Allan J
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Robert Saunders
about 17 hours ago
It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if OrbĂĄn loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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Dave Andress
about 8 hours ago
Populism is a fundamentally dishonest form of politics, that attracts fundamentally dishonest people. It is a tissue of lies that validates the darkest prejudices, and covers up the most blatant greed and corruption. It generates wealth for the few, and suffering for the many.
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born miserable
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âmanosphereâ âmantasyâ THESE ARE ALL NAMES FOR GAY CLUBS.
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terrible towelie
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Time to bring the Tower of London back into full use.
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Kamella Tate âđ
2 months ago
My kind of SportyGuy! "Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers by urinating the words 'Fuck Ice' on the snow just before the start of the Winter
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#FuckIce
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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Winter Olympics Team GB skier targets ICE with graphic message written in snow
Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers including a message written in the snow
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/06/team-gb-winter-olympic-skier-gus-kenworthy-targets-ice-graphic-message-in-snow
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Love me an Opening Ceremony
#WinterOlypics
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It'd be funny if they sacked her too, for not having sufficient regard to HR approaches.
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Manchester University Press
2 months ago
This LGBT+ History Month, pick up a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past. 30% off as part of our
@lgbthm.bsky.social
promotion until 28th Feb.
@sachacoward.bsky.social
#booksky
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Charlie Lynch
2 months ago
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-closed-w...
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Inside the final days of the CCA
Shock resignations, âabsent leadershipâ and an 80% drop in cash on hand. What happened?
https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-closed-what-went-wrong/
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George Hahn
2 months ago
As consumers, we have tremendous power. My friend
@profgalloway.com
has provided a very simple set of tools. RESIST and UNSUBSCRIBE:
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
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Resist and Unsubscribe
https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
3 months ago
Poverty is deepening. đ Our
#UKPoverty2026
report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
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Not really bothered until Tim Cook is dropped
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elia ayoub
3 months ago
The UK version of âProject 2025â by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. Itâs on their website. Thatâs how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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đŤScott Martinđź
3 months ago
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
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The killings will continue until morale improves.
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Katie Martin
3 months ago
"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
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Dr Chiara Bullen
3 months ago
I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: Ban the use of smart glasses with recording capability in public spaces
We ask the Government to ban smart glasses with cameras in public spaces. We believe they allow secret filming, and undermine privacy, safety and the publicâs right to know when theyâre being recorded...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/739024
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Humanist Society Scotland
3 months ago
AI has the potential to do good but also great harm, to the environment, to people's right to privacy, and to the livelihood, intellectual property, and employability of artists. Read Humanists International's Luxembourg Declaration on AI
humanists.international/policy/luxem...
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Luxembourg Declaration on artificial intelligence and human values - Humanists International
The Humanists International General Assembly's 2025 declaration outlines principles for aligning artificial intelligence with human values, emphasizing human judgment, the common good, democraticâŚ
https://humanists.international/policy/luxembourg-declaration-on-artificial-intelligence-and-human-values/
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Adrian Weckler
3 months ago
So we have figures now. Grok created and shared 1.8m sexualised images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X. Overall, the Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4m images â 41% were sexualised images of women
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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Muskâs Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html
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Balderdash
3 months ago
Everything sounds more romantic in French.
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Pollik
3 months ago
I think this needs to shared widely. Especially to those who have the power to stop it.
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Dr Joby Razzelliot
3 months ago
In what sense is gender reassignment a protected characteristic if it gets disregarded the moment someone else complains about you existing near them?
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Prospect Magazine
3 months ago
âThe fact that Grok can be used to defile images of women and children is not an unfortunate accident of technological progress, but the direct consequence of decision-making, and of an ideology,â writes
Alona Ferber
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The misogynist world of Grok
On the slow, ineffective political response to Elon Muskâs debasement-of-women machine
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/ai/72094/misogynist-world-of-grok
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Jeffrey Ricker (he/him)
3 months ago
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Otto English
3 months ago
Clarification: Nigel Farage (who earns thousands of pounds a year from his X blue check) describes calls to ban the site "appalling." I'm sure he does.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera
3 months ago
This is just a suggestion but maybe... the US could set itself on fire and leave the rest of us alone? It's just a suggestion! I'm open to other ideas as long as they also involve the US leaving the rest of us the fuck alone?
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New Economics Foundation
3 months ago
Fantastic news! Britain has so much potential to harness our own energy for greater security and to bring down energy bills. This year let's go even furtherâĄď¸
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025
Wind, solar and other renewables hit a new high last year but the government is still some way off its clean power target.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz947djd3d3o
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Andrew Harrison
3 months ago
Everyone please turn to your notes about âStarting an illegal war so that you can denounce anyone who complains about it as unpatrioticâ.
