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Tim Whitehead @heisenberg912.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Christmas all packed away for another year. See you in late 2026!

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Tim Whitehead @heisenberg912.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas chums, I hope you've had a good year and Santa brings you everything you want!

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/12/2025

At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars. Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.

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Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims

In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

With Walliams it's important to separate the art from the artist and remember that whatever he's done in his private life, his books are still absolute dogshit either way.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 19/12/2025

Kylie Minogue becomes the first female artist in history to score #1 singles in four different decades in the UK.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A new problem with the UK’s libel laws in the digital age is that a fact can become widely known before it is publishable, it’s terrible for trust and accountability. And also ironically allows misinformation to flow freely.

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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

shout out the guardian photo editor one time

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batsfordio.bsky.social @batsfordio.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This is *exactly* the same as all the Russell Brand stories that came out. Management and agents unwilling to kill the golden goose, preferring to look away or, at best (and I say that in its loosest sense), warn women of his behaviour

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

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Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2025

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/12/2025

Quoted here we have Sharron Davies talking about an FoI filed by the Women's Rights Network. None of the people who committed these crimes were trans. Not one. 4.8% were cis male staff.

Telegraph - Girls targeted in mixed changing rooms
FOI police request shows women also at risk of sexual assault and mobile phone voyeurism at pools
The Daily Telegraph10 Dec 2025By Daniel Martin DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
Women and girls are being sexually assaulted in mixed changing rooms across the country. Police data show at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism were committed in sports centres in 2023, equating to three offences a week. Many of the offences were in mixed-sex changing areas, according to a report by the Women’s Rights Network. Campaigners warned that mixed-sex changing areas were a “magnet for sexual predators”.

WOMEN and girls are being sexually assaulted in mixed changing rooms across the country.

New police data show at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism were committed in sports centres in 2023, equating to three offences a week.

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Tim Whitehead @heisenberg912.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It's quite frankly ridiculous I haven't already posted this! Merry Christmas all. youtu.be/xteKObnaA2c?...

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Captain Picard sings "Make it So" (Let it Snow)

YouTube video by Mike Millington

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/11/2025

I say this mostly because Reform and certain journalists friendly to them seem determined to start a “white flight” narrative since net migration has dropped so dramatically. It’s not true. It’s not even close to true.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/11/2025

The number of British citizens emigrating hasn’t increased, btw. Outward migration is up, but the increase is mostly non-EU migrants leaving the UK. The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/11/2025

As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years. Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/11/2025

Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins. It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 26/11/2025

why does the useless bloody ICO allow absolute bullshit like this cookie tool? It's designed to be difficult to reject cookies; you have to find each toggle and turn it off and there's no way to reject them all.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 23/11/2025

sadly you can't take it as accurate as I've just tried it on accounts where I'm 100% where they are run from, because they're mine and it's wildly inaccurate. At best the code is making poor assumptions, at worst, it's deliberately chaotic disinformation.

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Tom Rees-Williams @tomreeswilliams.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“there isn’t the money to do everything that we wanted” – Lord Hendy, 16 July They're junking investment (and growth!) for a single-year headline announcement. Imagine if this government believed in the future

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Midland Main Line electrification pause down to lack of funds and bi-mode trains, Hendy says | New Civil Engineer

The MML runs from St. Pancras to Sheffield, servicing many cities in the Midlands. Its electrification has been ongoing for some years, having started at

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/11/2025

Huge amounts of the focus on misinformation/disinformation goes on the idea of things like “Russian bots” and “Russian influence ops”. That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

You see this also with the “we have to reduce immigration or racism will get worse”. The average person who thinks immigration is too high does not think that makes gutter racism ok and does not agree with, e.g. “let’s do a Partition scale ethnic cleansing in the UK”.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/11/2025

Between this and the whole grok gassing up elon thing it’s been an amazing week for new features on x dot com

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

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Andrew West @awest.uk · 22/11/2025

The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet. I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait. www.theverge.com/news/826902/...

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Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"10% of our revenue will come from criminals paying us for access to our customers" is an astonishing thing to put in writing

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 22/11/2025

When we take our government and country back from the fascists, every single one of these thugs must answer, in court, for the crimes they are currently committing. Hold them all accountable.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/11/2025

People voted in a Labour government by a landslide because they wanted something meaningful to change. Labour has, ever since securing that win, done everything in its power to signal it won't change anything very much.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/11/2025

The government could, of course, just fix the bizarre (and bad) flaw in the tax system that makes people pay a marginal rate of 62% (or 71% with student loans) at £100k, vs 42% at £99k or £126k – which is why people use salary sacrifice. They could do this in ways that *raise more revenue*.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/11/2025

Ukraine has signalled again and again it would agree to a meaningful peace proposal – even one that involved freezing frontlines where they are, at least de facto. This “peace plan” is an attempt by Russia to get Trump to gift them Ukrainian land they failed to take by force.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

America 2025.

The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge's car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.
Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.l.
Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This research is important because it corroborates what we already knew - that when comparing the UK to peer economies, it has had a big slowdown since 2016. It does so with firm-level data and finds more EU-connected firms have sizeable shortfalls in productivity and investment compared to less.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/11/2025

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

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