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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

Chelyabinsk, the seventh largest city in Russia, just got its first ever air raid alert for Ukrainian drones. It’s 1800km from the border.

#explodey

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Zöe Franklin MP @zoefranklinld.bsky.social · 13h

Hospices in England are under enormous pressure - rising costs, volatile charitable income, and inadequate government funding are putting vital services at risk. This #HospiceCareWeek, I’m proud to stand with our hospices and recognise the unique and vital care they provide.

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

Everything is a chance to air his grievance politics. Never misses an opportunity.

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 13h

You said it, brother. And says the man who refuses to hold constituency surgeries.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h

How fascism messages
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

This bloke is seriously dangerous. Ofcom in particular are allowing him to run riot with GB News.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Had a really good time with Peter talking about the AI bubble, and said the following, which i stand by:

"I don't do this because I'm like "I'm going to be nasty." No, I do it because I'm pissed off at the way they fucked up the computer."

Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 13h

Enjoyed talking to @edzitron.com, who has been spending a lot of time banging the drum about the AI bubble (and about the problems with tech in general.

Also discussed here: How Ed runs a PR company while he also savages some of the biggest companies in tech.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

Podcast Episode · Channels with Peter Kafka · 10/15/2025 · 55m

podcasts.apple.com

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

5/ But I suspect you know that anyway and were after just doing the bantz.

Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

4/ The problem is that people who in the past would have been comfortable are now getting squeezed unless they have assets to cash in, got on the ladder earlier when prices were cheaper, or have an inheritance. The economy doesn't work for enough people outside a relative handful.

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

3/ £100k household income with more than half going on housing and travel to begin with. Plus travel (train), energy, water costs & food prices going up, wages aren't really rising either. The relative cost of things matter as well.

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

2/ I'm in my early/mid-50s and have a mortgage until I'm 70-odd. Yes I was fortunate to get on the housing ladder in my 30s in London, and was able, despite being made redundant twice in two years, to get a job in my late 40s in a different sector, having worked in housing, non profit & social care.

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

1/ Speaking as someone from a household earning around that, living in the south east, I'm not exactly well off. Huge mortgage payments every month. Counting the pennies most of the time. I'm not in penury, but not exactly living in luxury.

Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 11h

Please won't someone think of the households with incomes over £100,000

"This tax tax trap is killing youthful aspiration"

A couple earning 131k are worried about costs

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 11h

Bunch of pathetic thugs

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Kevin Rye @kevinrye.bsky.social · 9h

They don't even bother hiding it anymore.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10h

the days when these guys worried about hiding their "power level" are far behind us

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 17h

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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Awakari @bluesky.awakari.com · 2d

Lawsuit: New York is accusing Meta and Alphabet of spurring a youth mental health crisis https://www. fastcompany.com/91420999/meta- lawsuit-social-media-addiction-new-york-city?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Fast Company @ fast-company-FastCompany

Interest | Match | Feed

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 22h

The World Cup has increasingly become a tool of authoritarian regimes, political corruption, and plain and simple grift. That it looks like the US is going to be the most extreme example of all this yet says volumes about the world in general.

James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 1d

Five of the nine African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup are on a *proposed* US travel ban list

A list of countries under consideration for a US travel ban by the Trump administration if they "do not address various security or diplomatic concerns within two months." Per the New York Times.

Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Benin
Bhutan
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Dem. Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Dominica
Egypt
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Kyrgyzstan
Liberia
Malawi
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
South Sudan
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
Syria
Tanzania
Tonga
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 1d

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, along with members of the delegation, attended the protest on Rustaveli Street and then posted a video on X, saying that she supports the citizens.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

How it started:
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." (Introducing OpenAI blog post, 2015)

How it's going:

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

On Friday I’m going to have a premium newsletter with a generous (2600 word) free intro about the nasty demands of Sam Altman and OpenAI. They need $161 billion in the next six months - it’s the only way for them to complete any of the plans they have agreed to. A truly nonsensical time.

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