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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 2d

When I say ‘the crisis in TV isn’t a blip, it’s a paradigm shift’, this 👇👇👇 is why. The ground is shifting fast under our feet and ‘more of what worked before’ isn’t going to cut it. TV needs to see this as an opportunity for innovation, risk, experimentation and the new before it’s too late…

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 1d

AI is presented as a race against time. Problem is, it's rigged.

The pitch is "once it reaches a certain level, it will fix the problems it creates and also all other problems."

The rigged part is that there is zero evidence that LLMs are a path to something that could DO THAT.

It's a scam.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

I’m utterly sick of the Royal Family and their greed.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Crown Estate’s property managers reject claims by environmental group of exploiting a monopoly to charge hefty fees for seabed leases amid talk of legal action ⬇️

King’s estate is ‘milking bill payers on wind’, says Greenpeace

Crown Estate’s property managers reject claims by environmental group of exploiting a monopoly to charge hefty fees for seabed leases amid talk of legal action

www.thetimes.com

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 22h

Where did all the hinges go? Would make a nice tune.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

They're freaked out about the NO KINGS rally.

Good.

newrepublic.com/post/201718/...

Trump Cabinet Secretary Thinks Peaceful Protesters Are Terrorists

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people who attend this weekend’s No Kings protests are “antifa.”

newrepublic.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich."

Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank

How the government keeps you poorer

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Janice Ellen 🐬🌊GOP = Corrupt Hypocrites @janiceellen.bsky.social · 2d

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law

✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

“The people outside looked from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Apologies to George Orwell (Animal Farm)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 5d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Megan Manson @meganmanson.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @victoriapeckham.bsky.social for giving a shout-out to @natsecsoc.bsky.social’s report on how charity law enables religious misogyny. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4d

The new Faustian pact? Yes you can become rich beyond your wildest dreams but it rots your brain.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 6d

Via Sheikhspeare memes

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 5d

I've never been more convinced that the Green Party are the vehicle for the long overdue change Britain needs.

It's time to wave goodbye to failed vulture capitalism and neoliberalism, and time to welcome Green Eco-Socialism.

Exciting times 💚

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Pete Baird @petebaird.bsky.social · 5d

And Zia Yusuf was introduced as a "self-made millionaire". 🤔 #BBCBias #bbcqt

Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely disgracefully biassed intro of #bbcqt (Questiontime) by Fiona Bruce: alone of all the panellists, she singled out a controversial policy of Zack Polanski / the Green Party for comment in her intro remarks. #BbcQT is systematically biassed in favour of the Right, and against the Greens.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 6d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 4d

Everybody out except the Celts.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 5d

There's still the Booby Prize to be awarded.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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The Ghost of Will Rogers @ghostofwillrogers.bsky.social · 7d

This 1000 times over. My father fought in Europe. My uncle died there. These 21st century NAZIs are just as despicable as their predecessors and deserve the same fate.

New Popular Front ❌👑 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 8d

No notes.

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 6d

Antifa = anti facism

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 5d

Pirates don't ask for permission, it would kill the industry.