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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 25m

I’m not saying journalists should necessarily be great at maths, but probably wouldn’t hurt if more of them had at least a notion of how numbers work.

Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 52m

Hmmm, no i don't think so

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

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Tim Dean @greeba.bsky.social · 1h

And make a point of stating why, on TV, every time, he is missing. That might get his attention.

Tim Dean @greeba.bsky.social · 1h

Disinvite him from next month’s Cenotaph parade and every other ‘former PM’ event until he pays the money back.

Stuart Gwynn 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @stuartgwynn.bsky.social · 1h

After reading @mrjamesob.bsky.social 's 'How They Broke Britain' I am now 100% convinced that Johnson will not give a single shit about this.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

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John Rendel @john-rendel.bsky.social · 1d

Given his opposition to the Venezuelan dictatorship, this is impossible for Trump to argue against - genius from Nobel - an element of subtle trolling that hammers home the committee’s pro-Democracy message twice over with just one decision.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

I am extremely proud of the special offers I provide on the newsletter, they're a bargain

russiprocal.bsky.social @russiprocal.bsky.social · 1d

@iandunt.bsky.social Thank you for the generous offer! 😂

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

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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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Indiana voters: Let your legislators know you don’t like having elections rigged in your state.

Screenshot of a tweet from Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) on X. The tweet reads: ‘Turns out… RIGGING ELECTIONS IS NOT POPULAR. Keep up the pressure. It’s working.’ Below it is an embedded tweet from journalist Adam Wren reporting that Donald Trump’s mid-cycle redistricting push in Indiana is stalling, with Republican officials warning the White House.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

1. There is something about Conservative men wanting female leaders to be their mummy.
2. Conservatives like Tim are now spreading the Matthew Syed gobshitery that Farage is a socialist (ergo, the Tories are to the Right of Farage).
3. The F word. He means Farage but it also works with Fascism.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.

Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads:
“27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.”
Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 2d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

You also gotta love how the 'properly costed' runs through 'we will reduce the civil service to pre-Brexit levels. No, we don't really know how we will do this'.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d

Just imagine how great they'll be when they get down to 10%!

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d

Just imagine how great they'll be when they get down to 10%!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 2d

That was exactly the line that stood out to me as exceptionally weird. It’s also probably the only line that proves the speech wasn’t an LLM churn through every Tory right platitude from the past 20 odd years. It’s authentically her drivel.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

I reviewed a book about why the UK nuclear industry has declined and there were many reasons but I swear the author didn't mention gender identity once

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

Go figure, a party leader who wants to deport a lot of homeowners wants the taxes on buying the rapidly vacated homes to be abolished.

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Tim Dean @greeba.bsky.social · 3d

Recommend @originstorypodcast.bsky.social ‘s recent pod on MLK Jr to unpack the right’s recurring habit of taking that line out of context and trashing his legacy.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3d

Takes some doing, but I think Kemi Badenoch has found the policies to tank the economy even quicker than Liz Truss if given the chance.

Fantasy tax and spending cuts plus trade chaos with neighbours from leaving the ECHR. Great stuff!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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