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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Every issue poll be like do you want thing? Yes: 78% No: 15% Do you want thing with inevitable inseparable unavoidable consequence of thing? Yes: 31% No: 58%
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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is entirely at odds with the available evidence which suggests under diagnosis. We've done anti science stuff on vaccines and medicine, can we not do it on this, too.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque” Ministers have publicly committed to open up data on land ownership - but the Land Registry themselves are dragging their feet. Tag your MP: let’s finally reveal who owns England! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque
Defra promised in March to work towards free access to data on large plots in England and Wales
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zelensky has accepted Trump’s demand to stop hitting Russian refineries. The Russians are ignoring Trump’s demands and continuing with their strikes on Ukrainian power plants. Trump is saying nothing about this so far.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
it’s just great marketing
3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The very earliest coins ever minted in Britain (pre-Roman) held images of wolves and other creatures.
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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 12/10/2026
Dr. Robotnik
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Continuing my career as a serious journalist by trying out M&S’s false nipples for a week inews.co.uk/opinion/unst...
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The unstoppable rise of nipples - and why you are seeing them everywhere
Kate Lister: I tried a pair of stick on nipples in the wild to see what the fuss is all about
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dominos meme
First domino: Tsar Nicholas losing the Russo-Japanese war
Last Domino: His Grandniece being handcuffed to DJ Fat Tony on Channel 4
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Years of working in left archives and engaging in left politics has made me wary when I hear or read "Zionist" - not because it is inherently offensive or abusive or antisemitic - but because it provides cover for a huge range of different arguments and attitudes. Political parties should know this!
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026
I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.
Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That the BBC still puts ‘inflated‘ in speech marks tells us things about the state of BBC journalism. Bothsidesism has rotted its soul. 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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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
William Morris, Arts & Crafts designer, translator of Icelandic sagas, founder of Kelmscott press, died #OTD 1896. Kelmscott Chaucer 1896, Stanford University | Snakeshead printed textile 1877, Victoria & Albert Museum | Portrait by George Frederick Watts 1870, NationalPortrait Gallery London
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 30/09/2026
Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026
Man City have shown zero remorse and are still belittling the legal process. Hard to see how they can expect any leniency.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is what consistently leaves this country stuck & broken in the most basic ways
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Concerted, deliberate, calculated cheating is the conclusion. A Premier League heist. So throw the book at them and run the owners out of town. And Manchester City supporters should want to lead that movement. Column (free to read) inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Throw the book at Man City - and force the owners out
The verdict leaves City facing questions that money and bluster can no longer drown out
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is just bollocks. When my dad and grandma faced the most disgusting racism in the 60s and 70s (more extreme than what would ever be considered mistreat today) migration was far lower and many Brits were facing plenty ‘inwards’
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The fact that all the leading transphobes now also have beef with neurodivergence really tells you what they’re motivated by (clue: not feminism)
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gorgeous visit to the sunny Lincolnshire coast yesterday to see the latest golf course given back to nature. Credit to @nationaltrust.org.uk for being brave. This is nature as human regen too – fantastic new green infrastructure for Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026
If it was discovered that I ran a company that used a team of photoshoppers working remotely from North Korea to generate on-demand sexualized images of women without their consent, including minors, which I then posted live on Twitter, I do not think the response from authorities would be silence.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Labour’s savage disability benefit cuts could hit older people hardest, despite their reduced chances of finding work - a third of those potentially affected are aged 50+, according to FOI data Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
national.thelead.uk
Exclusive: Over a third of disabled people at risk from Labour’s benefit cuts are 50+
New figures obtained by The Lead show more than one third of people at risk from cuts to universal credit disability payments are over 50 – a group facing some of the highest barriers to finding work
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lib Dem statistic of the day, as revealed at a More in Common-led fringe, is that the greatest single predictor of Lib Dem support in an area, more than education, or income, or age, of gender... is the fact the constituency has a branch of Gail's. This backs up the previous anecdotal evidence.
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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026
This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The problem is a lot of these people hate our country. They assume that it must be better on the continent because that’s their lazy, single transferable take on everything. That they inherited something precious they’ve let decline through neglect and faux savviness would never occur to them.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Earl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to Diana
Princess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair".
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember Farage having a hissy fit because Sky News knocked on his door and asked if he was at home. He was outraged because his daughter answered the door and claims Sky were harassing his family. Fast forward to him laughing at a distraught Mother living in Piddlington who's worried for her sons.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Teases out how Trumpism, the Rapture and AI cohere in parts of the American mind. For those who want to understand why America has gone down the path to fascism, this is a compelling polemic. Review of Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-a...
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Apocalypse wow: The American right wingers rooting for doomsday
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 12/09/2026
The post isn't even internally consistent. If the UK "is taxing itself to death", and if Laffer is right that "taxes can become so punitive they reduce revenues", then why would lowering taxes require you to cut spending?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Also led to the famous exchange Earl of Sandwich: "I don’t know whether you’ll die upon the gallows or of the pox." Wilkes: "That depends, my lord, whether I first embrace your lordship’s principles or your lordship’s mistresses."
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