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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 16m

This is EXCELLENT. An EXCELLENT programme about an EXCELLENT man. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social — help yourself to a medal.

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Great Lives - Oliver Postgate - BBC Sounds

Andrew Davenport, creator of In the Night Garden, chooses Oliver Postgate.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 11h

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 22h

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 13m

That’s fascinating, and a neat idea. Should be rolled out more widely, could’ve prevented the likes of this in a tv awards programme’s credits

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16m

It’s like your copy is laid out by Slade.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17m

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 7h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 1h

Right. No that’s true thank you

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She-wolf of Naarm, Prowling for Narrative Work @jadedsynic.bsky.social · 56m

My entire public speaker brand can be summed up as, "I am cursed with forbidden knowledge, and I'm making it a you-problem"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h

I’m gonna defend Liz Truss, because I like to be blocked by two or so people every day, and say that her plans were 100 times more reasonable than these, in that she thought she would have enough time to bounce Tory MPs into backing spending cuts. Much less daft than anything Badenoch has said.

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 15h

There's a touch of the Liz Truss about Kemi Badenoch. Both in the tax cut paid for by fantasy figures and also a belief there's This One Special Trick The British State Doesn't Want You To Know About! that will somehow solve everything.
Be rude to some civil servants and the UK's problems vanish!

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 15h

There's a touch of the Liz Truss about Kemi Badenoch. Both in the tax cut paid for by fantasy figures and also a belief there's This One Special Trick The British State Doesn't Want You To Know About! that will somehow solve everything.
Be rude to some civil servants and the UK's problems vanish!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 57m

Coverage of Badenoch's speech was one of the worst examples ever of Westminster Brain and Lobbythink. A litany of nonsense applauded by a policy elite that can't even think three moves ahead. (1/3)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 20h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 10h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 9h

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 12h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 18h

It took me a second to figure out the person on trial is the victim of the shooting and not the ice agent who shot somebody

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 9h

#TheTroops™️ are starting to get grumpy

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Stephen Miller’s entire life has been building to the ecstatic moment where he gets to press a button and have some political dissident murdered. The ultimate power fantasy. He cannot be dissuaded from it, because he will always find his way back to it; it has the same magnetism as any other fetish.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 11

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote.

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Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 10h

One kid raised in a MAGA household and had zero ties to Democrats or left leaning orgs

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Quick follow up for the senator -- who is they?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Quick follow up for the senator -- who is they?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Nick Donovan @nickpdonovan.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Lawrence would have been 51 this year, likely worrying about his teenagers doing their GCSEs or A levels and getting his eyes tested. So much life was taken from the Lawrence family.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h

After 32 years & six months, one of those who killed Stephen Lawrence acknowledges his participation in the murderous gang in public for the first time (having been convicted in 2012), during a public parole hearing.
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