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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

I remain merely a small-town international relations professor, but I think it should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal that the President of the 🇺🇸 admits to violating the UN Charter by invading another UN member-state, kidnapping its leader, & seizing its assets. www.un.org/en/about-us/...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

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The January 6 Memory Project

A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for tax purposes

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/10/2026

What on earth is wrong with me

1984 starring Roland Rat and Kevin the Gerbil

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This one made me LOL - excellent work

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Got my signed copy in the post this morning with two lovely bits of art from family Cox - just need to finish work so I can start reading

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/10/2026

such a horrifying ending

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A thread in 20 photographs, telling the story of the long and fraught road of a novel that came back from the dead...

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...

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Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/10/2026

#HappyToastMonsterMonth Day 8 Man in suit!

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And for those of us up in Scotland. Some shortages at the moment. As an incentive to new donors you get Tunnocks tea cakes :-) www.scotblood.co.uk

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Am giving blood later this morning. A really easy way to do something good in the world

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.

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Power Vibe · by NoMAGA @powervibe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That silence makes the ban easier to normalise: if access journalism treats exclusion as an individual problem, politicians learn there is little institutional cost to punishing scrutiny.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just need to mention the free beer just outside the window

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don’t we deserve to be told the truth on all Reforms dodgy donors?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday to Toni Basil. Here's a clip of Bruce Conner's very cool 1966 film of her dancing to her song Breakaway, which became a collectable Northern Soul single. Watch a short documentary about the making of the video at youtu.be/5CHtEASlzG8 (THREAD)

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Frenchie McFrightface @frenchie.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Is anyone in government going to sort this out??? FFS this is mob rule!

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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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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That is an vintage vajazzle written in XHTML. Just don't open the image in Internet Explorer (or at work)

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The snobbishness about this comes in part from the fact you can no longer pay all your bills doing a minimum wage job. If you work 35hrs a week you should be able to pay rent, pay utilities, buy food & have a little left over for a few beers on a Friday. This never used to be a controversial view.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The utter hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch here, after banning myself and the late great David Hencke from Conservative Party conference last year. Needless to say my application to attend this year on behalf of Byline Times has still not been approved

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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

James Orr in this excellent undercover sting of dodgy funding to Reform UK (expose Channel 4 news) describing the electoral commission officers in less than charitable terms. If you want to know who Orr is, my report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social gives context. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/09/2026

There's a lot here to be sickened by, but for some reason the "do you understand what's happening?" really got me. What's happening, Zia? Explain it to us. Use your words. Say it out loud. No no, not "wink wink, nudge nudge, you know..." Why is it a problem she's nominated? Say it, coward.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This dangerous, extreme, inflammatory rhetoric is what Ikea are supporting by advertising on Talk. Take action: www.facebook.com/IKEAUK/

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Alex Philips when she ditched UKIP for the Conservatives “I have never been far right wing” “I do not like negative politics” She makes Enoch Powell look sane

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/09/2026

Simpsons "worst...so far" meme with added everything on fire

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wonkavite.bsky.social @wonkavite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Plain socks worn inside out is the way to go - seam is still there, but on the outside and it is much better

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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵”Dealmaker” Trump. An excellent thread from threads by @chrisfb87 who is not currently on bluesky www.threads.com/share/BASUkZ...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Guess who is only director of Watchman Media? Isabel Oakeshott.

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Toby Nutley @tobynutley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Big Prince Andrew energy here

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 24/08/2026

1/20 I have been gathering information across the Gulf regions since Friday, but held it over so I could set out the whole picture this morning. The short version is that this is no longer one #TheHormuzCrisis. #IranUSAWar #Trump #Geopolitics

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Telegraph has deleted, without fanfare, the word ‘living’ from the headline of Stephen Daisley's article on Professor Arday. Today, it just reads “Jason Arday is proof that you reap what you sow.”

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