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Just a small town boy in the city lights The best was yet to come Then lonely days turned to endless nights The best was yet to come (He/Him)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10h
Get you "friends" who make fun of your team in their lede graphs, AND THEN TELL YOU that you're not paranoid and the swipe was meant *specifically* for you. :(
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10h
I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h
The bozos in question.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11h
Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 11h
Begs the question how they closed the case in the first place. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US prosecutors reopen case of alleged gang rape at Cornell University
It comes after the woman filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was drugged and raped at a fraternity house in 2024.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 12h
If City don't respond to sanctions by transferring the entire Man City squad to NYCFC on sketchy TAM deals then what is multi-club ownership even for
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 12h
I wonder if they'll throw the key away once he gets in a cell.
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 21h
The threat has been raised to Charlie which is not a barbecue impediment, I hope that is perfectly clear
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h
OMG: Republican Senator Schmitt accused Jack Smith of being in ATL to conspire with Fani Willis b/c he got a text from JP Cooney about a “Hawks” game (Falcons?). Schmitt had a big visual aid but didn’t keep it up long. BUT smith was at an IOWA HAWKEYES game to see Caitlin Clark in Maryland HAHAHA
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 19h
I have a feminist theory book from the 1970s and even back then they knew "sex-based rights" is a trap and doesn't help women. Praying folks don't fall for it 🙏🏾
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 18h
Now would be a very good time for Trump to implement those "bone crushing" sanctions against Russia. He signed the act, so no doubt they'll be announced any time now.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h
'He has been remanded in custody, with a provisional trial date set for 1 March.'
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Daniel Thomas refused bail over alleged boat damage in Channel
Daniel Thomas is remanded in custody after appearing at Portsmouth Crown Court.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 18h
Always had my doubts about this guy.
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Kermit The Frog Sings on Stage
ALT: Kermit The Frog Sings on Stage
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19h
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 18h
Sometimes I so wish that Jones would say less.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23h
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22h
Sensitive data on all FBI employees included in hack www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22h
"Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night." [Times]
Ireland accuse Israel fans of racist abuse
Paul Rowan - Irish Football Correspondent, Debrecen

Idah was the subject of chants by the Israel fans
Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night.

According to a Football Association of Ireland (FAI) spokesman, Jayson Molumby heard the chants before halftime and the midfielder asked the German referee, Harms Osmers, and the fourth official, Florian Exner, to “listen”.

Because Uefa’s protocol in that situation is to say the word “racism”, European football’s governing body said that no immediate action — such as a warning over the PA system — was taken.

However, the FAI has now said that it will go through the footage to find out if there is any evidence of the alleged abuse and, if so, demand a Uefa investigation into the treatment of Idah, 25, who plays for Swansea City.

There were also reports of confrontations in the tunnel between players, with the Israel captain, Manor Solomon, taking exception to what some Irish players were saying and the opposition bowing their heads during the Israeli national anthem.

In an angry rant after the game, Solomon vowed to get “revenge” on Ireland when the teams meet again on Sunday.

“They said nonsense [to us] during the game, I don’t want to talk about them,” Solomon said. “If I say what I think about them, I’ll probably be banned for a few games so I don’t want to say. Of course they hate us and we don’t like them. I’m already looking forward to the next game against them. What they did with the anthem? I’m not interested in them, we have a country that is ten times better than theirs, stronger, an amazing country with amazing people.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
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SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears
Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21h
If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21h
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21h
Do any in the media make the connection between virulent anti-immigration policies and the triple lock?
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 21h
He means English. We always play the villains in American films.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 20h
Very reassuring that the Diocese of Leicester has hired a new 'Director of Vocations' who is a trustee of a group which creates and promotes a course that requires participants to sit in a group and confess to "homosexuality", among a collection of "perverted sins".
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
Michael Tracey seems to operate on the belief that there’s still someone out there who does not think he’s a total piece of shit and by God he’s going to convince them he is
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We will be compassionate to a strictly limited number of people, and will save as many lives as the Daily Mail will let us”
I know the British people have not given up on their belief that we should be compassionate, live up to our international obligations, and save the lives of those fleeing war and persecution. But I also know this process must be capped and controlled, and communities must be ready and able to welcome those who come here.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How do you politely say to a friend that you aren't listening to their "songs" when they've used AI to make them?
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Being seen as nasty“ isn’t so much a risk as the entire point
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The only experience Jenrick has with a barracks is when the time he ordering a child mural be painted over least the children asylum seekers have a little joy. It's all he should be remembered for.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 28/09/2026
Also - they say the moon is made of cheese, but I went to the cheese aisle and they weren't selling any moon. What the hell?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's all either hints, as in this case, or blatantly misconstruing what she's doing, as with claiming previous "safe asylum routes" with increased restrictions are "new routes". She's still implementing the most hostile anti-immigration policies in a generation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Shabana Mahmood hints she could water down controversial care worker visa plans
Home secretary under pressure over changes to indefinite leave to remain that would penalise foreign care workers
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(sigh) IF IT'S CAPPED, THEN IT'S NOT A SAFE ROUTE
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so not only did greene county sheriff’s deputies assist ICE in stealing dozens of our neighbors, they flagrantly violated the constitution by racially profiling drivers AND tried to cover that up by violating state law requiring them to accurately report their traffic stop data to the state?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A general reminder: AI is a fundamentally privacy-invasive technology. That's in relation to pretty much every aspect, from the data you upload to the data it scrapes and rips, to the insights it gains and the outputs it produces.
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shabana is amazing, genuinely, she's like a militarised version of a district manager who thinks she's hard. Who will never defeat us, Iran? Doggers? Fly tippers?
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was
All five men arrested in RAF base plot are British nationals
The five men who were arrested and subsequently released on bail are all British citizens, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has just told the Labour party conference.

She adds that the scene is “now safe” and the residents living near to the RAF base are now able to return home.

“Let this be a reminder: you will never defeat us,” he says.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The five men arrested over a potential terror plot near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail, says head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor 👀
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