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Simon Lewis

@silewis.bsky.social
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Evertonian, cat lover, data warehouse developer, fantasy audiobook addict

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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Andrew Pierce did the thing
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dune 3: You Should Have Someone Take A Look At That
Poster for Dune Part Three depicting a phallic object with an unsightly bulge on one side
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Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amol Rajan: ‘I know a lot of people think of me as that nice, warm man from the news…’ #CelebrityTraitors
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Substantially, yes.
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Simon Lewis @silewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Due to unforeseen circumstances the next meeting of the South-East Gloucestershire Under-25s Shirtless Metal Detecting Society has been postponed pending further enquiries.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.
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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Nat would like Steve to be more considerate. Steve would like to see Nat destitute and denigrated."
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We should be proud that being British is something that unites people regardless of their skin colour. If today’s parties of the right want a backward-facing, exclusionary patriotism – Labour will fight against them, and we’ll win.
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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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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t quite believe it. I think the appeal will find Forest, Southampton, Everton and Sheffield Wednesday guilty. Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches - The Athletic
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rename it Kraftwerk instead of Streisand Effect
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years ago, Mr Brexit left his wife because his drunk mate down the pub convinced him he would be totally free and spending his evening with dazzling models who were all desperate to date him. In the past decade, Mr Brexit has moved into a bedsit above a branch of Greggs,
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 19/09/2026
Never lose your keys again
A buttplug that can hold keys
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Mayhem Mendes @mayhemmendes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here you go:
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Claude told me only those who played Bamboozle on Teletext will be saved 😔
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK?
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This isn't just about migrents. They're using violence and the threat of violence to threaten whole communities and raise themselves above the law. They're no different to an organised criminal gang and they should be policed as auch
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are now in what feels like day 3987 of the news agenda being dogwalked by the baseless assertions of a bunch of motivated businesscunts/AI cultists (delete per your own prejudices) and noone in media actually having anything meaningful to say, and it...is...very...tiring.
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Simon Lewis @silewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Burnham and Carney bucking the trend, looking like two normal people who could come to a reasonable agreement for both sides.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Diva Augusta @divaaugusta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington Bear, Paddington's cousin who likes the old style marmalade packaging before it got woke...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/09/2026
I remember a world where if you tried to sell the US out for Russian money you went to a Supermax jail for the rest of your life.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Stoned Feminist 👻 Spooky Version @ladylinds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A reminder that Kanye West, who released a song called Heil Hitler, is currently touring all over the country
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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 14/09/2026
You can take our furniture, but you can't take our FREEDOM!
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In full: The SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin memorandum of understanding
Leaders meet in Wales
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump
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Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mark E Smith singing the quoted post into a megaphone
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ridiculous knobheads in black shorts and hoodies and balaclavas. image has been altered to show one holding a bright yellow sign that reads "we demand to be taken seriously"
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1,129 Bastards @john3ners.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
2022 / 2026
clip from bbc news online

headline: Suella Braverman tells police to be firmer with 'extremist' protesters
date: 07.11.2022
start of story: The home secretary has told police to "take a firmer line" against protesters blocking roads and damaging art.

Climate activists, most notably Just Stop Oil, have closed motorways and glued themselves to famous art works over the last few months.

Suella Braverman said the "disruption is a threat to our way of life", during a speech on Wednesday.
video caption: The home secretary says protesters' rights have too often been put above the rights of otherstweet by Suella Braverman, 07.09.2026:
"People in Portsmouth are angry, scared and feel like this government is actively trying to destroy the country.

"Enough is enough."
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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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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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More seriously, I do think it’s unappreciated how far Reform are not just an even more racist and corrupt version of the two main parties, but a force specifically aiming to overthrow what passes for our liberal democracy
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I actually think it would have been weirder if they had known?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong with putting a CAMERA IN YOUR BATHROOM????
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Simon Lewis @silewis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I spent some time recently trying to see if some retailers were British as they appeared. Large foreign groups pretend they are and hide their true origin. Pet owners at risk of being ripped off by private equity firms as vet ownership rules change www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Pet owners at risk of being ripped off by private equity firms as vet ownership rules change
Critics say changes by CMA will allow multinationals to obscure their ownership of vet practices
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Like the ‘sickos’ meme, except he should be labelled ‘fans of ecclesiastical architecture’ and saying “oh, goodness, yes”
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams “America of America by Bryan America” and Spirit of Radio by Rush is now “America by America”. He’s gone too far.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Timed beautifully to coincide with the RFK-inspired explosive diarrhoea epidemic. Well done, the writers room.
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