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Dear News Media, This isn't pedantry, it's really important. Semantics changes contexts, and context is everything, It's not a 'War in Ukraine', it's an invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Please do better.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 19h

The UK government should find themselves pushing against an open door.

Titled 'Most Britons believe utilities and public transport should be run in thr Public Sector', a YouGov survey graphic depicting UK public attitudes towards public vs private sector ownership of various aspects of civil facilities, functions and infrastructure, from policing through to banking.

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s something I noticed and investigated while working on my graph of the two wars’ impacts on oil & fuel prices: US diesel (weekly avg) tracks overwhelmingly at ~5% of Brent crude (daily high) over the past 7.75 years. Another indication that banning diesel exports won’t help bring prices down…

Pie chart showing Days of US Average Diesel Prices as a Percentage of Brent
Crude Highs Jan 1, 2019 - Sept 30, 2026 (2812 consecutive days) from US Federal Reserve & Business Insider data

5% ratio = 66.7%
4 & 6 % = 30.8%
3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11% combined = 2.4%

5% = 1,876 days
6% = 475 days
4% = 391 days
8% = 19 days
7% = 15 days
10 % = 15 days
11% = 9 days
9 % = 7 days
3 % = 5 days

Created with Datawrapper

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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An important message of hope on my main channel! Why authoritarian politics needs you powerless - and why you shouldn't give up! youtu.be/OvcgZKmNdjw?...

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Why Trump and Putin Want You to Feel Hopeless

YouTube video by Vlad Vexler

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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Main channel video 12pm Sunday UK time - today! It's going to be a message of hope and confidence. I'm one of many podcasts all over the world being taken over by the #BeHope campaign connected with the UN Global Goals

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Colin Hoad @colinhoad.com · 29/09/2026

I am sick and tired of this kind of reporting. Journalist, please, I am begging you, stop taking the press releases from these ghouls as literal fact and DO SOME ACTUAL ANALYSIS. Nothing has escaped, the people running these AI experiments are simply being grossly negiligent.

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Jeffry Bazooka @jeffrybazooka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'The strait is open. We control it. More oil is flowing now than ever before. Oil prices are dropping, along with eggs. We have destroyed Iran's military, nine times. When we win this war, we will be living in the Trump Golden Age. China will pay for this war.' --- Trump, probably

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the most ghastly story- a “will they, won’t they” debate about whether Tennessee will execute a woman today - leaving her in tortured limbo. The death penalty is abhorrent and should not be allowed in a civilized society.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LibDems lost the plot years ago, supporting Conservatives, opposing soft Brexit etc. They're perpetual oppositionists, appealing to 'seniors' & the Daily Mail narrative. Just now, they're criticising triple-lock pension reform, not supporting the electoral reform that might give them some relevance.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because it's incapable of helping itself, or even recognising that it is compromised, the BBC needs a good old purge from the outside if it's ever again to receive the respect it once deserved. Otherwise, it deserves defunding and disbanding. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/07/t...

bylinetimes.com

The BBC Is Just Nodding Along

The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@theguardian.com , is this part of a series of random minor celeb brainfartings, or a one-off ? How about giving us Nigella Lawson's thoughts on UK transport policy, or Rick Astley's advice to government for future farming and agricultural subsidies ...

Guardian headline "British broadcasters should merge into single platform to survive, says Jeremy Clarkson".

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's a very enlightening overview of the Russian "I'm [insert nationality], and Russia is not my enemy!" campaign and its origins.

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“Russia Is Not My Enemy”: The Information Battle of Britain, Part Two

Lord Haw-Haw needed a transmitter in Hamburg. His successors just need a reply button.

