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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 12h

If Andy Burnham is so determined that he won’t be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, let’s have a referendum, let the people in Scotland decide, and see who is right.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 13h

She suffers. Because she hurt herself. 🤷🏿‍♂️ She spent years misleading other women into nonsense beliefs about what traditional means. She lived in a fantasy cartoon of fashy subservience. She's a slow learner. Now she's figuring out what millions of other women that she fought against, already knew.

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Her Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced.

What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...

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Most TV is Just This Now

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The idea of skeletons tending to their little gardens

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 29/09/2026

Readers and writers of #BookSky, I got a story for you. Last year, I released a major nonfiction and sequel to an award winning mystery. This year, I released an audiobook on forensic history. But like most authors, I struggle to make sales/get recognition, and am a poor AF. Now the funny part: 1/

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why won’t network evening news broadcasts show their audience video of Trump dozing off during press events in the Oval Office in the middle of the day while people are talking, as he’s done dozens and dozen of times? Is that not newsworthy? Is it impolite? Will you lose access?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The foreign actor

Jarrod 'Toadfish' Rebecchi from the Australian soap Neighbours, played by Ryan Moloney

He actually ended up playing the character for *30 years* - starting in 1995 and leaving only last year

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why might that be, Telegraph?

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you, anonymous writer in @thebookseller.com today. As a lawyer, I find it mind-boggling that there’s supposedly no way of holding publishers accountable when they renege on things they agreed to do. We deserve honesty even if information is hard to give. www.thebookseller.com/comment/who-...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry but I actually hate this new morning @news.sky.com set-up. There's dumbing down and then there's this chat from two journalists who are brighter than this

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you miss this Sunday's fabulous talk on Queered Frankensteins? No worries! Catch it here! youtu.be/cTi5SkMFNdM

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An Introduction to Queered Frankenstein with Dr Lucy Allan

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Are you the Fairford Farmer? We’ve been arrested for terrorism by mistake.’

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your mom trying to remember the name of that podcast

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026

Completely and utterly out of his depth, which is pretty standard tbf so good job Chris 👍

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm teaching a workshop on style in fiction this Saturday (free to all my paid Substack subscribers: victoriamackenzie.substack.com/subscribe - £4 a month!) and falling in love with Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead' again:

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The nor’easter prompted NY and NJ to declare states of emergency. Streets are flooded and tens of thousands of homes remain without power. In flooded Surf City, NJ, a small shark was spotted swimming through the floodwaters on a residential street. www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-...

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s World Rivers Day! When I started researching historic swimming in Glasgow's urban waters, UK rivers were mostly in the news due to pollution. It's still a big issue but community campaigns and interventions by people who care deeply for their local river have sprung up #WorldRiversDay 1/...

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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ Wanna be Tech-Bro-Tyrants ganging up to protect each other. If the truth about one is exposed, they all become vulnerable. Don't let them get away with it. #Musk #trailer www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Renowned historian Mary Beard will turn true crime sleuth when she returns to the Glasgow stage next month 👀

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Mary Beard to investigate shocking Roman murder mysteries in Glasgow show

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Kara Chrome @karachrome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The reason we can't get the care workers we need is because it's treated as non-work and grossly underpaid for the level of skill and knowledge needed. With regard to immigrant care workers, the government is already royally fucking things up. bsky.app/profile/kara...

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Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hark! To mark the start next week of Nunkie's autumn season of supernatural tales, until Thursday you can get a copy of "Shadows and Gestures - Scripts after M R James" for £12.50. That's a scarcely believable £5 discount. Email me for details of how to pay: address here www.nunkie.co.uk/contact

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Most Austrians and Germans have never seen the Sound of Music but a new museum in Salzburg aims to reconcile the movie, the true story and von Trapps' long ambivalent hometown www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music

Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You are warmly invited to join us for a special candle-lit Halloween celebration of our brand new edition of Joan Aiken's ghost story - The Haunting of Lamb House. We will be at the beautiful Lamb House in Rye where the book is set. Do come along, if you dare! 👻📚🏠 Tickets here: tinyurl.com/u5yeu64j

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kuenssberg couldn't sleep last night, imagining how she would spring "Santa Burnham" on the PM. She is crestfallen that he actually has a cogent answer, that is not a version of "it's true, poor people are wicked and must be punished".

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The most memorable, because it was the most frightening, moment of my journalistic life was being caught in the Garvaghy Road riot after Rosemary Nelson's murder. It was after the ban but when the stand-offs were still happening. Why would anyone let this back into NI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

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Drumcree: Protests as controversial Orange Order march due to go ahead for first time since 1997

The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We wanted robots that would relieve us of menial tasks and free us up to be creative. Instead, we’ve ceded our creative selves to robots and ended up with all the washing and cleaning.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel

Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.

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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think Johannes should be paired with Emma downstairs and Josh interviewing alone upstairs #Strictly

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And he’s president right now because a shocking number of American voters agree with him on that particular issue

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amazing detail of lickspittle @telegraph.co.uk “journalism” in this week’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a great, illuminating thread, but can we just look at that 25% royalty on eBooks/Audio? It's industry standard and publishers will not budge on it (I've tried!), which means for the contract life they earn 3x as much as the author on a product with no printing/distribution/return costs.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s Pavlov’s birthday. Pavlov was famous for making his wife, the ballerina Pavlova, salivate and ring a bell whenever he fed his dog a meringue-based pudding.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very solid way to help Palestinians and get in touch with some lovely people. 🍉❤️

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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