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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 17h

As much as Peter Andre is much loved etc, this is not among his most distinctive works. #totp

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 17h

Genuinely had no idea at the time that Peter Andre would become a national treasure. #totp

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 17h

Ghetto Supastar is truly terrible. #totp

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 23h

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

They lionised a woman for calling for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Now they're lionising a man who set fire to a Quran in public.

The far-right, whether it's Reform UK or Conservatives, are championing the cause of those who will violently tear our society apart.

Reprehensible.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Not helped by the fact a centrist government is undoing our freedoms by attacking the right to protest and banning organisations it finds politically inconvenient.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is in collective denial about the damage a populist nationalist government could do given thd absence of checks and balances in our system. Not sure why, since we had a pretty close run a few years ago.

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 1d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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People & Nature @peoplenature.bsky.social · 2d

"Capital’s need for social control underpins near-fascist methods. From Russia’s dystopian punishment of dissenting citizens as 'terrorists' & 'traitors', patterns are retraced in the witch-hunts in USA & Europe, against opponents of Gaza slaughter."
peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/t...

The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin

Voices Against Putin’s War: protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts is published this month by Resistance Books. Here is the Introduction to the book, by Simon Pirani, first published on lin…

peopleandnature.wordpress.com

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

New! Thanks to support from our listeners on Patreon (patreon.com/workingclass...), we have been able to add transcripts to our double podcast episode about the successful movement against the UK poll tax. Check it out on our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Hate crimes are up for the first time in three years? Complete mystery about how we got here.

Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers!

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about
the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

Tory Watching at the End of the Conservatives

What do you mean you didn't watch Kemi Badenoch's keynote speech at Conservative Party conference? Why, what a treat you missed out on. Th...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

One out of three. Ho hum. #TheTraitors

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Picks? Lucy Beaumont, Tom Daley, Cat Burns. #TheTraitors

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Why does Jonathan Ross have to be on everything? #TheTraitors

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 7 of Starship Alexandria goes live tomorrow. We discuss The Ministry of The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The end blooper is one of my favourites, mostly because making @aptshadow.bsky.social dissolve into giggles with the opening line of the show made me so happy! starshipalexandria.com

Starship Alexandria

The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

starshipalexandria.com

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 2d

Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.

Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd

We’d love to hear from you.

stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 3d

The Long Heat is a necessary intervention, defining climate politics when it's too late.

For a taste of the book, we have just published an extract: www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

Tory Watching at the End of the Conservatives

What do you mean you didn't watch Kemi Badenoch's keynote speech at Conservative Party conference? Why, what a treat you missed out on. Th...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology

A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...

marxistsociology.org

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 2d

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides."

OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages.

(And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry James, you are not most people.

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 3d

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - @philbc3.bsky.social on the ongoing crisis of the Conservative Party and whether there is a way back* for the party that has dominated British politics for two centuries.

*spoiler: there isn't.

When the party's over w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/10/2025 · 56m

podcasts.apple.com

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