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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck me, the CV of this guy. What a body of work.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Think it shows both the confused position of the govt and the relative powers of new/old media that the PM won't speak to The Sun but still uses the CSAM & disinformation app owned by the guy who advocates for the overthrow of the government.

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know that producing one pound of beef is 25-50x worse for climate change than burning a pound of coal? In fact, it’s one of the most polluting things we can consume. And grass-fed beef is usually *even worse* — thanks to its much higher land use and methane emissions.

Bar chart showing greenhouse gas emissions for different food items. Beef is the worst, by far.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i genuinely think about this every time theres any mention of narnia. one of the funniest things that have ever happened

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The promise of Israel is somewhere that Jews can be safe, no matter what else happens in the world. The mobs and death threats against the filmakers and their families suggest that, under Netanyahu, this only applies to Jews who support the government and armed forces.

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Final scene of Paddington 2 always has me in bits. Perfectly deployed emotion bomb

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shares this everywhere. Put it on billboards. Have schoolchildren recite it every day before class.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it’s easier to just say “whole planet’s doomed”. it takes away any agency or responsibility you have to fight for a better future, or even to just accept one you can’t imagine or won’t recognize. it’s suicidal ideation.

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i try to brighten my friends’ days by sharing good news whenever i see it, but this now being the third time i’ve seen very positive climate news lately, i’m gonna get a lil mean: climate doomerism is misinformation and spreading it, even just in jest, is antithetical to the values you espouse.

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Claire Oliphant @claireoliphant.com · 10/09/2026

It's easy to succumb to doomerism, but it's a lie. If we were able to get to the moon in <10 years, we can do this too. Hope is a verb.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The majority of Israeli PMs were secular Jews including David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir. *Netanyahu* is known to eat non-kosher meals. It's beyond absurd.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For a sign of how absurd this is, *Theodor Herzl* did not observe dietary laws particularly closely, did not keep Shabbat, and was not in any way religious!

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026

On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...

The close of his statement was an appeal to our better natures. If we were going to ask Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side, he said, Britain also had to be a place where “people of all faiths and none have a right to live without prejudice or fear.” Listening to him was Andy Burnham, who has been strangely absent from our public debate for the last few days. In August, we couldn’t move for social media clips from the prime minister, standing on a ladder to discuss his first job, or sitting in a pub to rate bar snacks. But faced with masked thugs trying to shut down British ports over the weekend, Burnham seems to have lost the password for his phone. For a decade now, Britain has had a series of leaders apparently paralysed by the fear that if they say that racism is bad, they’ll be voted out. It would be nice to get one who had a slightly higher opinion of us.

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Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Got to see Coyote vs ACME yesterday and it was fantastic. Here's my Etch-a-Sketch tribute!

Etch-a-Sketch drawing of Wile E. coyote, frowning, holding up a sign, which is a pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing that says "It's a limited number of signs"

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cannot move around this mineshaft for all the dead canaries piling up.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lol

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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better

There are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Been told to stick with the Bayeux Tapestry, as it gets good about four yards in.

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I mean, can we at least try to do this so that he loses his job, but without the gross granular personal bullying. It'll be hard as I reckon Orr is entirely without shame.

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Ed Finch @edfinch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sad news. The wonderful poet and farmer Wendell Berry has died. I love his work. He's best known for this wonderful poem 'The Peace of Wild Things' - I turn to it often.

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watched Zootropolis 2 again with the kids this afternoon and even more convinced that it's a masterpiece.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Autumn Warhammer Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your reminder that the English Beat icon "Beat Girl" is a transgender woman named Brigitte Bond from a photo of her dancing with ska musician Prince Buster at Heathrow in 1964 and none of us will be as cool as she was.

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's wet stuff coming out of the sky. No idea what's happening. Please advise.

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Comedy Club 4 Kids @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

South Woodford! FAMILIES IN THAT BIT OF LONDON! We're at Redbridge Drama Centre with TWO SHOWS on Wednesday 19th August! Join us to see @abigoliah.bsky.social MCing Sharifa Butterfly and @vanderlaugh.bsky.social! 🎫 visionrcl.org.uk/events/comed...

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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Will all policy announcements by parties with a handful of MPs be the top story on the BBC now, or is this a special exception for Reform going after the disabled?

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fuck me sideways, this is one of bleakest, most exploitative, morally repugnant stories I've ever read. The fact that there hasn't been a root and branch reform of press standards - including Piers Morgan being hung upside by his ankles indefinitely - is a shocking dereliction of duty.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/08/2026

The Count: One stake, ah ah ah, oh no Buffy: Sorry dude no exceptions

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

So, how are we all explaining the climate crisis to our young children? My 8 year old has been getting increasingly worried about the hosepipe ban. I've reassured him that we're not running out of water, but I reckon he can tell I'm hiding the big picture bad news from him...

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

<Opens podcast app> "Hi, I'm Andy Burnham, let me squeeze around this elephant to talk to you about bus fares." <Opens TikTok> "Andy again. Don't mind this massive trunk, here's a handy money-saving tip." <Opens sock drawer which is 99.9% elephant> "Hallo citizen..."

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 10/08/2026

good day to share my favourite HP dunk

FOUNDER OF HOGWARTS: okay, so we all know there are four types of kid: brave, smart, evil and miscellaneous.
SCHOOL BOARD: yes, continue.

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Ben Van der Velde @vanderlaugh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

YES! This needs to be tattoed on the brain of every educator and student in the world. The heart of the nub of the point.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m in awe, this is incredible. www.instagram.com/reel/DbsUZ-8...

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J¡m Vaughn @jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

*skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* *skip* -me, in the car, after starting my favorites playlist

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