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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looks the Norn Irish noble art of battening down the hatches will be commencing. Off for wine supplies as soon as….

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Welcome to the UK. Fascist terrorists are called "activists" and anti-genocidal activists are called "terrorists".

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's a tiny baby sloth to brighten your day . 😍

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026

Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...

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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...

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Piddington, you're welcome to leave the UK. Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Ian Dunt: The village that ‘roared’ has swallowed the far-right’s lies

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sheeran seeing everyone calling him a coward and defending himself by declaring all his solidarity is done in secret without even a whisper of irony

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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ah dear. Ed Sheeran sitting so hard on the fence he got a skelf up his arse. Like us or not, agree or not (and we make an art form of disagreeing) the Irish hate weasels.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

No election fraud to be seen here.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating watching the confusion in England as to why masked men are allowed to march wherever they want and intimidate whoever they feel like while the police and politicians do nothing. *waves from Northern Ireland*

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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just finished this from @scalzi.com - great fun, very nerdy, but some very touching moments too. Five stars! (Bought at @jozebwrites.bsky.social The Secret Bookshelf in Carrickfergus of course - where discerning readers get their subversive materials)

Book cover: When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi. It's about the day the Moon changed to cheese, and what happened next...

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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Did I just spend an awful lot of the past 2 days helping our @octocon.bsky.social Programme Head to put together the schedule and people? Are we going to send it to participants tomorrow? Am I feeling a bit spaced out right now and in need of someone to bring me a good meal and some chocolate?

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Big Yes! Excited Reaction

Alt: Big Yes! Excited Reaction

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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you looking forward to the @octocon.bsky.social programme? Well, we've been hard at work assigning people today, and tomorrow we continue with the combined Tetris-Jenga game of scheduling, so that draft schedules can go out to participants very very soon with some very excellent panels included.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

BonesSpurs McDraftDodger had the unmitigated gall to post this image & I just threw up in my mouth a little. At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency? #StolenValor

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#OpDeathEaters "I promise it will grow into its name - it's the biggest story in centuries" - Heather Marsh, in 2014, 12 years ago, while naming nearly all of those names. 👇 vice.com/en/article/b...

vice.com

Behind Anonymous’s Operation to Reveal Britain’s Elite Child-Rape Syndicate

Online activists are working hard to stop the media from ignoring a possible child-molestation scandal that could involve high-ranking political figures.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As I predicted when Ukraine began striking Russian refineries, Trump is going to blame Ukraine for gas prices & begin to pressure them to stop doing it. Once again, the US will side with Putin against a country fighting for its survival. We’re morally bankrupt under Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We would love to see Worldcon come back to Dublin, and if you have funds right now, this is the best way you can make it happen AND secure your membership nice and early!

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Canadian PM Mark Carney gave a little history lesson to the 80 year-old insufferable brat sitting at the White House. Lake Ontario was, is and always will be Lake Ontario!

Mark Carney • @Mark/Carney • 52m
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari'io, which, appropriately, means "the lake is beautiful, the lake is big".
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario - then, now and always.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth." Greta Thunberg in UN Speech, 2019

"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…

A strawberry jelly with curdled cream set into it in the shape of a happy sloth. The curdled mixture has set to look just like shiny meat.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry ending up in Muppet Heaven like a mighty warrior being accepted into Valhalla.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/08/2026

Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️

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Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oops!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/08/2026

Whoa! A whole secret bunker was built under the White House during the Obama administration - separate from the old bunker under the East Wing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say

The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh jesus if you want a violent uprising of white winemoms this would do it

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 20/08/2026

Simon Baron-Cohen expresses concerns about the suicide risk of Jason Arday, saying it raises "safeguarding issues" and that "it's time to stop"... and Helen Joyce responds with "This is moral blackmail. It is beneath you".

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In 2014 we published the first large-scale study of suicidality in autism, subsequently widely replicated, revealing that 1 in 4 autistic people have planned or attempted suicide. That’s why I’m very concerned about the impact of the media coverage on Professor Jason Arday who is autistic. He has been accused of plagiarism and he was cleared of any academic misconduct following a rigorous investigation by Liverpool John Moores University. And yet he continues to be systematically discredited over every detail of his life, daily. We should of course always investigate plagiarism to protect academic standards. However, I cannot stand by and watch when an autistic man is on the ground and the kicking continues. This is relentless bullying of a vulnerable autistic man and raises safe-guarding issues. It’s time to stop."

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This is moral blackmail. It is beneath you"

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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Telegraph has deleted, without fanfare, the word ‘living’ from the headline of Stephen Daisley's article on Professor Arday. Today, it just reads “Jason Arday is proof that you reap what you sow.”

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Plenty for any lovers of fantasy fiction forthcoming at Edge-Lit 12, running at QUAD - Derby on the 19th September! www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #fantasy #fantasyfiction #genrefiction #fiction #writing #writers #authors #Derby #Derbyshire

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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Amazing collection of retro computers down at Carrickfergus Library! Spectrum, Commodore, BBC Micro, Nintendo, Apple, Atari etc. Fab!!! #retrocomputing

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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ah sure it might have been only a slap - and all the other ways we pretend violence against women in NI isn’t a homegrown problem

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The Northern Sun @thenorthernsun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The MSM completely missed the gravity of last night's Ukrainian missile strike on the Progress Rocket Center in Samara, Russia. This isn't just another industrial fire. This is the definitive end of independent Russian space dominance and a massive blow to their national pride. 1/5

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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I just checked the media monitoring software we use at work, and found ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN stories from the Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph in the past 30 days.

Screenshot from a media monitoring program, showing the Telegraph has written 111 stories about Jason Arday in the past 30 days.

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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hi I’m a gum infection that thankfully came after the age of antibiotics

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.

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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Heading to thon there London for the weekend. I’m a northern Celt. I think I’ll just start the melting right now. Pity me

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Largely nonviolent movements have toppled many regimes, from Bangladesh last year to most of Eastern Europe in 1989 to... Lots documenting it, including Erica chenoweth.bsky.social's famous work and the Swarthmore archives on nonviolence. Weird how people still assume...

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Your bad art is better than AI slop.

four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last week, I went to the theatre. Stood up to let a late middle aged couple into their seats next to us. Earwigged them as they sat down. “Hmm. Quite an angle.” “AI says it’s not a bad view.” “Ah! Good!” They were sitting in the ACTUAL seats. But they were trusting AI more than their own eyes.

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