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The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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John Ryan @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Future No Thanks! is a fun companion game to Thank Goodness You're Here. Wonderful to see small, charming, funny games still being made.

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We actually know, as in we have looked hard and researched this, that was the multiplier for government spending on defense is below 1. There is no War Keynesianism. But it is the only kind of spending that the British establishment will speak of in Keynesian terms.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gorgeous visit to the sunny Lincolnshire coast yesterday to see the latest golf course given back to nature. Credit to @nationaltrust.org.uk for being brave. This is nature as human regen too – fantastic new green infrastructure for Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’

National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, it's fascinating what Shabana Mahmood angrily finds "unacceptable" and what she doesn't

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At some point we have to stop saying "What is going on at the BBC? What's happening? What on earth? I am so bewildered. This is very baffling" and accept what our eyes are telling us: that there is institutional capture of everyone's favourite maybe-once-but-no-longer liberal news outlet.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/08/2026

Sign our petition to call for climate action here: buff.ly/IrLHG0f

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This evening at 10pm: THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) starring #GregoryPeck #LaurenceOlivier #JamesMason drama #TPTVsubtitles

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They should make the David Walliams Alton Towers thing a Jacqueline Wilson world where you can experience being born into a dustbin, having an eating disorder and being groomed by a teacher

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

personally i would love it if people would treat A24 as just another greedy corrupt film studio, which they are, instead of this artsy bastion of creativity we don't need to be suspicious of just because they happened to release some movies you like. fucking miramax released some movies i like too!

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026

what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think about this first story - the smoking gun of the 'is the fantasy side of pan's labyrinth real?' question - a lot, because clearly the film works whether it's real or not. will have to remember to shut about this when i watch it with my kids eventually

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Realised what the ed miliband interview reminded me of

Brass eye: "so you've got bad aids, not good aids"

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's all very simple, actually. A diaspora Jewish person's Jewishness is held in anticipatory suspension until they give a fraction of a hint as to their political sympathies, at which point the superposition collapses.

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tapping the sign again, please can this video stip being relevant

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The UK government agrees with the aims and ideologies of the fascists who are attacking racialised minorities. Their disagreement is that they think the state should be trusted to attack racialised minorities using the proper legal channels.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

found this in the top posts and it succeeds in being very funny while also inducing a borderline homicidal rage

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Going to keep shouting this however much no-one wants to acknowledge it: it's crystal clear by now that Labour aren't harassing migrants and minorities reluctantly, they really believe this shit

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 03/09/2026

Making a game that sucks is way harder, and way more valuable than making nothing at all.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'

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Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Meanwhile, the one of the toilets where I used to work. All single self contained rooms with a toilet itself, plus sink, mirror, hand dryer, and hygene products. Also, notice the braille on the sign as well. That’s the way to be inclusive.

A door to a single self-contained toilet in an office corridor with a sign that simply reads ‘toilet’, also with braille just below.

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The Joy of Tech @joyoftech.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Meta's Celebration www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/jo...

A 4-panel Joy of Tech comic showing Meta, Instagram, Threads, the Thumbs Up icon, and Facebook personified as party-going characters celebrating the child harm lawsuit settlement.

Panel 1: The characters wear party hats and hold champagne, celebrating. Meta says “Woohoo! We settled the child harm case!” Instagram says “And all it cost us was the thing we have the most of… money!” The Thumbs Up adds “I love that it was just a slap on my wrist.”

Panel 2: Meta: “We have to pay 17 billion, so that’ll only cost us about ten days of profit annually!”
Instagram: “Even less! Our stock jumped almost 14 billion in value on news of the settlement!”
Threads: “LOL! So the punishment made us richer!”

Panel 3: A banner behind them reads “We won the child harm case.”

Facebook: “But you know what’s even better than getting richer? They are forcing us to do age verification.”
Threads: “Omg! Birthdates! Government IDs! Face scans!”

Panel 4: Meta: “So to prove they’re a kid, we get to collect even more of their data!”
Facebook: “This is fantastic! Who can we harm next?”

