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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some more background from me on UK support for the Saudis in Yemen, in an article for @zeteo.uk written last week. Non trivial risk here that Burnham gets sucked into a quagmire, and that Yemen becomes to him something not unlike what Gaza was to Starmer. zeteo.uk/p/britains-r...
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Britain’s Role in Yemen’s Brutal War Must End – And Reparations Should Follow
The war in Yemen is escalating again. The UK must end its military support of Saudi Arabia – or it could do to Andy Burnham’s premiership what complicity in the Gaza genocide did to Keir Starmer’s.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 22/09/2026
🌞 Wednesday 23 September is the autumn equinox, at 01:05 BST. It's when the Sun crosses the equator heading south, marking the start of astronomical autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. This video shows how the Sun’s path changes through the seasons, driven by Earth’s 23.44° tilt. ☀️🌍 🧵 1/2
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My interview with Novara last night, explaining some of the background and context to recent developments in Yemen. This was recorded just before it came to light that Burnham has agreed to support the latest Saudi bombing campaign www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShC...
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Expert: Why War In Yemen Is INEVITABLE – Almost
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just absolute insane racism being displayed on BBC local news about fascist mobilisation. NO expression that all of this is just foul scaremongering and the fomenting of hatred.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/09/2026
#OtD 22 Sep 1918 a mass mutiny and uprising of Bulgarian troops during WWI began. Soldiers deserting at Dobro Pole formed their own army, electing officers and turned their weapons on their leaders stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9522...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As we consider military and logistical support for Saudi Arabia, a quick reminder: At least 356 people were executed there in 2025. Since January 2026, at least 134 more have been executed. Many for non-lethal drug offences. Apparently, human rights have strategic exceptions.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s a funny new version of th crowding-out argument. In the old days, we were told fiscal tightening was needed to solve the problem of weak private investment. Now, we are told tightening is needed because private investment is so strong. Austerity: always the answer! www.ft.com/content/d96c...
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Don't exclude middle aged and old people too.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just my weekly reminder that NO-ONE ASKED FOR THIS. TOOLS CREATED WITHOUT PURPOSE. Necessity is the mother of invention, and these arses are the real world physical embodiment of watching Jurassic Park and thinking it was a good idea.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After being *invited* to write an op-ed, a couple days of back-and-forth, and editing, a major UK media outlet has just decided not to publish the op-ed because they are afraid of legal threats from Cofnas
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Michael Banach @m1db.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
autos.yahoo.com/ev-and-futur... A modern Edsel ?
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Tesla’s Cybertruck Sales Are in Freefall – So Bad It Invites Ford Edsel Comparisons
Tesla Cybertruck sales collapsed 48% in 2025 to just 20,237 units, with Q1 2026 hitting a record low of 3,519 deliveries.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a regular tactic: as soon as some screaming wingnut repeats some legally dubious allegation, that allows all the lads to pile in repeating what they have said. This was the primary function of the Gu*do Fawkes blog, for example.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here’s the thing about Christ’s return. Christ said specifically that he would return as the naked, the hungry, the thirsty, the prisoner, the immigrant. Jesus has never stopped coming back. American Christians have never stopped killing him.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"I get what you're saying, but ..." is almost 100% of the time followed up with a demonstration that I did not, in fact, get what you were saying.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Shilling your book off a bloke's suicide is just so classless wtf, is he not rich enough already!? Bring back shame.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Note to the media: Those of us who have problems w Flock cameras are not "anti-tech". I use tech every day. It's a tool. What I resent is a police state using tech to spy on citizens with a presumption of guilt. I'm not anti-tech, I'm anti-authoritarianism. It's why we have a Constitution FFS.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Like I say, the Times is the worst and most poisonous of the lot. Sun and Mail readers know they’re getting the Beano and the Dandy for cunts. Times readers think they’re getting hard reality, from a paper that is relentlessly focused on Crimes Of The Inferior Races, Aided By Bolshevik Intellectuals
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just a thought, but is it perhaps time for a responsible news media to stop reporting the dribbling arseblurts of these fools? Seriously, this is on a par with “Bloke down the pub says it’s a well-known fact that there’s no actual evidence that smoking is bad for you.”
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The only "cancel culture" that has ever existed is the one targeted at minorities, women and the left. That is how power works. Many liberals were taken in by the "free speech" moral panic because (as in the case of "free markets") they lack an analysis of power. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Greta Thunberg and Gary Lineker sign letter defending Southbank Centre chair
Misan Harriman accused of promoting Golders Green attack ‘conspiracies’ and comparing Reform voters to Nazis
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Until very recently, the word “woke” conveyed something beautiful: political awakening in the context of the African-American liberation struggle. The way it has been forcibly stripped from that context and transformed into a ubiquitous term of derision is shockingly cruel & inherently anti-black 1/
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This woman's Linkedin page clearly shows that what she does is sales. She is not an educator. Nor is she trained in teaching nor does she have any documented experience in teaching. These people are salting the earth and claiming to build the future.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/08/2026
An important, maddening piece which documents how the UAE trained Colombian mercenaries who have taken part in Sudan's genocidal war. “The digital trail connects Abu Dhabi’s training camp to El Fasher’s mass graves.” www.ft.com/content/3259...
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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The modern British race-warriors maybe don’t make it this historically explicit (or perhaps they do!), but they basically want Ian Smith’s UDI and the post-war Rhodesian state, but with white British people in a numerical majority.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Look. This is genocidal racism. They are not afraid to say it very loudly and repeatedly because the powers of the West have decided that it can't possibly be genocidal racism for... reasons. But it is genocidal racism.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There are innumerable issues with Pinker (e.g. his association with Epstein), but I want to highlight how all the experts on history of violence wrote a special issue in Historical Reflections specifically because Pinker was perpetuating numerous falsehoods www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's kind of obvious that when you spend twice as much as other wealthy countries, and get worse outcomes, you're doing something wrong. But, oh god, the profits, they're so lovely!
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/07/2026
The biggest difficulty for trans rights – the general public seems to believe the new guidance makes it possible to exclude eg trans women from women's services in some circumstances. No. This was the previous position. The current guidance requires their exclusion, always, regardless of context.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
as a side note this is why you sometimes see children's ambulances in London called 'Peter Panbulance'
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/08/2026
In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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My father was a Conservative...

