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Commuications. NHS. Sustainability. Football. Theatre (Kelvin Players). Writing. Film. Music. Parkrunner. Trying to be nice to idiots is hard. (He/him).

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Moraa Unredacted @omoraa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t make legends out of them by calling them the Cornell 7. Call them what they are: the Cornell rapists.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer. We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this. Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer.

We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this.

Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Manchester City found guilty, eh? What a pleasant surprise. If only there was an appropriate song that City fans could sing so they don't look back in anger at the last 17 years. 🤔
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well done to Jason Knight speaking out and saying the Ireland-Israel shouldn't go ahead. Especially nice to see it coming from a Bristol City player. 👍
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some people thought Liz Truss would be the right person to lead this country. Those people are almost as stupid as she is.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We know what's happening here – and we all know what to do about it. #Naza
Naza – 2026. Documentary. 6.8/10 on iMDb
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Danny Tommo slashes a RNLI rescue dinghy with a volunteer onboard who was completing final checks on the boat. This was in the English Channel this evening. I don't know anything about maritime law, but surely that's still criminal damage and unlawful use of a knife. I hope he gets done for this.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an excellent, much-needed that lays bare the naked racism in the British media.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
genuinely think fundamentally as a society we’re clapped
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine crying about 'finding out who your friends are' – after firing one of your friends for speaking about a genocide you're too scared to speak about.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not this c*nt again... After getting the Brexit he pushed for, he shifted chunks of his UK businesses over to the EU - plus himself to low tax Monaco. If everyone damaged the UK like that faketriot, we really would be f*cked. Surprised he's not relocated Man U to Europe yet.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the face of Robert Kraft's claim of support for efforts creating opportunities for young Palestinians, @theintercept.com has uncovered his donations of $196,000 to the Friends of the IDF and $123,000 to other organizations that directly benefit Israeli military soldiers.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Obsessed with Will's hair on #Strictly. That's a wig, right? Or a hair transplant?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Apartheid.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How much more explicit does Israel have to be before people stop denying that its ultimate plan is the full ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sure, Nick.
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Sure Jan Girl's Iconic Smirk
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Richard Tice: "Cryptocurrency is a fast growing industry." Industry. 🤣
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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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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just had to look up what 'confligration' was. Thought I was learning a new word. Turns out the US President is just dumb. More worryingly is the use of the word SCAM. I mean, the *conflagration* is being caused by the US. So is he *admitting* he's committing a scam!?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They haven't fucked it at all. This is exactly what they wanted. It's another opportunity for them to say to their voters, 'look, the liberal elite institutions are so scared of us they're trying to stop our donations when we're just trying to level the playing fields.'
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Short film about hope www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/CG...
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What a surprise. American administration protecting a paedophile. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US embassy child abuse images suspect flown from UK before police interview
The individual worked at the US embassy in Vauxhall, south London, had diplomatic protection, despite not being a diplomat.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oops!! I think we can safely say, then, that these are going to be given the green light So, everyone in Holborn & St Pancras, you know where to put your cross @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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North Sea gasfield decision likely delayed until after Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Greens accuse Labour of hiding position to avoid criticism before contest, in which Zack Polanski is standing
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It never does. But the apology from @thetimes.com to @mothinali.bsky.social should travel as far as the original article.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'd like to thank this lady. Reform would be nowhere at all without people as unutterably stupid as her.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What's so shocking about the US is not the fascist at the top. It's the fact that there are so many enablers across the country who have 'come out' as fascists, too. Scary to wonder how many there are of them hiding in plain view across the UK, too.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another compilation video from yesterday's fascist paramilitary 'storm' action in #Dover town and at the Port of Dover. #FarRight Some national security-related observations below.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nadine Dorries interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 last night at Reform Party Conference. Nigel Farage is absolutely fine and actually laughing, not even worried, definitely. Original can be viewed here, it's quite a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Et3...
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Years we've been walking this way, and I've never once taken the path on the right.
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Any chance of the BBC covering this assault? @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nigel Farage says Reform UK has 'taken no illegal money'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Jan Brady's Sarcastic 'Sure, Jan' Moment
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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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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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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mat @matrees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ironic, really, that she has nothing intelligent to say about the political situation in Israel and Gaza, just a petty insult. share.google/Q2jMhvZpJiBk...
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Maureen Lipman tells actor who withdrew from her play to ‘grow up’
Gerard McCarthy pulled out of the show at London’s Soho Theatre, saying he opposed her views on Israel and Palestine. She called it cowardly virtue-signalling
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Politico journalist reporting Labour getting nervous already about their blank cheque for new data centres. Keep up the pressure folks. It's the people Vs the tech bros 👇🏽
Has Polanski already forced a major turn? The BBC has elevated the line I was given from a labour official about what developers "must" do to a government spokesperson. Afaik nothing ik current policy expressly mandates this.
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