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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 5h
Grift is the thing with feathers 🤦
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 9h
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They've long outstayed their welcome - the 'special relationship' is basically cuckooing. It's no wonder that countless people around the world want them gone: en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Yankee_...
en.prolewiki.org
Yankee go home
Yankee go home is an anti-imperialist slogan that calls for the U.S. military to end its occupation of foreign countries. The anti-base movement exists around the...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm pitching this immediately
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's international cuckooing 💩
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rate of change of climate change is slower than the proverbial turning the oil tanker around. It's already doubtful that we can choose much about the mid-century conditions.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's the list of everything banned going into Gaza including. Water Filters Water Purification Tablets Nappies Insulin Wheelchairs Fishing rods and all fishing equipment All Water Pumping and sewage treatment equipment All Cancer drugs and Antibiotics It's a Genocide.
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Worzel Gummidge has let himself go
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Agreed - press coverage immediately prior to death wasn't particularly respectful:
Front cover of Sunday Mirror from August 31st 1997 showing photos of Princess Diana and text in block capitals saying DODI SPICE.
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The lifecycle of the royal parasite mollusc 🐌
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
Sharron Davies HoL MBE O
@sharrond62
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
act.everyonehateselon.com/p/meta-chase...
act.everyonehateselon.com
Send a reminder to Meta: you have to respond
Use this to send a final chance email to Meta if you've emailed them and they've not responded to your smart glasses objections.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust, just like it was lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the US involves itself in. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/three-majo...
caitlinjohnst.one
Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Right to Repair Europe @r2reurope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📱 Four in five smartphone model records failed our EU repair-information check.⁠ ⁠ We reviewed 2,334 records in the EU’s official EPREL database. Only 18% clearly led consumers to the required repair information.⁠ ⁠ Almost half left the relevant fields blank.
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
29? 🔮
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Audio clips or it never happened 🤔
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Guests in San Francisco hotel have similar luggage
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I like the abstract boat collage in the lower half more than the bird ascending top half 📷
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.
I am grateful to Rector Petra De Sutter for allowing me to stay at Ghent University. I look forward to continuing to work on the project, “The Future of Liberalism,” for 60% of my working time for the remainder of my one-year postdoc.

I wish to personally thank Ambassador 
@BillWhiteUSA
. It was beyond my imagination that such a person would take an interest in the fate of a postdoc. The Ambassador responded with great support which helped to bring about a just outcome. Thank you, 
@USAmbToBelgium
 and 
@StateDept
 for defending American values. I am proud of my country.After speaking with all parties, I am pleased to see that Ghent University and Nathan Cofnas have amicably reached an agreement to lift Mr. Cofnas' suspension, which will enable him to complete his one-year postdoctoral appointment. I look forward to working with Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter to continue the relationship between the university and the United States. I am grateful for her willingness to listen to voices calling for protecting academic freedom.
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Data center expansion is entirely unnecessary for advanced AI...models can be over 100,000 times smaller than ChatGPT. Some require no more resources to train or serve than...a webpage." Minimal resource use, maximal privacy. Why isn't* Big Tech doing this? *yeah, we know why not.
seattletimes.com
The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed
We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Coming climate shockwaves over the next two decades are likely to kill between 2 and 4 billion people, research shows. What has been the response of corporate media invested in the very activities fuelling those deaths? Silence, of course. Media Lens explain: medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...
medialens.substack.com
4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Did you ever see Meades on Finland? youtu.be/lOjAZucvh-I
youtu.be
Jonathan Meades :: Magnetic North ep2 (6/6)
YouTube video by Meades Shrine
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Post a picture that could be an album cover...
Illuminated entrance to Tate Modern gallery in London after dark with silhouettes of visitors
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You never catch Peter Thiel doing that 🤔
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And then the Herald of Free Enterprise pedalos 🤦
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Interesting that this article is free but the ones about Palantir's flaws aren't 🤔
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Could techbros develop a conscience?
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Surely not on GCSE results day 🚫
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Where's the cardboard gone? 🤷‍♀️
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.
Wildfire in Clacton
AS temperatures soared on Friday, Essex fire authorities reported things were so bad that a man's pants had caught fire.
The individual, identified as Nigel Farage, had claimed Essex police had told him to keep away from his by-election declaration.
"We've never seen such an enormous fire coming from a single pair of Union Jack Y-fronts," said a police spokesman. "We urge members of the public to avoid pants on fire by at least coming up with a half-decent excuse for their cowardice."
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
willself1.substack.com
Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Add your name: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Pay women's pension compensation now!
Add your name:
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The Elders @theelders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's been 10 months since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza, but Palestinians are still being killed on a daily basis. Graça Machel, Deputy Chair of The Elders, warns that diplomatic talks cannot be an excuse for inaction
“The latest talks to break the political impasse on Gaza are welcome. But while diplomats and envoys keep shuttling around, Israel continues to kill civilians daily, with total impunity. UNICEF reports that on average one child a day has been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire.” - Graça Machel, Deputy Chair of The Elders“As the occupying power, Israel must stop blocking aid. On our visit to the region last month, we were shocked to hear how desperate the situation has become. Humanitarians with decades of experience described conditions never seen before such as children being bitten by rodents as they slept. The Government of Israel is deliberately aiming to make life unliveable.

Every individual death is a tragedy. Collectively, they are an outrage to our common humanity.” - Graça Machel, Deputy Chair of The Elders
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“The way that political issues have become reframed as matters of security, to create ‘a world in which fellow civilians are the principal threat, and where military and surveillance technologies are deployed to “fight’ them’.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk
From CCTV to digital data, states are policing problems t...
The migrant breach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta reveals how increased securitisation by governments inevitably leads to a paranoia ‘doom loop’
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other For Systemic Abuses Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism...
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Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other For Systemic Abuses
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we are seeing the same behaviours they did after caroline flack as well bloody hypocritical bastards
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The answer to the question "Why is that terrible thing happening?" is usually "Because it makes some rich white guys wealthier" or "Because it helps shore up US planetary domination" or "Because Israel wants it," and it's usually some combination of all three.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Glad to have added my name to a letter from 50 green groups urging PM to be clear that #climate breakdown is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. The public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces & offers a robust plan to tackle them
theguardian.com
Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My LinkedIn is full of an endless stream of UK diplomats announcing they’ve left govt service. This due to extreme cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy (much of it spearheaded by Olly Robbins). It’s hard to look at the world today and think “this is a good time to be losing experienced diplomats.”
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James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Only one game has more preposterous scoring: youtu.be/CfgRGW9Ghik
youtu.be
Adam & Joe's Quizzlestick | Adam Buxton
YouTube video by Adam Buxton
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The role of the media, from the BBC to Fox, is to so clog up our minds with propaganda extolling iPhones and jeans that we choose to continue worshipping at the altar of capitalism, even as the walls of the temple visibly crack and crumble. My latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-we...
jonathancook.substack.com
A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans
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