Reposted by Amanda ForsythAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As 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. 1330742
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I was shot at (I don't know why.) 1028129
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPeter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is no such thing as "AI upskilling" 24619
Reposted by Amanda ForsythBeau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times. 24669119
Reposted by Amanda ForsythSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Times 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... 22696195
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The 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. 36686328
Reposted by Amanda ForsythBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 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. 10381422831
Reposted by Amanda ForsythCrime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 21/09/2026I 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 16120
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026here you can go a long way for threepence 817115
Reposted by Amanda ForsythTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think the prime minister should have said this 1844461
Reposted by Amanda ForsythJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428101169
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Join 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 17261272370
Reposted by Amanda ForsythRick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“The BBC lost its reporting sea-legs with Brexit.” Excellent thread. 39524
Reposted by Amanda ForsythMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Like all abusers, Trump hates it when people try to move out of his control.bbc.co.ukTrump 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. 57756209
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 010
Reposted by Amanda ForsythJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And this morning the Shed is a prison cell, alive with the ghosts of the century… 61018
Reposted by Amanda ForsythThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics". 171065334
Reposted by Amanda ForsythBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026He 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. 1733589
Reposted by Amanda ForsythJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I 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. 🧵 341835794
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The 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. 436498
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPhil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It’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 ⬇️ 719665
Reposted by Amanda ForsythKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026Pay taxes? Give to charity? 2026539
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAmanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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. 011
Reposted by Amanda ForsythRichard Dickson @dickson2902r.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What has the BBC ever done for us? Given us, yet again, a brilliant #lastnightoftheproms 0295
Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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. 011
Reposted by Amanda ForsythTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What 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 🙄. 3830101003
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAlex 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.” 214124
Reposted by Amanda ForsythRoland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026The 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...bbc.comNo cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in ScotlandA study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective". 6461282288
Reposted by Amanda ForsythGeorge E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I 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 232744736
Reposted by Amanda ForsythSpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The 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. 3232
Reposted by Amanda ForsythThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391279
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAndy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is straightforwardly not journalism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talksThe Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job. 610826
Reposted by Amanda ForsythJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Unsolicited 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. 712712
Reposted by Amanda ForsythRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone... 491159372
Reposted by Amanda ForsythJames 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? 1912713605
Reposted by Amanda ForsythSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/09/2026You’re supposed to announce that nothing wrong has been done *after* the internal investigation and not before it has begun. 823244
Reposted by Amanda ForsythM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Agree 💯% With Bernie....... 62498662507
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I presume Steven Pinker et al. will be signing the inevitable petition to protect this academic’s freedom? 318648
Reposted by Amanda ForsythAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The 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. 8435631473
Reposted by Amanda ForsythChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This 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. 964203027346
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Here is a postcard which I bought several years ago + never wrote. 1023827
Reposted by Amanda ForsythIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The 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. 1452964748
Reposted by Amanda ForsythMartin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This is the thing I can't get past. 021
Reposted by Amanda ForsythReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Jahangir: I taste test St Andrews Indian restaurant after 'baseless' 1-star reviews in wake of Reform controversythecourier.co.ukJahangir: I taste test St Andrews Indian restaurant after 'baseless' 1-star reviews in wake of Reform controversyThe restaurant on South Street has been in the spotlight over unsubstantiated claims made by Reform UK. 85433
Reposted by Amanda ForsythSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hahaha. 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. 251582571
Reposted by Amanda ForsythTom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Today 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. 211949
Reposted by Amanda ForsythPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Our 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. 314210
Reposted by Amanda ForsythJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Full marks for the typo. Chef’s kiss for the reply. 81614305
Reposted by Amanda ForsythOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/11/2025We 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...businessinsider.comAI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor saysA philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving. 19990457