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Looking through this years deaths on wikipedia, came across barbara findley, standing out amongst the crowd due to her uncaptialised name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/barbara... Really interesting sounding person.

My name is spelled without capital letters. People make many assumptions about why that is. Here is the story. I have always signed my name without capital letters. When I was taking a Master of Laws degree in 1990, I had letterhead designed and my name was in lower case. I liked it, so I continued it when I returned to private practice in 1992. What an uproar! Lawyers called me up to say that they had a vote in their firm about why I chose that spelling; a court rejected an Order because my name was not properly spelled; and the local queer newspaper refused for years to spell my name without capital letters.

I realized that I had a perfect illustration of how we react when someone moves even a tiny bit away from a norm of behaviour, even with respect to something that has no impact on anyone else. So I have kept that spelling, and I tell this story in unlearning oppression workshops.

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No one is talking about Tim Curry’s MOST important role: voicing Gabriel Knight in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. (With what may be the worst Cajun accent of all time)

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Gabriel Knight Sins Of The Fathers: Just Tell Me Anything

Alt: Gabriel Knight Sins Of The Fathers: Gabriel Knight saying “Just Tell Me Anything”

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 25/08/2026

That intro was such a vital piece of character building. It shows you that he's achieved perfect lurk/wife balance.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/08/2026

Was there a greater TV show? No. No, there wasn’t. You can keep your Wires and Sopranos and Breaking Bads - this was peak TV.

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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

as britain endures its worst harvest on record, it's worth knowing: 85% of UK farmland is used to feed livestock. and half of our wheat harvest doesn't feed people, it feeds animals

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

British politics reeking of steamed hams

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 31/07/2026

if ever a real history of those 2 years is written, i suspect 'most cabinet ministers learned to do absolutely nothing otherwise they'd be monstered in the press the next day' will feature prominently.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 30/07/2026

there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 30/07/2026

I don't think supporting a cause that is morally righteous grants one license to enagage in lazy, conspiratorial thinking or to traffic in age-old tropes about Jewish people puppeteering the politics of governments much wealthier and more powerful than them.

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 30/07/2026

And not to go full Gollum about my book, but I do cackle when I think back to 2023 and how worried I was it might not be relevant soon. ADHD, trans people etc still very much the distraction targets for a pro-Brexit press and public still refusing to accept their role in fucking up the UK.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

Here's a quick recap of those five stages of climate denial... 1. Deny the problem exists 2. Deny we are the cause 3. Deny it is a problem 4. Deny we can solve it 5. Claim it is too late And we should probably squeeze in... 4.5. Claim we can just adapt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report | Dana Nuccitelli

Dana Nuccitelli: Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of the things i always want people to understand is that binary thinking is always wrong. This kind of logic 'we can't stop [x] therefore give up' only works if you think 1 is the same as 2 because they're both 'numbers'. The more carbon we pump out, the worse things will get.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How do you tune rubber chickens 😭 IG: @ vinheteiro

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

But it seems to me that most people, when it comes to food, begin with what they want to believe - my diet is right and ethical - and look for evidence to support it. I understand this: it's literally a visceral issue. But we have to try to get beyond what we want to believe, hard as that is.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 28/07/2026

we’re going to survive by taking care of each other and by no other means

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grilly @grilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Does anyone have a way of obtaining a particular vocal sample from the english dub of Akira (not the original dub)? 38 minutes in, Colonel Shikishima says "it's not my job to believe or disbelieve; it's to act or not act!" i need it. would be wonderful if anyone could clip it and send it over thanks

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MJ Hibbett @mjhibbett.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Episode one of 'Data and Doctor Doom' is out NOW!! New songs, old jokes and rigorous empirical research about Doctor Doom, transmedia characters, how they work and why it matters - available wherever you get your podcasts, and HERE: dataanddoctordoom.podbean.com/e/episode-on...

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Episode One: Like Batman But Better | Data and Doctor Doom

In this first episode MJ Hibbett - the world's leading (and only) academic expert on Doctor Doom - delves into the secret origin of Doctor Doom and explains why he's better than Batman, reveals his ow...

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