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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 13h
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 16h
In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 20h
Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My song 'Father' is getting a very exciting airing at the Stiles + Drew Best Song prize at The Other Palace on Monday - tickets still available and it's looking like being a really smashing evening of new work! Come and listen!
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Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2026  - The Other Palace Theatre
The Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize, produced by Mercury Musical Developments, is back, spotlighting the UK’s most exciting emerging songwriting talent.
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David Davies @dsixbass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The news
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is 100% accurate. 100%. San Francisco is a literal destination for kids thrown out by far right parents. Many end up on the street. The good news is they’re among the easiest to help because on the whole they’re not addicts or mentally ill. They’re just desperate for a home.
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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch saying people earning a million pounds a year shouldn't be punished for working hard, and in all my years on this earth I don't think I've ever been so naïve as to think people getting that much money are working hard.
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, aka the haunted pencil
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The central "idea" behind the development of AI is: people are shit and can't do anything, they can't be trusted, this magic machine code will do everything for us. It's the final phase of a program that's been reshaping our reality for decades. A complete inversion of the truth.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest edition of my newsletter...
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The James Lark Newsletter September 2026
Hello friends, What do you know, the September newsletter almost made it into September! The reason for the slight tardiness this time round is that I was working right up to the deadline for the orch...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If he's gonna watch that, he should also watch all the fan videos with fans playing the parts, making the costumes, writing the scripts etc. There is so much real creativity out there, born of an enthusiastic and inclusive fan community. We don't need artificial intelligence, we have genuine talent.
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Famously, when Doctor Who finally got a Disney budget for VFX it produced the most successful and popular series of its 62 year run.
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks Sarah, appreciate this v much. Good wishes to you also!
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord;
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look at the contrast here with what happened with the masked jackbooted thugs who descended on Dover the other day.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"unequivocal"
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Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word
Alt: Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remind you that half of your political/media class frantically urged you to vote for this pig-ignorant, disastrously incompetent crook, and the other half frantically urged you not to vote for the only viable opposition, and then put two and two together about why they did that.
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The mental cartwheels we have to perform to support the BBC while its news department continues to serve up steaming shit pie.
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Nev Fountain @nevfountain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Translation: Laura is bored and misses her old narrative of the unstoppable momentum of Reform. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How long can Labour's feel-good factor last?
The party’s spirits have been transformed since Burnham became PM, but what's coming down the tracks, asks Laura Kuenssberg.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am indeed!!
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Though it is an evolving set of thoughts, I have at last updated my website with a statement about why I don't use AI. (It's quite long. Maybe should have asked ChatGBH to condense it.) www.jameslark.co.uk/ai
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Statement on AI | James Lark composer
I do not use AI at any stage of the creative process. This is why.
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If I'd written the "island of strangers" speech, I probably wouldn't try to lecture others on how overheated and emotional rhetoric is fuelling the far right
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When somebody tells you that anti-misinformation plans directly target their party... erm... believe them
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Because this is the takeaway from yesterday's events ffs
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC is complicit
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#cartoon
A cartoon showing Noah and his ark stuffed full of animals, while a twat in a balaclava points a phone at him and shouts 'TRAITOR'
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you
Rishi Sunak stood on a lecturn speaking which has a STOP THE BOATS sign on it
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a really important point that I wish some people would be more precise about. “AI” as a vague concept in the news gives evil people the ability to wash their hands of actions they designed these systems to carry out. It would be trivial to fix this in alignment. They don’t want to.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talk TV and GB News broadcast hate, the media was out of control this summer tearing apart the life and achievements of Jason Arday: nothing from Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary. Racists in Piddington vote to leave the UK, and up she pops, clapping like a seal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Once we've put up the wall, can we also deport Lisa Nandy to Piddington?
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James Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper @cooraysmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... I've had what might be a new, and possibly even significant, thought about Doctor Who's late 1980s cancellation. This is a free subscribers e-mail, and free to read on the site too, but if you agree, why not become a paid subscriber? Or indeed, even if you don't.
Sophie Aldred, a young white woman, is trapped in a water tank. Don't worry, she got out.
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paulwiggin.bsky.social @paulwiggin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Leviticus is excellent. Gets closer to embodying the experience of growing up gay in a conservative church than several more literal attempts, and is considerably more entertaining. A film that is going to live with me for some time. Beautiful cinematography too.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s a pity that so many people find “The Last Battle” unpalatable (for reasons I understand!), because there is some extremely sharp stuff in there about how theology and religious language and imagery can be weaponised to abuse people and to achieve power that feels quite timely right now.⚓️✝️
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Genuinely baffled as to which of this mix of tedious cliches, right-wing received opinion and inside-the-box thinking, all of it featured ad nauseam in BBC politics programming, he thinks he couldn’t have mentioned while on the Today programme
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a typical 'blue' Labour's mistake. Labelling moderate people as insufferable, top knotted, sourdough starter making, lactose intolerant fruitarians, when in fact their stated views on international policy, welfare, education and transport are very aligned with core Labour values
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