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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 54m

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

Good lord.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 43m

I'd like to think that William Franklyn was involved somewhere.

Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 2h

If Celebrity The Traitors was made in 1978 it would involve Frank Muir, Roy Kinnear and Angharad Rees in boiler suits sitting round a big beige hexagonal table in TC7, and would be all over in 27 minutes.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1h

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 2h

Okay genuinely well done from Kimmel's team, this is what pulling out the real knives looks like.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 1h

they have no fear of saying this shit out loud. are they relying on the majority of Americans being too indifferent, ignorant lazy or stupid to object to this affront to them?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10h

What’s Spotify worth without any human-made music on it?

What’s Netflix or Amazon or Apple worth without anything to watch on it?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10h

Arts degrees are only “worthless” because tech cunts revalued the highly desirable product of freelance artists at close to zero, cos it made running the digital supply pipes look cheaper on the spreadsheets. Pay properly for the arts, and see how worthless artists are.

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Nev Fountain wants you to buy his book please. @nevfountain.bsky.social · 10h

Neither Spitting Image or the Paddington Estate would comment on all the free publicity generated by such a waste of time and effort.

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Paddington creators sue after Spitting Image depicts him as crude podcast host

It follows Spitting Image creating a parody version of the children's character for its YouTube series.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 14h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 14h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 14h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 15h

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Nev Fountain wants you to buy his book please. @nevfountain.bsky.social · 13h

English and Theatre Studies student here. Part of the creative team behind a national tour and writer for a top selling magazine. Have worked on TV shows that have been international success stories for the UK.

But hey, if I studded Classics I could have ended up as Tory leader.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 16h

New bio, thank you Tripadvisor

Screenshot of a one star trip advisor review of an hotel which reads a potential death trap wrapped up in tired glitz

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 13h

Drama and English, joint honours. I’ll have my 30 years of staggering taxes back, please. Not sure what to do about the jobs created along the way

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 17d

Kemi Badenoch shovels more coins into the slot machine of right wing policies. "This time I'll strike it rich," she mutters. This time.

The Sentinel Current @tscnewschannel.bsky.social · 18d

#TomorrowsPapersToday Sunday Express: 'EXCLUSIVE: Conservative leader sets out her bold vision KEMI PLEDGES BLITZ ON BENEFITS' by David Williamson. www.express.co.uk For more papers visit www.thesentinelcurrent.com/tomorrowspap...

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 16h

Control the borders!

Not like that!

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 16h

Brexit - the gift that keeps on taking bit.ly/48ZnxLs

Britons could be banned from holiday homes under EU’s 90-day rule

Brussels has warned that new biometric checks, which come into place on Sunday, will identify those overstaying on the continent

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 17h

"I'd have to say The Best of Terrry Pratchett."

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 17h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Every all-you-eat restaurant in Chicago just changed their terms & conditions

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1d

Bunch of tubbies with facial hair and zero muzzle discipline. Don’t tell the SecWAR.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 1d

"There’s another reason Dems should stand strong: Republicans have shown they don’t negotiate in good faith or follow through on their commitments. They’ve used their majorities in Congress to branch to tear up bipartisan agreements, cancel appropriated funds, and attempt to turn Trump into a king."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: Dems are winning the shutdown

"If Republicans are on board with Trump’s effort to become a dictator, there’s not much point in negotiating. You might as well force them to own their priorities, including hugely increasing healthcare costs, then use it against them on the campaign trail."

Democrats are winning the shutdown

Republicans, meanwhile, are bumbling and stumbling.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Andy Street is spot on. Birmingham is a brilliant city. Vibrant, diverse, wonderful.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"Hello to my friends at Greggs at Peterborough North services. You might see me later this week," says Robert Jenrick

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

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The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

Starbucks sells coffee for people who don't like the taste of coffee and actually want a milkshake and a pro plus

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