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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, Viz.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Someone tell Trump that the teens are in reach, he'll be so excited!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump brand flak towers popping up all over Washington

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 17/09/2026

If somehow you have never listened to this, do so today.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Max Vanoni @maxvanoni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To the surprise of no one, ex Met officer joins racist party

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/09/2026

A minor surprise, and for once not a bad one!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:

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Simon Patterson @denkmit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It has a second skin covering the sides that receives 85% of all impacts, with hundreds of microspheres between the layers to massively reduce the rotational forces in a crash.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The failure to understand the limits of Russian military power before the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine was until that time the greatest failure in modern strategic analysis. The failure to understand the limits of US military power since February 2026 might be worse.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A dire warning, billionaire criminal Musk has set up a scheme in the form of a website votesafe.org in order to steal voter information. Never click on the link and please share this everywhere so others won’t fall prey to it like so many others.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

this is you in meta’s pervert glasses

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Highway Code update.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As @sundersays.bsky.social just pointed out, these “costumes” are really uniforms, banned under the Public Order Act 1936

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anon Opin is not only occasionally amusing, but the comments on its posts are a great way to judge the general mood of a social media platform. The replies on X? Rabid bots. On Bluesky? Joyless. Mastodon? Empty.

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My name is Rich. @mynameisrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today we have discovered the solution to small boats - shout at a large boat.

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tania_nexust @tania-nexust.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Am genuinely disturbed to read this, in the Marina Hyde Q&A article in the Guardian today, there appears to be no indication she is joking or being sarcastic/satirical .... so that leaves me thinking, she must be a transphobe. How very disappointing :-(

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John Milbank @johnmilbank.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The far right claim the importance of freedom of speech, but only if it's what they want to say. We shouldn't be living in fear of fascism 81 years since it should have died completely.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026

I would add OpenStreetMap, which is also community edited. This administration has really underscored some strengths of the wiki model.

Map screenshot showing label "Lake Ontario"

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Clay Smalley
United States moderator
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Although I don’t moderate this section of the forum, here’s a friendly reminder from last time the US government instigated a frivolous naming dispute over an international body of water:

These are the guidelines we use to determine what should be considered the name of a feature:

Names
Multilingual names
Disputes
Currently, the Gulf is tagged with name=Golfo de México, name:en=Gulf of Mexico, and official_name:en-US=Gulf of America. This is unlikely to change, unless the US government reverses its position, or (less likely) English speakers across the world all agree to start using the US government name. That last tag, official_name:en-US=*, is quite obscure and doesn’t show up on any map renderers that I’m aware of. But its inclusion allows people to, for example, search for “Gulf of America” and be redirected to the Gulf of Mexico.

Please keep comments on-topic and substantial. We all have opinions, and it’s easy to drop your two cents in an online forum. However, a discussion about OSM naming guidelines or real-world name usage statistics might be worth at least a few dollars here.

In this case, the lake is tagged with name=Lake Ontario, official_name:en-US=Lake America. For this situation to change, the government would need to reverse its position.

The guidelines on naming disputes apply to every country equally. This is far from the only naming dispute around the world. Let’s not get bogged down in American exceptionalism when we consider how the tagging guidelines should or shouldn’t change.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 05/09/2026

I’m flat out begging politicians to stop trying to win votes with a little light xenophobia. All you do is feed the racists without ever satiating them. Stop legitimizing hate

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My name is Rich. @mynameisrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As expected, Laura K and the BBC are doing their bit to try to launder Farage's reputation... But interestingly, Farage condemns the Dover 'protests' as 'deplorable'. More than Burnham etc are doing - it's beyond me why people still think Labour are left wing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage also condemned the hundreds of masked "stop the boats" protesters who descended on the Port of Dover on Saturday morning, causing major travel disruption.

Farage said he "deplored" anyone wearing masks or balaclavas at public demonstrations.

