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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Probably better to know what the Greens really are, than not, eh.
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Mike of the Living Dead 🧟‍♂️ @mikecook82.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me bursting into a Michelin star steakhouse clutching a wet, uncooked hotdog in my hand: “I’ve revolutionized food!”
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 24/09/2026
There is no concrete evidence yet that Lennon is paid by Russia. But when Russian networks promote you, pro-Kremlin propagandists welcome you and you repeatedly parrot Moscow’s lines, the obvious question remains: Russian asset? Or just Putin’s useful idiot? hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...
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Tommy Robinson: A Global Far-Right Figure
From Russia and America to Israel and the UAE, Lennon has built an increasingly powerful international network. We investigate the foreign politicians, wealthy backers and influence operations helping...
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HMRC could probably do more damage to the balaclava mob than the police could.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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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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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
In August we revealed the violent pasts of Tommo’s “handpicked” men, who despite being subject to “rigorous checks” and prioritising “quality over quantity”, have multiple convictions including violence against women. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/08/13/p...
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Patriot Platform: Danny Tommo’s “handpicked” men convicted of violence against women  – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate exposes the violent men “handpicked” by Danny Tommo for his new ‘Patriot Platform’. Despite being subject to “rigorous checks” and prioritising “quality...
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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce the release of my latest Elite hack: Two-player Elite for the #BBCMicro This is the original 1980s Acornsoft Elite, but with split-screen, two-player, deep-space combat See the thread for links, downloads and details (1/10) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #elitedangerous
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
The VCR was a great idea 55 years ago. 55 years later, it's an idea whose time has come - again. eof/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
Our whole digital world has been wrapped in chains by rent-extracting monopolists who gloried in their power to use hook IP to deprive you of the right to use your property in ways you see fit, writing private laws that made it a crime to displease them. 87/
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
PSA If you encounter someone who dismisses your #ADHD because they watched 'The Great ADHD Myth?', feel free to tell them to contact me via my site so I can explain, at length, why they're an idiot Hell, send my their address and I'll do it face to face. I'm willing to go full 'Punisher' over this
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 30/07/2026
No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Someone asked me what it's like having #adhd. I said it can be a bit like this: Me: "Hi, Dan. Got your message. So, fill me in; what's the super important thing we need to do today?" Dan: "Firstly, it's absolutely crucial that we... [Dan's voice fades into the distance]..." My brain:
Utter jumble of images/thoughts
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/07/2026
USA starting lineup against Belgium has just been announced by FIFA #USABEL
A football lineup diagram with 26 players on the pitch
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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 30/06/2026
I demand changes to shoplifting laws. I urge ministers to allow me to nick a TV from Currys.
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 24/06/2026
⌨️ Artist: monkeon b3ta.com/board/11429005 From the 'Topical Games' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/topicalgames/pop… #TopicalGames
An image made by monkeon posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.

Subject: ⌨️

Body: de-ris
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here”
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Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here”
Those of you deeply into both jazz violin and progressive rock no doubt jumped right on the play button above. Quite a few more will listen — so experience has taught me — purely out of interest in an...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It arrives on people’s screens the same way as the BBC or Channel 4 or Sky now. Make it behave. Bring it to heel. Then you can ban it, if you want to, for the perfectly understandable reason that it’s breaking the law in your country. It’s a broadcaster. A publisher. Make these people grow up.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 10/01/2025
fuck it, make websites legally responsible for everything they publish. yes, it'll kill social media, but a this stage who gives a fuck.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you’re looking for the age-group that’s become dangerously radicalised, and has spread disinformation and populist hate online, the culprit is not the under-16s. It’s their grandparents ✏️ Matt Muir
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Don’t ban kids from social media – the real problem are the over-60s
If you’re looking for the age-group that’s become dangerously radicalised, and has spread disinformation and populist hate online, the culprit is not the under-16s. It’s their grandparents
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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Afaics, there’s only one issue that should dominate Labour’s leadership contest: how to stop the current media landscape making the country ungovernable. Everything else is a sideshow.
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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Government should be worrying a lotless about under 16s using social media, and a lot more about Ministers, MPs, government departments and public and private sector organisations using an explicitly far right platform.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 22/05/2026
"The theft of your entire life's work by billionaires and devaluing of your skills is a tool, make it work for you. Hey, I'm going to keep using what I stole from you and profiting from it, deal with it.... why are you booing?"
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rar is win @xyla.zip · 13/05/2026
faith in humanity restored
Cambridge Dictionary • @CambridgeWords

slopper
noun

someone who relies too much on Al chatbots to make decisions, find out information, etc.

He's become such a *slopper* that he won't even choose a restaurant without asking an Al.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Chris Mason stamping on a human face forever. Chris Mason with his stupid little middle management homilies and his stupid little middle management stance and his not with a bang but a whimper voice and his end days of the BBC corporate salary and his where are they now photo in 10 years time.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 12/05/2026
"06:35 – Wake up to 37 missed calls from Chris Mason." open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...
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Dodgy donations, painful piles and laughable Lee Anderson: Nigel Farage’s election day diary
A revealing look into the Reform leader’s private journal. (Is this real, or satire?* Read on to find out…)
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We should have been telling Trump to go fuck himself. Building homes. Fixing student loans. Fixing Brexit. Connecting migration with growth and changing the toxic narrative. Explaining slowly and carefully to flag shaggers why they should be at home reading a book. They bought this on themselves
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
For a change of Labour leadership to make any electoral (as opposed to material) difference, a precondition is better media regulation. Otherwise the project to undermine *any* Labour government will continue, with Reform’s own TV channel & an ever more clearly biased BBC News.
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Agree 100% Clear out needed at BBC. Starmer should have done it 6th July 2024 to send a clear message It would have been a simple (yes I know, legislation and all that) way of 'imposing' his leadership on the country. Instead we have had two years of trying to appease the right
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/05/2026
Stop reporting it as if it's a new series of The Traitors, for God's sake. So tired of this really important stuff being treated as some kind of panto put on for the enjoyment of the political hacks/bloggers/podcasters.
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Am increasingly of the belief that politics in this country would immediately become 15% less shit if the existing crop of lobby hacks were fired into the sun and replaced with, I don't know, goats.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.
A page from the book 1984
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
William Shatner is 95. Here’s what was going through his mind as he boldly went where a small group of people went before. Humble & haunting.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The willingness of major European states such as Britain and France to send their military forces to actively defend counties in the Middle East but not to defend Ukraine shows how Europe has a distorted sense of its own interests.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery? The bizarre truth: - yes, everyone really saw these - no, they're not faked or manmade - they absolutely don't exist. 1/
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A reminder that a free and democratic Ukraine is still fighting for survival day and night and that’s still the most important story in Britain - and anywhere else in Europe.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Farage is a danger to us all. Why is no one investigating & exposing his extensive links to a secretive, dodgy and illegal network of individuals around the world who are trying to subvert our democracy, with funding from Russia? 1/2
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
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'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions'
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#webcomic #austinkridler #cats
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Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
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ginalolajupiter.bsky.social @ginalolajupiter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
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