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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 1h

She says it's with her full agreement.

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Belle de jour @bowman120.bsky.social · 4h

World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... None of the ship survives but there are traces of the contents of the storage jars…

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World's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey

Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 5h

I had forgotten that we actually did this.

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Rich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 7h

Everything in this is spot on I also don't think a Russian asset could have done more damage mind

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7h

As far as I know you won't need Starlink to navigate to the North London pub @columnist.bsky.social and I are hosting Emergency Brexit Bluesky Drinks at on Thurs Nov 5 7pm on. DM for the venue if you don't know it. If you see this message you're invited.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/10/2026

The Talented Mr Ripley. Love it so much. The attention to detail recreating 1950s Italy is quite astound— IS THAT MILES DAVIS’ 1986 ALBUM TUTU WHAT THE ACTUAL FU

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 19h

Whatever anyone's view on the fairness of the home office approach to housing people seeking asylum, Sunderland is objectively not full. The city's population is still smaller than it was thirty years ago.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 18h

A few people have included the content and it's a test for your instant aversion reaction.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds like you've been spared what's going on on Truth Social?

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 19h

More than ever I don't want to see the shit that depraved lunatic is posting, so please don't share it. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FOUCAULT IN A COWBOY HAT. !!! Big fan of the Collège de France insisting on butchering the spelling of “Standford”; basically “not us”, so not important. But also: Foucault gave seminars in French in the US? Record my slight hesitancy at that being possible today. (Little exhibition for centenary)

Picture of Michel Foucault — known as a natty dresser, known for his bald wise head— with an actual cowboy hat. It’s hard to convey the effect in writing, really

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20h

Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism

Migrant households receive record 12 bn in universal credit

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 21h

Should add I really liked everything else in FW's performance in Bird.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 21h

Joking of course, you couldn't make a movie long enough nor convoluted enough.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 21h

It's high time they made two three hour movies about DeV.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mine is Forest Whitaker's miming of creative intensity when soloing in Bird (eyes squeezed shut, deep frown, sweat, etc.) when Charlie Parker played with the expression of a guy walking his dog on a nice afternoon.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When I consider the degree to which some people in my life have been genuinely radicalized by what is supposedly one of the tentpoles of British journalism (to seemingly no backlash), it makes me so angry that I struggle to speak or think clearly.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In social sciences "positivism" is more or less just a by-word for "bad and regressive", but I dunno if you look at the political fights of their day the actual logical positivists were largely on the side of light. 🤷‍♂️

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the affairs of the crankiest and most fanatic portion of the bourgeoisie" - as Marx didn't say.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thread. I think he’s right.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Times, once again, calling for mass deportations of care workers and other legal migrant workers.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 12/10/2026

GLENDOWER I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party calls the 'lethal force' proposal of Jenrick "disgusting and illegal". "Our armed forces are not going to start opening fire on unarmed civilians, and Reform are dragging their own reputations and credibility into the gutter by suggesting it"

Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party, responding to Robert Jenrick proposing lethal force be authorised in the Channel, said:

"Robert Jenrick's proposal to use 'lethal force' against asylum seekers in the English Channel is disgusting and illegal. Our armed forces are not going to start opening fire on unarmed civilians, and Reform are dragging their own reputations and credibility into the gutter by suggesting it.

"The truth is that Nigel Farage is authorising ever more extreme positions in order to distract from his own funding scandals and as part of an increasingly vicious bidding war with other parties on the right. Decent people will see right through it and reject this toxic politics of division.

“Labour is showing that we can control immigration and get numbers down with serious action, not by abandoning the asylum system altogether. We have just seen the lowest number of summer arrivals by small boat in 6 years, with 46,000 attempted crossings stopped and 80,000 people with no right to be here removed.”

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It is an intensely sweaty film throughout. I love the way Takashi Shimura is sucking on a popsicle the first time we meet him.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ah now I need to watch Stray Dog again with an eye to the degradation of Toshiro Mifune's suit. Hooray!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Talk TV interview: Jenrick, as a former government minister, of course knows that the armed forces can't be directed to commit murder at sea, and would have to refuse the illegal order to commit war crimes. But this is a change of media strategy with a challenge from Restore x.com/TalkTV/statu...

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🚨"Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days." @RobertJenrick says Ref...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Biological” ?????

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/10/2026

Particularly enraging edition of Nimby Watch this week.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Now here is a point I do broadly agree with, as it happens. A lot less effort should be expended on trying to prove Russia Dun It, and a lot more effort should be spent asking Brexiteers why Putin supported it

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Brexit-Putin. Ad infinitum. (Brexit-Trump-Putin would be even better but maybe that needs to wait a couple of months.)

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The point about Russian attempts to influence the Brexit referendum is that everybody knows which side they were promoting. It doesn't matter whether or to what extent the interference was effective. The association alone is terrible for the Brexit brand, which is why Farage is losing it.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I remember pulling the census results for the original TV 'Benefits Street' for an article and iirc it was in three output areas.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OA boundaries are pretty arbitrary and often cut through streets.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I assume this is output areas. I’m not sure what the rationale for using OA is other than the small population turns out an agreeably high % of people claiming social security, and everybody can pearl clutch about it and demand punishment.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

(Pessoa helped Crowley fake his own suicide in Portugal.)

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An a 'neighbourhood' for these purposes is a Census Output Area. Not aiui an MSOA or a LSOA but an actual OA.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've never found anything about Crowley interesting, other than the fact that he is the one degree of separation between Yeats and Fernando Pessoa.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Love Rameau and regret that he is probably now best known as the uncle of his semi-fictional nephew when he should be as famous as Handel.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the caption that tells you everything you need to know

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