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Andy Williams

@llantwit.bsky.social
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Welsh; trade union gobshite; #Spycops; interested in journalism; #bi 🩷💜💙+ #pan 🩷💛💙; #BWithTheT; Cardiff UCU media team; resistance is fertile 🌱✊

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dundee University is continuing with compulsory redundancies. It argues this is required for the financial survival. However, the University’s cash is so high they may not qualify for £27m of the £40m additional SFC funding. The SFC have asked PWC to investigate. www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive...
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Dundee university might have too much cash to qualify for its taxpayer bailout
The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'government now expects to fund just 16p in every £1 spent on teaching and supporting undergraduates in England, with students and graduates expected to pick up the rest. In 2012-13, university attendees paid just over half (52 per cent) of the bill.'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Overwhelming response today from the protests and picket lines at the University of Edinburgh, on Day 1 of the UCU workers' strike. This includes at the university's Medical School ...
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching.
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cardiff Trans Pride is big and beautiful in the sun today. Get down to Central Square if you’re in town. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BwiththeT
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 25/09/2026
#OtD 25 Sep 1903 abstract expressionist artist and anarchist Mark Rothko was born in a working-class, Jewish town in what is now Latvia. Moving to the US, he got involved in radical politics, including attending @IWW meetings stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9785...
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform’s new deputy leader in Wales says that the are “the most united opposition” that Welsh politics “has ever seen”. - Last week one of their MSs defected to Plaid. - Their new leader was elected in a 17-15 vote. - Reform MSs are already briefing against the new leader.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just read an AP article referring to Trump engaging in "high stakes talks" with Xi. Does anyone really think Trump is coherent enough to do any such thing? Plus, he's an idiot. Reupping: presswatchers.org/2026/09/dona...
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Donald Trump is an idiot, and the mainstream press is covering up for him | Press Watch
He does incredibly stupid things and doesn’t understand basic concepts, for starters
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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This Lenin quote goes hard ✊
"You don't produce mass action by repeatedly telling people to act. You produce it exposing reality so sharply and widely that effective action & organisation become the next logical steps."
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This whole 🧵! You don’t often see nationally representative polls about ppl’s attitudes towards relationships with bisexuals.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 22/09/2026
So why would so many straight people refuse to date bisexuals? When we asked people to tell us in their own words, many gave vague or nondescript answers like "just don't" or "my preference", as well as generic expressions of discomfort yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
YouGov bar chart of reasons given by straight women in Britain unwilling to date a bisexual man and straight men unwilling to date a bisexual woman. Respondents answered in their own words and grouped into categories; some responses fell into more than one category.

Each pair below gives the percentage of women first, then men.

Fear of cheating or feelings of insecurity: 17%, 16%.
Non-answers, such as “just don’t” or “my preference”: 16%, 19%.
“I am straight” or wanting a straight partner: 13%, 12%.
Discomfort with a partner’s same-sex history or expressions of disgust: 9%, 2%.
Generic expressions of discomfort: 9%, 5%.
Concerns about health risks or sexually transmitted diseases: 8%, 3%.
Moral or religious objections, or considering it “wrong”: 4%, 10%.
Belief that bisexual people want polyamory or open relationships: 3%, 5%.
Not wanting to date anyone: 3%, 2%.
Seeing bisexual people as confused, indecisive or gay: 2%, 2%.
Considering the situation “complicated”: 2%, 2%.
Confusing bisexuality with being transgender: 1%, 1%.
Prior experience: 1%, 0%.
Seeing bisexual people as more promiscuous: 1%, 1%.
Other: 7%, 11%.
Prefer not to say: 1%, 1%.
Don’t know: 7%, 5%.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Age is a key factor in willingness to date a bisexual person. Among straight women, willingness to date a bi man falls from 40% of 18-34 year olds to 9% of over-55s For straight men, 73% of 18-34 year olds are willing to date a bi woman, falling to 40% of those aged 55+ yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Charts showing willingness to date bisexual people by age in Britain. Willingness, falls with age in every group; unwillingness, rises.

Figures below are for ages 18–34, 35–54 and 55+, respectively.

