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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

According to Luke Tryl on Radio 4 disillusioned Reform voters think Farage is “just the same as the rest” on the corruption front. But he isn’t is he? He’s exponentially worse. And his grifter tendency has been obvious for a very long time.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember you are only welcome as a Conservative candidate if you don’t want to conserve the planet or human rights.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is a big moment. Massive. We are now the closest we've come to electoral reform since 1997.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Examples of striking Dutch bike-lane and urban biking infrastructure via Modacity Life.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"Manchesterism" should only by said by those who would also say "Brumification" with a straight face.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

fascinating to watch Starmer pivot from accepting the "finality" of Brexit to admitting how much economic damage it has done

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/03/2026

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

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UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week

Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave

It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Imagine how much money we’ve wasted. Imagine how much could have gone into the NHS, public services, tackling poverty… Will anyone be held responsible though? For the lies that were told, the false promises made? Perhaps a brexit tax on all the corporations that cashed in? I’M SO CROSS!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Weird Pride Day 4th March 2026 Weird Pride in a Hostile World This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, & reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind Find out more weirdpride.day

A poster with a purple and star-filled space background. At the top is a curved rainbow-style design in purple, grey, orange, and yellow. Large yellow text reads: “Weird Pride In A Hostile World. Weird Pride Day. 4th March 2026.” Below, smaller yellow text says: “Let us know how you will be celebrating.” At the bottom it reads: “Find out more: www.weirdpride.day.”

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Far too many people are still hugely conflicted on this because they are *still* professionally active on X. It is a national security threat, a CSAM factory, a purveyor of hate and extremism - being on the platform reduces your ability to acknowledge the threats it poses.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans? The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.

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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Mauro Entrialgo @tyrexito.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Viva Greta.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Abysmal, mindless, utterly zombified. You can't even call it policymaking because that implies a degree of thought which simply isn't present. Pretty soon they might actually hit Cameron's 'tens of thousands' target and then they'll shit themselves with horror at the consequences.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025

Farage: epic grifter

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If you need a demonstration of how GMB often descends into Susanna Reid and Andrew Pierce supporting each other's crap while Kevin Maguire is trying to get a (truthful/factual) word in, this is it. Susanna Reid is contemptible and should be fired. Pierce should be left to GB News. #ShutdownGMB

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 02/09/2025

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

A selection of illustrations and commissions including an album cover design of a vintage radio, a book cover design with an illustration of George Harrison, architecture illustrations, a Listening Party turntable design, a music pattern design and a photo of me wearing glasses.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 29/08/2025

Silicon Valley Elon types are like end-of-times-Christian-Zionists of tech in that they want to bring about the destruction of human creativity so as to bring about the reign of an imaginary robot overlord.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #bbcpm

Text of the email

Two BBC slogans - "Inform, Educate, Entertain" and "The fight for truth is on"

One point from your own Joe Pike on this morning's Today programme - "The public don't necessarily have a strong handle on the reality of the numbers in the UK, particularly when you're comparing illegal compared to legal migration, and arguably the media has played a role on this".

And one point from Sir Geoffrey Nice on this evening's PM - "Now is the time to educate and inform properly and fairly".

What have the media done to educate and inform on this subject, and what have you failed to do?

Ed Wilson

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

'In a groundbreaking new book, Language Machines, the American scholar Leif Weatherby goes to the heart of the matter: our tendency to confuse linguistic fluency with intelligence.' 1/3

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My advice to Sam Altman: read Jacques Derrida | The Observer

The bold claims made about the new version of ChatGPT are yet more big tech hyperbole

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.

Three images on top of each other. Image 1: A photo of Adolf Hitler with writing that says, Second World War: 1939-45: 69 journalists killed. Image 2: A photo of US soldiers walking across a field with writing that says, Vietnam War: 1955-75: 63 journalists killed. Image 3: A photo of Gaza with writing that says, Gaza: October 2023-present 242 journalists killed* *United Nations figures

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Absolutely no good reason for the government to be dabbling in AI when it cannot even get IT right in routine process situations.

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Dave Harper @randompixel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

One of James' articles mentions secure token passing without actually sending any personal data to identity brokers which sounds like a much better solution than what we've ended up with. We have great researchers; why couldn't we invent something? I suspect the origins as a Tory idea give it away.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is surely trolling now 😆

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Sorry, DJT, but even if you start a nuclear war we’re still gonna want to see the Epstein files #youfucker

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

They never seem to think to ask the next question... Without remembering any knowledge how do you know what question to ask AI? How can you sense check it? What are you "thinking critically" about? We went through all this already with Google.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!"

Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Surely SURELY in the Lords they should be able to corner a debate where this is Hannan “forecast” is read out to his face? Every painful paragraph.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 10/06/2025

Currently at Eurostar HQ... #CrossChannelRail www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Picture of Eurostar CEO Cazenave with the text "All the media fell for my non-announcement AGAIN!"

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

headline construction masterclass

San Antonio Express-News ®
@ExpressNews
Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Here you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency. go.bsky.app/PTC4j2d

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