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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16h
Anti-migrant rotter Daniel Thomas has been refused bail during a crown court hearing over the alleged slashing of a dinghy in the English Channel and remanded in custody until trial 1 March 2027 The defendant appeared via videolink holding a copy of the Bible, wearing a grey t-shirt and a sad face
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Daniel Thomas refused bail over alleged boat damage in Channel
Daniel Thomas is remanded in custody after appearing at Portsmouth Crown Court.
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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Truly. Tremendous. Work.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Aries: Fuck you.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27/09/2026
Britains NEETs crisis is not about a labour market that’s been weak for two years, says Alan Milburn, it’s the culmination of a 25 year structural shift that has made it so much harder for young people to get their first foot on the jobs ladder.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
Final results from the Swiss government showed over 70% of voters, and a majority in all 26 of the country's regions, rejected the plan championed by a right-wing populist party.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This behaviour is abhorrent. This is not an honest job. Harassing asylum seekers & begging for cash online to fund your bullying. Making other people afraid of human beings who are using the only available route to a better life here. Blaming the powerless, not the powerful who made life worse.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
Learn how to get measles from a rapist
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This telethon headlined by Judy Blume and Ann Patchett is the combined effort of more than 35 organizations dedicated to literacy and freedom of expression. buff.ly/pS0vM71
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Judy Blume and Ann Patchett are headlining a freedom to read telethon.
A group of right-to-read advocates and authors are hosting a live telethon tomorrow to draw attention to freedom to read issues and candidates before the midterms. Show Up, Speak Up! Vote for the F…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/09/2026
Brand-new polling by YouGov with Best for Britain 🚨 Labour pledging to rejoin the EU could prevent a Reform UK government Read more here: bestforbritain.org/eu-membership-pl…
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IKEA are advertising on Talk – who today said 'we should do MORE slashing dinghies' 😖 IKEA can't claim to want to 'change the narrative around refugees for the better' whilst advertising on a channel notorious for spreading hate and misinformation Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ShowReformTheRedCard
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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can you make the world better ???????????????????? @justtheonethatcan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices
Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad hopes gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon
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can you make the world better ???????????????????? @justtheonethatcan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rich assholes like this grind my teeth. Earned his billions off the petrochemical industry Backed Brexit squeezing the UK into a poorer less powerful corner Doesn’t admit that HE is one of the reasons we are in the state we are in Not worth the steam off my coffee www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING; The UK has lost confidence in Jim Ratcliffe. Actually, that happened when he scooted off to Monaco to avoid paying tax, tried to force fracking on Britain, and claimed the UK had been ‘colonised by migrants’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/09/2026
Niche post: Herc and Caroline in the same year 😢 www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Stephanie Cole: Coronation Street and Doc Martin actress dies aged 84
She was best known for playing the character Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama
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Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stephanie Cole was wonderful in everything. One of those actors you're always glad to see, always made whatever she was in better. She'll always be the owner of MJN Air to me.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Beyond the hype... "There is really shockingly poor evidence that AI actually makes an impact on patient outcomes” www.ft.com/content/3431...
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Medical AI has a proof problem
The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#OnMyWalk to get my fall Covid vax. Covid is surging nationwide, so please think about protecting yourself from Long Covid. I got Nuvaxovid (Novavax). Not an mRNA, fewer side effects (I’ve never had any! #BeKind #ReachOut💗🌷💗🎉💗🥰💗🌷💗🎉💗🥰💗🌷💗
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s really so insane. Words mean things, @washingtonpost. If we buy something for you we didn’t “sell” it to you. This isn’t rocket science.
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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you’re establishment #r4today will give your family a platform to plead innocence (Greville Janner/Ghislaine Maxwell etc). Putney Pusher (sorry for their loss) say no ‘forensic evidence’ True - but there’s the CCTV, the victim evidence and his previous, he knocked over a cyclist and fled #r4today
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
heraldscotland.com
Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh, this is funny. If you know, you know... Well done @sangitamyska.bsky.social - awesome! 😍🙌
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 17/09/2026
Infection from the Covid-19 virus can result in damage to the vagus nerve, leading to a wide range of problems associated with long Covid | Victoria Cairns
centralbylines.co.uk
Finding ways to help recovery from long Covid
Infection from the Covid-19 virus can result in damage to the vagus nerve, leading to a wide range of problems associated with long Covid
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
oxfordmail.co.uk
Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very important announcement from Count Binface regarding his by-election priorities
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Jacqui and Phil Lovesey @matlockhare.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Then (inevitably) they claim the quick-vote system is rigged. How so? It merely says, do you want right-wing nutters in charge, or not? If it's the latter, quick vote. Job done. It's a fairly binary choice - History mangling cake-howlers, or decent folk? And it takes me less than a minute to do it.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's that time again, National Trust members. Please use the QuickVote or make your own choices but avoid Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Hopefully one day "Restore Trust" will give up trying to Restore Empire and deny our full and honest history as a nation.
Restore Trust
@RestoreTrustNT Sep 10
"The National Trust, too quick to bend in the wind of fashion, is making historical mistakes and confusing visitors."

Lawrence Goldman on Dyrham Park.

Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote unticked.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanising British politics unherd.com/newsroom/ref...
unherd.com
Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanising British politics
For all the failings of modern British politics, one virtue has largely remained: big money plays little role in deciding our elections. We stand in stark contrast to the United States, where this…
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think this is the fundamental rot at the heart of Reform, the entire party is an excuse to indulge in cruelty.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Orange man angers orangemen. #BBCPM
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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
this is the sort of thing you do to children only if you yourself are developmentally stunted.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A mobile billboard blaring data center noise for the people who would likely never hear it otherwise. The ones getting rich off of them.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Or we "I'm Spartacus" the fuck out of this until their online shop sells out. shop.rnli.org/collections/...
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Autumn Moments | RNLI Shop
Embrace the season and look after yourself with the RNLI Autumn Moments collection. Discover cosy essentials for crisp autumn days and help saves lives at sea.
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Sarah Otner @sarahotner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You can also donate on behalf of a child and sign them up to #RNLI Storm Force! 🦸 rnli.org/support-us/b...
rnli.org
RNLI Storm Force membership and subscription
Sign up your kids to Storm Force – the RNLI’s junior membership club for under 11s, and they’ll learn about all things RNLI and vital water safety skills.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/09/2026
okay so what you’re gonna do for this one is, you’re gonna scroll down a bit, click on ‘Google street view’ and then go thru the house that way www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Queenwood Property, Surrey
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Etc... 🫩 • London is assumed to be the worst region in England and Wales for violent and sexual crime when it's among the lowest • People think London’s Muslim population is double its true size • A third of the public believes London has Sharia law no-go areas www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
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London has fallen? The truth is revealed in major new study
‘Protecting a shared view of reality of London is crucial – we’re all entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts,’ says Professor Bobby Duffy
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a generated summary of the main points in the report which is linked to in the below article. It's not just frustrating but kind of heartbreaking that so many people have so little understanding, especially in this country, of what a great capital London is. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/london-...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-fa…
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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