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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 5h

Every single sentence in this piece denotes a kind of tone-deafness and solipsistic ignorance of the rest of society that only comes to the privileged who can't understand why they are not more privileged than they already are.

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It’s about time high earners had a tax break

A salary of £100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be — politicians need to stop penalising the aspirational

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 8h

Binance guy says what now? www.ft.com/content/534b...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 9h

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/10/2026

This is the key bit.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15h

These are Moylan’s full comments on floating bus stop bike lanes. This is the sort of transport policy almost every other European nation would find deeply weird.

“People who haven't seen a floating bus stop might think it's got nothing to do with them and they're safe. But I can promise you, the zealots behind these bike schemes are coming for you.
“So you will get a floating bus stop if you don't have a Conservative government, because we are going to put an end to them.
“These are bus stops, basically where the cycle lane sits between the pavement and the boarding area for the bus. So to get to the bus stop when the bus comes, you have to cross over the cycle lane.
“Of course, the cyclists are all meant beautifully to stop for pedestrians across, especially for blind pedestrians who are crossing. They never do. There are horrendous videos of cyclists racing through them.

“Now we've announced that we are going to put an end to these. It'll take little time. We'll get rid of the most egregious ones immediately.
“We'll prevent any new ones coming along, and we'll design out the others as they go on, because they are hated by people, especially by the blind, by pedestrians, by elderly, by anyone who just does not want to have to think about a crazed bicycle coming at them at high speed, when all they want to do is get on the bus.”

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cough drop @coughdrop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1) This isn't about generating games or assets with AI, it's just about using automation tools for some processes like bug testing which isn't inherently bad 2) IGN should be embarrassed for this headline. It doesn't say "AI generation" as in generative AI, it's 世代, "generation" as in "time period"

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Emma Chaplin 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmachaplin.bsky.social · 15h

Lewes currently acting as fictional seaside village Alderswyck for an Apple TV series..

Sign outside central Lewes Fitzroy House which has fake listings and notices as if for fictional village hall

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15h

The extent to which the rule "you are not allowed to insult the other side's voters" is applied exclusively to the left never ceases to infuriate me. "Basket of deplorables" and "cling to guns or religion" were WEEKS-long news cycles. There were panels. There was theme music and a logo.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐

Main on Sunday front page:

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 16h

Actor Aiden Gillen on RTE Radio 1 discussing 5 songs that are pivotal to him He chooses Cathal Coughlan "Unbroken Ones" at 25 mins in The full song: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips...

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Unbroken Ones

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Unbroken Ones · Cathal Coughlan Grand Necropolitan ℗ 2021 Beneath Music Released on: 2021-04-25 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 19h

Under the Tories we will lose our human rights and environmental protections. They are promising to deliver a full on race to the absolute bottom. I am not sure this wins back those seats they lost to the LibDems in 2024.

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Gory Battlefield @garybutterfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One way to be completely disillusioned with AI is to ask it to analyze your own work. I got morbidly curious and asked it to talk about my band, and it's all irritatingly incorrect. I would suggest this for tech bros, but if they made things, they wouldn't be evangelizing AI.

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 17h

"So my house will cost 50k less?" Good god no. Our beknighted building company owners will pocket the cash. You will just have a much less safe house

A news graphic with a deep red background and bright white text. The headline reads, “Politics live with Andrew Sparrow Shadow chancellor to address Tory conference as he claims slashing red tape could cut cost of new houses by £50,000 - UK politics live.” Smaller text below says, “Andrew Griffith makes speech today as Reform UK accuses party of copying policies they ‘announced weeks and months ago’.” The bottom text states, “Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England.” At the bottom, “Andrew Sparrow Live blog notifications off” is written.

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hard to see how, if avoiding extremist parties is a goal, retaining FPTP is the path to that happening. FPTP will see an extremist party hold all the owner (reform, thsi Tory party, trump in US) PR means enough people vote for a loony party but they have a small seat at the table

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Huge fan of the 2fm Sunday night golden oldies show where the host waxes lyrical about ageing and lost youth while playing songs from the second killers album.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here’s a curious thing. When I post about antisemitism this happens. Probably a coincidence.

