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Quite Wrightly

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Armchair politics and economics. Memes where appropriate.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I am the house.” @pkrugman.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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daughterofmrandmrss @nosregis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@jamesrball.com at the Labour Party Conference "The vibes could be much worse. People are having a nice time... I'm from Yorkshire. That's high praise from me!" As a Scot who lived in W.Yorks for 5 yrs I can concur that this is indeed very high praise ;) Top show again @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham will set out process to identify a replacement for the First Past the Post voting system as part of his platform for fixing politics, according to the Guardian Earlier this month almost 200 MPs supported an elections bill amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Murderbot graphic novel team: @ericaschultz42.bsky.social has done everything in comics, vast experience, huge heart, Inkpot (lifetime achievement) winner. She’s tough, a bit stoic, humane. My first choice for Murderbot. So glad we got her. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤡 Moms for Liberty - Gaea Powell, a hard-charging MAGA activist & fierce advocate for "election integrity" - found guilty of nine counts of election fraud by jury
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨🚨Quite a scoop: A #US based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from #Russia has worked on #EU-backed projects and sold its services to European #lawenforcement agencies. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies
The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.
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LBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't ever listen to Reform when they talk about hating Robinson, Danny Tommo etc...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nigel Farage in Edinburgh today as Reform plummet in polls www.thenational.scot/news/2658712...
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Nigel Farage in Scotland as Reform continue to plummet in polls
Nigel Farage is in Scotland on Monday – as two major polls show support for Reform UK plummeting north of the Border
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour in opposition: "You need to lend us your vote, to make a change for the better." Labour in power: "Somehow, this empty room prevents us from changing the law to overturn that Supreme Court ruling."
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#bbclaurak: "If its urgent do you commit to doing this before 2029?" "There are commitments in the manifesto that would make it hard to do in this parliament" There you have it. Andy Burnham is going to do f**k all about social care.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 26/09/2026
If you’re doing Meta’s comms, this can’t be what you hope for.
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can’t believe we’re still doing this
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 26/09/2026
⚡Ukraine strikes Russian defense plant producing missile components, General Staff says. The plant, located in the city of Azov, produces opto-mechanical and optoelectronic equipment, as well as electronic systems for artillery, missile, and anti-tank weapons.
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Ukraine strikes Russian defense plant producing missile components, General Staff says
The plant, located in the city of Azov, is part of Russia’s Tactical Missiles Corporation and produces opto-mechanical and optoelectronic equipment, as well as electronic systems for artillery, missil...
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sept. 25, 1926: Five whales are moored to a buoy in the Bering Strait until they can be picked up by whaling ships.
The Sphere
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It feels like Britain and ireland needs to start talking about the mass scale of cocaine usage that seems to be happening Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, "The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" My view: The Bank of England was founded in 1694, during the reign of William III and Mary II.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Man in glasses that partook in the assault of young women at a Reform conference identified as Stephen Cooling of Sutton, a Reform member who previously stood as a UKIP candidate in Erdington.
Cooling with FaragePolitical posterCooling outside home
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Patrick @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So that women who threw milkshake at farage was given 13-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work, 15 days of rehabilitation and pay the Clacton MP £150 in compensation
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Man given conditional caution after Reform UK assault www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/2657192...
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Man given conditional caution after assaults at Reform UK conference in Birmingham
West Midlands Police investigate assaults at Reform UK conference at Birmingham NEC.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I don't think they've got anything to do with patriotism... I think that this is small penis behaviour, quite frankly" Ash Sarkar on the far right racist thugs #bbcqt
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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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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026
5.14 on the 10y 🥺 158 USDJPY 😵 Ideas for Scott 🏚️ Bessent:
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nazir Afzal has published the terms of the independent review (part one) following the death of Professor Arday: this will report in 3 months. Much clarity + transparency here about aims, objectives + approaches: what this review is doing + what it isn't trying to do www.cam.ac.uk/news/nazir-a...
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Nazir Afzal OBE launches part one of the independent review following the death of Professor Jason Arday
Mr Afzal has produced a video message which explains, in his words, the purpose of part one and how he intends to carry out his work.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
here’s the original, to save you scrolling: bsky.app/profile/roel...
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/09/2026
Contact info for the Equality Caucus chair, Mark Takano. Melt the phone lines. DC (202) 225-2305 Local office (951) 222-0203
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminds me of Sunak the rabid Brexiter telling Northern Ireland that being in the Single Market is a great thing
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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here it is with better sound quality - and with the bit that followed re. leaving ECHR as a Tory policy 🤮 www.itv.com/watch/news/t...
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On this day in 1647, a child was born near Edinburgh with two heads, each one with a single eye in the middle of its face, donkey ears, a tree-trunk-like body, arms sticking out all over, talons, male and female ‘secret parts’, and the legs and feet of oxen. Yes, IT’S ALL TRUE
A 1647 pamphlet: Strange Nevves from SCOTLAND,
OR,
A ſtrange Relation of a terrible and prodigious Monſter, borne to the amazement of all thoſe that were ſpectators, in the Kingdome of Scotland, in a Village neere Edenborough, call’d Hadensworth, Septem. 24. 1647. and the words the faid Monfter ſpake at its birth:
Printed according the Originall Relation ſent overto a great Divine hereafter mentioned.
Illustration shows the creature pretty much as described. It appears to have a forearm protruding from each knee.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/09/2026
Breaking news: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed that an OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government health service website in June, in the latest high-profile cyber incident involving AI ft.trib.al/4jiZWL2
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"...Vance not only briefed POLITICO on the state of the Iran deal talks, but spoke to a group of reporters from several news organizations. In exchange for the information, those outlets agreed to grant Vance anonymity. Status, which did not participate in the briefing, is not bound by those rules."
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 23/09/2026
Not as catchy as Judge Dredd’s catchphrase, but it has a certain ring to it
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this entire presidency in one image
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White House’s legal defense for banning press is they “violated the standards of professionalism and decorum.” Lie. But SCOTUS might go for it. After all, it’s possible a reporter could be so undecorous. And who’s to say what that is? Same logic they used for the Muslim ban and the insurrection.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two people were killed and 36 others injured in Kyiv. ​Russia attacked a gas station, a business center, office and pharmaceutical buildings, a former market, and premises near the train station.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Considering Burnham's attack on Russian disinformation at the UN, maybe we should take another look at this damning verdict on the (old) government's corrupt investigation into Russian influence during the Brexit ref. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Flash Update from the UKMTO Another vessel has been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz - 2 casualties (no mention of severity) and all personnel evacuated. This is the third such attack since the UNGA started and still not being picked up by media or politicians!!! #TheHormuzCrisis
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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