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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure this is where a desk goes Temu

Image from Temu showing a desk placed on top of a bed

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Meet the Telegraph's new edgy columnist.

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Cards Against Humanity @cardsagainsthumanity.com · 12/08/2026

www.SadLittleBitchWithNoFriends.com

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 03/08/2026

After years of hype, and trillions of dollars, the AI boom will leave us with a captured economy, a corrupted democracy, and a devastated environment. We can't let them get away with it. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No security agent deserves this assignment Donarrhea

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 30/07/2026

imagine there's a wildfire going on and you look out at the treeline and see this thing just standing there staring back at you from amidst the inferno

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Taking the opportunity to repost this story (from John Boorman’s book) about how shooting the last shot of Zardoz caused Sean Connery to fall into so fierce a rage it led to a man changing his identity

Zed eventually destroys the Vortex, giving the Immortals the gift of death. He survives with Charlotte Rampling and they have a child together. The final sequence is done in a single shot with a fixed camera.
Sean and Charlotte are sitting side by side in a cave with the baby. The baby becomes a child, the child becomes a youth, gets up and leaves them without looking back; they get older, then become ancient, and finally just their skeletons remain, which eventually crumble to dust.
Only then does the camera move. It tracks in to a handprint on the wall of the empty cave, like the cave painting of primitive man in Lescaux, suggesting that this future world could have been in the past, and that as that civilisation ended, ours began.
This shot took an entire day to shoot. The actors had to be removed and make-up applied incrementally to add the years. Sean has a delicate skin and hates make-up. He had to endure it all day. He became more and more irascible. This was the last day of shooting. We had the wrap party that night. Sean had a golf tournament to go to the next day. I had to hold him until the morning for the laboratory report. The call came at 6 a.m. There was a fault in the film stock. It would have to be redone. Sean was apoplectic. He stormed and raged, but it had to be done.
We reassembled with our hangovers and started again. A long day, hours of make-up, Sean smarting from his suffering skin. Finally it was done. The clapper-loader took the magazine from the camera to prepare

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it for the lab. A few minutes later he came to me, trembling and ashen-faced. He looked so devastated, I thought someone had been killed or that the Third World War had started. I was almost relieved when he admitted that he had opened the can by mistake and exposed the film to daylight.
Sean would not believe me. "Is this your idea of a joke?' he fumed.
Finally convinced he would have to do it for a third time, he erupted. It was a terrifying sight. He roared, he ran amok. He went after the clapper-loader. He tried to kill him. It took four strong men to subdue him.
Twenty years later I was drinking coffee in Starbucks in Venice, California, when I was approached by a man with a familiar face. I couldn't place it. He reminded me that he was the clapper-loader who had exposed the film. He had fled the country immediately after this catastrophe, changed his identity, and was now a cameraman shooting commercials in LA. As we parted, he said, with an ironic smile, but also with a trace of fear, "Sean's not in town, is he?'

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/07/2026

For no reason I'm remembering the bit in Going Postal where Reacher Gilt, faced with declining sales because of the re-opened Post Office, makes outlandish claims for what the Clacks will soon be able to do, knowing he can't actually do it. Cause that doesn't matter. For no reason.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026

One of 2026's better tech-related coinages is "dickover," John Gruber's term for > a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction... 1/

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Didn't know Bellingham was from Stourbridge. So why the hell are they playing Wonderwall and not something by Neds, PWEI or the Wonderstuff?

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Emma □ feet @scary-lil-emma.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups. These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report. *be a shame if people kept sharing it. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

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Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Can Belgium find a larger brown envelope than the US?

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 02/07/2026

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

CERN has to be real. Why do the days magically feel longer again? I keep looking at the clock in disbelief.

Honestly... I can feel the immediate difference with CERN turning off. It's like turning off the annoying big light in the house that's been on for last 4 years. It's like finally getting some quiet after being immersed in a screaming heavy death metal concert or rave for days and days. It's like there's no restrictions. No hindrances. No more delays. I feel free.

They turned off CERN and now the days feel twice as long. I'm TIRED

Call me crazy, whatever ya whatever you want but since CERN shut down their machine time IS slower (i saw somewhere that our minutes are actually 60 seconds long again after being 45 seconds since COVID, ive had a mild frontal headache for 2 days and just had this weird energy around me. I can't be the only one, right?!

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This sounds like a them problem

Screenshot of a tweet saying "JUST IN: Anthropic CEO says AI companies need hundreds of billions in revenue, or they'll go bankrupt."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026

The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6... 1/

Three early 20th C newsies in pageboy caps, surround by hovering, staring robots, flying on jets of flame.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 24/06/2026

GP on the BBC this morning parroting the oft-heard “stay indoors between 11 and 3 because the sun is hottest then”. The sun is *most intense* then, that’s the time of day you’re most at risk of sunburn. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-6. Thinking you’re safer at 5 is daft.

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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Palantir who were supposed to help NHS hospitals speed up treatment have actually slowed down operations. Probably because Doctors have to double check their AI BS which is always wrong.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

By the way. If you want your (UK) kids to be able to do what the fuck they like on the internet because you’re not some fucking weird Mumsnet Nazi, Firefox now has a free 50gb per month VPN built in.

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

No-one in the government had heard of Bluesky before today, had they?

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Why is Paramount+'s new Among Us cartoon flagged as a Kids show, then rated 18+...

Screenshot of Among Us cartoon flagged as a Kids show and rated 18+

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 08/06/2026

mstdn.party/@nswigger/11...

Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@dreadships.bsky.social What goes around... Russians have started painting their logistics vehicles with dazzle camouflage in an attempt to confuse AI-assisted targeting systems used by Ukrainian mid-range strike drones.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We really need to fully bed in the idea that the default position of someone wearing the Meta camera glasses is that they are a pervert

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

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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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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

'I’m not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.' Words from man standing in the middle of a bin fire he's spent two years stoking. :-/ #starmer

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

That’s not really what the polling station is for

Julie Bindel Y @bindelj
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Just had the most satisfying time at the polling station. I told the Green Party rep exactly how I felt about their policies. He was ashen by the end of it. Serves him right.
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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is why we all need to vote, because the people who believe leaflets like this absolutely will.

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Wait, I thought they were trying to make it funnier?

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just goes to show that the only people impressed by artificial intelligence are those with no intelligence of their own

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Well, that's one way to fill pot-holes

Advert containing an image of mature women standing in front of a road full of pot-holes, with the tagline "Welling: This Is The Truth About 'No Fuss' Cremations"

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Green MP Hannah Spencer expands her property empire by owning Matt Goodwin

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/02/2026

Labour did everything the popularists like Matt Yglesias want. They cracked down on trans people and immigrants. They pushed austerity. They ended up fracturing their entire base and losing this seat to the left for the first time in nearly a 100 years.

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thirdman @thirdmanuk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

*buys pallet of beef Hula Hoops*

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

That’s what’s up.

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