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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Blocking the Port of Dover, attacking refugees, threatening and closing an RNLI station, marching on the press, and, now, attempted murder? (Incase you're wondering, everything up to until this incident the govt and police have stated is 'legitimate' and 'legal' protest - despite it not being so)

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Con lo ius scholae la percentuale di studenti stranieri sarebbe dello 0%

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026

And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Public support for net zero is still close to two thirds of voters. The recent shift against it is almost entirely an elite thing! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Cut ‘net zero’ from name of UK net zero department, MPs urge

Cross-party group says term has become ‘lightning rod for opposition to climate action’

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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Per Giorgia Meloni il bollo è un balzello odioso per gli automobilisti. Per gli italiani, che non sono tutti inlattati, invece sono odiosi i tagli alla sanità ai quali le regioni saranno costrette. Vergogna.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And I assume that it does, though it’s still scarcely AI at all. So this is a familiar future, yet stupid. And in so many other ways as well.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

The data centre boom is the exact opposite of everything the energy transition should stand for. It is the opposite of clean, of climate justice, of community benefits, of electrification and technological efficiency. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/11/b...

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“Bring Your Own Power” Schemes Won’t Fix Data Centers

"Bring Your Own Power" fails to address the rising costs or pollution driven by data centers' exploding energy demands.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines.

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Centre-right protestors march on Rome in October 1922, hoping to snatch a few selfies with local admirers

Image from the march on Rome, October 1922.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.

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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry

As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In more 'govern the country you actually have' news: minister finger-wags at nation with spectacularly historically overachieving cultural industry that they should all be engineers instead, and that this would be personally as well as economically fulfilling.

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EagleOwl @eagleowlsheila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I listened in disbelief. It's impossible to get your head around the fact that Justin Webb believes Ed Miliband isn't Jewish enough because he doesn't attend synagogue.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You don’t have to read this, but you should read Sciascia. Though if your response to that is ‘why?’ or ‘who?’ or ‘whatever’, then I guess maybe do read this.

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Thomas Jones · How to Choose Your Friends: Sciascia’s Sicily

The importance of Sicily to Leonardo Sciascia’s writing can’t be overstated, but Italo Calvino perhaps put it best...

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Really sad about Richard Alston. The only time I've ever come out of seeing any show in any medium and immediately bought tickets to see it again was his Volumina/Devil in the Detail at Sadlers Wells in 2006.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026

Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...

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Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters

Up to 500 activists dressed in black with their faces covered brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads

Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It seems quite hard to get tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum (next release, 21 October) so I'm glad I went to the Musée de la Tapisserie when Macron first mooted sending it to England www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Thomas Jones · In Bayeux

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m getting a bunch of these for people who aren’t me for articles that aren’t books

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026

Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No one else could go from 0 to everything in three minutes the way she could

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

And not only that but … www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My Oxford colleague Steven Balbus goes much further. The coincidence of geometry that makes the Sun and Moon roughly the same size in the sky also means that they both contribute to the tides we experience on Earth. The beating of the solar and lunar tidal cycles against each other brings the difference between more extreme spring tides and lesser neap tides. This means there are liminal places on Earth that are covered with water occasionally but dry most of the time: ideal habitats for an oft-stranded species of fish to learn to breathe air or take its first steps onto land.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But it is, now. (Though as Brecht didn’t quite say, let nothing be called normal in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable.)

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Name a movie where the title character isn’t the main character

M•G•M's
ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
JULIUS CAESAR
MARLON BRANDO * JAMES MASON
as MARK ANTONY
as BRUTUS
JOHN GIELGUD * LOUIS CALHERN
as CASSIUS
as JULIUS CAESAR
EDMOND O'BRIEN NO GREER GARSON
as CASCA
as CALPURNIA
DEBORAH KERR
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Climate change affecting Europe's key inland waterways:

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We sold the warship on the cover to the Brazilians eight years ago...

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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Secondo l’ISPI in tutte i paesi d’Europa i cittadini sono indotti a credere che gli immigrati siano molti di più di quelli che realmente sono. PS Fin qui ci siamo, però le ideologie discriminatorie, xenofobe, razziste sono interamente responsabili (criminale) dei singoli.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yes to this. Only two jailed that I know of (and one dead) but yeah.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A technique pioneered by Silvio Berlusconi, Trump’s forerunner in so many ways, who would call on people to take to the streets in protest at the government while he was prime minister.

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And here’s another podcast on the Odyssey we recorded a few years ago, before Matt Damon was General Groves, with extracts from Emily’s translation read by Hazel Holder

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Podcast: Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones · Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And if you don’t feel like reading this thread you can listen to our podcast … podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Nolan v. Homer

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26 July · 52min

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