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Nige Jarman @nigej.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A short video of a few of the 10000+ House Martins #Bockhill this morning, gathering on the Monument.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wakes Week. When whole towns closed for the week & the workers headed for the seaside. 👇 BBC News - When whole towns closed and headed to the seaside for Wakes Weeks - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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When whole towns closed and headed to the seaside for Wakes Weeks

Mill and factory closures every summer meant their workers had the chance to flock to the seaside.

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Jonathan Dent @jwdent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

‘I'm not the next Doctor, Liz. I'm Rose Tyler in 𝘏𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴’

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Jonathan Dent @jwdent.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The cultural whiplash here is strong

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tony Blair on my radio doing full AI Silicon Valley boosterism Unrelatedly…. Tony Blair’s personal think tank has had or been pledged $350 million from Oracle boss Larry Ellison democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

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Inside the Tony Blair Institute

A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here is the apotheosis of the insanity: we must burn through our remaining fossil fuels in order to "take advantage of #AI". AI can give us NOTHING that will make worsening & accelerating climate crisis worth it. This 'last gasp tech-as-saviour' attitude is cult-like.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

UK is more likely to be tipped into a skip. There is no legal or constitutional rule which requires a general election if a PM is changed mid-term. Since 1974 every UK PM has either entered or left office mid-term (or both). Silly, misleading stuff from a senior politician.

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🎃 Simon Threadgold 🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Showing this heat who's boss by wearing all my clothes. Let's see who blinks fir

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Iona, East Bay – The Little Island and Mull, painting by Francis Cadell (1883-1937), Scottish colourist.

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Chris Butler @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I am proud to play with Arthur as with all my trans teammates. This guidance is horrifically short-sighted and dehumanising. We cannot let this pass without a fight.

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.

Dear
For the five years I have lived in
, I've been proud to have you as my representative. Your
intervention when my gender identity clinic did not send my surgery referral for over a year was crucial in getting them to acknowledge and, vitally, rectify their error. I will remain forever grateful to you for this.
But I'm afraid will not vote for you again, not whilst the red rosette you proudly wear remains a symbol of my exclusion.
Your government's proposed guidance is innately dehumanising. It prioritises the comfort of others over my ability to use the toilet, to access services, and to play the sport love with my friends. Ultimately, it seeks to confine me to my home - away from those who view me with disgust. A dangerous precedent has been set that it is more important for others to be protected from acknowledging the existence of those they deem unworthy than for marginalised people to exist publicly at all.
No matter how hard your party tries to spin this, there can be no dignity and respect for trans people with this guidance in place. As a trans man, I am told am not permitted to change with my football team who have called family for the last five seasons - that I must use separate female facilities alone. But if a woman walked through the door whilst I was lacing up my boots, I could be removed from these facilities too if she objected to my presence. Where is the dignity and respect in changing in a corridor? I suppose the preference is that don't play at all and stay at home so others do not have to perceive me.
I expect this behaviour from the Conservatives and Reform. Had this guidance been proposed by the previous Minister for Women and Equalities, I would have been devastated but not batted an eye. To watch a party I campaigned for, a party I was proud to represent for several years as a candidate, the self-identified "party of equality" usher in the biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since Thatcher's Section 28 is shameful. I will not choose betwe…

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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Blimey, that's a long way down!" -#SheepOfTheDay

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Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Higher than it looks with incredible wear where many boots have stepped. Shap to Rosgill.

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John McDonnell MP @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Andrew Fisher in a few sentences exactly sums up the economic situation people are facing, why and what the alternative is.

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Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Inside the Great Barn, Sizergh Castle. #AdoorableThursday

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Jonathan Dent @jwdent.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Overheard on the Manchester train this morning: ‘Well, we’re off to a WONDERFUL place called Barrow in Furness.’ It’s pure cross-Bay prejudice, but I feel like Coral Browne deciding that the three sisters’ enthusiasm for Moscow gave the whole play a very sinister slant.

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Rosemary Setter @rose-setter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Right time, right place - so thrilled to get these heavily cropped shots of a pair of Kestrels. Don’t think he looks too impressed that she’s not sharing! @severnsidebirds.bsky.social @andy-1963.bsky.social #southglosbirds #bristolbirding

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

So farewell then Ianto's shrine Created as a So farewell then For Ianto Your show was dark, wild and sexy Now you're a risk to health and safety On TripAdvisor You were #43 in Things To Do In Cardiff Now Cardiff is down to Only 42 wonders.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Oil pastel drawing. Coffee office

Abstract oil pastel drawing with browns vermillion creamy colours hard decisive squiggles overlapping and

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Woltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Oh so now copyright matters.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

The Artemis rocket launches with a chyron below that says: Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood leaves BBC after 28 years.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Monkey touches bird tube red snake

An oil pastel and pencil drawing of a strange red mouthed monkey with pink skin touching a folded tube creature with a bird head

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Jonathan Dent @jwdent.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Waiting for a train home at Oxford station, where there’s a chartered Pullman service in first, and Rowan Williams is also waiting on the platform. Easy to think it’s an HBO promo event for H*rry P*tter

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

First 2026 sighting of a bare chest. Put it away/nature is healing

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 09/03/2026

Very much enjoyed this deliciously deadpan reminder of Kwarteng's record as chancellor in this piece www.ft.com/content/1518...

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Leslie Schofield with no moustache, though. Unnerving.

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Jonathan Dent @jwdent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I've just (thanks to The Golden Girls) been introduced to the idea of Gene Shalit. It's like someone watered Robert Winston with Baby Bio

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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Job done: #SheepOfTheDay gathered and waiting to be sorted

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

TERRAHOPS

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

As ever, I don't imagine myself representative of anyone but me. But if I'd had a vote in Gorton I'd have agonised, then done whatever felt most likely to stop Goodwin. After Starmer and Mahmoud's responses I now feel quite motivated to vote *against* Labour?

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Wrote about what it felt like to have Ian McKellen and Golda Rosheuvel staring directly into my soul and telling me how I'm going to die while seeing An Ark at The Shed

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An Ark showed me augmented reality’s true artistic potential

An Ark — playing at The Shed until March 1st — uses AR glasses to take you on a journey to the afterlife.

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Bill Robertson @billplumtree.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#SheepOfTheDay entertaining the punters at Bentham mart with her ear-waggling tricks

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James Walker @jameslwalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

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Rachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 22/01/2026

And for our last free article of the day, in light of Sinners earning a record number of Oscar nominations, here's our review from @charlespulliam.bsky.social.

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Sinners is a breathtakingly terrifying ode to Black mythology

Sinners solidfies Ryan Coogler as one of out generations great movie storytellers.

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