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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 13h
Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque” Ministers have publicly committed to open up data on land ownership - but the Land Registry themselves are dragging their feet. Tag your MP: let’s finally reveal who owns England! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque
Defra promised in March to work towards free access to data on large plots in England and Wales
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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#RusselBrand (my @theguardian.com cartoon from 2023)
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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
For only £3 a month you can adopt an economy passenger. Help us stop the brutal and inhumane way we treat them by donating today. You’ll receive a framed picture of your very own economy passenger and regular updates as to where their luggage might be. Thank you.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i have said this before and its alluded to in the piece, but this is a tech issue, tech no one asked for. In my area many new cars now have stop locks in the steering wheels, and people are installing driveway posts the security is so vulnerable, It's ridiculous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
One stolen every four minutes - inside the police battle against vehicle thieves
Officers tell the BBC they are overstretched and struggling to keep up with sophisticated criminals.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
😧(Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...)
Graph showing big decline in UK's wild bird population since at least 1970.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As my dad used to say, "Surprise, surprise!"
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Fred @fredbike.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/10/2026
For those playing along at home: To give the appearance of action on the impacts of his humiliating blunder on the world stage, the President of the United States is making a humiliating blunder on the world stage by bailing the Russian president out of a humiliating blunder on the world stage.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/10/2026
Let's make it happen. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
standard.co.uk
Sadiq Khan backs international trains stopping at second major London station
Mayor’s intervention raises hopes of services to and from France, and other European countries, stopping in east London
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 09/10/2026
The Green Party need to kick out the antisemites and get back to what the party was supposed to be all about: Opposing solar farms and high speed rail.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026
Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A bit of Friday fun with moquette! Looking back at this shoot, where Andreya tried her best to go incognito in her camouflage jackets, blending into the colourful upholstery of the Circle, Bakerloo and Victoria lines.
Moquette jacket Moquette jacket Moquette jacket Moquette jacket
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Fred @fredbike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Burnham still wants to make unhelpful comments about the bond market but can't come out strongly against people attacking (literally) the RNLI. My council has already gone green, aren't Labour interested in holding London seats?
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Moreton Almshouses, Westerham, Kent - endowed by Miss Moreton, an Anglican sister of the Community of St John Baptist at Clewer, who paid £9000 (about £1.3m today) to build 12 almshouses and a cottage hospital. Grade II-listed. The charity still provides 17 homes in the district.
Lychgate and half-timbered and brick range of almshouse buildings to rearLychgate and half-timbered and brick range of almshouse buildings to rear
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heard a BBC vox pop (truly the bottom feeding of broadcast journalism) complain that the RNLI might not be able to get to ‘genuine people’ because they were busy rescuing from small boats. ‘GENUINE PEOPLE’. Imagine being that level of soulless d**k.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's The Times trying to make masked fascists look good while one *does a Nazi salute in the story's cover photo*
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/09/2026
WTF - first BBC question to Pat McFadden "Are you focusing too much on the protestors, and not on the issue that millions care about: small boats?"
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lol, she won. LeftieStats on the Green Party's governing council now with that absolutely mental platform that the Green Party was being "sabotaged from within" by Zionists x.com/leftiestats/...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Is Kemi still anti-net zero?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
But.. but what about the rights of some out of town diesel driving idiot to pollute London with their dirty old car www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If you have a university, which, as Cambridge has consistently done, uses legal threats and attacks whistleblowers, that also needs to be scrutinised (and increases the amount of coverage that is needed to get action):
theguardian.com
University of Cambridge whistleblower who reported alleged bullying wins employment tribunal
Prof Wyn Evans, who raised concerns over treatment of female staff at Institute of Astronomy, was subject to ‘baseless’ investigation, judge rules
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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It would be a terrible shame if this resource was lost for want of an archive - this stuff is still of major interest to policymakers today and is a crucial part of the social history that made the Britain of today (HT @municipaldreams.bsky.social )
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/08/2026
Don't mind me, I'm off to gut higher education, one of the UK's most successful and globally respected exporting industries, because I think doing so will let me defeat white nativism with immigration charts. I am the most naive human being alive.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/08/2026
it's hard for non-perverts to understand how many perverts are out there. My daughter, now 20, gets a lot LESS hassle in the street from ADULT MEN now that she's NOT wearing a school uniform. When she did, it was a daily occurrence, multiple times a day in a walk to school that took c 90 seconds
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's that day again #alevels
[Title panel]:
A-LEVEL RESULTS COLUMNS DAY

