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PontsticInsect

@keltikidea.bsky.social
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Keen interest in UK, European, Canadian, Australian & US politics. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Samantha @msspydasam.bsky.social · 15h
I wonder why Farage is still so opposed to re-joining the EU, if only there was something...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10h
I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 8h
Excellent news. TEVA blame "politicisation" but that's funny coming from a company of thieves.
theguardian.com
Royal College of Nursing cuts ties with Israeli drug company
Britain’s nursing union axes Teva UK as commercial partner over links to Israel’s military and corporate track record
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 15h
NSFW: the sight of Chris Mason masturbating frantically as he tries to get his wet wheels some traction against Andy Burnham. Watch for his next move: an interview with Nigel Farage.
bbc.co.uk
Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters
The prime minister's comments on Man City were revealing on several levels - and leapt on by many in football, the BBC's political editor writes.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 15h
You're telling me that the best Iran can do for a terrorist operation is a gang who dobbed themselves in while preparing to attack a military base with *checks notes* half a barrel of petrol?
theguardian.com
UK-Iran national arrested under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford incident
Counter-terrorism police arrest 25-year-old in Westminster and search two properties in central London
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Its unlikely Simon Clarke has bad memories of the 1970s as he was born in 1984. This helps to explain why he forgets a recession made worse by Thatcher driving interest rates up with her uneccessary monetarist policy. The only thing that saved the tories was the Falklands war & North Sea oil.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck off Chris Mason. Wetting himself with joy on BBC News suggesting Burnham has made a gaffe over comments about Man City. Most people couldn't give a flying fuck.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The term Zionist is, meanwhile, sometimes used as a synonym for Jew by antisemites."- says the @theguardian.com correspondent, offering no example of it and suggesting that you can't criticise Zionism without opening yourself to the suspicion of the A-word.
theguardian.com
Group encouraging people to join Green party to back ‘Zionism is racism’ agenda
Exclusive: Greens for Palestine group has links to activists who say pro-Israel ‘infiltrators’ must be rooted out of UK
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petestphil.bsky.social @petestphil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Felon Trump is guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Qatar has said Hamas told Israel they would give them all the hostages on October 8th in return for no invasion. Israel refused, 38 more of the Israeli Hostages died, killed by Israel's own actions. They could all have lived.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage will shit a pinecone.
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham: UK could ‘go all the way’ by rejoining EU
PM says he is looking at all options and ministers will examine ‘what is doable’ and the ‘pros and cons’
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 29/09/2026
Albanese went to the UN championing international law and Australia’s role as a middle power. Fine words are not enough if the principles are applied selectively. Australia’s actions must match its rhetoric, Margaret Reynolds writes. #auspol #UNGA
pearlsandirritations.com
Australia cannot champion international law selectively
Albanese used his UN address to champion international law, dialogue and Australia’s credentials as a middle power. The real test lies in whether those principles are applied consistently, from Gaza and AUKUS to climate, aid and Australia’s closest allies.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The best laugh I've had all week: Trump drives fuel prices through the fucking roof; 4 blokes go pinching fuel cos it's costly; Rubio says they're Iran-linked terrorists. Shit you couldn't fucking dream up.
theguardian.com
No explosives found in three vans searched near RAF Fairford, say police
Head of Counter Terrorism Policing defends decision to bail five British men arrested in connection with incident
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
This is funny but also truly I think there's a huge number of people who've developed such a serious dependency and driven off such a serious cognitive cliff that I don't think they could get through a normal workday
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A brilliant speech, and a rallying-cry. Trump needs to be removed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
There can only be one option on the table. Full EU membership. 💷 £92bn for our economy. 📈 £43bn extra exports each and every year. ⬆️ Growth in every postcode, region, and nation of the UK. 🇬🇧 628/632 constituencies in favour. 🗳️ Stops Farage getting to No10. It really is a no brainer.
theguardian.com
Burnham vows to seek new ‘long-term’ relationship with EU in emotional Labour conference speech
PM also confirms plan to end pensions triple lock to pay for national care service and pledges to put electoral reform i
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Farage leaping to defend the triple-lock pension status quo, like he did.....errrrm....7 months ago...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
deepcutnews.com
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your smile for the day.
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Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge - St. Augustine Says
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham edges Labour closer to finally, maybe, being sane about Brexit. Over 10 years, £Billions of cost, thousands of business failures, mountains of red tape, wasted resources and lost opportunities later…. our govt may, at last, cautiously, start to be honest about the Brexit moronathon. Yay.
The Independent front page headline: 

Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
After Ed Miliband tells party conference Britain's future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is 'not if but how' prime minister will include Brexit reversal in next election manifestoThere is growing optimism that a way back into the EU could be put to voters at the next election after the prime minister and senior ministers made it clear they believe Brexit has been a failure at this year's party conference.
When The Independent asked Mr Burnham about whether Rejoin would be in Labour's next election manifesto on his recent trip to the UN in New York, he refused to rule it out - having said a year ago when he was
Manchester mayor that he believes the
UK should rejoin the EU.

