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John Barnes

@slowcookedgoose.bsky.social
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Custodian of slowcookedgoose and Below The Salt @ The Splott Shamanic Graft Loft.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3h
By Braverman’s definition: I am not English (half Armenian) nor is the mother of my kids (parents Welsh). In fact of my kids’ great grandparents — only one is English What do to do, Suella? There are probably 80 or so descendants of my great grandparents which by your benchmark aren’t English
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 14h
Happy 45th birthday to Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club, released as a UK single on this day in 1981 youtu.be/aCWCF19nUhA
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Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Official Music Video) [4K]
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 14h
A campaign to raise money to buy Grade 2 listed Trinity Methodist Church, Woodhouse, Sheffield reaches its 100k target. The church which dates from 1878 has stood empty for 15 years. 👇 BBC News - Funds raised to buy Woodhouse church ahead of theatre plan - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Funds raised to buy Woodhouse church ahead of theatre plan
A community group in Sheffield reaches its £100,000 target to buy an empty church in Woodhouse.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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John Barnes @slowcookedgoose.bsky.social · 9h
He who is without sin shall cast the first rock.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 9h
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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The Verge @theverge.com · 10h
'The race our nation can’t afford to lose.' www.theverge.com/tech/1003929...
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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16h
Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day
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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 13h
This is a growing problem. Trump wants Europe to deal with his mess so he can reduce pump prices at home before the mid terms. 'The government has stressed that there is no cause for concern about potential diesel shortages, though prices are expected to rise further.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US pressures Europe to release diesel reserves as Trump threatens export ban
President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.
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Peter Rees @peterrees.bsky.social · 14h
The only time I saw Talking Heads live (Christchurch, NZ in 1984) they effectively broke up mid-set and vacated the stage. We were then treated to half an hour of Tom Tom Club while David Byrne was induced to come out and finish the show. That was their last performance.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Of course we all love the Amish Bill Grundy interview, but it’s worth watching it alongside the original to see how impeccably it’s performed and produced. youtu.be/vObRvdvHh5E?...
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Kevin Eldon's Amish Sex Pistols side by side with Bill Grundy original
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Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE @barheys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't think so pal - Burnham has just put a burning tyre around your neck and it's going to consume you People know what a disaster Brexit has been & there isn't a bus side slogan that will hide that. You gave our control away & we're all going to make sure you never, ever forget ! Bring it on !
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Listening to the new EP of Songs In The Key Of Life outtakes. Other artists would kill for material this good, and Stevie just sat on it for 50 years. I frequently dream that my house has rooms I didn't know existed. I don't think there's any meaning deeper than needing the storage space.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
John Kennedy before he adopted his Foghorn Leghorn MAGA character.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"In February 2003, Jeremy Corbyn stood at a rally in Hyde Park & warned that an invasion [of Iraq] would “set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation, that will fuel the wars... and the misery of future generations.”' www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/iran-has-d...
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Iran has driven the US out of Iraq after 23 years of occupation
The US military has completed its withdrawal from Erbil Air Base in Iraq, finally ending Operation Inherent Resolve.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The UK Government are facing renewed calls to end the proscription of Palestine Action, following Ed Miliband's admission that people opposing genocide in Palestine 'were right' 🗣️ 'That acknowledgement will ring hollow as long as Labour maintains the ban'
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'You were right': Ed Miliband comments fuel calls to end Palestine Action ban
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/10/2026
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action aje.news/zjyo4q
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
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evo1963.bsky.social @evo1963.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you ever see an article and think, this just has to be satire? Burnham is as much of a socialist as Thatcher was.
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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"You've worked hard all your life accruing all that wealth via soaring house prices and nice defined-benefit pensions, and we think it's wrong for the state to touch it via inheritance tax. But it's totally fine for the government to deny your 24-year-old kid support based off of it"
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me and my friends would've killed the drunken Evri robot with hammers, I can tell you that much.
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Audio Plugin Guy (Stu) @audiopluginguy.com · 01/10/2026
Elektrokid’s SETWIDE for Ableton Live 12 adds plug-ins or Live devices to every selected track in one click, speeding up repetitive session-wide setup tasks. www.audiopluginguy.com/news-elektro...
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Elektrokid has released SETWIDE, a utility for Ableton Live 12 that adds plug-ins or Live devices to every selected track in one click.
Elektrokid’s SETWIDE for Ableton Live 12 adds plug-ins or Live devices to every selected track in one click, speeding up repetitive session-wide setup tasks.
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Tom Haynes @tomhaynes1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ron Johnson works for Putin. He has for a long time. Let's be honest. The United States has been a corrupt and greedy country for centuries. What you're seeing is the result of that in real time. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were the exceptions, not the rule.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is actually completely clear from context clues.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The perfect illustration of how America has gone to war on itself and is now less able to face external challenges.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's the full story that the Tony Blair Institute doesn't want to answer questions about, on Democracy for Sale
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Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We have a real fight on our hands ...... to spread our message of hate and division. Good 👍
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Burnham speaks better than Starmer, he comes across better than Starmer, he connects with people better than Starmer.

That makes him a lot more dangerous than Starmer. Let's be honest - we have a real fight on our hands.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
STAR TREK ORIGINAL OPENER: "The Klingons have surrounded us and all hope is lost." STAR TREK STRANGE NEW WORLDS OPENER: "I've just been on a training course which I found extremely useful."
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The proposed rule is from OMB, the office run by Russell Vought -- who has a history of opposing government efforts to expand access to voting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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RolexTharsus @rolextharsus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Bloody sod you if you're not supporting Stuff on iplayers
Bobby Chariot, warm up man in trademark purple velvet suit
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 29/09/2026
Opus 5.5 AI is astonishing. Look at the 3D racing game it helped me build. Then consider that it's running on a 2014-vintage Nvidia GT 720 graphics card with just 1GB of VRAM... [Sorry for intermittent sound glitches in video. Something weird is going on with my capture app.]
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I repeat:
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t ever get immune to the inhumanity and dehumanization of what the Trump/Miller project is doing to children and families,” said one advocate. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we allow this injustice to continue? The Trump administration's fast-tracked deport...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's inter-linked world in which neighbours matter for energy, migration, trade, regulation and much else also means a government has less agency, and being the smaller player the UK's options on its EU relations are thus rather constrained.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
scenes from an authoritarian cult -- Trump signs an EO, and then all of his cronies keep clapping and clapping for him since none of them wants to be the first one to stop
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham announces a national commission on electoral reform (for the 2029 manifesto) Meaning the first PR general election would currently be 2034. But knows what the commission will actually recommend? If you look at the data today, it’s obvious what people want: Proportional Representation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt asks Jack Smith to tell him what he's writing down in his notes, but then even he realizes he went too far and says, "never mind"
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Taraaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh Zombies @theblueststar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This stupid fucking bastard is a Buddhist so this makes no fucking sense other than to indoctrinate humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
rare column from @stephenkb.bsky.social that combines my interest in the state of the UK charts in a siloed culture with my interest in public policy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burnham’s social care obstacles
Convincing the British public to pay higher taxes for something they wrongly assume the state provides will not be easy
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