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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
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How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
its so cool that you can't be disabled until you're 25, modern neoliberal science is magic www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Welfare changes under debate include ending key disability benefit for under-25s
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive package of support to help young people into employment
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances" 

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
this tracks, since nixon being forced to resign was the original sin that led to the modern conservative media environment that gave us trump
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man City's defence against the charge of shitting themselves in the middle of a Tesco: [smugly] Your Honour, I believe you'll find I'm actually wearing shorts
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I & various members of my family have been on and off benefits for decades and what generally happens when they make rules tougher is that people get scared and feel less inclined to take risks - and if you’ve been on benefits, especially for mental/other health reasons - getting a job feels risky
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud
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Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘AI agents are great! They can handle routine customer service issues, freeing up human agents to handle more complex cases!’ Reality: they can’t handle routine customer service issues and also you can no longer speak to a human agent.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Billionaires who campaign against forgiveness of school lunch debt or medical bills : its going to be so abundant
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026
delighted for Janice that she's managed to tame her ADHD traits by undergoing lifestyle changes but exactly how many people can, in essence, do what they want, when and where they want it as long as they (mostly) meet deadlines? how would she fare at *basically any other job in the world*?
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026
regret going to read this but am now infuriated by this particular paragraph - sure, doing these things also helped me, a non-medicated person with ADHD, but do you know what else fucking helped? me also being a columnist, a job with a huge amount of personal freedom, unlike nearly all other jobs!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
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MJ Spooky 🕷 | BASTARD FOREVER 🖤 @wrassletrash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
man with en-ger-land and israeli flag in username unironically calls out lesbian for having a rainbow flag in her bio you couldn't write this shit
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just watched The Guardian podcast where Marina Hyde is asked why she picked JK Rowling as her dream Prime Minister and she just dodges the question saying, “Oh, I don’t want to get into a whole thing.” Such a coward’s trick from someone who markets themselves as a straight talker.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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xakab #MichaelSchumacherTheGOAT @xakab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just a few notes, regarding Fred/Ferrari/Media Ferrari is the only team where the fans demand immediate results, where others can make mistakes and it's considered growth and work in progress, when it's us it's immediately considered failure and civil war.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 26/09/2026
Well I can’t say I like that one bit
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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Princess Space Catt 💙 @spacecatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
First they came for the trans people.. And I absolutely spoke the fuck out because the playbook was obvious
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“this government wants trans people and their families to feel safe and accepted in our society.” I think I can speak for most trans people and their families when I say, they don’t and increasingly they aren’t, precisely because of Labour’s decisions. How can they believe this stuff they type?
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve been very quiet during #suicidepreventionawarenessweek because it’s shit being constantly reminded of all the things I might have done to save Alice. The “check-in” narrative is particularly distressing. I get that its’s appealing, plenty of people have an anecdote that it saved their life…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
the genAI art aesthetic is really fascinating, it's very distinctive and makes me feel absolutely nothing whatsoever
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 24/09/2026
If AI agents are committing crimes, why are we not prosecuting the companies responsible for the agents for the crimes?
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Ask me about my military’s parameters for collateral damage
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
That's when it started getting funny again.
Inscription under a carving saying Jesus falls a third time.
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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"how dare you call us mixed race!!", shout the Anglo-Saxons
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can’t believe I’m siding with the haunted Victorian pencil.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The crisis in tech is ultimately a crisis of intersubjectivity. I'll bang this drum forever but I consider AI tech of this sort as arising from the historical logics underpinning social media, attention economy, influencing, etc down the line instead of some new, bespoke thing all its own.
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Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah yes, that famous scientific word ‘reckon’
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Private providers rarely assess a patient as NOT having the condition they're assessing for because the triage process is rigorous. They don't even accept patients onto their waiting lists without passing a pre-assessment. This is more recycled anti-trans tactics.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BlueSky / Twitter
Prince HarryTemu Prince Harry.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
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