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Richard
@magecycle.bsky.social
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Cyclist, software engineer, vegan, green party member, queer. He/him.
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Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.
In a house, robots are painting, writing and playing music, with smiles on their faces. Outside, in the pouring rain, a human empties a wheelie bin into a refuse vehicle while another sweeps the street with a glum expression on her face. A third human is cycling down the road with a Just Eat food delivery on his back, while a fourth walks along the pavement, arms filled with packages from Amazon.
February 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
But it’s not even my birthday
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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lilgemgem.bsky.social
This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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pippayork.bsky.social
Mark Kermode's veee...sion of Melanie the movie. 😂

youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?...
Mark Kermode reviews Melania
YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take
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February 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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February 5, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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alexvont.bsky.social
Just saw this fascinating thread, which is both Gothic and profoundly heartwarming 🖤
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16d
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
February 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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monkemma.bsky.social
Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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1/25
February 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
...they told her no, didn't they
January 31, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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startribune.com
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
magecycle.bsky.social
@bylinetimes.bsky.social the QR code in the February magazine for subscriptions isn't working. Looks like your subscription to the QR code generator has expired
January 27, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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theguardian.com
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground Two witnesses to the killing of Alex Pretti have said in sworn testimony that the 37-year-old intensive care nurse was not brandishing a weapon when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, contradicting a claim made by Trump administration officials as they sought to cast the shooting of a prone man as an act of self-defense. Their accounts came in sworn affidavits that were filed in federal court in Minnesota late Saturday, just hours after Pretti’s killing, as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of Minneapolis protesters against Kristi Noem and other homeland security officials directing the immigration crackdown in the city. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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jeffrueter.bsky.social
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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tobyontv.bsky.social
that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
'The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.'
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
This is so fucking haunting.
From Mike Norton on Twitter: Empty car sitting at the intersection of 35th and Pillsbury with its flashers on. There are these ghost cars all over Minneapolis right now from ICE snatching people out of their vehicle in the middle of the street.
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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ziibiing.com
this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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atrupar.com
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
'Harness power of AI to get ahead of criminals In an interview with Sir Tony Blair last month, she said: "AI and technology can be transformative to the whole of the law and order space. "When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. "Similarly, in the world of policing, in particular, we've already been rolling out live facial recognition technology, but I think there's big space here for being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we're trying to do." Bentham, an 18th-century philosopher and social theorist, promoted the Panopticon as a circular prison with a central inspection tower from which a single guard could observe all inmates all the time while unseen. A government source said: "This doesn't mean watching people who are non-criminals - but she feels like, if you commit a crime, you sacrifice the right to the kind of liberty the rest of us enjoy."
January 20, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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markgrimshawtism.bsky.social
Fucking wild that our society is so attuned to accepting bigotry now that a national newspaper like the Daily Express can somehow get away with publishing blatant libel with absolutely zero pushback or consequence.
Daily Express on Facebook: These trailblazing nurses have just won a huge battle after NHS made them share changing room with a trans woman. Action came after Rose, a male nurse identifying as female, menacingly loitered as they changed 😠
January 18, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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nndroid.bsky.social
ICE clearly and provablty targeting journalists. This is banana republic behaviour – but of course America passed that milestone months ago.
john-abernathy.bsky.social John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 22d
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM