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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2026

40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart theonion.com/40-year-old-not-active…

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/07/2025

another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week

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Adrian de la Touche @anoraky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

90 years ago today the people of Leeds drove the fascists out of our city. It’s more important now than ever that we keep it that way.

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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I used to write for a kids tv show and we had a binman character who’d look through a celeb’s trash and you’d guess who it was (for example medals, running shoes = Usain Bolt) and we got through so many layers of compliance before being told he just couldn’t be called Gary Litter

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Jim B @jimb9.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ginger tosser. 🇵🇸

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.

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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port

Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

oh no ChatGPT is down I can't wait for my life to be completely unaffected by this

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258 Please share. TY x

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 03/08/2026

Rather than allowing humanists to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the BBC's current format requires all speakers to frame political and current affairs commentary through a religious or scriptural lens. Yet half of the UK is non-religious so why not let us speak?

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is how you make a post

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the most fascinating thing about an american biscuit is that structurally it's a scone but culturally it's a yorkshire pudding
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 24/07/2026

Hey, you've got a message from Janet Ellis.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Nandy remaining at culture. What is point? What is point?

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The least we can do is insist Australia adopt Sam Neill’s Event Horizon flag.

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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

No no let's hear it out it's worth considering

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You could probably get away with saying "fuck sample" instead of "for example". Try it today and let me know the results.

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This Makerfield voter sums up British politics in less than 70 seconds 🔥🔥🔥

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Cometh the hour, cometh the man

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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Let's check the #SNLUK Fouracres-o-Meter. Real value for money!

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

#SNLUK Fouracres fronting a British Pork parody where he breaks during it? Is it Christmas? Did I win a competition?

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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Let's check the #SNLUK Fouracres-o-Meter. That's the stuff!

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Pierre Novellie @pierrenovellie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Leeds, Leeds, Leeds! Last night was excellent fun, so I’ll be back in about a week! See you on the 1st of May? leedsheritagetheatres.com/whats-on/pie...

A poster for an extra show of Pierre’s tour at Leeds city varieties on 1 May

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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

In the last 10 years, the licence fee has only gone up by £34.50/year. In the same time, for the same deal (HD, no ads), Netflix has gone up by almost double that, £67.08/year. And that’s just for Netflix, not the ENTIRE BBC.

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