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@jamesw200.bsky.social
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Gamer. Reader. Watcher. Star Warser. Devourer of too much media. Collector of physical media. Looking for someone to buy me a house large enough to store said media.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1h
The Royal Family don't do real work like a Teacher or a Nurse says Lord Foulkes and they should have their pay streamlined like the European Royal families instead of getting £137.9m for ribbon cutting. Absolutely the Danish King and Queen get only £0.5m a year.
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC
BBC screengrab from within their Russell Brand trial coverage.  Image of Brand in 70s-style aviator glasses, with earpods in, blank expression. Long dark wavy hair, black and grey beard, dark unbuttoned shirt. All on a fire red/orange and black background
BBC logo top and centre, underneath a subdeck reading: Fame Under Fire. Then the headline 'Russell Brand On Trial'. 
The words 'fire'and 'trial' are coloured to look like they are glowing orange at the bottom
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Imagine a politician insulting his own followers' IQ to their faces with "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap" and having them prove him right in real time by cheering for it. Comedy writers couldn’t script a better cult parody. #momsky #sheshed
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/10/2026
TAKE BACK OUR ROYAL MAIL Andy Burnham make it 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫, let it go bust if it can't, then take over. OR just buy it back at a discount as a vital 500 year old asset. vist.ly/5mhfz
morningstaronline.co.uk
Ministers urged to ‘save’ Royal Mail as up to 2,500 jobs set to go
UNIONS called on ministers to save the Royal Mail today after it announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of 2027.Communication Workers Union deputy general secretary Martin Walsh said that the proposals will affect some 200 CWU-represented jobs in administration and revenue protection.“We urge the government to confront the reality of a collapsing Royal Mail and intervene to save this national institution,” he said.
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James @jamesw200.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
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Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.
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James @jamesw200.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I mean, unfortunately, yep, that pretty much sums me up. Amazon has basically written my dating profile for me.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Royal Mail since privatisation in 2013 - stamp prices up 107% 💰 - failing to deliver letters, missing statutory targets 📮 - now wants to cut 2500 jobs ⁉️ Absolutely disgraceful Andy Burnham must step in and TAKE BACK OUR ROYAL MAIL www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
theguardian.com
Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 head office and support jobs by end of next year – as it happened
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns energy shock, public debt and AI boom threaten global growth, as Brent crude rises above $101 a barrel and government bond yields rise
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (they were horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible
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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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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first two items on BBC News have unsubstantiated claims from Trump and Netanyahu as core parts of their story. This follows a Times of Israel ‘journalist’ on the radio quoting things other people had seen on Facebook. Journalism is dying.
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James @jamesw200.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
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Marcus Bailey @marcusbailey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Emirati officials have warned the UK Government that the severity of the ruling against Manchester City could impact the UAE’s appetite for future major investment and commitments in Britain” But City fans insist they aren’t state owned, what a joke!!
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This entire City story - and especially the last stories of Etihad, Burnham and Khaldoon’s diplomatic immunity - crystallises why states and state actors should not be allowed own clubs The longer it goes, the more chaotic it gets www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
independent.co.uk
Why Andy Burnham has got it wrong on Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners
Andy Burnham confessed he would be ‘really concerned’ if Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners sold but, as Miguel Delaney writes, the prime minister’s view clashes with those inside football and a pressing nee...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For non-soccer fans: this scandal is basically a microcosm of what is going on everywhere re: the ultra-wealthy doing whatever they want because they can. Man City cheated like hell. But here is the prime minister implying they’re just too valuable to the UK to hold to account. It sucks
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham admits to ‘concern’ if Manchester City lose their owners after guilty verdicts
The primer minister said: ‘City have been a huge partner in building modern Manchester,’ while the Independent Football Regulator said it is monitoring the case
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
gmb.org.uk
£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
babelfish.news
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No coincidence Farage announces a national general election campaign tour for a non existent election as HOP is due to reconvene so he can swan around UK doing FA, Clacton got what they voted for Fun Fact - Farage is in bottom 8% of MPs for voting participation & bottom 16% for debate contributions
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think Andor really is one of the most important TV shows of our time. Technically brilliant, so galvanising, each time I find something new in it (just watched it a fourth (!) time). Absolute masterpiece.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
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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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/09/2026
"The unwillingness of platforms to accept even paid advertising is sure to raise concerns about free speech and the dwindling number of companies that control many of the platforms in this country — and ironically provide a proof-text for the point the film is coming to make." Sci-fi had warned us.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All of the older, now establishment Hollywood figures who are embracing this technology are basically pulling up the ladder behind them as they head into their sunset years
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pervert glasses now brand your temples so people know you’re a pervert even when you’re off duty.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The fact that many of the people on UC are also working is not mentioned until way, way down in this Times story. Same for the detail that lots of previous benefits have been phased out and rolled into UC. But above all, the TPA is a pressure group funded by people who avoid and evade tax.
