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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How should Bluesky handle high reaction numbers? cos this is horrible

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

24 Sept 1943 // Motor minesweeper MMS.70, sailing from Taranto to Brindisi with minesweepers Swona and Sahra in a convoy led by a landing craft with an Italian pilot embarked, struck a mine at 2:15am off the village of Gallipoli, on the west side of the Salento Peninsula, and sank with 10 men lost.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are hunter/gatherers (hunters: we collect our takeaways, gatherers: we have them delivered)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The usual moral “I’ll support anything as long as the rosette is red” voids in the replies to this. The reality is that Sunak did take real political damage in sacking Braverman and taking the whip from Anderson. Starmer and Burnham both useless on this.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.

elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very good column this. My view is this is a 'devil makes work for idle hands' campaign. Divorce is way down, so a group of legal professionals instead campaign for a change that would, in practice, create more misery than it avoided.

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Richard Cubitt @richardrcubitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once again, the biggest problem with violent far right thugs making our streets dangerous is not that they might not vote Labour.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This was about a year ago, so consider this your annual public service announcement:

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Remember in this weather Goths die in hot cars. If you see one trapped, smash a window and give them a saucer of snakebite and black

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In case you missed the eclipse earlier

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One thing I've learnt from decades practising as a barrister: there's no special body language that gives away a liar. Some witnesses are convincing when they lie, and others are shifty when they're telling the truth. The only way to know is to compare what they say with other objective evidence.

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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

SMALL BOAT WANTED! This is the historic #RiverTrent ford at Littleborough. I'm walking from York to Battle in Oct, largely by Roman Roads. I need to cross on Sat 3rd, & would much prefer a 'ferry' rather than walking around via G'borough. Can you help? See Alt for more. Thank you ❤️ #Hastings960

A Google Earth image from 2003, showing a large river winding through agricultural countryside, from bottom to top of the image. A road runs diagonally from the top left to mid right, broken by the river. A few buildings stand by it on the left bank, on part of the site of Roman Segelocum.

I'll reach this point in Saturday 3rd August, probably mid morning. It really would be great to cross by boat. I did the same York to Battle walk in 2016 and at this point had to walk around via Gainsborough, which was fine, but meant I missed one of the significant historic experiences on the route. The ford here was genuinely ancient, scene of many important crossing, a multitude of sundry ones, and reputedly at least one mass baptism.

I'd appreciate any help with this very much indeed. Please give me a shout if you can help, or know someone who can. Thank you.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How do you think the unthinkable? Thteer it into an itheberg.

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Fozzie Bear Stage Hook

ALT: Fozzie Bear Stage Hook

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I first heard this song less than 48 hours ago and I've probably had it go around my head close to 400 times, I'm losing my goddamn mind, every five seconds my brain shouts BING BONG ON ME HEAD www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCz0...

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That is entirely on Tuchel. The players gave everything, but that was a tactical catastrophe — wrong shape, wrong subs, wrong priorities. England dumped out by a team that kept playing football when England had stopped

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The country’s morale now rests entirely on @countbinface.bsky.social

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Everyone knows Jules Rimet as the man behind the World Cup. Fewer know he was a First World War veteran, and that the war shaped everything he built afterwards. HALF TIME thread 🧵⚽ 📸 Wikicommons

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 08/07/2026

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Other parties should stand aside for Binface

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

love him or loathe him, there's one thing you absolutely can't deny about Nigel Farage: he's a cunt

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 06/07/2026

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ultimately Starmer’s biggest miscalculation was failing to appreciate that chasing the Reform vote was far likelier to LOSE support than it ever was to gain it… Those of us who are NOT on the anti-immigrant bandwagon aren’t merely indifferent to it; we’re SICKENED and APPALLED by it.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Damn this is lovely

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mclaren news 🧡 @mclarenf1news.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

An all-British podium for the first time since 1968! 🏆❤️ | #F1 #McLaren

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