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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h

Gent with sweater, "I live in a village not far from here, there have been 600-700 houses put in but no extra roads. So all of a sudden it's gridlock. I can't understand the thinking behind that" #BBCQT

Good question. Why is planning so poor?

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 13h

The BBC thinks this worthy of its news homepage, but I’m still not seeing much about Reform’s financial relationship with Russia. If we had a serious media we might not collectively drunkenly stagger from one idiocy to the next.

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 3h

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

Tweet from Adrian Bott @Cavalorn

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4h

In an interview with Bloomberg, Farage has said that Nathan Gill was "one bad apple" - unintentionally being accurate because he forgot the rest of the proverb.

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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 3h

Precisely.

Its quite shameful Israeli teams are still playing. And that the UK PM is openly arguing for them to be allowed to visit the UK. Little doubt amongst the travelling supporters will be people guilty of genocide

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Could we just have the schedule of who is presenting Newsnight at the start of the week? It's simply a different programme when Derbyshire is on. Like having the best gelato after being forced to lick a photocopy of a bad photo or a Mr Whippy.

Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 1d

"Does that make you question Nigel Farage's judgement?"

"No, not at all."

Reform UK supporter & former Tory MP Maria Caulfield responds to ex-Reform Wales leader Nathan Gill admitting Russia-linked bribery charges

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

www.theguardian.com

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esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social @esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social · 4h

Did an AI write it?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h

Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 7h

This isn't a slow-moving crisis; it's an urgent emergency that demands immediate and decisive action from the government.

The time for complacency is over. The government must step in with an emergency funding package and guarantee that no terminally ill patient is denied a dignified end-of-life.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

The ending of remote working on titles like RS and Pitchfork strikes me as utterly insane. Throwing away veteran contributors for what? American journalists have always lived all over the map

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7h

Populists live on simple answers and cheap applause. When those no longer work and they are confronted by unpopularity, they have nothing.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

British.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 7h

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8h

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social @esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social · 10h

Starmer waited months and months from trapping Johnson in a denial of partygate to pressing that advantage. So I think he knows how to pick a moment. But I don’t want to hang any hopes on it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

The Labour Party have spent no time at all criticising Nigel Farage and Reform.

When I took Reform on - Labour sat their silently.

They're now spending their time attacking me and the Green Party.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. (And rebuild European alliances.)

Join.greenparty.org.uk

UK labour. I definitely do not support NATO - quote from Zack.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19h

Includes a time-travelling Alex-insert! ⏲️

“Starmer, as an experienced former DPP, will have considered those witness statements quite carefully, before rowing out to precisely a distance that means he gets to have a lovely day fishing, while anyone trying to swim after him risks drowning.”

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 19h

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CAERPHILLY DOES IT

🧀 Caerphilly By-Election
🕵🏽 Chinese Spy Trial
💶 Nathan Gill bribes
✖️ Yaxley-Lennon's sugardaddy
🗳️ Senedd elections
With @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & special guest @lsrplaid.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A2o...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Caerphilly Does It: Welsh Politics, Russian Bribes, & Chinese Spies

open.spotify.com

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Pretzelcoatl @slinkingflorist.bsky.social · 12h

One of my pet peeves is the whole "the internet was a mistake" kneejerk. Like, if you're worried about fascists and autocrats organizing on it, bad news about the proceeding thousands of years of history. They don't need it. The first thing they do is try to destroy it because it is dangerous.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Portland has fallen!

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esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social @esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social · 13h

This is why I’m still happy as a leftish Lib Dem. They try and think about real life detail in local contexts and it’s hard to meme it (hence the stunts instead I suppose). But I understand the relief of hearing leftish things said without the toxic Labour aspect.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 23h

I didn't expect so much literal Nazism. I should have. I got into a fight with an editor years back about whether to describe a social media cluster as Nazis or neo-Nazis. I argued for Nazis, because it really wasn't neo.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 14h

NEWS! Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to man who got an American to make a decent cup of tea

Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to man who got an American to make a decent cup of tea

This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has gone to a man who ‘achieved the impossible’ by getting an American to make a halfway decent cup of tea.

buff.ly

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esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social @esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a lot of crap on YouTube about narcissistic behaviour and abuse, but also some excellent guidance. I do think we should all be educated in the patterns for our own, and our society’s, protection.

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