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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 13m

I’d go for ten thousand

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 19m

That’s Sharif, not Zardari

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2h

This headline is missing the question: please can they do it again

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2h

There are people in the replies who think this suggests they seem him as some sort of king when it’s a term of address used in international diplomacy specifically for republic heads of state and government

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

The Egyptian leader refers to Trump as "your excellency"

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2h

“Your excellency” is used as a generic form of address for all republican heads of state and heads of government in international diplomacy

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah he’s even tweeted about Canterbury Cathedral this week. Properly addicted to the Twitter drama

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Basically fanfic at this point

Calgie
@christiancalgie
It is clear that Trump - likely after a request from No10 - put pressure on Witkoff to tweet this after yesterday's humiliating slap down.
Everyone in the current Republican administration is baffled by Trump's fondness for Starmer, which is not shared by anyone else.
If Trump fails to last the full term, Britain's foreign policy will fall apart under whoever his successor is.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 4h

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 5h

An important precedent set which I hope is wielded broadly

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 3h

Yup, including their website and their live status page, which is pretty funny

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 3h

Wait, what? Really?

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 6h

I hear you’re an influencer now, F̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ Canon

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 6h

I am a fan of this one

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matt...

Anthony Weiner Is The Most Important Politician Of The 2010s

Anthony Weiner’s penis tweet was the Big Bang of our political era.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Michael Tidd @michaelt1979.bsky.social · 19h

He'll have done his basic groundwork to check it's not already in the national curriculum, right?

Oh...

Pupils should be taught to:
Key stage 1
 use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
 understand where food comes from.
Key stage 2
 understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
 prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking
techniques
 understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown,
reared, caught and processed.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 23h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Lady Nugee

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 1d

It's legitimately been 20 years of libleft people calling Farage rich and posh and it's never ever worked. Nobody thinks he's an ex miner! People know who he is!

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

And yet he claims to understand the struggles of working people...

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nigel-farage-now-earns-over-1-million-from-12-second-jobs/

Nigel Farage now earns over £1 million from his 12 ‘second jobs’

The Reform leader has raked in a further £189,000 from side jobs since May this year

leftfootforward.org

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

And usually full of very well meaning people

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, there are some particularly bad ones and they happen sadly with some regularity. We’ve seen churches lose literally millions of pounds, buildings destroyed, historic artefacts accidentally flogged off, massive pastoral breakdowns.

All centred around misunderstanding of church law

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

That is good to hear.

Sometimes there’s a need for advice independent of the diocese and that’s where it gets tricky

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoy the part of planning law where if you get away with it for long enough…

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely agree - it’s more about learning how to learn more rather than trying to front-load everything

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