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Celebrity Traitors: Celebrities enter castle as first three Traitors are revealed - live updates

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 14h

Dear BBC News.

A reality TV entertainment show is not news.

I hope that's cleared it up.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Yours,

Reality

There's £100,000 up for grabs for the charity of the winner's choosing - but will the Traitors remain undetected?

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 21h

Did not have "Robert Jenrick deconstructing ventriloquism" on my bingo card for the autumn but here we are.

Events | Festival of Social Science

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

A quick plug for the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, for those who are unaware of the actual value of "worthless" degrees. Here's the website: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/search/

Festival of Social Science 2025 Event list page. The festival runs from Saturday 18 October to Saturday 8 November 2025

festivalofsocialscience.com

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

It was Darren Hutchinson that said that?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

Plus the NRA - their justification for the right to bear arms is to oppose dictatorships.

But I suspect most of them were more interested in getting their guns out to cosplay as important people for ICE.

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

I get that the genie can't go back in the bottle, but I really can't see a bad side to what Clegg "threatens". AI is doing what every other new tech has done but more so - concentrating power and wealth in the hands of a few whilst screwing everyone else.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

ALT: a woman says that doesn 't sound so bad

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

I've reached the point where I've concluded that if Badenoch says something, it's almost certainly wrong.

On the back of Eng Lang at OU, I'm doing a PhD in linguistics, looking at how to make multilingual high-risk environments safe.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

CompSci at Cambridge? We were taught stuff that five people in the world needed to know.

I was not one of them.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

I did an OU English Language and Literature degree (my degree when I was young was CompSci at Cambridge).

On the back of Eng Lang, I'm doing a PhD in linguistics, looking at how to make multilingual high-risk environments safe.

festivalofsocialscience.com/events/langu...

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 1d

Has Trump used his executive authority to have the Epstein files released yet?

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

Netflix Three-Body Problem already dated. The death of children was supposed to be shocking. In the last three years, the removal of children's innocence by adult powers has been normalised.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can make a Wulferhampton website with that.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

When you put it like that, it does sound like @mrpipsbarkings.bsky.social.

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 2d

The enemies identified by US presidents.

Washington: The British
Lincoln: The Confederacy
Franklin delano Roosevelt: Nazis
John F Kennedy: Communism
George W Bush: Terrorism
Donald J Trump: Portland, Oregon

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

The UK is flirting with this. Abandoning ECHR, continuing to brand undesirable political protest as terrorism, biased media, flawed electoral processes and permitting the corruption of foreign money in political processes are all on the edge of dispensing with international legal standards.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

... in a good way, though?

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

Certain countries have unilaterally decided that there is no such thing as international law. Most other countries are not prepared to stand up to them.

These facts put civilisation back 100 years.

Actually, as those countries have nuclear weapons, they put civilisation in a dystopic future.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

It is boring and repetitive. And yet necessary for survival on some level. I feel your pain.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

They can't. It should. They don't care. #Impunity

a woman in a scrub top is talking to a man in a hospital room and the woman says well when you say it like that

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

@mischiefcomedy.bsky.social please could you fix it for me to have a Vanessa "Join me in fiction!" GIF/Meme that I can put in my posts kthxbai.

Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 2d

ALT: a woman in a scrub top is talking to a man in a hospital room and the woman says well when you say it like that