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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 13h

X and Substack are run by edgelord fascists and there is zero good reason for anyone to continue using either platform whilst plenty of alternatives exist www.theverge.com/report/10066...

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Doxxing Jane Doe

X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Moving towards Hitting Being hit Doing nothing

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Toasters in Doctor Who: A visual guide. #1 The Meddling Monk's toaster in 'The Time Meddler'.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What would be funny is if the recipient realised that and added 1 to his number

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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

I seem to be the only person that sweats at the gym, everyone else is glowing and there are puddles forming around my equipment.

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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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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hub airports should never be inside cities.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hun, no apostrophe because it has become a separate definition from honey

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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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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if it were 'something kicked' football would be fine

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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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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That makes more sense, I should probably learn to read someday

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does blacklist dropped mean he has been removed from a blacklist? The phrasing isn't clear to me.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Desperately searching for a term of endearment she hasn't heard before ...

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He could have cancelled in solidarity with Macklemore on the principle of artistic expression and probably 95% of his fans would have accepted that as apolitical. I don't know what his contract is like with these venues though and he could be massively liable if he doesn't perform.

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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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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa,_%C... Turns out it is a genuine name

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Usa, Ōita - Wikipedia

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was told in the 80s the Japanese named a town Usa purely for export sales.

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

A tank engine (toot toot) was such a common thing that it would be unusual to use that wording for the engine of a tank.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm going to name a reef rising ape

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You need the time and the skills to define what the process is and then the ability to create a contract that binds the supplier to provide the process you need. Not many places have that.

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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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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It also highlights his complete misunderstanding of the size of London compared to other UK cities. Very few people will have even seen all the pubs in their borough let alone been into them all. At 3 pubs a day it would take 7 years to visit all the pubs in London.

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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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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sorry, apparently you are writing in Japanese? it must have translated air conditioner to engine cooler which confused me. On a tangent the biggest culture shock I had visiting the tropics was that in England the Air Con goes from Red to Blue while in Thailand in goes from Blue to More Blue

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What is an engine cooler? AFAIK they all had the A series water cooled engine with a radiator.

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Chris Gray @ianchrisgray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I bet they would have a budget for a DCI that they would lose if they didn't spend

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Hellrosser @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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