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UK-based retired scientist living in Wales. Husband, dad, grandad. Politically left of centre but never a member of any political party. Keen to engage in polite debate.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13h
😆 Misspelling the name of your own country on a document about Artificial Intelligence is an incredible feat worth celebrating.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps has released updated satellite images of Gaza. These images should be front page news around the world.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We'll find out in 10 days, at 11:00 CEST on Friday 9th October when the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces this year's winner.
nobelprize.org
The 2026 Nobel Prize announcements
This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 5-12 October. All prize announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. More info about terms of us...
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So #ChannelSlasher Daniel Thomas will likely be spending Christmas in custody, having been denied bail and his trial set for 1st March 2027. #FAFO
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas refused bail over alleged boat damage in Channel
Daniel Thomas is remanded in custody after appearing at Portsmouth Crown Court.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genocidal Netanyahu knew... ...but did not do anything about it. Why?
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Russ Blazier @49hudson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a feeling Daddy’s money ain’t gonna fix it this time,
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Called it yesterday.
bbc.co.uk
RAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
Laurence Taylor says the five men arrested on Sunday are still under investigation as police consider multiple lines of inquiry, including the possible involvement of a foreign state.
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very depressing to hear BBCNews @bbc-politics.bsky.social trotting out a line (without evidence) about conference attendees being "instructed to clap" at key points in the Chancellor's Conference speech. Who fed presenter #VickyYoung this line? Why wasn't it attributed?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning, Liverpool! 👋 Spotted our billboard yet? Join us and @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social at our Labour Conference fringe event today, 5–6pm at the Novotel Liverpool Centre. Full details in the conference app. Design by prodbyselase
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
According to @barneyronay.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com: "Keir Starmer is widely seen as perhaps the worst prime minister of all time, the man who lost control of immigration and did something terrible to the economy." Mr Ronay, let me introduce you to #LizTruss, PM for 49 days.
theguardian.com
Burnham’s booze ruse is a non-starter: just keep doing your drinking in the pub | Barney Ronay
The prime minister, a life-long football fan, was just restating a personal opinion about having a drink in the stands, not trying to make policy
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/09/2026
This week Pecksniff's Diary eyes... * Labour’s refusal to talk Brexit. * LibDems rediscovery of Europe. * Farage struggling to control his own revolution. * Barnham learning from Piddlington.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Pecksniff: Hey, Labour: we need to talk about Brexit
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An enjoyable walk yesterday in warm sunshine on #Halkyn Mountain, North #Wales. Photos show: Rhes-y- Cae village Pant-y-Pwll Dwr Limestone Quarry Waen-y-Brodlas Lime Kilns Information board at lime kilns Halkyn Old Hall Halkyn Parish Church
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How a functioning democracy works. It doesn't revolve around Pedolf's infantile petulant ego.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And of course there is without fail always always a Tweet
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like this might happen......
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bbc.co.uk
RAF plane crash on Anglesey as two pilots eject
North Wales Police says the pilots of the RAF T2 Hawk aircraft are being treated for minor injuries.
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why is Farage so triggered by the UK taking defence measures against Russian misinformation? 🤔🤔🤔
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is it time for "Sir" Jim Ratcliffe to become Mr Jim Ratcliffe again?
bbc.co.uk
Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/09/2026
The American age of global dominance that followed World War II was bound to end eventually, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes—“What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived”:
bit.ly
The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The family of #JamalKhashoggi would like a word.
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham says UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' support
The prime minister "defensive air-to-air refuelling" is to be provided following a request from Saudi Arabia, after it faced attacks from Houthi militants in Yemen.
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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 21/09/2026
The 2026 Christmas Lectures®, supported by CGI, will be given by theoretical physicist @jimalkhalili.bsky.social, exploring the physics of time. We'll investigate mind-melting questions, including why there's no such thing as now, if time travel to the past is possible, and if time exists at all.
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US has murdered four more people after blowing up a small boat in the Caribbean. Southern Command alleged the vessel was involved in “narcotics-trafficking”.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A hilarious summary
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**°•.FAFO.•°** @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm really curious about the timing of #Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary's apology for calling rival companies "rapists". He waited over a week. What prompted him to choose this moment? Have Ryanair bookings been affected by his outburst, I wonder?
rte.ie
O'Leary refuses to apologise, denies he trivialised rape
Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary has said he did not trivialise the "heinous crime of rape" when speaking about the airline's competitors yesterday and insists he will not be apologising for hi...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran meeting an Israeli who had been captured by Hamas in New York in 2024. But he doesn't do politics, unless Israel tells him to.
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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We now head live to Reform UK's Welsh headquarters.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Restore Britain's Cllr Kieran Mishchuk of Sittingbourne, Sheppey is so determined to see "men on boats" everywhere that he mistook 2 minibuses full of agricultural labourers in an Asda capark for "illegal immigrants"
Last night, I made a post about 2 buses full of
foreign men & women parked in Asda. I have
been reliably informed that these buses are
agricultural workers.


hold my hands up for this genuine mistake
and accusation that wasn't fair. However, I
still don't understand why we need imported
foreign labour when we have plenty of people
from my generation who are unemployed and
would like a job
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas cards in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in.
Now it appears that some are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's free post address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists.
It does.
Reform UK
Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
83 Victoria Street
London 
SW1H 0HW
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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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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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reminder: there's NO legitimate use for crypto. Its only practical uses are tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, specualtion, and crime.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There's always a tweet 💥🙄
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In early July the #MailOnSunday said MP Catherine Atkinson attended a private school and accused her of concealing it from her biographical entry in Who’s Who. It wasn't true. Now they've apologised and paid her damages and legal fees. #ParForTheCourse for #DMG. (1/2)
theguardian.com
Mail on Sunday ends up funding state school scholarship via payout to MP
Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school education
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/09/2026
This handshake says a hell of a lot. Giuliani said Mamdani shouldn’t even be at Ground Zero. Today, Mamdani walked up and shook his hand. That’s leadership. 📌 Mamdani released 170K+ pages exposing what NYC officials knew about the toxic air after 9/11, including during Giuliani’s administration.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And THIS my friends is what RESISTANCE looks like! #TheWashingtonSun #Pinks
And THIS my friends is what 
RESISTANCE looks like! 
#TheWashingtonSun 

The Washington Sun
Because Jeff Bezos is a greedy coward who bent the knee to trump and literally destroyed one of the greatest newspapers in America to capitulate to his madness, there's a new newspaper in Washington as of today.
The Washington Sun - backed by Politico's founder, staffed by 110 journalists including
28 Washington Post veterans: Jeff Stein, Paul Kane, Dana Milbank, Tom Boswell, even the Capital Weather Gang. It exists because the Post cut 300+ journalists in February.
When a great newsroom gets hollowed out, the journalists don't disappear. They rebuild.
Worth watching, maybe worth subscribing.
Tracy Lee Carroll & threads.com/@tracylee
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Mike Wilson @whisperingwind.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Hard agree. When I learnt how generative AI is trained & how much power it uses, I started avoiding it as much as possible. My favourite search engine is now noai.duckduckgo.com
noai.duckduckgo.com
DuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AI
DuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.
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