Donohoe inquiry results are out and my god what a long time it took www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Noah Donohoe: Coroner set to deliver jury's inquest findings

The Noah Donohoe inquest has been examining the 14-year-old's disappearance and death in north Belfast in 2020.

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Thinking about this one again today

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 2y ago

in 1967, senators rfk and joseph clark took a tour of the mississippi delta. they were horrified by the sheer scale of poverty, malnutrition, and neglect. their report caused a national scandal. the scenes haunted kennedy; he considered it the worst thing he'd seen in his life.

can’t stop laughing at someone trying a “criticising the deputy leader of the greens for being a landlord is like criticising him for driving a car” argument in 2026, phenomenal levels of posting

🚨for any journalist🚨 In July 2025, James Orr gave a talk at Oldspeak Bookshop, the shop that sells Hitler speeches, Siege, and extensive fascist literature

Of potential interest to journalists digging into Orr post-FT story: the owner of the fascist bookshop that sells Hitler speeches, niche fascist books about mass murder, including Siege, personally thanks the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation for donating Scruton’s books, of which Orr is a director

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · last mo.

The fascist bookshop was selling books by Martin Sellner (the guy that was in close contact with the Christchurch shooter), the Culture Officer of the BNP, Ed Dutton, etc. Naturally, Roger Scruton's estate donated a collection from his personal library! Isn't that interesting! How did that happen!

think the absolute funniest bit is the plot twist that the 500k is for vetting: ie “we need illegal donations to check if our candidates have posted support for Hitler in the last 36 hours”

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Channel 4 documentary on Reform party donations - www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

Lines drawn. The first step to make European citizens realise they’re at war is to tell them they’re at war.

Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack

A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August.

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is Belfast the slop capital of the UK or something I swear, the amount of ai posters I see

7/25, but I think this is heavily biased by my refusal to use TikTok or to embrace short form hell. I only know about subwaytakes because I’ve seen it reposted here so really it’s not even an age test it’s a platform usage test

dame@dame.is · 3w ago

it’s that time of year again, Rolling Stone released their list of the top 25 content creators, which is actually a test of how old and out of touch you are… the lower your score, the more out of touch i’ve heard of 11 out of 25

it feels wild that people aren’t talking about this. we were staggeringly close to a stadium full of people being wiped out on live TV

Tony Blair/Weird Al Guilt Project@tbwagp.bsky.social · 3w ago

that Cape Town flyover is horrifying. probably the worst aviation footage I’ve ever seen that doesn’t actually involve a direct death. heads should roll for that shit

that Cape Town flyover is horrifying. probably the worst aviation footage I’ve ever seen that doesn’t actually involve a direct death. heads should roll for that shit

train got delayed again, Translink being useless as usual. the poison didn’t work and the gnomecatcher had to go out with the shovel again

UK PM Andy Burnham plays guitar with a Ukrainian defender.

day 8 of the NATO-American war: joint Anglo-Dutch amphibious assault at Norfolk catches elements of 101st airborne mid-march north, causing mass defection. the vaunted Trump Line at Scranton collapses at the news, and Compagnie A of the Luxembourg Armed Forces execute a thunder run, seizing DC

please launch a partisan campaign against American supply chains

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

fun fact: Alan Ritchson actually gets bigger by 1% for every episode of Reacher he films. the production team has therefore taken to freezing him between seasons to control his growth, a policy that also prevents him from assassinating Republican politicians

1) it's good to be hawkish on Russia 2) the war is winnable 3) the UK has had its own nukes since the 50s.

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ed Davey, been hawkish on Russia since at least 2014 and banging the drum for greater arms exports to Ukraine to drag out an unwinnable war that is immiserating both Russians and Ukrainians, and four days ago was advocating he UK develop its own nukes in breach of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

christ, what a depressing story all round, and what a series of failures of responsibility to get to this.

Chris Berez@chrisberez.bsky.social · last mo.

Holy fucking shit Jason Arday found dead

would like to express particular distaste for this seagull who stole my fucking monster munch

what are tayto doing with our money

This podcast clip contains one of the most devastating pieces of video ever captured. listen to bst.png with me and @demilardner.bsky.social

common misconception time: most people believe that the x-men are an allegory for civil rights. this is a myth. in reality the concept originated from when Jack Kirby accidentally foresaw the existence of XL Bullies

hate when people try this shite. just come out and say you don’t think Ukrainians are people rather than this “just send a team of diplomats to negotiate an end!” shite

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · last mo.

Remnick: So we shouldn't send weapons to Ukraine? DSA co-chair Megan Romer: No! Remnick: So, just allow Russia to overrun Ukraine entirely? Romer: We should be sending huge teams of diplomats. We should figure out how to negotiate.w

I would be very interested to see if there are any references to the "Dobby's grave forced a cable to be moved" story from earlier than this year bsky.app/profile/dsqu...

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · last mo.

It doesn't appear in the feedback statement for Natural Resources Wales, it wasn't mentioned at the Pembrokeshire council planning committee, there was a petition with 5000 signatures which doesn't mention it and it doesn't appear in contemporary press www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/1756489...

good news: seems like the Dobby Beach thing is bullshit. cable wasn’t diverted to account for it

DJ randomly paused midway through his set to scream “they’re holding me captive” before going back to the set without ever acknowledging it

My favourite bit of the Arday story, because it combines both the humour and the horror, is that a university department doing research into education didn’t immediately go “hmm. Let’s investigate this a bit further” is the “non-verbal until 18” part.

controversy after two lobsters release Noel Edmonds into the sea

I just think maybe we should give the Russians a taste of their own medicine until they recognise that living in reality again is worth not having to pay the cost of their collective delusions it’s not much to ask for

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.eu · 2mo ago

Unusual drone sighting situation at Leipzig airport in Germany: a drone, possibly armed with some kind of explosive, has been found on the ground at Leipzig airport. Later, an aircraft reported a collision with an unknown object. More info certainly to follow. www.bild.de/regional/lei...