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That's the war that ended more than 80 years ago. Anyone who can remember it well is knocking on the door of 90. Just because Farage remembers being in the first wave to land on Sword beach doesn't mean he wasn't born in 1964.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3h

My regular ‘the UK’s political finance system is basically the same as the US’s’ klaxon

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 3h

People used to wait for someone else to name things after them. It's so much more meaningful.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The greatest 😀 of the greatest number

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Time to dig out the eternal post.

Yishan
@yishan

Tech Enthusiasts: My whole house is wired to the IoT! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I control it with Alexa!

Actual Tech Workers: The only piece of tech I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

She absolutely knows you can't have one without the other, so she's being rampantly dishonest here.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They're a protection racket - the ratfucking is a threat as much as anything.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Have they (and I know this is radical) tried not being chippy misogynists who view all relationships as a zero-sum game they are determined to win and who are obsessively aware of all their flaws apart from the ones that are actually sending people running?

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

British AI won't work so we'll be fine

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lads, he’s not someone from a council estate who’s won Britain’s Got Talent

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Times like this I really wish there was a hell so I could be sure these people will suffer consequences for their monstrous actions. Even after all they've done already, this is still shocking.

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This would also be good politically. Make Farage et al fight to defend every millimetre of the ground that has been ceded to them. Otherwise they just move on to the next project of leaving the ECHR, privatising the NHS, and bringing back the death penalty.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yep - I miss the days when even if weird, unsettling people like that did say things, no one had to pay any attention.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 09/10/2026

it’s 2026 how are we still doing the thing where website content popping into place during page load pushes buttons down the screen causing misclicks

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The evidence that the wrong people have imposter syndrome just keeps building and building.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Solidarity. Let them have endless conversations between Goodwin and Jenrick over who's allowed to be English and see how the audience likes that. Endless wittering from unsettling, Twitter-poisoned obsessives is exactly what this 'debate' deserves.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

the supreme court: good news, donald!you are the untouchable god-king you always dreamed of being only one condition: you may not fuck with The Money donald trump: I will fuck with The Money if it’s the last thing I do

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As someone said a very long time ago, no England will ever be little enough for these people.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He makes a good point.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the spirit of Defoe, many of Vance's listeners are against socialism without knowing whether it's a man or a horse.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay. Give the computer a reflex hammer and see how it does.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's unfair. It's also unsurpassed at allowing people to vibe code 'enterprise software' that's full of security holes and that no one will be able to maintain or develop at any point during its projected lifetime.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People who complain about 'overdiagnosis' are the exact same ones who complain if anyone gets any kind of help without first having a diagnosis of something. Their real issue is that people are not left to struggle if they need help with something.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even beyond that, no one needs to hear every thought in your head.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Appropriate. Britannia metal was often used as a cheaper alternative to silver.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do I infer from this that there has already been one series of this and enough people watched it that they're making another?

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I certainly used a few Anglo-Saxon words when I saw the ticket prices.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With great consistency, people who prefer authoritarianism to democracy envision themselves in charge. Could be them personally, could be vicarious, but they're always the boot, not the face. It's basically a way to say everyone should shut up and accept that we're doing my preferences, not theirs.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't know about tetanus, but thanks to vaccines I've never known anyone who had smallpox.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It also proves that there's still a section of the left that trafficks in conspiracy theories, and as all conspiracy theories have their origins in anti-semitism from the European Middle Ages, as they develop they all bend inexorably towards their anti-semitic origins.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem with tech bros is that as well as being rich they have a need to be loved as well. And they're mostly weird, unsettling people, and all have done things to stay rich that don't make you lovable. See also: Musk, Zuckerberg, and tbh pretty much every other tech bro.

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Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the all-time great Diary pieces in LRB is this one from one of the D-Day forecasters

lrb.co.uk

Lawrence Hogben · Diary: The Most Important Weather Forecast in the History of the World

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If they need more daylight for golf why don't they start an hour earlier? The amount of daylight on a given day at a given latitude is exactly the same whatever the clocks say.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is what Labour have been doing under both Starmer and Burnham - ducking the truly difficult questions and pretending that doing the anti-migrant stuff causes them pain, when actually they get an illicit thrill out of it. They're avoidant and they fail for that reason above all.

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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our CEO Maya Foa writes in the Guardian: "Christa Pike's ordeal in the execution chamber was a visceral demonstration that there is nothing medical or humane about execution by lethal injection. What we saw was the awful, ugly, indefensible reality of the death penalty."

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What do Britain’s death-penalty cheerleaders have to say about Christa Pike? | Maya Foa

Her harrowing botched execution is a reminder of why we must not even entertain the idea of restoring capital punishment, says Maya Foa, CEO of the human rights charity Reprieve

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In 1066 it would have taken William the Conqueror's army about 2 hours to march the 6.3 miles from Hastings to Battle, but today I managed to cover the same distance in almost half that time thanks to Southeastern trains.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

remember when every company was like "we're gonna make a leaderboard for uses the most AI" until someone looked at their budget

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who are the Reform supporters who want to rejoin? That's... a choice.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every billionaire is a policy failure.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't care who someone is, it's not possible to do £150m worth of damage to someone's reputation even if you say the worst thing you can possibly imagine, and if a lawyer putting their name to that level of claim isn't professional misconduct, it should be.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every breath you take and every move you make, we'll be monetising you.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI music is like AI everything else - soulless, uncanny, and totally devoid of anything beneath the surface. I'm reluctantly prepared to accept that for work stuff, but damned if I will for art. And that's leaving aside the people whose work has been stolen to generate the training data.

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Luke Parks @lukeparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why are we always just one crackdown away from utopia?

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