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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Over 3000 people died this summer due to excess heat.

Richard Rice: Scrap net zero and enjoy the weather

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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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Jane @janeb1234.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Petition: Create a legally enforceable maximum working temperature petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77... We're entering the 5th heatwave of the summer. We're told the #ExtremeHeat will only get worse year on year. Let's get this debated now! Please sign & share.

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Petition: Create a legally enforceable maximum working temperature

Introduce a legally binding maximum working temperature of 25°C for all workplaces, covering both indoor and outdoor jobs. Currently, there is an advisory minimum temperature in statutory guidance but...

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today is the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima. Yet despite the gut wrenching horror, the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs & still want more. This is madness. #NoMoreHiroshimas @cnduk.bsky.social

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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.

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Brevity Belle @brevitybelle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A short and fun factual debunk of the right wing spin on wealth tax #bbcnews #skynews #lbc #C4News youtube.com/shorts/Ki_cJ...

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Talking wealth tax at Wimbledon

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Felicity Nelson @frogsandstars.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

📣 I’m writing a story with The Sick Times focusing on why there are no clinical guidelines for treating children with #LongCOVID and how this affects families. If you're a family affected by Long COVID, feel free to get in touch - felicity.nelson@frogsandstars.com.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's no avoiding the conclusion, however much dust the UK government throws into the air. By providing weapons, rhetorical and diplomatic support to the Israeli government as it has committed genocide in #Gaza, Keir Starmer and his ministers *are* complicit in this great crime.

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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A new survey of striking workers at the world-leading Institute for Cancer Research (ICR) has shown that many are missing meals or unable to pay bills. 💬 The ICR might be a world-leading centre of excellence, but when it comes to how it treats its staff it is at the bottom of the pile. 1/2

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“They're not lazy, they're not skiving and they're not doing it to get attention. They're really, really ill and they've lost so much from their lives.” BBC weather presenter Trai Anfield speaking about young people with #MECFS.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It seems the entire British Establishment agrees that more people should die from poverty to make weapons billionaires even richer meme via Poverty Watch UK

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Six hours early. Storms in the Azteca Stadium area.

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b1rdsteve.bsky.social @b1rdsteve.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It’s about time. All Governments across the globe took this stand. Musk & his platform are a cesspit of division & hatred & he is using Twitter to destroy democracy. He needs to be stopped & the only thing that is truly effective is removing yourself from his toxic environment.

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 02/07/2026

1) 🇪🇺 Good news! The European Union has awarded € 7.5 million for a big ME/CFS consortium that will study biological mechanisms in hundreds of patients. This is a major milestone for ME/CFS research in Europe.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So, @andyburnham.bsky.social what do you think of this? Does taxing asylum seekers put “hope in every heart”? Is this what Labour is now? Until you answer that question, the jury remains out. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Asylum seekers to pay £10,000 towards living costs under new UK law

Means-tested scheme included in immigration and asylum bill condemned by charities for placing tax on refugees

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Poet Sue @poetsue.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#bbclaurak #trevorphillips The next PM (Andy Burnham hopefully) will need to tackle the likes of Elon Musk head on. All Govt needs to come of X and if necessary ban X when it is promoting violence in the UK against non white people. Elon Musk is scourge on this world and he needs to be driven off X.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Should X be banned? Yes. And it should have happened in January when non-consensual sexual imagery proliferated on the site. The government’s inaction on what is becoming increasingly a vehicle for violence and hate is appalling. Much more needs to be done. And quickly.

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Republication: Is Banning X Really Censorship - or Long-Delayed Accountability?

Why governments should no longer be willing to ignore a platform architected for harm.

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Louise Crossley @candidepeel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Absolutely it should have been. Government's inaction on this is inexcusable and, as I can only assume it's because they're scared of upsetting voters over 2 years out from the next GE, cowardly in the extreme.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

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Paul Swann (he/him) @pauldjswann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Of course people, MPs, Journalists etc could just leave Twitter/X en masse as many of us have already done, and the Musk Problem would diminish significantly! I don't understand why this doesn't happen.

