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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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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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Jon P @pparker49.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US can barely keep 3 out of 11 aircraft carriers at sea. There are none at all in the Western Pacific. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #defence
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EXPLAINER: How America's aircraft carrier crisis reveals a military decline
Podcast Episode · The General & The Journalist · 27 September · 9min · Video
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Jon P @pparker49.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US can barely keep 3 out of 11 aircraft carriers at sea. None at all in the Western Pacific. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #defence
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EXPLAINER: How America's aircraft carrier crisis reveals a military decline
Podcast Episode · The General & The Journalist · 27 September · 9min · Video
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nancilizwester @nancilizwester.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jon P @pparker49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thebrinkpodcast.substack.com/p/i-saw-the-... Fascinating podcast. Learned loads about the Houthis, all of it terrifying Michael Knights a true expert. #Yemen
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'I saw the Houthis up close...they’re a danger to Europe' Middle Expert Warns
In this episode of The Brink, Jake is joined by Middle East security expert Michael Knights to explore how the Houthis have grown from a ragtag Yemeni militia into one of Iran’s most heavily armed reg...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump's comments always age so well.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they really think we are all idiots
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If it swims in the Sea and cuddles you like a Puppy, that's a Moray!
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
What are we becoming?
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Jon P @pparker49.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fantastic PISA results of England’s schools. #education
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From The Borowitz Report.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/09/2026
I can't get over how visibly insane he is these days. This is like reading a note from your great aunt who insists she used to be married to Winston Churchill.
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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Deleting apps cos I wanna meet someone the old fashioned way (form a homoerotic bond with a beautiful boy at Oxford, wheedle my way into his family, watch his descent into alcoholism, get rejected by his sister due to her faith, eventually convert to Catholicism with great metaphorical significance)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
WATCH: “That did not happen.” @SteveScalise caught lying 🤥 to ABC that Biden banned 400 news orgs from the White House as he tries to cover for the toddler-in-chief’s authoritarian attempt to ban outlets that don’t glaze his every move
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump and Vance to Zelenskyy 18 months ago: You are losing this war. You have no cards. Meanwhile, while Ukraine is kicking a much larger country’s ass who invaded it, Trump and Vance are losing to Iran.
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END EVERY REPUBLICAN @mlf3430.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I can no longer call myself a Republican. There's no voter fraud. Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah." -General Colin Powell END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END DEMOCRACY!!
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was made redundant from a car dealership that used a third-party website to manage loan car bookings. Access wasn't revoked… to keep myself busy during redundancy, I'd regularly login using a former colleague's credentials and delete bookings at my leisure by way of payback.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big painting job in a church and the client started to get a bit pissy about my style, so I added his face to a demon in the corner. Don't think anyone's noticed yet.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I heard when I was little that rubbing marmite on oneself before going into the water repels sharks. Apparently I was the only person taught this when I presented it to my classmates at school.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My wife and I were so hot when we were young. She was very beautiful and I was so handsome. Now we are in our late sixties, I look like Danny Divito and she looks like Mitch Miconnell. I can't unsee it now.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Since 2015 when England made you pay for supermarket plastic bags, two friends and I have kept a WhatsApp log of how many we haven't paid for. Today we hit 10,000 bags.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Legend
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Jon P @pparker49.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FFS Syed
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
If you knew he was abhorant and dangerous but were perfectly happy to let Farage drum up the vote for Brexit because you thought it was the surest route to UK-EFTA or whatever dumb shit you convinced yourself would magically happen, I'm just not that interested in hearing from you in public life.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Used to work in a small cafe in Carlisle when I overheard a young man deliberating with his friend whether he should move to London or not and was waiting for a sign. I stuck London Calling on and the look he gave his friend stuck with me and I really hope he made it to London.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026
"Enforcing soldier masculinity through mandatory morning-boner checks" is the sort of thing an unsubtle satirist might make up about Russia.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cunts: Stop using "a coffee" as a benchmark for cheapness. "Could you donate £5 a week? That's just the price of a coffee!" No, a spoonful of Lidl French Blend and some boiling water doesn't cost £5. We don't all spend our mornings spraying a fiver up the wall in Costa.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"in order to be a net fiscal contributor over their lifetime, the average couple arriving in the UK at age 30 needs the primary earner to have a salary at the 55th percentile of the overall earnings distribution, compared to the 45th in France and 28th in Germany" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Unpacking the real fiscal costs of immigration
Low taxes on low earners mean the same immigrants cost the UK more than they would elsewhere
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wife found a woman's crop top in our washing. Think we grabbed it from the sunbed next to us when packing up at some point during our holiday. The fess is how insulted I feel that she didn't even think for a second I might be having an affair with someone who wears a size 8 top.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is so insane I cannot believe this is real. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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ReMona Lisa - News Reader - @thebookwormturns.co.uk · 18/09/2026
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. 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, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18/09/2026
This only ends one way
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The best version of this is the posh woman who stood up in an expensive London restaurant after the Attlee election win in 1945 was reported and announced "the people won't stand for it!"
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Grumpy @grumpybb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The absolute irony “Reform UK tried to suppress coverage of its leader’s arrest on suspicion of assault and coercive control by warning news outlets they would break European privacy law by reporting it, we can reveal”
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From last year. A good history lesson.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone supporting this motion is, at best, an imbecile. More likely they're a straight up cunt. If Polanski backs it, it would be an outrage. But even his failure to speak out against it is pretty damning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Greens urge Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’
The Green leader has not spoken publicly about the motion, which is likely to be debated at the party’s conference in October
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists
Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Boycotted a business that printed 0207 as their phone code. The phone code for London is 020 and I will not stand for any alternative.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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