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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13h

This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.

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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

September was the 3rd worst month for Russian soldiers (dead or seriously wounded), but October has already surged ahead. Only 3 days of data, but the daily mean is at 1,610 at this stage after today's figure of 1,750 dead/dying. Also good numbers on air defence + artillery.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday is Day 1684 of Russia's all out war on Ukraine. But it's also exactly 4,700 since the Ukrainian people's real struggle to be free of Putin. On 21 November 2013 "Maidan" protests began after Putin ordered his puppet in Kyiv to abandon EU agreements. This is the daily🧵

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm with Carl Sagan on this:

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

16% of Albertans would support Alberta joining the United States as a state. 75% would oppose it, including 66% who strongly oppose. From our Alberta Referendum Study, fielded Sept 4-7.1

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, pretty clear HBO Max is using AI to translate its show descriptions into UK English, because look what they call John Candy…

HBO
8th ANNUAL YOUNG COMEDIANS’ SHOW

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John Sweets introduces HBO viewers to comedy's class of
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reminder that Elon Musk is fighting for the right to produce CSAM. he's a pedophile

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is Alison, Cornell Class of 1994. She saw and experienced how Cornell University has gone out of their way to support and protect gang rape fraternity culture FOR YEARS, just like many other schools continue to do today.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Enjoying the various pre-conference think pieces on how Badenoch is doing great that largely fail to mention how her response to a summer of climate and fossil fuel crises has been to pretend you can tackle climate change without getting to net zero and lobby for increased fossil fuel reliance.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The money flowed around football. It made a lot of other clubs richer. It helped teams everywhere and especially in the Premier League." Seems a bit weird to build an entire piece around a Man City-friendly claim yet be unwilling or unable to cite anyone making it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Man City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?

BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.

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Matthew McClure @matthewmcclure777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

". . .Tesla and General Motors vehicles, such as the Cybertruck and Cadillac Lyriq, shared data with third parties at a much higher rate, according to the study; Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Pinterest, and Reddit were the most common recipients of the data. . ." What could possibly go wrong?

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19 Out of 21 Late-Model Cars Tested Shared Data With 3rd Parties, Including Big Tech: Study

Researchers found vehicles in real-world settings contacted “third parties ... known to provide advertising and tracking services.”

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026

Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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José Manuel Albares @jmalbares.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

La protección de la democracia y la lucha contra la desinformación es una prioridad. España y Francia estamos unidos por los valores europeos. Junto a mi homólogo @jnbarrot.bsky.social reforzamos la cooperación con la firma de un acuerdo sobre desinformación durante la visita de Estado.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolutely. The core question that I try to raise in this piece is whether the anti-ICE and anti-Trump sentiment creates an opening for a new kind of pro-immigrant consensus, a new kind of moral language on this issue. Talarico seems to be betting that the answer is Yes

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting how he's drawing in other parties to this, to try to reinforce the image of building a wider consensus

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 29/09/2026

It’s now up to all pro-EU activists, voters & organisations to now pressure Labour into the full EU membership option While so-called “red lines” on will be maintained until the next election, Burnham’s spokesman refused to deny suggestions that Labour could campaign on a pledge to rejoin the UK.

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Burnham opens door to rejoining EU as he rips into Brexit

Burnham has suggested he will put fresh options to the nation regarding its future relations with the European Union after Brexit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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John Martin🇪🇺🔶 #FBPPR 👩‍❤️‍👨+👫🐶 Rtd🚒 #GetPRDone @itsjohnmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Supporters of PR will be wondering how on earth government could be more chaotic than the system we have experienced in the last decade. PR works! New democracies don’t adopt our First Past The Post system for a reason!

theguardian.com

Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @casfetera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

El NYT confirma la información de Haaretz de que el presidente de los EAU advirtió en secreto a Netanyahu, antes del 7 de octubre de 2023, de que Hamás planeaba un ataque de gran envergadura, según dos fuentes. El aviso no se comunicó a los jefes de seguridad israelíes, según cinco exfuncionarios.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026

Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...

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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe

Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, how does this work? Muse wants me to set up an AI Agent to automate my life (you know, move money from low interest bearing to high interest bearing accounts etc). And then my AI Agent gets hacked??? www.ft.com/content/3f40...

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Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom

Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies’ costly AI resources

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Mihailiк ᵖᵒ⁶ᵒᵐᵃ @oyin.bo · 25/09/2026

US/China doomsayers might completely miss the quiet serpent hiding it's immeasurable length in these fractal shores.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

no worries. keep an eye on UK. Truss put a spotlight on the UK economy like never before. it's facing a fiscal crisis not seen since 1970s and markets have zero confidence in a brexit britain economy. it can't borrow it's way out of trouble and another run on UKbonds & GBP£ is expected soon.

chart depicting UK Gilts market rises since 2022 including the huge spike when Truss launched her mini budget...then when starmer became PM and then another big spike with the US/Israel wars in the middle east.

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

EU position is very clear. Over to Andy Burnham. “A customs union would solve most of the problems of ‘made in Europe’,” said an EU official. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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EU urges UK to raise tariffs on Chinese cars to avoid ‘made in Europe’ barriers

London has lobbied intensely to secure equal treatment for British products but continues to rule out a customs union

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is I think the bluntest assertion of the EU’s position so far. Unfortunately, it’s pretty logical in its context — to adapt another phrase…protectionism means protectionism.

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh no, terrible news. What will Reform do? 😜

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oooh, would now be a good time to slow down AI investment? Because of, you know, a mounting threat to humanity (and not the mounting threat to Larry Ellison's et als wallet).

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Stuart Budd @stuartbudd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The UK has been in negotiations as 3rd country regarding a youth agreement for over two years and has so far got nowhere while the EU's requirements haven't changed in the slightest.

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But absolutely tosh to think negotiations as third country (even in an accession path) can shape the EU

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good to hear Daniel Thomas has finally been arrested. Tommy Robinson is already appealing for money. Well of course he is.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry what? Tom Swarbrick challenging Kemi Badenoch on GMB after she (apparently) described the single market as 'a great thing'. TS: 'Why's it a great thing?' KB: 'Well because it's a free trade area, but....[reasons not to be in it]' I'm surprised she conceded that much, tbh. At 08:27 today

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026

no notes. ban the pervert glasses.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_R...•22h
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is how you do it. Most far right politician are frauds. Romania has just charged former far right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu for a €1 million fraud. www.politico.eu/article/cali...

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Former Romanian presidential candidate Georgescu detained on suspicion of fraud

The ultranationalist politician, who was accused of fomenting a violent coup in Bucharest, is facing a battery of criminal cases.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

❗️📊 Russia's largest marketplaces, Wildberries and Ozon, which suffered billions in losses due to Ukrainian drone strikes on their warehouses, are facing a wave of lawsuits from sellers, - Kommersant From July 15 to September 15, 599 lawsuits were filed against Wildberries. This is a 53.6% increase.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 😼 🔥 BAVOVNA at Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya. 💥 TPP-22 in Dzerzhinsky. 🔥 Logistics hub in Sofyino. 🇺🇦 Defense Forces liberated another 43.5 km² and two settlements as part of Operation Vivaldi.

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