...my mother voted Labour...

...so suppose, by rights, ought
to be a Liberal Democrat...

...but in actual fact, I'm a Nazi!
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2026
don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How did our liberal democracy come to be infested top to bottom with brazenly dishonest wingnut wackos, hugely empowered to pursue their frankly extraordinary crank enthusiasms against specific sections of the public? That seems like a weird and very unfortunate thing to have happened.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I think it’d be best if Britain’s government equality and anti-extremism experts were not a gaggle of foaming-at-the-mouth, very right wing crackpots baying to hack back the rights of citizens to promote their very unpleasant, very reactionary personal politics www.thetimes.com/article/e210...
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Human rights are butting up against national security
In the wake of the Belfast riots, Jonathan Hall, the anti-terror tsar, warns migrants from war-torn regions may present a risk of violence that can trigger disorder
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world. People are going to die because of this pollution."
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People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
‘They’ are predominantly loyalists, in predominately loyalist areas, running amok ahead of an annual, hundreds of years old celebration of ‘being up to our necks in fenian blood’ This isn’t the only factor in what’s happening in Belfast but it’s a really big one that almost everyone is ignoring
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decapiKate @katemck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ex fucking scuse me
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I mean, that is the real irony, for history-knowers. It was the Swiss, doing it for cash. Here's Cesare Borgia himself, hiring some for skulduggery: www.historytoday.com/archive/cesa... And who guards the Pope, to this day?
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How far is any of this about the media-driven compulsion for politicians, however honest & plainspoken in private, to frame every public utterance in terms so simplistic and emphatic that they can only be lies?
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