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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When did we suddenly decide not only were companies no longer responsible for the dangerous products they sell and the harm those products do, but for some reason they aren’t even responsible when they are active participants in that harm? Was it when the money involved got real big?

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Keith Hyland @keith1275.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

time for this again...

two New York Times headlines: one reads "Iran Says Dozens Killed in Strike on School" other reads "9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem Sfter Iranian Missle Strike"
The first headline casts doubt and shows no reponsibility, the second is stated as fact and names actor.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/10/2026

Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The activities in Fairford appear to be an overconfident, poorly planned, operation to steal large quantities of fuel oil. But enough about the US Military

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Ben Elton's Politics Bit

Alt: Early 1989s Ben Elton,with long hair, making a joke about a little bit of politics

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)

A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Impressive first half; Ireland haven't let them settle at all

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trying to install the Hotel California app

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/09/2026

People, what are we even doing anymore

A can of pickle lemonade, which, as you might surmise, has pickle juice and lemonade

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Try and be selective about who you hate. It really does you no favours to hate the RNLI.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When JD Vance says the Antichrist is walking amongst us, I fear that he might have firsthand knowledge

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Gledster @gledster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so it's clear where England stands right now. The lady in the photo below, retired vicar Sue Parfitt, who is 84 years old, is considered a terrorist and was arrested 6th July. The masked group in the photo below are not considered terrorists & were allowed to roam freely.

A police officer detains Reverend Sue Parfitt (image (c) 2026 PA Media).

Sue is 84 years old and was seated peacefully at an anti-genocide Palestine Action protest. There's another protestor visible in the photo. There are also 4 police officers.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The UK produces only 1% of global emissions therefore Reform wants to scrap net zero. The UK has only 0.1% of global homicides so perhaps, by the same reasoning, Reform will turn a blind eye to them too?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apple: Think Different is now Apple: Think Compliant

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Ada Loves Lace @adaloveslace.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

America: 'When are Iranian people going to rise up?' Iran: 'You have a democracy and you couldn't prevent an authoritarian from taking over.'

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was just watching “I’m Still Here”, a film about a family suffering under the Brazilian dictatorship, and one thing not discussed enough about the rise of fascism is: for a lot of people, it’s the perfect chance to unleash hate as a recreational activity. For them, it’s fun.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can the USA’s reputation ever recover? It seems like terminal decline now. The acquiescence is too much

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

This is a great, if thoroughly disheartening read. Teenagers have always sought something to fulfil their need to belong, to relieve the boredom in places where infrastructure and authority has utterly failed them. Why don't govts get that?

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.

Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.

Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(kicking down the door of your house) look at these Fucking numbers i made up

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Julia H-B was my neighbour in London. I'm sure it affected the value of my property.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reminds me of that great tweet which went something like “Americans check themselves into rehab for what the average Brit drinks on a two-hour train journey.”

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Lost in History, OBC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Dear BBC Reform are not the government Their figures are based on propaganda and lies Please act like a proper news organisation and cease fellating them in public

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Yerma Zaguddin @yermazaguddin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Have watched this go from one donation to almost £20k in little over a day, and its really heartening. I’ve shared it a couple times already so not asking for anything from my followers other than to consider sharing yourselves.

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HOLDING TOMMY ROBINSON TO ACCOUNT

I never expected to end up here. Tommy Robinson's accusation about me, a Glaswegian dad, went viral before it was ever checked - and I'm not willing to just let that stand, or let him do it again.

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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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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nothing on Ceefax page 150 yet

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It seems that arson is the new graffiti

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm gonna build a vape shop and a bookies on Dobby's grave x

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C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Denny Regrade Flattening hills to build Seattle, 1905-1930. Starting in 1897 and continuing through 1930, the hilly topography of central Seattle around Denny Hill was radically altered by a series of regrades, in what is thought to be the largest such alteration of urban terrain at the time.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 30/11/2023

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The distant sound of my rural neighbour's BBQ reminds me of The Wickerman. Slightly unsettling

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Burnham, Ban the sale and use of disposable BBQs from midnight tonight. Why not?

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Any chance of a table next to the toilet door, please?

Outdoor restaurant table beside sign reading, "Risk from falling objects"

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Tim Ripley @timripley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Doing my bit to save civilisation; I'm having a bonfire of all my old books to stop them falling into the hands of Al

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