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Steve J H

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“I more than resent it, sir. I’m absolutely incensed.”

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Steve J H @steeedm.bsky.social · 20h
Wouldn’t it be good if the security of everybody else from the depredations of high-profile public figures could be made a priority once in a while?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
God is taking scandal hit awful men in their 80s today. Fingers crossed.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A two-panel meme featuring frames from a news interview. In both top and bottom panels, a young man speaking into a Fox 5 news microphone looks shocked and wide-eyed. The top text reads: "If all they had to do was write an essay apologizing." The bottom text reads: "Well then so can Luigi."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s getting harder to shake the feeling the USA isn’t being set up for something awful by an adversary who understood how cheap it was to hire Donald Trump & a drunk sex pest from Fox News to destroy our military.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Free book excerpt! From THEY KNEW, on paywalls, the loss of the public sphere, and the abandonment of accountability. Written in 2021, it explains much of the present political information crisis: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
sarahkendzior.substack.com
A Public Flat Earth
How paywalls killed the public sphere.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Private companies are hiding the Musk doc, while public funds are makin' Trump ads. If you are cool with it you can kiss my entire black ass and whatnot.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Britain's economy is being held back by low wages, underinvestment, rip-off pricing, the housing crisis, lack of affordable childcare and an NHS on the point of collapse. Not because there isn't a third runway at Heathrow.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
My father died six months ago today. I wrote this while he was dying. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-stage
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hit the poor and cut corporation tax (CT) brigade are out in force. UK headline CT rate is 25%. Companies pay about 10% less as govts give them numerous reliefs which reduces taxable profits. Companies also dodge tax by shifting profits to tax havens. obr.uk/box/corporat...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again. A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer. Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers. Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable.
declassifieduk.org
Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference - again
Labour MPs have condemned the ‘Trump-like’ decision, saying party is ‘bang out of order’
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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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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As I said early on about Keir Starmer: a British politician’s job is not to represent your interests to e.g. the private water company. His job is to come *to you*, look suitably biscuit-arsed, and then explain that sadly nothing can be done. And usually retire to a plush private sector gig.
Watson won't be alone. He will join more than 30 former UK officials at a company that Peter Mandelson's former lobbying firm, Global Counsel, counted as a client. Mandelson accompanied Keir Starmer to Palantir's Washington office in 2025, while still retaining a stake in Global Counsel. The MoD has since signed a major partnership with Palantir. And none of this will have broken a single law. The rules on jobs for former ministers last only two years and have no legal force. Therein lies the problem.
Whether it's Tony Blair and his relationship with Oracle, Mandelson and Global Counsel or Nick Clegg and his time at Meta, the section of the political class meant to oppose vested interests and promote public service appears to have switched sides.
According to the Institute for Public Policy Research's latest findings, the main political arties,
including Labour and the Libera
Democrats, have been accepting donations from wealthy individuals at an acceleratingAccording to the Institute for Public Policy Research's latest findings, the main political parties, including Labour and the Liberal Democrats, have been accepting donations from wealthy individuals at an accelerating pace. The research found 72% of all £1m-plus donations from individuals since records began in 2001 had come since 2019. Sadly, none of this can be described as an aberration. Rather, it's how the system increasingly works. Now politicians' proximity to wealth and the "elites" who own it has fostered a growing public mistrust. One need only listen to Danny Dyer at a rally last week, calling for public ownership of water, to get a feel for that sentiment. These examples are all symptoms of the growing proximity between political power and the wealth it is supposed to hold to account.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 23/09/2026
It will be a fitting end to this story when Trump’s ballroom collapses on him and all his acolytes during his third inaugural
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
The Oligarch who funded Don Jr.'s wedding is deeply linked to Russia's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
World Championships, women’s elite time trial 🥇 Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) 🥈 Zoe Bäckstedt (Great Britain) 🥉 Franziska Koch (Germany)
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We should ask ourselves why this is something a Labour Prime Minister feels the need to refute. After 16 years of austerity, a tax and spend socialist is just what we need.
Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ - Guardian headline
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
There needs to be an axiom called Younger's law: if you're a parent who runs to Christian nationalist orgs or Fox News to claim you weren't abusive to your trans kid after the state took them away, you are in fact abusive by virtue of nationalizing the story for propaganda.
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Steve J H @steeedm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Major emergency response on Wirral near Leasowe Lighthouse at about midday today: two helicopters, three fire engines, three incident response vehicles, several ambulances, and the RNLI were quickly there with the hovercraft from Hoylake. Best wishes to all concerned. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/09/2026
I fucking hate "I don't take sides" people, which is just siding with the oppressor and hoping you'll have plausible deniability. You're not apolitical, you're not neutral, you're just doing this:
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Steve J H @steeedm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m in. You didn’t say the respondents had to *do* the sums, so fingers crossed for somebody smart to join in.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Trump: "The $5,000 is gonna happen, 100%" (Bookmark this)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The entire right wing has been furious that the mayor of New York City had the nerve to be Muslim on 9/11, while their president is out here bragging about what a terrific relationship he has with the Saudi royal family.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" is a hell of a statement, if the speaker thinks there's a >10% chance their tech can kill all humans within the next decade. Shut this shit down.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Steve J H @steeedm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That was my first camera. Still got it, somewhere. That said, I don’t miss film cameras *at all*!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The role of "protector" under patriarchy seems to mean "I wield the option of violence" that can also be turned directly on women who are not obedient, aka submit to being protected according to his rules.
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Patrick Seurre @patrick.seurre.com · 08/09/2026
Mandate publishing annual statistics on data centre water & electricity usage Please sign. We need to know the impact of data centres
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Mandate publishing annual statistics on data centre water & electricity usage
Parts of the UK have experienced a drought, and residents have been asked to conserve water. We are concerned that the concerted efforts to build new data centres could place a huge strain on our wate...
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The RNLI isn't subsidised by the taxpayer. Some people seem to be getting them mixed up with Eton, Harrow and Winchester.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Palestinian child killed by Israel on first day back at school in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/trending/pale…
middleeasteye.net
Palestinian child killed by Israel on first day back at school in Gaza
Wafaa Akila, aged eight, was photographed smiling in her blue school uniform hours before an Israeli strike killed the little girl and her father
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026
Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022
No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
13:34 5 September
Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it addsThe Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.
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