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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "dickhead season starts earlier every year"
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 17/09/2026
Racist, violent, thugs have been verbally & physically abusing RNLI volunteers. The situation got so bad that Portsmouth Lifeboat station was closed. 1/6 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As shirts, stickers, etc www.etsy.com/shop/AntiTru... or www.teepublic.com/user/funny-a...
black, square sticker with a white border containing text in a distressed, typewriter-style font that reads, "It's Like 1984 But With Morons." The year "1984" is written in a significantly larger font size than the rest of the text.

Below the sticker, a dark red banner includes two website URLs in white text: "etsy.com/shop/AntiTrumpResistance" on the left and "teepublic.com/user/funny-anti-trump" on the right.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/08/2026
Incredible photos from the National Trust. Rewilded land - rivers returned to natural courses, wetlands restored - have stayed green and lush during this summer's extreme heat. Reform (and Trump) claim rewilding is to blame for wildfires. These pictures are visual proof of that fallacy.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? 

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
1/10 People keep asking if Megalodon is still out there. It isn't, and a clear writeup of how we actually know wasn't really anywhere online. So I wrote one. Here's the short version, then the full piece. 🧪 🦈 #FossilFriday #marinelife
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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@LowBudgetMofo

We need a nightly news guy who comes on at 6:30 just shaking his head saying "I don't even know where to start"
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hey Meta, why are all my friends avoiding me? From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Over 800 wildfires are burning across Canada right now. Canada also holds more than a quarter of the world's boreal forest and is warming at twice the global average rate. The smoke is the part getting attention. Here is everything else. 🧵
A severe crown fire burns through a boreal forest at night. Tall conifer trees are engulfed in intense orange and red flames, with charred trunks visible in the foreground against the wall of fire behind them. Photo by Stefan Doerr.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/07/2026
"waaaaaaaaah, oh wah wah waahhhhhhh" - Nigel Farage, 62
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/07/2026
Power generation in the UK today: 17% Wind 13% Solar 5% Nuclear 65% Schadenfreude over USMNT
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Bumpy hasn't been in our care long, but he has already bonded quickly with his Keepers, Festus and Jackson. He peeks above the water to watch their comings and goings and loves to nestle between their feet. A forehead scratch is always well received too, thank you very much.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Clement Attlee making a timeless observation in 1934: "No one believes that when Sir Oswald Mosley talks about preserving the right to free speech he is really genuine in the matter. He preserves free speech just as long as it suits him."
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 02/07/2026
Seriously, anyone who talks about unskilled work needs to do a shift picking fruit, a shift caring one-to-one for a stroke patient, and a shift working as a short-order cook. If they actually survive all three without quitting, getting sacked for being useless, or hurting someone, I’d be amazed.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
the unions are not instruments to do good and bring progress for all mankind. their job is to advocate for their workers. they are not gonna back the guy with the "i think this industry needs to be dismantled" platform. they just wont
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MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
1/3 Fishing gear kills more marine life than any other form of ocean plastic. Lost nets alone threaten 66% of marine species, every sea turtle species, 50% of seabirds, whales, sharks, dolphins. The fishing industry’s deadliest hidden legacy. 🌊
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Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.net · 13/06/2026
Hertfordshire Zoo is celebrating birth of a second pair of elephant shrew pups. The same parents produced their first pair in March.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026
I am so constantly, ceaselessly, and quite genuinely angry about how AI slop has started to ruin fun animal videos on the Internet.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
seen multiple versions of this today and can we not? do you know how many entirely friendly people have been issued visas by *all* the home secretaries? my wife was issued a visa by theresa may. you get where this talking point will end up when the people doing the rioting see it, right?
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Persepolis (2000), autobiographical graphic novel by Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, author and film director Marjane Satrapi #WomensArt ❤️
Comic strip in black and white taken from a graphic novel featuring a young woman running and being stopped by two policemen in Iran
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 03/06/2026
“Legitimate Concerns”
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Who would like a Horace Nicholls photo? A member of the Women's Forestry Corps uses an axe to mark felled tree trunks for sawing c1917-18. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Black and white photo of a young woman standing among felled trees holding an axe.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
White House:

"President Trump remains in excellent health."

President Trump:

[pic of rotting jack-o-lantern]
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
No-one gives a damn, but this is a testament to our complete moral collapse on this issue.
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jolakottur.bsky.social @jolakottur.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It was fun
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 12/05/2026
Remember: left wing politicians should be investigated for every little thing because they are hypocrites if they have any money or property at all. Right wing politicians are expected to be financially well off so their corruption is just shrugged off. Anyone who disagrees is just jealous.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This guy nails it. 🎯
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵
Someone on Threads writes: "The Met Gala feels like real dystopian shit.

People can’t afford groceries or gas. But we’re going to celebrate this event which is nothing more than wealth porn."
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
THREAD. The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside. 1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
I took this photo on the Teign Estuary in Devon in spring 2022. I thought I was just taking a photo of an attractive hole in an old tree. It was only when I got home and looked through my camera roll that I saw the leaping dog, who I'd caught perfectly framed, mid-leap, totally by chance. I remembered the dog immediately, because of what an annoying twat it had been.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Leonardo da Vinci watches a cat. And draws it (and its friends) over and over. Today is his day.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 10/04/2026
Climate change. Amidst all the chaos, lets not forget about others, feet feathers or fins, we're all in it together. For future generations. All of them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Some climate change facts: 2015–2025 = hottest decade observed 🌊 ~90% of excess heat stored in the oceans Heat gain ≈ 18× global energy use Rate is accelerating, not stabilizing This isn’t just warming; it’s a system moving further out of equilibrium www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/03/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "it was a surprise, it just wasn't a good surprise"
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 03/03/2026
Today is #WorldWildlifeDay and I have been fortunate to experience so many magic moments with wildlife. We need to continue to work towards protecting wildlife and the places that they call home.
A young grizzly bear stands on a rock face and looks toward the viewer. He is friend-shaped, but I do not recommend hugs! A grey Wolf sits in front of a fallen log on the BC Coast. Two African Wild Dog pups playing with a branch. A female leopard staring out into the distance. Photo taken in South Africa.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps
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