Straight women dating a bisexual man: willing 40%, 23%, 9%; unwilling 47%, 63%, 77%.

Lesbian women dating a bisexual woman: willing 85%, 68%, 41%; unwilling 10%, 21%, 53%.

Straight men dating a bisexual woman: willing 73%, 62%, 40%; unwilling 19%, 27%, 47%.

Gay men dating a bisexual man: willing 87%, 81%, 77%; unwilling 5%, 15%, 18%.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Even among straight women who say they have a "very positive" opinion of bisexual people, 46% still say they would be unwilling to date a bisexual man By contrast, only 7% of straight men with a very positive view of bi people would be unwilling to date a bi woman yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
YouGov bar charts showing how willingness to date bisexual people varies with general opinions of bisexual people in Britain. Even among those with very positive opinions, 46% of straight women and 7% of straight men are unwilling.

Straight women dating a bisexual man:
Very positive opinion: 40% willing, 46% unwilling.
Fairly positive: 16% willing, 67% unwilling.
Neutral: 9% willing, 76% unwilling.
Very or fairly negative: 0% willing, 96% unwilling.

Straight men dating a bisexual woman:
Very positive opinion: 87% willing, 7% unwilling.
Fairly positive: 66% willing, 24% unwilling.
Neutral: 46% willing, 40% unwilling.
Very or fairly negative: 17% willing, 75% unwilling.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 22/09/2026
66% of straight women are unwilling to date a bisexual man, our study finds ahead of #BiVisibility Day % unwilling to date bi men Straight women 66% Bi men 15% Gay men 11% Bi women 10% % unwilling to date bi women Straight men 35% Lesbian women 20% Bi men 9% Bi women 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Willingness to date a bisexual man:
Straight women: 19% willing, 66% unwilling.
Bisexual women: 82% willing, 10% unwilling.
Bisexual men: 78% willing, 15% unwilling.
Gay men: 83% willing, 11% unwilling.

Willingness to date a bisexual woman:
Bisexual women: 89% willing, 3% unwilling.
Lesbian women: 73% willing, 20% unwilling.
Straight men: 53% willing, 35% unwilling.
Bisexual men: 85% willing, 9% unwilling.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Law’s a Drag presents: Hate Crimes Live! 🌟 In July, Dr @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social and Dr Rosie Fox co-ran a public engagement cabaret in Leeds city centre, explaining recent changes to hate crimes legislation in England and Wales. Learn more about Hate Crimes Live! below👇 tinyurl.com/3navdn2n
Background of Dr Greenwood-Reeves sharing the stage with Prof. Mark Walters. #News flare. Text reads: 'Hate Crimes Live!
In July, Dr James Greenwood-Reeves and Dr Rosie Fox co-ran a public engagement cabaret in Leeds city centre, explaining recent changes to hate crimes legislation in England and Wales.'
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy #bisexual day of visibility! #BiVisibilityDay #BiPride
Me dressed as pansexual icon Dr Frank N Furter outside the Rocky Horror Show as it toured in Cardiff this year.
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Hot Mess @hotmessdisco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's bisexual visibility day! So here I am. When I identified only as a queer man, everyone assumed that I was gay. Academics call it "monosexism" - the idea that people can only be attracted to one gender. It's a pervasive, powerful concept. But it's bullshit! Being bisexual is great. Join us!
A middle-aged man with curly black hair, a moustache and a hairy, broad chest stands in his bedroom wearing nothing but a pair of white y-fronts. He's bisexual.
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
that 'strategic partnership' with ChatGPT paying off for the latter again, I see www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...
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Domestic datacentres: how computer power can help heat your home
Energy bills are scheduled to rise next month but there are innovative ways to heat your home and save money
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A very dear friend and antifascist comrade is facing serious charges resulting from defending migrants housed in hotels in Bristol from a far right march in 2025. He's a father, has £11k in legal fees up front, and may be facing prison time if he doesn't win. Please dobate below.
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Support a Bristol antifascist on trial
Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a fascinating read, and lovely journalism
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/09/2026
Amnesty International released a new report concluding that the repressive measures used by Iranian authorities to crush the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 constitute crimes against humanity. We speak with Raha Bahreini, a human rights lawyer and researcher on Iran for Amnesty International.
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“Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown
Four years ago today, the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising erupted in Iran after the death in custody of Zhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested by Iran’s “morality police.” ...
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No Pasaran 1312 @nopasaran1312.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A black poster with white text and a cartoon image of Mr. Monopoly's head on a plate, accompanied by a fork and knife. The text reads: "THIS IS NOT A CRISIS!" "THIS IS A CLASS WAR!" "BUILD WORKPLACE & COMMUNITY RESISTANCE!" "ONEBIGUNION.IE" Text: "THIS IS NOT A CRISIS!" "THIS IS A CLASS WAR!" "BUILD WORKPLACE & COMMUNITY RESISTANCE!" "ONEBIGUNION.IE"
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve suddenly realised what actually happened in my workload meeting yesterday. My head of dept offered me hourly-paid teaching on top of the proposed 0.5 role *to cover the shortfall caused by my own half-sacking*. (I said no - it’s a proper job or nothing).
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/09/2026
This is shocking and Turkiye needs to be made a pariah over this
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
2/2 At a time when our nature is already under pressure, we can’t afford to lose woodlands habitats like Oaken Wood. That’s why I’ve signed @chrishinchliff.bsky.social letter calling on the Government to save Oaken Wood and strengthen protections for ancient woodland across England.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1/2 This summer, Reform-led Kent County Council voted to include Oaken Wood in its minerals plan. If approved, at least 41 hectares of this ancient woodland would be destroyed, making it the largest loss of ancient woodland in England this century.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The brutal reality of universities' suppression of wages (in KPMG's report for DfE on cost of undergraduate provision in England) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabfa...
Table 1 – Cost increases since the last study by cost type
Actual % increase
between 2016-17 and
2019 study cost groupings
2023-24 weighted
average unit cost
Staff costs 14%
Non-pay costs 46%
Indirect departmental costs -24%
Centrally allocated indirect costs 29%
Estates costs 40%
Sustainability adjustment -2%

