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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 22h
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
Sound editors - I don't care what you think is needed, the dialogue needs to be louder, the music needs to be quieter.

anon_opin GOLD from 1st September 2023
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/10/2026
"My days-long decisive victory over Iran is now in its 8th humiliating, oil-price-inflating month, so I'm going to go secure like a day's worth diesel by helping Putin pay the bills on his >4 year long 3 day military special operation."
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Medieval barbarism
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
propublica.org
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Kane and Unable: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch's decision to conduct her broadcast interviews as a tribute to Jeffrey Archer. thecritic.co.uk/kane...

Kemi Badenoch’s broadcast interviews on Tuesday were a touching celebration of someonewhose extravagant boasts and relaxed relationship with reality won the heart of Conservative members. There was also a lot of discussion of Jeffrey Archer.

The Tory leader opened her chat with BBC Breakfast viewers by talking about the bestselling novelist messaging her only the previous day. She would reply with emojis, she said, and we got an image of a somewhat one-sided chat that allowed Archer to allude to his closeness to Top People. Or Badenoch, anyway.

Not, of course, that the Master Storyteller ever felt constrained by the truth. It was a stellar career built on an instinct for what the audience wants to hear, a gift for “inaccurate precis”, and a willingness, when necessary, to simply say things that weren’t true. Sorry, I’ve completely lost track of who I’m writing about.
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Nick Hall @penwys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've long thought LLMs are like the pool of Narcissus. Not entirely, but it seems their deepest, most essential, function. The arrogance that is implied, let alone the loss of serendipity, of solidarity, in 'personal music' is striking when you step back. 'I know everything already'.
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Ignatius Farray @ignatius-farray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⛺️✊🏾🤡⛺️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It really seems like it’s in the interests of every democracy on earth that the GOP crumbles
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
His sales tactics have seemingly had fatal consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Doncaster property training debt soldier killed himself
Before his death, Danny Butcher paid £13,000 for training with Samuel Leeds' Property Investors firm.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/09/2026
The lesson from this week is that most of the UK media thinks Hot Fuzz is a horror movie about a woke city cop destroying a perfectly admirable local community.
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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DJ Jazzy Sweater Vest @craig.agitate-discourse.org · 09/09/2026
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage theonion.com/home-heeled-advantage
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, this is a marmalade dropper
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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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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering. It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters." Yiannopoulos June 2025 May you reap what you sow
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our rapid disillusionment with political leaders is treated by much of the media as some kind of pathology. But what I see is these leaders backtracking on their promises, dashing people's hopes and serving the ultra-rich ahead of the rest of the population. Why wouldn't we be disillusioned?
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is big.
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james @jamesjhare.com · 12/08/2026
if bettors were actually good at predicting results there would be no gambling industry one thing the next administration needs to commit to is putting the shitheads behind kalshi and polymarket in jail
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As with so many part of the UK public realm, there's a graph and it shows "something happened in 2010 and we became a society with lesser public capacity to respond to unexpected challenges"
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Chauman @chaudman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Norris McWhirter would be so conflicted.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy". As long as the protest is not about Palestine, climate or any other issue that major lobbyists want to shut down. If you're protesting about asylum seekers, on the other hand, your concerns are legitimate, and we're making policy in response.
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Sleepin Dogo @sleepindogo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Only one of these things is true, dear reader. Can you spot it? $SPCX #SPACEX #XIA $TSLA
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/08/2026
This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Yangon and then continuing to Bangkok
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵
motherjones.com
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Liddle's ex-colleagues find it easy to defend his mainstream journalism as a lark But a conscious effort to ignore what his Millwall-Monkey stuff revealed."Even the Jews were allowed to smoke at Auschwitz" was reported. His "niggermeat, not wogmeat" comments + most virulent sexist threads were not
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
66 seems a young age for Rod Liddle to die. Talented comic writer, insightful about football.obvs took much pleasure in transgressing political correctness But just lied when caught being much more indefensibly racist+ sexist online in his Millwallmonkey persona www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness
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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026
There's a very detailed article from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about this here: www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Astonishingly revealing (about Minton-Beddoes/the Economist, not Musk, we knew all that already). She would have *loved* the 1930s. All those interesting, flawed-but-dynamic, "future building" (her words) people to interview! Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes Is ‘Bemused’ by Elon Musk’s Post-Interview Jabs
Zanny Minton Beddoes opens up about her explosive sit-down with the Tesla and SpaceX chief.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wow
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/07/2026
This is both nice to see and not an excuse for every mainstream publication to now do a glowing profile breathlessly, credulously and with glamorous photography exploring her discovering the bleeding obvious a mere 4 years late. I'm looking at you Atlantic. I'm looking hard.
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manraisedbypuffins.bsky.social @manraisedbypuffins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Robbie Williams picked a strong look
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