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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 28/12/2025
In the late 1990s Tony Blair’s MoD went to the trouble of dispatching the SAS to Bosnia to capture suspected war criminals. They were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. With them, the MoD has continued military cooperation. www.declassifieduk.org/good-and-bad...
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Good and bad war criminals
Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
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Jim Burke @barcajim3.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
And finally we have the answer to the question "Do racists bounce?"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Harry Scrote Groom Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is beyond shocking @skynewsrss.bsky.social presented a piece on fake Aston Villa supporter Andrew Fox as a victim of a racially motivated stabbing threat if he went to the game for wearing an Aston Villa shirt and a Star of David. Sky actually broadcasted this.1/4 m.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJw...
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13/10/2025
You're in the honey-den business, though your plans extend far beyond that. There's a lot that can be done with several large mirrors, copious honey, and a pawn versed in the ways of Parabola. Today we're releasing new Agents for Fallen London, focused on honey-dens, glasswork, and Parabola!
A dapper marionette tips its hat, spotlighted under a giant hand that pulls the strings.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I expect Israel will have to rein in their paramilitaries operating in the West Bank as part of this ceasefire, no?
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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 07/10/2025
Questions of how inclusive the 2026 soccer World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada will be have surfaced after the US rejected visa applications of Iranian soccer officials for the tournament draw in December.
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Iran visa denial by America raises inclusion questions before soccer World Cup
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Squirtie McKenzie United States, Census, 1940
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 04/10/2025
Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 02/10/2025
Coronation done, the court awaited the raven bringing the prophecy of the new king's demise. Would it be an epic one, like slain by no man, or by the hand of his son? The raven arrived and nodded to the king. "Heart failure." "That could be anything!" Behind him, the face of a halberdier drooped.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.
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Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’
Prime minister blames Brexit for surge in numbers of small boat crossings but defends UK’s membership of ECHR
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform DO IT www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Anyone wearing these had better have them insured. I bet they would make a very satisfying crunch under the heel of some Doc Martens.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
1/ “Don’t mention the children. Don’t name the dead children. The people must not know the names of the dead children. The names of the children must be hidden. The children must be nameless. The children must leave this world having no names.” Michael Rosen youtu.be/tENn0dTF2eY?...
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‘Don’t Mention the Children’ | A poem for the children of Gaza, by Michael Rosen
YouTube video by SaveTheChildren
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Contrary to popular belief: Charles Surfs United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2025
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Irene Cuntery Mother In Law Philippines, Marriages, 1723-1957
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So much for my "exsanguinate! exsanguinate!" joke
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
Image of the album cover for The Wolf That House Built by the band Little Axe.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 03/09/2025
The Sahrawi people living in the Tindouf camps of southwest Algeria are facing their worst nutrition crisis since 2010. The Almasar Library Centre in Smara camp started a seed bank, giving families seedlings and training them to create home gardens.
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Some food for thought, and little else
As Sahrawi hunger grows and their cause shrinks, a library tries to lend more than books.
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Aston Villa Statto @avfcstatto.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Mason Greenwood getting ragged about by Tyrone Mings 🫡🫡 #AVFC
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 25/07/2025
All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 206 of The Continent. After war ended in Tigray, a new invasion began — by profiteers. Ex-fighters dig for gold. Former generals seize mines like trophies. Locals face chaos. Meanwhile, gold flows unchecked to the UAE — untraced, unregulated, and lucrative.
This is the cover of Issue 206 of The Continent dated 26 July 2025. The headline reads: “The plunder of Tigray: Guns, gold and the UAE”. The illustration is by Nebiyu Geberemichael.
The central figure is a distressed Ethiopian woman wearing a white headscarf and flowing traditional dress, with a child strapped to her back. She appears to be fleeing, a red shawl billowing behind her. Behind her are three prominent male figures: a man in military uniform, another in a suit and glasses pointing forward and the third raising fist and a rifle in the background.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Hot damn? I'd rather have a cold gosh.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 03/07/2025
A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Alliteration is fun, but using it to give a concentration camp in a swamp a cute li'l nickname is foul. Call it what it is instead of trying to hide what it is.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel [Inference] Is Running Articles Dismissing Climate Change and Evolution *** Yet Inference also has contributions from well-known intellectuals and scientists.” 1/29/19 1/ www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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A science journal funded by Peter Thiel is running articles dismissing climate change and evolution
Yet Inference also has contributions from well-known intellectuals and scientists.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
To all the people who accuse me of having no ambition, I'd like to let you all know that you're right about that.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
68.42% of Mossad's reputation was created by the US film and television industry.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 25/06/2025
👉NEW -- Britain's long history of spying on Iran by Martin Williams The UK has spent decades trying to subvert Iran’s government, but also secretly sold them chemical weapons and spied on opposition activists. www.declassifieduk.org/britains-lon...
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Britain’s long history of spying on Iran
The UK has spent decades trying to subvert Iran’s government, but also secretly sold them chemical weapons and spied on opposition activists.
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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Remember when prog lyricist Pete Sinfield claimed his work on The Land of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz was a vitriolic response to the rise of Margaret Thatcher, and everyone took the piss? Well, I think I've figured it out.
The Land of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz.
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All Villa No Filler | Podcast & Channel @allvillanofiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Me watching Steven Gerrard's Aston Villa. #avfc #utv
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/06/2025
Big update to GifCities, our GeoCities GIF search engine! 🎉 Now with semantic search, size filtering, and GifGrams to share. Explore & share vintage web fun ➡️ gifcities.org #GifCities #InternetArchive #WebHistory #GIFs
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Netpol @netpol.org · 09/06/2025
NETPOL BOOK EVENT – "Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News" - with US civil rights lawyer @equalityalec.bsky.social discussing his new book on how the media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe. Tues 24 June, London E1. FREE tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...
Photo of Alec Karakatsanis sitting on a stool against a grey background, and a dark blue panel that reads: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News"
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Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My house was swarming with ants, you won't believe what happened next
My house became infested with ants.

