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Somersetchris

@somersetchris.bsky.social
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My cat is called Kedi. Brighton based tofu eating wokerati. Never voted Tory. Voted Remain. Atheist. #AirbnbSucks. Scuba diver. Prolific gig goer. Grungy shoegazer. He/him

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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 8h
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The French have no US bases on their mainland or any French territory. They threw the Americans out in the mid-60s, even though the French owed the Americans big time for rescuing them from WW2 German occupation. Yet the UK, which was never occupied, let the Americans stay on. That was a mistake.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 04/10/2026
The fact the British media is angrier about a "Zionism is racism" motion than about Zionists committing genocide speaks volumes about the British media
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump’s “Super Intelligence Force” puts AI, intelligence, trade and defence officials under his control while giving tech companies direct access to policy decisions they could profit from, creating fertile ground for corporate profiteering, regulatory capture and corruption.
The White House Verified Account
@WhiteHouse
“I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸
[Embedded post/screenshot from Donald J. Trump]:
Donald J. Trump Verified Account
@realDonaldTrump
Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans. The Super Intelligence Force will coordinate the Federal Government's engagement with Consumers, Public Interest Groups, Religious Organizations, Critical Infrastructure Providers, and Super Intelligence Companies, and will be led by Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, and Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor, and will report to the President of the United States (ME!), and the Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Daniel Hannan has been spectacularly wrong about everything to do with Brexit, so this is hugely encouraging for all #RejoinEU voters. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If anyone wants to imagine life under a Reform Government, this is a good place to start
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rachel Johnson who was interviewing her didn't push back at all and even seemed to be agreeing with her. Here's a fuller account from the police. Absolutely scandalous that an MP is not condemning this act of terrorism
Detective Chief Superintendent James
Derham, who leads local policing in the
Bexley area, said: "It was miraculous
that nobody was killed or seriously
injured in the large explosion caused
by Rees


"He showed a complete disregard for
the welfare and safety of the people
who live in, or were travelling through,
the area at the time of the explosion -
all because he was unhappy with the
ULEZ scheme


"CCTV from a bus travelling down the
road at the time shows how it narrowly
missed the blast of debris by seconds
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t even want to think about all the Brexit ones
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Al Hatch @alhatchauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The NHS is a bottomless pit", "There's no magic money tree", "the country is full"
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The way they are so eager to murder Christa Pike makes you wonder if any of her multiple rapists is somehow connected to the US government today.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“How hard he fights for humanity”. What a load of bullshit.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“How hard he fights for humanity”. What a load of bullshit.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most exclusive dinner in the world hosted by Trump, apparently, though you wouldn’t know it by the AI image which has lost about six stone and 30 years. For the 185 top purchasers of his meme coin - or “suckers”. Buying $1m-worth gets you in.
$TRUMP COIN CLUB
LEADERBOARDS
F1 SINGAPORE
GALA DINNER
SUPER BOWL
REGISTER
COIN CLUB / EXPERIENCES / THE GALA DINNER WITH 3 LEGENDS
EXPERIENCE 2 • NOV 22, 2026 • TRUMP NATIONAL, WASHINGTON, DC
The Most
EXCLUSIVE DINNER IN THE WORLD
An evening with 3 Legends and President Donald J. Trump
- plus a private meet & greet with a legend to be announced.
(No attendees will be granted a private meet & greet with the President.)
REGISTER
See terms and conditions and other information here.
Gala Dinner will be held at TRUMP National D.C.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gulf War 3?
news.sky.com
US forces to leave last bases in Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal
Iraqi security experts have warned the departure could give Tehran and its allies free rein while also risking a comeback from ISIS.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 02/10/2026
People rally against the US tech company Palantir outside its office in London, urging the UK government to use a break clause to prevent a contract between the AI giant and the National Health Service (NHS) being renewed beyond March 2027 📸 Henry Nicholls
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump banned CNN, MSnow and Politico. The rest of the US media stood with them. Why is this not happening in the UK?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Winderful @winderful.uk · 01/10/2026
Right now #wind is meeting 25% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk
The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 6,641 MW. That's enough to keep 2.2 million tea urns on
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can I suggest that you sit back with an open mind and read this three post thread
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I assess how good people are by how they treat animals
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, in Russian propaganda:
Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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• Translated from French Show original
I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyEls van Veen O
Follow
@veen_els
I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemyNadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
• Translated from German Show original
I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyDday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
independent.co.uk
SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Released on bail or pardoned by Trump? www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
itv.com
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nigel Farage is now a desperate man. Chasing every headline; no low too low; the politics of the gutter, racism and fear embraced. His pronouncement on Fairford trying to link with ZERO evidence to asylum is beyond pathetic.
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning #BlueSky from the nor’easter soaked NYC. 🌧️
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They are being 'promised service far from Ukraine'. Yes, they are being duped into the war, but I honestly believe that they do not know what they are signing up for
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only she was a white male of fighting age wearing black shorts and a balaclava #TwoTierPolicing
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know that gullible is one word, but there are a lot of desperately poor people in Thailand. The average wage is just £455 a month so £61,000 a year is life changing for the poorest
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why are people having to pay for successive governments failure? A sentence Kuenssberg never uttered under a 14 year Tory government, which consisted of 5 Prime Ministers and 3 General Elections #bbclaurak
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Walking Pete @walkingpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pink Ladies: a soft front for the far-right: The story of a women’s group in Stainforth, Doncaster which could have been emancipating and community led but was usurped by far right segregation and hate… www.counterfire.org/article/pink...
counterfire.org
Pink Ladies: a soft front for the far-right
The far right continues to develop with the emergence front organisations posing as concerned community groups.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You forgot the link
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can you legally live with someone in a no fixed abode?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump invited his billionaire pals to the state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping last night. Since he’s been back in office, the wealthiest households have gained 8,000 times more wealth per household than the bottom 50% of households. It’s clear who he governs for.
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But, but, but Starmers glasses
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wonder what attracts that great patriot Nigel Farage to the far right, authoritarian petrostate run by billionaire Arab Muslims? www.desmog.com/2026/09/23/u...
desmog.com
UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches...
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thongs of Praise sounds like a B3TA picture challenge
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The grift and therefore the profit is greater if he says Crown Court when begging to his followers
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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/gari...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Times continues to push on scything public pensions, a thing they can do because they do not have to worry about public opinion. Their audience is the country’s ruling class, not you.
Juliet Samuel • @CitySamuel • 21h
My @thetimes column:
In 1908, the Daily Express asked: "Is Britain going to surrender her maritime supremacy to provide old-age pensions?"
Pensions and old age benefits now soak up three times as much as defence.
Serious countries don't behave like this.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 25/09/2026
Just thinking out loud here. Maybe billionaires should NOT be allowed to silence free speech?
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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