Parton. You are alwayes a legende and you were a gift to historye. You were the best of us.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Burnham to tackle ‘subscription traps’ From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2026

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 14/07/2026

'Boris' purging all the sort-of competent Tories in order to get Brexit through the u-bend was the death knell for that party.

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alialiafro.bsky.social @alialiafro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Count Binface vs The c0unt of Murky-Crypto

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Have we all sleepwalked into a dystopian alternate reality?

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Polly @fraxinus24.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The jury finds them guilty of the crime they were tried for. The judge then sentences them for another crime - for which they have not been tried - with a much heavier sentence. How can this be right or fair? Dark times

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...' My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...

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A twisted breed

Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic fantasy

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 19/05/2026

If it was an issue about, say, the retention of red telephone boxes, or royal yachts, one might be able to dismiss it as odd but ultimately not existential. What bemuses me is it is the most consequential and self-harming political act of a generation. Politesse really doesn't cover it.

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Michael Smith @smithmichaelw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

At some point it has to be accepted that failing to deliver the impossible means we need to change what we are trying to do not who is trying to do it

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In Wigan, Reform won 96% of seats on 46% of the votes. In Westminster, the Conservatives won a majority on 35%, while @greenparty.org.uk won 18% of the votes without gaining a single seat. We can’t let this happen in 2029 The time to change the voting system is *now* @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'll admit to being slightly disappointed that His Majesty didn't begin by doing You'll Be Back from Hamilton but it's probably for the best

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/03/2026

Four years into a war launched by a 70 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power, an 76 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power convinced a 79 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power that they needed to bomb Iran to take out an 86 year old man wo...

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 13/03/2026

EXCLUSIVE - I've just been passed the latest copy from the Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent. Subscribe to my Substack for more! mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-latest...

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Polly @fraxinus24.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Maybe not in the mainstream media, but a lot of women have been saying this for a very long time

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/02/2026

I tried so hard And got so far But in the end No one fucking likes me I joined Reform To deport you all But in the end No one fucking likes me

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A MILLION times, this👇

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 04/02/2026

Mandelson? Now do Palantir. And Brexit.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Pretty understandable as to why people would say "they're all the same" at this point, and be right. No wonder Labour MPs are so angry. Number 10 has failed.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thinking of those relatively junior civil servants who were jailed for substantial periods for leaking information in return for relatively small amounts of reward during the hacking scandal.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Birde on the sunlit branche outsyde myne office wyndowe You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes Litel surpryse that you are singing

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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Aw, don’t be mean. Just let him have it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

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