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@marktalbot.bsky.social
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Leadership coach/consultant, ex-R&D scientist, father/grandfather, FFC supporter. Primary interest - the psychology of change/growth. Son of RAF victim of Russian aggression.

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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 13h
It’s way past time for NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine not just drop- feeding equipment
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 14h
NATO could change this situation - time for action
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's looking increasingly possible that we finally might have a mature, intelligent, witty, humble, compassionate and dedicated human being as UK Prime Minister!
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Badenoch tells PMQs "all of the gas" from Jackdaw "goes into the British grid". This is misleading - the grid is connected to Europe, so once gas goes into the "British grid" it's often sold abroad And anyway, it would only produce 2-6% of UK gas output at peak. Bald men fighting over a dirty comb.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Putin : Q: 'How can I stop Ukraine's progress in the war? A: 'Get Trump to announce a diesel deal with us so Zelensky will be so infuriated he will openly criticise Trump/USA. Then the man-child President will stop US intelligence support and arms sales to Ukraine'
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Do something." Front page of NYT, 9/10/26 — credit Jeff Roberson, AP.
Photo of person holding a sign that says "Read 'On Tyranny' by Timothy Snyder. Do Something." There is a government building in the background.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Don't attack us, don't kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it's a fair deal.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to bomb a school full of children and still expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Dr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hey #MAGA - are we winning now?
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And yet White House is apparently determined to force US drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to price of fuel. If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think that’s the most shameful thing I have ever heard from this absolutely evil fuck-wit
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 08/10/2026
Seems like a great post to use as report Elon's latest 24-hour FEC filing. The world's richest fascist just added... $1,304,222,21 Which brings his total spent in the midterms to... $39,865,669 Yes, you read that right. Yes, that's nearly $20 million in the last week alone.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 08/10/2026
I remember when the politicians I disagreed with were at least smart. This is really mortifying. It doesn't matter whether he's really this stupid or posing as such. It's mortifying.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any and every headline on today's Supreme Injustice decision should say: "Supreme Court Backs Torture." Period.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Robin Potter @robinpotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New from me on Substack, on the importance of vocal government support for a civil aid organisation facing threats and intimidation for fulfilling the UK’s international legal commitments
robinjpotter.substack.com
The RNLI delivers the UK’s international legal responsibilities. It should be defended
A piece this week reflecting on the lack of vocal government support for a civil aid organisation facing threats and intimidation for fulfilling the UK’s international legal commitments.
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Grassley riffing against Big Oil??!! What next? Trump coming out for trans rights? Hegseth growing a beard? Bessent pushing for rate rises? Rubio arguing to drop Cuba sanctions? .....
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The richest country in the world ......
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And from the BBC of course ….
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What could £76 million do to improve the lives of the working people who Reform claim to be representing?
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This invitation arrived in my inbox this morning 'Mogg Unbuttoned : Prepare for an evening of sharp wit, unabashed opinion, and trademark double-breasted charm with Jacob Rees-Mogg.' Is this part of that >10% chance that AI will terminate humanity?
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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If I was the Prime Minister the Home Sec, the Chief Constables of Hampshire, Kent and the Met, and the head of MI5 would all be in pieces on the floor of my office. I would be pinning medals on RNLI volunteers and I would be at the Pakistan U19 game. Where is Andy Burnham?
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No one of the current governors running in Russia's September "elections" bothered to show up for pre-election debates. That speaks bolumes about the "elections".
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/09/2026
Spot on 🎯
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How does someone get to be Chief Rabbi with such a transparent absence of self-awareness, mindfulness and wisdom?
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers for those two firemen ;-(
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026
On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...
The close of his statement was an appeal to our better natures. If we were going to ask Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side, he said, Britain also had to be a place where “people of all faiths and none have a right to live without prejudice or fear.” Listening to him was Andy Burnham, who has been strangely absent from our public debate for the last few days. In August, we couldn’t move for social media clips from the prime minister, standing on a ladder to discuss his first job, or sitting in a pub to rate bar snacks. But faced with masked thugs trying to shut down British ports over the weekend, Burnham seems to have lost the password for his phone. For a decade now, Britain has had a series of leaders apparently paralysed by the fear that if they say that racism is bad, they’ll be voted out. It would be nice to get one who had a slightly higher opinion of us.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Agreed - 'legitimacy' is actually irrelevant in this context. The infuriating reality is that too many people have wildly mis-informed opinions about immigration and mainstream media does very little to rigorously challenge that mis-information. What's even worse is that Burnham is also complicit.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
... ? Jutland not included ;-)
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
..... and Flanders??
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All I want is a PM that will oppose fascism.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We've had a "Number 10 spokesperson" briefing to journalists, and reported comments from Burnham in a closed door meeting That's pissweak. If you can make videos about chicken nuggets or whatever, you can make videos about violent fascists
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Old ladies marching peacefully on an approved protest with Free Palestine posters are arrested as terrorists. (Hundreds of) hefty blokes closing off Dover port dressed in black and wearing balaclavas are 'engaged with' by police and none arrested. Burnham/Mahmood must explain!!
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cf 1930's Germany - Richard J Evans brilliantly documented it all in the early parts of his trilogy.
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marktalbot @marktalbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Great but what's wrong with the SE coast audience? lots of us hungry for this stuff ;-)
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