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Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even if we don’t consider that a baby born the day Northern Rock went boom is 19 this year: I am 48 years old and I have no memories of the 1970s, because I was a toddler when they ended.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW | Another day, another columnist selectively quoting Orwell… ALLISON PEARSON’S ACTION MAN FETISH A deranged defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/allison-pe...

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Allison Pearson’s Action Man fetish

A deranged and bloodthirsty defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we can expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s like telling someone whose neighborhood Robert Moses is about to bulldoze that the Interstate Highway System will boost GDP and in the long run lead to more connection in America. I’m happy for y’all but that’s my house they’re about to knock down, etc

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Only other airline serving Europe I'd say that about is Smartwings, whose chief pilot flew a full 737 across the whole of Greece on one engine. avherald.com/h?article=4c...

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Incident: Smartwings B738 over Aegean Sea on Aug 22nd 2019, engine shut down in flight, aircraft continued to Prague

Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation

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ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm going to say (bearing in mind the abysmal lack of pilot support that caused a plane of theirs to crash in Russia 10 years ago) that once again, you should not fly flyDubai.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It can't be accurate at the level of the single person. So in trying to become accurate it either produces way too much intrusive bureaucracy and surveillance, too much error, or both.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because it doesn't work out like that. It feels like it does to people who are too clever by half, but it's trying to solve a problem at the wrong scale. Big, ugly, inelegant policies that don't try to target down to the individual person work better because of the scale the state works at.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At least we didn't all lose our minds and inflict ten years of the Tories on ourselves in order to eventually try and sneak a watered down version of the 2019 Labour manifesto back in and hope nobody notices and asks awkward questions.

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Dracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burnham is promising to make a break with neoliberalism by ending the last secure pillar of the social safety net and increasing military spending.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Praise for Burnham's speech is OK; it was better than Healey's vacuous drivel. But it misses a key point about politics - that we over-rate words & under-rate power, interests, administration etc.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Noticing a curious absence of sensibles going “oh is Andy Burnham going to plant them all himself?” About this incredibly pathetic number designed to overwhelm people who don’t understand scale.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s refreshing that a significant number of Dems are running on a platform of “my opponents are monsters.”

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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is exactly why I don’t trust supposed trans allies in Labour, especially those in the parliamentary party. Liv Bailey was at best useless in defending trans rights and at worst complicit is helping to eradicate them whilst sitting under Bridget the Bigot Phillipson.

Yuan Yang MP BlueSky post:

I was proud to once again speak at the Labour for Trans Rights rally at Labour Conference today, alongside many other allies in Parliament. (1/2)

Yuan Yang MP BlueSky post:

I also paid homage to the work already done by Labour MPs over the past few years, including @oliviabaileymp who is now taking on the mantle of Women & Equalities Select Committee chair. (2/2)

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Many people don't understand probability very well and many of them are resistant to having it explained to them. This leads some designers to creating mechanics that work like the player's instinctive (read: fucking wrong) understanding of probability, further confusing everyone.

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

All reports in this thread are from the collections of Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Materials we've digitized can generally be found in HathiTrust. Learn more and search our catalog here: www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co...

Text "United States Department of Agriculture. Transporting Watermelons in Bulk and Bin by Truck." Illustration of a semi truck with a watermelon as its trailer.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We had a whole special episode planned with neat acoustic tricks like "record inside a white van" but now we're a national security risk or something

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You knooow that if Variety was a UK production they would have been slapped with legal action until that Lily Wachowski interview was taken down. It is the civic duty of Americans to talk shit about JK where she can’t get you for it

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わはは @mrbowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a fun and interesting article, but this line made me snort.

I wanted to make the act of actually playing mahjong as stress-free as possible.

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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They should make one of those anime dating games except it's all infamous Labour freaks and you gain romance points by talking about means testing or getting tough on immigration

A chibj cardboard cutout of Andy Burnham dressed as Jon Snow from Game of Thrones with a sword and long fur cape.

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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 27/09/2026

this carriage has been a battleground for class warfare

a sign stuck to an East Midlands Railway train carriage window that says “STANDARD
CLASSz This declassified First Class area is now available for Standard Class ticket holders.”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like I say, the crazed right wing backlash wasn’t so much prompted by pronouns or Black Lives Matter or trendy HR diversity training. It was mostly about MeToo, and the idea that sexually harassing your colleagues and employees would badly damage your reputation, your career and maybe your liberty.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Yes, Slutcon is real. And while there’s nothing wrong with this kind of event in perfect isolation, in the context of “women in Silicon Valley tech are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend,” it becomes very gross. (BTW, Gretta is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s partner). slutcon.com

SLUTCON
Three Session Tracks
Sessions are designed for three experience levels.
Wherever you are, there is a track for you.
Starting Out
No idea what's going on? Bad with ladies?
Want basic practice? This track assumes nothing.
• Flirting fundamentals
• Low-stakes practice rounds
• Approaching without panicking
• Zero assumed experience
Leveling Up
You know your way around and you've got some experience - now you want to get a lot better.
Sharpening conversation and escalation
Practice with real-time feedback
Calibration and timing
• Fixing your sticking points
Gain Mastery
You're sexually fluent but looking for the finishing touch. Get the niche knowledge and rare feedback required for true expertise.
Rapid-iteration practice reps
Detailed feedback from flirt partners
Advanced reads and edge cases
Live analysis of what you're doing

