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Sweary Jewish Marilla Cuthbert. She/her. Books. I keep them, read them, try to write them. Twitter: @k8marsh NEW Insta: @katemarshwriting I will never try to sell you dodgy Oasis tickets

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 5h
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h
Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
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Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
Many products aimed at women over 45 lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, consumer watchdog Which? found Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year are no better than a £22-a-year multivitamin, according to analysis by the consumer watchdog Which?. Which? found that many popular supplements that are aimed at women over 45 going through menopause or perimenopause lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, yet cost 20 times more than standard multivitamins. Continue reading...
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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h
Please vote for B*tch, Listen to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award for the episode in which @elienyc.bsky.social and I talk about how the Constitution is trash but it's working exactly the way the white slaver founders intended. You can vote here. You have to sign up. Do it! Do it now! Please?
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I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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justin (rough cut notes) @justininpost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
stop what you're doing right now and watch this
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GENER8ION feat. Yung Lean Perform "STORM" | 2026 VMAs
YouTube video by MTV
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mary reached for her pump action umbrella. A bead of sweat trickled down her forehead. “You know what’s good about a spoon full of sugar?” She asked, loading the weapon. “It makes the medicine go down.”
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The USA - yes, Trump's one - says Covid vaccine should be universal for adults. Hello? NHS? Is this on?
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walked in on the cat making yet another podcast; tiptoed back out. #nzpets
A very hard “excuse you” stare from a black and white cat sitting on a desk, with a microphone set-up at face level.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ok that's enough internet for - well, ever
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sukkot (with or without a nor’easter) reminds us how precarious we are — and that the best way to find protection is not thicker walls or AI-guided weapons, but by welcoming guests & strangers, remembering what is sacred, and working for shared safety. Chag Sukkot Sameach!
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
we need to be forming like, literacy pods or something
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"We need to fight this" How long can people accept ongoing exposure to harmful chemicals, while our governments continue to pursue policies of deregulation? Will legal action be the "spearhead" that accelerates action on PFAS pollution? Our story on ITV News: www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The proposed ban on non-essential use of PFAS in the EU is being fought by the chemicals industry on a scale, "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." share.google/r69snPliLy5N...
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Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation
Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes i google Ally McBeal — that 90s legal drama where all the bathrooms were unisex and nobody cared except to think it was so cosmopolitan and cool — just to make sure i didn’t make all that up.
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trying to drown migrants: Not discrimination Going an hour and a half without a Carling; Discrimination. What the fuck man
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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chantal is back! Send dollars
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎 @samsonite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hotel light switches would be harder without helpful translations...
No fumbling
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So looking forward to Sharon's new book. You can pre-order it - go on, you won't regret it! 📚💙
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...
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Thieves in the Temple
Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now, just personally, I would have considered the crocodiles
The assessment did not consider the crocodiles but instead looked at "how the course would perform under a range of conditions, weather patterns, water levels and flood risk at both Games time and throughout the period leading into the Games".
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A Walliams Schadenfreude Day so soon after Sheeran Schadenfreude Night could actually fix me
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The UK is really behind on electrification of railways - however, any move away from diesel toward electric trains is a welcome step in reducing levels of nitrogen oxide - a pollutant linked to lung & heart disease & increased hospital admissions: share.google/cCYovH2vvSiI...
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UK's first long-distance battery-powered trains announced
The government has revealed plans to invest £1 billion in 29 new battery-powered trains, but why use batteries over diesel trains?
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Part of me refuses to believe that someone can study for so long and climb the career ladder all the way to the top, only to then; with white hair, defend obsolete, destructive tech – like a small child who at first knows nothing of the suffering of other beings, being cruel... and hopefully learns.
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i ship them so much
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"By describing as superhuman a thing that is entirely insensible and unthinking, we implicitly erase or devalue the concept of a ‘human.'"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come and join the campaign for our #6thGreenMP! Together we can give Holborn & St Pancras a strong Green voice in parliament & make this Labour Govt braver & bolder #VoteZack
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
brb just realized I’m tired and annoyed and aggrieved because i haven’t cussed out enough people
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Abolish the Met
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here's my pitch: The Flytrap crew is doing precisely the work we say we all want -- independent, smart, challenging, and ethically produced by people you can respect. In this life, the plants we water are the ones that grow. For $3.25/month, you can make it rain on The Flytrap.
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aaron @imaaronrobert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14/09/2026
Here is the latest combined forecast across all 14 models, compared to past strong El Nino events. It shows just how extreme and unprecedented this event is forecast to be:
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Don't ever let anyone forget that Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp are stanky abusers who should shut the fuck up, their PRs should quit and regain some morality
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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's my birthday 🎉 so in Bluesky tradition I'd love for folks to repost my art today! 😊 #artistSupport #illustration #darkArt
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vegankhan.bsky.social @vegankhan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please help even if it's a few pounds or dollars @plantbasednews.bsky.social @dalevince.com @plantbraced.bsky.social
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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh shit I made Hall and Oates.
It's minifig Daryl Hall and minifig John Oates in happier days, decades before Hall turned into a weird resentful psycho and broke the band up. Scene's based on the program booklet for their 1985 tour.
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go into space, headed into orbit on the Space Shuttle Endeavour #OTD in 1992. In this photo she is being suited up before launch by Sharon McDougle. 🧪 🔭 👩🏾‍🔬 Image: NASA
A color photo of Mae Jemison being suited up before launch by Sharon McDougle. Jemison is seated, wearing a bright orange flight suit with a large, round helmet. The clear visor of the helmet, which is tinted similar to a pair of sunglasses, is in the up position so Jemison's face can be seen. She is looking at the camera and smiling. McDougle appears to be fastening something to the suit. She is wearing an orange jumpsuit, and seen in profile.
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Sarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 12/09/2026
I often feel like medicine is deeply deeply angry that it found how to treat ADHD by accident and that it works really well and that it’s speed and they really want mental health’s most successful pharmaceutical intervention ever to go away and stop it please.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/09/2026
A brilliant and touching piece by Kate Mossman about online shopping addiction and Vinted in particular www.newstatesman.com/special-repo...
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Vinted Brain
How Britain lost its mind to online shopping addiction
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jubilee Library in Brighton. Noisiest bloody library but that's kind of great because it's always busy. Students and freelancers work there, elderly people use the café and read the newspapers, there's a kids' area for reading and play. But smaller libraries round here are still at risk 😥
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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My country is a cautionary tale People told themselves things couldn’t get as bad as others warned them it would Then we watched, powerless, witnessed step by step, as Trans+ human rights were reversed and restricted, while the political rhetoric became increasingly hostile
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