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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8h
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 9h
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 9h
Not convinced our climate resilience is in a great place when Yorkshire ends up in drought status. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537150...
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Yorkshire officially enters drought status
Summer may have come to an end and rain may be forecast, but the Environment Agency has warned drought conditions are continuing to impact much of the country
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 9h
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GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Official Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters
YouTube video by Briarcliff Entertainment
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 9h
It gave good Sam Rockwell
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 9h
Watched the new Sam Rockwell movie on amazon and had a nice time.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 10h
NYT reports that the Republicans' leading donor is a neo-Nazi www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11h
Norway fines Microsoft's Xandr $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing reut.rs/47gSSr5
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Norway fines Microsoft's Xandr $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing
Norway's data protection authority has fined Microsoft's adtech unit Xandr 92 million crowns ($9.61 million) for unlawfully relaying ​Grindr users' sensitive data to thousands of advertisers, it ‌said on Monday.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18h
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 11h
Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Northern lights over Leith #Aurora #AuroraBorealis
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You will watch this to the end
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/10/2026
Nicholas Cage is on a generational run.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
public execution is going to encourage more people to commit spectacular feats of interpersonal violence so that they can also get on tv
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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/10/2026
On this day in 1993, Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow to receive the Freedom of the City in person. The council had granted it in 1981, when he was still a prisoner on Robben Island, making Glasgow the first city in the world to do so. #Glasgow #NelsonMandela #OnThisDay #glasgowhistory
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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wonder if the US government will sell ad spots during the live broadcast of an execution
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Mark Ruskell @markruskell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who gets to decide what is a Green AI datacentre, industry or communities?
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An absolute horrific thing for him to say and for us to contemplate.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Interesting case of fraud by making automated songs then automated accounts to stream them, pocketing $8M in revenue. Few/no real listeners were diverted to listen to the GenAI songs, but the funds he pocketed drank from a zero sum revenue pool that meant real musicians were paid less.
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Backrooms To The Future @gswilkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Top writing tip from Alan Moore: Work at 2 am because there's less psychic pollution www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJod...
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A day in the life of Alan Moore
YouTube video by Half the Picture
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish charity are calling for 'greater institutional transparency' following figures that reveal nearly 70% of suspended police officers are facing investigations over alleged violence against women
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Charity seeks answers after scale of alleged police violence against women revealed
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
“This entity appears to be run by James Burnham, a former member of DOGE and the current general counsel of SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence space company founded by Musk. It is not clear who is funding the foundation or how much money it has.” www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Danny Trejo and Harvey Keitel are hard at work on the new Daily Wire movie that dramatizes (positively) the murder of Renee Good, do with this what you will www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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Danny Trejo's Daily Wire ICE movie suspends production after locals raise concerns
Production on "Pawn Shop," a Daily Wire-produced pro-ICE film featuring Danny Trejo, has been paused after Montana residents protest the filming conditions and the movie's subject matter.
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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuuuuuck yes!!! THIS is what leadership looks like! They're all our kids--let's act like it.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rich people only look after other rich people. Any non millionaires voting for trump are simply morons who he was never going to help.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A French mayor has been tear-gassed after stepping between riot police and students during mass protests over school conditions👇
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French mayor tear-gassed while shielding students from riot police
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fascinating report on how the clean energy transition is accelerating and fossil fuel demand and emissions will be slashed by 2050, but we're currently on track to only reach net zero by the 2090s, meaning temperatures are set to increase by well over 2C. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536880...
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Study: World is on track to reach net zero - but not until the 2090s
DNV forecasts energy-related emissions will fall sharply by mid-century, but a two-paced clean energy transition means global economy remains on track for well over 2C of warming
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whalefall looks kinda interesting but could be awful
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scotland is just a commodity to these clowns
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
Russia tells WHO there are no plague cases in Siberian city reut.rs/3VxyDTs
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Russia tells WHO there are no plague cases in Siberian city
Russian authorities told the World Health ​Organization on Tuesday that it has no cases ‌of plague in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia, where a laboratory worker at a plague research institute died last ​week, according to a spokesperson for the ​UN health agency.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Once again, regretting the decision to hire knuckleheads, goons and feather-brained numbskulls.
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 06/10/2026
💬 "Tant que nos revendications ne sont pas écoutées, le mouvement va continuer", assure Marius Mesnil, co-secrétaire général de l'Union syndicale lycéenne. 👉 Des #manifestations sont annoncées à travers le pays, lors desquelles ses élèves seront rejoints par une intersyndicale d'enseignants
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*Primarchs are gathered in a small house in Chiswick in the year 30,000* "Your task is to remain loyal to the Emperor and not be corrupted by Chaos. You may not talk to the emperor. You must not use the power of the warp. Your time starts now."
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ajstubbs.bsky.social @ajstubbs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
French students rioting because they want better education funding
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration wanted NYC to explicitly turn away trans veterans from a shelter so NYC was forced to turn down funding for it because it would violate city and state law. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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NYC turns down $1.3 million for homeless shelter due to dispute over transgender veterans
The city says the federal government would have required them to exclude transgender veterans from seeking shelter beds at the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 03/10/2026
There is just so much going on in this short article. You kind of have to read it.
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This appointment tells you everything you need to know about the BBC.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 02/10/2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday! For 24 hours, we waive our revenue share, so even more of every purchase goes to the artists and labels behind the music. Go forth. The music is waiting: bit.ly/4hW8Snx
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
If the whites were to get rid of the rest of us it would be nothing but peace, quiet, and harmony until 45 minutes later when they start the hair color killings
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.
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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shit… looks like I’ve gotta kill all the Jedi now.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026
Spring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and even Chile's Atacama Desert is blossoming.
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Earth’s driest desert is covered in wildflowers right now
Spring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and even Chile's Atacama Desert is blossoming. Known as the driest nonpolar desert, it's now covered in flowers due to heavy rains from the El Niño weather pattern earlier this year.
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