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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 9h

This is genocide.

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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 4h

"There's just no money these days." Wrong, there's plenty of money, it's just that it's being hoarded by a bunch of complete cunts.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 23h

When the Taliban has to pull you aside and say "hey man, maybe dial it back a bit," you KNOW you've lost the plot.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 5h

So it's official! 💥 Brexit was simply the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK turns its back on Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe against Putin and the rise of fascism.

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 3h

Now look, if a man of Nigel Farage's integrity says there was no Russian involvement in Brexit then there can't have been Russian involvement! I mean, think about it, why would Nigel Farage lie about Russian involvement in Brexit?! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Burnham a ‘liar’ over Russian interference in Brexit campaign, says Farage – UK politics live

Reform UK leader claims there was no interference, saying ‘the Russia hoax has run all the way through this’

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 15h

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 23h

We keep being told that Reform are in a position to win the next general election. But almost every single time the public get the chance to elect a Reform MP, they decided against it!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

The BBC is already giving Nigel Farage coverage for a speech he hasn’t even delivered. Report on what he says tomorrow, by all means. But previewing it now gives him free publicity and lets him set the agenda before anyone can scrutinise his words.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 10h

Sad but fuckin true🤔...

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Dave Merritt @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... The government is still in denial over Putin asset Trump. It’s time, with our European allies, Canada etc, to make the break. The US has gone to the dark side and it isn’t coming back.

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Britain stands behind Zelenskyy, says Streeting after Trump’s call for new leader in Ukraine

Defence secretary backs Ukrainian president and says priority is to maintain western unity over Russia conflict

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The US is now allied with Russia to lower the price of diesel, which is sky-high because of its war against Iran, which is being supported by… Russia. Make it make sense!

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Confused What Reaction

ALT: Confused What Reaction

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm very proud of this book. Disgustingly so. And you should be proud of it too. It'll be the best Christmas gift you ever gave the dog lover in your life. They'll love you for it, and call you on Boxing Day to tell you how much Chapter 6 made them puke. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HF8SR6JR

Baxter posing with The Wolf That Chews Rocks

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glory to Ukraine

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of the joys of living with a moronic dog is that he drags my useless arse out of bed to see mornings like this. And then he rolls in a dead seagull so I have no time to enjoy it. Swings and roundabouts.

A beautiful sunrise over Sandbach, with dew turning to low mist over an open field, hiding the base of a huge oak tree so it seems to float above the ground.

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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Bank of England governor tells the UK chancellor to agree a budget that reassures financial markets. Govt told to serve markets, speculators, corporations. Healthcare, education, social justice, housing is secondary in neoliberalism. Wither democracy.

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Bank governor urges John Healey to use budget to allay market fears amid bond turmoil

Andrew Bailey tells chancellor ‘whatever the stance of fiscal policy, it must be credible and be seen as such by financial markets’

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

😩😩😩

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kaboose.bsky.social @kaboose.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All Royals are Parasites on the back of the Workers of Britain. A Republic is needed Now

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We are currently generating 100% of our electricity demand from net-zero sources, with a further 10% being exported (plus 10% more from legacy gas). At a cost of just £8.27/MWh. Yet the Tories and Refuk want to take us backwards to more fossil fuel pollution and higher prices... grid.iamkate.com

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

😂 Love his books, and saw him speak a few times, a very gifted man.

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Associate EU membership 'very interesting' for New Zealand, says former prime minister - The EU could become the centre of global realignment and prevent American and China hegemony. www.euronews.com/2026/10/09/f...

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Video. Associate EU membership 'very interesting' for New Zealand, says former prime minister

Video. Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, says a form of associate membership of the European Union, similar to the proposal for Canada, would be “very interesting”. She highlights acc...

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Donald Trump dances for biscuits

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿-out-of-the-box @peterstott.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🧵 All of this 👇 and all of the replies!

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Fight like Michael Collins @praying4peace.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Live-streamed public executions by firing squad: how low can barbarian America go? America is lost. It’s so morally debased it can’t be saved. Only its collapse will lead to redemption. Until then, every civilised nation on Earth should turn its back on this pariah. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Live-streamed public executions by firing squad: how low can barbarian America go?

Where exactly is rock bottom for America? How low can that nation sink?

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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tee hee 😹

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🌻Sheila 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Take a look at this quote from 1942 about how the Nazis rose to power. It's by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig, and it describes exactly what's happening today — including the "dose by dose" methods of the Trump regime the apparent inability of Europe to react quickly enough to it." #FightFascism

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

True story🤔...

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ironically true story🤔...

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yk6623lm.bsky.social @yk6623lm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, 75k fewer international students. Each student estimated to bring £100k of value to UK (see earlier post above). 75k × 100k equals 7,500 million (£7.5 billion) loss. Another great example of shooting your country in both feet to appease 'legitimate concerns' of racists and ethnonationalists.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine deciding to go out and pitch that the Pope is the Woke Antichrist because he has concerns about AI, when you look like the lovechild of Satan and the guy whose face melts in Robocop. If a homeless guy gave this 'lecture' in Hyde Park, he would be sectioned. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So very very true.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tower Hamlets refused the Brick Lane data centre unanimously. The govt approved it in Angela Rayner's name. Her partner, Sam Tarry, is senior adviser at NorthPoint Strategy, a lobby firm working in AI, crypto and energy, chaired by Tory peer Lord Wharton.🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/free-zones...

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Free Zones are Stepping Stones to Free Cities: Brick Lane, Teesside and the Road to Próspera

Tower Hamlets Council unanimously rejected the Truman Brewery scheme. Labour approved it anyway

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tom Watson on phone hacking "Consumer boycotts do impact [and] it's up to the public to decide whether they want to put up with that kind of nonsense" www.abc.net.au/pm/archive/a... So it's legitimate for the public to want boycotts when it's The Sun, but "mob rule" when it's Palantir.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm sorry, but the audiobook of Gromit's autobiography should be marked as "read by the author" and then just be 8hrs of silence.

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Fi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence For Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @asenathmagic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So, the Nobel Peace Prize of 2026 has been awarded to a woman of colour, from South Africa, who was on the ICC committee that declared Israel guilty of genocide. I don’t think even Trump is stupid enough to miss the message in this. Congratulations Navi Pillay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

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Nobel Peace Prize live: Navi Pillay wins for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'

Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even by this administration's dire standards "President encourages pogrom against Somali-Americans" plus "Defence Secretary promises televised execution" makes for a dark week

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sometime next week (unless the publishing sector invents yet another process I have to complete) The Wolf That Chews Rocks will be available via Waterstones and local bookshops. Meanwhile, 25% off via russelljonesauthor.com And full price on Amazon Thanks for the 100% perfect ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews

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The Wolf That Chews Rocks by Russell Jones

Dogs, science and chaos. Buy the illustrated hardback direct for £18.99.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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