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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9h
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 9h
"Talk Radio is the antithesis of everything IKEA purports to stands for." ==> actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Petition comment reading: "Talk Radio is the antithesis of everything IKEA purports to stands for. By advertising on that platform, you're damaging your brand and my faith, as a loyal customer, in you." - Cathy
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 9h
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Why the UK’s energy security could be under threat as gas stores run low
Andy Burnham wants to reindustrialise the UK, but his task could be made harder because of rocketing fuel prices in an unpredictable world.
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 9h
the triple-lock is not a problem & shouldn't be abolished! & we don't need another levy on Income on top of NI! a #Wealth-Tax is the best funding development.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10h
This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 10h
A typical agentic AI session uses about 27x the energy of a typical chat session on the same model (heavy agentic sessions can go past 100x). New estimates out today for closed models like GPT and Claude from the Sustainable AI Group.
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 9h
no excuse needed...
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 9h
i don't need any excuse... a vampire that isn't Dracula
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
The Tories are so bad at politics. Their latest campaign against Burnham is “he’s taking us back to the 70s” which sounds like grandpa yelling at people to get off the lawn. Most voters are too young to have any idea what that means. They do remember Johnson and Truss though.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 10h
Trusted climate information should be available to everyone. Your support helps Climate.us keep the science accurate, accessible, and useful. Help us keep going: buff.ly/UfSQBfB
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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 10h
EU energy ministers are considering delaying some of the bloc’s new environmental restrictions to soften the blow of a looming energy crisis this winter. TVP World's Chief International Correspondent, Alex Cadier, reports from Brussels⤵️
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h
Scientists think Alzheimer’s might be reversible.
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NEWSLETTER: Genetic discovery yields clues toward reversal of Alzheimer's brain damage
Today we highlight a discovery with potentially important implications for future Alzheimer's research and treatments. We also report on an experimental Gilead therapy showing great promise ​against a...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h
Dementia and Alzheimer's are absolutely devastating not only to the sufferer but for their friends and loves ones as well. Currently if it happens to your parent or partner you're effectively on your own navigating this terrible and often very expensive landscape of care.
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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 18h
Morning moon Good Tuesday morning Wishing you a day of clarity and understanding...
A full moon sits over a colorful sky just before sunrise.

📷 Dreamcatcher
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even worse, it's now being claimed that it's the hallmark of the superiority of "our race" to make such speculations. Beyond belief.
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Bastard Angela @werewolf.pizza · 11/08/2026
Werewolf bite. Art by @werebit.bsky.social, tattoo by Char (chmanzerart on Instagram) at Legacy Body Arts
Tattoo of a large, realistic, partially-healed canid bite on a woman’s shoulder
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10h
With Andy Burnham's speech, the left has unequivocally won the argument - on the rhetoric, at least. The substance is rather more complicated. But this government is more susceptible to popular pressure to go in a more progressive direction than Starmerism. Should embolden us!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h
Ice Cream is absolutely lunch, it gives the body essential carrageenans and guar gums
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 10h
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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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 10h
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Ed Miliband to Zeteo UK: The UK Will ‘Not Be Bystanders’ Over Palestine
The new foreign secretary, speaking to Zeteo UK’s political editor Shehab Khan at the Labour Party conference, has said he is ‘very serious’ about doing the ‘right thing’ in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 10h
Suicide is the leading cause of death for 16–35s in the UK — the highest rates in 30 years. Young lives are being failed. Please can you sign the petition calling for more investment in proven support that saves young lives. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save young lives from suicide
Suicide is the leading killer of young people in the UK. Every day, an estimated 300 to 450 young people aged 16 to 35 attempt suicide, with rates now at their highest level in 30 years (Office for Na...
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 11h
Not only are researchers facing AI-created review by chatbots, they're wondering if they should report it or just go with the flow? Humans can be very unreasonable on review if they have an axe to grind-- plus it can be very challenging to find reviewers, so reporting = further delays. 🧪
Luke Allen
Health policy advisor and co-director

Second time I've received AI peer reviews from a Q1 journal 🤖📝

In both cases, 2/3 reviews were very obviously pasted chatbot content. Do editors not realise? Or not care?

Apart from the fact that they tend to be exhaustingly and exhaustively lengthy, the real problem is that chatbot reviews are generally more reasonable than the average reviewer 3. 

There's a disincentive to report back to the journal because it will take them another six months to find new reviewers, and then you're rolling the dice on how reasonable they will be.

Better the silicon-based devil you know?

The compounding irony is that the AI comments are so lenghty that I now increasingly use a chatbot to generate my response to reviewer document. And of course it merrily suggests that it could take a stab at some of the simple grammar/formatting issues. 

