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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 9h
Every day I am more and more certain of the accuracy of the sociological premise that most people learn that domination and inequality are "normal" due to socialization within the family unit. AKA a lot of people never get a chance to develop genuine empathy/learn signs of unhealthy relationships.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 13h
Year-round tomatoes and asparagus depend on heated glasshouses, abundant sunlight and long-distance transport – all of which come with costs.
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The end of endless summer: why cheap winter veg is under threat
Year-round tomatoes and asparagus depend on heated glasshouses, abundant sunlight and long-distance transport – all of which come with costs.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 14h
Those of us who do care, have got our work cut out and we can’t afford for “Made by Humans” to become some kind of “”Fairtrade” sticker on slightly more expensive stuff which only a minority of people actually give a shit about.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h
'Brexit in its current form has caused more harm than good and I think around 60% of the British public now hold that view' Andy Burnham says rejoining the EU could be among options the government could examine to reshape the UK's long-term relationship with Europe
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 13h
A painting of a bird beside the text "actually that's the least cool shit I've ever seen"
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 13h
Brexit revisited. New, unscheduled, post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on why Burnham's conference speech was a significant development in the Brexit saga, the questions and concerns it raises, and why it might come to be seen as a historic moment: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/brex...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17h
Pathetic…..
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 15h
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 13h
I know two or three card-carrying homosexuals (with beards) who could punch this guy’s head off without even spilling their drink.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 14h
The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 13h
This is what a confident Government does - engages with civil society in a meaningful way www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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No 10 gathering evidence on public support for rejoining the EU
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 12h
So that explains why recruitment numbers are so low rn
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 14h
Just updated eatf.art with a dozen new places to order Effin’ Birds calendars, books & cards online in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and France. Let me know if I've missed a great shop near you that's keeping my stuff in stock! Calendars are out now, and Effin’ Birds: 100 Postcards ships Oct 20th.
The cover of the Effin’ Birds 2027 box calendarThe cover of the 2027 Effin’ Birds wall calendarThe cover of the 2027 Effin’ Birds plannerthe cover of Effin’ Birds: 100 Postcards
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h
Sir you should rename data centers TRUMP centers. They should emit a sinister glow and a deafening screeching sound at all times. Local communities should be required to sacrifice an innocent life to them. For your glory sir. It'll help with the election
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 21h
To think there are still people out there talking about "targeted strikes" and "minimising civilian casualties". This is no different to what Russia has done in Eastern Ukraine.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20h
Almost a decade since London's Grenfell Tower fire disaster, police have asked prosecutors to consider charging 54 people and 20 organisations over the blaze, which killed 72 people.
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Met recommends charging 54 people, 20 organisations over Grenfell blaze
Almost a decade since London's Grenfell Tower fire disaster, police have asked prosecutors to consider charging 54 people and 20 organisations over the blaze, which killed 72 people.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 20h
How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center: another tale from Trumpland davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/when-i-hea...
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“When I hear the word culture”...
How a trash millionairess helped kill the Kennedy Center
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 22h
If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 21h
such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument)
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23h
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We can all argue about Burnham's speech but it meant girl twin asking me what the triple lock was and boy twin asking me what my preferred form of PR is. So it's done its work.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Morning Kittens (Design for your lifestyle)
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Undead Kat, The Oracle Near Delphi Falls. @originallabgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My son was told about affirmative consent his entire life, so much so that I was wrestling with the cat which was growling at me (not seriously and she was a cat who growled when she was playing also when she ate food) and my toddler son told me that the cat said no. That shit's not hard to teach.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is pretty funny that the theme of this year's Labour conference is "ANDY'S GIVEN US HOPE AGAIN", considering thst the theme of last year's was "SHUT THE FUCK UP ANDY FOR FUCK'S SAKE'
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What an arsehole
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We don't let people sell food that damages health"... Um, someone needs to take him to a Greggs.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"And so conference, I pledge to you today: another missing Hartnell episode, back at the BBC, by 2030 - AND an ambition to find a missing Troughton."
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
"I couldn’t help but think: Remind me why we shouldn’t impeach this guy again?" Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social:
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ashley Sykes Photographer 🐋 Whale & marine wildlife photography 🇦🇺 Australian east coast "It's finally here! The best time of the year - calf time! This is the time of the year when the calves come back south and they're so playful and full of life, such a joy to see! 🐋 This was from this morning."
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's just so many dimensions of this to like
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Beyond cute!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God the cliches though. Please stop with the cliches.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This isn't a particularly great speech but compared to Starmer it's Demosthenes.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burham is confirming an iron rule of employment - always try and replace someone who's been fired for incompetance as you'll look great in contrast.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
Almost immediately after his second term began, Trump started taking steps to try to control elections. “This is his fixation,” Marc Elias says. “This is the unifying force that holds the MAGA movement together.” They're betting you'll stop paying attention. Don't: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports. Watch Salama’s full discussion with host Adam Harris on Radio Atlantic about her reporting: youtu.be/_IYjrwG4r1I?...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026
Lord give me incremental change, but not today
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham's speaking voice is v much about adopting Orwell's rules 2, 3, 4 and 5 fron Poitics & the English language, probably consciiously as well as instinctively. I think he is the first PM to be an English graduate. (But I expect he will break rule 1 quite happily, eg Bank of Mum and Dad)
Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The wrong path = Thatcherism & Brexit [and new Labour partly, by inference] Hope Again is Attlee post-WW2 settlement until the 1980s. "The British right talk about taking back control but never forget they are the ones who gave it away in the first place".
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
weird al version of klingon opera
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026
Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube
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