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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 6h

Lots to enjoy here ("it is hard not to see the name of Clark’s first television series, Petula Clark’s Pets Parlour, as a sly dig at George Orwell’s Animal Farm") ... if not the music.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 9h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 7h

Remembering the Conservative Party Conference leader's speech in happier times.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Just a nit pick, journalists don't "do the fucking news," they are supposed to gather, verify and report "the fucking news."

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 22h

#nowplaying

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 23h

Honorable mention too to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social who did an excellent podcast on this recently. podcasts.apple.com/hr/podcast/r...

Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 20/08/2025 · 1h 21m

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations Netflix 💙

Cup O' Coffey @ammathor.bsky.social · 1d

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the great threads.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈. Once Trump Regime is buried and dead 🇺🇲 @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone always looks utterly miserable.

Thom Browne SS26 show in Paris today, featuring absurd alien models. The audience looks miserable.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 2d

I'm amazed she's allowed cutlery.

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out doing stuff is hard, hey.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Again, if you think the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 had anything to do with “woke” politics you should not be allowed to operate a car much less the entire American military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We won World War 1. We won World War 2. We won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of the sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too, you know. Woke is a long term. Word."

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Once, when I was editing the FT polo supplement, I emailed her to ask if she'd write a jokey column about the new season. I was junior and knew nothing about polo so took a scattergun, slightly panicky approach to commissioning. Seconds after I hit send, the phone rang. 1/2

Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · Oct 19

Cracking Jilly Cooper interview in the New York Times:

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 2d

Flan-urgh

Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly recommend this podcast.

Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 8d

New episode up now. All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook: part 2, with guest Jason Hazeley in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @jasonhazeley.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...

All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 3d

Great piece by @arashtehran.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com on the travails of Your Party. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 5d

Patricia Routledge as Miss Vealfoy in Joe Orton's The Good and Faithful Servant plays a kind of maniacal head of personnel, a fixer of every staff problem, from depression to unwanted pregnancy. It's an unforgettable performance. Here she is presenting Donald Pleasence with a retirement toaster.

Patricia Routledge in a scene from The Good and Faithful Servant, 1967

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 5d

Paris fashion week.

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 5d

A post about Novel Audio, Chris Atkins and their podcast on EMI and Terra Firma.

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