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Robbie Bett

@teespirit.bsky.social
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Fan of comedy, facts, food, sport, computers, nature. All © ® and TM's due their respective owners. Blue Sky's premier half wisp

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
UK parents - is your child using Bluesky after 8:30? LOL - Let’s Overanalyse Laughs WTF - Where Twitter Followers? IDGAF - I Daily Glimpse Alf Filth JFC - Jay, Former CEO BTW - Blocked, Takes Weak LMAO - Like My ATProto Opinion STFU - Share Trump Funnies Unceasingly
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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Great, spot-on piece in the FT by Ed Luce on the world's far right trillionaire-to-be and his attempt to stoke civil war in the UK "a country in which he has never lived and of which he is galactically ignorant". www.ft.com/content/77af...
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Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain
The X owner is using his platform to amplify extremist opponents of multiculturalism in Britain
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My first in a series of World Cup collages for @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Also, umm, another big reason not to allow US-hosted AI tools to become a core feed into production because they can be turned off at whim.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Super cool go give AI tech companies your data instead of social media tech companies
Starmer outlines new government Al initiatives for young people and jobseekers
Moving on from online harm, Starmer turns to young people.
He says they need to be equipped for the future workforce, announcing that Al tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap.
He adds that Al is already helping in places, delivering faster diagnoses in the NHS and reducing court backlogs.
The prime minister also announces the government's new Al job tool "to help those out of work find the right jobs, create their CVs and get back into work".
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Weird how no one in the media ever seemed to ask why the popular Labour candidate for Clacton was dumped with no real explanation when it looked like he was going to walk it
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have questions.
A man looking out of the window of his sleeper train, as it flies through the air somewhere to the east of Westminster Bridge, presumably moments before Portcullis House is destroyed in a bizarre flying sleeper train disaster. He seems unpeturbed by his imminent death.
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
So let's make it more likely there'll be more 'left behinds' by allowing pension funds to make riskier investments and banning cash ISAs for under 60s meaning everyone under 60 has to make more speculative bets on overpriced shares. 👍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Three-quarters of workers not on track for 'moderate' pension income, report suggests
A newly-published report suggests a moderate lifestyle in retirement costs £32,700 for one person and £45,400 for two.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
But you said AI was never sick :(
AI ad:

