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John Lyons

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Nerd, fan of this pop music everyone's talking about, likes scientists and the NHS.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14h
NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
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Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?
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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Guess who’s pissed off by the loss in right wing bot traffic?
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm now signing up as a mercenary for the War on Christmas.
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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Christianity

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 ChristianityCasablanca: I'm shocked... SHOCKED.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Larry is, of course, on it.
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leearizuno.bsky.social @leearizuno.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Jesus, Pearson/Braverman: the Frost/Nixon of who gives a fuck.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I encourage people to use GDPR and send this guy's company a subject access request (SAR) if you think there's even the slightest chance he's been putting you on a list. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 10/10/2026
I really wish you'd stop sharing screenshots from the sewer that is X. We know it's teeming with awful shit. That's why we left it.
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That George Benson instead of George Fenton gaffe was merely one of loads of examples. It increasingly can’t handle anything that requires any kind of conviction and so you get - to coin a Iannucci phrase - this house style ‘depressed hyperbole’, which is now everywhere, and not just the BBC either.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As we all know, it's always far harder to spot errors when they reinforce the case you're wanting to make.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bleurgh.
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Did Royal Mail Revive BBC & 'Paddington' Voiceover Star With AI?
Daughter of Paul Vaughan, an acclaimed BBC and 'Paddington' voiceover artist, accuses Royal Mail Christmas ad of resurrecting her father using AI.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Conor Tomlinson - clear that he will not accept Saka as English, nor Badenoch's children. His position is that Badenoch would be banned from parliament, along with all the other ethnic minority MPs. Remarkably, Tomlinson was a guest of Mr Harry Cole's ridiculously softball podcast interview.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 08/10/2026
Seems like a great post to use as report Elon's latest 24-hour FEC filing. The world's richest fascist just added... $1,304,222,21 Which brings his total spent in the midterms to... $39,865,669 Yes, you read that right. Yes, that's nearly $20 million in the last week alone.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 08/10/2026
Keep on fluffing your broligarch backers, JD. All the money in the world is not gonna make you president
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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also, why does everything have to be a 'discussion'? I know why, it's *cheap*. They used the cover of 'discussion' to kill Newsnight.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I loved it. Some broadband company has stiffed Deirdre of twenty quid and won't reply to her emails, so now we're going to horribly fuck them up while being ostensibly polite. The palpable sense of fear when a business finds a BBC crew has suddenly taken an interest. Great fun.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If anyone still wonders about how Jimmy Savile got away with it, just read all the tributes to Archer that refer more prominently to his charity work than his crimes. There’s a big part of it.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I get the appeal of nostalgia, I really do, but I find it specifically funny to get a leaflet from Reform's candidate talking about how when he was in the Met 31 years ago, he would never have dreamed of lawlessness like the kind we now see in Kings Cross.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Classic Archer. Signing his books after he's died.
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Nick Gibbs @nickgibbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some speech writer truly hates Andrew Griffith (shadow chancellor, formerly shadow business). ‘Station by station, bypass by bypass, the public realm will improve…” he left out the middle ‘by’ so just said bypass twice.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 05/10/2026
So hard to pick just nine
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every single charlatan paying tribute to Jeffrey Archer should be played that clip of him leaping up and down like Rumplestiltskin shouting "you WAIIIITTTT till I'm mayor" at a news crew. Despicable individual protected by despicable people and I suspect we don't know the half of what he did.
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyway. RIP George Fenton. Others have shared Bergerac and Newsnight and Films but there’s this one also. m.youtube.com/watch?v=99BC...
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Shoestring Intro / Outro (1980)
YouTube video by Jonathan Davies
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John Lyons @johnlyons15.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah, man. Loved George's work from when I first encountered his name in the 1978 Thames/Euston Films series Out. Bangers a-plenty from him.
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Arrows, like contemporaries Flintlock, had no end of TV exposure, none of which got them anywhere chart-wise. The only thing that came out of their own two series was Joan Jett seeing them perform their theme song.
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Arrows, I Love Rock N Roll, Alan Merrill
Arrows, "I Love Rock N Roll" featuring lead singer Alan Merrill. The original a-side version from 1975 by the band (Alan Merrill and) the Arrows. The group were produced by British legend Mickie Most, and the tune was written by Arrows Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker. The song was later covered by Joan
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New Martin Express @thatmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I really like Kemi Badenoch - because in every interview she does - she shows us exactly who she is. The sort of person who once she's through the door - she'll slam it closed on everyone else.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Matthew Syed says we need more bankruptcies and unemployment; unclear if this extends to Sunday Times columnists.
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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘The Wrong Way’
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Liz Truss Clueless
ALT: Liz Truss Clueless
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
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Dylan Hayward @dylanhayward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There’s a difference between sharing someone’s journalism and taking it to make your own content. I’ve had my work lifted multiple times by this content creator. It’s particularly frustrating when he talks about his views growing as local news fades away, while using the work of local journalists.
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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If they want to go into the election promising to slash benefits but keep the triple lock & give free childcare to people earning over 100k then Labour will probably be quite happy with that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
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Badenoch questioned by Kuenssberg, as Tories pledge to scrap £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge' - watch live
The Conservative leader speaks to the BBC as the party's annual conference begins today in Birmingham.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This genuinely happened in a coffee shop in Ballymena today. Woman asks what sizes of coffees they do. Server: “We do small and large.” Woman: “How big are they?” Server: “I’ll grab two cups and show you.” [Gets two different sized cups] “This is the wee large one and this is the wee small one.”
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love some bloke who has had a sinecure at the times for 27 years lecturing us about the need for us to lose our jobs
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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Man City fans thinking they can spot flaws in a decision made by three senior lawyers is the new Dads think they could win a game against Serena Williams.
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Quiet Friday night pint (managed one) ended up with five hours in the Emergency Eye Department. Apparently I have a PVD. The long suffering @gailmyerscough.co.uk was sat with me listening to the honking and moaning of some arseholes about the NHS. They don’t know which side their bread’s buttered.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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John Lyons @johnlyons15.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Aye. The Man from UNCLE, 1965. And that's just off the top of my head.
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought this guy was meant to be a TV nerd? I could name a dozen US shows aired by the BBC *before* Dallas off the top of my head
"BBC have been showing American TV since Dallas"
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is it: join a local group objecting to wind turbines / solar farms / pylons? Asking for a Nimby.
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Energy bills: what to do as prices head for £2,000 a year, from switching deals to insulating
The price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save
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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine being this disconnected from humanity and the collective human experience. Imagine thinking that art is only about your subjective consumption and not the connection with another soul, experience, time, or place. Imagine speaking and only hearing your own echo. Imagine being this cunt.
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