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Richard
@magecycle.bsky.social
Cyclist, software engineer, vegan, green party member, queer. He/him.
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
January 20, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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Fucking wild that our society is so attuned to accepting bigotry now that a national newspaper like the Daily Express can somehow get away with publishing blatant libel with absolutely zero pushback or consequence.
January 18, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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ICE clearly and provablty targeting journalists. This is banana republic behaviour – but of course America passed that milestone months ago.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Developments moving at an extraordinary pace in Minnesota

🔴 DoJ launches criminal investigations into Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor
🔴 Federal Judge places curbs on police treatment of protesters
🔴 Minnesota Star Tribune says Minneapolis is “under siege” by ICE
January 17, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Chair of EHRC seeking a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss not only ‘mutual priorities’ but also ‘ways to work together going forward’! 🤔

Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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🔔 Nothing to see Year... with James O'Brien ☃️

Who's up? Who's down? Who's in and who's out?

🎅🏽 Join us for a review of 2025 🛷

Part I of a @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrjamesob.bsky.social special.

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December 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously?

It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus

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December 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The court ruled that:

She sent racist messages to colleagues.

She lied in her evidence.

She bullied her trans colleague.

Trans women do not present any risk to other women in changing rooms to toilets.

The headlines don't seem to mention those facts.
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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My charity @protect.earth is five years old this week.

Some stats. 🧵

- Planted 157,453 trees

- Created 4,985m of hedgerow

- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)

- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Greater Manchester ICB has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the “best interests” of the city's population 👀
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/20/manchester_nhs_fdp_deferred/
Manchester defers joining Palantir NHS data platform again
: Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
www.theregister.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.

Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.

But the measures will still leave the county council with a deficit of £72mn over the coming four years
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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🔴Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood

One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...
Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood
One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager – one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest confidantes
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🆕 Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower

🏛️ Even more storytelling. Even stranger connections. Even cleaner sound. Even worse puns.

Brush up, ahead of Season 2.

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Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 16/11/2025 · 1h 7m
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November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM