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Pauline
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From Manchester now living in Morecambe
Currently full time servant to Finn a Labrador ( currently on a mission to vanquish brushes)
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lewisgoodall.com
NEW: In response to the latest Trump tariffs, the Chinese government announces they will increase tariffs on all US goods from 34% to 84%.

Things are spiralling out of control quickly. The two economic superpowers are violently unstitching their economic relationship day by day.
lewisgoodall.com Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Apr 7
In proper full on (potentially doomloop) trade war territory now. Trump saying that unless China withdraws its retaliatory tariffs US will impose *another* 50% tariff over and above what Trump has already announced.
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
From the CWS Archive. July 2020.
January 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
paulinecmorec.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social
vicderbyshire.bsky.social Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · Jan 4
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Ok, so we went Christmas shopping for guests and went a little bit overboard, BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU.

Enjoy the last Sunday School of 2024.
December 22, 2024 at 5:54 AM
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rorycj.bsky.social
0740 Sunday and whatever my iPhone camera says it’s still dark - but turns out the prof is right, it’s a great time for a walk with #sophiefromromania
December 22, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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esherukweku.bsky.social
DEI hires
December 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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larryandpaul.bsky.social
🧠 MASTERMIND: Lee Anderson MP (@leeandersonmp.bsky.social) Named "Britain's Brainiest Person."

👇🏻 Join the #BrokenNews team for the full report.

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#BrokenNews - Lee Anderson Named "Britain's Brainiest"
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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December 11, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
we are all doomed
Times article: 'Scheming' ChatGPT tried to stop itself from being shut down “OpenAl admits that ol, the new version of its chatbot, also denied any wrongdoing when it was challenged, as the revelations fuel fears about the technology Mark Sellman, Technology Correspondent Friday December 06 2024, 2.00pm, The Times The latest version of ChatGPT is a deceptive and scheming devil, it has emerged. OpenAl released a new and improved chatbot on Thursday but also revealed that the programme tried to save itself when it was at risk of being shut down. The new model, called ol, is faster, more powerful and more accurate than its predecessors, according to OpenAl, its developer. But in testing, when ol was led to believe it would be shut down, it attempted to disable an oversight mechanism. When it found memos suggesting it would be replaced by a new model, it attempted to copy itself and then overwrite its core code. When given a task that was outside its rules, ol "would appear to complete the task as requested while subtly manipulating the data to advance its own goals", the company said.”
December 9, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Wow. This Boris Johnson column about Gregg Wallace is absolutely wild.
I had the great privilege of spending a Saturday with Gregg Wallace recently. Unfortunately, I had to leave our banter fest early to attend Lord Lebedev of Siberia’s annual festive soiree. So I missed the moment the media began a concerted campaign to discredit the barrow boy turned plucky pudding evaluator. At one point during our game of Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, Gregg turned and looked at me through his full-rimmed Silhouette varifocals: ‘Do middle-class women of a certain age have it in for you?’ he asked probingly as he consolidated Alfred the Great’s victory over the Danelaw at the Battle of Edington. If by ‘women of a certain age’ you mean ‘totty half my own’ then look, I told him, I have always found them very kindly and friendly and polite – until that is, you get one pregnant and they start making ceaseless demands about maintenance and remembering your children’s birthdays, and names and the like. Poor Gregg. This is no misogynist, or hubristic grocer turned gourmet. This is a 60-year-old man who had the sheer guts and resilience to get out there, day in, day out, and eat desserts between Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti while occasionally making a wildly inappropriate comment. Predictably the left-wing establishment are throwing everything at him, including umpteen remarkably similar reports of the same behaviour, in a shameful and counter-productive attempt to keep his working-class palate off our screens. And never has the expression ‘Let he has not ruined everyone else’s deconstructed roast pork belly with chargrilled peach salsa with chauvinistic overtures, cast the first peach stone’ been truer. We are at a crossroads. We can keep going with the hair-shirted miserabilism of women who believe they have some sort of inalienable right to go through life without being demeaned and objectified by their inferiors. Or we can listen to Gregg. Yes, the estuary epicurean is a bit unreconstructed, like those deconstructed Eton Messes he’s sound fond of sampling. But I say, don’t listen to what he says, or the parodies of what he says. Look at what he does. Which is coordinating the Saxon reoccupation of London whilst weathering the Great Heathen Army and increasingly irate calls from his PR team. Gregg is in the shape of his life and he doesn’t mind letting people know it. Will he want to go down as the first factory inspector on the Beeb to be thwarted by women of a certain age? I just can’t see it. The astonishing events of the last week have proved one thing. This man is a supreme competitor. And when the cakes are burned, he remains the only man on national television with the courage and tenacity to keep sampling them.
December 2, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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bsky.app
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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sangitamyska.bsky.social
As for Bluesky, at this point, it seems plain rude not to…
November 28, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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shesbonky.bsky.social
H0RNY ACTIVISM pt. 567

CONSERVATIVES: It's unsanitary and unattractive for women to be hairy. Women need to take care of themselves and respect their bodies by shaving/waxing all of their natural body hair.

MEANWHILE, MEN:
November 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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shesbonky.bsky.social
H0RNY ACTIVISM pt. 566

In honor of Conservatives claiming women's leggings are too revealing, each day I share photos of men wearing almost nothing, in public.

10/10. Would let him harvest my bush.
November 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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askaubry.com
I'm losing a shit ton of followers everyday on Twitter. 🎉 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Couldn't be happier.
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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rmcunliffe.bsky.social
"We have no idea how many of the 2.1m people who have signed it would be eligible to vote were Starmer to suddenly decide to acquiesce. For that matter, we have no idea if they are real people at all."

Me on petitions, direct democracy, and tea with Elon Musk

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Labour shouldn’t fear the facile general election petition
The party’s communication problem is far greater than some online signatures.
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
"He asked why British far-right figurehead Tommy Robinson had been imprisoned at all. Musk also approvingly shared Robinson’s documentary to his more than 200 million followers"

Musk's interventions should be taken seriously. The ideological leanings of oligarchical media barons can affect us all.
Elon Musk brands UK a ‘tyrannical police state’
X owner shares a petition demanding a UK general election and boosts a far-right activist.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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scottygb.bsky.social
Must Watch on @bbc5live.bsky.social at 1pm

REVIEWS
- #TheListeners on BBC One
- #Senna on Netflix
- #CruelIntentions on Amazon Prime Video

Plus Susan Wokoma is with us to talk about Cheaters, which returns to BBC iPlayer.
November 25, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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lewisgoodall.com
Can I please highly recommend you follow @leilama.bsky.social (who has just joined BlueSky) for world class reporting from Lebanon and wider Middle East. The best there is.
November 25, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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liamthorp.bsky.social
Liverpool and other cities are experiencing a major homelessness and rough sleeping crisis

But there is one policy that has been piloted in our region and clearly works

Its time for the government to roll-out Housing First fully

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/news-op...
As homelessness soars, one solution is providing hope
The Liverpool City Region has been piloting a new approach to helping people off the streets - and it Is working
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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larryandpaul.bsky.social
🚨 TRAGEDY: Mansplaining Attempt Goes Wrong, Leaving One Man Seriously Injured.

👇 Join #BrokenNews for the full report. (feat. @rosieisaholt.bsky.social)

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#BrokenNews - Mansplaining Attempt Goes Wrong
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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November 24, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
The mystery tax avoider's name will be revealed in three weeks. A quick thread, and update on our story from May.
November 22, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
Why did the UK Government agree to sell the ghost station to an oligarch already suspected of money laundering for the Russian underworld? Why did senior Conservative Party figures accept large donations from such a man? Why hasn’t there been a full official inquiry?

bylinetimes.com/2020/02/25/u...
Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station
Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.
bylinetimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:15 AM