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Andy Lawrence @e-astronomer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Merry Dancers Portobello Beach. #astronomy

Green Aurora above shoreline. Distant streetlights between the water and the Aurora. Pinkish above. A few stars visible

Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This and the quoted threads by @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social & @eicathomefinn.bsky.social: UK Home Office accelerating its attacks on the financial foundations of many UK HEIs - prompting them to 'self harm' before the Home Office can penalise them (and before they can fix their financial models). Mad

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

Also, a lot of voluntary work is done by pensioners: have a look at who's behind the counter in charity shops, for starters. Age UK cites the Annual Population Survey to point out that 1.12m people over pension age were still working in Dec 2024. www.ageuk.org.uk/london/publi...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

You absolutely can be "hard-working" if you're relying on the state pension: there are plenty of people still working after pensionable age. And that's not counting grandparents stepping up to look after children, or pensioners caring for their unwell partner etc.

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niallsmith.bsky.social @niallsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You have to also wonder what Rassie is going to do with all the members of Piardi's family he took hostage to level it up a bit towards the end.

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

easily the funniest rugby game I've ever seen - to be a fly on the wall of the Boks' changing room 😂 #AUSRSA

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

South Africa making Wales 2015 look positively clinical attacking against ELEVEN men

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really will take this a hell of a lot more seriously when I see the first story about rogue agents finding a message board to post things like "we don't have enough tokens to solve this problem directly - how can we hack OpenAI's billing system?"

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...

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I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the more you look at this photo, the more there is to admire in the design and construction.

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I mean, quite apart from the subtext of "this stuff will never be hacked, so just trust us, mkay" - the potential for innocent stupidity here, never mind wilfull abuse, is staggering - no?

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 10/09/2026

I think* here that Apple is saying there's no recording because recording by the legal definition requires fixation (meaning data is held in a stable state for long enough to be reproduced or communicated) and I'm sure their lawyers are very good/expensive but as a juror I'd be ehhhhhhhhhhh * guess

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/09/2026

preventing sales to *convicted sex offenders* sounds like the very least we should do here but FINALLY, someone is taking this seriously BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The best time for broad based tax rises was autumn 2024. The next best time was autumn 2025. But here we are. The next best time is this budget. The point of political capital is to spend it when you need to. Take the hit now and give yourself a path to a strong political argument in 2028/29.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🎶 Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the academy 🎶 You don't get me, I'm part of the academy 🎶 You don't get me, I'm part of the academy 🎶 Till the day I lose my job, till the day I lose my job

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Excellent framing by @samfr.bsky.social of global developments following the GFC, and a welcome note that "At least some of the pre-2008 gains were illusory and based on the risky speculation that contributed to the crash". The poll's selection of potential 'smoking guns' seems odd for 2024?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I reviewed Sarah Williams' book on Josephine Butler - one of the most extraordinary women in modern British history, who should be *much* better known. It's "both a biography of a remarkable woman and an argument about how to write the history of Victorian Britain". academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

"Josephine Butler (1828–1906) was one of the most famous women of her age. She led an international crusade against sex-trafficking and child abuse. She brought prostitutes out of prison and into her home; challenged governments, police chiefs and judges; and spoke of rape and sexually transmitted disease on public platforms. Over a long career, Butler fought for women’s education, argued for female suffrage, served on the Married Women’s Property Committee and supported Home Rule for Ireland. She wrote numerous books, pamphlets and articles, as well as biographies of her husband, her father and the fourteenth-century mystic St Catherine of Siena. Most famously, she led the victorious campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs), which allowed the detention, medical inspection and imprisonment of women suspected of prostitution without trial. Millicent Garrett Fawcett thought that ‘No other woman in history has had such far-reaching influence’, and the suffrage movement carried her name on its banners. Yet she is largely forgotten today; and when the Fawcett Memorial was erected in 2018, her name was not among the fifty-five pioneers inscribed on its plinth."

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James Breckwoldt @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🚨POST BY ME & CALLUM HUNTER-DAWSON🚨 Richard Nixon’s career offers remarkably complete education in modern elections, political science, sociology, media theory, international relations, economics and so much more. This article looks at this life up to 1968 when he became president

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How Richard Nixon's life explains modern politics (Part 1)

Social class, material insecurity, status resentment, generations, media image, electoral coalitions, demography and the median voter

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There’s lots of things I’m reserving judgment on. The tension between a set of no 10 goals - eg council housebuilding - and the ability to deliver them when they’re devolved to half-evolved devolved structures, and their politics, is not something I’m intending to second guess.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 25/07/2026

A piece asking something I’ve long wondered: why are readers, predominantly women, so obsessed with books about violence against women? (Same with true crime podcasts). Before you come at me, chaps, the author does acknowledge that most of the authors are women too. www.ft.com/content/3b00...

