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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Simplicity Cremations *AllClearTravel *Boxt *WeFixLondon *Ecomposite *Movinglife *WinSmart *Sonorizon *WNLPrinting *YourUnbelievaBowl *Dobel *SolomonGlobal *EKOSGroup *WhatStores *Powerjetpro *Revitive *FabFourMemorabilia *TrailFinders *Love2Stay

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GB News sparks fury over calls to 'castrate' all asylum seekers

GB News has sparked fury after a guest suggested all asylum seekers should be 'castrated' during a live broadcast

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026

40-Year-Old Has Spiky Hair

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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave

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Small Press Scotland CIC @smallpress.scot · 01/10/2026

We're looking for a new director! Are you passionate about Scottish small press? Do you want to make a substantial impact for Scotland's self-publishing creators? Then you might be the perfect fit for the Small Press Scotland team! 📌 See the full details: smallpress.scot/jobs/director

We're looking for a new director!

Would you like to make a substantial impact on Scotland’s small press scenes and help uplift self-publishing creators? Small Press Scotland CIC is looking for a new director to join our existing team as a partner. You will assist with and oversee event organisation, community engagement, and development of resources and strategies to educate and assist creators working across many creative fields.

This is a volunteer, unpaid role for the immediate future; all current directors are working on a volunteer or contractor basis dependent on project funding. If full funding is received for our 2027 programme and beyond, we expect to pay all directors a rate of £20/hour for approximately 200 hours a year.

See the full details on our website!

Deadline to apply: 5pm, 9/12/2026
Interviews: from 4/1/2027
Responses: by 22/1/2027
Expected start date: February 2027

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Martin James Flanagan @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Care Full (thinking about how to centre the concept of care in the wider economy with the importance it deserves) have been at the Labour party conference, and it turned out to be quite a simpatico moment.... 🧵 carefulleconomy.co.uk

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Al Ewing Writes Comics @al-ewing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If only he’d thought to wear a balaclava.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 26/09/2026

Manchester City should ask the electorate of Clacton if they are guilty or not.

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uppergwladysblu.bsky.social @uppergwladysblu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey Manchester City Football Club: 👇🏻

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Even America.gov agrees: Donald Trump drove up your gas prices.

In one Word, did Donald Trump's war in Iran drive up gas and diesel prices for Americans?

America.gov: yes

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thousands of us are urging IKEA to pull their ads from toxic Talk Radio. Add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...

Petition comment reading: "Creating warm, welcoming homes extends to people, not just sofas.

IKEA please withdraw your support from toxic broadcasting." - Gillian

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lila7.bsky.social @lila7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still want more details. The main problem with social care is that too much of the money goes to private agencies and not to the low paid care workers who actually do the work. Who’s going to pay a living wage to family members or friends who do the work for those who want to stay at home?

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone who has waded through the social care system for themselves or a loved one will know how meaningful this speech is. It will be a huge challenge - and undoubtedly not be perfect - but the pay-off could be genuinely lifechanging for so many.

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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dont say things that would get you included in a racist video?

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HOLY SHIT I am watching Channel 5 again at my mums house and I just learned that Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo. Did you know this??

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 28/09/2026

James McEnroe encourages tennis players to boycott the Grand Slam after stars protest Wimbledon and French Open

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Care Full @carefull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're disabled, an unpaid carer, you're more likely to live in poverty, have poor health, not have access to paid work, live in poorer housing. Let's stop talking about the cost and start saying it's an investment same as education & the NHS. Care is for us all. An investment in our lives.

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Care Full @carefull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If we ask ourselves why we have to recognise it's rooted in sexism, ableism and ageism. But, if we park for one minute that care is vital to us all, affects all our lives and instead look at the hard numbers. Ignoring care, seeing it as a burden, the "duty" of families costs us all a lot more.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's been happening forever, and will happen forever, that rich people fuck off to lower-tax areas and frame it as political defiance of some law they personally don't like. 'Seatbelts in cars make it impossible for me to deliver wealth.' 'Without smoking in pubs, how am I meant to...'

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Has to be. Donald O’Connor was hospitalised as a result of filming this scene (and the fact he smoked 4 packs of cigarettes per day) with exhaustion and carpet burns. When he returned to set they had to film it again as the initial footage was unusable. It remains one of the most impressive scenes

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Make 'Em Laugh (1952): Full Song & Dance - Donald O'Connor - Musical Romantic Comedy - 1950s Movies

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies

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rebel.resist @sam--2025.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyone MUST vote!

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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cheating. Meaningless. Write that out of history. Akways with an asterisk now

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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

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Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches

City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Ruth Hannan @ruthhannan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really excited to be chairing this session. If you're at #LabourPartyConference come along.

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Lyndon White @lyndondraws.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Only one week until launch! My new fantasy graphic, Embers is heading to Kickstarter and I'm really excited to share everything I've been working on. Expect monsters, magic and a hell of a fire demon. And I welcome all fire puns & emojis 🔥 Support it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/612...

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026

this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:

AI slop dragon in sunglasses

BIGGER IDEAS
MESSIER CREATIVE PROCESS
MORE MAGIC
PET MORE DRAGONS
SAME SARCASM
Fueled by Coffee Chaos
BIG IDEAS
AI CHAOS
* DRAGON ENERGY
* SARCASM & SPELLS
WOMEN WHO CREATE
FANTASY OVER FEAR
PROMPTS & POSSIBILITIES
CREATE WEIRDER BRAVER
KINDER
COOLER WORLDS
FABULOUS
CHAOS
LIVES HERE
Same
Human
Different
Magic

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Postmaster General should be the title given to the best poster on a social media site and definitely not the supreme leader of mail

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Martin James Flanagan @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. Do you?

The comic actor Sid James rides a rally Chopper bike, presumably in the 1970s. He smiles for camera and smokes a pipe

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evan Davis on PM asked if ‘Danny Tommo’ “had any kind of point” by puncturing a dinghy with a knife because “the [authorities] should be doing that themselves”. He went on to describe it as “vigilante action”.

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Martin James Flanagan @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can't remember where I saw someone drop a mention of 'Robot Dreams' but I strongly suspect it was on here. Anyway I'm thankful, as I liked it a lot. For those in the UK, it was screened on C4 or Film4 a few weeks ago, so it's quite likely that it is still on the Channel 4 online service

A humanized dog and robot dance to 1980s music. The scene is in Central Park and it's from the animated film 'Robot Dreams', 2023

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis

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Martin James Flanagan @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't give patronage to any GB News advertisers

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A boat purchased by far-right activist Daniel Thomas (aka “Danny Tommo”) to interfere with Border Force operations in the English Channel has sunk.

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Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks

Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda

The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way

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