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Amanda Forsyth

@pedaltrill.bsky.social
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Charity Trustee, Choral singer, retired investment manager. Unlikely to follow an account that's not identified with an identifiable person/institution/No. 10 cat.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As someone who stayed, it’s both. Liberal/left discourse hollowed out completely as people left, which gave the false impression of a cultural shift, and that drove some people to the right because they can’t distinguish between real life and Twitter.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was shot at (I don't know why.)
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no such thing as "AI upskilling"
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.
BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 21/09/2026
I thought I’d resurrect a very popular thread I once posted on the other place. As barristers we are trained to question very young children, and it pays dividends in this scenario. Here are my top tips: Finding Out What Your Child Did At School - a parent’s questioning toolkit
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
here you can go a long way for threepence
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think the prime minister should have said this
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The BBC lost its reporting sea-legs with Brexit.” Excellent thread.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Like all abusers, Trump hates it when people try to move out of his control.
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Trump threatens 'serious tariffs' on EU over proposal to make Canada 'associate member'
"I think it's laughable," Trump said, when asked about the Canada-EU proposal. The Canadian prime minister is speaking at the European Parliament today.
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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social great to see the junction of Grange Road and Lauder Road open again. The 'road closed' signs need to come down, though, and can we have our 24 bus back please? @lothianbuses.bsky.social
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And this morning the Shed is a prison cell, alive with the ghosts of the century…
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He really thinks if you run a deficit with another country, that represents a net loss. Sort of like … oh gosh, trying to think of an example here … ok wait, I’ve got a crazy one … it’s like running a casino, but where your expenses exceed your revenues. And then you have to file for bankruptcy.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The world’s scientists breathed a sigh of relief this week as temperatures in the UK dropped below 35 degrees, meaning that everything is fine and we can go back to burning fossil fuels forever without any worries. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1682, August 2026.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s not just the scale of the money. It’s also the character of the people making the donations which is extremely worrying - as I argued in this thread over the summer ⬇️
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026
Pay taxes? Give to charity?
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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I take comfort from the fact that Mr Faux-Rage's letter to us arrived the day after the local elections. No matter how rich, Reform will do their best to prove they are unfit to govern.
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Richard Dickson @dickson2902r.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What has the BBC ever done for us? Given us, yet again, a brilliant #lastnightoftheproms
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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I take comfort from the fact that Mr Faux-Rage's letter to us arrived the day after the local elections. No matter how rich, Reform will do their best to prove they are unfit to govern.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“To lose one councillor, Mr. Farage, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 148 looks like a shitshow.”
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Times is such a bad newspaper now. My parents still get the print copy and so I read it cover to cover when with them. Only the FT is near the standards of 25 years ago.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is straightforwardly not journalism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1221: You don't have to use phonetic spellings to convey a character's accent. There are lots of more subtle ways to convey the differences, such as variations in rhythm, syntax and (sparing) use of regional slang, which are less likely to sound intrusive or cliched.
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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look, mum, I did a thing! 😊
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026
How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...
Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"We've done nothing wrong but the people who did it have been sacked for (not) doing it," is quite the defence. And is it just me or Does. Farage. Get. Even. More. Comically. Staccato when he's straining his own enormous capacity for lying?
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/09/2026
You’re supposed to announce that nothing wrong has been done *after* the internal investigation and not before it has begun.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Agree 💯% With Bernie.......
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I presume Steven Pinker et al. will be signing the inevitable petition to protect this academic’s freedom?
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here is a postcard which I bought several years ago + never wrote.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society.
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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the thing I can't get past.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Jahangir: I taste test St Andrews Indian restaurant after 'baseless' 1-star reviews in wake of Reform controversy
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Jahangir: I taste test St Andrews Indian restaurant after 'baseless' 1-star reviews in wake of Reform controversy
The restaurant on South Street has been in the spotlight over unsubstantiated claims made by Reform UK.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.
Wildfire in Clacton
AS temperatures soared on Friday, Essex fire authorities reported things were so bad that a man's pants had caught fire.
The individual, identified as Nigel Farage, had claimed Essex police had told him to keep away from his by-election declaration.
"We've never seen such an enormous fire coming from a single pair of Union Jack Y-fronts," said a police spokesman. "We urge members of the public to avoid pants on fire by at least coming up with a half-decent excuse for their cowardice."
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today the UN flag is lowered globally in solidarity with over 1,000 aid workers killed in past three years. We lower our flags. We remember our friends and colleagues. We demand accountability for those who killed them.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our show is going very well - the hall has been about half full both nights so far - much better than we expected, as there are 270 other shows on the fringe.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Full marks for the typo. Chef’s kiss for the reply.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/11/2025
We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
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