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PhatRhat

@phatrhat.bsky.social
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Sweary & angry most of the time. Theatre, art, artists, clothes, satire, and politics. #SlavaUkraini We ‘The People’ have power and must learn to use it. ‘Rise and rise again, until Lambs become Lions’.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h
Just saying shite doesn't make it true Tom
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 3h
there’s something very wrong with a country that still has the death penalty
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h
Estonia’s parliament has adopted a Statement to confirm Estonia’s unwavering support to the victory of Ukraine in Russia’s war of aggression.The Statement underlines that Ukraine’s victory&strategic defeat of Russia are necessary preconditions for ensuring a lasting and fair peace&security in Europe
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 19h
Oct. 29 will mark a significant shift in Canada-EU relations. At their Montreal summit, Canada and the EU plan to announce cooperation spanning trade, defence, AI, quantum, critical minerals, energy, Ukraine and the Arctic. And 50 jointly purchased water bombers will serve both continents by 2030.
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EU and Canada to announce sweeping new partnership pact
From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h
If you’re secretly tracking your kid at university you’re a creep, terrible parent & you’re breaking the law The same folk who wail about snowflakes are creating a generation of mollycoddled youngsters with their overbearing control. Their kids will hate them for it In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Tracking apps and helicopter parents are creating a generation of snowflakes
There’s a growing trend for parents tracking their children at university. Neil Mackay says that’s a sure way to wreck the relationship and…
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Euronews @euronews.com · 3h
Researchers estimate that around 84% of lost body fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide, while the remaining 16% is lost as water.
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Where does body fat go when we lose weight?
Researchers estimate that around 84% of lost body fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide, while the remaining 16% is lost as water.
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 3h
conclusion: i am not exhaling enough
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 5h
OK now I'm back at work I want to talk about GB Grid. I think the govt did the best it could at communicating this announcement but it's quite technical and you need to understand the energy system to fully get it, so it's almost impossible to sum up in a soundbite. Let me explain as far as I can:
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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Alpha centaurian
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h
Action comes as Russia fired over 3,100 jet powered drones into Ukraine in September, outstripping its grim wartime record from August.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h
🇬🇧 The UK has announced a package of 31 sanctions against Russia as UK steps up economic pressure ahead of the winter. 31 new measures include sanctioning LNG shadow fleet vessels, Kremlin disinformation networks and perpetrators of civilian torture and child indoctrination.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 3h
Repealing Thatcher's ban on public ownership of water companies is only meaningful if Andy Burnham brings water into public ownership Over 9 in 10 of us want our water in public ownership. Let's do it, starting with Thames Water
Screenshot of Independent article that includes a quote from Cat Hobbs that says, "Cat Hobbs, director of public ownership campaign We Own It, repeated calls for Thames Water to be nationalised urgently.  She said: “Repealing the ban on public ownership of water companies is a welcome step in the right direction, but it is far from meeting the scale of the crisis.  “Thames Water should have been in special administration yesterday.  “It is in £20 billion of debt and teetering on the brink of financial collapse.  “The only option to keep it privatised is to hand it over to a group of US hedge funds.  “How can this Government be serious about their promise to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation, if they are not urgently bringing it into public hands?”"
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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 4h
Country whose coat of arms has not one but two phrases in French and whose royal family is German: “we’re not European!”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
@pennbarker.bsky.social reacts to Pete Hegseth overhauling the school curriculum for DOD schools: “We are in the middle of a war…And the fact that the Secretary of Defense is focused on censorship of the DOD schools…This is not the job of the Secretary of Defense.”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3h
“Brexit was a huge loss both for the British people and for the European project as a whole. If the United Kingdom were to make such a decision, Spain would welcome it with open arms and once again embrace our friends in Britain.” - President Sánchez
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 3h
Two decades after Israel evacuated its settlements from Gaza, a hardline settler movement is mobilising to return – and waiting for a green light:
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The Israeli settler movement preparing to return to Gaza
In-Depth: Two decades after Israel evacuated its settlements from Gaza, a hardline settler movement is mobilising to return – and waiting for a green light
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 4h
🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: Unfortunately, even if the war ends tomorrow, Russia will remain a threat. We cannot afford to once again underestimate the danger of Moscow’s militarism.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
We need AI regulation yesterday. The incentive driving the doom scenario is simply greed. I don't take PAC money from OpenAI, or any AI corporation, or any corporation for that matter.
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Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸 @alherix.bsky.social · 3h
Solidarity seems to have evaporated with right wing majority ownership of U.K. media - one of the reasons I subscribe to Byline Times
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James Steel @jamessteel2008.bsky.social · 4h
So much for being freedom of speech warriors, only their opinions matter everyone else is silenced.
