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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/07/2026

"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Since we’re inevitability doing “no return to the failed policies of the 1970s”. Yes, I know there are all sorts of qualifications to the figures and circumstances have changed, but it’s really not as simple as so many appear to think.

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Oooof. And so crashes the Burnham era before it even took off.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 21/07/2026

You can't spell "Monorail" without "AI"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In his time in office Starmer has overseen the largest rollback of migrants, trans and disabled rights in arguably a generation. He has gone further than the previous Conservative government on hostile policies and the demonisation and discrimination of marginalised groups.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

From the executive summary of the 2016 Chilcott Report on UK participation in the 2003 Iraq War. Also contains additional detail about the effects of Blair's submissiveness towards the United States

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/03/2026

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

rawstory.com

Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/02/2026

New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% in 10 years. Investment down 18%, employment down 4%. It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term. "Economists were roughly right on the magnitude of the impact, but...

cepr.org

Brexit’s slow‑burn hit to the UK economy

The UK is once again debating why its economy has grown slowly since the mid‑2010s. This column examines the impact of the decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Using almost a decade of data s...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

bloodinthemachine.com

How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism

And how to stop them

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Scott Patrick, PhD @neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown. You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.

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Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Elon Musk has gone completely out of his mind. He's ranting and raving violently by the hour now. I believe this is what is called stochastic terrorism. It is a direct attempt to incite mass violence. He even reposted a *hit list*. As dangerous a man as America has ever seen.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The only political battle that matters in the world right now is the one against authoritarian nationalism (the word 'fascist' is succinct). Very simply: if *any aspect* of your political platform aids authoritarian nationalism, we must oppose you with everything. *Any* aspect. Reflect on that.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

anthonymoser.github.io

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Jonathan Hall is speaking at Policy Exchange today, and if the reporting of his planned speech is accurate, some of these points are being put in an extraordinarily inept way, making it sound like any pro trans, feminist or anti racist discourse is undermining the UK and sustained by hostile powers:

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025

For existing audible collections maybe check - github.com/rmcrackan/Au... - Tools to help “take back control” (v.sorry!). Stripping the drm (with inaudible) and self-hosting a collection (in plex, audiobookshelf) plus apps to use on phones / PCs. It’s getting easier!

github.com

GitHub - rmcrackan/AudiobookHub: Software resources for improving audiobook management

Software resources for improving audiobook management - rmcrackan/AudiobookHub

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/04/2025

Notable for a UK audience that Palantir has a significant and expanding role within the NHS…

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/03/2025

i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert. the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important

a table labeled "How common is your problem, how helpful is the response?"

There are three columns labeled common, rare, and novel and two rows labeled Actual Human Expert and LLM.

Common problem, human expert: helpful
Rare problem, human expert: more helpful
Novel problem, human expert: most helpful
Common problem, LLM: helpful
Rare problem, LLM: unhelpful
Novel problem, LLM: harmful

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC:
"We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works.
"We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are.
That's what the prime minister's doing."

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/02/2025

Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/02/2025

What would a Democratic version of what's going on even look like? President AOC plays League of Legends all day while defacto Commander-in-Chief Taylor Swift's team of 19-25 year old furries illegally confiscate all open FBI casefiles and upload them to Archive of Our Own as story prompts?

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders. But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left. That’s it: game over. Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

X post:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 23/01/2025

Something to remember is that the Techbro billionaire class were rarely the actual tech pioneers. They're the ones who bankrolled it, or engineered a controlling share interest. They're just Railway Robber Barons 2.0. It's why they're crap at actual tech. Their 'skill' was money, timing or theft.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/11/2024

Twitch streamer Angelique's 24 hour-Tits-Out-To-Get-Starmer-Out marathon hot-tub stream is currently being watched by over 12,000 gooners. When will Starmer wash the soup bubbles of his failed leadership off the heaving bosom of British governance?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/11/2024

The Pinterest Board calling for Starmer to resign has been bookmarked no fewer than 147 times, and two separate creators have used it as a template to crochet a throw pillow. Under these circumstances, how long can the Prime Minister possibly cling to a position so obviously untenable?

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Captain Sad and his Ship of Fools, the Cowsills, 1968, 📸 by @DonaldJTrumpJr

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Shall we do a re-cap for Labour? Deals with non EU countries will generate very little. They are too far away, we trade with them too little; trade deals' benefits are proportional to how deep they are and we and they are not going to want to go deep.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

The other place has noticeably gone downhill since the recent exodus. Fewer quality tweets, lower overall engagement and far more crappy viral videos forced onto your feeds, rather than content from people you actually choose to follow

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

Yeah - the options are so poor up here that I don’t think there are any kerbside chargers at all. There are probably less than 30 car park chargers in total in the nearest 2-3 towns - with 70,000+ people! (Home Bargains just installed 4 - so things are changing!)

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

Fast charging is the only real option if you can’t do it at home or work. (Like many, many people around here). It needs a big change in industry / government to make charging nearly as convenient as petrol - or people will just not switch.

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

I don’t think you’ve factored in the badness of the charging options in north west England! (Broken or extortionate chargers and many with no subscription options). I want it to work but not here - not yet.

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

Absolutely. I was naively assuming public fast charging would already be at a stage where you could treat it more like a petrol station. (Unthinkingly fuel up once a week, at the shops etc.) Definitely needs a renewed focus from industry / government. Charging is not a solved problem (yet)

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

I hope someone can solve it. Fast charging needs to be cheaper than petrol even without subscriptions etc. I was shocked at the prices and how many chargers were already broken out here in the sticks!

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

It’s what stopped us going EV - as we can’t charge at home. That plus the end of the cheaper EV license next year (and the seemingly unregulated and chaotic 1000 phone apps charging network!)

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Ash Tyson @atantalus.eurosky.social · 24/08/2024

Unfortunately public fast charging is way more expensive than petrol per mile. www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/c…

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

"The last publicly available figures prior to Musk’s acquisition, had revenue at $661m. After you account for inflation, revenue has actually collapsed by 84%. In November, Musk himself admitted X could face bankruptcy due to the advertiser boycott." Go fash, lose cash. fortune.com/2024/08/15/e...

fortune.com

Elon Musk may have to sell billions in Tesla stock to rescue X

Plunging U.S. revenue at X risks opening up a "massive hole" on its balance sheet that Musk needs to plug to stave off its financial collapse.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Anyway it’s deeply fascinating that I somehow managed to put up the bat signal for all the American freedom of speech trolls. There are other countries in the world where your laws don’t apply and there are things such as metaphors used in rhetorical argument.

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