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Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social · 9h

#BlackHistoryMonth is always a wonderful excuse to share my all-time favourite team photo. 📷

This is the mighty - and very cool - #Luton United #Cricket Club in 1974. ❤️🏏

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 10h

The ad spend is never coming back, dipshit.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’

Michael Miller also says media must unite against second ‘big steal’ by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for free * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Social media is to blame for social cohesion issues across the globe, News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, has said, as he calls for media to present a united front against the platforms and AI companies seeking content for free. Miller told the Melbourne Press Club on Wednesday social media was rife with “misinformation, disinformation [and] the rabbit holes [that] they drag you down. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 14h

Have always interpreted the media “cheeky” to mean “perpetually 12 years old and insufferable”, which also works.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic is edited by a former Israeli prison camp guard and has a senior columnist/contributor who is accused of writing secret speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN.

The state of the elite US media when it comes to Palestine.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 1d

And lazy people in worthless jobs (and they know it) feel like they can do something useful (for five minutes, until reality kicks in).

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 1d

Mentally trapped 50 years ago, Tbag will any day now order the US navy to dredge up the Bermuda Triangle, and it will be the funniest thing ever.

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. One shudders.

Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 1d

I speak as someone with a peculiar affection for the stuff, having used vast amounts in furniture and structural work, but both spellings have been used from 1811 or so (replacing the slightly earlier alumium) and I don't think it's right to assert the superiority of one version over another!

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Daniel @bookshopaddict.bsky.social · 1d

All these people who joined the media with dreams of becoming the next Woodward and Bernstein have turned out to be absolute kowtowing cowards.

Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 2d

American media is failing so badly as their democracy is thrown in a bonfire.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

The praise (yes, *praise*) by CNN for Pam Bondi is stunning, given that this was the most startlingly unprofessional public performance by an Attorney General in at least a century: "Bondi fended off questions....using quick-one liners to deflect and personal attacks to push back against Democrats."

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 1d

The first James Bond film was a standard film of its era. No more should ever have been made, and every single one is risible rubbish.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 2d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 2d

Shocked! Shocked I tell you!

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 2d

The ICE clowns seem like an army of Family Court Dads and they’re given half a day’s training and a $150 voucher to the local mall to go buy an outfit.

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I think scholarslop might be my new favourite word https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-coming-threat-of-algorithmic-idea.html?m=1

HT @Samuelmoore

Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

stunlaw.blogspot.com

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 2d

why is this so easy for him and so hard for literally every other fucking politician on the earth?

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 3d

Superb messaging here. Scottish (and UK) politicians take note. #ZohranMamdani

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Peter Evans @evanspw.bsky.social · 2d

"pinning" exactly. Have always found the carry-on about trades and drafts etc sort of a cope for diehard fans (although not as ridiculous as the Brownlow and the All-Australian bollocks). Switch off until march...

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

Englishman here, married to a wonderful American lady, living in the US. Initially she was horrified by my use of the word "cunt" as it is only used as a pejorative against women here. This morning she asked, "Who turned the air conditioning on? Some cunt?" Never been prouder.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 3d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

🧵

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 3d

BTW if you're in London over the next couple of weeks and you fancy having a cathartic little breakdown, this is well worth a visit:

whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars) | BFI London Film Festival 2025

A breathtaking journey through light and sound, this immersive installation invites you to explore the cosmos – and your inner self – one luminous moment at a time.

whatson.bfi.org.uk

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 3d

Quality ALT text work. ;)

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

Tag yourself in the Gaultier Spring 2026 Ready to Wear looks lol this is basically my gender

A white male model in, okay. Well, it's fashion! His face and exposed chest are very pale, and his long legs are very tan. You can see all of his legs, from above the hip bone, because he is wearing a black maybe leather longsleeved body suit. He is also wearing inexplicably clunky black open toed sandals. The texture of the leather bodysuit is thick and wrinkles. It's really hard to describe how this or any of these looks look, because they're very future space looking with extremely dystopian vibes.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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