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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 19h

there's something so deranged about the idea that a "high trust" society is one that can decide to arbitrarily exclude you on the basis of identity

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16h

Goodnight. From Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, France, 1420. #Gothtober

Illustration of three fanged bats against a blue, gold starred night sky, with a rolling green landscape below.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 16h

Le jeune homme blessé mercredi à Tours lors du blocage d’un lycée a perdu l’usage de son œil droit, a indiqué la procureure de la ville, Catherine Sorita-Minard. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/14K

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 17h

How long before the MAGA schismatics start baptising LLMs?

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 18h

FFS I'm on the side of the Catholic church *against* irrationalism, I hate this century.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 18h

Somebody sang The Unquiet Grave at the local Irish trad session and god forgive me but that's a song that belongs with the infamous I Want My Baby Back and Excitable Boy on a list I don't want to go any further into.

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 22h

I had no idea Marx took such extensive notes on pre-modern Irish history and Brehon law. www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

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Marx's Ethnographical Notebooks

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 23h

At last a slogan both Marxists and liberals can rally around.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 23h

'Not playing by the rules' is such a weird metaphor. What is this game of which you are ignoring the rules, and in what sense do you think you are playing it?

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Indeed, with a handful of exceptions, I can't of many electoral studies academics who would recommend SV at all, and certainly not for Westminster elections. You would need to set the term of reference to say something like "to end up recommending SV".

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Twice in the last week or so I've put out queries on here and got just the answers I needed almost immediately. Feels almost like the other place back in the good old days.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's step printing, thanks to all who replied.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Long shot but do any cinéphiles out there remember the name for the image-slowing/halting technique Godard used in Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie)? It looks nothing like slow motion, although that was the title the film was given for UK release.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is how I sometimes feel about Godard's 1960s movies, and it's a shock to realise that they're further away in time than the heroic period of cubism was in 1967.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was it LFI that left lycées without enough teachers or desks?

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Impressed how they’ve gone straight to “do it to Julia”

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

...I hereby give notice I will make this point every day until further notice. Almost all CEE countries are now net importers of labour and they've converged with EU average incomes. If you're expecting a big surge of CEE immigrants because of FoM, for good or ill, you're mistaken. 2/2

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The state of French right wing politics these days. Pupils demanding the most basic things - desks, teachers! - and the response is to try to blame the LFI. Ludicrous.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had no idea how bad things had got in the lycées, especially in working class areas - pupils are demanding the most basic things: enough teachers, repairs to the fabric, *desks*.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe I'm being paranoid but ... do you ever get a feeling Radio 3 really wants you to buy a smart speaker and ask it to play R3 Unwind?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyone in public life who does not understand what the Garvaghy Road means to every strand of the nationalist/republican community in the North does not deserve to be taken seriously.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The significance of this isn't that U2 are cool or anything, but rather that they only back a horse when the race is over. --------- U2 jointly condemn Israel over Gaza as Bono admits his past statements 'circled the subject' jrnl.ie/6786986

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U2 jointly condemn Israel over Gaza as Bono admits his past statements 'circled the subject'

In a lengthy statement posted to social media, the four members of the band individually set out their stances on the war raging within Gaza.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want a grim laugh, I recommend searching Dublin hotels for October on b**king.com ranked by price. Equally funny if you rank from highest to lowest or vice versa.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re gonna rock down to The inland revenue They’re winding up Man City

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Claire Hanna MP @clairehanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Drumcree isn’t Green v Orange, it’s Past v Future

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We shouldn't have a Quiet Carriage on the train. We should have a NoisyCcarriage. If you want to watch or listen to the phone without headphones, or have loud and never-ending conversations, you go and sit in the Noisy Carriage. The rest of the train is de facto Quiet. Who's with me?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My fear is we may ultimately all go mad watching British politics contort itself into a pretzel to avoid a couple of pence on the basic rate of income tax.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Figuring out what’s going on in Suella Braverman’s head is a lot easier when you know she’s part of a cult.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem of social care is largely one of a missing insurance market. The obvious solution is to pay for care via general taxes, treating these as if they were insurance premia. Cutting benefits or the triple lock are bad alternatives.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New substack: nobody wants free markets any more: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/who-wants-...

chrisdillow.substack.com

Who wants free markets?

Support for free markets has died, partly for bad reasons.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s as if had James Callaghan stood up in 1976 and saying “for the past 30 years we’ve been too concerned with price stability”.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Healy on ITV just now saying we have a system which asks "how much are you entitled to" and that's absolutely not true, the welfare system in the UK has loads of conditionality to look for and find work, it's so weird Labour keep pretending otherwise

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, it's my first week as the PSNI 's Head of Threat Assessment. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news...

Excerpt from RTE News article on Orange Order March down Garvaghy road.
"The commission says it carefully considered those representations, but it seems the input from the PSNI was significant in their decision-making.

"The police have stated ... that they have no information indicating that the parade will result in public disorder or damage to property if it proceeds along its notified route."

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Glenn Anders as George Grisby in The Lady From Shanghai (Welles, 1947).

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In spite of the nightmare of war, the Ukrainian journey with Joyce continues, oscillating between horrible histories and terrible futures, being occasionally surprised by the Spanish inquisition and taking a short pause for Irish stew. Matrix as ever by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Astonished to hear Charlie Parker's Yardbird Suite cut off on R3 Music Map just as his solo starts. The whole record is about three minutes long. What were they thinking of? Would any classical piece be treated this way?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".

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