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Ken 6-11

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Survived 1 year in room 6-11 Alanbrook Hall #uncanny www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010wp9 Left X - best thing I have ever done....

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Two US officials and a Western official say Trump’s White House instructed Pentagon to slow Ukraine’s Starshield. The sabotage took effect as Russia launched 39 ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s power grid, disrupting defensive drones & military operations.
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Order to restrict Ukraine’s Starshield amid Russian attacks reportedly came from White House
The order to restrict Ukraine’s Starshield military satellite service reportedly came from inside the White House. As Ukrainian drones lost communications, Trump pressured Kyiv to stop striking Russia...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The only peaceful solution to Russia’s war against Ukraine is for Russia to end its invasion, withdraw its forces from Ukrainian territory, and return home. Anything less is not peace; it is capitulation that abandons countless citizens to the regime; encourages more invasions.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
So this week's media-studies lesson is that you have to be Piers Morgan to get Piers Morgan-sized viewing numbers. The issue with this, of course, is that it requires you to be Piers Morgan.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
When you see all these corrupt, ridiculously unqualified and incompetent Trump officials in action, realize that it is only possible because Republicans have the majority in the senate and voted to confirm them. The only way to stop it is to take that majority away.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
After a lengthy break the Kitchen Cabinet is back, baby. And we want you in the audience. We’ll be recording in #Inverness next weds Oct 21, then #folkestone on October 27 and #HebdenBridge on November 10. Tickets are free but you need to apply at the link below www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
not much has changed...
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/10/2026
RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993...
Drift through its rooms admiring the oversized sculptures, the overstuffed seating and the passive-aggressive war on colour. I was tempted to give myself a quick nosebleed just to introduce a splash of red. While there, do take a look inside the utterly magnificent restaurant at the back of the ground floor, housed in what was once a banking hall. The cathedral-high ceilings are coated in gold leaf and dangle with giant golden chandeliers like crystal udders. There are pillars, acres of polished wood veneer and lots of soft curved seating, picked out by pools of light from dainty table lamps. Gawp at it. Gasp at it. But whatever you do, don’t book a table in it. On my recent visit, the whole operation was a bloody shambles.It starts in the second-floor cocktail bar, designed by Anouska Hempel, where the £16 Margarita comes from a bottle of pre-mix with a hand-scribbled label, and they can’t make any classic cocktails which aren’t on the list. Ask them for a Daiquiri then watch the panic flicker in their eyes. Online, the cheapest bottle of wine offered up here is a Riesling at £68. When you arrive, it turns out to be £86.Back downstairs in the restaurant a bottle of sparkling water is brought. It’s warm. We ask for ice. None comes. We ask again. None comes. Third time’s a charm. At least we get water quickly; the wait for food is interminable (if you don’t count the £56-worth of mini lobster rolls we didn’t order, that they tried to foist on us). We watch one of our dishes being offered to a nearby table. The diners look baffled. The waiter returns to the pass in the open kitchen where a row with the chef appears to ensue. He waves a ticket at her. Finally, 10 minutes later the plate comes to us. In a functioning restaurant you should be able to spot the person in charge immediately. There is no one in charge of this room. It’s chaos.Our missing dish is the cutely named “Parisian petite potato”. I wanted to see what a £22 baked potato was like. Small, is the answer, and topped with the now obligatory caviar. Honestly, there’s so much caviar washing around London at the moment, I’m convinced there’s some bloke with a lock-up in Camberwell who has got hold of a surplus that fell off the back of a knackered old sturgeon. Now he’s pushing it out to W1. Anyway, it’s a baked potato with fish eggs. I’m not sure which bit of it is Parisian but it’s definitely petite, I’ll give it that.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
The generation raised on sugar rations – and what their health reveals 70 years later
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The generation raised on sugar rations – and what their health reveals 70 years later
From blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1,000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on health
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good news for once
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The Economist @economist.com · 08/10/2026
If mirror bacteria were created, the consequences might be irreversible. They could become wildly pathogenic and ravage human and non-human life. We explain what must be done to prevent such a fate
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Mirror life is dangerous. Regulators must act before it becomes real
Playing catch-up with the technology is not an option
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Graeme Downie MP @graemedowniemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For years, we've rightly focused on the military and political threat posed by Putin's Russia. But there's another cost that receives far less attention. A hidden cost paid by British taxpayers, businesses and public services. It's called the Putin Tax. 🧵
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The president of the United States calling for journalists to be arrested for reporting on empty seats at his rallies should be a much bigger story in the news.