He added: "You should not be allowed to be masked up, balaclava-ed up and go out and protest on the streets of our country. It is wrong at every level. So I deplore what is happening in Dover today."

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kneecap must be spitting tacks.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A slight majority of Border Patrol agents are Latino so it was also a very deliberate choice to make the character here white.

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 05/09/2026

"Spontaneous protest"... Those guys just happened to be taking a bracing walk on the cliffs with their balaklavas, got a bit bored and just decided to block traffic to mix things up a bit?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This would rightly finish any democratic/constitutionalist party, or at least its current leadership. Proper fascist rally stuff. Sturmgammon being egged-on by their Fuhrer.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They've run of living people to deport.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A rare occurence whereby literally no one cool is inconvenienced at all

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I deleted a thread about the USPS changes that was based on a news story that was incorrect. I should have, but didn't, go directly to the whistleblower report. That's on me. Here's what is correct: A whistleblower alleges that USPS is setting up a system to check ballot *being sent TO voters.*

The whistleblower’s Disclosure describes an unprecedented process that allows USPS to
decide whether ballots issued by state election officials should be mailed. To do so, USPS is
building an entirely new online system, the USPS Federal Ballot Mail Portal and related IT

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I found it weird that this article doesn’t say what Galliano’s “past antisemitic and racist statements” are, especially at a time when a lot of not-antisemitic stuff is getting categorized that way, so I looked it up, and, uh, how did anyone ever think this exhibition was a good idea.

The final straw for Dior appears to have been the video, reportedly shot in La Perle in December, showing Galliano telling two women: "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers would all be fucking gassed."

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

People complain about suspect vape shops and barbers, but I think the more concerning dodgy growth-industry is open letters in support of racists.

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 23/08/2026

This is just fucking glorious. Especially the swearing I'm sure @iandunt.bsky.social will approve

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hard to overstate what an extreme position* is being advocated by the FT here, in historical terms 1/🧵 *she gets it wrong of course: settlement after 5 or 10 years is standard now (for those who qualify: it’s not “automatic”); Mahmood proposes to increase it to 20 years or never for many people

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A looming challenge is how many recent arrivals will seek indefinite leave to remain (ILR), becoming eligible for welfare benefits. While Burnham has kept the hardline Shabana Mahmood in place as home secretary, it is less clear if he will actually adopt her proposals. Labour MPs have already indicated their unhappiness with her plan to double the time it takes to automatically qualify for ILR from five to 10 years — an essential move.

(Article is linked in the quoted post)

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To those saying this normalises abhorrent views, the piece absolutely does not. It hangs him with his own words. As someone who has been on the receiving end of overt antisemitism I’ve always held that it is far better to know who the worst people in the world are than to pretend they don’t exist.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I challenge anyone to read the letter Natalie Harp sent Trump and tell me with a straight face this isn’t deeply weird and disturbing.

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Simon Patterson @denkmit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Absolutely tragic news to start the Manx GP: Swiss racer Mauro Poncini and local rider Sam Naughton have died following crashes during the opening practice sessions. Deepest condolences to Mauro and Sam’s family, friends, and team right now 😞

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Something from your field that everybody should know: Immigration law as we know it is a relatively recent invention. There is nothing inevitable about borders. Ours operate primarily to keep our wealth inaccessible to people from parts of the world from which it was plundered in the first place.

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Ursa Minor @ursaminorthreat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wanted to give a shout out to Haus of Moto, a non profit organisation helping young women into motorsport in UK & Ireland. They tirelessly help with sponsorship, mentoring and getting opportunities for the girls www.hausofmoto.co.uk #motosky

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Haus Of Moto

HausOfMoto Homepage Supporting Females In Motorsport

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Toby Young got his Dad, Lord Young, to take advantage of a clerical error to get into Oxford. Toby was given an incredibly low conditional offer in the first place. Why? (Ironically, Lord Young coined the phrase "meritocracy".) Here is Toby writing about it in The Spectator: archive.is/FT3AH

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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