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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 14h

Manchester City are speed-running through every Simpsons meme in their desperation. A generational run.

Simpsons secret Cayman Islands banker meme

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 18h

Sort of agree with the philosophy, but not the examples. Are shows on their third, fourth channel like Suits and Schitt's Creek in 'bidding wars'? It's the very commercial first-window acquisitions like Gossip Girl that BBC maybe shouldn't be fighting over. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BBC paying to air shows like Suits and Schitt's Creek is illogical, MPs say

The issue is one of several raised by an influential committee as debate about the BBC's future continues.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 18h

A week until the by-election. If he loses, is it curtains? Sense is no, don't feel like the Greens really go in for regicide.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18h

For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With The Economist bods giving it large about the Home Office subscribing to their mag, I'd just remind everyone that @hsj.co.uk is the "only resource that covers all aspects of publicly funded healthcare" that keeps DHSC staff "up to date on healthcare and NHS news".

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026

Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly it’s like a parody by this point isn’t it

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sharon Graham telling the BBC government shouldn't end the triple lock, funding social care reform by pulling "other levers" such as "a wealth tax or... another leaver". Something for nothing.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is actual leadership. Burnham has made a choice. It may not be a popular one. He will now sell it. We've forgotten that such things are possible.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remain to be convinced that a lack of vocational education in schools is, in fact, the root cause of the Neets crisis, as implied here by Andy Burnham.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham's theme in this speech of taking back control, having power over things that felt like they'd got away from us, having basic agency in life instead of feeling helpless is a good eg of what Starmer always lacked - an overarching story making all the disparate policies seem to mean something

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not just growth in every postcode but "good" growth. Presumably the kind of growth that wipes its hands on an oily rag and has smoke smuts on its cheeks. Not that nasty type that wears a lanyard.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good opportunity to blow the cobwebs off one of my finest pieces of picture editing.

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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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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a suspicion that the Fairford farmer who has spent all day strongly suggesting she knows more than the police and the security services is going to end up claiming asylum in Piddington.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 28/09/2026

calling it now: tiktok prank gone wrong

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quick look at the Twitter timeline which is mainly either racists saying that it’s obvious the RAF terror suspects are THE MUZZIES who came across via dinghy yesterday, or a different type of racists who say this is a Mossad false flag.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty sure Hot Chicken Wrap Concept toured with Rick Wakeman back in the day.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of those stories that gets sadder and more baffling the longer it goes on. Elder abuse (by a spouse, no less) really doesn’t get the attention it should do. The Telegraph are reporting that even the King has been blocked from getting in touch with him.

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Matt Severn @mattsevern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Both Starmer & Burnham continue the project begun by Johnson to sift and sort jobs into two piles. “Real” and “fake” Fishermen, oil & gas, mechanics were declared real Entire industries that are £bn British success stories like theatre, film production and video game design are classed as fake

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No Foyle's War so what are we even doing here?

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think we have to understand statements like this as explicit backing for criminal activity in support of political aims which Reform approves of, and that such criminal activity will be tolerated, maybe even encouraged, under a Reform government

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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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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This some advanced tankie "thought". Russia has a UNSC seat & world's largest amounts of land, gas, oil and NUKES. Russia also has no agency over our own actions and so cannot be held accountable and therefore must be excused and appeased.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good. Let us hope that the price war in China for electric cars, coupled with the US and EU tariffs, means the UK becomes a dumping ground for cheap electric Chinese cars. We need more charging points. Bring it on.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Implies the existence of Trump diplomacy which is surely a mistake?

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quite the contrast between the PM’s words in NY last night (left) and those of the govt’s spokesperson in response to the latest Daniel Thomas outrage

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, just to be clear, Daniel Thomas was: 1- Carrying a knife contrary to section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 2- Used that knife to commit criminal damage (Criminal Damage act 1971) 3- likely engaged in the criminal offense of endangering Life at Sea (Merchant Shipping Act 1995)

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

51% for the far right does not fill me with hope.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Verona they obviously spoke "olde English" at the time

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m skeptical of this claim by DOD’s top AI guy that 13,000 targets in 38 days was “revolutionary” and required AI. We don’t have a strike number for OIF1 or a munitions number for Iran, so it’s not a perfect comparison, but over 3 weeks in 2003 AFCENT and NAVCENT fired a total of 28,666 munitions.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22/09/2026

it is ridiculously warm out there. I went out for lunch wearing a skirt, no tights and a light cashmere jumper and got to my lunch wishing I'd worn a t-shirt. Which is lovely an'all, but please could we have some nice autumn weather now? I'm done with it being hot.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The extent of the PISA gap between England and other western European countries in particular is extraordinary In reading, the 25% most disadvantaged young people in England outperformed the average for all students in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and many other countries

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Canada is a NATO ally and member of FVEY Belarus is enabling Russian aggression against Ukraine

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 20/09/2026

just had this zoom noisily overhead at about 600ft, which is unusual, to say the least. Usually only get this kind of plane when it's Trooping the Colour or a coronation or something

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Precision strikes are _incredibly_ effective at hitting a precise spot. If the spot is wrong… drones, hellfires, cruise, none of that shit matters a jot if it’s beaded in thanks to some ancient IMINT and fucking hokum AI-hallucinated bullshit. Good lord. 123 kids. Jesus wept.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The idea that the function of being in Eurovision is to win it, as if it were the World Cup, is a gigantic category mistake.

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