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Ralph Ferrett @ralphferrett.bsky.social · 7h

Sure the Free Speech Union will be all over. Someone should page Toby Young stat

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Danny Tommo, Amodei, Man City fair play Piddington, Macklemore, Dolly ain’t alive no more Netanyahu’s iron dome, Meg and Harry coming home New cat, Clavicular COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN BAR 🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Ralph Ferrett @ralphferrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's like that Amazon shop all over again!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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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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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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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Almost no one in politics has stood up and called this what it plainly is: an organised group of criminals shutting down critical national infrastructure and menacing charity workers and journalists in the process.”

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Public service announcements appearing on the Tube (spoof ofc)👌🏼

Main sign (blue, centre):
Notice to users of smart glasses
Everyone thinks you look like a massive nonce
The sign shows an icon of a pair of glasses with a camera lens on the frame and a wireless signal symbol above it.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Most bath times this guy saves the day. Over the years he’s rescued dinosaurs, superheroes and sea creatures. Our kids are pretty clear this is unambiguously and definitively one of the good guys. I think the vast majority of grown ups would agree with them.

Photo of a bath toy - RNLI boat & crew member

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh no, the house dragon is vomiting again!

a scene from an illuminated manuscript, a bible, of late 14th century Europe, and a dragon is vomiting in front of an angel. page 501r of the "Bible historiale complétée Moyenne" (SBB Berlin PK, Ms. Phill. 1906).

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

for Coyote VS Acme, here's Alan Davis's contribution to the Bristol Comix Expo's 2002 charity anthology (themed on crossovers):

Alan Davis's classical superhero art, depicting Quicksilver and the Flash being perturbed as the Road Runner zooms past them

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Anna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Where did they even find some of these?

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can’t *believe* we had to, still have to, listen to all that talk about how competent and ruthless Shabana Mahmood is, and then we get a day like today and we don’t have a Home Secretary

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nah

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy

Tom Harwood tweets:

BREAK: Nigel Farage says under a Reform government the body of Napoleon III could be returned from England to France.
The last French emperor's final resting place is in The Imperial Crypt at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough.
He died in exile in England in 1873 following the fall of the Second Empire. His body was never returned to France because they didn't want it, and due to his wife's wishes. She was later buried alongside him.

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Duncan Hames @duncanhames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At the lunch, after they order the oysters, the american he meets 'from Wyoming' explains that he runs "an American family office", and that he hasn't "been able to donate directly". That he is not a permissible donor is plain to see.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The best time for broad based tax rises was autumn 2024. The next best time was autumn 2025. But here we are. The next best time is this budget. The point of political capital is to spend it when you need to. Take the hit now and give yourself a path to a strong political argument in 2028/29.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Ralph Ferrett @ralphferrett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This post gave an honest to god, real life LOL! I love social meeja!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ironically, sickle cell anaemia is a good example of the problems of reducing issues to racial categories. Because African Americans and Britons of Caribbean origin suffer disproportionately from the trait… 1/

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Ralph Ferrett @ralphferrett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For my money, whether or not Race Science was acceptable in either academia or anywhere in public life was definitely settled. In 1945, after a 6 year debate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Ralph Ferrett @ralphferrett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I know what I like. whereidlive.com

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is presumably an example of the 'two-tier policing' I keep hearing about...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

'looking at racist backed by global coalition of racists fired for his racism' this is where I must TAKE A STANCE

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty British cook or baker: for goodness sake, why can’t you give quantities for dry ingredients by weight?

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Ralph Ferrett @ralphferrett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I like many other people on this web site did scoff at some of the stories about what Arday claimed. But reading this makes me think that I, and lots of people in the media, ought to have a big slice of self reflection at parts of the story, and our reactions to it.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ra Ra Natsputin Trad wife of the Orange King

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes on a private server or Donald Trump spending 24 hours a day with a mentally unstable aide who has no security clearance, both candidates presented grave national security risks.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Would you believe that the people who were wrong about Brexit, Trump, the Truss budget and climate change were wrong about this too?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/08/2026

OpenAI's death will have dire consequences for those who've invested in the company, those who built its infrastructure, and, ultimately, everyone else. And it's time to acknowledge the danger ahead. www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens...

It’s time for everybody to start having a real, meaningful conversation about what happens if OpenAI dies. This company has remained economically unstable since I started writing about it in November 2023, and while I might have underestimated its staying power, nothing has changed about my larger thesis that this company is headed for perdition, leaving its counterparties unpaid and alone with the consequences to follow.

Said consequences, as I outlined in the OpenAI Bubble, are very, very serious, representing an existential threat to SoftBank, one of the largest companies on the Japanese stock market, and its collapse will guarantee massive changes to the guidance of some of the largest companies in the world. There is a very real scenario in which nobody left with OpenAI stock is able to reach a liquidity event, which means the tens of billions of dollars of venture capital will remain unlocked and zeroed out unless it can go public, which is increasingly-unlikely.

OpenAI doesn’t have to be illegal to be dangerous. Every time consent is manufactured for the astonishing waste and unrealistic promises of Sam Altman, companies further leverage themselves in an attempt to capture its theoretical value, and investors are further manipulated into supporting an industry almost-entirely founded on its compute spend.

As I discussed in the OpenAI Bubble, its collapse will have now-unavoidable economic consequences. The death of SoftBank is a very real possibility. The likelihood of the vast majority of AI investments going to zero is much, much higher than anyone wants to think about, at a time when, per Bloomberg, a venture capital firm that returns thirty centers on the dollar is considered an above-top-five performer. Oracle will collapse without OpenAI’s revenue.

To not actively and meaningfully discuss the potential for OpenAI to collapse is actively irresponsible. To act like there are not significant, existential problems with this company’s economics is to intentionally avoid reality, and whoever is on the receiving end of said ignorance deserves better, be they an investor reading your analyst note or a reader burdened with incomplete journalism.

What follows may be an Enron-Lehman Brothers hybrid, one that leaves unbelievable destruction in its wake, an avoidable systemic risk empowered and enabled by a kneecapped media industry and sell-side analysts incapable of seeing further than two quarters in the future.

In the end, there is no avoiding the damage that OpenAI’s collapse will create. The time to do that was in 2024, before it made all those commitments, and raised so much more money. Once it did so, it led the entire industry to believe that there was significant demand for AI, when all that was happening was Sam Altman and Dario Amodei were taking up every ounce of compute capacity, paid for with equity investments from the companies they bought it from, an illusion created by men driven mad by their desperation for hypergrowth.

However you feel about my work, I am begging you to take even the prospect of OpenAI’s collapse seriously, and prepare accordingly.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

if the dog comes to you for pets, you must pet. It does not matter what you are doing. This is the Law of Dog

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