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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
By this point, I've (unfortunately) read hundreds of deranged arguments about why something is not genocide--and I don't mean only Gaza--that have absolutely nothing to do with the Genocide Convention or really anything legal experts have ever discussed. They are always done for the sake of cruelty
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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Simply read this summary on what is driving the increased prevalence of mental health distress from the long awaiting final independent report into teenage mental health. Now compare it to the public discussion on mental health which basically comes down to social media and over-diagnosis.
The rise in mental distress among children and young people has unfolded alongside profound changes in the conditions of childhood. No single cause explains it. Family life, education, communities, digital environments and economic security all influence whether children feel safe and connected, have time to recover, can participate in everyday life and can look to the future with confidence.

Among the possible drivers, digital environments and educational pressures show the closest correspondence with the timing and pattern of rising distress. Neither is likely to be the principal cause. The evidence indicates that these environments have become more significant contributors than for previous generations, interacting with family circumstances, economic insecurity and existing vulnerability rather than operating alone. Continuous comparison and visible evaluation, disrupted sleep, reduced opportunities for belonging and recovery, and growing uncertainty may reinforce one another.

The strongest protective factors for mental health are supportive parenting relationships, positive educational experiences, and community participation and belonging. The pandemic, economic insecurity, pressures on families and the decline of community infrastructure do not explain the trend on their own, but they have intensified pressures and weakened sources of protection. These effects are not evenly distributed. Children experiencing poverty, discrimination, SEND, care experience or family stress often bear the greatest burden.

Prevention cannot rest solely on helping children cope with environments that place growing demands on them. It also requires action to improve those environments: more inclusive schools; protected time for rest, play and belonging; stronger community infrastructure; reduced poverty and insecurity; practical support for parents and carers; and enforceable duties on digital platforms to protect children while preserving the connection and support they can pro…
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is where we’re at as a country btw
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"rapidly medicalised layabouts" really jumps off the page as being an absurdly hateful thing to say
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do these people realise that people voted for CHANGE from the previous tory administration? you are governing for the people that voted for you, not to impress the media/westminster bubble fgs
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026
You're only ever a recession or an inflation spike away from your opposition gaining power, so you have to want them to respect the broad norms.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He lives!!!!
Lmao shahed go brrrrr
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Max Read @maxread.info · 10/09/2026
one takeaway i had from working in digital media in the 2010s was that it's pretty bad for your brain and your understanding of your career/the world when your industry becomes the main subject of twitter and twitter becomes the main context for your industry. also bad for the industry overall
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
I think one thing you really notice in right leaning Westminster circles is how off their perception of what the median person thinks about Gaza/Israel is.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/09/2026
"a massively unfortunate incident" Also entirely predictable www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou...
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a ban on goods trade with settlements on illegally occupied territory is a "punishment package" to "win back pro-Gaza voters"
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
tomorrow will be worse
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
38-31%. These are not good numbers.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
in the face of a sweeping scholarly consensus, refusing to refer to a genocide as a genocide is in fact genocide denial.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The level of vitriol towards people with autism/ADHD in the British media over recent years, particularly surrounding PIP, has been a complete and total disgrace They’ve tried to make out one group is responsible for the UK’s financial issues, despite evidence proving not enough support exists
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/08/2026
It's a good example of this stuff being the refuge of those whose talents, even if real, never quite match up to their egos - and they'd rather blame the world than reconcile themselves to it.
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Foundational text of the 2020s www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
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Caroline Calloway Survived Cancellation. Now She’s Doubling Down
From topless literary performances on OnlyFans to her homegrown “Snake Oil” and “grift” card business, “The Scammer”—as Caroline Calloway titles herself in a new memoir—is back.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Good to see some positive developments starting to happen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'We're not under siege any more' say Southampton shopkeepers
Businesses in the Shirley area of Southampton saw months of harassment from teenagers last summer.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/08/2026
It feels mad how blasé we seem to be about an incessant run of weather that (a) will have killed a lot of older/vulnerable people and (b) will cause havoc with agricultural supply/prices.
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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
One of the most informative books about the Lebanese civil war is Zeina Maasri's Off The Wall, it is about political posters and through the visual medium she explains their role in social mobilization and propagating the different ostensible narratives justifying the different sides' goals.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
boy I absolutely can't wait for the new Hungarian government's forensic accounting team to really get to work
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Terry Watkins @gerrygow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They're going big on the ban on Shechita. Obviously if you want Reform to do well you need to trash Restore. But I wonder if it may have anything to with the very clear stance of the Telegraph's new owners. owners.axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fascinating that it's taken Restore beating the Tories in Manchester to get the Telegraph panicking about ethno-nationalism. It's hardly been creeping up on us.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed from the west bank as we speak.
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
yeah good luck with that
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It really is peak centrism punditry day. As if there wasn't tons of research that can explain why Starmer's strategic decisions had negative electoral effects. But centrist pundits simply seem to ignore research on why the centre-left is failing and misconstrue these arguments as normative leftism
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
this is happening all over the place. the scam news industry is even becoming more niche and targeted!
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It’s because she has a job and he doesn’t
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My biggest fear is that Farage has already overcome his biggest challenge, which was to get just enough of the electorate to set fire to their own money (Brexit): and that getting just enough of the electorate to embrace hatred, just enough to place him in power, will be easy by comparison.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is the sort of stuff isis was doing and everyone got mad
Footage of heavy bombing 

ISRAEL JUST BOMBED 3,000
YEAR OLD UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN TYRE, LEBANON
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
guy who thought nigel farage was good in september 2025 but now thinks he's racist
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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
You know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They're rolling the pitch for a Reform government, and they wont just be against people that don't like genocide.
Alt text not copied here, because we live in deeply authoritarian times.
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
when that 7th beer got you putting on the elliott smith album
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khalid @phantomkhalid.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
of course this was coming
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
New substack: Westminster politics is something which no intelligent person can look upon with anything other than revulsion. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-stupid...
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The stupidity of politics
No sane person would run a household or business with the lack of thinking that the government devotes to its affairs.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fwiw I don't think protests should be banned. If people are doing illegal things on them they should be arrested under existed laws. Otherwise it's important to protect free speech.
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Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The international furore over a photograph of an Israeli soldier destroying a crucifix in southern Lebanon seemed louder than reactions to the displacing of 1.2 mil Lebanese or the genocide in Gaza. Why? My analysis for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/running-note...
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Why Is Israel So Contrite Over the Destruction of a Crucifix?
A photo of an Israeli soldier using a sledgehammer to destroy a crucifix in the Christian village of Debel in southern Lebanon made international news on April 20, after it was shared widely on social...
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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It is pretty clear and depressing how much more open and brazen antisemitism there is on social media these days. Every post about the recent attacks on Jewish communities are just full of it now. People are of course weaponising it in incredibly cynical ways but that is a separate issue
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I wrote about the double standard around who gets to say "From the river to the sea..." religiondispatches.org/2026/04/30/g...
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Genocide For Me But Not For Thee?
Last week, Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, celebrated Israel’s Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) by posting an illustrated map of Israel—which is not, in its...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For obvious reasons, the Israeli government is not really in a position to say, "We need to uphold international norms against selling products from occupied territories."
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It is fascinating to watch them unable to handle their worst nightmare. A charismatic 21st century liberal Zionist wartime leader who no longer has to temper his feelings about American or Israeli leadership. Who they can’t emasculate or attack his Jewishness without looking ridiculous.
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