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 04/10/2026

google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin

Overview

[AI] Know before you go
• People say to try a pint of the popular Guinness

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This whole thread is absolutely mental.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is definitely a squeeze going on here - but no you aren't worse off actually You just end up taking home less (albeit more than 99k) than you would do without the squeeze It would not stop me being good at my job And there are far worse problems to have.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Should I do an emergency episode?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know people still think the whole weaponisation of antisemitism against Corbyn was a fraud. There were certainly some very bad people who used it, *but* it was there to be used. It existed. It still does. I still get a lot of replies that use antisemitic tropes to attack Israel.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I lost friends over antisemitism in Labour. I tried to argue that the fact that people on the right were trying to use antisemitism as a weapon against Labour (and they were, in bad faith) did not mean that antisemitism did not exist in Labour (it did). This argument still echoes.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 04/10/2026

Today the Green Party have a choice: 1) Rightly condemn Israel's attacks on Gaza and defend Palestinian rights Or 2) Seek to discriminate against those the Green Party decides are the "wrong" kind of British Jew and demand the forced expulsion of Jews from Israel Make the right choice.

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The lack of taste" That should be the beginning and end of it

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Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Forget yer half witted Kneecaps (who?) and Bob Vylan ( eh?). Watch a master at work.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reading more about what Manchester City this is far more than a story about football, this is also the playbook for how some companies grew to global dominance in the last 30 years and the difficulties national authorities then have in dealing with them.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wonder how many of the 30,000 words were ‘written’ by AI.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 Years

Workers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think this is probably accurate My ongoing take is not a blind "we're nearly there!" I just continually despair at the combination of English voters and media complaining vs lack of shame or culpability or understanding of what they did and what they need to do

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the number of people who cannot use earphones is, curiously, directly correlated to the number of people who can get hold of and connect to a bluetooth speaker and blast it somewhere outside the pub

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Tony Kiernan @anthonyqkiernan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the singularly best summation of where we are

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And I definitely wasn't aware of this!!

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A recommended watch if you aren't aware of it

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Denis Healey on David Owen

Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life - among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. As he picked up the Owen puppet and squeezed it to make it squeak, I quoted Owen's view that when Healey stood for the Labour leadership in 1980 he “didn't have the guts to take on the left wing of the party”. “That's absolute bollocks," snorted Healey. “David Owen was a very self-centred person. He was good-looking, he was intelligent, he had immense charm and all these presents were given to him by the good fairy and then the bad fairy came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said, '... but you'll be a shit.”

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As an aside, I recall a lot of mockery from the gentlemen of the press when Starmer wrote an empty pamphlet about his values, be a fascinating case of how much Kemi is playing on easy mode to compare reactions here

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Paul McDermott @learnandsing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Harmacy: A few words on Sebadoh, David Gray, the Cork Music Resource Co-op, the Sultans of Ping, fanzines, government-funded rock ‘n’ roll and O’Dwyer’s Pharmacy, Cashel. www.paulmcdermott.ie/blog/harmacy

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 03/10/2026

Happy Day of Dredd to all squaxx dek Thargo @2000ad.bsky.social and I have grown older but not grown up together, both being born in 1977. Hopefully we'll both carry on a while yet. #DayofDredd

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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thing is, this isn’t about any deeply held conviction like ending an occupation or stopping another great injustice. Sarah’s just supporting this guy because he’s the sort of dangerous nutter that will vote for Nigel or Rupert. That’s the really dangerous thing.

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

genAI discourse drives me nuts “putting aside that the tech needs to steal from every artist with an explicit goal of competing with and devaluing them, I think using it speeds up my programming!” back up, chucklefuck, what was that first bit again?

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aside from the whole "Peter Mannion: that's fucking mental" of it all, it's just incredibly lazily done. They might have an approximation of the colour palette, but the actual visual style, typeface, use of white space is all wrong. Plus, isn't "doth" Germanic, which the original famously is not.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Burnham wants to guarantee electoral defeat he will take this threat seriously.

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