[Scene is a TV news type report about A Level results day]

REPORTER [talking to camera outside a school where students are crowding outside the hall to get in]:

Well, it's that day again

When A-Level students across the country finally get to find out

What Britain's newspaper columnists think about their results.

[show the interior of the school hall, with long tables, but instead of results papers on them, loads of middle-aged newspaper columnists are all laid out]

[Close up on the COLUMNISTS lying on the table, talking up to a gaggle of excited students desperate to find out what they say]

PETER HITCHENS:
I remember when A-Levels meant something

CLARKSON: 
I got a C and two U's

[Cut to outside the hall, the REPORTER is talking to a student]

REPORTER:
And did you get the middle-aged opinions you wanted?

STUDENT:
Yes! 

I got one ‘There's Too Much Humanities’,
and two Oxford graduates telling me they went to Oxford.

REPORTER [now doing a voiceover, as we see the students in the school hall next to the columnists on tables, and the students are preparing to jump in the air for a photographer]:

And then the annual photo shoot…

[PHOTOGRAPHER]
One, two, three...

[One of the columnists on the table pipes up with]: 

What's The Point Of University in 2026?

[The students all jump for joy]

STUDENTS:
HOORAY!

[ends]
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yeah @support.bsky.team pretty sure this is very against the law, it's not just disinfo, it's election interference. You could have had dogs at polling stations, but no.
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Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
hey @support.bsky.team umm what are you doing? This election is happening now, current tense
Trending on bluesky gives erroneous election result for Clacton.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026
Posting false information about election candidates is one of the last remaining forms of criminal libel in the UK, fwiw. If your algorithm/AI is bad enough that it isn't immune to this kind of fuck up, it is not ready for deployment! Turn it the fuck off!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's Labour's austerity now.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 25/07/2026
Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights via giftlink. First this week theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey explains why she declined to help Anthropic with Claude's moral schooling as.ft.com/r/15d7fd75-a...
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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
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Fred @fredbike.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'm concerned that nostalgia might not be a great economic policy for the UK. They've managed to get racist thugs back in the streets in a way not seen in decades, but can they also achieve the stagflation of yesteryear? Only time will tell.
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#FindsFriday Fiesole is best known for its #Roman site, a cool resort in the hills above Florence for many centuries. But Archaeological Museum there also has just fabulous antiquities accumulated from local collections. This goosey wonder is an earlier #Etruscan aryballos (flask) from C 7 BC.
A tan terracotta flask in the shape of a sitting goose, with head raised high to the left. A spout is attached to the back, and the rest of the body, neck and head of the goose are elegantly represented with black stylistically painted feathers, wings, eyes and beak.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...
It is 25 years since the death of Douglas Adams. He was prescient in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in
concluding that finding the answer to life, the universe and everything was not that difficult - it was 42. But the hard part was understanding the question. The humanities are here to help us make sense of the questions of our time.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Is this good assets.digitalcontent.marksandspencer.app/image/upload...
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Fred @fredbike.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Online stores using AI for their descriptions and having them wildly inaccurate. At worse it could suggest unsuitable uses for a product or exaggerate the features. Trade descriptions / consumer rights? This all white window handle has an "ergonomically designed green button with cat's eye strip"
Photos of a basic plain white window handle fitted to a PVC window with a garden behind.
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