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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've got an electric car on a salary release scheme - 16 months in and still below the mileage limit for the first year. Yet I was just told that on current trajectory I will end the three year contract 101,372 miles over my mileage limit. I doubt that I've driven 101,372 miles in my whole life.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oops. Turns out the Green Party doesn't even agree with the Green Party on the old racism thing. bsky.app/profile/euro...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61m tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years” Jaco Cilliers, the UN Development Programme’s special representative in Palestine

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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's nothing new about AI music. Paul Simon's been using it for years. In the 80s he had a song that was literally called "You Can Call Me AI". The video had a deepfake Gerald Ford in it

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026

Lord give me incremental change, but not today

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This, except if the policy idea is a cut to fuel duty

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love that the crowd are singing "Oh Anthony Gordon" to the tune of "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" #TheFootball

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I dream of the day they say "all stand for the national anthem" and they play all six minutes of The National Anthem from Kid A #TheFootball

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Time to just put some bleachers up in the sun and rename it Highway 61

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kinda feel sorry for UKRI (probably minority of one). They're an underfunded agency, that's ended up becoming a focal point of our broken dual-funding system for research; governments' appalling higher education policies; and new technologies.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"the opposite of genocide" Benjamin Netanyahu, 24th September 2026

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 23/09/2026

Ethnicity refers to group identity based on shared traits. What are the traits that Braverman thinks citizenship should be based on? It can‘t be language, culture, customs, or nationality - she shares those herself. Maybe she wants to strip passports based on faith? What is English ancestry to her?

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 23/09/2026

When Braverman says ‘we don‘t know who we are any more‘ I‘m left wondering who the ‘we‘ is in that statement. She doesn‘t speak for me & she says she‘s not English, so who the hell is she speaking for? Rhetorical, I know the answer: it‘s racists.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The outrage in Palestine is roiling culture because ... the pain and fury resulting from what the world is witnessing has not been appropriately channelled or responded to by a representative leadership – in fact, it has been policed and criminalised." Well said Nesrine Malik

theguardian.com

If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik

The problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A reminder that transport is the largest producer of UK greenhouse gas emissions, and that fuel duty is currently the main leverage government has to get people to switch to EVs. Reducing fuel duty is not good policy.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The tragedy is that we just don't know

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did the golden goose get golden or was the golden goose gold from the get go?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The most insightful thing I heard about business was an academic saying that the corporate dream is that their customers should cheerfully hand over 10% of their disposable income for the rest of their lives.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ultimate. Man looks. Very very. Familiar. It. Will come to. Me in a. Minute.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adrian Chiles is on radio right now doing an extended piece about how he has recently stumbled upon Doc Martin on ITVx and he thinks its brilliant. He's got one of the writers on! Middle of the road doesn't cut it for Adrian, he is the exact centroid of the galactic superhighway.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We got 201 applications for our latest Research Assistant post, which means a lot of very good people are not even going to get invited to interview. It's tough out there.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's 2026 and I'm still getting forms to complete where the uneditable box for the answers is just pinned on top of the rest of the document, and it saves as a Word 97-2003 doc

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What happened when the main opposition party successfully reorganised itself to be reliant on small donations from members of the public, so that it didn’t have to seek large bungs from millionaires and business? Was this welcomed as more transparent and democratic.

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"We cannot get to a point in this country where our democracy is for sale"
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@SayeedaWarsi says Reform UK's £72 million donation 'does not come without strings attached'

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Breadonism is a big deal in our house. My wife is a breadonist, but I'm a puripain

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Breadonism: slicing from the other end of the loaf instead of disposing of the slightly stale bit on the cut side

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Telegraph is terrified kids are going to become lentil munchers. Dal is famously known to be a very expensive dish. How will schools cope with the burden? 🤡

Telegraph headline and opening sentences:

Compulsory lentils in Labour school meals shakeup
Unions warn that schools will need extra funding to meet requirements for healthy dinners

Schoolchildren will be made to eat lentils and chickpeas once a week and ice cream will be restricted under Labour plans.
Rules to be announced on Monday by the Department for Education (DfE) will force schools to put pulses on the menu at least once a week.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been through a few of these changes in school food standards in the UK. Previous ones have been simply reported as a good thing for the wee fellas. Now we've got the Telegraph raging about lentils and the Today Programme doing vox pop with 5 year olds who want more ice cream.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But it also showed a pretty bad side of parliament - one side used a brazen strategy to talk the bill out and deny the upper House a vote while pretending that wasn’t what they were doing.

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TheGrantPerkins @thegrantperkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Scared the postman today by going to the door naked. I'm not sure what scared him more, my naked body or the fact that I knew where he lived.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was coming down Errigal, the highest mountain in Donegal, when I heard the news

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago today it was a beautiful sunny September day in Milan, where I’d recently arrived for a junior fall semester abroad. After school ended that afternoon, I went to the famous Duomo (cathedral) in the city center and climbed the steps to the roof for an amazing lookout over the whole city.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I went on the huge Stop The War march in London in 2003 when it was obvious that invading Iraq would be a disaster. Biggest march in UK history at the time, I think. And totally ignored

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Definitely this. The unity could have been used in a positive way, but instead we just descended into striking out for the fear of looking weak

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shortly thereafter when Decisions started being Made I had a feeling which was to become a recurring theme throughout the rest of my adult American life: “we had the opportunity and the power to do something better, but decided to do something worse.”

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm no fan of the assisted dying bill, but the way that it has been mishandled through Parliament should be a massive rallying call for deep reform

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'm tired of the lies I'm tired of all this wasted power I'm tired of having so little control over my life

It's the Padme/Anakin meme! Anakin says "I'm a modern TV." Padme smiles at him with delight and asks excitedly "So you turn off when I hit the power button?" Anakin glares back darkly. Padme asks again, much more hesitantly, her eyes clouded by doubt, 'So you turn off when I hit the power button, right?"

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Dear small boats protest groups, I regret to inform you that due to recent doxxing and threats of physical violence towards RNLI volunteers, your concerns have been downgraded from "legitimate" to "we don't give a shit". Yours sincerely, A properly functioning media"

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I learned today that Wageningen in the Netherlands has a total ban on outdoor advertising (of anything). Just one to file as a counter-example when people tell you that even small policy changes are not politically feasible

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Texting with my daughter and ranking plant-based milks by poshness. Almond milk is coming out on top so far, whilst soya milk seems to be the most 'street'

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't understand how this can be true but I am excited at the concept!

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