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I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

There are so many avenues to investigate for the faithfuls to pursue, but they're all utterly failing to do so. Maybe the other side of Miranda was a traitor. Maybe all the people going most under the radar to the extent everyone has declared them trustworthy are traitors. #celebritytraitors

"Am I a traitor?" #celebritytraitors

Oh fuck me, are they going to do 3 out of 3 traitors here? #celebritytraitors

What? What is this? I have no memory of this. Are we being gaslit? #totp

"Was I in there with him?" #celebritytraitors

Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

Absolutely mindblowing for #celebritytraitors to go from a series with the most obvious traitor to ever traitor to...that

1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

What the fuck #totp

Sincerely #totp... What the fuck was that?

Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again. A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer. Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers. Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable.

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

25 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of.

So Kent Police knew about the fash mobilising 24 hours prior to the event? nicklowles.substack.com/p/did-kent-p...

Guess what? Turns out it might have been a good idea for both the police and the government to crack down on this lot hard at Dover!

Given that it's clear to everyone and their dog that this wasn't remotely 'spontaneous', why make a statement like this? You could have made a statement about investigating it. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/05/p...

From the other place.

Excited to hear the forthcoming reasoning for why this isn't terrorism but peacefully holding up a cardboard sign is.

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Ukrainian publisher of board games including Catan and Exploding Kittens is fighting for its existence after a Russian missile strike destroyed its warehouse, wiping out its entire stock of about 200,000 games: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Talking Pictures TV is great. O also watched it a lot over the week I had no Internet because OpenReach cut me off.

A new Peterloo jug is news, because all known examples are printed over a leftover batch commemorating an admiral. This one is part of a new batch on a purpose-made jug, indicating sustained demand. On display soon at the People’s History Museum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That was quite a thing

Oh fuck me, that third goal #EnglandvFrance

The government's current approach to immigration is both immoral AND economically damaging. Maybe don't double down at an even more structural level?

SPENCE

GORDON

#OnThisDay 65 years ago was run the ’61 #BritishGP - a truly remarkable if now little remembered race of firsts & lasts that took place in a Liverpool downpour. Click below to read my brand-new @motor-sport.bsky.social column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

Oscar Bobb is comfortably the best name on the pitch

If at first you don't succeed, keep trying, I suppose

Ooooo.

Are you allowed to just push over the other team?

We appear to have conceded a goal to a small child

England passing like they're just killing time in the local park

The methodology on this seems weird. Dig through, and there's cities missing that are famously full of trees like milton keynes and Sheffield, making that 'only Hastings and Guildford' bit pretty questionable. But if you don't include places with a lot of trees... won't that skew the results?

I do, of course, adore the book Piranesi, as all people should.

Yikes

Giving Antonelli a penalty for TRACK LIMITS after all that is absolute nonsense #britishgp #f1

DRAMA #britishgp #f1

Sheffield, apparently.