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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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just Elon Musk endorsing this 4Chan case on why high status males [& the neurodivergent!] should have a say in democracy. (Women are not free to think; should not have voice/vote).

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026

N.B The government minister who negotiated the deal on behalf of Hungary is now under investigation over alleged misuse of public funds during his time leading the department, adding further significance to questions about the nature of the partnership and the lack of scrutiny it has received.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't even want this malignant sociopath talking about nuclear strikes on cities, much less having the authority and capacity to personally order them. Which, um, he has.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a point I would really emphasize is that China thinks AI safety is a matter of 'we will fuck you, personally, if you build tools that fuck us*' and the US blathers on about alignment and tries to shunt accountability *us meaning firstly the interests of the CCP first and foremost

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a general observation, I've never _once_ seen writing with a bracketed sigh that was actually worth reading. It's a surefire sign that the author is performing world-weariness for an actual or imagined audience of folks that completely agree with them rather than engaging.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We had a fascinating guest post on the Houthis and Hormuz - and how the growing number of maritime chokepoints could cause a major economic crisis. samf.substack.com/p/houthis-ho...

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Houthis, Hormuz and the “chokepoint” threat to the global economy

Today and Thursday we have two posts addressing big risks facing the global economy.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026

I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take.

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A song of the litter tray I've looked at cats from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's cats' effluvia I recall I really don't know cats at all

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Learning from the financial crisis and the associated crisis of public legitimacy, I do think that in the name of alignment and longtermism, every frontier lab should be nominating three or four members of its steering team to get a really hard kick in the balls, on live TV as part of the debate.

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Report a problem with Laze Simica" says Google Street View. The problem is that some bastard has demolished my childhood home and built a nasty new house there.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Businesse ydea: Airlyne that doth permit your catte to travel yn carrye-on for free (as long as the catte ys safe and comfortabil)

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Dennis Wheatley? [sucks on cigarette and stares off into the distance] yeah, I knew him. We were all in the same scene at the time. Are you still filming?”

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

so much for the so-called tolerant left

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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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You think you've seen the most extreme level of Nimbyism possible? Think again.

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

And also, of course, and in so many areas of life "people are genuinely scared because it is the job of an Oxbridge graduate living in zone 4 with ambitions to own in zone 2 to scare them"

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No company (and even more so, no public sector organisation) should ever get into a position like this with any vendor, come on, this is basic

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Writers beware. And if anyone gets one of these about a philosopher, please share. "Dear Plato, I recently came across The Republic..."

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

From his lanyard, it’s clear that the Reform UK member who assaulted two female protestors at the party’s conference is Stephen Cooling of Sutton Coldfield. I assume @westmidlandspolice.bsky.social are on the case? He ought to be easy to find, as he stood for UKIP in the May 2016 local elections.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 05/09/2026

Lucky they were protesting against climate change!

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Were there any clues that Farage was like this? We won't be commenting further while an internal inquiry looks into the matter.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No, William, this is the day when we're talking about *journalists* pretending to be *random posh kids*, not the other way round.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"If there there was a window it was not broken, but it if was broken it was not by Nigel Farage's ball, but if it was his ball he certainly did not kick it, and if he did kick it, it was an accident and he knew nothing about it" said a Reform spokesperson.

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So at the moment I have a long post up about a racist ideologue, but also this andrewbrown.substack.com/p/palate-cle...

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got a new gloomy substack up: andrewbrown.substack.com/p/blood-and-...

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Mike Hindle @mikehindle.uk · 29/08/2026

Back to the library 📚 A black and white edit this time around 🖤🤍 📍 Liverpool Central Library Enjoy your weekend, folks 🙌🏻 #blackandwhite #monochrome #architecture #photography #shotoniphone

A black and white edit of the glass dome in a futuristic library and stairs leading up to it and lots of spotlights.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

All white. Where is Farage and his 'pure cold rage'? Nowhere. He's banging on about migrants instead.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Srebrenica happened with the whole world watching and in position to take military action and they didn't.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"What is it about the story of a greedy, spiteful creature who becomes deformed by clinging onto a symbol of power that appeals to you?"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24/08/2026

I think it's actually really nice that everyone in all finance departments responsible for paying freelancers goes on holiday together every August, just lovely to think of them all gallivanting on the beach, holding hands, giggling, away from their computers for four entire weeks

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What's the street price of dope these days? I ask because Teapigs Peppermint Tea Temples are £116 a kilo in Waitrose. I wonder if there are even more relaxing and refreshing herbal preparations available for that dort of money.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 20/08/2026

I'm sorry but "a huge number of NYC cabs now are remaindered EVs running grey market software written by some dude in a garage" is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the smartest ideas I've seen in the last few years is instead of trying to find "the Joe Rogan of the left," buy up the news sites of defunct papers and put some money into providing local news coverage in rural areas.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am always surprised by how many of our great saints and martyrs were made of Biltong.

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This morning I took a picture of the mummified left hand of a saint. Perhaps I used the wrong camera, but to the profane eye it looks like a beloved dog chew.

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Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Wendy's in Beaver, UT has such sights to show you

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I wish the media wouldn't cover SpaceX as if it were an exciting frontier-pushing scientific endeavour when it's really the vanity project of a megalomaniac Bond villain type www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast

A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their co...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So many people in this wretched affair are incapable of registering the idea that the black people involved are in fact real people, rather than being rhetorical props for whatever unrelated point they wish to make.

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