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James Brownsell

@jamesbrownsell.bsky.social
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Journalist, editor, consultant, occasional DJ Formerly of @the_newarab, @AlJazeera RTs≠endorsement brownsellj@gmail.com PGP key: bit.ly/2epcjnk

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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 4h
I mean, I was with him until that bit
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ᗰoggs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🕊️🇺🇦🇵🇸 @moggsee.bsky.social · 4h
Adorable 😻 🇺🇦❤️‍🔥
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 4h
In my opinion by far the biggest threat to economic security and resilience is the hacking of essential systems within a country. And trade is one of the key mitigations, though clearly there must be others. news.sky.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges to 50C in 'large-scale' cyber attack
The Paris prosecutor's office called the incident a "large-scale" ‌attack.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 4h
It's actually growing on me.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 4h
Accounts of Leif Erikson's voyage to present-day Canada were known to Europeans in Columbus' time
washingtonpost.com
He reached the Americas centuries before Columbus. Why doesn’t he get more credit?
Accounts of Leif Erikson’s voyage to present-day Canada were known to Europeans in Christopher Columbus’s time.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 6h
You're not wrong, but have I missed something?
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 12h
It has just turned midnight on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific and Ada Lovelace Day has begun! The day of 13 October continues around the globe for a whole 50 hours, so you have plenty of time to mark the day! Which women in STEM are you going to celebrate?
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 12h
"I can't work because of my mental health. You don't work because you're an unemployed loiterer."
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 23h
The basic question for all young people involved in political campaigns is are you doing this because you basically believe in it (in which case you'll probably turn out alright), to try and get laid (could go either way) or as petty revenge on someone who annoyed you in Fresher's Week (wrongun)
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12h
This is absolutely correct. Blaming the Russians is externalising the problem.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 23h
Thanks, I hate it.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Seriously. This is a big part of the problem. The BBC "both sides"ing absolutely everything. Even stuff like this which is about what our security services know about election interference. It *does not* require any Tufton Street response. At all.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also a stark example of the state of Facebook
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now that we know there was Russian interference (thanks, Andy Burnham) there's even less need to wait until 2036. Declare the referendum null and void, prosecute those responsible, and start the ball rolling now with customs union, single market, and full rejoin.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russian Data Hubs in Kaluga, destroyed by Ukrainian drones. At the same time: Online support in Germany for AfD, and in UK for Reform, takes a huge dip. THIS is NOT a COINCIDENCE.
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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Commerce existed for millennia before capitalism. Trade is not capitalism. Capitalism is a historically specific mode of production, not human nature or the end of history. Learn historical materialism: economic systems emerge, develop, and are eventually superseded.
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Scary Trans Ferdinand || How I Became Invisible @emdashreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Werner Herzog with a speech bubble
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This morning we're discussing what it means to be ethnically English. Coming up later we tackle the climate change debate and for today's phone-in we're asking "How much arsenic should you give a child?" Let us know what you think. But first, what happens if I put my entire head into this dark hole?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I live in the wrong country.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And every single time people dismiss everything university related as annoying eggheads instead of the literal engine of society it has been since the Middle Ages, those people are acting like the (inaccurate) cliche of grunting cavemen. Cavemen were so much smarter.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ed Sheeran to headline the half-time show.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Source: The Scottish Sun share.google/pYbcw9l0Chvn...
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IRN-BRU lorry with 41,000 bottles stolen from Scots depot as cops hunt thieves
COPS have launched a major hunt for a stolen IRN-BRU truck containing a huge haul of 41,000 bottles. The vehicle was nicked from a Scots depot and allegedly spotted across the border at the end of …
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Mike Evans @cachugb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jolene at number 16. Let's get it to the top pawb. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Literally the only thing that surprises me about the US livestreaming an execution by firing squad is that they didn't give the exclusive pay-per-view broadcast rights to a member of the Trump family or major GOP donor. I mean, there's still time, of course.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This has nothing to do with Trump not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, of course.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re reaching a tipping point.
chadbourn.substack.com
The Next Three Months
Trump and Putin are now at their most dangerous
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yup - Putin will put the blame of his failure to supply the fuel on the Ukrainians and Trump's anger will be directed towards them. And he will blame the US fuel crisis on Ukraine. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for both Putin and Trump to hide their own failures.
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Daily reminder that the most dangerous & influential Russian fascist, outspoken hater of the UK, NATO & Europe, Aleksandr 'Putin's Brain' Dugin, wishes Farage to be PM.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026
You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Robbie Gibb said he wanted to “win the trust of Reform voters” and here we are
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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magnuscanis.bsky.social @magnuscanis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the things that began to move the Irish public to support the Easter Rising was the execution of James Connolly who had been wounded in a battle and was tied to a wheelchair in front of the firing squad
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad
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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From the archives: I interviewed Navi Pillay, who just was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a year ago about Israel, Gaza, etc: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
‘Tell Us Where We’re Wrong’: The Outgoing Head of a UN Commission Challenges Israel
Navi Pillay says the United States and other countries have a responsibility to stop the war in Gaza.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Donald Trump is a Russian asset, whether or not he's officially on the payroll.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump throws Putin yet another lifeline while russia intensifies its killing of Ukrainian civilians. Every American who loves democracy and freedom should be deeply ashamed of their govt and working to punish it for this betrayal of basic American values and interests.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
well that's not very Raven
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Evergreen post
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t know how else to tell these “liberals”that enacting or supporting a genocide is literally the most extreme form of racism there is
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