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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 12h

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

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By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10h

Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...

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Israeli settlers target a Ramallah road, and the city’s future with it

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10h

3/5 As investigative reporter Eli Clifton notes, the traditional lobbying playbook just "isn't hitting like it used to." When the daily reality of flattened neighborhoods, displaced families, and dead children streams directly to millions, state suppression and PR fall flat.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10h

THREAD: Three years of genocide in Gaza have permanently shattered the once-unbreakable shield of pro-Israel propaganda in the U.S. Public opinion has fundamentally shifted—and there’s no going back. 🧵👇 mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-...

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Erica Schultz-Opinions are my own @ericaschultz42.bsky.social · 9h

Human made shitty art is better than "pretty" AI slop.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 9h

I really hope generations younger than mine (GenX/Elderennial) have learned this about IQ. People I knew made such a big deal out of it when we were kids and it shaped how a lot of people thought of themselves and others in a really, really, really, shitty ways.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes I think about how Trump proposed we make housing affordable by creating 50 year mortgages and I laugh and laugh. So bitterly funny.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, bye!

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Good

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

21 years of Sensible, Moderate government lads. This is the common sense stuff, shunning extremist, magical unicorn nonsense. The triumph of the Grown Ups, whom are back In Charge.

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EXC - Bleak new forecasts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggest soaring energy and housing costs mean Labour could be set to preside over the worst parliament for living standards in modern history

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 17h

(2) And the demand pro-Palestine British Muslims "must distance themselves" from Hamas are around, as are claims that Asylum Seekers are all linked to terrorism, being "men of fighting age" etc - which has led to violent attacks . He is not trying to find common cause over racism

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 17h

(1) Dave Rich on the (very real) problem of antisemitism in the Guardian also says the (wrongful) demand British jews distance themselves from Israel is a "Unique Demand" - but British Muslims throughout the War On Terror faced the "You must distance yourselves from Taliban/Al Qaeda".....

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 17h

'vote blue no matter who' update:

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 17h

Well, that’s me convinced.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16h

Kemi Badenoch (!) calling out Reform’s corruption and racism harder than Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have ever done is quite damning really

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 17h

I once had someone tell me, and I do mean this literally, that LLMs transcend the limits of turing machines and computability because they are not constrained by having to give correct answers

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 16h

trump's antisemitism czar yehuda kaploun says revoking a quarter million visas from foreign nationals serves the interest of combating antisemitism

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16h

Tony Blair here, writing about extremist politics In Bari Weiss’s notorious crackpot far right propaganda sheet, keeping the company that he was born to keep and clearly loves (fascists, wingnuts and true believers)

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 23h

"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15h

Fucking Roland Rudd again! Why are there only 12 of these pricks who just musical chairs their way through endless positions of graft and corruption?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14h

Anybody roughly my age or younger has been subjected to two decades plus of non-stop screeching about Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRGC and whoever else. Now, we've all been told to shut the fuck up and 'watch this drive' as Israeli soldiers gleefully broadcast war crimes to their mates back in Tel Aviv.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 13h

Like I don't need to convince Andy Burnham that Hamas is bad, that's table stakes. What we need to persuade or compel our political class to believe or act on is that Israel is committing genocide and they're obligated to do everything they can to stop it.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 13h

The European and US centre will acknowledge anything other than the fact that our governments are providing unlimited diplomatic cover and material support to one side of this genocide and that's the only thing that's remotely within reach for us to act on.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 13h

This is just "you'd get thrown off rooftops" with extra steps.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14h

Since at least 9/11, Israel has wilfully stoked Islamophobia in Europe and across the West and making popular opposition to its enemies contingent upon and wedded to non-negotiable and uncritical support of them. Disgusted with Israel, people choose the option presented to them by this dichotomy.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14h

Excellent point. Which group are we selling arms and providing limitless diplomatic cover to

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 14h

ask any MP if they could do their role without their office full of staff replying to all their letters and emails and organising everything for them so they can get on with their actual job, and if not why does that logic not extend to other professions

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 15h

the common belief that so-called "back office" roles in the public sector are unnecessary is predicated on an understanding of the world of work that's no deeper than "when mummy hides her face she isn't actually there anymore"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

Also, the most consequential, astonishing revelation 2016-26 is that the centre-left and the centre-right are largely the same thing; they’re all fully onboard with the manifesto of the National Front in the 70s regarding migration and racism, and they’re all roaring authoritarian wackos re: protest

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, do we think there's no causal link between training liberals to reflexively concede the right's frame and denounce everyone to their left, on demand, and the state we have ended up in now, with the right running roughshod and the centre terrified and powerless to act against it?

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 13h

The reason we have Hamas is because the US conspired with Israel and the UK to get rid of the much more leftist PLO, which conveniently allows us to blame Hamas for being against leftist values. What a lucky break for us

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 14h

This is, of course, simply a rhetorical play act. Suppose that people do "condemn" all these people? Well, you didn't do it enough. Did you contextualise anything? Stop that. Be more unequivocal. Now hop on one leg. I found someone not condemning them - do you condemn them too?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h

I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 14h

McGurk made policy for W/Cheney, Obama, Trump I and Biden. His new memoir, defending war policies continued by Trump II, is now praised by a prominent Dem Senator. This is the sinister “horseshoe theory,” no? Why not?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sure that’s just normal behaviour for by-elections though, and there hasn’t been any concerted effort to force big media thumbs onto the scales of democracy or anything.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h

Weird, I haven’t seen much about this by-election at all and I barely know anything about the candidate who’s expected to win. Can’t even tell you her name! But I did see the avalanche of all-channels roaring hate and fear against the guy the newspapers want to lose.

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It's the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election tomorrow, so The Story podcast's @LukeJones has been traversing North London, speaking to Times colleagues @gilescoren, @willpavia and voters on the ground to see who is going to win this battle for the left

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 21h

Top tip: simply do not give your bank details to any LLM, let alone the racism one. Not doing something can also be a safe and legal thrill!

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h

People like Blake Stephenson never name the "no go zones", do they? Probably because if they did people would go and take photos of themselves having coffee there just to clown on him.

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Blake Stephenson was speaking at a Conservative Party conference fringe event

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 21h

[chatting with my pals at the spectator garden party] these greens, so racist

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21h

If you think you're a sensible moderate "bit of a lefty" journalist and you find yourself constantly thinking "well surely there must be some sensible way for the left to avoid the ire of my psychotic colleagues, why don't they just do that," I assure you, there is not, you're just their friends.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah the thing is, a lot of us think this wasn't a great move, but the absolutely bonkers off the wall reaction to it by the *sensible moderates* is the real problem here. Just being led by the nose by their fash colleagues.

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 20h

Labour were running a van round my constituency on by-election day telling voters the Greens were going to sell all our children into sex work for drugs

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 20h

I don't think people internationally measure quite how violent the French police is in its interventions against kids. It gives you a good sense of what to expect if the fash win the elections next year.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 20h

Like, I wonder if any of the Guardian editorial board has ever clicked a “translate from Hebrew” prompt in any comments section

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 20h

What does it tell us about the value of “public debate” when the political party that clearly understands what is happening in reality is admonished for not towing the line in pursuing a fantasy that every ‘side’ has said is just not possible and never will be

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 20h

We are years away from Labour voters blaming this for an election loss, now absolutely adamant that a Labour Green coalition was inevitable without this, despite everything else they ever thought or said on the subject.

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 20h

We are days away from a so-called left-wing journalist blaming Zack Polanski directly for an IDF action.

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