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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the first 6 months of this year every single water company in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage discharges within the legally required time frame.. Under Andy Burnham’s plan for 'public control' our water will still be run by these water companies! #PublicOwnershipNow ✅️

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely. It’s smoothed out Lee Anderson’s perma-look of bewildered aggression; and in 2024 Jonathan Gullis never knowingly appeared without his beard.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

[At the scene of the crime] Cor Blimey! Trousers

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m 6ft 5. As Best Man at my brother’s wedding I began my speech in front of the small gathering by saying “Can you all see me?” & got a laugh. Tried it again at an AGM where I was MC & it fell totally flat. I’ve resisted the temptation ever since.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All the more reason why the argument has to be more persuasive and stronger about the benefits than last time.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Depends where you are on the political spectrum; I think they’ll underpin the empty rhetoric that a section of the populace will cling into because that’s easier than saying they were wrong.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If it does then the Stay Out campaign could only be on the feels - ‘betrayal’, ‘freedom’, ‘sovereignty’, ‘freedom of speech’ ‘promises’ etc. That’s still a strong hand - a Royal Flush - so the Rejoin has to be ready with a set of straight aces.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wearing a sweater in defiance of their heinous falsehoods

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I collect watches from MOMArt NY; always interested in seeing others.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/09/2026

🚨BREAKING Heidi Alexander has just announced that, for the first time since rail privatisation, the government will consider public ownership of rolling stock for all new trains This is wonderful news. They shouldn't only consider it; they should deliver it

We OWn It statement on rolling stock announcement: “Other countries own their own trains, and we should do the same. This is a super smart decision for the long term future of the railway. “Ownership of the trains is the most profitable part of the railway. We need to own these assets directly so that passengers can benefit with money going in instead of leaking out. “Rolling stock ownership is key to making public ownership of our railway successful. ”

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're speaking about public ownership of water at #LabourConference2026 w/ @serauk.bsky.social, @sascampaigns.bsky.social & @labourlewis.bsky.social. Our privatised water system is broken. 92% of Labour members back public ownership. It's not only essential, is feasible.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Needs to add Stingers at regular intervals on pavements to deter Lime-Riders, accompanied by a Public Health campaign encouraging people to lift their feet when walking to avoid painful puncture wounds.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is what £72m buys you; a 3-year election stunt.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nobody knows how big I grows on worms three times a day!

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just like the latest Sydney Sweeney ads, the outrage is the point, not the veracity.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the info you need to disprove the lies, exaggerated claims and ignorance spewed by the right. And that includes Kent.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Andy Burnham is right: in the 1980s Britain took a "wrong turn" by privatising life's essentials Our bills have gone up along with shareholder dividends, while the quality of the service has fallen Our NEW REPORT explains how Andy Burnham can deliver public ownership: vist.ly/5jtkd

Screenshot of a Utility Week headline that says "Campaign tells government to ‘squeeze’ utilities and enforce public ownership: Campaign group We Own It is pressing the Prime Minister to consider taking water companies and electricity networks into public ownership, proposing a strategy of "squeezing" them until they become unprofitable. The report suggests a model where 100% of profits are reinvested in services, with governance structures including representation from households and environmental organisations."

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shades of Lucy Connolly all over again

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queen - Seven Seas of Rye. It took me several years to learn that they weren’t referring to the East Sussex town.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only let them do it if they also agree to a re-enactment.

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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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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love John Mayer’s solo on “Gravity”. Small but perfectly formed.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Shostakovich 5 was just an opportunity for a lot of bangy crashy music.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve said it elsewhere in Bsky, but the restaurant scene in ep. 3 took it to another level. Just wonderful, precise writing.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Now I understand how sailors could believe mermaids existed - oh hang on

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We went to see his performance as Prospero in The Tempest at Stratford in July. It was very offputting to see him open the play in a purple gown, holding a wand and carrying a book of spells. Bit of a mistake to begin proceedings with the Muggles tittering…

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18/09/2026

🚨This government wants mayors to oversee private water companies Without OWNERSHIP, this plan only foists the blame for failures onto local leaders. @angelaeagle1.bsky.social MP read our open letter on why you MUST give leadership AND ownership to local leaders: weownit.org.uk/mayors/ownership

Image with a picture of Environment Secretary Angela Eagle, with text that says "Open letter to Angela Eagle and regional mayors: NO to local oversight of private water companies, without local ownership"

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the symptom of a movement allowed to get out of control. Violence, intimidation, harassment of incredibly brave people who voluntarily save the lives of others. All fuelled by ignorance and hatred wrapped up in faux-outrage, misinformation, and weasel words. Read this - it’s shocking.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone

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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(PS if any mobiles go off in Symphony Hall during Mahler 2 tomorrow I will be throwing my weight around in the concourse)

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Glad to see CBSO rowing back from their ridiculous “feel free to take pictures / videos during the performance” policy to “use your phone but only when everyone is clapping”. But we’ve had mobiles for 30 years. Still can’t get over how many people seem incapable / unwilling to turn theirs off…

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hope he’s ready for border checks and passport control

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘Playing a different show every night in front of a new crowd That's you now, ciao, seems that life is great now See me lose focus, as I sing to you loud And I can't, no, I won't hush I'll say the words that make you blush I'm gonna sing this now’ Almost apposite

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The army repeatedly had to issue leaflets telling its men not to rape. Strange that there was no outcry from Piddington residents when it was an army barracks.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Leave the UK. Carry your passports with you whenever you step outside the village. Stop receiving benefits and pensions. Organise your own rubbish collections. Establish your own transport infrastructure. Police yourselves. Or just admit this is an idiotic idea, driven by an idiotic ideology.

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John Kay @positively.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We have our senses working overtime #iykyk

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