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

56th brigade need a pickup (€5900)🌝 Let’s go👉👈 send.monobank.ua/jar/8GrNvjMTGp PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu

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LonWon @lonwon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How Western societies are in decline thanks to policies that channel wealth upwards at home, and thanks to repeated counterproductive military interventions in Muslim-majority countries abroad www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen | Owen Jones

Endless pursuit of wealth and power by western leaders led us here. What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump is lying about what climatolgists said, saying they were wrong, & that they are the same people people warning about AI dangers. It should be easy for LLMs to systematically fact check & prepare context for news reports. In a post-truth era, LLMs could help protect truth, not undermine it.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump tells Ukrainian defenders to stop striking oil refineries that provide fuel and lubricants to the russian invasion army. Trump does not tell russian occupiers to stop starving to death 6,000 residents of the town of Oleshky. Trump is Putin’s slave.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Legends. Episode 6. Vauxhall Cavalier registration A684 GDG. MOT EXPIRED.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm guessing 80% of successful British actors in Hollywood are private school educated. I don't know that her kids didn't go to pleb schools, but Catherine Z-J is either missing a point, or manifesting some privileged entitlement. For drivers in Formula 1, it's 100%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Catherine Zeta-Jones says term 'nepo baby' is horrific

The Chicago star's children Dylan and Carys have both gone into showbiz, following in her footsteps.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Still in Zaporizhzhia, the war crimes continue. A drone just failed to hit a bus as it pulled into a bus stop. Three people were injured. #RussiaIsATerroristState

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

214th Separate Assault Battalion needs a van, ecoflow and mini starlinks (15). Let’s go👉👈 send.monobank.ua/jar/5R2AjVecwX PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Vlad Vexler makes sense of a story that's been spun inadequately by media. VV's analysis, bad decision ethically and pragmatically, not the coercion cited by media. Whenever the news media use a half truth to spin a falsehood to sell space, they draw attention away from real stories worth telling.

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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A reminder that russia started a human safari on civilians across Ukraine years ago and it continues to this day. One of the most barbaric acts of terror imaginable against innocent people. russia did that.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In Europe, we're not aware that the US government and MAGA media narrative points at Ukraine as the culpable party for their (and our) increased oil & gas prices, simultaneously absolving blame on the USA's war on Iran. Jami.bsky.social shows us that their narrative doesn't fit data and timelines.

jami.bsky.social

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I hope I'm not misinterpreting someone I greatly respect, an analyst of Russian economics, who is criticising anti-US vitriol. The thread author asserts that they, & the US generally, would advocate US withdrawal from NATO, ending support for Ukraine & entrenching US isolationism, if it continues.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is not a peace mission. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are messengers for invader russia and represent an escalation of the war. My interview yesterday on @TVPWorld_com —> youtu.be/H3gWEECNrVQ

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Ukraine war: Are U.S. peace efforts a sign of weakness? | Michael MacKay

YouTube video by TALKING WITH TVP WORLD

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm reminded of the three monkeys. The USA is actively tearing 'the West' apart while pretending to still be part of it. Most of the remaining 'West' pretends it doesn't see it or hear it, certainly won't speak out about it, and does everything it can to pretend it's not happening.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Comical and depressing in equal measure.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This seems like a particularly stupid precedent. Russian civilian airports are vulnerable to attack too, Russian transport is much more reliant on them, and in the world's eyes, Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian airports couldn't fairly be seen as an escalation.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An uncompromised, forthright BBC newsdesk would simply write, 'Neofascists block Port of Dover'.

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fico’s foreign minister Miro Lajcak had to resign in January when his own Epstein links came out—including texting Epstein directly from an EU summit— but he also asked Epstein to ask Bannon to give Fico a job when he lost power earlier…

