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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love this... (artist: Janis Goodman)
Image shows a drawing by artist Janis Goodman and it shows a huge computer that is plugged into 4 electrical sockets and is guzzling water via a hose attached to 2 taps. There is a woman sat nearby. This drawing is titled "The Data Centre Who Came To Tea"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/08/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 31/08/2026
[1977] Blue Peter -John Noakes climbs Nelson's Column unassisted in a palm-sweating piece of television, once voted the greatest moment in children's TV programming.
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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lovely to see Jaffa Cakes bringing the old Full Moon, Half Moon advert for the eclipse tonight.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/
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On August 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, technology tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy and climate of Patagonia
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”
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BD65 @bd65.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
Morning. Bring me sunshine… youtu.be/DVmYrU2rWFQ
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Depth Charge - Shaolin Buddha Finger
YouTube video by VinylSolutionRecords
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Jeff Spencer @revjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Graphic offering advice on “How to survive the global heatwave.” It says:
Stay hydrated.
Treat yourself to an ice cream.
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class.
Loose fitting clothing.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 02/07/2026
Meet some Essex icons honoured by the new blue plaques: Beth Chatto (horticulturist), Marion Wilberforce (WWII aviator), and Alice Lee (mathematician). Their stories are diverse and inspiring, writes Jenny Rhodes
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From aviators to activists: Essex commemorates its outstanding women
A project recognising some remarkable Essex women reveals their fascinating stories
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Albumism @albumism.com · 28/06/2026
Public Enemy released ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ 38 years ago on June 28, 1988 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PEitanomthub
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This story 🥹 This is what it’s all about ❤️💙🇨🇻
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
WANT TO SNORFLE THE MURDERCAT (🔊 up)
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death
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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
You know how rich people are all low-key psychotic with no grasp of reality because they're surrounded by people who just tell them what they want to hear all the time? That's you when you use AI that is.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...
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How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill
Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Nature is disappearing and so are the Words We Use To Talk About Nature Oxford Junior Dictionary, removed dozens of entries related to the natural world, including “acorn,” “bluebell,” and “magpie,” to make room for modern words like blog chatroom MP3 player sentientmedia.org/words-we-use...
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The Words We Use To Talk About Nature Are Disappearing. Here’s Why That Matters.
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In celebration of the ROGUE TROOPER PREMIER being announced at the magnificent ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET this June, (that was a mouthful,) clamp your sensors on these POSTERS from Paolo Rivera and Chris Weston respectively-
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 09/06/2025
"99% of AI companies" = an photo of a false facade, looking like a house, but being nothing at all.

I'd personally say it's 100% of LLM "AI" companies.
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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
That just reminded me of Huutajat, the Finnish Shouting Choir. Hadn't thought of them in years. www.huutajat.org/en/story/
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Story | Mieskuoro Huutajat - Screaming Men’s Choir
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Astr0z0mbreez @astr0z0mbreez.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
All the rotting tulips hyacinth & daffodil my dad got me from the dumpster last spring are blooming beautifully now. So don’t gimme that shit like hope doesn’t exist
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - Art of Persia
Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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CATHY’S CLOWN EVERLY BROTHERS
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v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Can’t believe I’m only finding this out now. MI5 used Girl Guides in the First World War as spies, because Boy Scouts were too gossipy and couldn’t be trusted to keep secrets.
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When Boys Couldn't Handle the Job, MI5 Turned to Britain's Girl Guides
The Boy Scouts couldn't respect the seriousness of their duties.
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Son of Bengt (Halloween edition) @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Bumblebee queen learns how to use protective door in less than 24 hours
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
New research shows 48 per cent of white working class children are not ready for school - my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the crisis in the early years observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Teachers are being forced to parent children as Britain f...
As more pupils join reception lacking motor, speech and hygiene skills, charity calls for urgent action to avert an educational crisis
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Phil Hamlyn Williams #FBPE #FBPPR @philwriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
As many of us celebrate our mothers, it is shocking to read how so many today’s infants are being neglected. Thank you for your article @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Teachers are being forced to parent children as Britain faces school readiness crisis observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Teachers are being forced to parent children as Britain f...
As more pupils join reception lacking motor, speech and hygiene skills, charity calls for urgent action to avert an educational crisis
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 15/03/2026
I am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
As I am fond of saying, Britain leads the world in offshore wind power and for god's sake the govt need to do 2 things. One is to run ads saying Windmills Are Beautiful And Look At All This Power That They Make For Us, and the second is force the electricity companies to lower bills drastically
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Deforestation is not “development.” It is ecocide,turning carbon sinks into carbon bombs, wiping out gorillas, elephants, and thousands of species, and triggering droughts that hit farmers hardest. In 2025 the Congo Basin primary forest loss hit records. The science is screaming.
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Mr. Juice Box @toxicjuicebox.com · 04/03/2026
Good morning! Yes, this is he
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 01/03/2026
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If history teaches us anything, it’s that history doesn’t teach us anything.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Farage and Badenoch say we should be helping the US and Israel in their attack on Iran, despite it being a blatant violation of international law. Waiting for a UK journalist to ask them both: “What do you intend to do about the Iranian refugees who will soon be arriving on small boats?”
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Walter Ehrhardt @wehrhardt.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow. An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump" and - how did he put it a while ago? - 'represent Clacton on a world stage'. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump
Most recently, Farage attended an event at Trump’s Mar A Lago resort celebrating US Military Veterans just months before Trump’s vile slur dismissing the sacrifice of British troops who served in Afgh...
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/01/2026
Absolutely cracking work here from Jim's team. I defend the BBC a lot, but when a small team is doing really solid work like this while BBC London is doing puff pieces about the Wicked films, it really does make you wonder what's gone wrong with the big news outlets.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
this post has annoyed some people on Twitter. good. naomialderman.substack.com/p/i-love-pri...
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I love Prince Harry
possibly my most controversial opinion that I am very sure of and which I think could not publish like this in the UK press (plus, under the line: a great documentary, podcast and parrot news)
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