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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 21h

I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues

The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway one of the key things is to be humble, and admit quickly and publicly and completely when you got it wrong, both to normalize it for others and for the sake of your own goddamn soul.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The sausage was delivered safely.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

Recent discussions of "longtermism" remind me that the dissertation I never wrote for the PhD I never got in philosophy was going to defend the thesis that, to put it very simply, epistemic humility ought to be at the center of any naturalistic ethics.

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Jim Baxter @jimbaxter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My favourite thing to see on here (and unfortunately I need to stress I'm not being sarcastic or cynical) is when someone puts forward a view, someone else offers a counterargument, and the original person recalibrates their view in response. An advance has been made.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 17/09/2026

I created this slide, for our internal training on AI, on when it's fine to use it and when you should be worried. Sadly, a lot of the people I see using it still fall into the bottom row.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

WARNING!!! I have just made a terrible error. I was trying to renew my £25 annual membership to Reform UK to stop immigration. Unfortunately I am not great at spelling and ended up sending my £25 to the RNLI, those bastards who rescue people at sea. Do not make the same mistake as me.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

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Jim Baxter @jimbaxter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Take That might have struggled to take this version to number 3.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Well, Reacher is really in a jam here. I don’t see how he can get out of this one. I mean, all those guys are surrounding him with guns. How could he— … Ah yes. Punching everyone. Of course.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm sorry I left your poncho on Alderaan.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On the argument that Britain doing anything about climate change is futile because we're so small.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Fraser. Here are Cocteau Twins appearing as This Mortal Coil to perform Song to the Siren on Loose Talk in 1983

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Lippy Kid @lippykidmusic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A very happy 80th birthday to the Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter Born this day 20th Aug 1946

Ralf Hütter standing behind a synthesiser

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Chlorine is eating Sarah's hands.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So many people in this wretched affair are incapable of registering the idea that the black people involved are in fact real people, rather than being rhetorical props for whatever unrelated point they wish to make.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This website will never be bettered in terms of the ability of such a small userbase to become angry with you for so many different, contradictory reasons.

@ladyaranea.bsky.social
has added you to the "Transphobes" moderation list

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has added you to the ""Men's Rights Activists"" moderation list

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Jim Baxter @jimbaxter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is amazing to me. People putting their heart and soul into art and not even being allowed to know how many people have seen it.

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S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RON! 🥳

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

abc.net.au

Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

an unfathomable amount of stuff has got better over the last 40 years - hell, even over the *last 15* - and anyone convinced it hasn't does not remember or know what things were like 15 or 40 years ago.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I wrote about how the young Andy Burnham's admiration for Philip Larkin was all part of his grand plan to rule the UK

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"Little Englandism of the Left"

How Andy Burnham's bid for power started with Philip Larkin

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/07/2026

People are soothed by generally upbeat stuff that is easy to follow and you can join in media res.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Remembering Desmond Dekker on his birthday

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Tamara Bumpdeeay @moiness.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I cannot be doing with video podcasts. I listen to pods when I am multitasking. Walking. Travelling. Shopping. Having a bath. Working. Housework. Cooking. I watch TV when I am not doing anything else. Video podcasts are just telly but visually boring and on a crappy platform.

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Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This really is great. Sums up everything that makes a World Cup a moment of hope and joy, while being very clear about the ways this tournament has been tainted by corruption, racism and assault allegations.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Dear All, Everything is going superly.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Donald Trump has no shame, but Folarin Balogun is a class act. He spoke to Belgian head coach, Rudi Garcia, after the match. Garcia said of Balogun "He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him." H/T @resistrebelrevolt.net

Belgian head coach, Rudi Garcia, talking to Folarin Balogun

They spoke after the match and Garcia said of Balogun

"He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him. I really appreciate the intention that he came to see me. I appreciate this player."

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Jim Baxter @jimbaxter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Watched the first episode of this. It is excellent.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Simply the most compelling, watchable, unignorable cricketer of the last thirty years. #TheCricket

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Jim Baxter @jimbaxter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yikes britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is how this supposedly serious stats account responded when I attempted to engage it in a serious exchange about tactical voting and seat projections. I will be blocking this nasty individual later, I recommend you all do likewise.

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Jim Parrett 🍁 @jymn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

David Hockney (July 9 1937 - June 11, 2026)

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Jim Baxter @jimbaxter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Oh the hours I could spend doing an enormous one of these for musicians.

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