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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29d

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29d

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Sep 18

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · Sep 18

good video hands-on with meta's smart glasses. i've been skeptical on smart glasses for a while, but it looks like the hardware side of this is finally becoming feasible? plus, in a world where kids list "creator" as their dream job, POV video recording is v attractive youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek?...

Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: best smart glasses I’ve ever tried

YouTube video by The Verge

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · Sep 18

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Sep 13

Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · Jul 31

RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jul 24

Do we still have a BBC that is dedicated to doing its public service?

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jul 20

No not for at least a couple of years now, their website says they work with MeteoGroup

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jul 11

@crosscountry.bsky.social you need to keep your train running when they are at a station. Been at Bristol for 10 mins, with no air con. In this heat that is v dangerous!

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?

Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jun 29

Surely it’s got to have an ageist element to to it?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 28

It occurs to me that the narrative that British Jews support the genocide in Palestine might be about as accurate - not very - as the narrative that women support the cruelty of trans exclusion.

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jun 27

Peter Capaldi is having the time of his life. Is it often a father and son perform on the same day? #glasto

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jun 23

One reason the revolt on disability benefits is looking so substantial is the line being used to defend it lacks any integrity.

To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · Jun 18

I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.

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Wednesbury Addams @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 6

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By @rubenbolling.bsky.social, after Richard Scarry.

Genius.

Click in.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jun 5

I don’t think it was a cyber attack, they didn’t break into the system to get the data, they pretended to be these people and then claim repayments.
It’s still serious though don’t get me wrong, but not a cyber attack

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Alice @creaturesofhope.bsky.social · Jun 1

Literally less than a day after the episode, the BBC has spoiled the main twist to Doctor Who yesterday with ever increasing spoiler pictures on the news homepage as well. It’s extremely annoying

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · May 26

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · May 16

you know. I bloody agree with this. the BBC is FAR FROM PERFECT & does fuck up.

the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · May 14

NEW: With the media landscape is changing around our ears, what's the point of the BBC?

Tim Davie's answer - it's the thing that will stop us falling into polarised crisis where there are no shared facts.

Expect more beeb on YouTube/TikTok.

Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk

Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok

www.theguardian.com

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