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Knows and does: some science, some music. Here for: more science, more music, art, history and context. And something funny.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nature is effing ridiculous!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Adrian de la Touche @anoraky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
90 years ago today the people of Leeds drove the fascists out of our city. It’s more important now than ever that we keep it that way.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Absolutely right. Mr Burnham must run Britain just like Sir Jim Ratcliffe has run Manchester United. Like Britain, ManU was once a proud global giant. But like the UK, the club had entered a lengthy period of stagnation. Since Ratcliffe took over at Man Utd this once proud club has oh wait
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026
I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me
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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys
A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house.  A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it.  It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️
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London misperceptions: public often wrong on capital's crime, quality of life, contribution to public finances and Muslim population | King's College London
A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Post Office told wrongly-accused postmasters that their compensation offers were secret, and couldn't be shown to anyone. That was false. The Solicitors Regulation Authority was about to prosecute the lawyers responsible. But now it's dropped the case, and won't say why.
Having considered the representations and other information received from the Firm we have decided to close the investigation. Our view is that the Firm exercised proper professional judgment when coming to a decision on the legal position as regards the explanation of the “without prejudice” label in the correspondence that was sent to sub-postmasters relating to the Horizon Shortfall Scheme.

The SRA will close the matter with no further action.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
imagine an orphan crushing machine. i hate the machine and i hope we can dismantle it. but if the man who helped build the orphan crushing machine falls into it? buddy i’m gonna crack a smile.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/08/2026
Everyone say it with me now: "I will not fall off a ladder this weekend!" Yes! You're doing it!
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Elanor @elanorandthearts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“The bloke’s lost his nail gun and he’s out there trying to build a deck with a rock while calling himself a master builder.” This is the dog’s bollocks.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's so blazingly obvious that this is true. A university lecturer being fired for plagiarism would not be national news >99% of the time. It was inflated into one this time purely because it fit into racist "culture war" narratives about "DEI".
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps
Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine.  The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
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Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com · 03/08/2026
It's gonna take money, a whole lotta spending money, and it's gonna take patience and time: but in the meantime Leeds United can't afford letting Brenden Aaronson go. Liverpool 2-4 #LUFC: To do it right
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Liverpool 2-4 Leeds United: To do it right
It's gonna take money, a whole lotta spending money, and it's gonna take patience and time: but in the meantime Leeds United can't afford letting Brenden Aaronson go.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Help @wired.com figure out what working in tech is like -- especially if you are not a man -- in the age of AI! We need to hear from the people. Take this survey, send it to your friends and foes, sing it from the rooftops, tattoo it on your body, etc., etc. se1.decipherinc.com/survey/selfs...?
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
would v much be interested in filling my East London sports pub (Stratford) with women/nb/queer people for the next few World Cup games if anyone would be interested in our currently quite free table ressies (fiver per four seats, goes to CALM charity)
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There are lots of temporary DIY solutions/bodges on the diyuk Reddit forum to temporarily block the window and have the hose exit through whatever you are using to block the window. Some are a beautiful testament to human ingenuity.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is incredible, though I am attaching below a post critiquing the framing on TikTok…
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Still remember reading your book. Suddenly the penny dropped: "my god, the armed wing were terrorists", and then feeling the contradiction of ends and means.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yes - friend has done that. They're a local party member and afaik went and volunteered in other areas. Best route probably through your local party ?
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/04/2026
If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/04/2026
Encounters with MPs in retail environments is exactly the kind of bank holiday weekend content I'd like, please do keep them coming
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Markets aren't too good at this sort of thing.
Graph of German CDAX index 1930-1950 showing how it peaked during the Barbarossa campaign before being frozen after Stalingrad and plunging when the markets finally reopened after the war.
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btngnrtn @btngnrtn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#lufc fans rightly dragging Ipswich and Sunderland over Farage see also:
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Leeds kept trying to pierce this defence, like someone trying to push a balloon through a dry stone wall" - perfect - always worth the sub !!
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The job market is tough for young people atm, but the London Wildlife Trust has PAID traineeships available for those looking to get into nature recovery and conservation Deadline is this Sunday 22nd March, so be quick careers.wildlondon.org.uk/job/c00274af...
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Keeping it Wild Trainees - Job page - London Wildlife Trust
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Experts agree with you. This paper in Nature and a bunch of articles based on the work explore exactly this issue. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
 Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in th...
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CarsmileSteve @carsmilesteve.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!
A five by five bingo card, here are the things to look out for:
Top row: 80's bed linen, obscure musical instrument, bed too small for over 6ft person, CRT TV/Monitor, tumble dryer
Second row: exercise bike (as clothes horse), DALEK, 90s or earlier games console, too much crafting stuff, single beds for long term partners
Middle row: old cuddly toy, bed on tiles/lino, DUVET, multiple labubus, bare plaster board
Fourth row: bed next to fridge, 4+ Jilly Cooper novels, definitely dead house plant, caravan, large collection of jigsaws
Bottom row: giant buzz ball, "curtains" that are not curtains, scary dolls, bed under table, power tools.
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
So are we using this Bingo card again this year? #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/12/2025
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
THIS IS SO GOOD
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Here's a view on what should happen to it !
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Let Kinloch Castle fall into curated decay – and become the ruin that Scotland needs | Fraser MacDonald
Let’s embrace the managed decline of this monument to wealth, power and domination, says geographer Fraser MacDonald
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Agreed ! This short More or Less on tennis scores at the pro level is interesting. Also highlights the difference between the men's and women's game. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Dennis Morris (still on at the Photographers Gallery and his books are available). Exhibition is wider ranging than the music work he is most famous for. Brilliant social observer. Superb exhibition. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘You can almost smell the marijuana’ – Dennis Morris, the boy photographer who made Bob Marley catch fire
He got his first cover shot at the age of 11. By 14, he was touring with a reggae legend, who taught him how to smoke. And he has spent the rest of his life chronicling Black British experience and so...
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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🧵Little story- one of those which, if I hadn't seen it myself, but you told me about it, I wouldn't have believed you. I’m in my local shop & one of the street's loud young characters comes in - proper Bemmie, always seems to have a can & be up to something. You can imagine...
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Telecaster @telecaster1972.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Vegan roast veggie frittata ? Recently had a delicious one as part of a meat/fish filled picnic and it was a great balance to the rest of food.
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coffindodger.bsky.social @coffindodger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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