One in five adults are on universal credit
More than seven million people are claiming the UK's main benefit, including a million people in their twenties, Taxpayers' Alliance research says
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Daisy Eastlake, Political Reporter
Monday September 21 2026, 7.00pm, The Times
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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Suddenly remembered this near ten-year-old Joel Golby article about Ed Sheeran exists and contains many a banger. My favourite is 'really very genuinely has the vibe that if his black jeans fade he will just scribble over them with a Sharpie while still wearing them' www.vice.com/en/article/s...
vice.com
So You Have Decided to Hate Ed Sheeran: A Guide for Americans
His inoffensiveness is what makes him offensive.
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Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️‍🌈 @railfocus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolute state of BBC News ragebait. This is not a ban on St George flags, but an injunction stopping people from putting any flag on street furniture, which is NOT designed to support a flag! It's also a dumb headline because people have be installing Union and football flags
Headline reads: St George flag raisers could face fines under new council rules
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just a reminder Jim Ratcliffe can't stand for Reform or Restore. Because he claims to live in Monaco and therefore cannot be an MP. He doesn't pay any tax either, so I don't know why he is moaning about UK spending. Maybe he should pay some tax or actually fck off to Monaco.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Look, I'm very sorry I apologized for being a knob-guzzling twat-canker at the beginning of this treacle-fest. My PR team wrote it and made me perform it and it won't happen again."
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How can it be that I know Andy Burnham disapproves of serving Yorkshire puddings with Christmas dinner but not whether he disapproves of masked fascists threatening members of the RNLI?
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sheeran still trying to both sides it, calling Palestine 'the most complex political issue on the planet'. It's *not* complicated and that bullshit stopped many of us seeing reality for years. In 2026, there's no excuse. We have all witnessed a government murdering children and gloating about it.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So there are “outright racists” and “normal racists” now…? There are “good racists” and “bad racists” is basically what the Burnham government is saying.
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'Outright racist' activist Daniel Thomas will face 'full force of law' over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran PERFORMED AT ROBERT KRAFT’S WEDDING. He was not put in an “impossible situation.” His hands were not tied. He tried to use his openers and band as a PR shield to both-sides genocide and they dropped out because they’d rather give up the money and exposure than be complicit.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Too many men with small cocks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
Fast, furious and potentially fatal: why are supercars suddenly so popular?
Once the preserve of the ultra-rich, supercars are finding new drivers through rentals, finance deals, influencer culture and the manosphere. But why would anyone want a 200mph vehicle?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reminder covering 0.4% of UK farmland in Solar Panels would provide 100% renewable energy. 20% is currently unused and 2% is golf courses. The being outraged at solar panels on farmland is a Right Wing trope to keep you outraged at Renewable energy.
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James @jamesw200.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's best we all just ignore that second one. Only watched it out of curiosity because I live in London and wanted to see if they'd got the continuity of her run right. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Having first tried being a ‘one nation’ Cameron-Tory, then a remainer, then a rabid brexiter, Jenrick has now decided that his route to power lies in being a nasty little far-right shit. A total loser scrabbling around for ‘likes’ in the cesspit of Reform. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal'
He previously said the heckler should “get a life”.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/09/2026
We want clean air and water and a livable climate. Instead we are getting AI to record all of our conversations through a watch.
9to5mac.com
The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac
Apple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...
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