SLUTCON
• Everyone
Ace & up
Flirt Girl
Friday Sep 25
Dance Hell +
• Aella 60 min
Hair Braiding + 90 min
Intro to Spanking and Impact Play +
ACE & UP
90 min
Lead Like a Lover: Move with Confidence, Attract with Ease +
ACE & UP
90 min
Massage
ACE & UP
90 min
Relateful Activities
ACE & UP
90 min
Saturday Sep 26
9AM
BREAKFAST 60 min
10AM
All the Way On: Full vulvar & uterine arousal + 45 min
Ethics of D/s + 45 min
Get Sexier: What men like and how to become it 45 min
Men's Circle +
ACE & UP
MEN ONLY
45 min
Switching: The Ultimate Solution for Anxiety + 45 min
Under Pressure + • Nicholas 45 min
Vaginal Gymnastics +
FLIRT GIRL
45 min
FLIRT GIRL
11AM
How to Pick Up Girls, Literally +

ЗРМ
Now You've Got Her-Here's How to Keep Her (& Not Bore Her) +
45 min
Small Group Physical Escalation - Nicholas
ACE & UP
45 min
A small-group session with a 1:1 gender ratio. Men practice physical escalation step by step - from eye contact, to extending a hand, to whatever their partner is comfortable with and responsive to. Sexual activity and kissing are prohibited; dance, massage, and embrace are allowed if the partner is comfortable with them.
So You've Been Called a Creep - Gretta 45 min
Someone has called you creepy. Maybe more than one person. How can you make sense of that? We don't have all the answers, but we've thought some about it and we want to figure it out together. This will be a workshop / friendly discussion.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

can I get a "are you one hundred per cent sure of that boss"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they had to develop a new type of paperclip to hold the thick bundles of evidence they used to hang the SS. for more information on how they did it google 'Operation Paperclip'

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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is the 36th Anniversary of The Best of Both Worlds Part 2 - so gotta wheel this out again - can i get 100 reposts (unsubtle hint 😜) This poster was a long long time in the making but it's one of the few painting's I've done that I'm actually proud of. #startrek #thebestofbothworlds #fanart

A fan art poster painting for The Best of Both Worlds from the 1990 two parter of Star Trek The Next Generation

A Painting of captain picard being assimilated surrounded by 6 borg

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the 21st century we've not only digitised the South Sea Bubble, we've put it in every man's pocket.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

legit some of the most shameful and craven shit I’ve ever seen in housing circles.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of defenses was that they didn’t go on a junket to study shade, but just on a junket generally

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A) 70/80 hour weeks? Right. When are you working on air con? 9 at night? B) NHS, free education, welfare system, bin collections, roads, wider state services. Go fuck yourself Dave

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is an incredibly good article that really gets what is at the heart of Generative AI as a dead-end development, to me. "Instead of trying to find efficiency, commonality, knowledge, it is faster for me personally in the short term to rent a trillion dollar autocomplete and not think about it."

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cool. Any place that does one of these stunts gets a large fence built around it the very next day.

Brexit for Barnham? Second village weighs up ‘independence’ vote
Anger over plans to host asylum seekers in a nearby military site could drive Suffolk residents to follow Piddington in staging a symbolic referendum

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW | What if you think they’re *all* awful? CHARLES VS. CHARLES PROVES ONE THING: DEAD DIANA STILL SELLS There is disingenuousness and cynicism on all sides as Charles Spencer flogs his book and Charles Windsor tries to protect his ragged reputation brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/charles-vs...

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Charles vs. Charles proves only one thing: Dead Diana still sells

There is disingenuousness and cynicism on all sides as Charles Spencer flogs his book and Charles Windsor tries to protect his ragged reputation.

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aceplym @aceplym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

John Rentoul in favouring blocking the sun shock

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Logging On @logonlog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

logging on

From the show Star Trek: Voyager. Two Hirogen - scaly aliens - dressed in nazi uniforms appropriate to the World War II era. They are in a spaceship with stars visible out the window. The one the viewer is focused on says to the other "The Americans are due to invade."

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 20/09/2026

They hated User because User told the TRUTH

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

While you're waiting for that stupid bastard to kill us all, why not sit back and read a magazine? There's a new issue of Viz on sale today, and Gilbert Ratchet accidentally breaks the internet.

Having inadvertently broken the internet, Gilbert constructs for his dad a replacement for social media - an Opinion Cannon, which spurts words and emojis at random strangers attempting to have a conversation on the street corner.

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paranormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My ideal situation would be, essentially, we get to a place where a kid from a South London council estate could, if they so wished, go to the local youth centre and learn to play the violin. But, then, we come back to this, the reason it will never happen:

Helen Lewis • @helenlewis
Corbyn: "There is a poet, a painting, a novel, a play in all of us." DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM JEREMY.
8:22 pm • 21 Aug 16

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every time I hear a new band that sounds like absolutely nothing to me, I look up where they originated, if there isn't a private school listed they will be from London and called something like Jonty or Rupert.

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