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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

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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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 13h

if nothing else it's very funny to say you want to get rid of english degrees two days after you give everyone chocolate with "britian" written on it

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 15h

Robert Jenrick would be *furious* if he ever came to north devon. According to the last census, it's 97% White British people here - exactly the kind of 'lack of integration' he absolutely hates, and about which he was very clearly not being a big old racist.

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 18h

"He invokes white faces. He is the one who chooses this as his metric."

Robert Jenrick defended his comment about not seeing "another white face" in a Birmingham area, saying he was only criticising the lack of integration, not focusing on skin colour

'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents

Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 16h

Am hugely enjoying the French scientist on Radio 4 right now referring to "ze Big Bong".

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone and anyone needs to read this from @theoatmeal.bsky.social. It's utterly, properly brilliant.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 16h

I fucking love Elderly, Zero Fucks, Hezza

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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 17h

Why can’t they government be a simple, honest and plain speaking as this?

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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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 17h

One day I'm going to wake up and the UK media will finally be covering the fact that armed, masked thugs are on the streets of major US cities, threatening and hurting innocent people on the orders of the President.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight has shown me that I have reached "They Must All Be Protected At All Costs" level of #GBBO

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

"INSPIRE"

My husband has cheated on me at least three times, but he earns so much I won’t ever leave him
Daily Mail 6 Oct 2025

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Matt Oakley @mattoakleymojo.bsky.social · 5d

I miss the 80s and 90s cos if something really bad happened there was always a chance that Beadle was about. Like if your car rolled off a quayside there was always a chance, albeit a slim one, that it was just Beadle being about.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 8d

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 11d

I know they only have two chants but, so far, "In the hole" has never been less apt for the yanks. #rydercup

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 11d

I'd forgotten watching the Ryder Cup means being subjected to the same half dozen adverts every 20 mins for three days and nights.

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 12d

Still. At least the American lads are all getting paid, so they've got that. #RyderCup2025

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12d

Politics is now a choice between people offering real solutions to imaginary problems, or people offering imaginary solutions to real problems.

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 12d

Not to forget when he nearly drowned trying to swim across the Thames

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 12d

Cometh the hour, cometh the fucking @nivenj1.bsky.social? Wouldn't be the same without descriptions of deChambeau ramming his putter up his own pump funnel. #rydercup

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22d

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 27d

Sorry am I losing my fucking mind??

@bbc5live.bsky.social currently reporting Charlie Kirk as a “free speech advocate who helped a generation of students with their debating skills”???

He was a racist conspiracy theorist who advocated violence against women and transgender people. He was a bum.

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