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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.

Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 1d

Three hours of free electricity every day in Australia for retail consumers, thanks to solar.

This means those without solar panels benefit from solar!

Abundance. Affordable, to say the least. Clean electricity.

#energysky

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

www.abc.net.au

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3d

To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Spot on.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People

The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

bylinetimes.com

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2d

Soil is wondrous.

Nature @nature.com · 2d

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections

go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K

Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria

Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

go.nature.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Why the BBC handing Reform hours upon hours of unfiltered coverage of their press conferences every single week is so irresponsible

What exactly has been "squandered" about Brexit here and by whom?

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing

go.nature.com/3WB8bFS

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’

From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.

go.nature.com

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

Same as it ever was. "One of the most useful myths the American political right has created and wrapped itself up in has 'liberal media.' Just by proclaiming the media is liberal pushes news organizations to trip over themselves to not appear to be liberal."

medianut.substack.com/p/the-useful...

The useful myth of "the liberal media"

And why we need to part the clouds of delusion.

medianut.substack.com

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 2d

Word of the Day: ANTIMETABOLE - a rhetorical device when words are repeated in successive clauses, but swapped. For instance JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", or Snoop Dogg's "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind."

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 2d

Nigel Farage asks Enoch Powell for his support ahead of the 1994 Eastleigh by-election

From this 2014 Telegraph article - www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

So Nigel Farage, who spent a huge chunk of his speech today attacking plans to raise even the slightest of taxes on the wealthy, thinks one of the biggest problems facing the UK is that young people on the minimum wage are being paid too much

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People

The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

bylinetimes.com

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Jools Crowley @joolscrow.bsky.social · 2d

So refreshing to see a journalist challenging this nonsense. If the interviewer has done the research and is confident on the data they can shut this stuff down. The only reason these goons do it so often is because they mostly get away with it. Well done @sophyridge.bsky.social

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?

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Denise Ireland @ireland0828.bsky.social · 4d

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

One of the train crew appears to have put themselves directly in harm’s way trying to stop the attack, and the driver rapidly diverted the train - meaning rescue services could reach it; passengers tried to help the injured and each other. There will always be heroes, and we’re so lucky to have them

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3d

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

from people magazine

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for
'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps.
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson |
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine

Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42
Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire
The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown
By Bailey Richards
Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2d

Musk's racist AI, is spreading racist misinformation about Huntingdon on his fascist social media site. Grok is also promoting a general conspiracy theory about police cover ups.

This is the same AI that will be deciding what all users see in their feeds from now on.

Ofcom is still doing nothing.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 2d

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

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Jools Crowley @joolscrow.bsky.social · 2d

I just found some ten year old stamps - still valid!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

What an odd set of options offered in the CBS News Poll. DEI but nothing about democracy or rule of law.👀

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 3d

I think its now got to be the case that respectable people should just refuse to appear on panels with Goodwin, even if that means cancelling on the BBC at short notice.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

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