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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 16/09/2026

I’m realizing I might have to write a piece talking about technology created by bigots for the purposes of oppression *sucks* and can be broken with a bit of collective effort. These people care more about appearances than things actually working. And that ethos touches *everything* they do.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Would have been easy to have missed this as it came out with little fanfare on Friday but this is a helpful Select Committee report on the official statistics system, which also rightly makes the case for preserving independence (rather than asserting Ministerial control)

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more?

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026

How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...

Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h

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Sam @smithsam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@paulclarke.com Page 3 static1.squarespace.com/static/69a54...

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Am I right in thinking it is now Conservative Party policy to evict Windrush migrants from their homes?

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Nice to see and hold the physical version. For the virtual as.ft.com/r/c1054499-a...

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If I was an agency wanting to be disbanded, I would choose the moment just after a new man of the ppl PM from the NW arrived - with a defining mission to rebalance the country and make agencies accountable - to pull £ from the world renowned telescope visited by generation upon generation of NW kids

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

🚨 EXC: NHS England has suppressed the work of investigators carrying out dozens of national clinical audits. NHSE has stopped investigators alerting media, watered down recommendations and limited the way their reports are written, published and used: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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NHS accused of suppressing investigation reports on poor care

Health bosses are watering down auditors’ recommendations for improvement

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Sam @smithsam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

this consultation on making self-assessment monthly might be relevant to some today www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/07/2026

This is what anti trans people talking about trans medicine sounds like to trans people. Same liars. Same lies.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is an important role - National Data Guardian. Advises the health and care system so people’s information is kept safe and confidential, and is shared when appropriate to achieve better outcomes for patients. £63k for 3.5 days a week apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9039

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Appointment details – National Data Guardian – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK

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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Little known to many, on the 10th June, the government released the interim report on ADHD and neurodiversity services in the UK. It came out to very little fanfare. Why? Because it doesn't match the government & the press narrative on "an epidemic of neurodiversity diagnoses".

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...

It is 25 years since the death of Douglas Adams. He was prescient in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in
concluding that finding the answer to life, the universe and everything was not that difficult - it was 42. But the hard part was understanding the question. The humanities are here to help us make sense of the questions of our time.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🚨Exclusive🚨 Two ministers filmed a video for a child-protection software firm that lost £17m in three years, made just *£112* in the UK in 2024 and gets 90%+ of its income from overseas subsidiaries that haven't cooperated with auditors for three years. 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/p...

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Prophets without profits

The government’s favourite provider of child protection software, SafeToNet – a perpetually loss-making firm run by recently born-again Christians – has finally filed its long-delayed accounts. The…

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Important role here - Chair of the Information Commission (which will replace the ICO). £120k, 3 days a week. Apply by 19 August apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9276

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is the Webarchive link to the (apparently) censored-by-transphobes report by Amnesty UK. I would suggest downloading it now before they go after that as well. web.archive.org/web/20260709...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And important update and UK politics primer from the Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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medConfidential @medconfidential.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wes Streeting’s legacy - wave bye bye to your GP, who you’ll only be allowed to see if the Government AI run by Palantir lets you. bsky.app/profile/theg...

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John Sheridan @johnlsheridan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Well, look at that. A rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence has just turned up, where I work. See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

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Rare copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

The newly discovered copy is one of only 11 of its kind in the world.

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Donald Campbell @dncampbell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Really important investigation showing that the Govt's and Palantir's claims fall apart when they're subjected to scrutiny. And NHSE knows the numbers don't add up: "Over the course of four days of calls and emails, NHS England did not respond to any of the questions we sent them about the data".

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Most organisations want to earn as much trust as they possibly can. But the goal isn’t maximum trust. It’s trust that matches what the system actually deserves, for each person, on each decision. Post 2 of 10, marking ten years of IF medium.com/writing-by-i...

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Just enough trust

Organisations generally want to gain people’s trust, and maximise this to the greatest extent possible, but what we’ve found during our…

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

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Sam @smithsam.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Puntcon 2026 will be on the 16th August with @billt.bsky.social www.disruptiveproactivity.com/2026/06/punt...

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Puntcon 2026 | DisruptiveProactivity.com

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 09/06/2026

Every threat model is some asshole's business model.

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 08/06/2026

Reading English NHS' plans to go digital-first via app including triage/diagnostic/clinical review services (things that benefit from images) then hearing Starmer's plans to ban ppl who haven't verified age from sending 'explicit' images is quite discombobulating digital.nhs.uk/blog/transfo...

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The NHS App, from digital front door to lifelong companion - NHS England Digital

Liz and Rachel set out the NHS App’s journey from digital front door to lifelong companion – meeting people where they are, at home and on demand. Based on their joint presentation at Digital Health ...

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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 21/05/2026

as @robmanuel.b3ta.com‬ has noted, there was a lot of "you must get online" marketing in the early-ish years of the WWW - and before that, entire government campaigns to "make the most of the micro[computer]" in the 1980s. Yet neither Ofcom or DCMS have demanded a BBC LLM - sort it out you cowards!

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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 05/06/2026

an astonishing time-capsule of a world & way of life that, in many ways, no longer exists... (for younger readers - Dave Green was a "presenter of last resort" for niche digital channels when @danny.spesh.com wasn't available) youtu.be/IpLew7igK-w bsky.app/profile/rcla...

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1998: Buying Your First Family Computer | The Learning Zone | BBC Archive

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm infuriated because (a) the only pathways to report it describe it as a skill issue not a tech fault, (b) I'm a small biz owner who's wasted at least a working day over the last few months trying to do this, (c) I'm on govt Digital Inclusion Action Committee and...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

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Sam @smithsam.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Did someone in Parliament just have an email accident?

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Late for #towelday, but I wrote this short appreciation of Douglas Adams and how encountering THE HITCH HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY as a child had an incalculable impact on my brain: www.hilobrow.com/2026/04/25/o...

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OMAC YOUR ENTHUSIASM (7) – HILOBROW

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Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

As the Starmer government announces a ‘crackdown’ on teenagers accessing social media, FIPR are publishing our response to express deep concern with the proposals to implement strong Age Verification by default for online services. These will not only affect children, but all adults in the UK.

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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Today on the 23rd May 1988, Section 28 was passed into law In 2026, we are witnessing an increase of copycat laws internationally + increasing censorship of the trans community in the UK This law impacted me Sign my petition for a public inquiry into the law petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Imagine believing that an organisation you think is "an unalloyed force for good" is wrong in a singular instance that just happens to be the minority you have directed your personal hate project against, without this giving any cause at all for self-reflection

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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Corporate power today is scary, but not new. In WHEN COMPANIES RULE, I recount its 400-year history from the East India Company to Amazon, what motivates the oligarchs who would be kings, and what we can do about them. Out in November, pre-order now: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/05/2026

I am going to give you all some advice from football fandom. When Streeting resigns - celebrate. Don't say 'let's wait and see if he runs and wins'. There will always be another 'result' to wait on. Another way it can go wrong. Celebrate the wins when they come. It is essential.

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