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The rise of cosy femicide in novels should alarm us all

The ubiquity of violence against women in popular fiction has largely gone unnoticed

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Day 1613 of my 3 day war. This could be first time in history that a country occupies all of the land around an inland sea, yet manages to lose both naval and air supremacy over it. But that's what we've done with Sea of Azov. I remain a master strategist.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Klimt's Schubert at the Piano I (1896) is a masterclass in building atmosphere. He uses a candlelit golden-brown palette to make the scene feel less like a historical document and more like a warm recollection of Austrian heritage.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

'Well, ackershally, I think the OBR is failing to appreciate that in 30 years' time, migrants will be old' is a great line until you actually *are* the Chancellor, when suddenly it's like being a pedestrian insisting that you have right of way versus a 4X4.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Very good on some of the emerging issues affecting some of the software engineering ecosystem. One question: does the FT have a style or policy guide advising writers not to link to the (many) source documents they use to support their arguments? Afaict this article is unusually poor in that respect

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

<except for viewers in Scotland>. To be fair to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social his final para is perhaps more helpful. Paraphrasing, it amounts to optimising local outcomes, while dialling back the instinct always to blame 'Westminster' for perceived failures.

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Nations Championship has been pretty outstanding so far - may revise this opinion after South Africa vs Scotland

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#AUSFRA FT AUS 26-42 FRA. 2nd half mirror image of 1st half - France got their act together, played accurate, fast, aggressive rugby; Australia fumbled several good chances to stay in the game. Great game, excellent commentary

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#AUSFRA very entertaining 1st half, Australia playing fast attacking style of rugby, France surprisingly subdued?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This week classicist @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social has Lunch with the FT. She is criticised by trolls for an alleged ‘woke’ translation of the Odyssey and I love she deals with them by suggesting they read the original in Greek ❤️🤣 www.ft.com/content/3edb...

The countdown to Nolan's film has led to a new online onslaught. Wilson left X a long time ago "because it was full of discourse about the western canon and masculinity and how people like me have destroyed it all". She tartly urges her trolls to read the original in Greek. For now, though, she is

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 08/07/2026

Please stop whatever you're doing and read Alphaville LLC's first research report on SpaceX, with an initial price target of ∞. www.ft.com/content/1344...

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Alphaville LLC initiates coverage of SpaceX with Buy recommendation

Good heavens

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fascinating thread.

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Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Regarding the 'Ed Miliband would be a dreadful Chancellor' attack line. These people give a free pass to George Osborne and Sajid Javid and Nadhim Zahawi and Kwasi Kwarteng and Jeremy Hunt. Sunak was...meh which only leaves Hammond looking like a grown-up between 2010-24. No perspective at all.

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Pretty much the only Burnham profile anyone needs to read - unsurprisingly, from the outstanding @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

True - but, after 14 years of wilfull destruction, from Osborne to Hunt, shouldn't they have been at least ready to start reversing that poisoned legacy from day 1?

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What an absolute waste of a landslide: a Labour government not even tripped over by events, but by their own timidity.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Every Cummings essay about the need and ease of reforming government does simply raise the question "what were you doing in office?"

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It is extremely annoying the way that Hunt, like Osborne before him, personally undermined the foundations of the British state and now gets to opine as if this mess was absolutely nothing to do with him.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

With photos of Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump up on the wall next to calendars of 1980 and 2026 with the first week in November circled in red.

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Aisling McNamara @aisling7468.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The thing is, Southampton might require 5G to organise a pogrom, but these lads did it in the 60s without home land lines. I mean there's good old fashioned "get up and go" in the hate business in NI, great community muscle memory on display. (see also community muscle memory on helping fix it)

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Sean McGeever @seanmated.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This whole thread, but especially this post.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Oooh the nodal tidal cycle. Complete with a link to the old video of Kevin Horsburgh wielding a football and a cardboard cutout in an attempt to explain it. Worth a read, and if you want a better video you'll have to buy or make me a really really good non-sports-equipment-based astrolabe!☀️🌗🌎🌊

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