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Matt @matthewblott.com · 52m
I believe the term is "expectations management".
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1h
Lib Dem landslide it is, then.
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LiveSquawk @livesquawknews.bsky.social · 2h
Canada PM Carney: To Fast-track Approval Of New West Coast Oil Pipeline - Pipeline To Export 1Mln Barrels Of Crude/Day To Asia - Aims To Approve New Pipeline By September 2027 - New Pipeline To Reduce Reliance On Oil Exports To US
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 3h
This *INCLUDES* tourism from the world's largest sporting event, and it was FIFA's biggest-ever World Cup.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 3h
TFW your irrefutable evidence of innocence is that you were wearing a different hat when you did the fraud. www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.
Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers. 

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—
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Gareth Potter @garethpotter.com · 4h
The whole thing is jaw-dropping, but the game of free association he plays with himself here is a particular highlight.
Because it's much more accurate. It's going to be a group of very smart people that understand it, who will be advising me. But I will tell you right now, I'm not going to be easy because I'm not going to kill a thing based on phony threats. They said that our country was going to burn down because of global warming. Then they changed the name to climate change because global warming wasn't going. They said that we are going to have some of the most difficult times ever. Global warming turned out to be a hoax. Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax. Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 4h
It was a very interesting editorial choice to publish this interview transcript: time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 5h
That's the literal Nazi David Miller that they're praying in aid
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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 6h
Sad the antisemitism isn't also a deal breaker.
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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 5h
Frankly this should be the main part of the British Citizenship test.
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 8h
Nevertheless, it does show us something important: people like Burnham even more when they’re exposed to him; many of his core themes & arguments carry people and can push up his numbers and vote share. The ownership agenda esp - if delivered - could be really powerful for him.
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 8h
How about voting intention? All videos pushed up Labour VI, but three stood out: economic power/control, water nationalisation and social care/triple lock clip, boosting it by 8-10 points! This is *genuinely impressive* for such a test, esp in an age of cynicism to politicians.
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 6h
“And I should know!”
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Gavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️ @gav1nx.bsky.social · 6h
Andy Burnham: We shall improve society a little bit. Conservatives:
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 7h
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 7h
"The party has also said it would look closer at whether parents' earnings and savings should be factored into welfare payments for their children" So according to the Tories, it's wrong to means-test benefits for boomers... but totally fine to do so for their adult children children.
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Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s
The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 7h
lolz
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 7h
The sort of people who still use "latinx"
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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 8h
We apologise for the disruption to your visit to the Bayeux Tapestry today
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 10h
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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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 8h
I will be unsurprised if, at some point in the future, we find out that the experts who designed the exhibition indicated the comfortable visitor numbers and someone higher up overruled them. What an embarassment.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 9h
So Ronaldo's international career has ended the way it was always going to - not with a bang, but with a flounce
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 10h
LMAOOOO
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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 11h
This is just further proof of the bent nature of the sponsorships. No regular sponsor would threaten to sue the Prem for the reputational damage of a report they arent even named in. They would just cut ties with the club www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 11h
This is America for god's sake if they really wanted to ensure her death they should've just given her a job in a primary school.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16h
The US is literally being avoided like the plague.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 20h
Saying “Man City won those titles on the pitch” is like saying Lance Armstrong should have kept his titles because he wasn’t injecting himself while riding his bike.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 20h
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Simpsons Clowns Dancing
ALT: Simpsons Clowns Dancing
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
Hegseth: “We’re no longer the woke department or the weak department. “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.”
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 20h
Sounds like having a fringe religious extremist as the head of your defence department is a very bad idea
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22h
The first Portugese manager in 5 years has finally asked "why tf are we playing this washed out prick?"
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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 22h
They said it couldn’t be done. They said ‘the man’s in his forties, he can’t keep this up’. He refused to listen. At the age of 41, Ronaldo remains the biggest wank in football.
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Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg @kyracloudy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Passenger says he pulled FlyDubai plane out of its dive after struggle with suicidal pilot: "I watch Air Crash Investigation" (BBC News)
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 23h
Christ. The Greens are a fucking cesspit.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
“The only person I’ve ever seen stand like this was a child who shit their pants.” trib.al/eJfcnHv
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 30/09/2026
I have always thought Erin Reed was arguably the largest source of left-wing misinformation on youth gender medicine, but I definitely didn't see this coming. theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...
theneedlenews.com
Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shocked to discover Erin Reed is a charlatan.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday, a pilot tried to hijack a passemger jet over Jordan on the approach to Tel Aviv. If he had succeeded - and it seems fairly random that he didn't - then the world would be in a *massively* different situation today. Haven't seen a single word about it on here.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great thing about having a PM with a Northern accent is that when things are a bit shit he can go full Jon Snow.
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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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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That’s what happens when you start trying to appeal to crazy US audiences
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sorry still reeling at “one of the most talented political leaders this country has produced in decades.”
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's got nine days to pull it off
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PWCoghlan @pwc50.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham might just be the first UK politician in living memory to recognise that every magic, cherry-picking workaround proposed prior to 2016 & since, is bollocks An audible sigh of relief everywhere beyond the usual suspects...
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Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Huge news. I'd given up hope of it even getting to this stage
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Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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