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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Has anyone suggested powering the tram with nuclear power ? Wouldn't that be an original reply

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What'll happen first: a small modular nuclear reactor or a leeds tram

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Every new prime minister gets to celebrate their 50th day in office by restoring Liz Truss's rightful title of 'UK's shortest serving prime minister'. Congrats, Andy Burnham.

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GALBA - Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport @galba.uk · 06/09/2026

URGENT! Three weeks to stop Leeds Bradford Airport expansion. It doesn't take long to object (15 mins or so) but it is very important. The deadline is 25 Sept. There's a step by step guide to making an objection here: www.galba.uk/our-campaign... Please make your objection and share with others

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 06/08/2026

I wonder how many so people can charge their electric cars. A reduction in cars in general is needed.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/07/2026

I‘m fascinated by this front page posted by @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Did the people assembling that know the juxtaposition? Was it people lower in the hierarchy who dared do this, against the editorial line? Or no one assembling this front page made the connection?

The Times front page saying net zero risks blackouts above a picture of French wildfires

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 26/07/2026

TNT Sports coverage has been alright, but ITV's was much much better - I miss it.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

From 2019, when the news was telling us that staring seagulls out had been proven to stop them eating your chips

[Scene is a BEACH. A man is sat eating chips on a blanket - or rather he is trying to, but a terrifying, haunted-eyed SEAGULL is stood next to him, staring intently]

SEAGULL:

Well well well.

You must be one of these ‘Starers’.

[Show man trying to stare the seagull out]

SEAGULL:

Read an article in the Guardian did ya? ‘Stare seagulls out to save your chips’...

Come on then.
Look into my eyes.

[We see his cold, terrifying, haunted eyes in close up]

Can you see the darkness?
The things I’ve seen?

[Hypnotic waves are coming out of his eyes now]

The things I’ve... eaten...?

Frozen shit from a sewage pipe off the coast of Sussex…
The still-pulsing intestines from a badger by the A602…

Thaaat’s it

Look into the truth

The truth you’ve always known.

I am a seagull.

I am harder than you.

And I am having your chips.

11 [The man’s facade breaks, His eyes water, his lips wobble]

SEAGULL [Eating chips]:

Nom nom nom.

[ENDS]

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 10/07/2026

“Oh Thorg! The new bird feeder is wonderful!”

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It is not typical* for politicians who receive normal levels of scrutiny for their conduct to make emergency statements about their “future in public life”. Suggests a certain thin-skinnedness. *see recently Angela Rayner on stamp duty, Keir Starmer on donations, or Boris Johnson on wallpaper.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 31/05/2026

God makes the snake.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

bbc.co.uk

UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise

The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

manage to rustle up
Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself "skint" because "there's no money in politics".
Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to
and change utterly. How?
The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given E5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift
disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him "safe and secure for the rest of my life". But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the
- cash-rich, status-poor
- who've often made their money using murky means. They usually
Trump for flouting US money-
proposes a new "Big Bang" that
And if you're not an MP-
- like
could add tens of billions to crypto
laundering rules, has said he'll move
Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive
companies market value. A Reform
"shadow" home secretary there's
Left have champagne
government would order HM
no financial transparency at all.
Treasury to stop work on its own
The next UK general election
digital currency apparatus, which
socialists, right have
looks set to usher in hundreds of
could threaten the current crypto
Reform MPs to join the governing
plutocrat populists
elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin,
party (or coalition). How many more
to Britain to keep his cash flowing t…

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FuzzWolf 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Centered text reads “The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”

Below are 3 versions of the same cityscape labeled 1985, 2005, 2025 with the background changing from grey static, to solid blue, to streaming service logos.

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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 21/04/2026

⚠️The extreme wealth of the superrich is making our economies insecure How did it become so extreme, and what can governments do about it? This Swedish-inspired infographic breaks it down and explains how a #WealthTax could help 👇 taxjustice.net/2024/08/19/i... #TaxTheSuperRich

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bee 'hyphen' moh @bee-moh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Universal Serial Bus Replacement Service

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 09/04/2026

Hilariously, even GH's error page even has errors now: www.githubstatus.com metastatuspage.com

metastatuspage.com

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 07/04/2026

Entertaining idea - Artemis II capsule touches down in the Straight of Hormuz.

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 07/04/2026

This is our Cuban missile crisis I suppose.

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Brekkie @brekkiebb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Well if they've blocked Kanye West surely Donald Trump must be prevented from ever entering the UK again. If not by the Home Secretary an ICC arrest warrant should do it.

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GALBA - Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport @galba.uk · 24/02/2026

Here's a good idea. Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions. But airlines makes extra profits from business class so they won't want to do it theconversation.com/scrapping-bu...

theconversation.com

Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions – new study

Huge efficiency gains are available to airlines, without any new technologies – new study.

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 24/02/2026

I've had the Name the Seed jingle in my head ever since he started this series.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

As someone who was, I think, an effective note-taker in college, this discourse about LLM note-takers is alarming. For me, the act of *taking* notes is the important part. If I had thrown the notes away immediately after a lecture or reading a chapter I'd still have gotten 80% of the value.

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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Had a fantstic idea to help the public finances: a new tax of £5,000 per year, but it's entirely voluntary. We'll call it "road tax", and to volunteer to pay the new tax, you just need to say "I pay road tax" in any public forum.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

AI is like they invented a way to sometimes turn gravity down to 20% and everyone went "yay, we can just moon-bounce everywhere!" And now they're all "oh no, my gummy bones!"

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 21/02/2026

Annoying how long it takes for hand injuries to recover compared to muscles with climbing. Also very irritating that I've managed to take a chunk out of hand today without even knowing how!

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 19/02/2026

Started reading Moby Dick recently, & very much enjoying the prose. Living now in a very landlocked city, I do remember the years I lived right by the sea fondly.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 19/02/2026

“Andrew … the cows have come home.”

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 19/02/2026

I've heard a lot of stuff about the drive back to the office being driven by investors in office spaces, however zero discourse around AI & its effects on the value of office realty.

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 09/02/2026

Fantastic idea, though we'd need some better rail services first 😉

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.

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Gideon MW Jones @gideonjon.es · 06/02/2026