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Lee Curran

@leecurran.bsky.social
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Lighting Designer, Socialist. #LFC. www.leecurran.net

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026
The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
bbc.co.uk
Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland
The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It can sometimes seem like stating the obvious that the Trump regime does things that are evil, but this is evil. There's not another word for it. It is so corrosive and degrading that it will permanently disfigure the society which permits it. It is sheer barbarism.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reminder that Wes Streeting has a Bachelor’s degree in history. That’s it. Not a doctor. Not any health experience. Just a career politician, hollow as a gourd.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 21/08/2024
metal rollercoaster frame in thick fog being taken over by dark green foliage
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
fortune.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What did Ta Nehisi Coates say? He said: people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. And the British political/media class already demonstrated they will gladly fuck everyone and wreck everything if pushed, when they forcefully shoved Boris Johnson into Number Ten.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A glorious bit of How It Works here, being said openly in public
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Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5
UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City's punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter
They consider the Premier League's actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information
The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City's Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳 Pep before cheats verdict: “If you lie to me, the day after I am not here. I will be out and I will not be your friend anymore.” Pep after verdict: “I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters.”
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Oliver Kay @oliverkay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sham contracts", "artificially inflate", "misstated accounts", "concealed", "clearly intended to circumvent (...) rules", "multiple breaches of duties of cooperation & (...) good faith”. The commission's verdict against Manchester City could not be more damning #MCFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
nytimes.com
Manchester City guilty of ‘sham payments’ and £900m of financial misstatements, independent commission finds (Gift Article)
City said the club are "innocent of the accusations" in a statement released shortly after the Premier League's announcement.
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone's praising Burnham for what he plans to do. But he's PM now. He could have prosecuted water CEOs for polluting the environment - he could have nationalised water. He could have stopped jailing grannies for peaceful protest. He could have gone after the fascists etc He's full of it.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once you notice that Tony’s big ideas are almost always “Don’t do this obviously desirable thing that will have positive real world effects, you should instead give lots of money to my zillionaire fascist friends”, it becomes hard to stop noticing it.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
cnn.com
The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
orlandosentinel.com
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You can see the BS in every line of this article. Quotes cops, business owners and industry insiders. Implies it's hurting "communities" (as distinct from businesses). Assumes more CCTV cameras and tougher sentences are solutions. Claims it makes employees afraid to go to work.
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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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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It takes a special skill to make your first contribution on an actual "culture" issue in 11 months and have it be defending Ed Sheeran.
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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
nandy pulled off the scam of the year lol like imagine pleading for your job all ooh you don’t understand i was blocked from doing what i wanted to do and then going back to snoring in a hammock
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is what @raaleh.bsky.social is talking about: the state deploying the full bloody arsenal against the left, and simply refusing to defend itself from the right, again and again. At some point, you have to conclude that they simply *do not want to* defend themselves from the right.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/09/2026
Lol of course they have, because they are not concerned at all. It is what they want.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 11/09/2026
[5 seconds before a BBC journalist leaves the BBC] It is an unhinged conspiracy theory to believe I am right wing! [5 seconds after] I tricked everyone all these years! I was secretly a nazi all this time
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If a lEgiTiMaTe dEbATe aBOut iMMigRaTioN leads to people turning up with pitchforks to demand credentials from every group of young non-white men arriving in town, you’d think even Labour MPs would start asking themselves if it’s really a legitimate debate
Amanda Martin, Labour MP for Portsmouth North, called the hotel incident "deeply concerning".
She said: "It's completely unacceptable that misinformation has led to young cricketers visiting our city being wrongly targeted and mistaken for people seeking asylum.
"It's also wrong that people who work in the hotels had to deal with this.
"Those who arrived in Portsmouth on Sunday were transported outside of Hampshire for processing.
"There is a legitimate debate to be had about immigration, but it must be based on facts not misinformation or rumour."
The BBC understands the England and Wales Cricket Board has checked on wellbeing of the Pakistani under-19s team, and is reviewing security arrangements for the remainder of their tour.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Somehow ‘Lord Walney’ on Radio 4 has managed to be more critical of climate protesters this week than the masked street fascists Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No company (and even more so, no public sector organisation) should ever get into a position like this with any vendor, come on, this is basic
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They’re this close to sieg heil-ing and they’re still being called activists
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...
theplaylist.net
Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We all get that these dorks are remotely diagnosing everyone they despise with “mind virus” and “social contagion” because they have driven themselves and each other completely apeshit, right?
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Genuinely don’t think I’d have so little self-respect, if I were a journalist, as to give these obvious and insulting lies any credence
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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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/...
theguardian.com
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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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interesting to think whether we'd have the BBC's flagship presenters running interference like this for, say, Diane Abbott, isn't it?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tweet from Sandra Newman (@sannewman):

Once upon a time I was falling in love
Now I have the head of a hawk
There's nothing I can say
I'm a piece of Assyrian art

(image of stone slab art with a figure better described by the lyrics above)
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss
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Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion
humans in the solar svstem
"I would love to see a trillion humans living
in the solar system. If we had a trillion
humans, we would have at any given time
a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins'
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Just pay your taxes bra
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 19/08/2026
wow WHO could have POSSIBLY seen this coming?
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