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Thom Sanders
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 7h
The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 3h
Who could have predicted that this would not produce overwhelmingly positive consequences?
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 5h
The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 11h
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: Net migration almost halved last year. But 84% of regular GB News viewers believe it went up.

More importantly, new research revealing this also suggests the public opposes politicians presenting shows - contradicting Ofcom.

Lisa Nandy now taking note:

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
GB News viewers more likely to wrongly believe net migration to UK rising, study finds
Research also finds majority of people are against letting politicians front current affairs programmes
www.theguardian.com
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 13h
London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 12h
Badenoch embarrassing herself again #pmqs
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17h
Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 1d
Been a @kagi.com user for a good while now. Do check it out if you want a better search experience. But also all the other tools and APIs offered. Accentally noticed today I can request a given date in Kagi News to see what was happening that day. Nice! e.g. news.kagi.com/germany/2025...
Screenshot of part of the Kagi News web page, showing a selected historical date and the top news stories for the Germany category on that day.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 2d
John O'Connell

"My old friend Nathan Gill, who I've never met, accidentally tripped over a briefcase containing £50,000 and then coincidentally the next day spouted pro Russian propaganda in the EU, as did I. And as far as I'm concerned that's the end of the matter."
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d
It's as if The Times only discussed motoring from the POV of Bentley drivers. Private schools are essentially an irrelevance but it dominates their coverage of education.
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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️
School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …
www.thetimes.com
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d
Oops. ~AA
Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee I assure you she’s delusional. She can thank @realDonaldTrump anytime just to set the record straight. Quote Sky News @SkyNews · Oct 12 'We've played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this' Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the UK government has been involved in diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza. https://trib.al/GMH8aBc #TrevorPhillips 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube 1:40 PM · Oct 12, 2025 · 2.2M Views Special Envoy Steve Witkoff @SEPeaceMissions I would like to acknowledge the vital role of the United Kingdom in assisting and coordinating efforts that have led us to this historic day in Israel. In particular, I want to recognize the incredible input and tireless efforts of National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell. 6:53 AM · Oct 13, 2025 · 657.1K Views
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 3d
In a rock’n’roll Saturday night at home, I worked on improving my #nffc feed. I can now retrospectively apply rules to remove unwanted posts from the feed. Also added some new rules. You can try/pin it here if you’re after Forest content bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 4d
There’s sites that offer it. Mine is built from scratch and deployed to a server of mine. It uses search and then whitelists/blacklists posts according to various rules. Working on adding in LLM analysis to detect AI slop too. Do you use mine?
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 4d
Added a few new processing rules for my #nffc feed. Hopefully more bots/spammers filtered out…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 4d
Should this person complaining about parking apps really be driving?!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Die Reklame @die-reklame.de · 4d
Das Flügelrad - Eigentum und Organ des Vereins mittlerer Staatseisenbahnbeamten, 3.1.1903.jpg
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 5d
Glad to see this in Nottingham 👏
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d
Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags
It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 6d
Same. Who the hell has five or fewer tabs open apart from when just having booted the thing up!
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 7d
I hadn’t realised but looks like there is actually a problem with hashtag search generally at the moment? Tested a few and all empty. My feed also includes “Nottingham Forest” before applying filters so that it picks up other potentially useful posts
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spaincivilwartours.bsky.social
Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d
Two protestors run across the ground of Nottingham Forest FC, with banner "Arms For Spain", players watching on. February 1939.
Thanks to @partizandulwich.bsky.social
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 8d
Daft decision by the government to drop support for international baccalaureate. Numbers involved must be very small and it’s just going to remove choice from state school pupils. Feels like it was a throwaway suggestion in a meeting that they’ve accidentally run with observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas
The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools
observer.co.uk
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Thom Sanders @forzagaribaldi.bsky.social · 8d
Doubly shit when forgetting bike lights and having to peg it all the way home as the darkness starts to descend!
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martinwarne.net
Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 9d
"That shroud of patriotism did little to hide his thuggish intent."

Ordinary local people with legitimate concerns, eh?
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 9d
Epping hotel protesters jailed for violent disorder
Epping hotel protesters jailed for violent disorder
The three men were "motivated by hostilities" towards asylum seekers, a court is told.
www.bbc.com
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