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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eco chamber: Al could wipe out humanity within a decade! From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Drama should be a core GCSE subject iandunt.substack.com/p/the-hellbo...

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 23/07/2026

Currently on a train to the deepest West Country and the ARNO newsletter just landed with the most impressive of cocktail recipes: “Hands to Harbour Stations”… more like totally smashed and an early night

ARNO Cocktail of the Fortnight. As it is nearly the weekend and we're about to come alongside, our inaugural cocktail is Hands to Harbour Stations – a crisp, refreshing serve that's simple to make and perfect for raising a glass to fair winds, good company and the weeks ahead.
Ingredients: 1.5 measures gin, iced; 1 measure vodka, iced, 0.5 measure dry vermouth or Lillet; ice; lemon peel. Shake the liquid ingredients over ice until frosted. Strain into a frosted martini glass. Dress with lemon peel and serve immediately.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our great new tool from @ourworldindata.org visualises where immigrants in a country come from, and which countries its emigrants go to. Have a play ourworldindata.org/where-do-mig...

Visualisation of where immigrants in Spain were born, and where its emigrants lived in 2024

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Amid all the talk of freezing the price of groceries, I looked at what goes into the cost of a pint of milk. Two things jump out... 1/3

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/05/2026

NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/

Pic of Harborne with headline Farage Johnson and the Crypto King

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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🚨 This seems important: www.drupal.org/psa-2026-05-18 Might want to block out some time on Wednesday for this seemingly important #Drupal core security update - even for Drupal 8 and 9 sites! 🔒⏰

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/05/2026

WHO Ebola update: 1. 513 cases, 130 deaths — sharp rise 2. deaths reported among health workers, indicating healthcare-associated transmission 3. significant population movement in the area, >100K people displaced 4. epidemic caused by Bundibugyo virus for which there’re no vaccines or therapeutics

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Drupal Security Team @drupalsecurity.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Upcoming highly critical release on May 20, 2026 - PSA-2026-05-18 Read post

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Interesting long read from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com making the case that declining birth rates are particularly tied up with the rise of smartphones and therefore fewer people in relationships, which in turn leads to fewer kids www.ft.com/content/fba3...

Could digital media be affecting birth rates?
% change in total fertility rate relative to pre-smartphone trend, by years before/since smartphones*

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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If I had to say what I think is the most important thing happening in British politics right now, I’d say it’s the following phenomenon, explained here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvhI... With huge thanks to @yougov.co.uk @martamiori.bsky.social and @itvnews.bsky.social Please share! Thank you!

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How the May elections could overthrow Britain’s two-party system forever

YouTube video by ITV News

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

NEW | On an odd choice… WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

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Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It’s the 81st anniversary of a German U-boat being sunk by a turd. Possibly. It sounds too good to be true, not least because the incident with the poo payload was the work of the captain, the almost perfectly named Karl-Adolf Schlitt, and the vessel was on its first patrol at the time... 🧵

Diagram: section through the back half of a submarine, with a red oval around the spot where the toilet was

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 13/04/2026

On any average day, 165,000 people die globally. That’s 60 million a year. What do they die from? 🔧📊 We built a new interactive tool that lets you answer this question, with data for every country. Globally, 75% of deaths are from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Heart disease alone is 1 in 3.

Chart showing the causes of death globally in 2023. The data source is the IHME Global Burden of Disease (2025). Chart CC BY to Our World in Data

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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Sorry I'm late. There was an online form and I had to scroll to my birth year.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get. Good for wildlife, too, when done properly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 05/04/2026

Loch Earn - Easter Sunday

Sunset over Loch Earn. Mountains and clouds in background; light chop on water surface; Mirror Man sculpture close to the shore in the foreground

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 04/04/2026

How about encouraging active travel and use of public transport? Great opportunity to push for the transition away from cars and fossil fuel dependency

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 04/04/2026

We’re years off viable electricity storage in the UK. Despite the risks, lead times and the huge upfront costs, nuclear is one of the safest, cleanest forms of energy we have. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer - BBC News

As war drives up gas and fuel prices, Europeans turn again to the issue of energy independence.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2026

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

A scale illustration of the Earth and the Moon, with the Earth on the far left, lots of black, and then the Moon on the far right, about 30 Earth diameters away.

