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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What's one of these, @azulbuho.bsky.social?

A large-ish, very pale lemony yellow moth, pictured in my depot at work this morning.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I saw these and thought of you.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Incredibly unlucky that these homophobic and transphobic bigots keep finding themselves sharing a platform with overt racism.

Excerpt from BBC article about Kate Forbes:
"The question and answer event was chaired by former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson.

At one point, Anderson claimed that Forbes had been treated "grossly unfairly" due to her Christian beliefs.

Speaking about Yousaf, he went on to say the SNP leadership contest had gone "in favour of somebody who was probably every bit as committed to those views, and even more hardline, but happened to be of a different faith".

Anderson added: "Let's be honest, he was a Muslim."

This statement went unchallenged by Forbes."

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Starmer, pictured clearing up the mess of papers Trump has just dropped at his feet.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yeah I reckon I could just about manage that.

Screenshot of BBC news headline - "London Marathon considers two-day event in 2027".

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hey @telegraph.co.uk, I think you missed something off that list.

Screenshot from a Telegraph article:
"Every time it looks like Britain is about to recover from its long slump, it suffers a fresh blow which knocks it back.

The pandemic, the cost of living crisis, now the war in Iran – each one landed like a sucker punch, derailing efforts to put the UK on a stronger footing."

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Momentarily lost track of whether I was reading about state-sanctioned murder in Northern Ireland or a twist in the latest series of Traitors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Extract from BBC link:

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Scappaticci helped create a legal precedent on state secrecy that is routinely cited by the government to this day.

In 2003, he sought a judicial review over the then government's refusal to publicly deny media reports that he was Stakeknife.

But Scappaticci was bluffing and did not actually want to succeed, since if the government was ordered to tell the truth, he would have been confirmed as Stakeknife. Scappaticci was engaged in a pretence to help shore up his reputation: publicly fighting a legal case, while hoping – and expecting – he would lose.

However, the government feared Scappaticci would win because a judge would assume he was not Stakeknife and force ministers to be honest.

Jon Boutcher has now confirmed an extraordinary fact: the judge who heard the case did so after being secretly briefed on the real identity of Stakeknife.

That judge, the then Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord Carswell, ultimately allowed the government to maintain NCND, creating the legal precedent on the policy.

"The full facts about this and the government's explanation will never be known while it is able to hide behind the shield of NCND," Boutcher has said.

There is a second extraordinary fact: the government barrister who did the secret briefing was Philip Sales, who as Lord Sales was one of the Supreme Court justices in the Paul Thompson case. This fact was uncovered by the journalist John Ware.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

To protect identities, MI5 will never put a real person up before the public, and will instead type "show me a picture of the poshest looking twat imaginable" into chatgpt.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Poster for the original 1978 Superman film.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Do not adjust your head.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

One of my least favourite journalism things is when they use the word "admits" when the word they actually want is "claims".

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The face I'm submitting to bluesky for verification.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Well done Deerhoof. Luckily I already moved my subscription from spotify to tidal a while back. Also luckily, I already bought much of Deerhoof's stuff, including their superb new album, through their bandcamp page. I urge you all to do both of those things. And to catch their upcoming UK tour.

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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Yoss @yossa.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

@danneidle.bsky.social is excellent on this kind of stuff, but - if I understood him right - I've seen him suggest that such exactness from year to year is a red flag. eg this excerpt from this piece: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/01/25/t...