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Greens were - sadly - never going to win this one but a 22% spike is not to be sniffed at and further evidence of why Labour need to pull further left and not right if they went any sort of electoral security.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yet more evidence of BBC being British Establishment propaganda wing - reward for editor of programme telling blatant lies 'The BBC just handed the newsroom to the editor who signed off the 2019 Panorama that treated “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” as a closed case ...' www.facebook.com/TheDailyPoli...

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 21h

I bought Red Doc when it came out and I still don't know what it means but, whatever it is, it's amazing. Totally unique poet and brilliant thinker. A huge inspiration to me. Justly deserved recognition.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 05/10/2026

The thing with this is that EVERYTHING was frightening as a kid. There was a level of threat and grotequerie to so many incidental things in kids media because it didn't patronise. I loved being terrified by a weekday cartoon. Most pop culture today feels toothless or irony-poisoned by comparison.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 05/10/2026

My new book "No Escape" is published today. It's a book of theory about how radical imagination is and that escapism isn't a dirty. Available in ebook or paperback where every you get your literature. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-escape-...

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No Escape

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 03/10/2026

"Boy, they're not kiddin' are they?" It's a quote but it's so innocuous most people don't know it's a quote so it's just for me 😊

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Sun hasn’t made a profit for years. The Telegraph just had to be flogged off. And so on.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy.
It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
• Josiah Mortimer• @josiahmort... • 3h
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
GB News has lost £142m to date
Cumulative losses in £
140m
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2021/2 2022/3
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Latest figures cover seven-month period to 31
December 2025
Chart: Press Gazette • Source: Companies House

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shoutout to all the pets around the world who are literally keeping millions of people sane right now.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 02/10/2026

Shame on the BBC for having spent the last two decades platforming this fash garbage and thus normalising it. No wonder we have blackshirts marching in the streets.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 01/10/2026

Genuinely flabbergasted by the Jacob Geller allegations. Combined with the Cornell campus news and the allegations against the majority of elected representatives, the world feels pretty unjust right now.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 30/09/2026

If your response to this continues to be declarations of "economic realities" or some such nonsense, you're a fucking monster. This has been caused by specific people for very intentional purposes.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 29/09/2026

This, however, *needs* to happen.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 29/09/2026

More bullshit "tough decisions". Funny how these decisions are never tough on rich people, politicians or corporations isn't it?

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 27/09/2026

Forgot to mention my latest album released on streaming on Friday (it's been available to purchase since may but now it's on the services that don't pay artists but where people actually listen) music.apple.com/gb/album/aft...

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After the Harvest by Leo Cookman on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 12 Songs

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 27/09/2026

I'm so glad MiB is getting better recognised today. Faultless script. Tight as a drum.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 24/09/2026

I've been around video games my whole life so there isn't one game that got me hooked early on but there is one game that blew my tiny little mind and changed the way I looked at games thereafter. And no one remembers it lol.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 23/09/2026

Reading people talking about the current global summit on here reminds me how evergreen this old tweet remains...

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 23/09/2026

The parsec in a millisec: The fluctuating distance of The Kessel Run and how it measures criminality

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 23/09/2026

I loved 'The VVitch' but haven't really enjoyed any of his movies since (yes, even 'The Lighthouse' you snobs) but he's maintained my goodwill. This kind of drained the last of it.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 21/09/2026

International Day of Peace is it? Don't think the conept is going to catch on if it's just one day a year...

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 21/09/2026

"..now would be an excellent time to exercise your rights within [democracy]. We can say no to these things, we can force the issue, we can make revolution and justice just as inevitable as a robot apocalypse, and we owe it to ourselves and future generations to try" drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...

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The Unbearable Bleakness of "Inevitability"

My entire adult life people who are supposedly sensible have been telling me some catastrophe or another is “inevitable.” Nuclear war, climate change, and now the AI takeover. Apparently the “end of r...

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 19/09/2026

Jim Aparo's version of Batman is the one I grew up with and is still the one I love the most. Happy Batman Day to any who celebrate.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 16/09/2026

As someone who has disliked Ed Sheeran since he first appeared and was deeply disingenuous about his rise to fame and being 'homeless', this massive fumble has been delicious to watch. Full solidarity with everyone who dropped out of his tour. Hope it costs him a fortune.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 14/09/2026

less computer

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The place is empty. The symphony, opera, etc. are gone already.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hollywood has spent years saying no, and all it has proved is that its gatekeepers’ imaginations are smaller than Emily’s and Lilly’s and so many other brilliant minds still writing and pitching and refusing to let extraordinary stories be buried. Somebody with money: make the fucking movies.

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Boobs™ @boobs.goodgirls.onl · 11/09/2026

I'm sorry. the real ai psychosis is not people who use ai; it's the people who truly believe that a software program, which is designed to do what you tell it to do, actually has not only a mind of its own, but also a deep seated desire to wipe out humanity please return to ur senses or get therapy

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 10/09/2026

Tonally at least, there is no place for the Muppets in our current hellscape, which is why repeated attempts at reboots fail. Joy is not a part of the public lexicon, and family viewing is essentially dead thanks to 'second screening', both elements key to the original's success.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 10/09/2026

It's so frustrating that when the so-called sensible people complain that "republican voters are stupid" or whatever it's glossed over that people like Orden can just straight up lie to millions on TV completely unchallenged. If this is all you see why wouldn't you believe it?

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 10/09/2026

For #WorldSuicidePreventionDay it's worth remembering suicide prevention is a structural, systemic and societal issue. Merely blaming mental illness amd individualising the problem absolves the State and corporate forces that make life unlivable for so many people today.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day, Americans. Remember what you should be working for

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 04/09/2026

Another example of how Bluesky just doesn't understand its own platform. "Mamdani's Influencers drew scrutiny" from one bad faith argument in a right wing paper, meanwhile the whole of Bluesky is laughing at it, knowing it's nonsense.

Bluesky's overview of Mamdani's 'influencer network' in its search tab

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 03/09/2026

I find it so interesting how the British press and media dodges scrutiny for its complicity in the rise of Farage but receives praise for his fall. The press is truly the entity that decides who or what policies are allowed in power. channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

channel4news.substack.com

Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 03/09/2026

It's so telling how thoroughly bought and paid for by AI companies every industry is at this point that this is breaking news from a national newspaper. Fuck OpenAi. I hope it never comes back.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh no how will the worst person you know make content

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 03/09/2026

The 'State of Play' from Playstation is that they're taking a wildly successful brand and are going to tank it all by pricing out the majority of their user base and preventing the rest from accessing things they purchase. So depressing. Console gaming is dead.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apple 1997 – Think different Apple 2026 – Think compliant

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 02/09/2026

How shocking 🙄 It was clearly never going to work.

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 02/09/2026

Lego now is a luxury good for rich middle aged people. Depressing.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a "liminal space" is any place where there's no one there and the carpet looks kind of weird

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Leo Cookman @leocookman.com · 01/09/2026

Fuck Keir Starmer. Seriously. A distillation of all the worst career politician PMs we've had. Like Cameron "tum-tee-tumm"-ing his way out of office, Starmer throws himself a parade as he leaves office like he's some sort of champion, then quits public service altogether to make a private fortune.

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