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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 56m

Stoked for Katie Reid, she really earned this. Pushing into the Arsenal starting line up ahead of an England international and a Spain international is not to be sniffed at. Probably the success story of Arsenal's season so far.

Arseblog News @arseblog.news · 1h

Katie Reid and Taylor Hinds called into Lionesses squad

Six Arsenal players (technically seven) have been called into Sarina Wiegman’s England squad for friendlies later in the month against Brazil and Australia. The Euro 2025 winners will play Brazil at the City of Manchester Stadium on Saturday, 25 October and then play Australia at Pride Park on Tuesday, 28 October. Katie Reid is called […] The post Katie Reid and Taylor Hinds called into Lionesses squad appeared first on Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 42m

Car dependency is a choice. One we don't have to make.

“It’s the result of choices that we have made,” Belliard wrote in a celebratory post on LinkedIn. “To make public spaces safer, more breathable, more pleasant, and to offer everyone the freedom to move around other than by private car.”

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 44m

Good for him.

2. By doing so, he has demonstrated to a bunch of mainstream ppoliticians that if you open that window, the roof does not fall in.

Rather, some much needed light is allowed entry and the unpleasant smell that has lingered since Cameron last took a poo in 2015 can start to dissipate.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 1h

We desperately need a thought-through, resilience informed vision of how things get built from the green wing of our politics - or you risk ceding the argument to those who just deliver a worst of all worlds outcome.

+ the uninsurable UK green deal insulation scandal is yet another failure state.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 1h

And where it's not, it's part of managing nature-based solutions to the development *we've already done* - where yet more grey infrastructure won't make the cut or be cost-effective.

The 'cut through all the nonsense and build' attitude risks no nature, no resilience, and no more livable houses.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 1h

The alternate headline - "Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk" kinda gets to the point a bit quicker.

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social's point the other day that lots of bat, snail, ecosystem protection is just the mine-canary for this...

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 9h

Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

gene kelly is antifa

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

Me: (political editor of the Times newspaper) The government has completely changed its justification for this highly dubious and obviously crooked scheme. How will that work out for them? Stay tuned to find out

Steven Swinford • @Steven_Swinford
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The government reset of the case for digital ID continues
Having originally argued that it was necessary to crackdown on illegal migration - reducing the pull factor - it is now focusing firmly on better access to public services
Liz Kendall, technology secretary, says it is a
'digital key that unlocks better, more joined-up and effective public services'

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STC @blobbystc.bsky.social · 2h

Liked this

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2025/10/what...

What about the Little Lenins?

Last Thursday, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition urged its supporters to take out Your Party membership . This is despite the bar ...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

Foreign investigative journo: So there’s conclusive evidence of an idiotic campaign to mislead and defraud the public

Me: (spent 2018-19 listening to Steve Reed drone on about how 90% of his party are scum, jotting down obviously vexatious accusations for page one of my newspaper) Fascinating

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Kate Mascarenhas @katemascarenhas.bsky.social · 18h

Remember that time on twitter when Nigella joined in and the bar moved suddenly and painfully

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 19h

"Post you from a different era" is middle-aged Bluesky code for "lemme see you when you were hot"

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 17h

You can read more on ADF and how the backlash against abortion rights globally is funded by US and others in my (sadly far too) prescient book!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

Do you notice how the state basically cannot function any longer without using constant screaming all-channels terror and moral panics to force through deeply unpopular and immoral policies

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

Where would this business be, if it wasn’t for “pretending not to understand things you understand very well, just so you can squeal and snort and be a prick about it”?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

Although of course these are not “revelations” to Britain’s professional politics understanders, who knew most of this because they were directly assisting at the time. Nor are they “scandalous”: they are quite awkward but ultimately very easy to ignore, at least until it’s time for more Noticing.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

"The book is absolutely chock full of pretty scandalous revelations"

Paul Holden on #politicslive talking about his new book 'The Fraud'

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 4h

The govt didn't "do something" about News International, beyond kybosh Leveson II, so why would they do someting about GBNews?

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 5h

I am completely dumbfounded by Labour’s reluctance to take on these people and to apply legal restraints to foreign interference in our politics and while I’m at it do something about GBNews! Does anybody have any sensible explanation for this reluctance?

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 5h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

National politics in Britain is based on the idea that there are important people who matter and scum people who don’t matter at all, so naturally it is easy to transfer that to international matters.

David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 4h

Did a rough count of the column inches devoted at the front of today's Guardian to Israeli vs Palestinian hostages. It's 3:1. The ratio of those released is 1:10 (20 vs 2,000), which means that each Israeli hostage received roughly 30 times as much regard as each Palestinian.

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 19h

I know this sounds weird, considering the "win or bust" narrative that media people are peddling, BUT I do think we're actually quite underrated.

Reminds me slightly of 22/23, when the fans were unusually united, in no small part because we all knew the team was better than the experts thought.

Joe @jhes1991.bsky.social · 20h

Sky Sports discussing the 5 best players in the PL this season. Of course nobody from the current league leaders 🤷‍♂️

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest takeaway from this graph is that six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we've had*

Does this look like the politics of a functional democracy?

Six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we have had*

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 23h

I, for one, welcome our new Chinese vehicle safety regulation overlords.

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes. www.wired.com/story/new-ru...

New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds

Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes.

www.wired.com

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 13h

Where's the discourse hero who will post "Patricia Lockwood sucks" and then log off for the day while all of Booksky races through their archive trying to be the first to uncover their bad politics

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 13h

Oh wow really, genre fiction is good, actually? Some long-dead male author is overrated? The process of canonization is problematic? What horrible 19th-century asylum were you chained up in when you developed these shocking countercultural takes

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 13h

All your unhinged literary opinions are so comprehensively hinged that I'm starting to suspect some of you aren't obeying the prompt

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