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Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 4m

He’ll be self-deporting soon…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17h

A Brexiter writes...

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · Jun 3

have respect for every human life. we are all made in gods image. big computers on top. buncha important balloons in the middle. stilts.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 11h

"Many people are saying he's the greatest Gatsby, that's what I've heard anyway. Joe Biden wanted to get rid of Gatsbies in this country, can you believe that? Big, beautiful Gatsbies and they would have all been gone. But we're bringing back all those great Gatsbies pretty soon, wait & see..."

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11h

I need a reporter to ask Trump what The Great Gatsby is about

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 2d

Very poor from the government: it won't review suitability of X for its communications, and insists on keeping secret its previous review.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

'Maduro is an authoritarian leader who has been repeatedly accused of dismantling democratic institutions, suppressing opposition, manipulating elections, and ruling largely by decree'.

He really should get on with Trump.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is set to launch his attack on Venezuela in the next few hours or days.

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime

The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

amp.miamiherald.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

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

The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Reform UK’s Lee Anderson wants to bring back the ‘invalid carriage’.

The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.

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Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 3d

The album has certainly introduced a new dynamic into the final season of Stranger Things. Kinda rooting for the Demagorgon.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

Lam took a bunch of X posts from far-right racists and so-called "thinktanks" and turned them into a policy that collapsed as soon as anyone actually read it/understood it.

Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Suella Braverman defends Reform MP Sarah Pochin.

Braverman "believes" what Pochin said "about the number of black and Asian faces" in TV ads is accurate

As it happens: South Asians are significantly under-represented in TV ads (compared to share of population)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

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Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 3d

The whole political and media class is still on X, wading waist deep in racist, Nazi sludge daily… and then setting the news agenda on the basis of that. It’s not real life, it has a drug-addled sociopath pulling the strings and that’s why it’s so discombobulating for those of us not on X!

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 3d

Blueskyism claims its first IRL political victory?

Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 3d

Tories confirm Chris Philp's bill proposing mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain no longer party policy - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 3d

This is not normal, why have we gotten used to this insanity.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

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Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for your service! It’s a great listen.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4d

Elon musk: ‘Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.’

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 4d

Wikipedia vs Elon Musk

In a world of algorithms and AI slop, the simple joy of aimlessly wandering through a website of ideas is worth preserving.

✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/wikipedia-...

My newsletter, out now.

What I always liked about Wikipedia — even more so now — is its absence of an algorithm. If you started off searching for who defeated Bill Clinton in the 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election (answer at the end), there’s every chance you’ll fall down a rabbit hole and half an hour later you’ve missed your flight but at least you’ve learned everything there is to know about the 1824 Constitution of Mexico.

Everywhere else, what we watch is either pre-determined — or highly curated. On YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, algorithms drive more than 70% of all content consumed. On TikTok, it is the entire model. Whether these systems are simply giving us more of what we want or deliberately nudging us toward extremes, the result is the same: our curiosity is no longer our own.

But on Wikipedia, you are in control. The hyperlinks may be vying for your attention, but there is no autoplay widget or blackbox deciding what you’ll see next. To borrow from video game terminology, Wikipedia is open-world, rather than linear. In that sense, it harks back to the messy early days of the internet. Whereas Grokipedia seems to be its modern-day equivalent — an attempt to repackage knowledge inside a single, curated worldview.

Wikipedia is not unbiased. It is open source and while, theoretically, anyone can edit it, it is in reality largely maintained by a group of ‘super editors’. But it still provides a refuge from the never-ending conveyor belt of pre-determined short-form videos and AI slop. For that reason, if you have fallen down a Wiki rabbit hole, it is, gloriously, entirely on you.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 5d

The implication of calling it DEI madness is that lesser qualified people have been hired due to their race… and yet I’ve never thought “Christ, a white guy would be much better at selling that supermop…”

Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely right. Also the case that if she spends too much time on X, she will overestimate the proportion of people who are ghastly racists. I think this is true of many, many politicians now, considering the racist stuff they say in real life which gets a free pass on Musk’s Nazi site.

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Russell Scott @russellscott1.bsky.social · 5d

You couldn’t make it up…

“Baroness Mone & her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10m home on America’s “billionaire island”, where their neighbours will include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos..”

Less than a month after PPE Medpro ordered to pay back £120m+ 🤦🏻‍♂️

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 5d

“ShE wAs JuSt MaKiNg An ObSeRvAtIoN!” is a line being trotted out about Pochin so much on social media that it must be an intentional disinformation tactic. It’s obviously nonsense but for so many accounts to claim it makes me suspicious of darker origins/higher operators.

Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 6d

Bodies on the line - was awesome to see.

Dave Bromage @davebromage.bsky.social · 6d

Luckily there are more people of colour who will buy their products if they’re represented than there are frothing-mouthed racists who won’t buy if they see black people in an ad.