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 30/03/2026

Who knew there was a Fanny Burn near us Sounds uncomfortable

Tron Square in Dunning, Perthshire with St Serfs church in background

Road closure sign in foreground with a faintly humorous diversion from Fanny Burn on B934.

Will file with amusing photos of Dull, Shitterton, Twatt etc

Finbar Saunders lives on…

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #repost! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist and produce new queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9 #nature #caring

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

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Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?

Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole...

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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Have you filled in our rail reform survey yet? Tell us what you think are the main things that need to change to improve rail travel: bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/ra...

Quote from a survey respondent which reads: "More trains past midnight would help massively to make city nightlife more accessible."

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

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Ben Graham
@BenGrahamUK
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Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years.
Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated.
Yet now, Cadbury won't even use the word
'Easter' on their eggs.
When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?

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@McivorJaymey
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Any chance I can get an Easter Egg please M&S?
Will they ever learn
It's like they do it on purpose to offend.
Easter is not National Chocolate Day.
Which extremists are you trying hard to not offend?
@marksandspencer @GBNEWS

Above images of Easter Eggs in M&S

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 20/03/2026

60 million pheasants and red legged partridges are released annually. That's more than double the amount of our native breeding bird biomass released into the landscape EVERY autumn. And most never even get shot. The majority starve, get predated or are hit by SUVs.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 20/03/2026

Good lord. What's the thought process that goes into adding a clause that says: if you host with us, your content is fair game for our AI?

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Companies House has put out a statement confirming that, for five months, every company in the UK was vulnerable to the simple exploit we identified on Friday. It enabled anyone in the world to view and change their company details.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

‘I spent 20 mins writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie… Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills’ www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... (HT @sambrook.bsky.social)

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 13/03/2026

EXCLUSIVE - I've just been passed the latest copy from the Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent. Subscribe to my Substack for more! mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-latest...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 12/03/2026

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“$100 a barrel for first time since X” discussions rarely adjust for inflation Which is odd Site here lets you do so, with mildly soothing results www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-o...

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/02/2026

Deforestation is no longer inevitable— In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems. In recent decades, the picture has become more complex. Deforestation has not ended, but it is no longer happening everywhere.

Changes in forest area by world region since 1990. A world map overlaid with vertical bars and point markers showing forest area in 1990 and in 2025 for each region. Key values and trends: North and Central America 7.7 to 7.8 million km², slight increase; South America 10.3 to 8.5 million km², decrease of about 1.8 million km²; Europe 10.0 to 10.4 million km², increase; Africa 7.8 to 6.6 million km², decrease; Western, Central, and East Asia 2.6 to 3.4 million km², increase; South and Southeast Asia 3.2 to 2.9 million km², decline; Oceania 1.8 to 1.8 million km², no change. Data source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Forest Resources Assessment (2025). License: CC BY.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 19/02/2026

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 18/02/2026

I had measles at 19 just after I joined the RN. Was utterly miserable. Only bright side is I don’t need a vaccination now. But you might…

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Robert Carr @robcarr.co.uk · 17/02/2026

Was a lovely way to start the day

Sun rising over Ochil Hills with oak tree and field with manky mustard cover crop, and grass verge in foreground.

But blue sky and no rain!!!!

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 03/02/2026

I'm on a train from Bristol to London. As we left Bristol, I noticed the government today published its Fuel Finder API, sharing real time prices at petrol stations around the UK. I'm just arriving in London, Here's the app that I made using AI while en route. fuel-finder-replit3507.replit.app

fuel-finder-replit3507.replit.app

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Jacqui B @ashbycloudtrail.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I wish we could have cycle paths like this between villages here in the UK. Often only a few miles away but only dangerous roads with no pavements between them. Villages have become islands of social isolation where teenagers can’t be independent and those that don’t drive are trapped.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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