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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 11h
"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*
John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 6h
If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 5h
Trump blames Ukraine for high fuel costs (when it's his own illegal war on Iran driving up prices) to justify a deal with Putin to pause sanctions on Russian diesel. Another reckless & economically illiterate decision from a man more interested in cosying up to war criminals than defending intl law
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 09/10/2026
If there was a Nobel Prize in Trolling Trump it would go to the Nobel committee.
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Former ICC judge Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Pillay, who oversaw a UN report that concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won "for ‌her efforts to promote peace and international law".
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Bessent enjoys cultivating a tough-guy image," the article says. But treating those over whom you have power like shit doesn't make you tough, it just makes you an asshole. Trump's "tough guys" are all like this - whiny toddlers with no self-control who mistake cruelty for strength.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A quick look for sentences passed down (a while ago, yes) for others convicted of bombings in the UK suggests - and I know that the legislation is different - that 15 years is at the lower end of what he might have expected.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How to deceive a human being. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes, Richard E. Grant, the unblinking CEO of Manchester City, the Labour party conference and Oxford Street. Read all about it in my brand new newsletter! countbinface.substack.com/p/how-to-dec...
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How to deceive a human being
A handy alien guide to some dos and don’ts
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When Musk AND Rubio said “not a single person” died as a result of shutting down USAID, I wanted to vomit An estimated 700,000 people died (500,000 were kids) within a year of USAID being “put in the wood-chipper” Studies by Brooke Nichols at BU and by CGD researchers estimated a similar number
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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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
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK pensions are the LOWEST in Western Europe, and the UK is the sixth richest country on earth. Don't let the newspapers tell you our pensions are "unaffordable"
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This, to me, doesn't look like the kind of thing you want to encourage your dog to go for.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He's clearly dying and becoming extra insane and they are doing this to placate him
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 22/09/2026
“When will a Prime Minister’s “tough decisions” mean, for example, rerouting money into making train stations accessible, of which 39% are not? The Institution of Mechanical Engineers says this would add £176bn a year to the economy …” Read the rest: www.lbc.co.uk/article/pip-...
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PIP would cost less if politicians invested in making life easier for people like me | LBC
If Government wants to spend less on disability benefits over time, it has to remove the daily barriers that create these costs, writes disability campaigner Anna Landre
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We only hear about elections in EU countries in the news when the far right are expected to or in fact do well. Almost as if they’re excited about it isn’t it?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/09/2026
I remember a world where if you tried to sell the US out for Russian money you went to a Supermax jail for the rest of your life.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here is a nice mushroom
A large and beautiful bear’s head tooth mushroom grows from the flaky bark of a dying maple tree in a sultry summer swamp. All photos by me
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the £36m Reform donation, Rachel Millward, deputy Green Party leader, says: "Farage is bought and paid for. Reform won't do a thing that this billionaire doesn't like. Their support is draining away because it's so clear they're working for the same super rich elites they pretend to be against."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When did the UK decide it didn't need Higher Education? How did we move from deindustrialization, to a knowledge economy and then decide that we could do it all on vibes and 'entrepreneurial spirit'
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just submitted a termination request for my UK research council project. There are not many trans researchers to have been funded as Primary Investigator on UK research. I asked them to note the context of me terminating the research project:
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...
portsmouth.co.uk
Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Hands up if your political career has just been fucked by Channel 4"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jeffrey Epstein was unavailable to offer this analysis, but someone else was happy to step in
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The premier of Ontario’s response to Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America h/t @szunes.bsky.social
A screenshot of a post by Premier Doug Ford's verified account. The post text reads, "The people of Canada will be giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Michigan..." Below the text is a map showing the Great Lakes region with the US states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan labeled. Lake Michigan is labeled as "Lake Epstein"
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Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hello, #historians and #science communicators! I’m applying for a fellowship to improve translating the science side of my historical research on Pitocin- but they want me to have a few thousand followers! Could you please help a scholar out by following and sharing with friends?
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daveypea @daveypea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sigh Corruption is endemic. You have a moment of hope that there's a new PM who really could do the right thing for the country and almost immediately. This is a massive mistake by Burnham. Massive.
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nothing can top the BBC deployment of agitprop as "balance" that happened when BBC News covered the new drama based on trans woman Paris Lee's autobiography and referred to the Supreme Court ruling that sex is "biological" and included comment by anti trans organisation Sex Matters. #r4today
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Labour is going to be hit in the face by its racist immigration policy, in addition to its stupidity over #brexit also causing a massive hit to the economy. Lower immigration means less tax for the treasury which means less to spend on everything from schools to hospitals.
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week.. Andy Burnham U-turned on backing a donations cap In other news ⤵️ Burnham announced a workfare scheme for 10,000 young people to work for free in Sainsburys’ Burnham received a donation of £164,347 from Lord Sainsbury, who still owns 5.85% shares in the supermarket
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Saying Black people are intellectually inferior and should be eradicated from all senior positions unless it’s sports and entertainment is a matter of free speech” - a racist scumbag who’s no better than Cofnas
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is such an early catastrophic failure of leadership from Andy Burnham. It makes it very clear that ultimately he isn't serving people in this country (or nature), he is serving private equity and the interests of the super rich. This is why we currently live in Rip Off Britain.
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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Surely just coincidence...
Lord Sainsbury returns to the Labour fold with £2m donation
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'Unlike England, Scotland chose to retain public ownership of Scottish Water and, between 2002 and 2019, the company invested 35% more per household in infrastructure than the privatised English water companies. It charges users 14% less and it doesn’t pay dividends.' 2/2
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ahead of Parliament's return in one week, I've written to the Foreign Secretary urging him to learn from the mistakes of his predecessors and take action to protect human rights, uphold intl law, and make clear that the UK will no longer be complicit in genocide and other war crimes in Palestine.
Dear Ed, 

