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Alexander Hay

@alexanderhay.myatproto.social
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Writer of weird fiction. Querying away. Dank Goblin. NUJ member. That's definitely me in the profile photo. Blocks AI on sight. alexanderhay.co.uk alexanderhay.neocities.org/ instagram.com/alexanderhayauthor/ orcid.org/0000-0003-1965-9764

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 15h
ACAB includes prosecutors. Never forget.
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Vae Victis Miniatures @vaevictisminis.bsky.social · 12h
We're having a cool collab with Medbury Miniatures this month! He sculpted an upgrade pack for our September release! Only available to our subscribers for now, join us to get it! Medbury Miniatures are currently running a fantastic Kickstarter, only a few hours left, have a look!
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Zack Loup 𓃦 @straysongdog.com · 12h
We worked really hard on this zine!!! Please go support it if you can!!
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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h
As an American of Bosnian Serb descent, I don't understand why so many Americans on both the right and the left want to defend war criminals who came out of the former Yugoslavia.
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 14h
missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h
Le Pen deputy engulfed by antisemitism scandal ft.trib.al/Lhcj1if
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Le Pen deputy engulfed by antisemitism scandal
Far-right party leader Jordan Bardella denies allegations by French news site that he wrote anti-Israel messages as a teenager
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 16h
To Trump, everyone who works for the government is his employee, and its their job to carry out his orders.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 17h
The entire edifice of "sex-based rights" is an absurd moral and legal fiction wearing feminism's stolen clothes--and it seems this group of people promoting "Christian Rights" are trying a similar trick. The UK has fertilised itself for this perfidy with its own bullshit. Democracy is at risk.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18h
The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.
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FDR @dailyresilience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a clear example how free market and capitalism fail to assign value. Job Market is not rule by the same free market precepts like butter and cheese do
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 17h
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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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 17h
one thing fascists love is revisiting old, debunked nonsense as a new, innovative solution
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 21h
It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 19h
We've been doing "let's scrap [benefit] to fund [promised future public service] for close to two decades now, and while we have succeeded in scrapping benefits we do not seem to have funded any more public services. And somehow we still don't have any money.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 19h
The last institution I worked for made the decision to throw out over 100,000 books (not an exaggeration: collection went from 126,000 to 1200), claiming that "everything is online" and giving zero attention to the fact that their online ebooks were almost never used, despite years of pushing them.
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 19h
The move to primarily ebooks was always a bad one. Many libraries gave away their rights to perpetual access in favor of bloated, overpriced ebooks, many of which are out of date and underutilized at best.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 20h
WHaT? I thought democrats in purple and red states just had to throw trans people under the bus in order to win. How is this possible.
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 20h
Former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft has acquired a minority stake in Mirror publisher Reach dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2026/09/tory...
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Tory backer Lord Ashcroft takes stake in Reach – Daily Business
Former Conservative party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft has acquired a minority stake in Reach, publisher of the Daily Record, Mirror and Express
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 21h
WipEout was released 31 years ago. Since the game is set in 2052, we're already more than halfway there. 😁 A technical gem, this Psygnosis game made a huge splash on the PS1 (and other platforms). Especially with its electro soundtrack and in-game branding & artworks by The Designers Republic.
WipEout Japanese PS1 box art
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Hex Maniac Alice @ UUSmp 23/155 @haurchy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...
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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)
“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The UK has no strategic food reserves, imports more than 40 percent of its food, and grows most of the rest in parts of the country most prone to serious drought in the years and decades to come We are not - to say the least -in a good place www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns
Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 28/09/2026
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NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm
NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good shout out to RNLI from Healey in his speech to HUGE applause
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Healey mentions the heroes of the RNLI when talking about patriotism. Huge applause from the audience. #labconference
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chancellor John Healey praises the RNLI, "risking their lives to save others on the sea" - part of "the quiet patriotism that makes Britain great"
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sustained applause when the Chancellor speaks about the RNLI and calls them an example of the quiet patriotism Britain needs #LabourConference
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Gosh, Wes Streeting remains a repugnant wee twat.
