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Clint Sp🎃🎃n @clintspoon.bsky.social · 4m

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 30m

My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand!
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

Brutalist Christmas cards featuring Forton, Trellick Tower, Barbican and Birmingham Central Library

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 34m

🚨Almost 80,000 have now signed the petition. We are getting so close to 100,000🙏

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families & destroyed lives, all to sell papers.

Support the campaign to change the law by signing the petition👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 19m

So just by changing his name that means he hasn't got magic blood any more and he's no better than the rest of us? Makes you think, doesn't it? #RepublicNow

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 3h

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 10h

Medieval salt-glazed birds from the Wawel in Krakow.

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Clint Sp🎃🎃n @clintspoon.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t fault your selections👍 I’m a big fan of the demos too, they really allow her to shine. Such a loss. ❤️

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 11d

There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social

www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

Children in Read 2025

Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds are in aid of the B.B.C. Children in Need A...

www.jumblebee.co.uk

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favourite editions of darkly delightful visual magic is Edward Gorey’s Dracula, a special edition adapted as a magnificent toy theater of die-cut foldups and foldouts. Stoker did write a play based on the novel but it was never performed in front of a real audience.

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Clint Sp🎃🎃n @clintspoon.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this as part of a toy theatre segment of a UK TV show - not singled out but instantly recognisable as Gorey! Still available to buy👍

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FOSSILHEADS: CLIMATE CRISIS CABARET! @fossilheads.bsky.social · 1d

you can tell migrants are failing to culturally assimilate when they get arrested, tried and punished immediately for sex offences rather than being given a slightly smaller royal estate to live in

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Bellars 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱 @alexbellars.bsky.social · 1d

On the thought of trying to get his US visa back: "I wouldn't take the initiative myself because there's nothing I'm looking for there. Nothing."
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 1d

US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka share.google/5FY4Miz2TcdL...

US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka

The US consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

This one is a big deal, in my view. Potentially marks an end to Thatcher-era deregulation of the buses across England. And it's the law as of last night: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

1. London-Style Buses
The boringly-named Bus Services (No. 2) Bill became law on Monday night (27th October), enabling local transport authorities to implement franchising schemes for bus services in England – potentially reversing the decades-old deregulation of buses which opponents say has contributed to spiralling prices and worsening, reduced services while transport firms pay millions to shareholders.

But it will also end the (surprisingly recent) Conservative ban on councils setting up their own bus companies to directly compete with private firms.

Buses are the most frequently used form of public transport and are relied on by millions of people – disproportionately lower-income workers, young people, retirees and more.

Greater Manchester took up the opportunity of regulating buses by setting up the ‘Bee Network’, but the legal framework mayor Andy Burnham had to use to do it took years to utilise, and faced relentless challenge from transport firms. The new process is set to massively streamline it.

This bill won’t make the front pages, but if councils take up the opportunity, it could revolutionise this vital form of transport in England.

Cat Hobbs, director of pro-public ownership campaign We Own It, told Byline Times: “After 40 years of bus deregulation and privatisation, it’s fantastic that this government is making it easier to take back control of our buses,” though she also called for the ambition to be matched with extra funding to help make this a success.

Hobbs added: “It’s excellent news that the absurd ideological ban on new publicly owned bus companies, introduced under the last government, has now been reversed. Publicly owned bus companies like Lothian Buses and Reading Buses consistently win awards for their brilliant services.”

Transport for London-style transport in Cornwall, Leeds, and Newcastle, here we come?

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Clint Sp🎃🎃n @clintspoon.bsky.social · 2d

This is @nytpitchbot.bsky.social level genius

Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Take your meds, Polly love

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 2d

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

A lot of people on social media like to point out that when people die the tributes are often accompanied by photos of them when they were young and beautiful (as opposed to old and beautiful). So let me just say that I’m posting this because it’s one of my favourite portraits full stop by one of the greatest ever British portrait photographers. And fuck off.

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 2d

A wee nugget here regarding Dounreay which may have slipped under the radar: "The full decontamination of the site is expected to take *more than 300 years*"

12 generations. I wonder if they'll have "allowed" us another independence referendum by then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dounreay waste particle 'most radioactive' find for three years

The fragment has been categorised as

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lucy Wheeler @lucywheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly this. Insanity. Macro thinking driven by big money motivated by profit rather than looking at what is the problem and what is the lightest touch, person centred, biosphere friendly option that would reduce inequality and anxiety overall

Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 2d

It is going to cost over £35 billion to build one single nuclear power station. For that price you could put a £2,000 battery in every other home in the country to use cheap off peak energy and cut demand and the need for backup power stations there just for peak demand.

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

'Starmer has created a taskforce to streamline #nuclear safety regulation, but has offered no evidence that delays and cost escalation at Hinkley Point C are in any way attributable to opposition or obstructive regulation— he cannot because there is none.'
www.cato.org/regulation/f...

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 2d

The government backs Heathrow expansion — but it’s not all or most of Britain that wants to fly more.

Just 3% of people take 30% of all flights. A few frequent flyers get the perks, while everyone else gets the noise, air pollution and climate chaos.

#ClimateJustice #FairTravel

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Clint Sp🎃🎃n @clintspoon.bsky.social · 2d

Pity it doesn’t seem to filter down to consumers….😳🤷🏻‍♂️

Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 2d

Wind power has cut £104 billion from UK energy costs since 2010

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 2d

Ideally, the thing that finally brings down the Royal Family would be the British public finally waking up to the insulting obscenity of a hereditary monarchy at the top of our system, which laughs in the face of any notion of a meritocratic society.

But this will do.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge

The trio were at Andrew's mansion in 2006 as part of his daughter Beatrice's 18th birthday celebrations.

www.bbc.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

Adam Root shortlisted for the global Earthshot Prize after he built a unique design for filters that remove microplastics from water, from his mother-in-law's dining table.

A lovely bit of news. British ingenuity at the service of good. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Essex inventor up for Earthshot Prize for tackling microplastics

The engineer says his invention was created at his mother-in-law's dining table.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 3d

Jack DeJohnette has left the building. One of the most influential #jazz drummers, he played with *everyone*: Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Terje Rypdal, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Chet Baker...

Jack DeJohnette drumming for Miles Davis, circa 1970

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