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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3h

Fundamentally, Palantir is a fairly boring piece of software that is quite good at consolidating old incompatible databases which the public sector is full of, but it is just visibly a national security concern to embed a hostile power into every bit of the public sector, come on.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 6h

Trickle-down economics, sold by Reagan/Thatcher as a route to prosperity for all: In practice, it disproportionately rewarded the already wealthy. Thatcher transferred publicly owned infrastructure into private hands, sometimes at bargain prices. The public lost assets; private investors gained.

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John Lydon @john-lydon.bsky.social · 7h

@monkemma.bsky.social showing how Goodwin has publicly embarrassed himself yet again, if any of the sorry crew were capable. A deserved sting in the tail for AI too.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18h

Tens of thousands fewer students is hundreds of millions of pounds of lost export earnings, solely and wholly to appease racists.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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John Lydon @john-lydon.bsky.social · 14h

Sounds obvious when it's put like this, step by step...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com · 07/10/2026

Today marks 20 years since Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow. She recognized Putin's true nature earlier than most—and the regime could never erase the truth she died to tell.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A political party having its own media outlet (I mean, more than the old media was a Tory operation) is not a sign of a healthy democracy or a healthy media.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if AI can't improve productivity of coding, then all other claims about productivity improvements are essentially horseshit. Coding was the one thing everyone was like "well yeah of course it will be able to do that faster"

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

news.mit.edu

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tories on Tuesday: "we'll spend £10bn on a missile system we don't understand". Tories on Wednesday "we'll cut taxes!" These are not serious people.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New substack: why there's no place for good ideas in politics: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/who-needs-...

chrisdillow.substack.com

Who needs thought?

Capitalist politics now militates against good ideas in politics

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm planning a new career as a "fitness influencer" (which is what I believe they're called). Link to my YouTube channel in next post......

EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 60

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.

With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.

Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.

After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags. Then try 50-lb potato bags and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level).

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.

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John Lydon @john-lydon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When does the big hook come to drag him away?

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We introduced 20mph zones in Oxfordshire and the numbers of people killed and injured on our roads has gone down even as the same figures in surrounding areas have gone up. Sorry to be a soggy liberal but I think that's a good thing.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s massive amounts of red tape that are caused by immigration control and the hostile environment and its biggest advocates are the very politicians who complain about excessive regulation. Enormous costs for employers, landlords, universities.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had a brief conversation with a ‘Britain is full’ racist. Sigh. Just one little bit of logic. If you have an ageing population, and at the same time constant population numbers, can you see what that does to working-age numbers? It’s not difficult if you have the slightest grasp of mathematics.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Johnny Marr and @shaunwkeaveny.bsky.social have a friendly chat about Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads, the New York influence on Marr. The late great Andy Rourke's powerful intertwined bass lines are talked about with with great affection. youtu.be/aRBtHjD9Kn4?...

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Johnny Marr on Television, Talking Heads, and Andy Rourke’s iconic basslines | Indie Icons Only

YouTube video by BBC Radio 6 Music

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The right wing extremist media temporarily forget their usual fury that they're all 'undocumented young fit men of fighting age' to bring us fury that they're females getting free hijabs... 🤔

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flames and smoke now rising from an Aramco facility south of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, AFP reports.

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As an aside, imagine cooking your brain so thoroughly that you get yourself a long prison sentence for a terrorist campaign against ... a £12.50 toll charge

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

16 cars removed from one small street in one London borough. But yes, let's keep having the same endless conversations about the occasional Lime bike on the pavement. Lime bikes are heavily used. The endless cars stored all over London's streets for days on end? Apparently much harder to notice.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The right and far right would for the most part be entirely happy with the ECHR if only it didn’t apply to people they don’t like, particularly migrants, trans people or prisoners

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UK has always had a right-wing media. But they are now a hysterical, disinformation spreading cartel. Weaponised by Brexit lies, Corbyn smears, defending Boris Johnson, spreading racism & trying to delegitimise the very idea of a Labour Govt. Another rotten vested interest needing reform.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my daily propaganda show tonight I will be pretending that Brexit wasn't a complete and unmitigated disaster based on the lies of a handful of rich grifting twats who don't give a shit about ordinary people.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One for the "there are too many administrators and managers in the NHS" crowd. "the UK spends less on administration (as a share of total health spending) than comparable countries." Source: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A c*** writes.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham's speech was predictably moderate. Essentially a re-run of the post-war social contract and consensus, aiming to dull some of capitalism's sharpest edges. Not much different to Corbyn's, really. That it will be framed as socialism, raw in tooth and claw, says much about how we have declined

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like, after a decade, we still don’t have an answer to dealing with politicians who routinely act in bad faith. And I know the obvious answer would be for them to stop acting in bad faith and maybe there isn’t another answer.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes! Our problem is that the public sphere has suffered a tragedy of the commons. The answer is either to repair it, which requires strong collective action, or to ignore the media as noisy propaganda & get on with the job of good government. Labour is mostly doing neither.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is lovely.

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will believe all the sad-eyed stuff about NEETs, lost generations, opportunity crisis etc. when the people saying it are talking about in terms of investment rather than cuts

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look, I was here through every other round of benefit cuts, benefit conditionality youth employment schemes, crack downs, new criteria etc. since the 1990s. At no point did reducing support or making it harder to get have some transformative effect in the targeted population.

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John Lydon @john-lydon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Legitimate concerns' in action.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why might that be, Telegraph?

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Julia Husar @juliahusar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think that one more lane would fix this

A clusterfuck of cars at an intersection in Boston where there is a traffic jam that is truly awful

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

A few people have pointed out that the same would be true about Rocky Horror Picture Show, David Bowie and Queen. The levels of vitriol would be off the charts - as a more recent example, just look at how Sam Smith gets treated by the commentariat on the right.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Voter ID etc are all about voter suppression. Same in the U.K.

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