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Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can anyone help with this word I can't quite decipher? Phrase is 'ad commitendum et disponendum bona dicti defunct in parcos uses et [?] charitatiua ...' Best I have is 'episcopo' ie 'for the benefit of the bishop'. Am I right?

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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Norway’s government said it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected public places, citing concerns that people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.

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Norway plans AI glasses ban

The government says people could be recorded without their knowledge in places such as parks, museums and shopping centers.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wtaf is she smoking and could she share with the rest of the class please? If only so the rest of the class as something to dull the nightmare that is Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary

Mahmood says Palestine Action proscription is needed to curb support for neo-Nazis

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is Neil from Strictly standing next to Epstein? #CPC26

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is meant to be a provocation, but it show a major generational shift in the German far right - during the Cold War, the far right followed the expellee lobby and talked about 1937 borders (i.e reclaiming East Prussia and Silesia from the USSR and Poland but pre Anschluss of Austria)

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026

The NHS wants their logo out of our spoof video, but we’re not going to be silenced. We won’t stop criticising their contract with Palantir. After all, it’s not our fault they went into business with a sinister company hungry for our data 👀

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Who radicalised this domestic terrorist - a white English man? What social media, TV channels, or politicians influenced his views? If he was not white, how different would the response from Reform UK be?

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.

404media.co

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So what ARE the options for Britain re EU? - Status quo: massive damage to the economy - Customs Union: limited economic benefit - Single Market: significant economic benefit but UK has to follow EU rules without a say on them - EU membership: econ & political benefits with a seat at the table

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our VC claiming that c.600 FTE redundancies will allow the university to invest in its staff. Outrageous and offensive.

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's because they don't properly understand what FoM gave them when we were members (and have been consistently lied to about how it was such a good thing to stop it). There's a lot of truthful explaining to do.

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An excellent 'quote'. But didn't he die in 2017? Did he even really say this? If he did, it would not/could not have been in the context of today's wholesale destruction. Yes, to this attitude; no to this kind of slop.

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can someone tell me whether the Premier League investigators are likely to be looking at seasons 18/19 to 25/26 as well as those up to 17/18?

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Its the wrong place to get money from.. there are other places.. the richest 50 families are worth £500bn. Why are we talking about pensioners £12,500 & not talking about a wealth tax. Why is that?" @unitesharon.bsky.social says scrapping the triple lock would be the wrong thing to do

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026

The BBC is part of the problem...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'University and College Union (UCU) branches refused to grade coursework and exams at the universities of Nottingham and Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London, in response to managers’ plans for sweeping job cuts.'

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Hundreds of students still without marks after boycotts – union

Learners left unable to graduate or progress by ‘last resort’ industrial action

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 27/09/2026

The terrorists had infiltrated the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Thankfully, steadfast police officers discovered old ladies with deadly weapons such as signs with unapproved words. They have been dragged off to cells and now face up to 14 years in prison. Isn't this brilliant?

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 27/09/2026

How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe The Hate Review reveals how the anti-gender movement has taken root and evolved in Europe over the last 25 years, it traces how far the anti-gender movement has spread through society and how deeply it has reached into laws and institutions.

forbidden-colours.com

The Hate Review

How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Day 668 of nonstop protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests 📹 Giorgi Burjanadze

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Between 2019 and 2025, export volumes slumped 31 per cent as Brexit added border checks and trade complexity, pushing up costs for businesses” … and threatening our food security. Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn

In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are some good ones here but what about 'Engrenages', 'The Killing', 'The Bridge', or 'Dix Pour Cent'?

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📌 ICYMI — Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000

The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sorry but the doom I feel with the AI race is somewhat similar to what I felt at the start of the pandemic. Many voices raising the alarm & urging action before it’s too late but they’re being labelled as alarmists while most people are oblivious & governments are too slow to pay attention & act.

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honestly, I despair. This is total s**t.

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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The next rejoin rally in Britain needs to be MASSIVE, it needs to hit right at the heart of Westminster, so every single MP is under no illusion of what the British electorate want Make it happen @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @bestforbritain.org @labourlist.bsky.social @snp.org @libdems.org.uk

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you exchange the ability to read books and perhaps even write them for the ability to ask a machine to tell you about them or to put words in your mouth, you have not made a good trade. You have not traded like for like or worse for better. And that is the exchange being proposed

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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm working on an extremely armchair hypothesis based on chats with some colleagues and students and it is roughly that students hate AI and don't want it in their lives but have been told by universities that they need to use it because employers told universities they need to use it

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s extraordinary that as we breach 1.5° - which only in 2018, the IPCC said wouldn’t be reached until 2040 - that the PM is still holding up net zero by 2050 as an adequate response!   The threat level has changed dramatically since the UK adopted its NZ by 2050 aim. Just a few examples: 🧵

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