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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23h

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m always surprised to find that my hatred of Trump can rise to new levels.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/09/2026

I can't get over how visibly insane he is these days. This is like reading a note from your great aunt who insists she used to be married to Winston Churchill.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Helpful clarity from Trump. Here's some other examples of hostile acts: Threatening to take over Canada Threatening to take over Greenland Punitive tariffs "Encouraging" Russia to attack NATO allies Denying weapons to ally (Ukraine) under attack by enemy (Russia) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Donald Trump suggests EU-Canada associate member deal would be ‘hostile act’

US president threatens to impose ‘very serious’ tariffs on the bloc if the measure is approved

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.

elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New post out: The battle over the Strait of Hormuz combined with the Houthis capturing the coast of Yemen, is putting severe strain on the global economy. We have an alarming guest post from a leading maritime expert on how bad things could get. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/houthis-ho...

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Houthis, Hormuz and the “chokepoint” threat to the global economy

Today and Thursday we have two posts addressing big risks facing the global economy.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do you ever stop and think that Donald Trump has by now probably cost you personally thousands of dollars, regardless of where you live in the world? Like, your actual own money that you could have spent on stuff.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 09/09/2026

I feel like learning there’s a 10 percent chance AI is going to wipe out humanity within a decade entitles us all to take a personal day today.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not now El Nino driven food inflation shock, we’re busy with the Strait related energy inflation shock.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think this is one of the keys to our time. National populists are always corrupt; I had a few years ago the idea of doing one of those broad books about Our Times and calling it ‘The Age of Fraud’ or something like that.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

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Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Your reminder that you can create your own Bayeux Tapestry at home, using: htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

An archer with a bow confronting an unarmed man. The archer is saying "Hast thou betrayed us? Hast thou betrayed me?". The unarmed man responds "Avon, I was waiting for thee".

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026

the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New post out: Much of the right - led by Elon Musk - has decided the world's problems are caused by "suicidal empathy". I look at where this phrase comes from, why it's a profoundly wrong misdiagnosis, and a misunderstanding of what empathy is. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The war against empathy

Last week Reform’s treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick set out proposals to cut welfare spending on working age adults in half.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Reading this is like reading about Britain post-2010 - the "recent failures" do not need any boiling down, they're literally "electing a right-wing government that started cutting everything" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?

The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked

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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wow this is a bad result for Farage. In the most Reform friendly seat in the country should get more than this - and Binface’s result shows once again that the centre and left will vote for literally anyone to try and stop him.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe we tell Meta glasses wearers they can look directly at the eclipse with their Meta glasses

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/08/2026

It's sort of wild that the US president declares war and announces peace deals 3-4 times a week now and it's just...barely even news any more? Could it be unhealthy? Who can say!

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 03/08/2026

You can talk about tech sovereignty and defence all you like, but it doesn't matter if you're caving in to hybrid attacks within five minutes. Might as well save the money on the weapons, frankly, if European leaders are just going to surrender to hybrid attacks like this.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Good piece. A thread on some comments I made yesterday on Times Radio. Two things can be true at the same time: 1. It’s very bad to have 60,000 people storm a border, and 70+ deaths. 2. European leaders' responses were opportunistic and disproportionate, and made incidents like this more likely.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's really hard to see how Farage can avoid a sanction for breaking rules on declarations. At very least he was clearly considering a return when the Harborne donation happened. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Nigel Farage struck Reform comeback deal long before election

Supervised by the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, the agreement undermines Farage’s claim about when he decided to return to politics

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Much fuss about basically nothing ? The Ceuta situation once again showed that if European leaders could have waited a day or so before reacting, the whole thing could’ve basically been solved amicably. The real-time outrage loops and need to react to everything IMMEDIATELY is a huge issue

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 31/07/2026

Interesting, though unsurprising

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The European response to the #Ceuta crisis will go down in history as an own goal that emboldened Europe’s adversaries. Instead of showing solidarity, Italy & co sought to punish it. Now, with the vast majority of arrivals already returned, the failure wasn’t border control but European solidarity.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It will be difficult for Farage to play the anti-establishment card against a bin.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 07/07/2026

Bluesky this morning:

Tintin and Snowy in a parade where everyone is cheering. (Still from Tintin in America)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Treat. Platforms. As. Publishers.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Brexit vote was ten years ago, was it? Well, the results of that have been shit. No redeeming features at all. Just shit. Shame on everyone involved.

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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Depraved Donaldson claimed to be on a mission from God, with ‘an unusual spiritual sixth sense’, while assaulting tiny children: Long read on a degenerate political leader whose double dealing was on a scale few human beings could imagine.

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Depraved Donaldson claimed to be on a mission from God, with ‘an unusual spiritual sixth sense’, while assaulting tiny children

Beneath the silver tongue, trusted by the UUP and then the DUP to explain their policies, was a brazen neck

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