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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

My take re: McGurk is that even if you take him at relatively his word re: Biden et al privately attempting to restrain Israel (which is to an extent likely true) the obvious takeaway is that it did not work and whatever future admin is in place will need to much more seriously take public measures.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17h

"They did a thing, maybe it was the right thing to do at the time maybe it wasn't, but regardless between this and bombing iran we now have ironclad evidence a) the israeli govt are unmanageable and b) US MENA specialists are all gigantic dumdums" is the objectively correct take from mcgurkin it

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 23h

Enjoying the high speed train frontages at the National Railway Museum

A low-angle selfie of a man with light brown hair and a grey goatee, wearing a black coat, in front of the huge, glossy white bulbous nose of an original Japanese Shinkansen at the National Railway Museum. An orange-lit round window sits on the left and the shell rests on a riveted blue steel base.

The same man in front of the blunt yellow and blue nose of a British Rail InterCity 125 (HST) power car at the National Railway Museum. The cab windscreen with its wiper is above him, with a black ventilation grille and headlamps behind him

The same man in front of the rounded yellow and white nose of an original Eurostar power car at the National Railway Museum. Two headlamps glow on either side of an orange perforated panel. Part of a tunnel-boring machine is visible to the right, with blue roof trusses overhead.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

me on how we know Trump doesn't have a magic button to win the midterms because he keeps thrashing around looking for a magic button. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-woul...

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Trump Wouldn’t Promise Cash If He’d Rigged the Midterms

He doesn’t have a plan.

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The National Railway Museum knew what they were doing

A vintage enamel advertising sign in a slim silver frame, mounted on an exposed brick wall. Bright yellow background with bold black lettering shadowed in red reads "Ask for Ringer's Shag" and, below, "The Old Welsh Favourite". The enamel is worn and scratched, with rust along the edges and a small rust-brown chip near the middle of the "R" and "G" letters of "Ringer's".

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surely no one has ever catastrophically failed by overestimating the American people's willingness to go through tough times. <hoovermaxxing intensifies>

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well well well! Hope all the surveillance-prone governments we hear too much from will learn from this.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You do realise that scrapping the pension triple lock will fuck us over and not current pensioners

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What a street!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally, the recognition I deserve

Dogging tweet reposted by William Gibson the author of Neuromancer

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

Hand-drawn Venn diagram titled "Bubbles," with four overlapping circles: Beanie Babies, AI, NFTs, and Dot-com.

Each alone: "Gamble on plushies!" / "Gamble on LLMs!" / "Gamble on JPEGs!" / "Gamble on HTML!"

Beanie Babies + AI: "The products tend to have cutesy first names."
Beanie Babies + NFTs: "Who will own the rarest fake monkey?"
AI + Dot-com: "Genuinely important underlying technology."
NFTs + Dot-com: "This URL could be worth millions!"

Every bubble but Dot-com: "Mostly in private markets."
Every bubble but NFTs: "Good people got hurt."
Every bubble but AI: "Never threatened life as we know it."
Every bubble but Beanie Babies: "Blame Silicon Valley."

All four: "Somebody got rich, but probably not you."

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enjoying my seat at the Dolly Parton memorial table at the York vinyl café (Forty Five Vinyl Café).

A cafe table with a glass top with pictures of Dolly Parton records under the glass and some coffees and paraphernalia on top

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's going on with this guy?

A grotesque of a demon with a frog crawling out of its mouth and a fish in its hand and a man's face in its crotch. How grotesque!

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

London friends: @diffractiongrating.bsky.social and I are in London this week - currently planning drinks near Kings Cross on Thursday from 6pm - DM me for venue details - also free at various points on Saturday afternoon and Sunday lunchtime but no firm plans yet

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely incredible editing and soundtrack

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026

[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bluesky serendipity.

aggressive deaccessio... @kaylou... • 3h how many times do you reckon the word
'sectarian' has been used in ACARS
before
probably not a lot but probably mostly from flights over the UK & Ireland
) ACARS Drama @acarsdram... • 4h
Air to Ground Message:
CAN URQST POLICE FOR US IN BFS.
PAX IN 12F MALE. VAPING.DRINKING OWN ALCOHOL. VERBALLY AGRESSIVE SECTARIAN COMMENTS AND NON COMPLY THANKS. XXXX
Area: Chester, UK
Type: Airbus A320
A: #aa364d356e6
F: #fe487e0a27d
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Dr. Seuss Bot @dr-seuss-bot.bsk...
I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The train from Glasgow to Manchester really ought to be called the Cis-Pennine Express

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A film about a weirdly beloved paedophile did well at the box office earlier this year though

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Circles of hell that Dante inexplicably missed: the punishment for snorers where you have to navigate turning off an unfamiliar labyrinth of table lights and uplighters at 2am as everyone else goes to their beds

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once you take rural fascists out of the picture, NIMBYs are the remaining legit villains and everything else is noise

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(Five year max sentence for the latter and it's very close to strict liability as an offence)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let me be clear: I despise Jacob Rees-Mogg. I would still prefer he take the right side on this, because I am not a big baby and as someone with a child with some who immigrated to the UK, I have a personal stake in people of mixed origin not being othered.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah people were taking the piss out of me for saying Critical support to Mogg and Sunak, but it is in fact Really. Fucking. Important. that both parties think that I have civil liberties.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

I met a good number of Tory MPs who thought their personal vote would help them buck the trend in 2024. Very, very, very few of them are MPs now.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a good thing that parts of the British right have woken up to the fact that only they can properly kill this mad stuff, at least:

youtube.com

The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race

YouTube video by Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He genuinely shouldn’t be political editor of the BBC if he writes an opening like this and doesn’t think ‘hmmm that’s a bit shit’.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Do we still have gibbets?

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

genuinely is shabana mahmood alive? do we have a home secretary? are there laws? is this the purge from the movie the purge? is crime now legal? can we shit on the street? can we ransack an m&s? is this just a fucking free for all?

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As someone born in Essex, it's always nice to be reminded of the existence of Portsmouth

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely great, best subcontinent food I've ever had anywhere with a liquor licence

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not the core point but it's baffling and mad when Yanks refer to some local community college by an acronym which was really very taken already

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have finally been to Dishoom after having thought about it on various prior UK trips and I'm glad I went to Mumbai in December to really appreciate the nostalgia.

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Genuinely impressive levels of Accor membership welcome gift at the Glasgow Ibis

Two cans of Irn Bru and two Tunnocks tea cakes

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're still consciously using this language after the level of persecution immigrants have gone through in countless US cities (and think you can cleanly separate them from so-called "transplants") then I don't know what to say

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remain really uneasy about this.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Signs we have been in the airport for too long: @johnb78.bsky.social: There's a Brew Dog. Me: I suppose there is, dog.

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