Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Canary Wharf this evening. Photos 30 minutes apart. 000
Reposted by Andra SoneaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52520655
Reposted by Andra SoneaPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter. 1964267853
Reposted by Andra SoneaShepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986) 62901633
Reposted by Andra SoneaNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is. 7270831520
Reposted by Andra Soneaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150233941
Reposted by Andra SoneaMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...ddosecrets.orgFlock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of SecretsFilesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo... 181551568
Reposted by Andra SoneaMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington 7233451003
Reposted by Andra SoneaRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1062353687
Reposted by Andra SoneaGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.” 675791286
Reposted by Andra SoneaPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Had missed this over the summer... Japan officially joins Horizon Europe. Feels about as delightfully (il)logical as when Australia joined Eurovision. The more the merrier ec.europa.eu/commission/p... 0151
Reposted by Andra Soneaderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217502540
Reposted by Andra SoneaMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO 241789536
Reposted by Andra SoneaDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax? 16760851542
Reposted by Andra Soneaevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."recordsofenemysurveillance.comcara esten hurtle 2639274
Reposted by Andra SoneaTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄. 3830111003
Reposted by Andra SoneaJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 12/09/2026I’ve been OBSESSED with the Shard apartments for at least a decade. Priced at up to £50m. Visible across London. Empty since 2012. Unsellable. No pictures online. Now London Centric has found out what’s happened to them - and the first pic of the interior. www.londoncentric.media/p/the-shard-...londoncentric.media‘Airbnb for sheikhs’: The first look inside the Shard’s £50m apartments that won’t sellTen “cursed” apartments have sat empty since 2012 • The Qatari state can’t find buyers • The local council has approved plans to turn them into short-term lets at up to £18,000 per week 25478140
Reposted by Andra SoneaVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire called Ben Delo Last year Delo was given an unconditional pardon by President Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022 47286157
Reposted by Andra SoneaLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 12/09/2026Crypto billionaire gives Farage's Reform UK record £36 million donationlemonde.frCrypto billionaire gives Farage's Reform UK record £36 million donationNews of the mega-donation to Reform – around $49 million, the largest gift in British political history – comes just days after police confirmed they had widened a criminal investigation into allegations that it accepted illegal donations following fresh claims last week. 187344
Reposted by Andra SoneaYoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 09/09/2026Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354 57508140
Reposted by Andra SoneaCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145111505
Reposted by Andra SoneaGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 763083812
Reposted by Andra SoneaThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living. 131253304
Reposted by Andra SoneaPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Labour need to be clear. Neither the thugs at Dover nor the mobs at Portsmouth have ‘legitimate concerns’. They’re racist hate-driven violent thugs. 10386121
Reposted by Andra SoneaKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 29/08/2026If you’re in the US, expect maps on your phone to start showing you “Lake America” soon, now that the US Geological Survey has updated the GNIS. The USGS is a fabulous resource for spatial data in so many ways. And now it has to implement this stupid shit, for the most spiteful of reasons. Gross. 23662195
Reposted by Andra SoneaJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's a new Government service to receive text or email alerts when air pollution is high or expected to be high in your area check-air-quality.service.gov.ukcheck-air-quality.service.gov.ukCheck air quality - GOV.UKCheck air quality in your local area and the air pollution forecast for the next 5 days. Also, get health advice to reduce your exposure to pollutants 54730
Reposted by Andra SoneaNahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world. 211121560
Reposted by Andra Soneavortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/08/2026A little disappointed how much assessment of technofascism is based mainly on “Worst People analysis” and not social, structural, material, informatic or similar drivers and triggers. 42812
Reposted by Andra SoneaMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvhmcsweeneys.netWhy Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ... 6349100
Reposted by Andra SoneaHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry as Mick Jagger on SNL in 1981. 1405590998
Reposted by Andra SoneaQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026UK transit nerds are next level. 1454157716
Reposted by Andra SoneaPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026If you’re a white man in academia and you think your problems come from EDI/DEI/woke, you’re failing on observational skills, research methods and critical thinking. 902891539
Reposted by Andra SoneaJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026okay but what's the *funniest* thing Channel 4 could make a documentary denying the existence of? I'm gonna vote... trees 24933847
Reposted by Andra SoneaEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 18/08/2026Spacewalk complete. ✅ After 6 hours and 23 minutes outside the International Space Station, Sophie Adenot is safely back inside. With today's EVA, Sophie becomes the first French woman to perform a spacewalk. 🇫🇷 @exploration.esa.int 321909342
Reposted by Andra SoneaSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Looking forward to the transition from a dead mall economy to an abandoned data center economy. 1063808678
Reposted by Andra SoneaFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"She stood behind the seal of the White House wearing her little cross around her neck and became the glossy public mouth of an administration marinating in brutality, corruption, retribution, greed, deceit, autocracy, and spiritual putrefaction..." jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/goodbye-yo...jojofromjerz.substack.comGoodbye, You Poisonous Fucking FraudKaroline Leavitt Is Leaving, but There Isn’t Enough Febreze on Earth for This Rebrand. 56684532194
Reposted by Andra SoneaToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Five have commissioned an ITN documentary examining Nigel Farage’s finances: Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From? airs Saturday 22nd August, 9.30pm 47785319
Reposted by Andra SoneaShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“In the 1990s + 2000s, gov’ts, uni’s, + libraries—the institutions that historically bore responsibility for organizing + preserving public knwldg—declined to, or were prevented from, bldg the digital infrastructure plainly required by an age when democracy seemed ascendant + universally desirable”bostonreview.netWhat Was the Internet?As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next. 215954
Reposted by Andra SoneaMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports. 374442808
Reposted by Andra SoneaFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comRod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances RyanWhether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan 691353414
Reposted by Andra SoneaDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oops. www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...publictechnology.netNHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient dataThe central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ... 99268
Reposted by Andra SoneaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium. 50082811726
Reposted by Andra SoneaDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study saysft.comPalantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study saysThink-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform 23802357
Reposted by Andra SoneaMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026Please avoid all salads, including word. 11862071298
Reposted by Andra SoneaDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"You're supposed to be impartial, mate" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCV...youtube.comCount Binface destroys Sky News interviewerYouTube video by Count Binface 75813
Reposted by Andra Soneaderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter 1440382467417
