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Mat

@onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social
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Listener and Reader, believer in scientific method, trying to be a liberal. Still have hope.

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God @thegodshow.com · 12/10/2026
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The monsters would have you give up on kindness, you should do the opposite” Rainfrog The Very Brave - Amber Fossey.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Emmanuel @emmanuelmpeg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That is not what U Ghent is saying: www.ugent.be/en/news-even...
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Information and updates on the case of a postdoctoral researcher
Ghent University is using this page for its official communications, decisions and next steps on the ongoing case on a certain postdoctoral researcher, which has prompted many questions and has attrac...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Grete Hermann (1901-1984), brilliant philosopher of maths and quantum mechanics and first student of Emily Noether. Hermann was co-founder of the journal Ratio, and turned to political philosophy later in her career, writing in 1947:
Whoever lives in the Third Reich or otherwise comes to terms with it, but isolates themselves from the political events around them in order to occupy themselves with other, in themselves beautiful and worthy subjects, is lending their name and their work to this system. There is no neutrality towards the legal and cultural decline in public life. Whoever does not oppose it is complicit in it. Whatever beautiful and good things they may create otherwise are devalued by this participation in the social injustice with which it is burdened.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Haven’t met anyone today who thinks the reaction from the usual suspects is anything but comedy, if I do I will laugh at them.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fellow solar nerds will enjoy this. "Fuyao Glass has confirmed mass-production capabilities for solar sunroof glass, with photovoltaic cells embedded" in cars www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/19/c...
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Chinese automotive glass giant announces vehicle-integrated solar roof - pv magazine Global
Fuyao Glass has confirmed mass-production capabilities for solar sunroof glass, with photovoltaic cells embedded in laminated automotive glass to power auxiliary vehicle loads. While reports have link...
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We’re all out of one-time firesales.
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Silly Sally 💙💙💙 @caturday62.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Alright. now everyone knows how to spell diarrhoea.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Vote for Count Binface. 🐻
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
HISTORIC MOMENT Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale. PICS! THREAD!
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“Blows like a sad cat’s sigh” has me chuckling in a public place. Ta.
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Olivia Kortas @oliviakortas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Only hours after the massive attack on Kyiv has stalled... This is such a Ukrainian response.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Again better than I can articulate. I run a hierarchy of the parties/leaders and constantly play a game of better/worse rather than perfect. Labour/Starmer won’t run out of ministers like Johnson. He does need to change course on Europe, Palestine, immigration, electoral and tax reform, big list.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wish, just once, I could be this eloquent and passionate.. just once.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Needs circulating again
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𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 - 𝐓𝐇𝐌 @tomhicksmedia.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“If Trump were a Democrat would you still hate him?” Trump WAS a Democrat, and I hated him then, too. I don’t GAF what party someone claims to be. Nobody hates Trump because he’s a Republican. We hate him because he's a shitty President and possibly the shittiest human being who has ever lived.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
@alistairbarrie.com Hope you enjoyed your northern adventure to the HiFi Club, I did. Mrs M’s take… “He’s you but funny”.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Almost makes me want to give them a try… almost.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Just needs reposting once in a while
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
ox.ac.uk
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Vaccines don't cause autism Pass it on
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Who is this Brit Ian & why will he lose - I demand to know!
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Me with Lion bars and I’m not walking the dog.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
John Peel born this day 1939. Today’s poem from Brian Bilston ‘Do Ye Miss John Peel?’ regressed me to my teens. Find it and read it. “Listen mate, ‘life’ has surface noise”
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The venues are all magic too. Thanks for the nod, looking forward to this.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail 
 
I would rather 
eat Quavers that are six weeks stale, 
blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale, 
listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail, 
than read one page of the Daily Mail. 
 
If I was bored 
in a waiting room in Perivale, 
on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail, 
halfway through a circumnavigational sail, 
I would not read the Daily Mail. 
 
I would happily read 
the autobiography of Dan Quayle, 
1001 Things You Can Do With Kale, 
selected scripts from Emmerdale,
if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail. 
 
Far better to 
stand outside in a storm of hail, 
scratch a blackboard with a fingernail, 
be swallowed by a humpback whale, 
than have to read the Daily Mail. 
 
If I was blind  
and it was the only thing in Braille, 
I still would not read the Daily Mail. 

 
Brian Bilston 
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I promise to broaden my reading beyond claiming 1984 as a romance novel. Your handling of the Kryptonite couple last week ‘literally one line to go’ was extraordinarily classy. To my 57 followers, improve your life. open.spotify.com/show/1e2s0Zs... open.spotify.com/episode/0fkg...
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The Gargle
Podcast · The Bugle · From the makers of The Bugle, this is a weekly show that skips the news pages and takes a sideways glance at the nonsense contained within the culture, celebrity, tech, science a...
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
When my wife (my-wife) says “ooh, I found some headphones” it’s a good job I love her.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Is this all the opposition has got? Risible. There are things missing and things to argue about but these pre-canned ripostes and economic arguments wouldn’t pass a GCSE.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Brexit.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As much fun as the TACO memes are, don't forget what that stands for: TRUMP ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT. It would be a shame to ignore the chicken memes that are there for the taking. Here's a little Starter Kit you might need. ENJOY!
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Idiocracy was a prophecy.
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PeteZab @petezab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A brilliant piece of poetry from Michael Rosen, clearly directed at Starmer and the current Labour Government.
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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
bookshop.org
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Eri la nutria 🦦 - te quiere mucho @erivlt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Pascal about JK Rowling and the anti trans law on UK: ‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Perfectly seasoned piece of writing.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This week’s Bugle is marvellous, Alice Fraser on Dunning-Kruger reminded me of Radio 4 conversation many (many) years ago where ’speed kills’ evangelist stated… “99% of people are better than average drivers” and continually referred to Tiff Needell as ‘Tiffany’. Radio gold.
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
People on trains… Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback … set to ‘None’. Those clicking sounds in public remind me of The Quiet Place.
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 13/02/2025
This needs reposting at all times everywhere:
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Mat @onedayitwillbetrue.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The legal perspective of the Lucy Letby case, @davidallengreen.bsky.social The medical perspective of the Lucy Letby case, www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
private-eye.co.uk
Special Report: The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case
After Lucy Letby was convicted in August 2023 of murdering seven babies, a number of experts contacted Eye columnist MD because they
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