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great ! so in the UK only 2 million people will die. I will sleep well knowing that.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Nobel prize in medicine 2026 awarded for research on mysteries of brain
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Nobel prize in medicine 2026 awarded for research on mysteries of brain
Three scientists to share 12m Swedish kronor prize for their work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’ The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2026 has been awarded to three scientists for their work on investigating the mysteries of the brain. Karl Deisseroth of both Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of the Humboldt University of Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg have been awarded the prize “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”. Continue reading...
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today’s pint-sized paranormal portion feels tricky to explain, right? What do you think #Uncanny listener Helen saw? Let us know your theories! And come back here tomorrow for another tiny tale of terror! 🎃👻 Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At an event sponsored by OpenAI and Anthropic, RFK Jr suggested AI would free Americans from ‘medical tyranny’ by challenging experts on vaccines, masks and distancing. When tested, ChatGPT and Gemini broadly agreed with the experts he expected them to contradict. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/10/2026
“Make Me Well” is an entertaining investigation into the unintended consequences of the wellness industry. The book may well wake consumers up to the marketing fluff that drives their purchases
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Why supplements need supplemental disclosures
A new book takes aim at the marketing and pseudoscience behind the wellness industry
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As well an amazing two and half years old grandson we now have a beautiful granddaughter his little sister. Caitlin May Foster. I really enjoy being a Gramps. Much better than being a Prof.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At least 21 members of my extended family were arrested and sent from Lithuania to camps or exile colonies in this 1951 act of repression by the Soviet occupiers.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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Rachel Miller @rachelmilleruk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's October. It's spooky season. That means just one thing. The Uncanny Halloween Countdown is here!! So excited, and this is a great one to kick proceedings off! Chills. 👻🎃 🧹 #TeamBeliever #uncanny #halloween @dannyrobins.bsky.social
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just 1 more sleep until the return of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown! 😱 It's a yearly tradition now! A brand new mini case delivered to you every single day in October, to freak you the heck out as we count down to #Halloween… Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Apparently, Aboriginal people creating their rock art is less plausible than visiting aliens. These stories have a long history of denying Indigenous people credit for their own heritage. Researchers warn AI could give the old prejudices a new veneer of authority. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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False claims about Aboriginal rock art and aliens were once fringe. Researchers fear AI could push them mainstream
Archeologists warn AI summaries can repeat false claims about 12,000-year-old rock art from Western Australia’s Kimberley region being painted by aliens
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And now New York's Democratic Socialist mayor has won the largest worker settlement in City history. $131 million will be returned to the DoorDash employees it was stolen from. This is Democratic Socialism in action, folks. Real results for real working class Americans.
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The Economist @economist.com · 22/09/2026
Time and time again Donald Trump applied a property developer’s logic to America’s decades-old presence on Greenland. By his own previously stated standards, the deal falls short
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Donald Trump drops demands to own Greenland, but the harm has been done
A revised defence pact with Denmark and Greenland is a modest improvement, but annexation threats were a costly blunder
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
a followalong for the halloween special (I naively presume there may be an #uncanny special at that time).
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thomas, again. The bar for being arrested and brought to justice is clearly very high in this country, unless you're a shoplifter or carry a Palestinian flag.
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is just embarressing for everyone...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
one of the rusty ones?
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Something weird going on between those two
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And hopefully decline further. We don't want to live in the past.. Remember what stirring up hatred leads to.. let it be a lesson.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump embarrasses the US in front of the UN, no further context needed.
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
RNLI heroes in action this afternoon at Whitby. Very tricky manoeuvre, towing and docking a stricken vessel that had lost all power And to think Farage wants them shunned and criminalised
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reality hits everyone
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Shaheen: "He seemed to say Russian children have also been displaced & kidnapped, & that's just not true. It's Ukrainian children the Russians have taken back to Russia. They've taken them from their families, thousands of them. It is very clear who is violating intl law here, & it's not Ukraine."
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not too bad
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Ken 6-11 @ken6-11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beaghmore...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump made 1,156 personal financial trades in July. It should be illegal for the president to trade individual stocks - period.
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RecoveringXtian @recoveringxtian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I found it refreshing to catch a glimpse of his ugly carcass on the news but not hearing a single word he was saying. Almost like I hit the mute button as usual.
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