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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Should the UK rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Vote in the Daily Mirror poll👇

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Mirror readers debate rejoining EU ahead of Brexit anniversary
Keir Starmer is trying to repair relations with the European Union but Brexit remains a thorny issue in the UK - and we want to know your views on whether to rejoin the EU or not
www.mirror.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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eddwilson.bsky.social
Looking forward to this...

#R4Today
snellarthur.bsky.social Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d
🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨
Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
We’re going to do this for years aren’t we? Make tentative suggestions about heading back into the EU because Brexit is an isolating, costly moronathon that the country regrets. But Tories and Reform will keep howling ‘Betrayal!’, making progress and prosperity impossible.

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Headline: Starmer plots course for a softer Brexit-as rivals circle Extracts: Sir Keir Starmer's push for a softer Brexit has been labelled as an attempt to appease unruly Labour MPs posing a threat to his leadership. The Prime Minister has said he is prepared to move towards "even closer alignment" with the EU's single market - arguing it would be in the "national interest" to do so. Under pressure over sticky economic growth, and continued whispers of leadership threats, Starmer said the UK should seek to mirror the bloc's trade rules more closely but not rejoin a customs union. The EU's single market was totemic in the Brexit debate because it embodied the central conflict between economic trade and freedom of movement. Starmer's pitch-rolling for a cosier EU-UK relationship came after The i Paper revealed that his leadership rivals are seeking policy proposals for a softer post-Brexit deal - and amid pressure from Labour backbenchers to change course over joining a customs union. One Labour source said there was a "fairly clear consensus" in the party that "Brexit hasn't worked" and the economy would not produce "nearly enough growth" under the current reset. But economists have argued that it is only through rejoining the single market - or becoming a member of the EU again - that the UK would get a significant economic boost. Reform UK MP Danny Kruger; who defected from the Tories last year, said Starmer was being "pushed by his party back into his own preferred position on the EU". The Conservative MP John Hayes, a leading Brexiteer who chairs the party's Common Sense Group, said any attempted alignment with the EU single market would be a "be-trayal of Brexit". "I suspect it would mean kowtowing to the EU” Priti Patel, the shadow Foreign Secretary, said Starmer was embarking on "a desperate bid to appease his backbenchers" by "pursuing alignment with the single market - surrendering our freedom to cut regulation and strike our own trade deals"
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 AM
evadnerules.bsky.social
You’ll enjoy doing this quiz. Probably 🤓.
adamjkucharski.bsky.social Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 3d
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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eddwilson.bsky.social
Could Trump explain his argument that Maduro is not a legitimate head of state while also dismissing the argument that Edmundo González Urrutia is actualy the legitimate head of state of Venezuela?

#R4Today
January 5, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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byrdnick.com
Amelia Kahn has been making sense of the different numeric values assigned to “words of estimate probability” across Intelligence agencies (e.g., IC, DoD, and other Five Eyes agencies): ameliakahn.wordpress.com/papers/

Follow her to be notified when it’s published: philpeople.org/profiles/ame...
Modelling Uncertainty with Ontologies Amelia Kahn (Seton Hall) “My research concerns words of estimative probability– that is, natural language phrases that express uncertainty like "high confidence" and "remote chance". These phrases are indispensable in the IC, where information is limited and uncertainty abounds. For all their utility, words of estimative probability pose two serious problems. First, their usage is far from standardized. Several different agencies within the IC and DoD and their counterparts abroad have attempted to standardize usage of these terms. However, these standards are inconsistent with each other, even within the IC and DoD, which leads to interoperability issues when we aggregate data from different agencies. The second problem with words of estimative probability is that, without a formal semantic interpretation, it's difficult to leverage the power of machine inferencing and ontologies to draw valuable conclusions from the information we have. I aim to develop a practical, accurate model of data with words of estimative probability in a way that addresses each of these issues. In conjunction with Basic Formal Ontology, the Common Core Ontologies and other ontologies used to structure data in the IC and DoD, my model should allow data from different agencies within the IC, DoD, and Five Eyes partners to be aggregated without interoperability failures or burdening analysts with extraneous information about the various standards for words of estimative probability. Representing uncertain information in a semantically rich way will also allow us to query databases by degree of certainty and automate inferences to be drawn from uncertain data.”
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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manmademoon.bsky.social
Things that need to resurface after the latest bullshit-

Epstein files required to be released yesterday, and…

Due to Republican BBB cuts, US health insurance premiums have taken a huge surge for millions of Americans that took effect on Jan 1.
Health care caused bankruptcies set to surge.
January 5, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
Much more honesty about what just happened from inside the U.S. than from outside. The world is full of dishonesty and cowardice.
January 4, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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mheb.bsky.social
In a nutshell.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?

RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
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January 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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alexhh.bsky.social
Excellent
thebossross.bsky.social TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 2d
What just happened ...

Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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freddiept.bsky.social
Speaking of oil and controlling the country, Venezuela's oil has been under control of China, Russia and Iran through Cuba since Chavez. Before that, under US companies that built the industry. It's never been the people's, except for a brief period of time in the 80-90s. Such is our luck.
January 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
If you were personally not racist but you ran a party that contained this level of racism, you'd resign on the basis you had somehow ended up organising racists into a serious campaigning force, which had never been your intention.

On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...
timbale.bsky.social Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d
"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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sonrae13.bsky.social
Measles is something everyone got when I was a kid. It took weeks to recover, and often left lasting side effects. It harmed my eyesight.
December 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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bbryaninbuda.bsky.social
For real. Plus, I always make a point of saying “please” and “thank you” to Alexa. Doesn’t hurt to start sucking up early. 😊
December 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
Sometimes I recall that my great grandpa was an egg-candler. Held eggs in front of candles to check yolks

Brought double yolks to his family

And I’m a college professor

And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope

It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Italian immigrant communities into America in the early 1900s were subjected to the most appalling degrees of racism and bigotry and it led to the USA actively moving to stop migration from Italy in a series of acts including the Emergency Quota Act (1921) and the restrictive Immigration Act (1924)
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
December 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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stephenstroud.bsky.social
If Joseph Heller were still alive, he would be suing the Trump administration for copyright infringement.
December 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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originalsp.in
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
Farmers' anger grows as Australian beeffloods into Britain Meat imports surge 80pc as free- trade deal sparks criticism over impact on local producers
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM