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Ren Zelen

@renzelen.bsky.social
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Academic editor & freelance film & book reviewer. Ex-lit academic. Has written sci-fi novels (see ‘The Hathor Diaries'). lethallexicon.wordpress.com

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 1h
Hardly a surprising move, considering what the favourite thing of the current US administration is…
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 10h
To quote Dolly Parton “it costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 4h
🚨 Watch for FAKE journals, FAKE conferences, FAKE societies! Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...a sprawling international constellation of suspicious academies and societies..."
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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 4h
I have faith in the young.
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 6h
Excellent political cartoon. It’s too bad Ed Sheeran won’t get it.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11h
Reform UK Council Leader dined at CEO's hotel before £215k hiring www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Norfolk council leader dined at CEO's hotel before £215k hiring
Reform UK's David Bick says he cannot recall meeting Dennis Bacon at the luxury venue.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 6h
This ICBC bank located on Calle Florida in Buenos Aires, Argentina, features a 4-tonne bronze door. Crafted in England in 1924, it sinks completely into the ground every morning at 10 AM to open. TT: @elianagimenez48
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 4h
“links between social media & a growing readiness to post explicit content. “Why,” she asks, “do we have an online culture that has made self-exposure & the drive to monetise one’s own image so normalised, that the step to selling pornography is not that big?” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses
As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the inter...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22h
It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10h
Not an article Reform UK want anyone to read ... "Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams
‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 4h
Always remember ... Brexit was the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK finally bins Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe — and a decisive strike against Putin-backed populism.
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 4h
These newspapers do not work in the interest of the British public. They never have.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
French President Emmanuel Macron on the UK rejoining the EU: “If the British want to take a first step in this direction, I think it is very good news both for their country and for Europeans.”
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 5h
"It's not enough to leave that question just hanging", he says, while simultaneously leaving that question just hanging.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 9h
What with record donations to the RNLI, Fairford suspect turning out not to be terrorists, figures out showing small boat crossings way down, and Tommo not given bail - not a good week for the hate-spewing, far-right Reform UK & Restore Britain liars
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h
Do you want him marrying your daughter, being around your grandchildren, young au pairs, babysitters, girls sports team etc… Would you want a rapist in your family? In your school, in your office, in your gym, in your sports club, in your law enforcement? Well, that’s what you’re getting.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 18h
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Grumpy @grumpybb.bsky.social · 7h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Frightening' spiking claims investigated by Bath uni
The University of Bath has increased security in nightclubs after claims circulated on social media.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 9h
"Reading literature enables you to enter the depths of another human being." Han Kang recd. the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." 1st Asian woman to win this prestigious literary award. #books
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6h
We have a real fight on our hands ...... to spread our message of hate and division. Good 👍
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Burnham speaks better than Starmer, he comes across better than Starmer, he connects with people better than Starmer.

That makes him a lot more dangerous than Starmer. Let's be honest - we have a real fight on our hands.
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Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 🇺🇦 @mandeville24.bsky.social · 6h
That is so brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Maddie (delicious, nutritious) @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10h
We're two years into the current government and they changed *one guy*. What on earth do you mean "wait and see"?
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Paul Da Pork Hunt & Mr Moo (Friends with Larry) @paulcwgb.bsky.social · 8h
Bottom line is fuck all will change when MP's can still be privatised for policy by donors and billionaires. The Electoral reform Burnham spewed will not change whoever wins being privatised, and working for their owners and donors instead of the electorate!
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 7h
That’s what ‘influencers’ are paid to do - sell the public dreams and distractions from reality. Paid to tell us the impossible is achievable and perfection is just a workout session or a Botox injection away!
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 7h
Don’t ever say that the Victorians didn’t have a sense of humour…and a lot of imagination 😂 (Yes, it provides some light relief, and it’s real).
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 7h
So finally politicians admit Brexit has failed, as it was always going to. Farage & our Tory politicians are to blame for inflicting it upon us by the narrowest of margins, but let’s not forget how our media & press colluded in the Brexit LIE, (& some of them are still pushing the anti-euro line)
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 8h
Remainers,who were half of the population & were ignored for a decade, always knew the pitfalls and quietly said, when Brexit failed badly, give it a couple of decades, & suddenly no-one will admit to being a Brexiter, or voting to leave 😐
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Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 8h
Long overdue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire that killed 72 people.
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TeatimeandBiscuit @teatimeandbiscuit.bsky.social · 8h
Why can't AB simply say that we were all lied to, list the lies and the relevant truths, state that we are going to rejoin the EU, if we can, for the good of the country, as the majority of the country wants and to ignore the same old bores as they try to lie to us once again.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Time for this classic again.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😂 Those chickens always nail it
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 21h
“I don’t know the ins and outs,” says Nigel Farage. Let us remind you: Reform Durham, led by Andrew Husband and Darren Grimes, has lost 16 councillors, leaving it just 2 from No Overall Control. Add bullying allegations, broken council tax promises and a £44m gap. That help?
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Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 🇺🇦 @mandeville24.bsky.social · 9h
Trump and Farage and the rest leaping to the wrong conclusions yet again just to make headlines. What makes me really chuckle is Trump telling the world they knew about these men before anyone else! 🤣
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20h
What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction. What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!" What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10h
... and imagine paying far-right parties like Reform UK £millions to ensure they keep spewing out hate against migrants, claimants, women etc etc and ensure no government dares to #TaxTheRich #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 19h
Imagine the front page outrage if 7 gay men drugged and raped a straight man for 7 hours. I expect the victim in that case would be believed without question. #Cornell7 #CornellUniversity #sexism #misogyny #VAW
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 9h
“Then Thou shalt vilify the selfless rescuers who preserve life”
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11h
I suggest Tommo is sentenced to write "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" as many times as there are migrants "To pray for Daniel Thomas's soul, while he is locked up in prison, having achieved absolutely FA outside of fraudulently taking donations" via The UK Against Hate
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 9h
The perpetrators of Brexit, their reasons and let’s not forget how the U.K. press & media colluded
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 16h
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 10h
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Respect for Andy Burnham promising a new National Care Service Good to see him saying it will be "care that is about people not profit" Burnham should also insource ALL private contracts back into the NHS End privatisation and REINSTATE THE NHS as a fully public service
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nigelski Faragovic being buried on Daily Basis a Glorious Sight to Behold 🤣👇🏽
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tuesday #FilmNoir The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart and Jerome Cowan in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... More proof that Farage and his henchmen Tice & Jenrick are spreading disinformation on an unprecedented scale. Not only that, they are doing so for truly evil purposes. IMO this amounts to Misconduct in a Public Office and all three should be prosecuted for that.
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Nandy labels Farage ‘master of conspiracy theory’ over Fairford claims
Culture secretary criticises Reform leader after he tried to link suspected bomb plot to small boat crossings
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 23h
This is historical fact, and all the gaslighting in the world will not change that. Instead of jailing the treasonous fuck, you handed him the very Office he attempted to steal.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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