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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 21m

Captain Tom's bathwater... now there's an untapped business venture

G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 21m

Deranged gin tasting soon please.

G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 25m

Omfg as if you have it

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Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 12h

British conspiracy theorists: ID cards are the start of NWO Nazism
American conspiracy theorists:

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 12h

It does highlight the real dearth of ideas that Labour currently has to fix the sector which is a) very important for growth and b) in the midst of a multi year crisis

G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 12h

Having a cap on numbers as there was under the last labour government could actually be good for the sector but this is obviously fundamentally unserious.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 23h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 2d

I'm genuinely coming to believe government social media regulation is an urgent public health and order issue

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 3d

The King's army is theologically fascinating - evangelical protestants but they've recreated an Episcopy, Vestments, and a weird feast day

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 4d

terrorism act charges very serious as well. a young person would live the rest of their life uncertain about the consequences on their employment and travel opportunities. really steep potential punishments.

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 4d

Part of why so many genteel pensioners are getting arrested for supporting a proscribed group is because they can afford to be arrested. It’s not just that it’s bad optics to arrest retired vicars or whatever. Lots of those who feel strongest would be at much higher risk and face worse consequences

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, its terminal America brain to think otherwise

G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 7d

In the UK, this is an example of an issue where there is a clear majority opinion, like it or not!

Land use and ownership is so different in the UK to the US that fracking would impact far more people's property and be far more controversial as a result.

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 7d

* in 2025, 50% opposed fracking in the UK, only 25% approved. This has been the case for 5+ years yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
* Liz Truss's premiership was ended partly because she enthusiastically backed fracking and her MP's freaked out when they saw above polling

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 7d

sTaRMeR DId evERYtHiNG tHE cEnTRisTs DEmS wANt aND iT HASn'T woRKed

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 7d

Traded in some books and got 50p per book except for the highly sought after Capitalist Realism which was worth £2... Makes you think

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 8d

As this is kind of blowing up by my standards I should point out:
* TB explicitly used the word "target" only once at lab conference in 1999 but timescale was a vague af "in the next century"
* 2001 lab manifesto said it was "aim... within the decade"
* 2005 lab manifesto again said "aim" by 2010

G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 8d

One of the oddest myths in UK politics... the Libdem and conservative 2010 manifestos promised to scrap it, but it literally was just something TB said once (I think?). No evidence of it ever being a target like NHS or housebuilding

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

There never *was* a 50 per cent target, though, there was a one line “it would be good for us to have the same participation rates as the rest of the OECD”, and this is…still true!

eastmad @eastmad.bsky.social · 8d

Dropping the 50% university target is obviously right.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9d

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 8d

Dream policy is the Japanese approach where you apparently can't buy a car unless you have a traffic police issued certificate proving that you've got a private driveway or permit space for it.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 9d

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 12d

Reform gaining Ilford north seems improbable

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 12d

Ignore the headline, this is one of the best + clearest arguments for immigration I've seen in the English language and its coming from a Spaniard share.google/YBwGLKvlmzg0...

Spain's Prime Minister Sanchez Says He’s Running for Re-Election

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he’ll run for re-election in 2027, despite polls that show his Socialist party would have a difficult time winning a majority in parliament. “I will do it for...

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 12d

amazing that people are still pushing the “it’s actually really left wing to be completely addicted to your phone” stuff

disapproves. Bishop, who teaches art history at the CUNY graduate school argues that the old, disciplined focus was a product of the darkest elements of Enlightenment ideology, synonymous with ownership, property and mastery and thus 'white, patriarchal, bourgeois, colonial'. In contrast, today's ways of seeing are 'incessantly hybrid', at once 'present and mediated, live and online, fleeting and profound, individual and collective.

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 13d

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G🅰️reth @gbentl.bsky.social · 14d

In the future, everyone will run a your party membership portal for 5 minutes

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