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why are some people so against it? A) They don't want it to be a safe discussion, because they think it IS bad to be gay or trans. B) They misunderstand what affirmative therapy is. C) They pretend it's B because they believe A, but understand that comes with social consequences.
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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Zombie shit is mostly murder permission fantasy with neatly dehumanised enemies, prove me wrong Having no production capacity or supply chains is gonna fuck you just fine, no need for rotting meat guys you'd smell from a way off Depopulation plus feral family dogs, hoo baby, you're made of meat
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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah there'd be a crow attack explosion to make Hitchcock wince and wild packs of family dogs with no fear of humans 6 months in all the petrol in existence is now separate layers of water and thick gluey varnish, the explodey stuff having evaporated That shit will plug a fuel injector in seconds
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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHY IS THERE A CHIBI ANIME ANDY BURNHAM
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nosferatu hater @moliaudrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
feeling pressure to attend sexe party is the polite way to say " women has to get raped to work " same as weinstein
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Leigh 🚫👑🇺🇸🌏🇺🇦🐶🐱🇨🇦🇲🇽 🦋 @caborose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anything named ”Slutcon” in any way shape or form is vile nd disgusting. Organized by men who are weak and insecure.. they will never be anything but weak and insecure.. maybe wealthy but not partner worthy. Makes me sick. Hope they live miserable lonely lives.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
taco belle here is doing a good job of laying out the pretty obvious problems with weaving group sex parties, sometimes involving consensual non-consent, into AI industry culture:
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@ animalologist
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Replying to @wenza @Aella_Girl @Actualwebutante Hey, this isn't the crux of my point at all. I'm not doing respectability politics about this (though I do think the "optics" convo is an important one, and I don't agree that espousing norms that the median person finds alien is a nothingburger; I know plenty of people who've bounced off rationalism bc of these bad vibes, and yeah that's a great filtering mechanism for finding Only true believers, but you need a fundamentally different strategy to connect with and persuade the broader public that your stance on a highly technical, insanely important issue is the Correct one. Most people are not high-decouplers!
These norms have downstream effects on who can participate in your milieu. Ones that are perhaps positive for many men, and negative for most women. Tech is still a boys' club, and women still have to contend with that - young Zoomer dudes are more openly misogynistic now than millennial men were at their age, and plenty of them call women sluts and claim girls ONLY ever get hired on the basis of their fuckability already. So a lot of young women are sensitive as fuck to that perception, and already struggle to walk the blurred lines between social & professional connections, and that was true WITHOUT an extremely pro-slut-event normalizing sexual forwardness, CNC, and the objectification of women. I HOPE there's not much overlap between those misogynistic men & attendees of this event, but there's definitely plenty of each in the same SF tech scene. Plenty of women are acquainted with both types of guy, and have to figure out how to navigate among them. It's pretty damned-if-you-do, damned if you don't. That's not an unfamiliar position to be in, and not everyone wants to resolve it by committing hella hard to the slut side!
Again, this doesn't mean the event shouldn't be allowed. The more gracefully that careful criticisms are taken into consideration, the more likely that the…
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
God, the AI cultists have even ruined sex parties
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@makeradicalcare @radical-care.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here ya go bsky.app/profile/mewe...
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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
If #Dressmaker gets a PVP mode, the menfolk will go fucking bonkers for it. They sort of already are. We'll have online floral puff sleeve wars.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Badger Atack @badgertracks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another go, a different variation on this idea from last week - Wizard idea, they can adjust the flow of time and fate by tying different knots and unknotting other parts of their cape. #pencil #sketchbook #characterdesign #dnd #conceptart #wizard #mage #ttrpg
Pencil drawing of character design in sketchbook.
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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
僕がにげちゃうよ
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We've got to do something about fascism-funding white supremacist Elon Musk. Boycott X. Boycott Tesla. Pressure the U.S. government to disinvest from Musk's businesses. He's trying to ruin the world's democracies. We must stop him.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 27/09/2026
This what Garfield Benjamin called “squeeveillance” in his excellent piece on cuteness and surveillance in Surveillance & Society from 2024: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Squeeveillance: Performing Cuteness to Normalise Surveillance Power | Surveillance & Society
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