As you will be aware, we are quickly approaching the return of Parliament following a summer which has ushered forth a new Prime Minister, a largely new Cabinet, and a new position for yourself, as Foreign Secretary. What is yet to be seen is whether we will also see a new and more effective and principled way of responding to the Israeli Government’s grave and ongoing human rights abuses in Palestine. It is vital that the UK Government does not simply condemn breaches of international law, but acts decisively to stop them. 

The need for urgent action cannot be overstated; the ongoing genocide has seen more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli forces since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025. Access to critical humanitarian aid such as food and medical supplies remains heavily restricted, and the displacement of Palestinians has continued as Israeli forces expand further into Gaza beyond the agreed ceasefire boundaries. Illegal Israeli settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank also continues to escalate, with the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting about 190 attacks a month in the first four months of 2026, alongside the publication of construction tenders for 1,200 homes in the E1 area. 

While I recognise your condemnation of the E1 plans and acknowledgement of the destructive threat that settlement expansion poses to peace in the region, it is clear that simply issuing statements of concern is not enough to make the Israeli Government change course. 

I therefore urge you to learn from the mistakes of your predecessors and take genuine action to protect the human rights of Palestinians, uphold international law, and make clear that the UK will no longer be complicit in genocide and other war crimes in Palestine. These actions include, but are not limited to: 

Ending all arms sales to, and military cooperation with, Israel; 

Banning all trade with illegal Israeli settlements in o…There is significant and growing support for these measures across Parliament, including from many MPs within your own party. Indeed, the Prime Minister himself has acknowledged that Labour previously “got it wrong” on Gaza and has said that more needed to be done to ensure Israel adheres to international law; your new position grants you an opportunity to turn that recognition into meaningful action. 

I therefore hope that you will act with the urgency that this moment demands. The UK Government must stand firmly for international law, human rights, and the protection of civilians, not for further impunity for those responsible for war crimes. 

I would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to further discuss the cross-party role Parliament can play in securing justice, accountability, and a lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis alike. 

Yours sincerely, 

Dr Ellie Chowns 

MP for North Herefordshire  

Leader of the Parliamentary Green Party and Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
These are loathsome people. They keep blithely dancing along, leaving shattered lives, chaos, and devastation in their wake, and they are going to find out what happens when the general population's (admittedly vast) capacity for tolerance runs out.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And other find from @monkemma.bsky.social: Arday blogged all those marathons in real time. I can’t remember the dozens of journalists who told me there’s no evidence he ran them. Are any of you big enough — or good enough journalists — to correct your error?
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Once again my perennial question for the Right wing cranks: how are you 'being silenced' when you literally never shut the fuck up?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive.
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Michael @peckhamkiwi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
First reply to this points out that KKK went after French speakers in Maine .....plus ça change .....
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From three years ago, popped up in Facebook memories. Sharing purely for the picture
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Wolverhampton police remove smartly dressed dog from 'intoxicated' owner
Police step in after people raise concerns for its welfare at Wolverhampton railway station.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hard for me to find the words to describe how happy this made me
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