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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2h

The kind of stuff I’d always posted stopped doing numbers. The kind of stuff I liked seeing stopped getting posted. The site stopped sending people to stuff I write. I stopped getting commissions from it. The fun stopped ages ago. And crucially, it got *boring* to spend time there.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2h

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 2h

“why did Farage protest “I’ve never met the Russian Ambassador”?
Russian embassy website hosted a picture of Yakovenko greeting Farage in May 2013 – the moment Russian policy pivoted over to its plan to disrupt the EU, before invading Ukraine.”
#ReformRussianBribes
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2h

My updated go-to sources for the best news, analysis and political commentary - now including @thenerve.news

(You can tell I’m having an admin heavy weekend)

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2h

“The UK’s net zero economy grew by 10 percent in 2024, employing almost a million people in full-time jobs.”

Reform want to ditch renewables for fossil fuels. Not even the oil & gas industry thinks it’s a good idea:
https://bit.ly/46LOfGc

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda

LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has tried to present itself as the oil and gas indu...

www.desmog.com

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 1h

Same. 260,000 followers, and I left without any regrets.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2h

I had just under 1/4 million followers on Twitter and then I thought "sod it, this site is now unusable" and so even with that following, I left.

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 1h

Portland is doing the equivalent of walking into the draft office, singing a verse of Alice’s Restaurant, and walking out.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Portland 🔥

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Angie Pedley @angiepedley.bsky.social · 1h

www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

www.thenerve.news

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1h

Lawyers warn of death and rape threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 3h

Farage and his cronies aren’t the only ones with questionable connections to Russia…

Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia

Elon Musk is promoting a far-right agitator who has regularly aped Putin’s propaganda.

writesbright.substack.com

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Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU @alanlewch.bsky.social · 3h

'Captured from a train heading for Shrewsbury, GWR King 4-6-0 No 6005 'King George II' speeds through High Wycombe towards Paddington on 11 October 1961.'
As usual, all my photos, including those from this day, are on my website www.MyLifeinTrains.com .
Copyright © Alan Lewis Chambers
#steamengine

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Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU @alanlewch.bsky.social · 17h

The Dworkin Report
No Kings Protests Set To Break Records, JD Vance Gets Booed, While MIT and An 'Anti-Fascist Frog' Reject Trump’s Tyranny.

The regime’s lies collapse, while our movement surges.
Scott Dworkin
Oct 11, 2025
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/mit-reject...

No Kings Protests Set To Break Records, JD Vance Gets Booed, While MIT and An 'Anti-Fascist Frog' Reject Trump’s Tyranny

When institutions say no, and protesters say never again

www.dworkinsubstack.com

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Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU @alanlewch.bsky.social · 17h

THE CONTRARIAN
Publisher's Roundup 39
Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian moves signal weakness, not strength.

Norman Eisen
Oct 11, 2025
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Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian moves signal weakness, not strength

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h

The march in London was 5-10x larger than Tommy Robinson's march.

That means the next Government will be Pro-Palestine, anti-Genocide.

Not Reform.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 20h

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 21h

The Reform UK slogan of 'Family, Community, Country' is very similar to the French Vichy regime's slogan 'Work, Family, Country'

The Vichy regime collaborated in many of the worst crimes of Nazi Germany, including deporting Jews to the death camps.

Farage is no fool. He will know this similarity.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 20h

So rather than ask @eddavey.libdems.org.uk heading a 72 MP Party what he thinks about Blair governing Gaza

Sky asks Farage who has a total of (checks notes as the number keeps changing).. currently just 5 MPs what he thinks

Yet another example of not MSM promoting the toxic turd over others❗️😡

Nigel Farage says Tony Blair 'not my choice' to help govern Gaza but understands Donald Trump's logic

Donald Trump has said former Labour prime minister Sir Tony Blair would head up a "Board of Peace" in Gaza.

news.sky.com

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 20h

Chris Darby's brilliant Lesser Grey Shrike flight shot won Monday's Photo of the Week:

Photo of the Week: 29 September-5 October 2025

Chris Darby's outstanding Lesser Grey Shrike flight shot is BirdGuides Photo of the Week for 29 September-5 October 2025.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20h

It does feel like everything, everywhere, all at once.

Tweet from Brian Allen: “🚨 RFK Jr just said circumcision causes autism, but not because of the procedure. He claims Tylenol is to blame... and says ‘two studies’ prove it. We’re officially in conspiracy multiverse madness.”
Below, a C-SPAN screenshot shows RFK Jr speaking at a table during a Trump administration cabinet meeting.

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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 21h

This should be a public information film
There should also be ones for Covid, but this govt prioritises getting smokers to bin their butts.

And Labour wonder why people are sick of them as well as the further right.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfm...

Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

YouTube video by The Guardian

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

The message from Robert Jenrick has been clear. If you’re a far-right thug threatening migrants, refugees, or Muslims, then your rights to protest are to be protected at all costs. If you’re not then they won’t
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-descen...

The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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