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Grace Segers @gracesegers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ALL I'LL SAY is that top 100 lists in general are always bad, but top 100 TV show lists are especially terrible because they: a) are too American-centric b) overlook little-seen gems c) mostly ignore genre shows d) completely dismiss animated shows e) almost always make Breaking Bad the top (wrong)
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking
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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"we asked a statistical model of the english language whether we should bomb a boat" what the fuck are we even doing here
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Goodness me: the suspect arrested a few months ago in the Putney Pusher case has been found dead. He had been widely named online already, but now has been named officially. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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Millionaire banker Putney Pusher suspect, 44, found dead at home in west London
Millionaire banker Nicholas Brandram found dead after being arrested earlier this year by police investigating shoving of female pedestrian into path of bus on Putney Bridge
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘Danny Tommo’, leader of the balaclava-clad blackshirt rallies, says he will travel to Piddington “in the coming days” following the Parish Council’s stunt referendum: “I want to hear about safety concerns for their women and children.” Tommo was jailed for two years in 2016 for a knifepoint kidnap.
Daniel “Danny Tommo” Thomas. Indigo Nolan at Flickr.com, CC-BY-SA.
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It says a lot that they are offering Canada to be the first associate member of the EU and not let’s say any country in Africa or Asia.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagining a genre called ‘math ska’ and pissing my self off
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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
excuse me. that is the colossal crab claw of christ. you know. from colossians.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A former EA employee told me an extra problem was that the 2015 Deregulation Act gave regulators an "obligation to support economic growth", which would then be quoted by managers any time the tiny remaining cohort of enforcement officers suggested bringing proceedings against polluters.
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Pikachu stole my car & hit an ICE agent @catalysta.at.app.wafrn.net · 06/04/2026
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You could explain the entire decline of Western civilization to an archaeologist using only this headline.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Abolish the EHRC and start from the ground up, I’m so serious. It’s beyond saving, it has no legitimate authority and is little more than an institution for transphobia.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Roundest friends
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Ronnie Szo 🌱 @ronnieszoart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I drew a bunch of herons and made them into a stamp washi tape! #art #stationery
A photograph of illustrated stamps inside a dotted journal notebook. Each stamp features a unique illustration by Ronnie that features a heron
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Resource Rich countries in Africa are now following the Indonesian model (Ban raw exports → Force local processing) Governments are exercising their leverage Guinea with Bauxite and Gold DRC with Cobalt and Copper Zimbabwe with lithium @katemac.bsky.social & I: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/afr...
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Omelette Coleman @omelettecoleman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interesting to compare Mangan's gushing praise for this piece of trash with her equally forthright contempt for Gary Stevenson's doc about wealth taxation. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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How to Get Filthy Rich With Gary Stevenson review – how did this end up such an embarrassment?
This evangelising of a wealth tax should have made for a truly amazing documentary. But it allows its host to be totally out-argued by all his interviewees. Why?
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Laurie @laurenm-b.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interstellar
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
sometimes i’m taken aback by how draconian UK defamation law seems, but on the other hand it’s pretty clear that British journalists can’t be trusted with free speech
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reform: We're going to leave babies outside so only the strong survive to become our elite warrior class BBC: Reform will save NHS 100 TRILLION Pounds
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/08/2026
this isn't even a hypothetical because O'Reilly is still in post. it's an a/b demonstration.
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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
JOURNALISTS HOUND A MAN TO HIS DEATH; Ah yes, the public are at fault here
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Speaking of Dobby, I often think about how people who haven’t read those books would be surprised to learn just how many pages are devoted to defending slave labour
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Laurie @laurenm-b.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
People get eaten by cyclopses every day - why couldn't something like that happen to Uncle Odysseus?
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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Are there no workhouses?” Britain, as usual, carries within it the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge had he not been visited by three ghosts.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
After three nights of racist violence targeting refugees amid a climate of grievances and scapegoating, the Daily Express has just run this headline:
Screenshot of Daily Express headline reading "The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'"
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Would also like to point out that copying the London practice of giving bungs to property developers and letting them build tall apartments with little or no social/affordable housing so Manchester too can “enjoy” London style rents is not, in fact, an economic miracle.
computer generated image of new 5-8 storey apartment blocks surrounding a patch of grass 

underneath it says “Boundary Lane, Manchester, M15, £2,199 pcm £485 pw”
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Laurie @laurenm-b.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Disinformation from the head of the prison officers association
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
A photograph of multiple fire service vehicles parked on moorland. In the background, white smoke from multiple fires is rising.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
Spider-Man poster referencing Ne Zha, deity from chinese folklore and mythology, a fierce warriors who could match Sun Wukong the monkey king in a combat, who went through a rebirth to gain his divine status - having his mortal body rebuilt from lotus roots.
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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Philomena Cunk
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Laurie @laurenm-b.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Tragic that the sea has made New York, San Francisco and Singapore economic backwaters.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An exceptional site with hundreds of vintage menus from around the world vintagemenuart.co.uk
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/07/2026
“chart for dinner” is so good, definitely will be a load bearing comic for me for the rest of my life
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cartoon from 2005: Ann Widdecombe and her High Church Mice
Ann Widdecombe has a portable rodent church on wheels, in which her mouse parishioners are ripped to the fucking tits on drugs.
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Taraaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh Zombies🧟‍♀️ @theblueststar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Haven't we suffered enough?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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The True Source of Value
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What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
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Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
71
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The wheel spins as it should.
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Nowak murder: police accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people
Hampshire force whose officers responded to the murder of 18-year-old has a higher than average racial disparity
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Every few months a police WhatsApp group gets leaked and we get to read the rape and murder fantasies of a bunch of Nazi cops but, sure, they’re all too woke and white people are the ones to suffer, ok, fine.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well "DEI" isn't a thing in the UK so fucking note that down.
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