How long until scientific publishing is just papers written by AI, being reviewed by AI, and revised by AI?
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 10h
GB News aired this on 20 Sep – but the episode has gone missing from their socials 🤔 Lots more to be said about this clip, the latest in a long line of hateful commentary from GB News. Let's at least agree they shouldn't be allowed to get away with it scott-free. #stopfundinghate #gbnews
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 10h
Andy Burnham: We must go further to undo the damage of Brexit and we must change the voting system so everyone's vote counts! Do we FINALLY have the right Prime Minister?! #LabourConference
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Is Andy Burnham about to scrap Brexit and FPTP? - Labour Conference 2026
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h
Isab El-Oakeshott seems to have decided that digging is the correct way to go about it.
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graceyy @aceyy03.bsky.social · 12h
would love to see more greenfinches out & about #birdoftheday #EFG #birds #greenfinch #ukbirding #photography #birdphotography #birdwatching #canon
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 11h
It's been quite doomy and gloomy in Kyiv since fascist Russia launched its practically non-stop jet drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital, but there are still signs of hope:
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h
There is so much at stake at this election. Real hope looks like action. Rent controls, nationalising Thames Water and no to fossil fuels. Here's an update on how it's going! youtu.be/hPmtOL6obLw
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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 2
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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markh60.bsky.social @markh60.bsky.social · 11h
Little Owl on the barn at Manor farm Shaftesbury #p1000 #owls #birds #wildlife #birdphotography #dorsetwildlife
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11h
🧵 William Orpen (1878-1931) painted this cottage interior in 1908. It’s called Old John’s Cottage & is set in Connemara in the West of Ireland. An elderly couple are seen as flanking a fireplace. It’s an incredibly atmospheric image. [1]
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 11h
Security services have egg on their faces. No explosives. Just some cans of petrol. 🙄
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RAF Fairford latest: Intercepted vans had no improvised explosives, police say, but 'quantity of petrol' recovered
British counter terror police are giving an update on the major incident at RAF Fairford over the weekend. It comes amid growing questions about the incident, with various claims from senior US figure...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11h
Estonian authorities say that an arson attack carried out last month on a defense company that provides military vehicles to Ukraine was an act of sabotage commissioned by Russian security services.
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Russia accused of sabotage by Estonia after arson at Ukraine supplier
Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that “such actions are absolutely unacceptable” and that Russia’s charge d’affaires in Tallinn was being summoned to his ministry.
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 10h
get in line 😉
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12h
Was anyone at this hearing today? (not sure if it was broadcast)
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was lucky enough to get a viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry. Proper live action story, and compelling colours. I took too many photos - will post a bunch. Feel free to mute the thread…
'In the year of grace 1066, the Lord the ruler carried out what he had long contemplated for the English: he delivered them for destruction to the violent and cunning Normans!
(Henry of Huntingdon)
Writing above a set of people looking at the Bayeux Tapestry
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 14h
The mistral made painting in Arles a fight. Van Gogh drove 50cm iron pegs into the ground and roped his easel to them so he could work in the wind. He blamed it for Cézanne's clumsy touch too: "It's his easel that's wobbling."
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21h
This two tier policing is disgraceful. It's as if there is one approach for people who helpfully film themselves committing crimes and another approach when there is insufficient evidence.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 13h
Honestly it’s like a parody by this point isn’t it
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
It’s also worth noting that this film’s budget is estimated at $10 million. And that’s where you really see the advantage of having someone in charge who’s an expert in VFX. He knew exactly what he wanted. The action sequences are easy to follow, and every shot was clearly thought out in advance.
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godzilla minus one news reporting on destruction
Alt: godzilla minus one news reporting on destruction
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Scene LGBTQ+ Magazine @scenemag.co.uk · 12h
York arts organisation QueerArts has announced the location of its new permanent community space, describing it as a place where LGBTQ+ people can be creative, connect with others and "truly be you".
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QueerArts reveals location of new LGBTQ+ hub in York - "a queer, creative and inclusive space"
York arts organisation QueerArts has announced the location of its new permanent community space, describing it as a place where LGBTQ+ people can be creative, connect with others and "truly be you". ...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
I showed Godzilla Minus One to my family—and it was a huge hit. It took me months to convince them because of the US Godzilla movies. 😅 It’s truly one of my fav genre films of the decade. The way it blends kaiju, a heartfelt human story, and powerful themes—all on a shoestring budget—is fantastic.
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Godzilla Minus One: Ocean Emergence
Alt: Godzilla Minus One: Ocean Emergence
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 15h
A video being shared online supposedly shows an “asylum seeker” saying he wants “more money and more freedom”, and isn’t happy with how he’s being treated in the UK. But the clip is AI-generated. Here’s how we know 👇
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Video of ‘asylum seeker’ saying he wants ‘more money and more freedom’ is AI-generated – Full Fact
A clip which has been shared online contains a SynthID watermark, suggesting it was made with Google’s AI tools.
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The Action Network @theactionnetwork.bsky.social · 13h
Thousands of people have downloaded our Supercharge Your Campaign guide to help power campaigns up and down the ballot! Grab your copy here: actionnetwork.org/forms/download-th… #actionnetwork #campaigns #election #mobilization
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 13h
What if getting older or needing care didn’t mean worrying about whether you could afford it? Andy Burnham has announced plans for an NHS-style National Care Service, free at the point of use and funded by everyone. It could be a huge step towards fixing England’s broken social care system.
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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 13h
Excellent to have @labourlewis.bsky.social speak at our Labour Party conference event about the opportunity for public financial institutions 🪙 After the 2008 financial crash "because we only had private sector banks our financing crashed, Germany's crashed but then it picked up". Fast forward...
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