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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 17h
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13h
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12h
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jenrick has wildly overshot the degree of racism that his cold-blooded political opportunism requires. Farage knows it is unwise to sound exactly like the National Front but ambitious new boy Jenrick does not. Most British racists require at least a thin veil for appearance's sake.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Keep your Great British lawn and your garden borders secure with the… WEEPING TOMMO™ From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know how writers you admire often share stuff when you’re busy and you think ‘yeah, they’re good but I haven’t really got time right now’? Well, get over yourself and make the time for this. Just don’t do it in an open-plan office. It’s NSFWBOTEL*. Well done, @mrhenrymorris.substack.com.
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Mark Francois’ Tory Conference Diary
Birmingham 2026 - as it happened
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐
Main on Sunday front page: 

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
John Cooper Clarke looks back: ‘Getting older sucks – it’s marginally better than being dead’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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John Cooper Clarke looks back: ‘Getting older sucks – it’s marginally better than being dead’ | Family | The Guardian
The punk poet on his heroin years, dressing like Ronnie Wood, and achieving his boyhood ambition
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Starting a temporary thread of threads so I can find stuff again, starting with a subject close to my heart...
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…
The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.'
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/09/2026
Humanity seems to tend to lose vast amounts of knowledge between great-grandparents and their children. The hard lessons learned about why reactionary authoritarians should never have power keeps getting lost. Silent Generation and the GI Generation conservatives learned it the hard way in WWII.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It takes a loading error to produce such candour.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean I know it's bad and the govt should say more about it. But god it's also pathetic. 100 twats in their crappy homemade outfits.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well to be fair to the police it's always awkward when your friends turn up at your work isn't it
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026
Ok, fine. Clearly you all won't calm down until I do this, so here it is: the definitive list of who is and is not English in alphabetical order... (1/58,722,468)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I am not done with her”. The language of a gangster. It’s a disgrace. Our legal system facilitates it, and the Government won’t act.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
Natalie Harp and her gigantic bag return to the White House last night #travelwithNatalie (Reuters/Anna Rose Layden)
pic of Harp walking toward the White House with a huge ass bag
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Hierarchy of Road Users is a thing that already exists. Wish more people knew about it tbh.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These are thugs being thugs, not legitimate protests
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Jonathan de Peyer @jondepeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With a forget-me-not pin supporting Alzheimer’s Society for Andy’s dad. Class that.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm proud to represent the interests of the man in the street. The street is in Thailand and the man is Christopher Harborne.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If they'd knocked down the disused barracks and built houses on the site Piddington wouldn't be having these issues but I'd bet my last Kruger Rand they'd object to that too #WarOnTheCountryside
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).
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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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Citizens Advice East Lancashire @citizensadviceel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Did you know about the free HMRC app? 📲👀 This is one of the apps that every UK taxpayer should have! Check your tax code, view your National Insurance number, track refunds, make payments, and access your personal tax information—all in one place. 📲 Try it out here 👉🏻 www.gov.uk/guidance/dow...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Should Britain learn from Denmark on integration? Or might Denmark and Sweden see what they might learn from Britain?
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bishops and Archbishops have voted against: abolition of slavery, abolition of death penalty, decriminalising abortion, decriminalising gay sex, same-sex marriage. So this is just the latest in long tradition of opposition to choice and freedom. It's scandalous that they get to vote on laws at all!
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For those in the US and UK.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
London Mayor Sadiq Khan : “London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. 1/
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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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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
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