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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 13h

Really painful read from @sportingintel.bsky.social on the darkest aspect of sportswashing: how some Man City fans turned to horrible abuse and threats because he dared to report on their club's finances. www.dailymail.com/sport/footba...

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NICK HARRIS: The truth about all the ugly tactics Man City used on me

It's 2020 and I'm sat at a hospice window. Behind it, paralysed due to terminal brain cancer is my wife Helen. My phone rings: 'Your address has just been posted on Twitter by a City fan, making threa...

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 11h

Here are my top three personal (mostly Boro) moments of the Man City sham era (2029-2018). 3. Lardy-boy Lee Tomlin's Bergkamp turn in our 2 - 0 win against City in the FA Cup, 2015 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0j...

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Lee Tomlin Turn Turn Turn - Middlesbrough v Manchester City

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In an act of gross unfairness I was put in the 'Blues' team in this week's 7-a-side, when it was felt necessary to create a Reds (Utd) v Blues (City) game. This despite the fact I AM A MIDDLESBROUGH FAN. So much for the 'red mafia'! 🙄

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nvidia committed to spreading systemic risk throughout the entire financial system! 🚀

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fascinating and wide ranging reflections in the responses to this provocation from Will...

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So sad that he had to "flee" Britain (in fear of his life perhaps?) and this from a philanthropist do-gooder, wealth-creater. What have we become?? 😭

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kuenssberg demanding Burnham commit to austerity on BBC and getting angry when he won't. 🙄

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is bad and a challenge for policy makers, campaigners and practitioners,but the intriguing aspect is that it's not 'belief' in climate change that is falling, but belief in 'Net Zero's...

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Piracy yes, but with 'legitimate concerns'...

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I turned off Radio 4 World at One today when they read out a blog from a chatbot - assumedly so that it might offer insight into it's 'consciousness' 🙄

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's been 4 years since the 2022 energy crisis. The UK spent £44bn supporting energy bills over that winter. We've had 4 years to prepare for the next one, to invest in a robust energy advice network, to build our capacity to retrofit homes. But we are woefully unprepared for the 2026 energy crisis.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Iran, having kippered Trump, has now got the Saudis tied up. arthursnell.substack.com/p/strategic-...

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Strategic genius strikes again?

If you judge MBS by his track record and not his wallet, he’s calamitous

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Like asking a toddler to define the concept of money...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you don't usually read Dario Amodei's blog post, you might not be aware that at least once a year he drops a very confident one that says something like, "super intelligence is coming at the end of this year, everything will be different". He frequently over-estimates the rate of breakthrough

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In today's Teesside Lead... How poverty and deprivation drives child criminal exploitation across the region. In 2023 the number of children in Cleveland known to be part of county lines drugs gangs was 72. In 2024 it had risen to 111.

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Child criminal exploitation is ‘hidden in plain sight’ across Teesside

A charity working with Cleveland Police warns that fear, distrust and overstretched services could mean warning signs of child criminal exploitation are missed

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have the big AI corporates suddenly found a conscious, or are they responding to the inevitability of open models taking the market?

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I do believe AI could obliterate humanity, luckily, its inability to draw accurate maps will be its downfall...

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't know why the DUP are chuntering, Trump likely put the cause of a united Ireland back decades thanks to his 'magic touch' of endorsing things that immediately fall apart... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

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Donald Trump says unified Ireland would be a 'great thing' as he meets Irish PM - follow live

The president is meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin, before he attends the Irish Open golf tournament in County Clare.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/09/2026

I maintain that gutting our regulators poses a much more disastrous threat than AI becoming self-aware and solylent greening the eastern seaboard yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Typical geologist blaming his tools, why not take some responsibility for once?? "Cave collapsed due to a "fault in the rocks", a geologist has said." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Holywell Bay cliff fall in Newquay caused by 'fault in rocks'

Geologist Paul Foster says the fault which had made the cave's colourful rocks caused the collapse.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes I can hear you Tanguy Destable

Matt Berry saying I can hear you Clem Fandango

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Balaclava'd teens spinning round playing fields, FTP grafitti'd on a wall. This is the kind of cut and paste article you could write with ChatGPT and plays into already established media stereotypes. You need to spend more than an afternoon there to understand the place www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A66 crash: Distrust and fear hang over Middlesbrough

BBC News visits town where violence has escalated after the fatal crash and residents say they are living in fear.

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Jon's excellent new book is now out and I "stuck it to the man" (and supported my local independent bookshop @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social) by buying it on audio book from @libro.fm! Maybe you should too? 🤔

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A Sun Amissa, Salford, 04.09.2026

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Had my first 'Detroit Style' pizza and whilst it was very tasty i suspect it has accounted for more than 100% of my RDA of calories. 🙄

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tories are going to have to find a new Shadow Energy Secretary willing to pretend nuclear and gas power plants are cheap and happy to ignore climate risks and the realities of the global clean energy boom.

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My friends the band A-Sun Amissa have collaborated with eco poet Lauren Mason to create a stunning work exploring water and issues of pollution and corporate extraction. They are bringing the work to Sacred Trinity Church, Salford next Friday 4th Sept... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tbc21-a-su...

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TBC#21 A-Sun Amissa and Lauren Mason performing Water Scores

The Black Circle brings powerful spoken word and deep, experimental sonic textures to the beautiful Sacred Trinity Church in Salford.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

>imperial concubine controls national security >court eunuchs are ceaselessly fighting for internal influence >the viziers are scheming over who replaces the leader >the leader fritters away all his time repeatedly replacing the grass on the lawn >the palace debt grows greater by the day

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Great article dissecting Hellberg's #Boro team and his underlying philosophy 19andcounting.substack.com/p/kim-hellbe...

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Kim Hellberg.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Talking about "everything and nothing" is certainly a skill I have observed Trump has. Not sure I "love him" for it though. 🙄

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It would be fascinating to delve into public perceptions of the differences between "Net Zero" and "climate action", I instinctively feel I know the difference, but I wonder what others think about it!

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Luckily we'll all have forgotten about climate change in a few weeks... 🙄

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Disappointed that Everyone is God party only won 10 votes in Clacton. A high profile and compelling campaign with a real highlight the impromptu quantum physics lecture in the Whetherspoons. Their time will come surely. www.instagram.com/reel/Da8VwV8...

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