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Phillip Reeves

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2h
A stupidity turducken
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Elon Musk ° x @elonmusk
No more Al
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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 13h
I never knew it was possible to cringe so hard it gives you whiplash
Headline: "Badenoch spells out her six Tory principles: ‘I call it Kemistry’"
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10h
London Labour campaigns get more and more localised as campaigns go on, from 'we all love Camden, don't we?' to 'we all love Kings Cross, don't we?' to 'we all love [this housing estate], don't we?' Eve of poll: 'we all love built-in bookcases, don't we?'
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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 11h
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Cristiano Ronaldo: New Documents Emerge in Rape Allegations
Cristiano Ronaldo continues to make his fans happy on the field. Off of it, however, things aren't looking so bright: A woman has accused him of raping her in 2009, and there is an extremely sensitive...
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 11h
For the train nerds... lots of westbound Jubilee line trains terminating at North Greenwich and reversing over the lesser used crossover. Which is also catching out a lot of people seeing a normally westbound train and getting on because of a lack of warnings that it aint.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 11h
"where's the Tory party, where've they gone..........THERE THEY ARE"
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18h
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13h
The 'Kemi Badenoch is a good leader, held back by the Conservative brand' is a take that immediately falls apart when you ask 'what was the Conservative party polling in September 2024, and what is it polling in September 2026?'
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13h
An important thread from the brilliant @joannahs.bsky.social
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 21h
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13h
I think we are going to see more direct mimesis of original Nazi era propaganda rather than copies of copies of copies. Like this from the recent Berlin election.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12h
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026
The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.
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Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds
The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s...
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Tara 🐢 @4jinxremoving.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gabi Martinelli with Maya Magalhães at Brazil camp. 🥹 via Gunners Blaze on Facebook.
Gabriel Martinelli getting a hug from Gabriel Magalhães's 4 year old daughter Maya.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 16h
as near as i can tell from watching the whole exchange, tucker's contention is that the UK becoming a conquered territory of the nazi reich would increase the possibility of hypothetical fascist vassal uk ruling india for longer & this is obviously preferable to hosting allied us troops
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 15h
There's an argument for scrapping the £100K salary limit for childcare but saying those on £100K salaries are uniquely hard working is bollocks. Workers on the early bus on their way to cleaning, caring, hospitality jobs work just as hard. Tories believe wealth is acquired by virtue. It ain't.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 02/10/2026
Yeah. Nah. I’m not anxious. I’m *furious*
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sham City execs...
Richard E Grant on celebrity traitors saying - now I look guilty and incompetent
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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Relatable
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The unwillingness of many on the political left to engage with AI—or even just with the media available about its capabilities—is creating an epistemic gap in the discourse that will not serve us well in the long run.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great summary from Wrighty as always. Talking on the Overlap podcast on his emotions about Manchester City Sham.
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I honestly hope that Suella Braverman's kids never come across racist bullies like her in their social lives. It's sad that they have to see this.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Disgraced theology professor James Orr had a PhD student cover at least six of his lectures last year, allegedly without pay and against the Faculty of Divinity’s knowledge.’
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
theyre not pretending. these are true believers. and they vote.
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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Renee Slegers opened the press conference with a statement of sorts (wasn’t written down and read, was spontaneous). ‘Referring back to the game in Paris and me not seeing you afterwards. Just wanna tell you my story because I'm sure there will be questions.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Swiss Ramble's predictable great at breaking the financial down and giving context. He puts a tonne of work in, so I won't share too much, but some stuff really did stand out... (There really is so much more in the piece)
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 02/10/2026
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SwissRamble @swissramble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A deep dive into the financial implications of the Independent Commission's decision following the Premier League's charges against Manchester City #MCFC
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Sean Swift @primetimeswift.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Man whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places". That club needs to be nuked from space, the ground salted, and gallows left standing to warn others. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Criminal or saviour? Rui Pinto abandoned by Portuguese authorities after Manchester City leaks
Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City, has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can’t think of anything that could go wrong with advertising that a letter contains a passport These people are as dumb as rocks
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was a very interesting editorial choice to publish this interview transcript: time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This entire City story - and especially the last stories of Etihad, Burnham and Khaldoon’s diplomatic immunity - crystallises why states and state actors should not be allowed own clubs The longer it goes, the more chaotic it gets www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Why Andy Burnham has got it wrong on Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners
Andy Burnham confessed he would be ‘really concerned’ if Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners sold but, as Miguel Delaney writes, the prime minister’s view clashes with those inside football and a pressing nee...
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Dino @dinohkay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man City’s legal defence is the plot of Lethal Weapon 2.
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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I listened to Ed Davey on the Today programme this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point. The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.
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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I need to believe most people understand that what fascists want most from AI is a box that agrees with them and that everyone else agrees contains all factual knowledge and that they're jumping the gun in a very transparent way that makes them easy to stop. Because of people don't, we're fucked.
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Betteridge’s Law @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Claude Can Now Send And Reply To Your Gmail — Should You Let It?
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Claude Can Now Send And Reply To Your Gmail - Should You Let It? - Betteridge’s Law
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just saw a post from some guy saying that traditional music is “over” because AI music will provide “infinite personalised songs”. I want music that reflects the misshapen thoughts of another human being, not the output of an algorithmic average.
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else?
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this will be one of the defining images of the Premier League's void years: a proudly working class fanbase celebrating that the ruling family of an oppressive regime had hired a barrister on £10,000-an-hour to try and prevent them suffering consequences for their cheating. Embarrassing.
A bunch of mugs celebrating their perceived impunity
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 30/09/2026
This article about Man City from October 2010 is hilarious in retrospect. I'll pull out the best quotes below: www.theguardian.com/sport/david-...
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Manchester City make plans for a future of financial fair play | David Conn
David Conn: The club lost £121m last year but Brian Marwood has said their transfer strategy will help them break even soon enough
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