Hundreds of them crawling everywhere, all drawn to one item. What item was it?

Why, it was my book on entrepreneurship. Very strange.

I decided to conduct an experiment. I laid out three items: my book, a bait station and a massive heap of sugar.

They still swarmed around my book. Peculiar.

Weeks go by and I bring in an entomologist, who finds the ant's nest.

She gasps. She points out the ants are using a system of hierarchy never seen before in insects, only humans.

It's the exact corporate structure I laid out in my book.

Wow. No wonder the ants loved my book so much. They were learning.

I have taught ants how to business.

I knew my wisdom transcended race, class, age and gender, but now it has transcended ants.
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A pro-Brexit group that bankrolled the Chagos legal challenge is planning a series of others to "tie [the govt] up in knots for the next few years". For this week's Observer, I take a look at the people behind the Great British PAC 👇 observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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How rightwing activists tried to thwart Chagos deal | The Observer
Backers of legal challenge to derail Starmer agreement on Diego Garcia threaten to cause more disruption
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"Research has shown that the UK has prosecuted 𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 people for benefits offences than tax offences. This is despite the value of tax fraud being 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 than benefits fraud." The dice are loaded, the fix is in. Full system change is essential. leftfootforward.org/2025/05/why-...
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Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power
Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Surveillance on bank accounts is *very* intrusive - it’s not just about money, it can reveal all kinds of personal and behavioural traits that are none of the government’s business. It’s also a matter of dignity: why should benefit claimants have to sacrifice that?
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers. They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Working class does not necessarily = poor Middle class does not necessarily = wealthy Age (or a trite generation this that or the other label) is not a determination of social or moral attitude
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
First they came for the transes, and you said "Fuck the transes, they're weird"... Remember, until a few years ago it was almost unheard-of for a woman to be charged with procuring an abortion. Now they have "new national guidance" on how to hunt them down. www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Are you on Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Employment Support Allowance? UK govt will compel banks to hand information to it about your money. You can't prevent it even if you never committed fraud. Same won't apply to PPE, tax, subsidy fraudsters, corporate crooks, disqualified directors.
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A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act.
This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Economic growth" is what rich people get. The rest of us get reduced spending power.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I hope everyone gets what they deserve today.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If as a politician you are complaining about Pride banning political parties I would strongly suggest you look within yourselves as to why this decision has had to be made, the rampant, and unrepentant, attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community for starters, before criticising those who have made it.
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Hugo Rune @hugorune.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Starmer lives on an "island of strangers" because none of his neighbours talk to him, and they all wish he'd move somewhere else.
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