Source: Analysis of Data Returns
Table 1 shows that costs have not increased equally in the time between the two costing studies. Non-pay costs have increased slightly ahead of inflation and estates costs have increased in line with inflation. Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation, increasing only by 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX. By contrast, indirect departmental costs have reduced by 24%, but this may be due to differences in the universities participating in the 2019 and this study. The movement in MSI is reflective of changes in financial performance rather than any inflationary impact.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 17/09/2026
Every principal salmon river monitored in Wales has been classified as ‘at risk’ as populations of the species continue to decline wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tgb
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW | On some dangerous language… AN (ACCIDENTAL?) LOVE LETTER TO THE LUNKHEADS Taking a closer look at the BBC Home Affairs Editor’s gentle coverage of street fascists. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/an-acciden...
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An (accidental?) love letter to the lunkheads
Taking a closer look at the BBC Home Affairs Editor’s gentle coverage of street fascists.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literally hours later, although at least nobody was killed.
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@MSF
On 13 September, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One of our colleagues was injured in the strike.
The bus was clearly identified as an MSF vehicle, with a large MSF sticker visible on its roof. Once again, Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical personnel.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Civilians, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff must be protected. Clearly marked medical and humanitarian vehicles must be spared from attacks.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is utterly idiotic. We don't know what skills future workforces will need. We do know that will change & that students perform best if they study something they're actually interested in. And for the pig-ignorant in the back row, fewer than 50% of STEM graduates ever go into STEM employment.
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Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?
Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Gillian Anderson shares she identifies as pansexual ➡️ bit.ly/3TnqLDh 📷 Getty
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports
The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagine having more money than you could ever need and instead of using it to tackle poverty or disease you give it to a bunch of entitled grifters who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On the News Agents, Jon Sopel says that 9/11 made him realise he was “on the side of freedom-loving America”. Podcasts have done a lot through the sheer amount of material recorded to reveal just how storybook a lot of journalists’ analytical faculties are.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why can't they integrate?
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