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Our water companies have been dumping raw sewage into the rivers and seas, and what will the Conservative party propose today? Abolishing the Environment Agency who try to enforce environmental protection measures against polluters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some very excellent captions this week that deserve extra ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 03/10/2026

For some weird reason spotting spoons stuck in people's hats has made me happy ever since I was a little girl. Just seemed like a smart way to carry a spoon in case of emergency eating. Was it only a thing in the low countries? Anyway, some examples:

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the 1960s the UK built one new home for every 14 people. By the 2020 that had fallen to one new home for every 43 people And that, right there, is the story www.theguardian.com/housing-netw...

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Don-Key @don-key1959.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Early 80's. Me a bricky's labourer, my wife a student nurse. Our first house, £11,450. 10% deposit was roughly 11 weeks pay on my wage. Fast forward to today and 10% deposit on average house for someone earning average wages and you're looking at roughly 10 MONTHS pay. We had it way easier.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #Baturday #31daysofhalloween

Marginalia of black bat with giant fan like wing.

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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...

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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion

Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.

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eye @eyebright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hero! 😍

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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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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And the name of the admin? Tom Bombadil.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why is George Osborne not widely seen as the most disastrous Chancellor the UK had in decades? One reason is the r/w media did not frame him that way. He was an economic & social vandal who damaged the fabric of UK society. For a host of reasons he should be nowhere near the British Museum.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

British citizens according to Suella Braverman. #bbcqt

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026

My all-time favourite poem for #NationalPoetryDay (A class of schoolchildren were asked to write haikus. One wrote this. It's a masterpiece, and he or she is probably a psychopath 🤤)

Haiku

Five syllables here
Seven more syllables there
Are you happy now??

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She’s blowing all the dog-whistles in an attempt to flog her book.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There were almost no food banks when I was a kid, I don’t remember hearing the term until the 2010s and the Big Society. Cuts are just cuts, they have no moral value and anyone telling you “It’s unfair that Group (x) gets too much” is hoping they can play on your spite until nobody gets anything.

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you can't find your glasses so you're just hoping the shapes and colours are your friends and colleagues 🤷‍♂️ 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Badeliv", 1934, by Hans Øllgard, from the Oluf Høst Museet in Denmark

A surrealist painting showing a bathing scene

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The logic of the death penalty is so twisted: "Killing is wrong - so we the state will kill you if you do it."

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 01/10/2026

Anyway, the death penalty is cruel and monstrous whether it goes right or wrong and any society still imposing it should be ashamed

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons put papers in a murder appeal into ChatGPT hoping for a summary. Instead, it made up fake testimony. He has been found in direct contempt of court, referred to the Disciplinary Board, barred from appearing, thrown off the case in question and sanctioned $5,000.

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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal

"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after usin...

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last call for this. It is tonight. Despite its jaunty aspect, I promise to be absolutely diabolically MISERABLE for a full 45 minutes.

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And… Hegseth notoriously can’t match up to the fitness standards he trumpets; I’ve seen much mockery of this from various accounts I follow on instagram 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 30/09/2026

Proposal: the fines levied on the water companies for serious environmental failure like this should be set at a sum equal to what the company paid in dividends + any executive bonuses, in the previous year (since this is a good estimate of the ‘spare’ money sloshing about) for a first offence …

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Ianto FP @iantofp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is he ever going to tackle the tax avoidance issue that every politician seems to run a mile from perhaps because it potentially impacts rich donors to the party?

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💯 🤬 The world 💔

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There was a speech. It had nice words, well delivered, promising much. The promises were vague or a long time in the future. And the people who needed reassurance the most (the disabled, the migrants, the victims of racism/Islamophobia/xenophobia, and trans people) received none. Let us see action.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026

Viral posts claim Japan has passed ‘anti-Islam laws’ banning halal food, mosques, burqas and prayer calls. This is false. Japan's constitution guarantees religious freedom. Here's what we found 👇

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No, Japan has not introduced 'anti-Islam' laws – Full Fact

Viral posts claim Japan has banned halal food, mosques, burqas and the call to prayer. This is false. No such laws exist, and Japan's constitution guarantees religious freedom.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

20. Finally, it is so important to respect the water and acknowledge the dangers involved for those crossing the English Channel in open boats and rough weather today. The hostility towards RNLI crews selflessly preventing loss of life must be utterly condemned. Support the RNLI here: rnli.org 20/20

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026

Billionaires should pay *disproportionately more* tax than anyone else. They have disproportionately more wealth!

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is dangerous talk, he should be reprimanded for it.

The United Kingdom is releasing five Muslim terrorists accused of planning an attack on an American airbase.
They should just officially rename themselves the United Islamic Kingdom and get it over with.
What is clear is they are no longer a reliable ally of the United States.
© OSINTdefender & @sentdefender • 6h
Counter Terrorism Policing in the United Kingdom has announced that the five men arrested near RAF Fairford on Sunday will be released on bail this afternoon. The men were arrested in the village of Whelford, a short dis...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see someone use their religion as an excuse to exclude trans people in some court case or other, I think about how I genuinely believe that it is my religious duty towards God to transition, and how stressed a judge would be if we ended up opposite each other in the same case.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only in Switzerland. Workmen having a cheeky fondue by the side of the road over the weekend. Identities obscured to protect the peckish.

Workmen eating fondue by the side of the road.

Workman eating fondue by the side of the road.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very much enjoy that the local history group never send me any assets to promote my talk but always put a poster up in Tesco that looks like someone has punched it in a rage. NOT HER AGAIN, ARGH

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Your regular reminder that the Corporation of London founded a charity in 1282 (!) to look after London Bridge. It now has assets of £1.5B (!) generating an income of £42M (!) most of which is, unsurprisingly, not needed for looking after the 5 bridges it is formally responsible for...

BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES - Charity 1035628

Charity details for BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES - Charity 1035628

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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Britain is broken. Only Reform can fix it.” 😂 That’s quite a claim. If you’re asking people to trust you with the country, spell out **how** you’ll fix bills, housing, the NHS and public services — slogans aren’t a bloody plan.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27/09/2026

Brexit has failed. No wonder rejoining the EU is the most popular option in 99% of constituencies, according to our latest poll with YouGov.

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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The only one. When America was great we’d have been first.🤦🏽‍♂️

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s so much hatred for disabled people. People assume we’re faking. They assume we can “positive think” our way to better health. They assume we want to trample their rights to a “normal” existence. They vilify us because they’re terrified of becoming us.

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Mairi Damer @marzid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In other news, I just wrote a piece about the lack of robust resistance to the far right. If you’re looking for neutrality, jog on ✊ www.wordupscot.co.uk/2026/09/cour...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wes Streeting, "The contract to build the docks for our nuclear submarines, £6 billion worth of work, we commit to that contract staying in this country" My view: Why doesn’t that principle apply elsewhere?

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