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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of the stupidest things about this is I literally discovered David Runciman on a podcast and then looked for his og stuff on Radio 4

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interestingly I can't find the BBc news story on the BBc because they seem to have sacked the person who posts the news stories

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of my RW friends is saying it can affect cancer victims badly - but unfortunately I won't believe anything I hear out of Restor/Reform accounts

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Man this is depressing www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Currently being shooketh by news out of Radio 4. The idea that these programmes aren't "Podcast friendly" when they're round table topical discussions is just mad. Is it because @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social doesn't wear a baseball cap and call David Runciman a nonce enough? Is that it?

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Babies with spines are "woke" now.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know you all keep saying you don't want to know what's happening on X... but...

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.seetickets.com/event/manfor... TOMORROW

seetickets.com

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was both too obscure and too obvious at the same time

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Powerful anti racism speech which literally started with her saying Polanski wasn't a proper Jew. Do fuck off.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Conservative higher ups refuse to recognise how many of their core voters are racist

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

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Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If only he'd thought of making a plaster cast of his cock, she wouldn't be landed with this cvnt of a co parent

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I use Microsoft and Adobe instead of Google and Canva because I know the latter are Pro Trump. Microsoft and Adobe aren't even nearly angels, but it makes me happier to see them here... means they're not totally up his racist N4zi arse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The annoying this is... THIS is what I looked like when I started doing stand up- long hair, bare belly button, cheeky smile... I was really dragged for it, told I COULDN'T look like that. A computer thought the perfect female comic was ME IN 1995

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026

Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

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The Joke Thief

The AI Powered Joke Thief (or Fine, Somebody Wants This)

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?

Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IPaper won't accept my credit card so I couldn't read - pleased to see you mention this @k8lister.bsky.social ... also I was born mononipular so I genuinely have to balance my clothes as the other one is like a small torpedo- really lovely I can look like other hot babes as I've always been jealous

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was gonna reference this, but I thought no one is as old as me

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think something men need to understand is: We have all the thoughts they do, we just keep them to ourselves. Like, I see a guy I'd like to ride, and I think to myself "ooh!", I don't shout across an afternoon shopping street "I WOULD LIKE TO RIDE YOU". They think this means we don't think it 😶‍🌫️

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Journal editors & research funders commonly report a doubling (+) of submissions as LLMs promise to circumvent the difficulty that is writing. Now people seem to be using Copilot to automate email my daily inbox also doubled to around 200 per day. It’s now useless to me. Among the hallucinations:

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

let it wither and die inside you unless you're face to face and feel it's a good thing to let us know quietly.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Especially in England where I still hear "Super" as a squeaky, posh "Thuper!"

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just saw a tiktok of Lads doing "Polite cat calling" ... they're shouting "Damn girl, you choose some good groceries" and it just... it's men pretending they understand something without understanding something like... we don't HEAR what's being shouted at us, we just know a man is loudly focused.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No I should be cleaning the bath.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I meant it. People always think I'm sarcy when I'm not and am not when i am

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm Up North this week so thought I'd post a lovely Northern moment from Manchester this year. They're different to us huh? My gig dates will be pinned on my profile page - if not find @MerylORourke on your fave social. #UKStandUp #Northerners #ComedyWriter #OpenToWork #StandUp #StandUpSky

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But I did do that on here, here is one of the few places I did!

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please repost if you fancy - my socials are a binfire :)

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was just reading Luther Vandross' wiki, looking up something during a chat... and he was such a great talent that I was in floods of tears at his death... from a Wiki. There needs to be a film - Bowie taking such a chance on him as an unknown, working class, songwriter is such a story in itself.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I see your point, and mine is a side point that...therefore, wasn't it correct for Polanski to leave conference and push hard for that Holborn seat? Therefore be in that house? Also the Greens say the vote has been heavily misreported, which wouldn't surprise me this close to the Holborn election.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*I am aware Black people are used as political punchbags but at least people think twice about what they're saying about who. A woman got arrested for calling Rishi Sunak a coconut, but people can say whatever tf they like about Zack Polanski's Jewishness and no one cares.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Imagine a White MP saying of a Black MP "They are trying to erase Black identity. Shame on the party & shame on Kemi Badenoch" They wouldn't survive that sentence. I'm so tired of being used as a political tool* and moreover no one feeling awkward at all about doing it.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please repost if you fancy - my socials are a binfire :)

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