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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 2h

Stating "it shows we’re held to a different standard than a lot of other teams" doesn't actually make you sound very good, G

Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com · 2h

'It wasn't great, the way the team dealt with it' – Geraint Thomas on the David Rozman fallout at Ineos Grenadiers

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/it-wa...

'It wasn't great, the way the team dealt with it' – Geraint Thomas on the David Rozman fallout at Ineos Grenadiers

Retired Tour de France champion says Ineos are "held to a different standard than a lot of other teams"

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 ALERT: Police Scotland is developing plans to use live facial recognition technology

Facial recognition tech:
🕵️ is mass surveillance
❌ is NOT compatible with Scotland’s human rights obligations
⚠️ disproportionately impacts racialised communities

We need to oppose this: amn.st/6008AqWA0

Police Scotland has decided move ahead with the use of Live Facial Recognition technology by law enforcement in Scotland.
Amnesty firmly opposes the use of this dangerous technology.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d

Experts in Hispanic/Latin American names - can anyone tell me what F with a superscript o means, e.g. in the name below?

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 4h

Trump's personal lawyer prosecuted the Rosenbergs

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

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

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 5h

Yvette Cooper: but I would do this so much more efficiently!

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 8h

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’

The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 6h

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'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.' 1/3

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8h

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

Some residents of poorer areas also claimed that their localities were also used for flytipping by people from elsewhere, and that wealthier areas were being prioritised for refuse collection rounds en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Bi...

2025 Birmingham bin strike - Wikipedia

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel Adams, a researcher at the University of Birmingham's Health Services Management Centre, suggested that factors contributing to this include differences in population density, access to transport and distance to waste disposal sites. .

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 Birmingham bin strike is an ongoing standoff between striking refuse workers and Birmingham City Council in Birmingham, England.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

This is utterly ridiculous in any case, but particularly so given common commuting patterns.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 1d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

A letter from the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network, signed by over a hundred people including rabbis, published in the Herald today: archive.ph/BRTCY

archive.ph

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

Let's keep this momentum up, UAE next

Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com · 1d

Israel-Premier Tech to be renamed and rebanded, 'moving away from its current Israeli identity', as co-owner Sylvan Adams steps back

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/israe...

Israel-Premier Tech to be renamed and rebanded, 'moving away from its current Israeli identity', as co-owner Sylvan Adams steps back

Israeli team was the subject of protests at the Vuelta a España and beyond

www.cyclingweekly.com

nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly Yvette Cooper wasn't Home Secretary for long enough to see her wishes come true, but her successor salutes her

nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · Aug 10

Pointing out how much it costs to arrest and "process" 475 people, and what a waste of money that is, is fair enough, but I bet Cooper is on the group chat right now suggesting a new law wherein people who "get themselves arrested" are liable for all costs

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Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com · 1d

Israel-Premier Tech to be renamed and rebanded, 'moving away from its current Israeli identity', as co-owner Sylvan Adams steps back

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/israe...

Israel-Premier Tech to be renamed and rebanded, 'moving away from its current Israeli identity', as co-owner Sylvan Adams steps back

Israeli team was the subject of protests at the Vuelta a España and beyond

www.cyclingweekly.com

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, why not make it more obvious that governments don't really give a rats arse about their citizens.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 1d

Peter, you could actually have some dignity and not write like this, you know

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Shannon Bucci 🔻 @shannonbucci.bsky.social · 2d

“DHS is terrorizing our communities and staging violent spectacles to produce fascist propaganda—and sometimes, for what appears to be purely recreational violence.”

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 2d

🦒 is gamey and lean;🥫is pretty all encompassing. 🥣.

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 3d

drug users make bad choices too

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not the public’s fault that senior Labour figures chose to make roaring defence of Israel’s right to destroy their subject population the core of their propaganda pitch to the public, right before Israel ramped up their genocidal project. All of that is on the government, who did this gladly.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

I remember Laura reading out drivel texts she was sent by Dominic Cummings live on air, ones that totally contradicted the report she had just presented *which were also just repeating bullshit she had been told by Dominic Cummings*. Eventually, you realise the whole job is just repeating bullshit.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 3d

Please go to the consultation and tell them that the only people unwelcome at Hampstead ponds are bigots: hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

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