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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

America just did a Brexit.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Opportunistic, uninformed, haphazard, confused, shameless, contradictory, ideological, petty, misleading, vindictive and insane: Another week in the life of Kemi Badenoch iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...

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One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch

She might be the single worst opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 04/01/2025

As temperatures plummet, we’re taking action to protect rough sleepers through the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol. If you see someone sleeping rough, please connect them to help via Street Link: www.streetlink.org.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

At some point someone in the British government has to hit back at Musk. If he was just some rich guy, fine - whatever. Enjoy your drugs. But he is a leading figure in the incoming US administration. Is our policy now that foreign governments can speak this way about us without any consequence?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/01/2025

buying a cybertruck and putting it in long term storage so i can rent it in 30 years to filmmakers who want to convey "this guy is a dipshit" in period pieces

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 20/12/2024

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org

Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Sure yeah you all hate CEOs now, but you'll change your tune when you need someone who can disrupt workplace engagement paradigms and offer bold innovations in the metrics sector

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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy? Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!

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Democracy For Sale

A survey into people's attitudes to the health of British politics from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Help a fella out & complete this short survey, would you?

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Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7. Please Repost, you never know who might need this support

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The election petition has created a fresh journalistic subgenre: headlines asking damn silly questions to which they already know the answer inews.co.uk/opinion/elec...

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You know who hasn't had this degree of media support for their financial interests? Disabled people, poor people with more than two kids, public sector workers (after all that clapping for the NHS). I'm not usually a 'blame the media' person but seriously - this is mad

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Whilst I’m not leaving X as yet, I would very much like to spend more time here. So, if you see this and you’d be kind enough to share it to let readers find me, that would be greatly appreciated. Hi!

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists" UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over... "We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse.
Unfortunately that well is now poisoned.
All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022.
Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system.
We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself.
And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere.
Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set.
A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it.
After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process.
But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting.
Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X.
And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work.
We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over.
Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

only using x for my banking moving forward

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm going to start working on this, and will add to it as more major media outlets join Bluesky. I expect the pace to pick up very soon and very significantly. Major media has let us down significantly over the last ten years, but it's still vital to know what's being reported. go.bsky.app/2JyEju6

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Landon Reid @andmayhemensued.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello my strange little onions

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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 12/11/2024

So I guess we're just doin bigger numbers every day now. This is pretty damn exciting and I'm glad y'all are here and justifying the time we spent investing in scaling. Really feels special to see this 20% day over day growth in activity and the "fresh of breath air" new users are experiencing. 💜

Graph of users over time and new users over time over the past 14 days from October 30th until the start of November 12th.
We start with 13.5M users and end at 14.5M users.
Each day shows a bar of new users per day and it keeps increasing, now adding over 200k new users per day.

Graph of firehose traffic over the past 6 hours overlaid with lines from yesterday, a week ago, and 4 weeks ago.

Average event rate increased from 150/sec 4 weeks ago to 292/sec a week ago to 543/sec yesterday to 677/sec today.

Event rate has increased by 15-20% daily over the past 6 days.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

You can watch the new users coming in here @mrjamesob.bsky.social About 1 every second at present bsky-users.theo.io

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello BlueSky! We are the world's oldest English-language academic history journal and will be looking to rebuild our online community here. Please follow and share. (It may take me a while to get the hang of yet another platform...)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/11/2024

I don't mean to be the Mr. Rogers of Bluesky (I say "fuck" too much for that), but I did want to say for the new folks it's okay to be sad about the former Twitter, and everything that was lost there. I was sad about it too when I finally left. It's a real place with real memories. I mourned a bit.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Folks Jack Dorsey has zero to do with Bluesky. Early on he was spouting his usual bullshit about unmoderated platforms and the users chased him off the site. (He doesn’t believe in moderation but can’t handle getting yelled at.) Not long after that he quit the board and washed his hands of the site.

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