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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧

@secollins.bsky.social
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Canadian immigrant in the UK. Lover of food, science, music and geekery. I write about science and tech at @cam.ac.uk. She/her

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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 2h
This is monstrous.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 5h
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Canadians! 🦃🇨🇦
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
13 hours in economy, baby! 🫠🫠🫠
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can anybody else see that sleep paralysis demon in the background?
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This must all be my dad's fault. He's been trying to get me to come back to Newfoundland since I left in 1999, but even I didn't think he'd go this far.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Immigration is good, immigrants make this country better, and this is something to celebrate.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Immigrants are cash cows, with the added bonus of being demonised by the press and the overwhelming majority of people in politics.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The "second plane just hit" pic from 9/11
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My (35M) support acts (43M, 29M, 37M, 24M) have unionised!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My Canadian passport is looking better all the time.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This Canadian/UK dual citizen's dream of retiring in Italy may come true yet! www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
politico.eu
Ursula von der Leyen invites Canada to be first ‘associate member’ of the EU — live updates
European Commission president makes unprecedented offer to Ottawa, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in attendance.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
theonion.com
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai...
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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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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I remember the day the fishery was shut down very well, and I honestly didn't think this day would ever come. We can fix things!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
samf.substack.com
Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I can dream!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I will recite Clue from memory tonight in his honour.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NOT AGAIN, UNIVERSE.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton is proof that you can be a superstar with grace, kindness and generosity, and people will love you for it. Truly she was the best of us.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh noooooo. 💔💔💔💔
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Petition to change the name of Lake Superior to Lake Gordon Lightfoot.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My column this week is the product of my frustration at a series of myths that I think have grown up at Westminster that provide comfort to the various parties (not all of which I had space to grumble about) to avoid confronting the real choices we actually have:
ft.com
Austerity denial and the mystery of Britain’s shrunken state
There is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dream ending: Canada joins the EU, and I have an EU passport again.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I know there's no sense fighting it because it's just accepted shorthand now, but as a Canadian, the term 'America' to describe one country (when the Americas contain more than 30 countries) has always gotten on my nerves. I know. I'm fun at parties.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Eh, not really. It's admirable with some good moments, but it left me cold. Unfortunately I have the sickness where I have to finish a book once I've started.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I found that book a slog and a half. Took me ages to finish.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Girl, you know it's true: the Spectator desperately looking for new angles on the Arday story.
Screenshot of a truly unhinged headline from the Spectator, which reads "What Cambridge should have learned from the Milli Vanilli fiasco."
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A shiny penny for anyone who can guess the answer arrived at
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just checked the media monitoring software we use at work, and found ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN stories from the Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph in the past 30 days.
Screenshot from a media monitoring program, showing the Telegraph has written 111 stories about Jason Arday in the past 30 days.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lovely time eclipse watching with the in-laws and the good people of Downham Market.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Disposable BBQs are truly one of the dumbest things about the UK. I continue to be baffled by their existence.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As someone whose job is mostly media relations, this...isn't good.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Paper of record", indeed.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It will almost certainly be back in the States for 2038, though!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh, I dunno about that!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We're Canadians. Nobody notices us!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
BBC found some cash down the back of the sofa to fly the guys to the States!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My husband is commenting on the game while I call out celebrities I spot. #FraEsp
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I SAID MAYBEEEEEE
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Uh, that's how journalism and the law work. Even for the worst people on Earth.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My husband is Jewish and I'm from Newfoundland. We both have STRONG over-catering genes. That, and a lot of Tupperware for the mountains of leftovers.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The world is terrible, just let us have this one thing!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I just want to see Ronaldo crying again. #PorSpa
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Oh, Canada. 🇨🇦😑
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If Canada makes it farther than England, then that is objectively hilarious. Happy Canada Day!
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