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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Guys, I’m beginning to suspect the #Farage protests are not about protecting women and children

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Kemi Badenoch hates ppl who break rules so much she accused a fellow pupil of cheating during an exam at school and got them expelled👇🏼🙄 Oddly she didn’t say a word about #ToriesPartyingAsPeopleDied breaking Covid Rules❌ That she broke the law and hacked Harriet Harman’s website❌ #KemiThickAsS*t 🙄

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Kemi Badenoch reveals how she told on exam cheat as teenager

The Tory leader speaks about her background and values in an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I am generally a big fan of the BBC - but this is a truly terrible 'both sides' *push notification* to send out to people in this country about this news event

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🫗Southern Water nearly doubled their CEO's salary, despite causing 12,000 hours of sewage spills in 2024. With Lib Dem colleagues and I have written to the Secretary of State and Minister for Water and Flooding, urging them to dismantle Ofwat and hold Southern accountable.

Alison signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Minister for Water and Flooding about scraping Ofwat and holding water companies to account.

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Numerous varieties of trees at Winkworth Arboretum. #Scape #Treescape #LandscapePhotography #ForestFriday #Surrey

The foreground has bracken and shrubs. This is an area of mainly deciduous trees of many shades of green and many different shapes. The sky is blue mottled with white fluffy clouds.
I have always thought Winkworth was at its most beautiful in autumn but this year I have really appreciated the greens of summer.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Also buried in all the coverage is the fact that Trump is using the office of the presidency to promote his personal business. Absolutely nauseating level of corruption, and it's a shame Starmer (and von der Leyen) agreed to participate in it by appearing there.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 12/07/2025

For my nerdy crafty pals, this is clearly for you

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I am in WARWICK this Friday - fewer tickets sold than usual - it is always a joy to visit (and here is a grave that was winking at me) www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/war...

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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to starve, or even shoot, them. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/gb-news-says...

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GB News says it has nothing to apologise for, after guest suggests starving disabled benefit claimants

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/07/2025

The problem for those who make performative cruelty the centrepiece of their governing strategy is that you have to endlessly escalate he spectacle or your audience gets bored and starts to notice that for all your vicious sadism against the Other, you're not actually making THEIR lives any better.

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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I've never seen this story in any of the (many) things that have been written about the filming of 'Jaws'. But my source is pretty trustworthy, I think. Anyway, if you haven't seen Ian Shaw's play "The Shark Is Broken", about his father and the making of 'Jaws', it is terrific.

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Add a hedgehog hole in the fence and get a lot more than you planned

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606AlfieConn @606alfieconn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Party of the workers they said!

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don’t like to open” Hard relate 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden

Johan Helberg says he was

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Morning Bluesky. Lots of room for tactical voting in the UK mayoral elections to keep the Far Right out this week. Here for instance: Hull & East Yorkshire Mayoral Voting Intention: Campbell (RFM): 27% Handley (CON): 24% Ross (LDM): 22% Pinder (LAB): 17% Harrison (GRN): 7% Halstead (Yorks): 4%

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Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low" This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵 www.ft.com/content/5cf4...

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Jane Chilton 🇺🇦 @janechilton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Amazing renewable energy technology. A simple solution, and a first in Europe. Top work by the diving team. Here’s my film - in two parts due to BlueSky time limits 🎬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💧 #renewables #innovation #climate #greenenergy #netzero #scotland Part 1

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This guy gets it 😂 I vote we bring him in as an intermediary with the ‘why don’t women date me’ guys

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Throw back to March 2022 when I was isolating with Covid and my husband was making my meals

Menu
22nd March COVID Menu
Starters
None
Main course
Beans on toast
Fajita pasta leftovers
Pizza chips and salad
Chilli con carne
Dessert
Blue Ribband
Kit Kat
Breakaway
Yorkie

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

At least we all now know exactly what a woman is A woman is someone a 61 year old male billionaire decides is worthy of a 10 minute ride in space as part of a publicity stunt. A very useful metric.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This cat. She looks like a rogue taxidermist has tried to sew a cat’s head to a polar bear’s body.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

Twitter post asking: Should we be told where we can walk out
dogs?
Yes or No
Above a screenshot of a news headline: 'This is an Islamic area now. Don't walk your dogs here': Police probe sign in east London park

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Joanna Krahe @jolk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

For those feeling powerless in these chaotic times this is a must watch. www.youtube.com/watch?si=qjc...

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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.

Picture of Morrison's "Mrs Unis Haggis Pakora with a spicy chilli dip"

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Oil and gas billionaires just bought themselves an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. While the rest of us have to deal with skyrocketing prices and rising temperatures, they’re sitting on their thrones and raking in billions. We need an end to this oligarchy now.”

