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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 2h

A junior Royal Navy intelligence specialist has appeared in court charged with trying to pass military secrets to Russia. (By @benquinn75.bsky.social for @theguardian.com) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Royal Navy sailor accused of spying for Russia appears in court

Intelligence specialist Teddy Young, 24, alleged to have drafted message in Russian containing classified information

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Trump better get that sharpie out.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2h

i forgot how dirty this film does Lutjens. paints him as a cardboard cutout nazi. reality was he "forgot" to enforce the Nuremberg laws while in charge of personnel for the Kriegsmarine. And was one of only three flag officers to official protest the Jewish pogrom.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

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Jason Rosenbaum @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · 7h

*cough* zombie riverfront times *cough* hope the person who destroyed that publication loses all their money

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 1h

And the U.S. called it out.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

He makes a good point.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

The AI industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and the economy. What happens when that bubble bursts? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA

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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble

Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?

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Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 3h

In fairness, only 7 of the 9 announcements are about the recent decision to pause all trans surgeries for Welsh NHS patients. And it is useful to have these announcements linked in one place. But maybe fewer announcements would've been needed if facts were established prior to pausing 451 surgeries

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Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 3h

How it feels checking the Welsh Gender Service website every day, just in case they’ve added a 10th announcement

Timmy from Fairly Odd Parents staring up at comically tall hat worn by Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome.
Superimposed on the hat is a screenshot of the website for the Welsh Gender Service. Both the hat and the announcements at the top of the webpage, extend out of frame

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3h

Seeing news of various public spending cuts across Europe and it is all part of the story of a continent failing to come to terms with an interconnected world and ageing society in which competitiveness is declining and social demands rising.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3h

I'm really sad y'all. I did not go into trans journalism to make "Dem capitulates on trans rights" my daily beat. It was a much better environment when I could count on everyone in our party, even the red state dems, to present a wall on this stuff. It just feels so bleak.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2h

UK: FCDO now advises against all but essential travel to Aseer province, Riyadh province, Najran province, Jizan province and Taif city and Taif International Airport. FCDO continues to advise against all travel to within 10km of the border with Yemen.

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder: DO NOT TRUST THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/08/t...

The Central Bank of Russia sees signs of economic recovery in September.

MOSCOW, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russia's Central Bank said cash receipts through its payment system rose 3.3% in September compared with the average level in the second quarter of 2026.

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) maintained its key rate at 14% in September after 10 consecutive rate cuts and will discuss monetary policy once again at its meeting on October 23.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 4h

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 6h

Another thing I want to point out…. I guess I need to make a disclaimer here beforehand. Things are worse in 2026 than they were in 2025 despite all their efforts. They increased taxes and fees, the Iran war boosted oil prices, and they cut more spending on things, but things are still worse.

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 6h

Why? I use the analogy a lot What is worse: 👉 Having debt? Or 👉 Needing a loan and being unable to get one? Russia NEEDS a loan, the rates are sky high so they don’t like that, AND even if they take the high rates, no one is willing to loan them a sufficient amount.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4h

Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

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Oligarch Watch @muskwatch.bsky.social · 23h

By choosing Elon Musk to co-lead the Pentagon’s “Future of Warfare” project, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a potential 2028 Republican presidential candidate, has secured a close working relationship with his party’s single largest political donor.

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Hegseth, a potential 2028 candidate, installs Musk as key Pentagon advisor

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12h

oh god yes, just give me PRINTED WORDS.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

There's a reason Radio 4 works and is successful. And some bloke from Google is never going to understand it.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

I loved it. Some broadband company has stiffed Deirdre of twenty quid and won't reply to her emails, so now we're going to horribly fuck them up while being ostensibly polite. The palpable sense of fear when a business finds a BBC crew has suddenly taken an interest. Great fun.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 12h

I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 10h

A magnificent thread, which must be read until the very end; and I mean *must*. Many thanks to @andylewis.bsky.social for the heads-up.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10h

Restore is such a weird mix of fascism and random mad boomer Facebook shit.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10h

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’ The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him.

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Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’

The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 7h

What I've learned from the past year of AI mania is that there is a group of otherwise seemingly smart and normal people who really hate being human and aren't very good at it. They would rather be machines and can't understand why the rest of us aren't jumping at the chance.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h

God. We wasted an entire season of Origin Story telling the story of this word, when we could've just checked in with James here.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

You can read more of my interview with Frances Haugen here. It's taken Hollywood a full DECADE to even try to tackle Silicon Valley. The Social Reckoning is long long overdue & a chilling reminder of why we HAVE to regulate these bros. 6/ www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...

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‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen on The Social Reckoning, Zuckerberg, and Facebook's growing fragility

The whistleblower whose explosive revelations about her employer inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film tells Carole Cadwalladr that, despite Silicon Valley’s power, ‘we have the ability to change a lot of ...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

Yesterday, Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn Williams revealed that even though she sat in silence on stage at the Hay Festival with me & Tim Wu, Facebook sued her anyway. EVEN THOUGH SHE DIDN'T SAY A WORD!! 🤯 4/

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

But Meta is doing something even more outrageous. Remember this? When Sarah Wynn Williams was forced to sit in silence at the Hay Festival because of legal threats from FB? Well, there's an update. 3/

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...

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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just remembered Stalin died at aged 74. Happy birthday to me I guess.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 7h

Sadiq Khan claims he's a trans ally. But actions speak louder than words – and further lining JK Rowling's pocket helps her fund her transphobic campaigns 🏳️‍⚧️ Take Action now 👇 goodlaw.social/3440b9

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7h

Many reasons this is dumb including that there was no way of knowing what Musk would become when he applied for his visa at like, 23 or something. This is like that Onion Article: "China waives one child policy as long as all extra children grow up to be Yao Ming."

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

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Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 10h

Today, selling a £1m house and moving to a £400,000 flat won’t change your children’s IHT. The estate is the same size. Under the Tory proposal, the £1m house was exempt from IHT, but the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT. Your house move caused £240,000 IHT.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 9h

This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9h

Unlike cheap internet access or 3G phones (the true drivers of the 90s/2000s explosion) consumer AI is a means with no end. You can't sell that to consumers. Only to businesses that misunderstand the relationship between technology and profits/cost-savings. Because to them, it's magic beans.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 12h

Welcome to Day 1688 of Russia's launch of its all out war on Ukraine. But, by the way it's also 626 days since Trump's 2nd inauguration and his promises to end the war in 24 hours, but as with Iran, we see his boasts turn to dust if his family can rake in more cash. Today's🧵

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 8h

No idea who this text is from but it definitely isn’t me. Am trying to get it stopped

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, dodgy immigration practitioners exist and some people do lie on asylum claims. Based on BBC reporting though, people"d think it was far more widespread than it is, and completely fail to grasp how hard it can be to get asylum based on being LGBTQIA+ alone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Three arrested after raid on gang accused of helping migrants pretend to be gay to get asylum

Those targeted by Home Office immigration enforcement officers are accused of charging migrants up to £4,500 for fabricated evidence.

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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1,473 people have been told their EU Settlement Scheme status was 'granted in error'. Letting status lapse with no decision, proportionality assessment or right of appeal is inconsistent with the Withdrawal Agreement. Mala Savjani joins Jasmine on our members podcast to explain.

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Members podcast: What happens when the Home Office says EU Settlement Scheme status was granted in error? With Mala Savjani - Free Movement

From when the EU Settlement Scheme opened to 30 June 2026, the Home Office has told 1,473 people that their status was 'granted in error'. But letting their

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