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Paul Trembath 〓〓

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Still Raging After All These Years @infinitebadger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 20h
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears
Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h
Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 12h
Labour members voted to adopt PR in 2022. They must be delighted at this vague commitment to introduce it for the 2034 general election.
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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 14h
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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Gordo! @posting.fan · 19h
living in Britain is listening to very Sensible People happily talking about how we need to reduce the benefits 'burden' in the cruelest way possible while being cheered to do it, but any suggestion that we abolish the monarchy or reduce our military budget is treated as the ideas of a rambling fool
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Anarchist Bog Witch @bismuthtooth.bsky.social · 7h
If you're still in the Labour party you're taking part in trans genocide.
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Roger @partlyhuman.com · 6h
Doxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..."
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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 13h
The 'centrists' are going wild over his speech over on Ian Dunt's profile. They appear to be ignoring the removal of the pension triple lock and all the other horrendous crap going on because he's said he'd consider doing some of the most necessary policies some time in the future. Eh.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 14h
Why does Labour conference sound like the conference of a party in opposition? They're in government now! "we might" "we'll consider" "the next manifesto" We need actions now!
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Mike Sivier @midwalesmike.bsky.social · 11h
New DWP bank powers are coming. Who can actually have money taken from their account, and what can the DWP see? Find out. #DWP #Benefits #UniversalCredit #PIP thewhipline.substack.com/p/new-dwp-ba...
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New DWP bank powers are not what you may have been led to believe
The Department for Work and Pensions is about to get new powers to take money from benefit claimants’ bank accounts.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 15h
This is a *very* important point.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12h
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17h
I'm having to read this story in little snippets, as it's so distressing -- more incredible reporting by @samirashackle.bsky.social who is doing the best work exploring the treatment of international pupils and students in the UK at the moment.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20h
@unitesharon.bsky.social is spot on, we should own the national grid & run it for our benefit. It's crazy that we don't. At the moment its owned by the likes of Black Rock & Abu Dhabi & they run it for their benefit, not ours.
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 18h
Did you notice Milibands impassioned speech was all about the “settlers”? Like they are a totally distinct group far removed from the Israeli government?
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Scott Chalmers @achilliooo.bsky.social · 17h
They thought they were gonna be able to criminalise uppity browns and no one would think twice. It speaks volumes about the Labour party - the party of the Iraq war. We all know they're bigots who think they speak for us all. We've met the types.
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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 19h
So, deproscribe them then.
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16h
"The purpose of a system is what it does"
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 17h
*try* to log into things
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17h
"More than 100 Jewish settlers went on the rampage in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Monday night, torching buildings and cars, stoning Israeli security forces and preventing the return of a Palestinian family displaced by previous settler attacks." www.ft.com/content/4f56...
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More than 100 Israelis go on rampage in Palestinian town
Jewish settlers blocked roads, set tyres ablaze and prevented the return of a Palestinian family in latest surge of violence in occupied West Bank
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17h
Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people.
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 18h
Starmers government massively underestimated public revulsion at the genocide and UK's complicity in it. Burnhams government could overturn the decision to Proscribe Palestine Action today if it so chose. But will it?
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Spyro the Antifascist Dragon @antifaspyro.bsky.social · 18h
There is a great book by John Macnicol called "The Politics of Retirement in Britain". The first pensions were paid by right to everyone over the age of 70. The Treasury then spent years lobbying for a contribution-based system so they could limit the scope and cost of the programme.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 18h
"Remember how the winter fuel cut hung around our necks like a great big albatross and it irrevocably made so many people hate us? What if we did it again but on a much, much larger scale?"
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 18h
terms like 'content creation', 'building community', 'influence' etc etc get in the way of the fact this just selling shit to people within the boundaries set by social media
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Paul Trembath 〓〓 @paultrembath.bsky.social · 18h
Not just Brits - is there anywhere that most people believe what the evidence suggests, not what the misanthropes in the right-wing media tell us to believe - and if there is, how can we emulate them? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bri...
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'British public wrong about nearly everything' poll resurfaces
"How can you develop good policy when public perceptions can be so out of kilter with the evidence?", research questioned.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18h
Thought for the day (riffing off discourse elsewhere on BSky): AI isn't real. But p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical…
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somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social @somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HEM: "But you'll ruin that young man's life if you report him for sexual assault." ME: Correct. I'd prefer if he didn't get to become a Supreme Court Judge or run for President.
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Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
ALT: Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely wild that people cannot see "yes we agree that the fascists are correct to want less black and brown people in the Whites Only country, but they should let us do it by official channels" is not, actually, a condemnation at all.
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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 26/09/2026
Some good news: "the number of independent book shops in the UK and Ireland is now at its highest level since 2012". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #KidLitUK #BookSky
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Why bookshops are booming in the TikTok age
Proprietors explain why more independent bookshops are springing up in our towns and cities.
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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Well if we continue to play our cards right, Ed, we'll get back in after the 2029 election with a razor-thin majority and be sadly - tragically! - unable to fulfill any of the vague promises I've been wheeled out to blather about today."
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Sarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 28/09/2026
“Those guys sure talk a lot of sense. Don’t vote for them”
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Space Yak 🇻🇪🇨🇺🇵🇸 @spaceyak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What I wouldn't give to hear someone tell monsters like this exactly what they are on TV. These people deserve to be hated and to know they are hated.
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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's always "the army needs more money" and never "the army is catastrophically wasteful with a frankly enormous budget". Guess it's not the NHS!
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees
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Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good to hear the Prime Minister saying to @bbclaurak.bsky.social that crude cuts to welfare just push costs elsewhere, and the problems we need to address are the economic failures that put pressure on our social security system. He’s right about this.
Screen shot of Andy Burnham being interviewed by Laura Kunnesberg
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Saw two clips of Bridget Philipson being interviewed by whatsherface of the telegraph trying to get her to say that trans women aren’t women and she seems uncomfortable doing the bigotry but can’t disagree and its such a great depiction of journos bullying the politicians into their bigotry
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ongoing Israeli settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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Northern Monkey @northernmonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Might as well take the advice, he's exactly the same as Starmer.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.
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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
British weapons manufacturer BAE Systems worked with UK universities to counter campus protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, according to emails and internal documents. #Gaza #BAE #Universities #GazaProtests #UKPolitics novaramedia.com/2026/09/25/w...
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Weapons Firm Gave Advice to UK Universities on Countering Gaza Protests
British weapons manufacturer BAE Systems worked with UK universities to counter campus protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, according to emails and internal documents.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This balaclava-clad mob were reading out a weird & imtimidating message about Fabians, Zionists and others outside Bluecoat before dispersing
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today just referred to “so-called social care”. It’s not remotely clear to me why it’s “so-called”.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Arms lobbyist Lord Walney warns against diplomacy with Iran. Not as much profit in peace.
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