Chinas stock market taking a beating today. / Lawrence of arabia your next inspirational movie. Steven of the amazon
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Stephen of 11:44:14 am
However another reason to rename your "workers party"
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Steve Bannon
Republican Workers Party
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Miro thinks it important that you meet Fico
Funding etc
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Steve Bannon
Agree: when can I do that
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You name it..
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Miro is with Lavrov in Moscow today. Did you ever respond to the Nobel peace norwegian
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Steve Bannon
I email him 5 times a day
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Lajcak
I just arrived in Beijing for an official visit. Back in NY Tuesday night 01:54:14 pm
Steve is probably the only person to tell you "you speak like a moron" and you don't feel offended:)
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Yes., very amusing
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Miro Lajcak
Btw, I have a person for him in Slovakia - my ex-PM Fico. He is out of government and looking for a new agenda. He would be happy to play Steve's game. And he is good.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Day 1653 of this damned conflict. There are many days when I just want to stay in bed all day. I remember days before Russia's all-out war, before Covid, before 2014's original invasion. The happiness in Ukraine of two civilian led revolutions, Eurovision, Euro2012. This is THE daily🧵

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wuzafed.bsky.social @wuzafed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So, no longer Biden’s fault; now Zelensky’s fault? ffs

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The first time the USA was attacked, it forced a reluctant USA to join Europe's side in WW2. The last time the USA was attacked 09/11/01, Europe willingly came to its aid despite knowing the USA always sits on high fences. But this symbolic European solidarity won't be lost on the Republican admin.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The price of continued inaction by the West could thus be another influx of millions of Ukrainian refugees to Europe, which could further destabilize the political situation there - another of the Kremlin's goals.

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

every peaceful area looks like it can never be attacked. Until it is .

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Stoats. Made in Scotland. And jolly nice to have in your bag when walking in the hills. But winning a trip to the USA probably isn't the best marketing ploy just now.

Photograph of a box of 'Stoats Wholegrain Oat Bars'.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sobering discussion on some factual background information about a person who was recently witch-hunted to eventual suicide. Everybody who promulgated a negative narrative concerning JA should read it and reflect.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Blusky seems to be going all in on the algorithmic feeds a la Twitter. It's not good. I'd like a bluesky filter that can stop me seeing posts from accounts that I don't follow, & to which I can't reply. Is there a block list containing accounts that disallow interaction with unfollowed accounts ?

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Russia has been hitting Ukrainian stores and open-air markets during peak hours since early 2022. Ukraine has not done it back once, and the warehouse/refinery strikes are done with slow-flying drones that allow evacuation, as we have seen since 2023 as well.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If russians ever wonder why their life is shit and everybody hates them there is an obvious answer: they invaded Ukraine. If russians ever wonder how they can make life better there is a simple answer: get out of Ukraine and never come back.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Interesting thread here discussing capital flight from Russia on an already big, but increasing scale, and not just the cash of oligarchs, but the personal savings of ordinary Russians too ...

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Profoundly reflective podcast here from @vladvexler.bsky.social Explaining why we should all (re)learn the social skill of keeping our thoughts to ourselves until we've all had time to reflect. Children can't do it, and social media is forcing us not to do it too. youtu.be/iZs8JuMDZyU?...

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The one mental skill you need to survive our age

YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's what a sore loser would say when they've started a pointless war elsewhere that they're losing, a war their lost country led by losers can't afford, and a war that's lost the USA untold resources and achieved an overall net loss. But POTUS & MAGA are so lost that they don't know what truth is.

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The post thread is worth reading, and kudos to the coiner of 'The Ethics of the Unbombed'. As an explanation for the misguided nature of contemporary US foreign policy, it makes a lot of sense.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 07/08/2026

In this video, @vladvexler.bsky.social joins me for a conversation about what a Russian defeat would look like. I hope you will find it as inspiring as I did.

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What would a Russian defeat look like? — with Vlad Vexler

YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen — conversations

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RossMoffat @rossmoffat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listening to economic/societal advice from the USA is bonkers. On its current trajectory, the USA has no good future. The rest of the world knows it. But the UK Times obsequiously bangs the USA's drum ...

Times UK article entitled "UK bank taxes could jeopardise investment, warns Citigroup boss".

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fascist Russia knows Ukraine now lacks the ability to intercept ballistic missiles, as its allies failed to provide them from their own stocks, never scaled up production. Kyiv now pretty much defenseless- I didn’t hear anything that sounded like an interception in this latest attack.

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