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History Scientist

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Putin is 73. Trump is 79. Xi is 72.

I worry about the kind of world these elderly men are leaving our children and Keith Richards.

January 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM

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GuyD

@thenotoriousguy.bsky.social

Threaten him with a window?

The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · Dec 17

"My message to Abramovich is this: the clock is ticking."

December 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social

That’s no ballroom…

October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Arthur Snell

@snellarthur.bsky.social

👇

Malcolm V Tucker @tuckerslaw.bsky.social · Oct 23

October 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Eric Champnella

@echamp.bsky.social

The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

September 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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Cold War Steve

@coldwarsteve.bsky.social

September 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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Mags L Halliday

@magslhalliday.bsky.social

Oh, this is lovely.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · Sep 3

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I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier.
I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about.
I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here.
After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face.
I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again.
**

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together.
I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first.
My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night.
I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out.
So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day.
I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special.
I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

September 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM

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Malcolm V Tucker

@tuckerslaw.bsky.social

That's a fucking pulitzer equivalent.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 21

Russia just sanctioned six @bylinetimes.bsky.social journalists and contributors.

Proof that the work they and Byline does is hitting the target and really matters.

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/r...

Russia Sanctions Byline Times Journalists and Contributors for Exposing Putin's War Crimes

The Russian foreign ministry added multiple Byline Times and Byline TV contributors to its "stop list" following our award-winning investigations into the Putin regime

bylinetimes.com

August 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Free Caledonia

@freecaledonia.bsky.social

Make Kaliningrad Königsberg Again

March 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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John Cullen

@nellucnhoj.bsky.social

"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

media.tenor.com

August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Fair.

August 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM

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GuyD

@thenotoriousguy.bsky.social

Fiddler on the roof

Malcolm V Tucker @tuckerslaw.bsky.social · Aug 5

Or you could shout stuff from the roof of your house. Also totally normal.

August 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Jamie McDonald

@jamieholepunch.bsky.social

"She is the moment"

August 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM

Jamie McDonald

@jamieholepunch.bsky.social

"She is the moment"

August 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM

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Yakhunt

@yakhunt.net

Why has Kurt got a head?

July 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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fesshole 🧻

@fesshole.bsky.social

Went to a seedy massage place for a rub n tug, as the lady was wanking me off she said after she felt a lump on one of my balls. Went and got it checked, caught testicular cancer super early and it saved me. When back to the parlour months later and gave her a £700 tip.

July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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Mike Sterling, Comics Guy

@mikester.bsky.social

my favorite '80s punk pop band

SUPERMAN II trading card sticker blurbed "THE PHANTOM ZONE VILLAINS," featuring the faces of General Zod, Ursa, and Non.

July 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM

Jamie McDonald

@jamieholepunch.bsky.social

No way! The guy a court said was a rapist and sex pest - is in the Epstein files?????

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

Donald Trump’s name reported to feature in DoJ files about Jeffrey Epstein

Wall Street Journal report says president’s name appears ‘multiples times’ as Congress subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell

www.theguardian.com

July 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM

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Malcolm V Tucker

@tuckerslaw.bsky.social

But no, let’s blame the people doing the work rather than the entire fucking edifice of cuntery that caused their shady employment model to exist in the first place.

July 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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Malcolm V Tucker

@tuckerslaw.bsky.social

How about taking action against corporations who farm out their deliveries without giving a single fuck if the people doing them are being treated properly?

July 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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The Register

@theregister.com

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.…

dlvr.it

July 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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Malcolm V Tucker

@tuckerslaw.bsky.social

Never apologise for being slow to arrive at the end point of complete cynicism. Just because the destination is inevitable, doesn't mean it's nice to live here. They are, for the most part a complete bunch of cunts though, you're right.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jul 11

I could never have imagined, before I started doing this work, that I would come to believe what I now do: in the sheer ugliness, venality and dishonesty, of Britain's media and institutions and politicians. They literally do not give a fuck. Sorry to those who know I should have got here sooner.

July 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM

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Malcolm V Tucker

@tuckerslaw.bsky.social

Fucking hell, don’t take them to Kew Gardens

July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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