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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2h

Did they think that hanging up flags, spray-painting and smashing the venue windows would stop us?

#FiLiA2025 in #Brighton has started!

See you there.

Sisterhood and Solidarity!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 14h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe UK media could give some attention to this story, given how keen they were to cover Turning Point USA...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 2h

Wild to see the Nobel Prize go to someone promoting democratic rights and a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy, instead of someone who deploys the military against his own citizens and incited a violent insurrection to stop the peaceful transition of power after a democratic election

Trump fails in bid for Nobel Peace Prize as surprise winner announced

The news will come as a bitter blow to the US President after he secured a ‘historic’ peace deal between Hamas and Israel

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

A large-scale survey has charted social attitudes and views and constitutional preference since Scotland got its own parliament.

Twenty-five years of data shows how link between identity and views on Scottish independence has grown stronger

A large-scale survey has charted social attitudes and views and constitutional preference since Scotland got its own parliament.

tcnv.link

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 3h

Sending a parcel to Northern Ireland from the UK now requires a customs declaration.
Name, address, contents and value documented and affixed to the package. Just so you can post some cosmetics to a family member. How Farage has the audacity to stand for public office is beyond me.
#RejectReform

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

jesus fuck what the hell we sold out in just under 24 hours

oh my god

what

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 2d

This should scare the hell out of Labour, Reform, Tory and all the political class.
This didn't happen overnight. I've been banging on about it for years.

For people who have no wealth, no inheritance, there is no longer a route to security anymore.
share.google/tV1VMNsCp7ga...

It's now almost impossible to work your way to riches, says report into growing wealth gap

The Resolution Foundation's analysis of the country's wealth gap comes seven weeks before the chancellor delivers what's expected to be a tax-raising budget, though the government seems reluctant to p...

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

🚨A Message from our editor-in-chief Matt Kelly

Read full story: buff.ly/dY1tJVa

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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 2d

Whoops! Seems the ONS has overestimated govt borrowing by £3bn. Rare bit of good news for Rachel Reeves.

Story by @guardianheather.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Rachel Reeves given extra £3bn for budget after VAT error fixed

ONS says public borrowing estimates have been out by £200m-£500m a month since January

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 2d

Which Union would you rather be part of?

Unabhängigkeit ist Unvermeidlich

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 2d

I agree. I've seen Putin described as risk-averse; I don't think that's right. He takes risks that other leaders wouldn't, but only when he assesses that the likelihood of an effective response is low. The West has yet to change his assessment that he can keep pushing us back.

Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 2d

Here is @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social on Russia’s disruption campaign against Europe. I’m not sure I would be so optimistic on the Kremlin being worried by US & EUR behaviour, but the conclusion is unshakeable: absent a serious response, this will get much worse.

www.iiss.org/online-analy...

Screenshot from linked article, saying Western officials are puzzled, but they shouldn’t be.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2d

Because there's so much awful stuff to write about, I decided to write my latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about something interesting and removed from all that: the discovery of a blue pigment in a Neolithic artefact.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

How did cave artists get a brand new pigment?

The discovery of traces of a blue pigment on a stone shaped into a shallow dish at a Palaeolithic site in Germany is quite a find

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Altnaharra @altnaharra.bsky.social · 2d

www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk/bath-street-...

Bath Street Collective Custom Build Portobello

Bath Street Collective Custom Build: Portobello property development design by John Kinsley Architects: Edinburgh flats near the sea, new apartments images

www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk

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Scottish Land Commission @scottishlandcom.bsky.social · 2d

🛠️ Four families, one shared vision.

Bath Street Collective Custom Build in Edinburgh shows what’s possible when residents lead the way in housing.

Read the full case study in our Governance Guide: buff.ly/YTTRApA

📸 Image credit: John Kinsley Architects

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 2d

LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Lewis Miller @lewgmiller.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of discussion judging importance of degrees neglects this. Many disciplines cross-subsidise others. Just like with international student fees, someone will have to pick up the cost if there is government intervention.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 2d

@boston.gov onboarded all their agencies to Bluesky to engage with Bostonians. Whether it's broken sidewalks, missing signage, or community issues, they want to hear from constituents. With little to no engagement on X, their actual interactions on bsky have increased. Engagement > follower count

Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · 2d

#DidYouKnow our Fall Fitness Series with @publichealth.boston.gov is back? 🍂💪

Register today for free in-person fitness classes at a park near you: boston.gov/fitness

Fall fitness graphic - boston.gov/fitness

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d

A fine piece of writing there from Sam Leith

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

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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