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‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package

Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say

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Libraries Unlimited @librariesunlimited.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Our wonderful patron @robinince.bsky.social wrote this poem for our staff and customers to read out. We wanted to show that life's better with a library - we hope you agree! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPt9...

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Life's Better With A Library

YouTube video by Libraries Unlimited

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I very, very much wish Patrick Gathara was over here. His #BREAKING tweets, reporting US and European news using the kind of language we use to report on the Middle East and Africa are often funny, but always brilliant.

#BREAKING Police in the gun-strewn, sub-Canadian American nation, the most populous in the Caucasian block, say attacker may not have been acting alone. US media, which is tightly controlled by handful of wealthy elites, reports he hails from separatist border region of Texas.

#BREAKING Transport chaos across banana-exporting republic of US ahead of Caucasian New Year as millions of migrant workers travel home for traditional Thanksgiving festival during which indigenous bird is ritually consumed to mark genocide of Native American population.

#BREAKING At least 3 dead and millions without power as powerful storm pummels US southeastern jungle state of Florida, a stronghold of aging whitewing Shite Christianist rebels who have been battling since 2021 to depose internationally recognized gerontocratic Joe Biden regime.

#BREAKING Ruling centre-white worker's party in reclusive, troubled UK bans words 'genocide' and 'apartheid' during party conference as Keir Starmer regime deepens brutal crackdown on anti-genocide sentiment that has seen loyalist police arrest journalists and disrupt protests.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/03/2025

US women deserve better

ajvictorymd: Breast cancer survival rate in 1920: 5%

Breast cancer survival rate in 1960: 25%

Breast cancer survival rate in 1990: 64-80%

Breast cancer survival rate in 2025: 91%

RESEARCH did this. Cutting funds to the NIH, cutting HHS staff, and freezing federal funding to academic institutions will take us back to 1920 when 95% of women with breast cancer died despite having a treatable disease.

American women deserve better.

#health #publichealth #medicine #science

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’ll give it a go but we all know I’m tripping on the third step and chipping a tooth

Two pictures side by side.
On the left a woman in a long pink flowing dress trailing behind her as she walks up huge gothic staircase.
On the right a woman in a wide and long black dress running up a huge gothic staircase.
Text across the top says “wearing a long dress and running through a gothic castle is on my to do list”

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Thank goodness news outlets are positioning Paul Marchant’s resignation as: “After allegation by woman” “After investigation by lawyers” “After error of judgement” And not “After HE acted inappropriately” We will not stand for men in positions of power being held accountable - rude!

Sky News App headline “Primark boss resigns after allegation over his behaviour towards a woman”

BBC News app headline “Primark boss quits after complaint about behaviour”

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 31/03/2025

If you have seen reports in the last few days claiming a majority of Gen-Z would like to be ruled by a dictator, and thought "that seems a bit iffy", you're not even close. It wasn't just "iffy". It was utter, unadulterated, cow manure. ~AA www.kcl.ac.uk/news/just-6-...

A fairer representation of Gen Z opinion is that just 6% say they support a dictatorship.

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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

There are Tory MPs who live just 30 minutes from Parliament but still make taxpayers fund their second private homes in London - mortgages, bills, furniture, the lot. They bang on about cutting spending, yet happily rinse the public purse for their own comfort. #ukpolitics

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 30/03/2025

This is EXACTLY the sort of vile stunt the Tories used to pull. It wasn't acceptable when they did it. It's not acceptable now that Labour's doing it. Requiring major decisions while deliberately concealing their impact is unconscionable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Gillian Ottaway @gillianottaway.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Why isn’t he wearing a suit? Has he said thank you? Looks like one of those ‘propaganda tours’ Vance knows all about

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 28/03/2025

NEXT SAT (5 APR) THE DOOR SHUTS FOREVER. This weekend if you're age 40 to 73 & haven't yet checked if you can & should boost your state pension possibly by £10,000s, then its URGENT READ www.moneysavingexpert.com/tips/2025/03... LISTEN www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... WATCH www.itv.com/watch/the-ma...

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26/03/2025

The Government cannot go ahead with cutting taxes for tech billionaires like Elon Musk while slashing support for disabled people and carers. This is simply about fairness.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch. Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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Susan Kegeles, PhD @motherkegs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Yes, this is me. As you can tell, I was not having it! I refuse to be a nice old lady(or granny, they call me). We must do everything we can to stand up!

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🔴Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, @russincheshire.bsky.social takes on the UK's tax-dodging billionaires and Labour's lack of a wealth tax open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

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Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections

In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

There really needs to be some kind of law against going on vinted when you are perimenopausal and drunk. I have no idea what I thought I was doing here.

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