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William Perrin

@willperrin.bsky.social
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Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.

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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 7h
Strictly is so enmeshed in its own cult it’s on a slow trajectory towards the original Strictly Ballroom - so you can’t make snappy jokes about it on the show, which he’d be good at.
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 7h
Do we get to vote Josh Widdicombe off? He looks miserable, knows it isn’t working
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h
Badenoch is first post-war Leader of Opposition to fall into third place in party polls for any sustained period (most of 18 months, Jan 2025-Sept 2026) Michael Foot did fall into third place but for only a very short period in Spring 1982: Labour often first, then a narrow second
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 9h
On this day 50 years ago, the revolutionary British Rail Inter-City 125 entered service. Fantastic to see a set restored into 1980s livery arrive at Manchester Piccadilly this afternoon. #TheJourneyShrinker
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 14h
Wearing jeans with formals shoes, tucked in shirt and suit jacket doesn't say casual dresser it just says man who forgot to pack suit trousers #CPC26 Nice kick, ball change though
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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h
Cash-Strapped Subway Threatens To Reveal Identities Of Customers Who Eat Subway If They Don’t Pay
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h
Everyone At Wedding Singles Table Cousins
Everyone At Wedding Singles Table Cousins
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 22h
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sky-high diesel prices have many farmers questioning Democrats’ decision to vote to release the Epstein files.
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I remember maybe 15 years ago being astonished the former BTP cells block opposite Pentonville Prison being largely sold off plan in a hotel somewhere in maybe Indonesia.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/10/2026
There’s a lot of grumbling in London about new flats being sold to Chinese investors. But you never hear from the Chinese buyers. I asked Helen Gao to travel around Beijing property fairs and learn how you sell life in Woolwich to the Chinese elites. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pro...
londoncentric.media
How London flats are marketed in China
Chinese buyers of London homes say they feel like “chives” • Bafflement at Londoners’ love of old homes built during the “Qing dynasty” • Fascination with the enigma of the British electrician
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my biggest no shit ever
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
journalofdemocracy.org
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes Richard #traitors
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forces of anarchy youtu.be/oJ-9R6NCZ0A?...
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Jimmy's Secret Army
YouTube video by David Tingley
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 01/10/2026
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Larry David Collapses in Curb Your Enthusiasm
ALT: Larry David Collapses in Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/09/2026
A lobbying powerhouse faces a midterm problem: Many Democrats and some Republicans up for election don't want its money
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AIPAC’s Growing Unpopularity Becomes a Liability, Even for Some Republicans
The lobbying powerhouse seeks to retain its influence despite accusations of partisanship and Israel's declining support with voters
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only one lawyer can save Man City
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
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Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is International Right to Know Day, the day on which I traditionally remind everyone that if you want to learn how to use your FOI rights more effectively, then you should buy this excellent book
Freedom of Information: A practical guidebook
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Next time someone tells you off for going to BlueSky and says you should have stayed and fought show them this.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry but you might as well lay your face down in an earthenware bowl that says "For the leopards" round the edge.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
In case you needed to be worried more. danwatch.dk/en/military-...
danwatch.dk
Military documents reveal how Russia has reactivated a top-secret doomsday system
Danwatch has reviewed millions of military procurement documents and can, for the first time, reveal how the Russian military has secretly carried out a vast co
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Piiiiigaro
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donald Trump continues to publicly support Pete Hegseth amid the Iran War debacle, but privately he is telling friends that when handing the world's largest military to an alcoholic cable news host, he should have picked someone from primetime.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Analysis | A Democratic midterm rout could end up as a gift to Mr. Trump, setting him up to end his term as a pragmatic, centrist unifier—drawing upon his decades in business to deliver results for the country.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the taxpayer-funded FBI be dispatching multiple counterterrorism agents to investigate threatening phone calls that Stephen Miller’s wife Katie claims to have received? We asked two tradwife influencers at a Christian crypto conference in Orlando.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 26/09/2026
is it okay to bring dry ice to an interview
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Politico @politico.com · 26/09/2026
Casar wants Democrats to make JD Vance’s Silicon Valley ties a liability
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Casar wants Democrats to make JD Vance’s Silicon Valley ties a liability
The Texas progressive is pitching an economic populist message on AI ahead of the 2028 campaign.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter
Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The theory was that a large crowd outside the police station would deter the police from pressing charges, so that Mr Thomas would be released tonight at 11pm. This has not worked, as the police have charged Mr Thomas, remanding him to appear in court in the morning
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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