Emily Collins
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Emily Collins
@emily1collins.bsky.social
jusqu'ici, tout va bien
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There's a lot to be said for Bluesky, but "Oh look! No misogynists here!" is not one of those things
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Leading Reform politician Nadhim Zahawi spoke today of an horrific encounter with a man who looked tired and threatening, and who typified the dystopian nightmare that is Broken Britain…

From the new Private Eye, out now.
February 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
February 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Ukraine has been cleverly exploiting Russia having Starlink access cut off
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 19, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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I wonder, based on the C4 Blair doc, if the issue is the lack of a good dramatic arc. Thatcher, Blair, Brown all have this "touched by greatness*, destroyed by pride" thing going on. Cameron and Osborne were just... wrong. And it worked for them until one day it didn't, There's no tragic flaw.
February 18, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”.

He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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The SM companies argued years ago that they should be excluded from those rules because it was punters who were responsposible for any dodgy content. But now it is clear that their algorithms push content, they are effectively editing content streams and should be treated like other publishers
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Fascinating - Reform lose to every other option, Lib Dems beat every other option, Greens beat every other option except Lib Dem
🧵/ With tactical voting ever more common, who do voters back when only two parties have a chance in their seat?

Con 31% v Ref 24%

Lab 35% v Ref 31%
Lab 29% v Con 28%

LD 41% v Ref 29%
LD 34% v Con 26%
LD 29% v Lab 21%
LD 26% v Grn 25%

Grn 42% v Ref 27%
Grn 37% v Con 29%
Grn 30% v Lab 20%
February 18, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started
February 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
“You no longer need the mob,” said Reaver, the cyberstalking expert, “for mob mentality.”
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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It wasn’t so long ago that CNN sat down for a serious conversation with these guys. One of them is Pete Hegseth’s pastor.

Pretending these assholes are still ‘fringe’ is a dangerous mistake

bsky.app/profile/seth...
I’ve seen this person get retweeted by MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson. He’s not kidding. This is a real political goal he is pursuing. He has 425,000 followers on Facebook.
February 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Good point by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com "low skilled" is a stupid label. Since skill isnt measurably (except in sport) it always always just means low wage. Say that instead.
www.ft.com/content/0409...
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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New Govt amendments to the crime and policing bill:

New aggravated offences will now cover hostility based on disability, sexual orientation, transgender identity and sex (part of pledge to tackle misogyny) — extending beyond Labour manifesto commitments on LGBT+ and disability protections
February 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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have we considered just applying the rules for newspapers, TV, every random with a website, to social media companies?
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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knowingius.org/p/disinforma... A companion piece by Michael Foran on the disinformation being spread
February 15, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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Painting by Helen Parsley ‘The Gate.’
Acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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You can’t defeat the far right by giving them what they claim to want, bc that isn’t what they really want. What they really want- as they occasionally make clear- is racial purity. That’s why measures aimed at reducing migration are not only cruel & self-harming but pointless on their own terms
February 15, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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"Parental alienation" is a made-up concept that controlling men use to continue abusing their wives via the courts. It's a scandal & a travesty that the justice system enables this rigmarole & that so-called "experts" are allowed to destroy children's lives by separating them from their mothers.
UK mother separated from children for years has ‘draconian’ order overturned
Flawed evidence by psychologist Melanie Gill was used to remove children from woman in 2019
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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You're absolutely consuming, and the fact that you're defining what you're doing as not consumption is just one of the many flavors of ai psychosis.
February 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Interesting take on the 1990s. I was so busy with the former Soviet Union that I didn't pay attention to what was going on at home.
February 16, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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“The #BBCWorldService costs less than the upkeep of one tank,” Prof Jean Seaton, BBC Official Historian. So in the midst of a disinformation #war with #Russia and #China, etc, there’s no visible govt plan to fund WS 7 weeks from its money running out - even for the price of running 1 tank.
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Weird how “revere motherhood” never seems to translate into “respect women.”
Articles like this drive me fucking nuts, because how can you post a stat like "50% of Canadian women say they don't want kids" and state that they would if Canada became a place that "reveres motherhood," but never once consider they just...don't want to?

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Policy alone won’t fix Canada’s fertility crisis. We need a cultural shift
More and more Canadian women are stopping at one child, if they choose to have children at all
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.
February 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
February 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM