Helen Fallside
@hz-f.bsky.social
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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This is fascinating in the sense that the social media companies have managed to create a norm in which we think they can’t and shouldn’t be regulated. I wonder if people thought about cigarettes and alcohol this way once upon a time.
Australia will soon ban children from social media in a world-first measure, with tech giants forced to comply or face fines up to $32 million
A Global Drive to Curb Social Media for Kids Begins in Australia
Interviews with policymakers in other nations show they’re watching Australia’s age ban closely and planning moves of their own to protect young users.
bloom.bg
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is fascinating in the sense that the social media companies have managed to create a norm in which we think they can’t and shouldn’t be regulated. I wonder if people thought about cigarettes and alcohol this way once upon a time.
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Might be time to revisit this www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
We need to talk about where Brexit funder Arron Banks gets his money
openDemocracy investigations raise fresh questions about Arron Banks's wealth and the real source of the Brexit campaign's largest donations.
www.opendemocracy.net
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Might be time to revisit this www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
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We’ve taken so much groundwater from the Earth that it’s tilted the entire fucking planet (‼️‼️)
Earth has tilted 31.5 inches, and humans are 100% to blame
Groundwater pumping tilts Earth’s rotation, raising sea levels and impacting climate change globally, according to a new study.
www.earth.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
We’ve taken so much groundwater from the Earth that it’s tilted the entire fucking planet (‼️‼️)
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I can’t fathom why @emilythornberry.bsky.social isn’t in the cabinet, she’s magnificent
I can’t fathom why @emilythornberry.bsky.social isn’t in the cabinet, she’s magnificent
Emily Thornberry on British Foreign Policy
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 05/11/2025 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I can’t fathom why @emilythornberry.bsky.social isn’t in the cabinet, she’s magnificent
I can’t fathom why @emilythornberry.bsky.social isn’t in the cabinet, she’s magnificent
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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It's a testament to how much the Republican Party has changed that Dick Cheney's final vote was for the Democrats.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It's a testament to how much the Republican Party has changed that Dick Cheney's final vote was for the Democrats.
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These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Any hamburgers on tomorrow’s show @mrjamesob.bsky.social ?
New - Harvey & Wheeler, the estate agents used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property have apologised for an "oversight" after they did not apply for a licence on her behalf, having offered to do so.
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Any hamburgers on tomorrow’s show @mrjamesob.bsky.social ?
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It's great for our species that the man who saved the world by being instinctively independently-minded and non-violent was also very hot.
Soviet submarine commodore Vasily Arkhipov may well have saved the world today in 1962.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It's great for our species that the man who saved the world by being instinctively independently-minded and non-violent was also very hot.
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Dawn Butler was ordered to leave the commons when she called a lying Prime Minister a liar - now the deputy speaker tells her that you can’t call a racist a racist - grotesque protection of the worst people while the decent are hung up to dry
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Dawn Butler was ordered to leave the commons when she called a lying Prime Minister a liar - now the deputy speaker tells her that you can’t call a racist a racist - grotesque protection of the worst people while the decent are hung up to dry
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This is a strong effort
Come Together - The Beatles 10/10
Come Together - Primal Scream 8/10
Come Together - Primal Scream 8/10
Fun music game.
Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?
No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)
My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...
Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10
Total score: 17
Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?
No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)
My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...
Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10
Total score: 17
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is a strong effort
This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week.
As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me.
His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵
As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me.
His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵
October 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Really clear from the judge: "This Court rules that the Plaintiffs have shown...that Secretaries Noem and Rubio have intentionally and in concert implemented Executive Orders in 14161 and 14188 a viewpoint-discriminatory way to chill protected speech. This conduct violated the First Amendment."
BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Really clear from the judge: "This Court rules that the Plaintiffs have shown...that Secretaries Noem and Rubio have intentionally and in concert implemented Executive Orders in 14161 and 14188 a viewpoint-discriminatory way to chill protected speech. This conduct violated the First Amendment."
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"Brexit lies on the side of that bus," Starmer says, mocking populist rhetoric, "click here for your new country". Very rare moment of criticism of Brexit from him.
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Brexit lies on the side of that bus," Starmer says, mocking populist rhetoric, "click here for your new country". Very rare moment of criticism of Brexit from him.
Sadiq Kahn is a Dude.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Sadiq Kahn is a Dude.
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Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor.
What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig
What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig
September 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor.
What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig
What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig
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For him it's all about ideological purity. It's better to stand by an idealistic scenario and get crushed than to be pragmatic, get elected and do some good. Politics is a bus, not a taxi - you get the one that gets you closest to where you want to go.
September 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
For him it's all about ideological purity. It's better to stand by an idealistic scenario and get crushed than to be pragmatic, get elected and do some good. Politics is a bus, not a taxi - you get the one that gets you closest to where you want to go.
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Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
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This by @jamesomalley.co.uk is good.
It's time to tell the racists to fuck off
Anti-racism norms are good and should be socially enforced
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This by @jamesomalley.co.uk is good.
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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
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Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.