She outworks everyone.
And she'll never ask for a raise.
Meet your new Al employee.
Always on, never sick and no HR required.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
91 free zones in the UK. £64bn of public money. Zero parliamentary debate on the detail. Zero press coverage of the process. Each zone is a statutory instrument, becoming law in 40 days. No vote required. Zone Fever, the silent scandal that must be exposed. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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The Sovereign Individual Goes Local: How UK Free Zones and SEZs Enact the Billionaire Exit Playbook
Ninety-one zones, £64 billion, zero debate. How Britain was carved into corporate enclaves one statutory instrument at a time.
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
YouTube is now practically 'Jackanory tell me an AI story' filled with endless scam ads
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
They’re burning wood to power data centres in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/k...
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Keir Starmer's Government Allows UK's Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood
Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/06/2026
(Labour didn't get it badly wrong on inheritance tax for farmers – it's ended up reinstating a tax loophole that means working tenant farmers have to compete with billionaires seeking tax breaks to buy farmland. It's also why farmland's value is inflated vs its revenue capacity.)
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. 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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/06/2026
Please, please start putting iced buns on lampposts
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Briton Teespirit has been exiled from 'Rothermere Bog Roll' @dailymail.co.uk cos he said something they disagreed with & wouldn't gift him loads of benefits for giving a critical voice that didn't blow smoke up their/pointless columnist Hitchens arse. More contrived BS as we get it. #PotholeFillers
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In his latest ring-piece @teespirit.bsky.social in 'Rothermere Bog Roll' rightly states how being a columnist is the ultimate non-job that produces nothing of value, how columnists should be on minimum wage and be made to fill pot-holes for 35 hours per week for a real societal benefit. #ProperOpEd
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cut to Farage getting free wall-to-wall coverage of him saying 'The wokeist, leftist, socialist Westminster elite are forcing me to grass on my friends' the Faragista consequently lap it up as yet more 'proof' Nigel is against corruption and is anti-establishment. 🙄 #GriftformLLC
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Lots of nostalgia for Tony Blair. But all those mainly Conservative commentators praising him have yet to account for his involvement in the brazen corruption of Trump’s Peace Council scam. Utterly discrediting and discreditable
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Debating Room @debatingroom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"The lefty woke are against us putting our flag up anywhere nowadays." It's illegal to attach flags to lampposts and other street furniture under section 132 of the Highways Act 1980. This act was passed under Margaret Thatcher's Government, a Conservative hero of Nigel Farage...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system
NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/05/2026
Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/05/2026
The most dangerous wrong ideas in public policy are the ones that sound so intuitively true that any attempt to push back or even nuance them can be sneeringly dismissed as academic foolishness that flies in the face of 'common sense'. I... may have written a book about this. 👀
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I wonder how those targeted by ICE, including violently, using Palantir technology feel about the company's alignment with "public safety". And honestly, the British business secretary should devote far less time to delivering Palantir's sales pitch. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked
London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@mancity.com If there's a trophy presentation at the stadium for the final game, it might be a nice touch to invite Villa to bring theirs to show their fans?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22/05/2026
Look, I don't understand quantum computing, but I do know funny when I see it as.ft.com/r/b9c435d5-c...
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Crypto industry braces for quantum computing threat
Threat to code that underpins bitcoin has moved ‘from theoretical to credible’, industry figures warn
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here's Johnny
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Correction 115 allegations of financial breaches (lots doubled up,actual unique allegations ~40 most, if not all, were covered by UEFA's [broadly failed] case). Southampton=simplier case. But maybe S will eventually get a blind eye job like Liverpool? www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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FA explain why they have ended Liverpool hacking claims investigation
Manchester City scouting database was allegedly accessed by Liverpool employees but no action will be taken because two clubs had already agreed a settlement.
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Southampton football club committed the cardinal sin of not being Liverpool when it comes to shady dealings, FA and @migueldelaney.bsky.social will never let it go. #IndefiniteQuestionsToAnswer www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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FA explain why they have ended Liverpool hacking claims investigation
Manchester City scouting database was allegedly accessed by Liverpool employees but no action will be taken because two clubs had already agreed a settlement.
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Someone tell cadet bonespurs (aka the arrogant-ignorant twerp in the WH) we're sitting some way behind the hotel booking lines. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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2026 World Cup: Empty rooms & Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear washout
The 2026 Fifa World Cup was supposed to provide a tourism boom for the United States, but now the fear is that may never materialise.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I want to buy a new Porsche. But first I need to lie about throwing a fire extinguisher at the Capitol on Jan 6.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Putting former Barclays bankers in charge of financial regulators usually ends in disaster. Worth remembering the role of ex Barclays investment banker Sir Callum McCarthy, a man who didn't actually believe in financial regulation, as chair of the FSA from September 2003 to September 2008.
excerpt from Ian Fraser's Shredded: Inside RBS [NatWest] The Bank That Broke Britain, on former FSA chairman Sir Callum McCarthy.
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Arsenal's title is tainted due to the fact they cheated to get in to the top flight in 1919. #TheGamesGone #NoHistory #KronkeClub #BSDiscreditingFootballFanWarpedLogic
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Shhh, don't tell anyone, but if all the Beeching lines were kept open (& loss making at the same rate as when they were ordered closed) we'd still be ~£40bn better off. We'd have a better train connected country [with fewer LDN feeder lines](but fewer nice cycle paths) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
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HS2: Railway could cost up to £102.7bn and may not open until 2039, transport secretary says
Heidi Alexander tells the Commons the railway, originally estimated to cost £32.7bn, will now cost somewhere between £87.7-102.7bn.
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Max Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Let's get this straight, UK gov is concerned people aren't saving enough for pensions? Is this the same UK gov who want more people under 60 gambling their ISA cash on stocks&shares, because they'd rather that money gets laundered by companies to be hidden in tax haven accounts of those companies?🤔
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 16/05/2026
"Blessed are the pissmakers"
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Finally, not being funny is starting to pay dividends 🥳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hundreds of comedians unpaid by one of UK's biggest comedy festivals
Leicester Comedy Festival says it is committed to paying comedians but waiting on money themselves.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Me explaining what the £5 million was for.
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CaptKarnstein @captkarnstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.
Otto, Elaine, and Striker in Airplane!
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Quick, spend 4 figures + to be on a bobbing petri dish for 2 weeks or more. 🕺
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasn't easy But nothing is, no"
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Robbie Bett @teespirit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Given how pedantic tax persons are, you'd have thought HMRC would've rebranded CGT to Illiquid Asset Value Appreciation Tax or Capital Uplift Not Tracked Tax? If someone gifts me £5m then I've gained Capital and it ought to be subject to Capital Gains Tax. It's literally money gained from nothing.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 12/05/2026
A quick reminder... Orwell feared we would kneel because we were afraid. Huxley feared we would kneel because it felt good. In Orwell’s world, obedience is compulsory. In Huxley’s, it is aspirational. #HuxleyNotOrwell #BraveNewWorld
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