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Lauren McCann @laurenmccann.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I wish more people would move from X to Bluesky & there was more #BBCQT debate here.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/06/2026

A brief glimpse of the Lesser-Spotted-Since-The-Stuff-About-The-Cash-Came-Out Farage. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

In Parliament on Wednesday we got a rare treat: a live sighting of Nigel Farage. Like the great bustard, Farage was once ubiquitous in Britain, holding constant press conferences to reveal policies that would subsequently be recanted, sometimes at the actual event announcing them. Biologists debated this behaviour: was it a mating signal, or a desire to mark territory? Whatever the reason, the hearty Farage chuckle seemed as much a part of national life as a batting collapse or a Eurovision disappointment.

But in recent weeks, Farage has almost completely disappeared, hunted close to extinction by journalists asking questions like: “hang on, five million quid?” and “define ‘gift’?”. Suddenly the Reform Party leader could only be seen in protected spaces — soft interviews with sympathetic hacks, or his own social media feed — and then only rarely. Even after his party’s local elections triumph, when his usual behaviour would have been a strut through the Sunday morning interview shows

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a WHITE Police Officer. Nigel Farage called for calm. But when he can use racism he calls for Cold, Hard, Rage.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Imagine if you had a (e.g.) Belgian national living in Clapham, taking £5m secret bribes, neglecting his official job, refusing to answer questions from the authorities, and regularly agitating for race riots. He'd be in prison, right? Or thrown out of the country. Nigel Farage would insist on it.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a "limit" -incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability- tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship"

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"A litmus test for social justice today is the treatment of migrants, refugees and those forced to move due to poverty, violence, climate change and environmental disasters. The way a society treats them reveals whether its sense of justice is driven by fear or by the spirit of fraternity."

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Human dignity does not depend on a person's abilities, wealth or position in life, nor on the right or wrong choices made; instead, it is a gift that precedes and transcends each person, endowed by God as an expression of his unfailing love."

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Paul Swann (he/him) @pauldjswann.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

From the Pope's recent encyclical (with thanks to @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social fur sharing this, and other, quotes)

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

48 days until Summer Recess. The PM promised to meet these families in October, and again in December. His office still hasn't arranged it. Time is not on the side of these national heroes. 30 have died since Christmas. THIS IS NO WAY TO TREAT OUR VETERANS PRIME MINISTER youtu.be/u6YXI4sNtqM?...

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🚨Nuclear Veterans demand arrests and immediate meeting with Prime Minister over Nuked Blood Scandal

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Last night BBC QuestionTime broadcast an 'AI Special', featuring, among others, Laura Gilbert,as an independent AI expert. Gilbert works for The Tony Blair Istitute, which receives huge donations from Larry Ellison, who has interests in AI. Such significant funding should be made clear to viewers.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What's really striking about this clip is that I laid out some of the nonsense against me - and why it was disproportionate. Journalist agrees some of it is "overcooked." But none of my explanation nor the danger around my personal safety has made the cut....!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

DESPITE NET MIGRATION HAVING FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED! This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public youtu.be/WuSKdLtKHCs?...

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NET MIGRATION HAS FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK YET NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS BELIEVE ITS INCREASED!

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Rob Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate failed to declare social media accounts @Makerfield_RFK and @RobKenyon1. Every other candidate / most councillors found to have done this with controversial posts has been sacked by Reform UK.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

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Paul @impaul.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

via Reform Watch Cymru

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Alan M @alan1874.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Starmer declares donor funding for glasses/clothes - media outrage for weeks. Rayner relies on inadequate stamp duty advice - media outrage for weeks. Farage donor hands over a secret £5m - media shrugs shoulders. Spot the difference? #bbcpm

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Please retweet.

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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Rukiye Garip's fabulous watercolor painting, which won 'Best Watercolor' in ARC Competition, will be exhibited at Sotheby's New York July 17-27 (watercolor, 76 cm x 56 cm / 30 in x 22 in)

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