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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 12h

I was a bit doubtful that traitors would work with celebrities, but it's maybe even better. When Claudia said "people lie to you all the time" it was brilliant.

Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 2d

Farage poisons our media with fascism. Fuck off Farage.

Newspaper headline: Farage: 'teachers poison our kids with Marxism'

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 5d

These are glorious images.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 5d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 5d

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride's big speech.

#ToryPartyDeath

Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, imagine paying for your children NOT to learn a language at school.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d

'The Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends about £1m a year sending children to private schools in north Wales because "state schools teach some or all lessons in the Welsh language".

It paid £1,019,000 in day school allowance in north Wales for 83 children of service personnel in 2024-2025'.

Discuss.

MoD spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh language

Military personnel receive a private education allowance to avoid lessons in Welsh in state schools.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Monday! I was having a good day until I was reminded by the SS Richard Montgomery… via @kentcurrent.news

Screen shot of text: An ally of Vladimir Putin has gone on Russian state television to suggest blowing up the SS Montgomery, a sunken ship in the Thames Estuary with roughly 1,400 tonnes of explosives on board.

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 5d

But the school email system can only cope with one parent email address. Don't live together? Never mind, I'm sure you'll manage to pass the information on.

Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 8d

Trying to work out which children are in the house by looking at the pile of keys by the back door.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 8d

This is art.

Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 8d

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 11d

In case anyone needs a reminder of how to do alt text 👨‍🍳💋

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11d

"no more superficial individual expression"

Pete Hegseth wearing USA flag pocket square, USA lining, contrast stitching, and "America First" embroidery.

Pete Hegseth wearing a USA belt buckle. monogrammed shirt cuff, contrast buttonhole, contrast buttons, and USA flag lining.

Pete Hegseth in tailored clothing. They are full of cheap "personalization" options common in low-end made-to-measure tailoring.

Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 11d

When two of your interests come together in one blog post.

Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · Jul 27

New on the blog: The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we took a deep dive into the obscure typefaces used on Black Sabbath’s first four album covers.

fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/t...

(Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

A collage of typographic details from Black Sabbath’s first four albums, shown alongside cropped specimens of the typefaces used.

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 11d

This is so depressing, they don't realise they are there to learn rather than just to gain a qualification. If you study things like assembly in your degree, yeah, you won't be using it at work, but it really helps in knowing what's happening under the hood.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 14d

Haven't seen enough of this on my TL, but it's a glorious sight. Good work everyone!

Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 15d

Going to keep posting pics and vids of this because I've never seen this large a walkout at this level of diplomatic relations.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15d

Mass walkout at the UN General Assembly during war criminal Netanyahu’s speech.

Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 14d

Ah, the old "privacy's for paedos" defence.

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 15d

Frustrating that he can't see this. The right wing press have always hated Labour, I don't know why they keep trying to appease them.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15d

this is crude to say but starmer could goose step out on stage, throw a nazi salute & order every immigrant rounded up into camps, & it wouldn't convince a single fascist to vote for him, because what they want isn't rational. a far-right party would simply say "we'll do that but more & faster"

Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 15d

Totally agree with this.
"There is a better solution. It is to actually fight for immigration"

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15d

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 16d

A database like this would be a HUGE target for hostile state hackers. Only a matter of time before it's compromised. Bringing systems together is a terrible idea from a security perspective.

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 16d

While the other top stories today are the cyber attacks crippling British businesses. Great priorities lads!

The Independent @the-independent.com · 16d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 18d

Re: last RT. It was encouraging that no-one at #PyConUK seemed to be drinking the AI Kool-aid. Sure, there were talks about AI, but there were more calls to resist than bros encouraging us to get on the train.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18d

A study has found that AI 'workslop', where coworkers use AI and their colleagues have to spend time fixing it, is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable."

www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

www.404media.co

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 19d

Why is misinformation about paracetamol on the front page of every news outlet, without a mention of the fact it's misinformation?

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 20d

So true, you can't imagine anything like these three fantastic buildings being built today.

JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 20d

Three statements of local ambition stand in Halifax, West Yorkshire: the Town Hall, the Borough Market and the Piece Hall. Such monuments of civic pride still bear the names of farsighted local leaders from past generations.

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Hank Spears @hankspears.bsky.social · 20d

This would explain a lot 🧵

Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 21d

I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter

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