Andy Burnham has already warned about the 'drift and division' in the decade since Brexit (Getty)
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice halo round the sun today in Merthyr Tydfil.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Five dangerous terrorists involved in the Fairford incident have been : a: remanded under the Terrorism Act for further questioning b: released on bail with the stipulation they are not allowed fireworks on Guy Fawkes Night.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Released on bail?? I smell an unfolding Reform plot of monumental halfwittedness.
theguardian.com
RAF Fairford live updates: Five men arrested near base to be released on bail, police say
Counter terror police say earlier that they arrested five men who were British national in their 20s from London
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)
a chart showing blackout data for Australia
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you've ever wondered how difficult it is to cure cancer, ask yourself why America can't remove a corrupt pedophile rapist from its highest office....
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UK Chancellor can easily increase income tax personal allowance by £3,000 a year. It will boost basic rate taxpayers by £600 a year. Millions will be helped. Benefit to higher rate taxpayers can be clawed back. The cost of £30bn can be met by ending bank subsidies, £100bn over the last 3 years.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The most frustrating shit in world sport is watching the England football team fart around back passing in their own half, only to lose possession and give goals away . Fucking amateur.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Women are NOT safe around men.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a Cult
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Like a dog returning to its vomit, I have made a new sourdough starter. Donations in lieu of flowers please.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I win the lottery, I won't tell anyone but there will be signs...
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't know why people look forward to Jesus coming back. Look at the fucking mess he made last time.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope Zohran Mamdani thanked Benjamin Netanyahu for his UN speech, which only made Mamdani more likable. Even a gift basket would be nice.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📌Netanyahu has done more to hurt Israel's image around the world than any single person in history, and then has the gall to insult the Mayor of New York City in his hometown. Hit the road, asshole. You're lucky you weren't arrested.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If the Home Secretary doesn't wake up and stomp on this, she's going to lose the rule of law in this country as well as the next election.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s just heartbreaking what’s happening in Gaza and no one is helping them. We’re just supposed to ignore what’s going on and not even speak about it because it’s against the law now or antisemitic to even discuss. 💔 🇵🇸 #Gaza #UnitedNations
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Talk about calling a spade a fucking shovel: this should be "violent right-wing extremist", not "ant-migrant activist."
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING:🚨 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: “I am a woman and also a mother. I cannot stand with someone who kills innocent children.” The brave woman continued to walk around wearing a Palestinian flag around her neck in front of Netanyahu.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social The two state solution was always a Western fantasy that Israel does not accept. It exists so the West can pretend to be working towards something while arming Israel and ignoring a genocide, with the exception of a few statements of concern. Regular trade continues. Why?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel has just banned all Arab Parties from running in their upcoming elections. Arabs make up 21% of Israeli Citizens they have now been banned from having any representation. Israel isn't like Nazi Germany. It is Nazi Germany.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You'd have to laugh at a huckster who fools a nation into electing him, but thinks constant lying & bombast will keep him in power. This is a fucking skyscraper made of ricepaper. It's going to come down like absolute fuck.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
So much of this language is almost indistinguishable from the way Albanese speaks - focusing on free market mechanisms, techno-solutionism, constantly about affordability and reliability and downplaying and dismissing climate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’
Several measures were previously introduced or supported by Coalition, prompting claim Liberals and Nationals would ‘let climate change rip’
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Saw them live in the early 80s. They were shite. Then Anderson put his Islamophobia hat on, and I thought, "well there you go."
abc.net.au
Australian rock legend Angry Anderson dies, aged 79
The ARIA Hall of Fame inductee spent 50 years in the music industry and also became a television presenter and youth advocate.
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Middle-class Gaby, who's doing very nicely thank you, doesn't give one word to the obvious remedy: rejoin the EU. Britain has taken an 8% GDP hit from that, while the 3-lock pension hit is about 5%. You'd still have enough left for a defence spending rise.
theguardian.com
Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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PontsticInsect @keltikidea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wealthy Middle-class Guardian Columnists Tells UK Pensioners "Let Them Eat Cake." (Hint: UK pension is one of the lowest in the OECD, you smug cow.)
theguardian.com
Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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