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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like there's a really good chance that Trump doubles down and escalates the conflict now for no reason other than crashing out over people in the GOP breaking from him

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

who's up for robbing banks while shouting "stop the boats" so no-one arrests us?

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spot-on. Europe is strewn with the bodies of centre-right parties who decided that the best way of countering the rise of the far right was to adopt some of their rhetoric and policies. Not that the Tories here would dream of making the same mistake, of course.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*this is a sub-epistle*

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you

Rishi Sunak stood on a lecturn speaking which has a STOP THE BOATS sign on it

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 18/09/2026

this is a hell of a 🧵

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More signs that the government (and police) have just quiet quit. Plus I hate to be That Weasel but I feel that if Just Stop Oil or Palestinian Actionhad been doing this sort of thing the response would have been different. Imagine if Just Stop Oil had been knocking BP tanker drivers unconscious

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The whole world got together and banned CFCs and the ozone layer repaired itself once humanity stopped pumping the destroying molecules into the air, you absolute bellend.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026

Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This latest piece from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social should be pause for thought - even for Brexiteers. We're seeing America retreat into itself in front of our eyes. Like minded countries really need to come together, and do more between themselves. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Latest in @theatlantic.com . What we are seeing now is US weakness across the board. The American Age is over. What comes next will be very different. Gift link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The End of the American Age

The Iran war marks the conclusion of eight decades of global dominance.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

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polytoken dot dev @polytoken.dev · 15/09/2026

nobody else has the steel moral core to tell you the truth in release notes

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Love the Irish🇮🇪

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The British press has been extremely hostile towards Amnesty International, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam and others for decades because *they offer rival narratives that the public might listen to*, and that is not acceptable, to them.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026

How it started / How it's going

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Were I the prime minister, right now the chief constable and police & crime commissioner for Kent would be in my office having a meeting strictly without tea or biscuits, and this evening I’d be doing a broadcast reassuring the nation that fascist mobs will not be tolerated on our streets.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026

There's a lot of people, from the parliamentary party downwards who have just not clocked how radical Farage is, and how that is accelerating, and think a Reform government will essentially be rebadged bog standard Toryism.

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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Maybe lots of Kent police had booked leave to attend an event in Dover today?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

My first draft would be something like: "Masked thugs plotting to shut down major infrastructure under the threat of street violence is unacceptable. Those responsible will face the full force of the law". But that's just me, I guess.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

1) This is an attack on infrastructure and they should throw the book at all of them. 2) This is an absolutely outrageous response from a Reform councillor and shows how deeply unserious they are.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Arrest and charge them, publish their names, inform their employers - these people do not get to hide behind their balaclavas.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollster JL Partners' slogan - "giving you the conviction to lead" - has really taken on a new meaning tonight...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026

A: Where should we eat? B: I’m happy to go anywhere! A: Me too. I don’t care where we go. B: Same. Any restaurant you have in mind? A: No, I’ll go to literally any restaurant. Any area more convenient for you? B: No, every location in existence is convenient for me. buff.ly/wrtqwo0

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With God as My Witness, I Will Not Pick the Restaurant

Our 13th most-read piece of the year. 7/25/23 7/28/24 8/3/25 8/29/26 CALENDAR 2027

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You shouldn't say "y'all" unless you're from the area covered by the Tennessee Valley Authority. That's because it's an Appalachian Controlée

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton Troubled To Find God Illiterate theonion.com/dolly-parton-troubled-…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Still unbeaten. RIP

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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