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Power Vibe · by NoMAGA @powervibe.bsky.social · 4h
That silence makes the ban easier to normalise: if access journalism treats exclusion as an individual problem, politicians learn there is little institutional cost to punishing scrutiny.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Tabby @tabbys-corner.bsky.social · 4h
Such incompetence on the part of Trump's administration. apnews.com/article/meas...
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Pennsylvania records a fifth measles death as the nation endures its worst year since 1991
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Wednesday that the person was from Lancaster County and was unvaccinated.
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Marie-Pierre Cleret @marie-pierre.bsky.social · 4h
Nothing like the aggrieved entitlement of a mediocre WM with a shred of power over others.
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PhatRhat @phatrhat.bsky.social · 3h
America. Greatest country in the world.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h
Ex-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4h
Two Russian drones hit Kyiv’s Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge. One of the drones reportedly struck when a metro train was crossing it.
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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 4h
I live in Scotland, where I am hopeful that Palantir will never get its war mongering hands on our NHS. I have signed on behalf of my father who has dementia, in an area under pressure to accept this terrible company will have control of patients data notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/s/LLzgDU
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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stopdropendfascism.bsky.social @stopdropendfascism.bsky.social · 14h
All federal taxes should be frozen as our tax money is being stolen and used illegally.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 4h
#RecipeOfTheDay is warming, filling and tastes gorgeous! I don’t deny it requires a fair bit of peeling and chopping, but it’s so worth it. Plus you do nothing while it cooks. It’s my Moroccan-Inspired Vegetable Pot with Couscous! www.nigella.com/recipes/moro...
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Moroccan Vegetable Pot and Couscous with Pine Nuts and Dill
This warmly-spiced vegetable stew, sweet with parsnips and carrots and tangy with preserved lemons and dried apricots is the perfect winter warmer. I should probably change its name, as it is Moroccan...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h
Modern cars’ smart features could be used to spy on you, drivers warned
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Modern cars’ smart features could be used to spy on you, drivers warned
Hostile states could access cameras, microphones or GPS, says Dutch spy agency amid concerns over Chinese imports Drivers have been warned that the smart features built into modern cars such as microphones, cameras and GPS trackers could be used by hostile states to spy on them. The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) called for “awareness of espionage risks around modern vehicles”, including microphones that can by switched on remotely to listen to conversations. Continue reading...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 4h
South Lebanon: 'It’s torture, they are razing our lives before our eyes' - www.middleeasteye.net/news/south-le…
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South Lebanon: 'It’s torture, they are razing our lives before our eyes'
Residents of the village of Mansouri are watching helplessly as the Israeli military methodically destroys their town
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 11h
Now it is ten. Ten US states have made plugin solar affordable. zero Canadian provinces. Help me understand.
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California Officially Legalizes Balcony Solar, Opening the Market to the New Technology | KQED
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to make it simpler for Californians to install plug-in solar panels. Models that meet state standards are expected to be on sale in mid-2027.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 11h
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 5h
'Entry (bottom of Ogden Road)' Bitumen Private Collection
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 5h
It's People Vs Palantir day of action! Can't make your local protest? Use our tool to say NO to Palantir ❌ 👇 goodlaw.social/668d1d
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I may have to add monstrofuturism to my history of utopia syllabus
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 5h
‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population
The global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown
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CherylJean @cheryljean.bsky.social · 5h
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 5h
Musk on a warfare taskforce. The guy who let Starlink become a Kremlin bargaining chip now gets to shape US military doctrine. What could go wrong.
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Elizabetsy @elizabetsy100.bsky.social · 10h
Demonstrators Cannot Be Forced to Take Down ‘86-47’ Flag, Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
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Demonstrators Cannot Be Forced to Take Down ‘86-47’ Flag, Judge Rules (Gift Article)
A federal judge wrote that the phrase, which also led to charges against the former F.B.I. director, James Comey, did not appear to constitute a true threat.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 13h
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 19h
This one is shot looking across the opened heart of a medieval graveyard, towards a building called Gildengate, named after a jousting ground which is nearby.
A single arm ripping at a large brutalist block. Hard silhouette.
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 19h
I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by.
The arm of one beast through the arm of another. Very black and white. I’m posting these here because Instagram is so utterly fucking pointless for photographers.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 5h
MI5 warns UK universities about espionage risk. The China General Technology Research Institute, a front for China's Ministry of State Security, funded more than 100 UK-based academics in AI, cybersecurity and covert communications. But there is more to it... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 6h
The far right love free speech and freedom of the press they just hate journalists who dare to criticise them or ask difficult questions ...
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 8h
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives have blocked Byline Times from attending their party conference, just weeks after she condemned Reform UK for banning critical journalists. Byline Times chief reporter Josiah Mortimer says his application was rejected without a specific reason.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 5h
OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....
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