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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · 3d

Any excuse to share this, but may make less sense if you've never seen Pingu
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wrZ7...

THingu's The Thing (18+)

YouTube video by Lee Hardcastle

m.youtube.com

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Callum @cazmccazmick.bsky.social · 14d

I guess the editor hasn't put an end to this nonsense. Doesn't remember the MMR crap they pushed way back when?

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15d

Catch the Eye’s medical correspondent ‘MD’ aka Dr Phil Hammond tonight on Channel 4 in Lucy Letby: Murder or Mistake, a new two-part documentary exploring the fallout of Letby’s convictions and the debate over whether the case is truly closed.

🕘 9pm on Channel 4

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15d

Catch the Eye’s medical correspondent ‘MD’ aka Dr Phil Hammond tonight on Channel 4 in Lucy Letby: Murder or Mistake, a new two-part documentary exploring the fallout of Letby’s convictions and the debate over whether the case is truly closed.

🕘 9pm on Channel 4

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 16d

Grateful my son has an English teacher thoughtful enough to assign works on Greek mythology including passages like this.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25d

Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Lincolnshire, DOGE warrior...

A story in three parts....

Rooting Out Waste,
Keeping Taxes Low,
Running Efficiently DOGE LINCOLNSHIRE

Key Policies:
• More Local Control- Push for
increased powers from
Westminster.
• Cut Government Waste - A
dedicated efficiency team to
slash unnecessary spending
• Lower Taxes - Keep council
tax low by eliminating 'woke
wastage'.
• Transparency & Openness -
Proper scrutiny of public
spending.

Mayor Asks for £147k to answer emails (bbc)

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · 25d

Do you have a link please?

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 26d

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 25d

DISGUSTING

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 26d

The forming of orderly lines in pubs appears to be an emerging phenomenon, and Britons are divided on what system they prefer

Single-file queue: 40%
Bar scrum: 39%

yougov.co.uk/topics/consu...

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 26d

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth"

on.ft.com/3IsyVVu

@timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Emaux @emauxstylo.bsky.social · 26d

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27d

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · 28d

Bat shit nazis

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 28d

We often forget that the UK is a big outlier: our welfare state is almost all redistribution (not social insurance).

People in other countries know that high earners face real economic risks - it's why they support the welfare state!

oecd bar chart of benefits in unemployment, % of previous income. UK is by far the lowest.

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · 28d

In WWII did they really know the true horror they were fighting until the end?

This time at least some can see it coming.

Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · Sep 13

Out in the open.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ukraine's air force has warned Poland that Russian drones have entered its air space and Zamosc is under threat, Reuters reports.

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · Sep 6

How does this compare say to Nadhim Zahawi? Feels to me a different scale.....

I believe his was a "careless mistake"?

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you are one of the six people who are interested more in the technical details of Angela Rayner's tax position (and the penalties that might apply), and less about the politics, I've updated our analysis with more caselaw:

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · Sep 5

Totally called it. All across the medi..... Mirror.

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nothing wrong with being kind to yourself.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Aug 31

Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlin’s latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Tweet from Stuart Stevens:

When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party.
They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · Aug 26

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

🧵

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Our Wonderful Green Future @owgf.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

#Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an #urbanforest
#urbanism #owgf #solarpunk #climateaction

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · Aug 13

Evidence is "feels"

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Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social · Aug 9

Please can I ask, what are you building and why?

I met someone the other day who is a special needs teacher and who, with no prior coding experience, was building an app to share teaching resources. He was aiming at what you can afford model vs numerous subscription models.

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