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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A two day! Off to buy a lottery ticket. Two lottery tickets? Wordle 1,941 2/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bread and circuses.

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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Surprised that 'woke' is being used as a criticism by the BBC. Caring for the planet is a good thing, surely?

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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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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Faintly astonished this evening to hear on the Radio 3 bulletin at 6pm the RNLI referred to as 'traitors' - with no-one asked to explain that it is impossible for a charity to remain such if its purpose is traitorous. Hate speech on the Beeb is not what we need.

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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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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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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not just Substack. Someone should have a word with William Blake about that 'Jerusalem' ditty. First eight lines really add very little to the message.

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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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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of course. Governments never renege on an election manifesto.

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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking at it from the homeowner's perspective it will have to come out of the same pot as the council tax. So either they have enough income to cover it (so tax that!) or they don't- in which case we have a new bonanza for banks and lawyers.

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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Would that work something like a council tax?

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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That would be the cash outflow as mortgage.

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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You only 'win' if you plan to sell the family home. If you weren't you are being forced out of it.

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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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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Absolutely. Getting quite bored with the financial illiteracy that says bricks and mortar = cash. It's only cash if you sell, and if you have to sell to pay the tax, you've distorted the market and the tax will fail.

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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 · 13/09/2026

A better day here! Wordle 1,912 2/6 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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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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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It does feel a bit counterintuitive that everyone can do what they like with generative AI but even Trump gets hot and bothered if the 'wrong' people are enriching uranium.

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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

She ain't heavy. She's his spirit animal.

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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

If it's £70m more than almost everyone else, it matters.

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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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Amanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One does wonder why entry to Westminster renders one unable to discern a difference between protest (message to public at large) and intimidation (direct threats to specific groups and individuals).

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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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