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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Party like it's 1577. It's a mark of a good song that it can be re-arranged for a different era. youtu.be/3zGf7_YL70M?...

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If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think he means wealth extractor, not wealth creator. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨 Can we all agree to totally ignore and destroy the “PolitlcsUK”* account everyone gets their news from now? It’s run by a REFORM COUNCILLOR, and trickles bias and fabricated nonsense in under a neutral guise. Share this. Drop it under friends reposts. 👀 Evidence in next post…. /1

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The apartheid state engages English lawyers to proscribe #MedecinsSansFronteir This is unilaterally England. Take note. 👇👇

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A thread for writers and creators about contracts. This is basic, but many creatives are just pleased to get a deal, no matter what the deal says. They look at it as validation, not as a business arrangement. Your publisher has no obligation to protect your interests, so you have to do that. 1)

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

With serious flood alerts all across the UK today Richard Tice says we should embrace the flooding. ‘Let’s enjoy all this lovely wet weather & excess water’ he has commented, ‘it helps us to improve our swimming skills & has given a real boost to our sandbag and bikini industry.’

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At what point did it shift so that anyone more moderate than Norman Tebbit was a Lefty?

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mum! He’s making stuff up again.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is 2035. After they killed most of the bees, Silicon Valley developed robot Nanobees to pollinate crops and allow us to grow food. Nanobees only pollinate crops within licensed areas. Everyone has to pay a monthly subscription to Pollinators.com in order to eat. Keeping bees is illegal.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

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Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation

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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Count of Dodgy Crypto strikes again….

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So Trump’s solution to Iran wanting nuclear weapons is to provide them to other countries in the region, specifically the country that gave us Osama Bin Laden. What could possibly go wrong?

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The perfect sign doesn't exist.... 😂🤣🤗

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Good news for UK booklovers! The Riven Kingdom is included in this week's Waterstones preorder offer - ending on Friday 24th July. Enter the offer code SUMMER26 at the checkout and get 25% off the RRP. Do check out the whole selection of great reads. www.waterstones.com/book/the-riv...

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The Riven Kingdom by Juliet E. McKenna | Waterstones

Buy The Riven Kingdom by Juliet E. McKenna from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Dear PM. Don’t believe the hype. AI takes people’s jobs so that they don’t pay tax. The AI doesn’t pay tax either. It will bankrupt our country and ruin the economy and the environment. All to further enrich a tiny minority

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Watching the football while the world burns…

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In an attempt to get ahead of events, and to avoid being forced to fight a bi-election after a Parliamentary Standards Enquiry awards sanctions, Nigel Farage forces a bi-election and calls it a referendum on his behaviour and a fight against the establishment. It isn't either of those things.

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haterofhate62.bsky.social @haterofhate62.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hunter speaks! Dems need to listen. 🙌🔥

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We need a cigarettes moment with the oil industry. If you are knowingly sowing disinformation that is harmful to the public in order to sell your product then the company directors should be criminally prosecuted and jailed.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Put on a BBC program you like, and then every six minutes, pause the programme and go and watch a short video of dancing rabbits talking Scott toilet paper. Now you know what defunding the BBC looks like.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

For my writing friends and colleagues who are Mac users. Have a look at QuikFlow.app - an app that allows you to build visual flows linked by lines which re-route dynamically on the sheet, assign colours to nodes, add notes under the nodes, and build flow-maps from small diagrams to vast networks.

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QuikFlow | Mind Mapping for Flowcharts

Create flowcharts and mind maps without worrying about layout.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Yes, I know this gets a bit technical, but if that's not your thing then just skim over those bits. The rest of it is a roadmap of how to control who can vote and what they vote in an election within the world's largest democracy. This is Project 2028 thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There’s a rogue “O” in the book title

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The anti-virus renewal scam must work on some people because they keep trying it. So far I supposedly have 125 years of license for McAfee alone.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

VE Day in Whitehall (via Neil O’Brien in response to Reform’s James Orr who said: “government buildings didn’t fly Belgian flags in WWI or French flags in WW2 or flags for Kosovo in 1999. You can support another country at war without signalling that you think it’s as important as your own.”)

Crowds outside ministry of health Whitehall on VE Day, flags of different countries flying from the building with Union Jack

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 08/05/2026

Interesting from Sir John Curtice, the UKs top polling expert on Englands council election and the Reform surge

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Zack Polanski once crossed a pedestrian crossing before the Green Man was lighted. Just sayin'

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"He lives in Thailand, goes by a different name, holds 12% of one of the world's most profitable companies, appeared in the Panama Papers and has given £22 million to Nigel Farage's parties. Who is Christopher Harborne - and what does he want in return?"

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If the second one was staged then the first one almost certainly was too. And someone died. That’s conspiracy to murder.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.

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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Good day at the gym for her & everyone who had the privilege to watch!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Please read. It’s worth it.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So here’s the thing. It would be the easiest thing to just destroy the Epstein Files. So why not just do it? The answer is that there are other copies, and that Trump knows about them. Destroying his copy won’t make it go away. The question is, who has a copy?

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

So is the USA now a Russian satellite state?

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I want my daylight, that I’ve saved, in a jar, on my desk. I want to see it to know it’s worth it.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Left: Nigel Farage, "Never once did I say we could cut council tax" Right: Nigel Farage leaflet literally saying 'cut your taxes'

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If the Orange Tyrant goes ahead with his threat to target Iran's national infrastructure, what do you think Iran will do? It will target the infrastructure of neighbouring countries with Shahed drones, of course. But that won't bother the pedophile-in-chief, will it?

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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Unless you’re a wealthy Reform donor, we(yes, even Reform voters) rely on the NHS & don’t want it gutted. But that’s exactly where this leads. “Free at point of use,” they say—while their own policy chief James Orr can’t explain what it means. Weasel words. Sounds like free now, bill later. #BBQT

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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Not enough that Reform has a 24/7 cheerleading channel (GB News)—they also get 37 mins live on the BBC, while the Greens' press conf. don’t even get a mention. Is Ofcom asleep, or selectively awake? And the BBC?Are they failing to do their jobs, or doing exactly what they’ve decided their job is?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

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