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Near Bristol UK. Dislikes: all the nonsense.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sidcup man gets 15 years for home-made bomb blowing up Ulez camera - luckily failimg to injure or kill anybody with damage in a 100 yard radius news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Hourly Spaced @hourlyspaced.bagpuss.org · 26/06/2026
Why didn't you? —I'm not a monster, Tim.
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S02E05 Gone March 30 2001
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe it was always Yaya Toure's ambition to win the Champions League then trade Barcelona for a club in east Manchester who'd won f'all in 35 years
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.
Chart showing standardaised mortality rates for England and Wales. After a steady improvement 2016-2019, and then a bunch of pandemic-driven bumps 2020-2022, the lines start improving again 2023-2026 which is shaping up to the best ever.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities. Work for russian SVR, pay the price. His handler Sergei Nalobin is, among other things, releted to Brexit campaign and arson of the home of British PM K.Starmer. news.err.ee/1610150341/7...
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7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities
A court has found a pro-Kremlin propagandist guilty of crimes against Estonia's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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The Daily Jaws @thedailyjaws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy #CrushACanDay! We drink to your legs 🍻🦈
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
One of the things that links Farage and Trumpism is the complete disregard for the seriousness of government, and restraint Vs making everything content.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maybe a bit early to discuss the process whatever the outcome may be here. But Man City investigation started in 2018. The club was charged more than 3 years ago. In that time, the team has continued unmolested, recruiting at incredible fees, winning at great frequency. The PL still can’t comment.
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Duke @silverduke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is Kevin De Bruyne the best Premier League player never to win a title? #lfc
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Tim Micallef & Friends: Awkward Silence Moment
ALT: Tim Micallef & Friends: Awkward Silence Moment
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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Sam 🇺🇦 @wardlfc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netherlands [1]-1 Germany - Cody Gakpo 90+2'. Great assist from Van Bommel #lfc
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Braverman should be asked if she rejects Ed Miliband being English (Jewish European parents). It would be highly racialised to say "no, Jews can't be Englieh for 5-6 generations" which is her logic. But perhaos even more racist to say "Miliband yes, Sunak no" (on visible skin colour, not ancestry)
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Those absolute head bangers have convinced themselves that Churchill, King Charles, Henry V and Brunel aren’t proper English. Robert the Bruce isn’t Scottish. They are modern phrenologists. They spend the weekend working out what George Best was.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/09/2026
as.ft.com/r/f257abde-7... Morning all
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Mike 🏳️‍🌈 @lpoolmike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Made billions. Championed Brexit. Doesn’t pay UK tax (estimated £4 billion in avoided tax by moving to Monaco) Has the brass fucking neck to talk about a country of envy on the slide. My advice? Move back to the UK and pay your fucking tax if you want to comment and be involved in policy
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shiptember No. 18. ‘Helpless In The Face Of Your Idiosyncrasies'. #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi
A pen drawing of a chunky spaceship.A pen drawings of a fleet of spaceships.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 11/09/2026
A Porthcawl RNLI crew member has hit back at a Tommy Robinson-supporting Bridgend councillor who repeated false claims about the charity amid warnings over "unacceptable abuse" faced by its volunteers ✍️Emily Price
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Porthcawl RNLI crew member hits back after councillor repeats far-right misinformation
Emily Price A Porthcawl RNLI crew member has hit back at a Tommy Robinson-supporting Bridgend councillor who repeated false claims about the charity amid warnings over “unacceptable abuse” faced by it...
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks to Trump’s failed war, Iran controls the Gulf and its ally the Houthis now control the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia now faces economic crisis, further driving global inflation. The endless consequences of a stupid war continue to mount. I spoke to @ionacraig.com podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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The Houthis Strike Back - Iona Craig on the Red Sea and the Crisis in World Energy Markets
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 17 September · 50min
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2026
I mean, for God's sake. The cybersecurity industry has had a robust reporting structure in place for decades: vulns are reported; everyone patches them. AI bros, however "ooh who could possibly have imagined we might need to disclose bad stuff????"
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shiptember No. 16. ‘Only The Margin Left To Write On Now'. #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi
A small pen sketch of a chunky little spaceship. A silhouette of a couple stand below, with a little space pet at their feet.A small pen sketch of a chunky little spaceship. A silhouette of a couple stand below, with a little space pet at their feet.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I can tell you from personal experience that talking about tax rises to pay for rising costs of elderly population does not make one popular in the Express or Mail on Sunday. Apparently everything we want to do in Britain can simply be resolved by cracking down on welfare fraud.
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Gojira1000 @gojira1000.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
^ some of this, too (but I stick by "the majority wouldn't care if they didn't have an urge to swipe it" - because humans in an environment without consequences or empathy are gibbons - at best)
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cartoonist: Slyngstad
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Swearsky Index @swearsky.bagpuss.org · 14/09/2026
Most popular swears this week: 1. SHIT 2. FUCK 3. FUCKING 4. COCK 5. BULLSHIT 6. DICK 7. ASSHOLE 8. SHITTY 9. PISS 10. CUNT
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
so interesting. diving header toward the ball, not interfering ducking down out of the ball’s path, definite interference
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Liverpool Goal was DISALLOWED vs Man City! Van Dijk Header should've Stand? Robertson Offside? VAR?
YouTube video by Football In Depth
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Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Away with ya now and don't bother coming back ya gobshite."
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gas power costs are reaching energy crisis levels again in the UK, which will inevitably push bills up for consumers. The fortunes of the British economy are still tied to the price of a single fossil fuel. When bills go up, remember that this is the reason why.
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djcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The ridiculous and imo - intentional “e-bike”/“illegal electric motorbike“ conflation continues courtesy of the BBC. But don’t worry, they’ve got a fact-checking department with experts in tacking mis and disinformation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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E-bike crime crackdown leads to 187 arrests in Westminister
Footage released by the Met shows officers using high-powered Sur-Ron e-bikes to pursue suspects.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
absolutely incredible work. outstanding. no notes
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Love it when Telegraph commentary runs headfirst into Telegraph journalism
Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film
Director Paul Verhoeven said his 1997 Starship Troopers was about ‘fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism’
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Even if you take Trump’s mad idea of paying people to vote Republican seriously, why is the response ‘this is a flashy distraction’? Vote buying is illegal. Plainly illegal. He is proposing a crime.
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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote-
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 721; Pub.
L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 3 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, § 601(a)(12), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)
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