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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 17h

"The appalling state of mackerel stocks is a stark warning to our politicians and the industry: the future is bleak unless there’s a rapid change of course"

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ella McSweeney: Ireland needs BOFFFFs (big old fat fecund female fish)

The fishing industry is killing these big ladies before they’re able to do the thing they do best: endlessly reproduce

www.irishtimes.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 9h

Germany close to deal with Taliban on Afghan deportations

I "will do everything to make deal work," including going to the Afghan capital, German interior minister said

dlvr.it

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@fra9k7 @fra9k7.bsky.social · 10h

All thought it a great summer joke.

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 9h

If people saw the inside of those delivery bags they’d soon avoid ordering any foodstuffs through them. How there are no food hygiene checks required is baffling.

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 9h

Have to say it is now near six months since I last logged onto Twitter/X. I haven’t missed it one bit.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 13h

Turns out that a platform which incentivises the mad and the bad has limited appeal to those who are neither.

Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 16h

You're all missed over at X..

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 16h

Wanting to live in Dubai is basically just a massive character flaw.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 18h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Pavel Durov tweeted this from UAE after making an immense fortune in Putin's Russia

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.bsky.social · 1d

Today, the EU’s Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising enters into force. From now on, political ads – notably both online and offline – will have to carry a transparency label with key information about why people are seeing the ad, who paid for it and how much. 1/

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 1d

Think the DT has gone into absolute meltdown over EES.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 2d

Some moon pics from Southsea

mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 2d

Back in Spain

mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 2d

Spain again

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 2d

Very much looking forward to seeing footage and reading articles about this 😀

Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 2d

There are a lot of people on Instagram saying they don’t agree with EES fingerprinting/face scanning and plan to “opt-out“ when they get to an EU border as “they can‘I make you”

spongebob says well good luck with that in a cartoon

ALT: spongebob says well good luck with that in a cartoon

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

Worth noting at the same time during the Canadian election cycle a few years ago the overwhelming consensus was that Justin Trudeau would go down to brutal defeat at the hands of Pierre Poilievre in the summer of 2025

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s far too soon to predict how the next election will shape up. We are roughly the same distance from Labour having to call a General Election, as we are from the last pandemic lockdown. Try to conceive of that amount of stuff still to happen.”

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2d

🆕 Anti-Woke Wake: It the Tory Party dead or just resting? ☠️

💥 Tory Conference debrief
💥 France latest political soap
💥 A deal on Gaza - but antisemitism on the rise

An amazing episode with special guest @samfr.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5JQF...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 2d

Tim Stanley was calling her “mummy” in his DT article yesterday. A very weird individual.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

The Geat X-Tinction.

From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history.

The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter.

And why I left.

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

bylinetimes.com

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mokeeffee.bsky.social @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 3d

Seeming some of the ‘good speech’ takes from commentators re Badenoch, really brings home how public speaking has gone backwards since the late 90s. Speech writing and delivery of all main parties comes across as if there was too much copy and paste. The delivery is leaden.

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