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Happy New Year and all that
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Jack Shoulder
4 months ago
Honestly, this is *chefs kiss*
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Prospect Magazine
4 months ago
âThose who protest that human rights have gone too far often do not like human rights in the first place,â writes
@davidallengreen.bsky.social.
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The good, the bad and the ugly of ârebalancingâ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/71813/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-rebalancing-the-echr
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New Humanist
4 months ago
"The Trump administration is exporting its culture wars, and it is using the rhetoric of 'free speech' to extend to other countries the very same assault on democracy that is taking place within the United States." âď¸
@katherinestewart.bsky.social
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The new crusaders
Meet the religious conservatives, bankrolled by the US, attacking British rights and access to abortion
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6487
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Gerry Hassan
4 months ago
How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
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Garry
4 months ago
Robin Ince reveals to last nightâs audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Adam Bonin
4 months ago
Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
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Dr Robert Bohan
4 months ago
>Violent< far right terrorism is a growing & real threat in the UK & Ireland. These extremists work together between England, Scotland, Northern Ireland & Ireland. Their apologists incite violence against migrants & LGBTQ ppl online Man charged in investigation into violent right-wing extremism
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Man charged after arrest as part of cross-border investigation into violent right-wing extremism
The cross-border investigation is being carried out with An Garda SĂochĂĄna.
https://www.thejournal.ie/man-charged-after-arrest-as-part-of-cross-border-investigation-6900061-Dec2025/
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Alice Roberts
4 months ago
Okay. This is angering me. First of all, âMANâ!? Weâre not in the nineteenth century FFS. Thereâs a better word and it is âHumansâ. And secondly - who the fÂŁ&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/10/man-made-fire-350000-years-earlier-than-previously-known-after-discovery-in-suffolk
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Humanists UK
4 months ago
77 years ago
#OnThisDay
'men and women from every country and every culture, every religion and worldview, came together to agree that some values were shared and should forever be protected as rights for all.'
@andrewcopson.bsky.social
#HumanRightsDay2025
andrewcopson.com/2024/12/cele...
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Celebrating Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day offers the opportunity to reflect on what an enormous human achievement âhuman rightsâ are and on the commitments they entail, from the empathy which underpins them, to the rule ofâŚ
https://andrewcopson.com/2024/12/celebrating-human-rights-day-2/
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alyson âend the BBCâ greaves
4 months ago
HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn. They are a threat to every organisation.
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KJ Charles
4 months ago
If they arenât a registered charity and they arenât registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), itâs probably one of these scammy orgs where the âprofitâ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.
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Humanists UK
4 months ago
We love this! As we head towards the shortest day of the year, the holiday season, and the colder weather, thereâs no better time to spread a little extra kindness. Weâre encouraging everyone to download the
#DoGoodDecember
calendar and get involved.
humanists.uk/2025/12/02/s...
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Time for a bigger US boycott then
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Europe a âdecayingâ group of nations led by âweakâ people, Trump says â latest updates
US president blames leaders for being âpolitically correctâ and says migration is âunchecked, unvettedâ in interview with Politico
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/09/ukraine-russia-lithuania-czech-republic-france-europe-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-693806f38f08c01b6ef5e157#block-693806f38f08c01b6ef5e157
4 months ago
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Resolution Foundation
4 months ago
đ¨New research published todayđ¨ Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier. Full story đ
buff.ly/OAMzq06
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Laura Marie Brown
4 months ago
When we talk about the lack of opportunities for young people, we rarely talk about local government funding decimation. The lack of cultural funding, third sector funding, place based funding, training opportunities - all of that has evaporated over 15 years
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Local authorities in England and Wales warn finances at âbreaking pointâ
More councils expected to fall into bankruptcy in near future as they face nervous wait over government funding
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/08/local-authorities-england-and-wales-warn-finances-breaking-point
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Karen Sue Waters
4 months ago
Nailed. It. This is the kind of man you want leading your country.
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Ada Lovelace Institute
4 months ago
đAll we want for Christmas is for AI regulation to work for people and society. Our new polling shows the UK public are concerned that tech companiesâ needs are being prioritised over their own when it comes to AI regulation. Read the full findings âŹď¸
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...
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Iâm thoroughly enjoying the full on 80s-ness of the online Stranger Things radio station WSQK. Especially the fake Hawkins adverts.
4 months ago
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Is that turkey still in charge of the White House?
5 months ago
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Resolution Foundation
5 months ago
Overall, the combination of tax rises and giveaways since last yearâs Budget is progressive. Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.
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