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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is wiiiild. Someone make a film out of it please!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nancy Mitford updated.
Sign with arrow in one direction saying Non EU and the other EU.
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a great thread and it's a glaring, shouting truth that the work done by the RNLI is one of our finest examples of positive masculinity. Men putting themselves into deadly danger, whenever called to, for whoever needs their help. That is manhood. Not some fanny with a sports car and a cigar.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Still reeling at the meanness and poverty of spirit you would have to have, to set fire to a block of flats that had just been refurbished after 20 years lying derelict, in a city with a housing crisis, because you'd heard they would be used for refugees.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
tldr - Nazis torched a building that was newly social housing affordable flats. They told everyone 'asylum seeker men' will be living there. People claiming asylum cant rent from HAs, they cant work and cant access UK benefits.
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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's about time the government did something about all these unidentified fighting age men arriving at Dover
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 05/09/2026
It’s weird how ‘protestors’ who actually could be considered terrorists don’t seem to get arrested.
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Beautiful, practical writing about the impact and process of losing a parent www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Losing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby Hinsliff
There’ll be exhaustion, love tinged with occasional rage, even moments of black humour. But my mum would want me to tell you: don’t be afraid, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is quietly big news - a successful launch from Andøya means the era of sovereign space launch from European territory (not French Guiana) is here. Congratulations to ISAR.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm the curator at the National Snooker Museum. I generally rate the cues from one to ten
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𝒩𝒾𝒸𝑜𝓁𝒶𝓈 𝒸 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝓎 @nicolascgrey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A nine-point lead for the far-right in the German national polls. It’s totally normal now to see full-blown Nazis, as I did today, in the centre of Berlin. Each time I talk to a nonwhite immigrant, whether friend or stranger, I ask them “what is your plan B?” I don’t care how “crazy” I sound.
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The sun bursts what it has been saving so suddenly, so brilliantly, we are smiling. It is August still." ( A Crow, Edwin Morgan)
The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious.
Clouds like ungaily brooms are sweeping showers 
across the slates. On a dripping lamp-standard
a crow hunches, flaps, hunches. The young painter 
with his tin of white sings as he hops in and
out of the rain. The sun bursts what it has been saving 
so suddenly, so brilliantly, we are smiling. 
It is August still. The leaves hang fast and glisten. 
If there were no seasons, who would be singing?
If there was no weather, who would be painting? 
If there was no earth turning, we darkly, partly
think, no crow would have a lawn to stamp on, 
or Aristarchus any globe to dandle. 
As not to be be born is worst - a crow will tell you, 
a worm will tell you - not to be created
crosses galaxies like a shadow of horror.
But created they are; born, I and the painter; 
really wet ruffled shiny black half-happy 
the feathers of the raucous-hearted clatterer.
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Cirice Gray @In Her Image out now! @ciricegray.itch.io · 29/08/2026
It is our sacred queer history that the AIDs crisis "wiped out a generation of gay men", as many as 20% were HIV positive at the height of the crisis. What's ignored is that the rate for trans women suffering and dying from HIV/AIDs was 49x higher. It was actually us that got wiped out. 1/4
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 28/08/2026
Apropos of nothing, this is the link for charitable donations to the Bernera Community Association: givealittle.co/c/NHEFn0c1lM...
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Bernera Community Association
Thanks for supporting our vital community hub!
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
dearly hope that the publication of this story involved a discussion with legal about using a photo of a specific marmot in conjunction with criminal allegations www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes
The cute but destructive rodents are criminal masterminds, easily circumventing humans’ meager defenses.
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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just don't get a penguin to do your due diligence. Expert swimmers, atrocious fact-checkers
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
1/ My great-grandfather was conscripted into the Wehrmacht. His diaries say he loathed Nazism and antisemitism. He marched anyway. I still have his mess kit and I take it camping. Both halves of that are load-bearing and I would rather hold them than pick one. 🧵
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Not Yayoi Kusama too...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I struggle to describe what Dolly meant to me as a southern blonde who spent her entire life getting disrespected to my face for being trashy and vain, but I will encourage you today to reflect on the ways YOU have treated women in your life whose aesthetics you find insufficiently respectable
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And they were *both* reminders that it's good to be sexy, however you define it.
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He didn't die, he merely escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!
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Tim Curry: The Rocky Horror Picture Show star dies at 80
Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 26/08/2026
God's putting together a hell of a Cabaret in heaven
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joe @joeyp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ah for fucks sake
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Much of what we call “convenience” is just the elimination of contact. Why ask when you can Google, why go somewhere to meet people when you can swipe, why call when you can click? The friction we’re engineering out of life is also where an enormous amount of life happens. What are we without it?
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I like this piece on Newgrange, by Kevin Rushby. It fulfils the obligations of a newspaper travel feature, but you can tell it really wants to be a short story. www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
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Island hopping through stone-age history in Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man
Exploring prehistory sites around the Irish Sea – that were old even before the pyramids were built – throws a magical light on our ancestors
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love etiquette guides and this one is particularly good. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-etique...
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Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human
Twenty-one rules for living among other people when every device encourages you to forget their sentience
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/08/2026
what a powerful piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir
Amid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The difficult truth about Jason Arday" is a good piece on the Arday controversy and tragedy by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Reporting on what really happened in these cases is in the public interest. But it also matters what happens after someone chooses to resign". www.ft.com/content/5f92...
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The difficult truth about Jason Arday
From the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I thought this was a well balanced look at the Arday tragedy from Tyler Austin Harper in the Atlantic: The Truths That Failed Jason Arday share.google/eol1xQ5zNaNq...
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The Truths That Failed Jason Arday
Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.
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Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t do it. Wait it out. Get pissed. Eat a whole loaf. Have one shower an hour. Read a book. Listen to a podcast. Don’t do it.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 12/08/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar
A wall-mounted sundial inside a walled garden. Text on the sundial reads: "fear god, obey ye king"A traditional sundial on a plinth, formal gardens surround itThe sun beams down on a traditional sundial, with heather visible in the backgroundA shot of a sundial from above. It's mounted on a stone plinth. Text on the side reads "KEW BRIDGE"
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I'm seeing the plausible suggestion that the Zuckerboat doesn't respond to distress calls because his security team automatically assume they're a trap; and that really encapsulates how vast wealth can't permit its possessors to act like human beings.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The watchword of patriarchy is women’s service with a smile. Every woman alive is hence in the service industry to some extent or other, in being subject to the constant expectation of our emotional and intellectual, as well as sexual and domestic, labor." Brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social.
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Mitchell Library Carpet Beetle @karaspita.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a good read
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 04/08/2026
This is a measured and damning thread from Sunder - you just have to continue reading past the first post which is obviously too much for some people.
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A man who made a Nazi salute at a far-right anti-immigration rally purporting to "protect women and children" is a serial stalker and violent domestic abuser. Credit to the Daily Record and others in Scottish news media for continuing to cover these issues. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
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Vile Nazi salute thug exposed as serial stalker and abuser
Ryan Marshall was pictured making the “sieg heil” gesture at the Unite the Clans rally in Glasgow last Saturday, which resulted in at least 15 arrests.
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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Incredible to remember that all of these supposed "radical gender ideology" asks were simply the status quo plus what *a Conservative government* was proposing and consulting on under a decade ago
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