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Obviously I hope to be in NZ for the Lions next year. On topic, I missed the 1995 WC final (watched on video later), NZ were never going to lose. So I went to London Pride that day with my new gf, great day out. 30+ years later she’s now my wife and should be coming to NZ with me next year.

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Have You Ever Missed the Moment Everyone Was Talking About?

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Hannah Dawson @fairlysadpanda.bsky.social · 9h

The law won't go this far but the language atm is completely fruit loops - every single Minecraft user needs to be age-assured, regardless of the context. Mojang would have to sell a SKU of the game with no license integration at all, solely via physical media, and no digital updates allowed.

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Hannah Dawson @fairlysadpanda.bsky.social · 9h

(Not literally but basically: any game with any interaction with the internet at all either must be age-gated or totally anonymous. This includes any game that ever gets any update provided online).

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Hannah Dawson @fairlysadpanda.bsky.social · 9h

Read through the EU Kids Act and it will need significant refining before it goes out, otherwise it essentially shuts down all video gaming later than the PS1 era, at least at a very aggressive reading.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PS DWP's own analysis shows that private pensions will not come to the rescue of younger workers. If the triple lock goes, it is what *would* have been their pensions which will be the 'savings.'

A chart from DWP showing the likely decline in private pensions over time.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

(2/4) What the maths really shows is that ditching the triple lock will hurt the young far harder than the elderly, and will ensure that many of today's 20-year olds retire into poverty. 99-percent.org/condemning-y...

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Condemning Younger Generations to an Old Age of Poverty - 99%

Thirteen long years of increasingly far-right policies have left the UK visibly broken: we have a cost-of-living crisis; our NHS is on its knees and our schools are crumbling; and […]

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 10h

“Beards are weak!” [Eben proceeds to rip out Hegseth’s spine one-handed.]

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 11h

She understood that the right to choose a peaceful death is a fundamental human freedom. Her legacy is not just in the charities she founded, but in the compassion she awakened in the public consciousness regarding the end of life. She changed the debate, and we are deeply grateful for her courage.

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Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026)

Humanists UK is saddened to announce the death of Dame Esther Rantzen, the trailblazing broadcaster, founder of Childline, and stalwart campaigner for the right to die, aged 86. Already known to…

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 11h

Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.

Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).

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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 11h

For a second week running, our video on a WXV game has been copyright claimed so all money is going to Sky NZ and it requires a VPN to watch in New Zealand, but hey, here's Will's look at the Red Roses v Black Ferns game from the weekend... youtu.be/rrFS1390kXM

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So how did England steal the game from the Black Ferns?

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Mik A @mikadooo.bsky.social · 12h

The stats from England Women vs New Zealand are a thing to bring a tear to Shaun Edwards's eye. England, with 34% possession and 35% territory (per rugbypass stats) put in a massive defensive effort to restrict the Ferns to 19 points off 14 entries into the 22.

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Mik A @mikadooo.bsky.social · 12h

Morwenna Talling needs a old vide-printer style confirmation with 39 (THIRTY-NINE) tackles completed. An additional seven Roses completed 20+ tackles apiece. Despite a vast number of carries and post-contact metres, New Zealand managed only 7 line breaks.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who's ever seen the Gumbies in Monty Python: Hang on, I know that stance...

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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 13h

Involved in what exactly. “The incident”

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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 13h

"Created by Jonathan Glatzer, whose credits include 'Succession', 'Bad Sisters' and 'Better Call Saul'"

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 15h

ANOTHER ADD (for completeness) There were 3 years in the last 15 where inflation and earnings growth were below 2.5% so the triple lock kicked in, meaning the state pension grew by 2.5% when otherwise it would have increased by less

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 18h

ADD @theifs.bsky.social have actually modelled what would have happened since 2010 if the new proposed system had been in place - as you can see, growth in the state pension would have been closer to growth in earnings over that time ifs.org.uk/articles/how...

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 18h

...How would the Andy Burham proposal change this? It's complicated because the annual uprating formula would keep an arbitrary 2.5% floor. But probably the simplest way to think about it is that - over the longer term - growth in the state pension would be closer to growth in average earnings 5/5

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 18h

...Put those together and the result is that over 15 years the triple lock has pushed up the state pension in cash terms by more than growth in average earnings and more than the increase in prices...4/5

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 18h

...Second, think about how the state pension has grown relative to inflation. In 10 of the past 15 years it's gone up by more than inflation because of the triple lock...3/5

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 18h

...First think about how the state pension has grown relative to earnings. In 7 of the past 15 years it's gone up by more than earnings because of the triple lock...2/5

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking about the impact of the triple lock on the state pension can be confusing as there's a number of interacting moving parts (earnings, inflation, 2.5%). 🤷‍♂️❓ But here's a visualisation that hopefully might help...1/5

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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 17h

And? €10 million. €100 million. What's complicity with genocide worth these days?

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 19h

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 19h

Easiest money ever spent!

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Cian Ó Muilleoir @rugbykino.bsky.social · 20h

Yeeesssss. Hook it to my veins.

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 20h

Personally I see it is as the can kicked down the road, and I will pass the years waiting for a proper analysis of the impact, which I suspect is smaller than they suggest. Hopefully my kids will have a decent pension, the triple lock would help.

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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 20h

I think they should pause the league and show the PWR instead.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 20h

Most TV is just this now.

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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 21h

Put this with Phil Vickery cooking. Love it.

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IGN @ign.com · 30/09/2026

The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." bit.ly/4rD8rmh

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities

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Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive @milestones-archive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't often do this but... I just came across this photo purporting to be Miles and Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot in 1957. It appears to be an obvious AI fake (unless you know different). Nothing can be trusted anymore. I hate this shit so much.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her.

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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Stuart Fails To Save the Universe” is a good binge. It was brief, different, just funny and interesting enough to make it worth the time.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If these are the arguments for keeping or scrapping the TL, then gawd help 'us, coz they're abysmal.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Treating the triple lock issue as one of pensioners vs non-pensioners is silly identity politics. The qn is: how do we best prepare for our retirements, & should we sacrifice some of this preparation to pay for social care insurance? I need convincing.

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Riaan Louw @ringo26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In my veins

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Riaan Louw @ringo26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saffa coaches and malicious compliance gives me life energy. www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience

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