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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 5h

My god, everything this administration does is stupid.

"Today, the passport arrives in an envelope that can look like any other letter," Rubio said. "We wanted to turn receiving a passport into an experience that people will remember and keep."

Oh God. It has now dawned on me that, judging by the number of times I said “yep” while reading the replies, I must be very, very annoying

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cocaine produces certain types of very visible social ills - which are politically potent But cocaine, as we’re seeing, also fuels very particular types of political movements (that, ironically, feed of unhappiness at the same social ills as above)

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes. “If you defund and deplatform anti-racists then that will force their movement underground, and then they will be truly dangerous!” is never, ever an argument you will hear from the right-wing media. Because they know very well that defunding and deplatforming *actually works*.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Everyone stop, this is important

A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I take the old fashioned view that the British government should not just shrug when the far right engages in piracy on the high seas.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Slowing down," then, doesn't necessarily mean literally slowing down AI production. It means making sure your testing environments are actually secure, that your agents have fail safes built in, and that admin access to critical systems isn't guarded by a plain text 4 letter password.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 14/09/2026

69% of Britons now have an unfavourable opinion of Nigel Farage (9-10 Sep 2026), the highest recorded by our tracker in the decade it has run Favourable: 24% (+1 from 13-14 Aug) Unfavourable: 69% (+2) Net: -45 (-1) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists

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Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 08/09/2026

For iPhone: Setting --> General --> Keyboard --> Predictive Text

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 31/08/2026

Ok @aisling7468.bsky.social said there was too much Stockholm focus on my regional Swedish threads so I will do each region. This may take a week or two so be patient.

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 26/08/2026

Almost 80% of Britain’s rising fiscal costs will come from ageing by 2075, dwarfing the pressures from defence spending, net zero and lower migration. We should rebalance taxes away from work and towards wealth, says @benansell.bsky.social. Read more here: www.ippr.org/articles/tax...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On the very day Sam published this, one of the most empathetic people of the last century died. And the response among every side of the political spectrum to her death suggests to me that empathy still has some miles left in it.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These posters just went up all over every courthouse in New York State, and, man, what an excellent policy.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Always read the small print

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Restore the social, personal and professional cost of racism.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

100 per cent this ⬇️

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

stay on bluesky long enough and you'll encounter a noble yet unheralded class of poster: the joke marshal. the joke marshal stands watch over the replies of joke posts for repliers taking them at face value, and empathetically cautions them that they are being a horse's ass. thank you, joke marshal

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Andy Wheatley @andywheatley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

How on earth does Reform, a party with 8 MPs, get its policies as the second item on the BBC News?

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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White people are given the grace of being judged as individuals, not as representatives of their entire race. xkcd presents the idea succintly for gender, but it's in every oppression: xkcd.com/385/

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How it Works

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One of the most common disinformation tactics I see right now is false generalization. This tactic is often deployed by: 1) cherry-picking an outlier case, 2) falsely generalizing that this one case represents others, without proper evidence, 3) smear campaign targeting a larger community.

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Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

For some reason, Facebook advertised these to me. Was pleased to see every comment calling them pedo glasses, nonce glasses or pervert glasses.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Foucault: "schools serve the same societal function as prisons and mental institutions." Foucault's Mum: "you're still going."

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/07/2026

🇬🇧 "The capital’s homicide rate has fallen to the lowest level in recorded history on a per capita basis. It’s now lower than that in Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, Paris – and every US state." London is not lawless. It is a myth used to sow fear about multiculturalism and diversity.

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If you’ve heard that London is dystopian and dangerous – read this. It just isn’t | Sadiq Khan

Britain’s capital has faced social media, press and political attacks designed to make residents and tourists feel unsaf

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You are doing god's work but surely there comes a point where you just have to let them tire themselves out, no amount of facts will change the mind of a Tumblr Boafus

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You must acknowledge that this person exists, but not write for them:

A skeet from velodus (@velodus.bsky.social) that reads: "Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's absolutely due to the PM, who chose neither to use his government's powers as a regulator or legislator, or to exercise moral leadership to fight the forces in politics driving this stuff.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In 2006, the OECD came to Newcastle to do a territorial review. Valuable work and a source of some prestige. You’d think. There was hell on because the OECD dared to talk about building the regional economy around the urban centre.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica.
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica.
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What the actual hell is Farage on about? “Being treated like a war criminal”? Don’t be even more ridiculous than you already are. Go and sort your manifesto out in your idiotic fight against Count Binface. And open up your finances to investigation like the supposed non-criminal you claim to be.

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Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I keep watching this on repeat. That fella on the left OMG

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...

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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain

Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So, um... ‘happy’ sixth birthday, Nazi Bar Parable

Screenshotted series of tweets from IamRageSparkle: "I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them." Bars, Clubs & Nightlife

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The irony of this man talking about his safety being under threat by investigative journalism when he actively stokes race riots.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's not just the seriousness of these stories, but the relationship between them. For instance: If Farage used money from this shady crypto guy to pay for security, why did he say that he used the money from the other shady crypto guy to pay for security?

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Phil Dore @philjdore.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My favourite bit of political gossip is that since the Senedd election the Green and Reform MSs are having to share a kitchen. The Green MSs have been filling the fridge with stereotypically Green Party items like oat milk and hummus because they know it annoys the Reform MSs.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

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