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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 11h

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

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 13h

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 · 13h

Speed running Bidenomics

Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 13h

LABOUR EOIN SCHOOL OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 14h

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 16h

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

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 15h

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17h

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

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 17h

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 · 19h

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

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 1d

Britain says Hi

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 8d

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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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Dan Abnett Nobel Prize When?

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Whatever Andrew Neill furiously argues these days, GB News was always about providing legitimacy, funding and a bespoke platform for Farage and his allies. And this was obvious from day one.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Will HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series produce the same impact, do we think?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 7d

It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.

And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Beers.

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Kav @shilpa.bsky.social · 5d

left: keir starmer winning the election and becoming the first labour prime minister in 14 years

right: keir starmer watches his first bollywood clip

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

If they are allowed to conduct vigilante 'patrols' of the streets with impunity and hardly a word of criticism from the majority of our political class, then of course they're going to think they can directly target politicians' homes.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 5d

Masked gangs 'protesting' outside the homes of senior politicians is both reprehensible, and also the inevitable outcome of pandering to these people & their supporters in the paramilitaries

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Naomi Long: Justice minister condemns 'mob' outside home

Naomi Long said the incident was

www.bbc.co.uk

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