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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 7h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 1h

'Meaningful (mostly bad)' is being added to my online lexicon now.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 2h

I'm only half joking here.

Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 2h

Note how David doesn't actually say that Corbyn himself had roots in a deep intellectual tradition. Because copy/paste Bennism doesn't count.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 3h

Something I find striking about Zach Polanski is how - unlike the vast majority of those who played a key role in Corbynism - his politics are so clearly not rooted in any kind of deeper analysis or intellectual tradition. It's all just a surface-level synthesis of 2010s left-wing slogans and memes.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 2h

Someone should have told them this, ideally on the day after GE17.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · May 9

'Leaving the ECHR would let us keep a liberal immigration policy' is like arguing that abolishing speed limits would encourage people to drive slower

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 1d

“I think politicians are ignoring prices and bills and hoping we’ll forget about them and find something else to complain about…”

My report on how the flighty Westminster bubble forgot about the cost-of-living crisis, which certainly isn't over:

Energy bills rise while Westminster talks immigration

Why have our politicians forgotten about the cost-of-living crisis?

www.newstatesman.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 1d

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 20h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 22h

As for the argument itself, perhaps Labour MPs should consider that the issue was a significant point of political cleavage in 2024 when a) Labour wasn't in government and b) the conflict was not even a year old. People have seen a lot more since then. And Labour have been in power.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 22h

Classic case of 'Make this about the Labour Party' here. Hate to see it.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

www.politico.eu

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 22h

Speed running Bidenomics

Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 23h

LABOUR EOIN SCHOOL OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 23h

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 1d

This is like calling J*mie B*yson a 'respected legal scholar'

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the scene in the newsrooms of the Dewsbury Reporter or the Northern Echo as they discover that a fellow journalist can afford a Bentley and carries £1000s around with him.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 9d

‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d

Britain says Hi

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 2d

Increasingly, politics in West Europe is a mirror of East Europe, with a large radical right party against a rag-tag of centrist/liberal, centre-left, green and radical left parties and a rapidly declining centre right. The challenge is to coordinate the progressive opposition to the radical right.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 5d

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

Biden and Netanyahu were offered same deal a year ago, says negotiator

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

www.thetimes.com

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

You mean...we need to build up norms and cultural institutions that support democracy and exclude those who seek to undermine it? Damn.

Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

'Pope remains Catholic'

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 9d

Leave Twitter for Bluesky. Leave Bluesky for Mastodon. Leave Mastodon for Klerb. Leave Klerb for Chunk. Leave Chunk for Goobus. Leave Goobus f

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