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Robin Stafford

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Robin Stafford @frenshamrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each and every incident of AI companies allowing their systems to be used to create child porn should result in a large fine. $100m minimum per incident. Or maybe make that $1bn. Money is all these people and their financial backers care about. They have no morals or ethics whatsoever.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website believes he is the “former” president and acknowledges his criminal indictments
Screenshot of America.gov answering, “Has a president ever been criminally indicted? If so, who?” The response says former President Donald J. Trump has been criminally indicted and that no sitting president is shown in the cited sources as having been indicted. It cites Trump’s August 1, 2023 federal indictment on four counts related to conduct after the 2020 election, as well as Congressional Research Service information noting additional New York and Florida indictments.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
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Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi Sridhar
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Massive Russian attack on #Kyiv continued throughout the night. Russia added missiles to the drones that are now attacking Kyiv almost 24/7. Residential buildings, vehicles, office building were damaged, transportation network damaged. In Kyiv region, private homes were on fire, two people injured
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fascists burned books. Ruscists burn Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. If not stopped in Ukraine, russian evil will slowly but surely envelop the rest of Europe
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
russia bombed Ukrainian cities for nearly two days straight — hitting homes, schools, businesses, infrastructure, even a diplomatic residence — while claiming it wants de-escalation. #Ukraine asks for more air defence and international pressure. Source: Ukraine.ua
Black poster with white text listing buildings and facilities Russia allegedly attacked in less than two days — including kindergartens, schools, residential buildings, warehouses, a children's home, a food market, a civilian vessel, an ice cream factory, critical infrastructure, and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. A "UKRAINE" logo in Ukrainian flag colors appears at the top right, and the poster ends with the statement "RUSSIA IS A TERRORIST STATE."
Image source: Ukraine (per the UKRAINE logo in the image).
Alt text generated with Vibe (Mistral AI)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Araghchi, Iranian foreign minister, explains why US is untrustworthy: "In 2025 they offered negotiations, we accepted, then in the middle of negotiations they attacked us. Eight months later, again they offered negotiations, again we accepted, & again they attacked us in the middle of negotiations"
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flaneuse1.bsky.social @flaneuse1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holodomor mark II? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Ukrainian forces airdrop supplies to city where bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zelensky says this week Russia hit Ukraine with 2,200+ attack drones, about 1,650 glide bombs, and 38 missiles.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why Reform UK's increasing embrace of the 'blackshorts' is likely to kill off Nigel Farage's last remaining hopes of ever becoming Prime Minister adambienkov.substack.com/p/how-the-fa...
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How the Fascist ‘BlackShorts’ Will Bring Down Nigel Farage
Reform’s embrace of this new violent racist street movement risks ending Farage’s last remaining hopes of ever becoming Prime Minister
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Robin Stafford @frenshamrobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It should be obvious by now that Open AI are incapable of controlling the AI they have developed. And this just what they have reluctantly admitted to. Time for a major clampdown
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who is Danny Tommo❓🤔 Born privileged went to public school❌ Joined Army but discharged -hurt his knee bayonet training❌ Was bricklayer, sales rep, ran web firm, drug dealer❌ Jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint the judge was struck by his “stupidity”❌ After release got into far right grifting❌
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This didn't happen. What actually happened is that Russia deliberately bombed several American businesses in Ukraine. ​The Bunge oilseed plant was hit right after Senator Blumenthal's visit in a twisted demonstration of power.
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Robin Stafford @frenshamrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The rest of the world watches Trumps rambling, angry, incoherence at the UN. And thinks what kind of a nation could have chosen him to represent and lead them. Twice. And leaves him there,causing so much damage.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As Trump's actions steadily weaken his own rule in Washington and enfeeble America's military posture around the world, Xi realizes that time is on his side. "When you see an enemy is making a mistake, never interrupt him."
nytimes.com
China’s Leader Xi Seeks to Extend Truce with Trump During U.S. Summit
Facing an American president constrained by war and politics, China’s leader may seek to lock in a tactical truce while he shores up a fragile economy at home.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OTD in 1939, in accordance with requirements of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, USSR handed Polish town of Bialystok over to the Nazis. As part of what we say was “preventing a genocide”, we handed 100,000 people to the Nazis. Who were very nice to all of them.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OTD in 1939 the German–Soviet victory parade took place in Polish town of Brest-Litovsk. As allies, we celebrated liberating Poland from the Poles
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 22/09/2026
EXC: AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat of society Multiple staff at Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) have been signed off work with stress and are undergoing counselling, acc to people familiar with the matter www.ft.com/content/6087...
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AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society
Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Robin Stafford @frenshamrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Two things we know about anything Trump says: You can’t believe him. You can’t trust him. And Greenlanders and Danes know that full well.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Zaporizhzhia, russian FPV drone struck a passenger bus near a public transit stop while people were inside Mykhailo Semikin, head of the Regional Administration reported‼️ At least three people were injured in the attack. Russian terrorist attacks on civilians continue every single day!
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Angel Mendez🏳️‍🌈🦋 @akm6.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rupert Lowe-Life is spitting teeth.. ohh he’s mad.. incandescent with rage about the state marking “its own homework” on Covid.. Fun fact — During Covid Lowe’s company took £100,000 in taxpayer funded furlough despite making a massive £7.9 million profit. He wasn’t so angry about that eh❗️
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Presumably once gilt yields have dropped, growth has surged and tax revenues leapt, you can reinstate the welfare spending that Haldane implies must be cut -- in same way that we did after Osborne generated a boom using precisely this policy mechanism.
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In defence of @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu’s grim argument that we are living in a new and corrupt world order. (You only have to look at Farage and Trump to know she’s right.) Plus, for subscribers, an appreciation of her work
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The corrupt world order
Anne Applebaum and an “empire of grift”
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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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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...
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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms
Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Given that it’s been extremely widely reported I don’t really understand, but apparently Ben Delo doesn’t want people to know about his guilty plea in the case where he, according to the DOJ “Designed BitMex as a Platform to Flout U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Rules”. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026
🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...
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Lennon's Secret Agent
A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ...
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oligarchssuck.bsky.social @oligarchssuck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Worst president ever with worst cabinet ever with negotiators who are serving Putin.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#awks for the wrong doers who screamed blue murder.
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Robin Stafford @frenshamrobin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Russian brutality. Aided and abetted byTrump’s USA
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Essentially indistinguishable from Putin propaganda
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026
This is a major escalation - Russian drone attacks on trains right at the Polish border
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This by Helen Miller ( @theifs.bsky.social) makes 2 points: - lower migration (as many of us have long said) will be bad news for public finances - OBR doesn't (directly) assess impact of migration *policy* changes - and it should www.ft.com/content/3efb...
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The OBR needs to give us more clarity on migration
Minor revisions to immigration figures can complicate the government’s fiscal strategy
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Where Reformers stand out is in the lack of public spirit. They are more inclined than traditional Tories to think that most people would cheat an honesty box, and twice as likely to say they themselves would keep a bag of banknotes they found in a bush". www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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The misanthrope party
Reform UK’s miserabilist streak is Nigel Farage’s asset, and his problem
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