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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry, whilst having some funny moments, is basically cringe. What is unforgiveable is the racism. #ToryRacism [H/T @eberlmat.bsky.social @generalboles.bsky.social @seanjones.org]

Part of the border of a scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Migrants who are clearly not white in a small boat
Rats from the small boat chase cats
Tax payers lying on the ground dead
The implication being the migrants brought disease with them

A scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Keir Starmer giving money and a key to some non white people

A scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Kemi Badenoch giving a key to a white couple

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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am looking for a sci-fi or fantasy portrayal of a matriarchal society that is NOT: -Angel One (LARGE WOMEN, tiny men) or Amazonian -Women alone have a supernatural or superior power / Earth Mother / priestess religion -Based on bees -Extraordinary gender imbalance

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The video is now available from Fara Dabhoiwala's lecture at AIP last week—an account of a Jamaican prodigy, his failed nomination to the Royal Society, and the only known depiction of the first return of Halley's comet. A story almost lost to history recovered from clues hidden in a small painting!

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“Black Genius: Race, Science, and the Extraordinary Portrait of Francis Williams”

YouTube video by AIP History

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello, we’re the Political Quarterly. 👋 We were founded in 1930 to publish evidence-based political ideas that have a positive impact on public discourse and policy. Nearly 100 years later, we’re still going strong. If you like the sound of us, we’d love you to follow us.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Arendt said the crime was his refusal to share the world with others: “For the society that executed Eichmann to…each of them in their own way, justifying…saying they were not decision makers, or they were technical staff, or they were building the system and not actually carrying out the killings”

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Jordo ➡️ ANE @jordo4today.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This gif brings me so much joy it reminds me kindness exists look at him he is making sure his little buddy gets to eat too I love you

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Cat feeding toy snake

ALT: Cat feeding toy snake

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Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Russian Patriot Platform is calling on all Russian patriots to get to Basingstoke police station for 6pm.

Tweets from FaSScist Tommy Robinson and others, calling on their gullible followers to undermine law and order in the UK.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is easily answered. Bomb disposal experts are those that get to attempt it twice.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my book Union has a cover. Indeed, two covers- one for the UK release and one for the US. Forthcoming August of next year.

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Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Important thread about reporting on Orr compared to Arday (and others). Alas, something similar applies to many well-meaning academics on Bluesky.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dr Rachel Souhami @rachelsouhami.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ah, the man who led a campaign against being placed under surveillance joins a company that sells surveillance tools to the nastiest governments.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(From The Economist, September 12-18)

Comic of the Statue of Liberty speaking to Lady Justice (the famous statue of a blindfolded woman holding a sword in one hand, scales on the other).
Liberty: IT HAS BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE THE ATTACKS
OF SEPTEMBER 11
Justice: WOW!
(New panel)
Liberty: SINCE THEN WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING
NON-STOP WARS ABROAD
(New panel) TO PRESERVE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE AT HOME
(New panel)
(Men in black uniforms with faces masked arrive and hustle Liberty and Justice into a van labeled “HOMELAND SECURITY”.)
Men: THAT'S
ENOUGH! INTO THE VAN!

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Look, I know I’m supposed to be at least a Slightly Serious Musician, and some of his music is staggeringly good, but every time I conduct anything by Britten my cheap mind goes to this

The Viz comic’s “Benjamin Britten and his embittered bittern”. Sorry, it’s a 22-panel comic with a lot of text, so I’m afraid that’s all you’re getting. But I hope you get the idea.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

…and the 1st awarding of our annual Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize, with (drumroll please!) @lisamherzog.bsky.social as superb runner-up & Mihaela Mihai as marvellous winner! (link to official citation coming soon!) Special thanks here to @apoama.bsky.social- without whom no prize this year!

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've published a review essay for @ssir.org of Mariana Mazuccato's recent book, The Common Good Economy. I'm broadly sympathetic to her approach, but discuss some issues about power, and the challenges posed by those who are committed to acting *against* the common good. ssir.org/books/review...

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Arriving at Collective Power (SSIR)

In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026

A useful sign to have on hand!

A person in a day glo safety vest holds a sign with an arrow reading RIGHT WING TROLL that's pointing at a woman holding a phone

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Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 08/09/2026

Don't forget to register for the Paine event of the season, "Rediscovering Thomas Paine: What New Documents Reveal" at the Thomas Paine Historical Association: thomaspaine.org/about/events/

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ A major Ukrainian advance in eastern Ukraine is finally being admitted by Russian warbloggers, who say it's a major setback that will prolong the battle for Donbas for at least a year. False reporting by Russian commanders is being blamed. ⬇️ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20972...

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Thread by @clement_molin on Thread Reader App

@clement_molin: After 4 months of the Lyman counter-attack, Ukraine 🇺🇦 3rd Army Corps managed to cut Russian 🇷🇺 salient north of Lyman and liberate more than 200 km2 This is one of the most important ...

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

DC friends, AIP's next Trimble lecture is coming up on Wed., Sept. 23, when Princeton University's Fara Dabhoiwala presents "Black Genius: Race, Science, and the Extraordinary Portrait of Francis Williams." Learn more and register to attend today: www.aip.org/history/fara... 📷V&A Museum, London

A section of a painting depicting a black man in the dress of an 18th century gentleman with a white wig, with shelves of books and a window looking out on a Jamaican landscape and a cloudy night sky behind him.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One of the astonishing moments is Orr admitting that they don’t really have substantial donors in the UK. Self-declared sovereigntists always seem terribly dependent on outside help (Le Pen‘s Russian loan etc.)…

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you @leamundi.bsky.social and @joshplatzkymiller.bsky.social for a stunning keynote: ‘The Idea of “Western Philosophy”: A Critique’. (Don't tell anyone, but it was my favourite of the three.)

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

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Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

CfA: Political theory postdoc on "Democratic Innovations and Moralizing Politics" at the University of Copenhagen 3-year position, in the ERC project MoPo led by C. Rostbøll Deadline: Sept. 27, 2026 All details: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... @ucph.bsky.social #PolTheory #demoinno #philsky

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Postdoc in Democratic Innovations and Moralizing Politic

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear colleagues/friends, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org has just notified me that ‘Empathy and Political Reasoning’ is free to read and hopefully enjoy, until September 14th, 2026, for the APSA @apsa.bsky.social conference this year. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Empathy and Political Reasoning

Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Empathy and Political Reasoning

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Antoinette Scherz @ascherz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Come join us in Stockholm! The department of philosophy at Stockholm University is looking hire a PhD student in practical philosophy: lnkd.in/eqFBh-Ca Deadline for applications: 15 October Please forward to possible candidates!

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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