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Booniss Everdrunk @bookiesnacksize.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Pingu holding a stick of dynamite captioned "you triggered my fight or flight response, and I'm a flightless bird"
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What did we do to piss off Bulgaria
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petebot.bsky.social @petebot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did the government just do something good which required some bravery www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
Guarantee will remain until 2030 but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says
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Al McCartney @almccartney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Erik Ten Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
A new YouGov poll commissioned by Best for Britain found that restoring EU membership is the most popular option for the UK’s relationship with Europe in 628 of GB’s 632 constituencies. The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.
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Brexit’s last strongholds? Only Reform and Restore constituencies reject rejoining the EU
The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026
Orthodox Jewish protesters gathered outside the U.N. headquarters ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech shared a friendly exchange with the Palestinian permanent observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Used to work in a small cafe in Carlisle when I overheard a young man deliberating with his friend whether he should move to London or not and was waiting for a sign. I stuck London Calling on and the look he gave his friend stuck with me and I really hope he made it to London.
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petebot.bsky.social @petebot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I thought this was a post from the onion
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"
Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 12/09/2026
People are face palming so hard that hospitals are reporting an epidemic of concussions.
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Adverts for gambling websites and bookmakers should be treated the same as cigarette advertising.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bin Day cometh.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Taking medication you don't need has unpleasant effects? You'd think a qualified medic would have known this already. So either he's not actually qualified and his involvement with this is fraudulent, or he is, and is knowingly spreading dangerous misinformation, so this is genuine malpractice
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petebot.bsky.social @petebot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's the hope that get you www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’
Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is an article calling for a boycott of the world cup as it's held in a warmongering, homophobic dictatorship. On 4 July 2018 Corbyn explicitly rejected a boycott of Russia's world cup.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
this completely and total takedown of the Miller household almost brought me back to X dot com
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petebot.bsky.social @petebot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's like Keir starmer drew up a list of people he hasn't pissed off yet and tried to work out how to get them to hate him UK relaxes strict sanctions on Russian crude as oil costs soar www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK relaxes strict sanctions on Russian crude as oil costs soar
Decision to allow import of jet fuel and diesel refined in third countries is criticised by Tories as ‘insane’
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Rallen @rallen78.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There are only six ways to jumpstart growth: *More immigration *Rejoin EU Single Market *Return to high speed rail *Intensify green revolution *Spend more, change budget rules *Face down NIMBYs Reform will set us back on every single front. They can be beat. You just have to try.
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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
monday motivation
“again, follow your dreams, because unqualified idiots are paid to do things they shouldn’t be doing every day, why not you” — spencer hall
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Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Remember everyone, it’s the hope that kills you.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"I need a picture to sum up how the country feels about Keir Starmer" "step right this way"
a young girl looks away from Keir Starmer as he sits at a primary school table
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If there’s a better commentator out there on US politics than Ed Luce I’d like to see it, here’s his column today www.ft.com/content/2656...
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
me seeing that ncp has collapsed
michael sheen meme
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Government should drastically cut tax on alcohol in pubs and restaurants and pay for it by hiking taxes on alcohol for off sales. Social drinking is more of a social good than private drinking.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
OTD in 2022 the culmination of the western misinformation campaign was witnessed about Russia's mythical "invasion" of Ukraine.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Elon Musk was itching to go to Epstein’s parties, and excited about all the ‘girls’ that would be there, *five years* after Epstein pleaded guilty to *procuring a child for prostitution*. What on earth did he think went on at these parties?
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
commiserations to non-Dutch speakers, who will never know what this is about
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Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
you'd think a man with that many children would be better at dad jokes
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"If Sadiq Khan thinks today that London is the greatest city in the world, then he's deluded," says Nigel Farage. Suspect there may be one or two Londoners who, for all its faults, don't much like their city being talked down.
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The next Knives Out film should be Benoit Blanc and all the other characters are Muppets
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Fascinated to find out how the latest Corbyn-led debacle/disaster/disgrace is ackchyually the fault of ‘centrists’.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 05/11/2025
I bet he can pronounce it now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
There was a world before this moment and there is a world after this moment They are not the same #CelebrityTraitors 🧎‍♂️🚌😹
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petebot.bsky.social @petebot.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I would like to remind this author that tenet exists www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
theguardian.com
Interstellar’s second life: how Christopher Nolan’s most divisive film became his most loved
When Nolan’s space epic was released in 2014, critics picked at the plot holes and scientists picked at the science – now, 11 years later, it’s the internet’s favourite film. Was it just ahead of its ...
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