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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Pasture lives: the rebel cheesemakers preserving an Alpine tradition
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Pasture lives: the rebel cheesemakers preserving an Alpine tradition
Storico ribelle is produced by a small group of mountain herders according to a traditional farming system based on seasonal and rotational grazing
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Second Captains @secondcaptains.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Richie Sadlier On Squad Dynamics And The FAI’s Handling Of The Israel Saga. www.secondcaptains.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
‘Hanuman displaying the images stored within his heart', Kalighat folk style painting, c.1880
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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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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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/08/2026
Update: YouTube appears to be backing down from their threat. We’ll know for sure on Saturday, when we are “scheduled” for deletion. But the false complaints have disappeared and videos have been restored. Thanks to all who helped us make noise. It got someone’s attention. I’ll keep you posted.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Darwin in my spirit animal
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Guys, you ever defend your mate against charges of being an abusive nonce by generating an AI image of him in heaven surrounded by fawning, buxom young women?
Where the fuck do you even start? A tweet from Julie Hartley-Brewer, responding to someone saying, of Rod Liddle, "May God give him what he deserves".

Her text reads "Don't worry, Roshan, I'm sure Rod Liddle is getting exactly what he deserved" atop an image of Rod - Rod Liddle - being served a glass of wine by God himself in heaven, while being fawned over by five nubile young women, presumably heaven's unpaid interns.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
A crappy photoshop paint image with a red star on blue, in comic sans is the message 'some people on the internet aren't American'
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Just finished your GTOs and Peaches En Regalia episodes, both fantastic as usual and containing more knowledge than I could ever hope to retain. Thank you sincerely for doing what you do.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 26/07/2026
It's the @mobute.bsky.social tweet all over again
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In all likelihood a human skull, but you’d never know it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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What’s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine?
After a Kyiv visit, rightwing firebrand now supports Ukraine – but perhaps it’s just because Trump favors a winner
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Elon Musk says he will write a funny post by the end of 2030.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026
Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brilliant
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Those assembly turn cranks that won't get thrown in the trash
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
How much more of this shit
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Oh god ted fucking lasso
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Oh god oh god
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Oh god
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rise and grind
4 panel momo comic:

Panel 1: momo in bed. We see the sun has risen through the bedroom window. Text reads “I wake up”

Panel 2: momo behind his table. There’s a coffee pot and a pink cup of coffee on it. Text reads “pour myself a little coffee”

Panel 3: he’s in a chair behind the table with an opened laptop and a glass of water. It says “check my little emails”

Panel 4: we see he left his house. Door still a little bit open. Text: “ignore them a little bit” as momo gleefully goes to play outside rather than answering his work duties
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@secondcaptains.bsky.social Kudos Ken: “…a siege situation in small spaces suits their subtle skills.” www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ken Early: Thomas Tuchel’s all-time bottle job hands Argentina World Cup final place
Substitutions backfire for England, as Lionel Messi helps inspire Argentina’s comeback to make final
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ceej @ceej.online · 23/10/2023
Everybody on planet earth has the same number of hours in the day, and yet some people are just plain more successful than others. That’s why Silicon Valley is working on a device to remove hours from underperformers (poor people, kids, poets,) and transfer them to deserving CEOs
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A quote from my book THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY. There's an ebook sale on this book now for only $2.99 -- get it cheap while it lasts:
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those that struggle to live." -- Kendzior View From Flyover Country essay
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Social media bans are popular because they seem pleasingly dramatic to those of us who have neuroses about our own screen time, and wish to launder them as concerns for children’s safety. They’re also a “free hit”, since the adult population are slow to be moved by the harms such bans might cause children, and governments care even less since they exclusively affect people who can neither vote nor put money in their coffers.
A serious approach to mitigating online harms is possible. Such measures are, in fact, already enshrined in laws we refuse to enact. We could hold tech companies materially responsible for the bile and misinformation they spread. We could institute moderation and controls, with severe legal and financial penalties, for platforms such as X that profit from the spread of child abuse imagery and racial hatred. We could improve media literacy by teaching our children how to spot slop, misinformation and spam in the wild, perhaps teaching ourselves a little about that task in the process.Tech giants are materially invested in all the worst aspects of the modern web. The hatred, the bile, the scams and the misinformation all exist because someone somewhere is making a lot of money, influence or political capital from their existence. It’s in their power to change it, and I believe it’s in ours to make them do so.
Increasingly, however, it seems like we’ve decided to punish our children instead, banning them via processes that will not make the web safer for any of us but will – surprise surprise – allow those very same tech companies to make an additional killing by implementing age verification.The current UK recommendations suggest social media blackouts for under-16s, with a further “curfew” mooted for 16- to 17-year-olds, restricting access to their accounts after a certain time of day.
Never mind that we are asking young people to be isolated from services and platforms now so intrinsic to modern life that they are how most of us get all our news and entertainment, maintain social relationships and acquire employment.
Never mind that bypassing these restrictions will be so elementary as to be pointless, with the added benefit of criminalising kids who do so. Never mind that a 16-year-old in Britain might soon be legally eligible to fight and die in a war but not to watch a YouTube video after dark.
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Elon Musk did that.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh my god just say something
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
No surprise This was designed to fail Me & @judesherry.bsky.social called it out in piece for Irish Examiner (Oct '22) We also raised it in the Oireachtas (Oct '25) But all falling on deaf ears 'cos its a manufactured housing crisis Time for 'Use It or Lose It' so we have homes not #DerelictIreland
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This was designed to fail
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social called it out in piece for Irish Examiner (Oct '22)
We also raised it in the Oireachtas (Oct '25)
But all falling on deaf ears 'cos its a manufactured housing crisis
Time for 'Use It or Lose It' so we have homes not #DerelictIreland
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Today would be a fantastic day for it to happen
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This 👇 "I was shocked when all those 900 names were printed on the front page of the Examiner. I thought there would be an outrage,” she said. "Do Cork people not care? All those little children and young babies. And does the church not care?” #Bessborough www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Michael Moynihan: Do we care enough to stop flats being built on Bessborough babies' remains?
Michael Moynihan contrasts the respect for the children and babies buried at Bessborough to that of the human remains found during building work five years ago elsewhere in Cork
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Rage against the hydration break www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Fifa unites the world – in anger at hydration breaks (AKA ad breaks) | Barney Ronay
Fans, players and coaches have voiced their indignation at the way the game is massively altered by the four-quarter structure
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traceofwaste @traceofwaste.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The truly deplorable David Frum.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
They're using Rhino Pipeliner 5000, which freezes as sprayed-on curds almost exactly as it hits the surface. Won't flow out, flatten, and self-level like standard epoxy or paint would. Under standing water, the orange peel texture is a perfect scaffolding for algae, bacteria, and general bio scum
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃
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