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An obviously essential bit of app functionality is 'if I select something and then zoom in, make sure the thing I selected remains visible'. Acrobat, Miro and Figma all fail on this score.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And as ever, I will begin to believe in "parity" between technical/vocational education and university degrees when the children of at least some government ministers go down the former route.

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Dr Emma Byrne @sciwriby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What Blair and Badenoch don't seem to understand is that you can't penalise people into better mental health. Why not address the depression and anxiety caused by zero-hours exploitation, shitty housing, and crippling costs of living instead?

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yellow kit and yellow keeper kit again 🤔 #bskyblades

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Clint Boon coming across as a really good guest and a nice bloke on Six Music

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wouldn't really think to listen to Underworld these days – but this just came on and blew me away 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAIF...

youtube.com

Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You (Jam Scraper / Remastered)

YouTube video by Underworld - Topic

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What Pefkin track was it that Stuart Maconie played last night on Freak Zone? #MildlyObsessed

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Westcountrybird @racheljs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re reaching a new low in this country when the fantastic heroes of the #RNLI being attacked for their amazing work. Not forgetting the other #Lifeboat services that also keep people safe too. Bill Bryson said it best. Please unfollow me if this is a problem for you.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

media: are these blackshirts fascists. andy burnham: good question. my favourite biscuit with tea is a custard cream although in culcheth we used to call them cuppy-busters.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today in 'what the fuck is wrong with these people':

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I do enjoy a street-name sign that misspells the name of the street. Maybe they were misled by The Shamen’s spelling of it? #EsAreGood

Street name sign for Ebenezer Street in Sheffield - misspelled with an extra ‘e’ after the ‘n’.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Javier Milei there, answering the question 'what would Benny Hill have looked like if he'd joined Mud?'

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

These Santander banking insights are as useful as they are literate

This ‘insight’ from Santander wants to quiz me about how much I spend on bus fares. Adding insult to injury, it uses ‘your’ instead of ‘you’re’

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ndiaye to Man City – windfall incoming for the Blades? #bskyblades

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Seb @sebfrost.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We know how to build infrastructure that keeps people safe(r) and encourages cycling - we have pages and pages of documents on how to do it properly and why. We just choose not to.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's weird to me that there isn't a term that denotes nouns that refer to people in a 'one who...' sense, eg parent, atheist, middleman, liar

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thinking today of all the water-absorbing front gardens torn out and paved over to park cars on - all without any government oversight or regulation.

bbc.co.uk

Birmingham weather warning as 'significant flooding' leads to fire service callouts

Heavy rain creates problems for residents, with flood alerts in place on Thursday across the region.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fleetwood away in the Carabao Cup – the Ched Evans derby #bskyblades

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 26/08/2026

Mayor Mamdani's focus on a helmet paints deadly crashes as the failure of vulnerable road users to protect themselves, rather than as the failure of government to stop completely avoidable carnage. buff.ly/0HIM3RQ

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A Helmet Won’t Save Mayor Mamdani From a Crash - Streetsblog New York City

Mamdani’s announcement entrenched a persistent narrative that assigns responsibility for road safety to individual cyclists while downplaying the government’s role in designing safer streets.

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Twice divorced Richard Tice, currently in a relationship with a divorcee, speaking for a party led by twice-divorced Farage, tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This Times editorial opinion calls for more traffic police on the roads and action to curb social media glorification of joyriding. It does not mention what would be by far the easiest, cheapest and most effective remedy: speed limiters on cars.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.

A screenshot of a White House tweet styled after The Magic School Bus cartoon but this one says “The Magic Deportation Bus” and shows shackled brown men in the back. The White House account says “Please let this be a normal field trip…” One put gray text over the whole thing that says “FASCIST PROPAGANDA.”

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Of course some people in some places need to drive, but there are potentially enormous productivity gains to be had from affordable comprehensive & efficient public transport & safe convenient cycling infrastructure. The ROI is huge.

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are other forms of transport that do not tolerate such frequent violence/death. They learn from tragedy and make improvements. Why not motoring?

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's a universal truth. No one wants drivers to speed down their street, but they all want the ability to speed down someone else's street. Thanks to @tomflood.bsky.social

Yellow box with black text.

Nobody wants people driving on their street, nobody wants people speeding on their street.

Yet we continue to prioritise the quick movement of cars on our streets.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I wish the media wouldn't cover SpaceX as if it were an exciting frontier-pushing scientific endeavour when it's really the vanity project of a megalomaniac Bond villain type www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

bbc.co.uk

'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast

A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co...

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

When an AI company's security tool "escapes containment" and hacks someone else's servers, we need to ask the company "Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?" rather than "Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?" 24/

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

‘Hogh scored a hat trick’ – the Scottish football/Abbot & Costello crossover we didn’t know we needed

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'Step foot' goes right through me. What the hell was wrong with 'set foot'?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

these fucking dweebs could be rolling around in a pile of money on a private island with their pet jaguar and instead they’re posting

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh wow – an actual real-life monkey's paw!

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So EMR services between Sheffield and London are now being affected by industrial action, on top of the timetable reductions caused by the botched Aurora rollout. What a shitshow

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I would love to know how Labour have rationalised that the one industry they should not characterise as inherently dangerous and predatory, and indeed should take junkets from, is gambling

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

Give Trump everything he asks for and he'll demand more. Deny Trump anything and he'll demand more. Sign a contract with Trump and he'll break it. Send Trump an invoice and he'll stiff you. For Trump, "the art of the deal" can be summed up in one word: *renege*. 17/

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I know the World Cup has only just finished, but the rest of the month looks like slim pickings 🥱

Live football on TV for the rest of this month looks pretty unexciting

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

The final scene of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment – Shirley MacLaine tells Jack Lemmon to ‘shut up and deal’.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

reuters.com

Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Got to fancy Argentina for the trophy after this. Finding a way to win

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