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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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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 9h
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 20m
You mean there's already been a series of this show that was popular enough to warrant making another series?
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 54m
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h
Holy shit.
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 27m
Beautiful! But I really wish the statue had a tighter hold on that lantern. I would not be standing under that thing
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 11h
Good plan. I backed out of a 7pm Teams meeting and have been in bed watching The Gilded Age ever since
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 11h
I love how everyone on Bluesky is obsessed with Dressmaker. I've never played a game in my life but this one might fix me
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 05/10/2026
1 in 3 people are now exposed to EXTREMELY HIGH levels of harmful air pollution, fuelled by record heatwaves and wildfires combined with climate-wrecking emissions. Clean air shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s a basic human right. #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis
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One third of world population exposed to harmful air pollution: monitor
Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year combined to expose one third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report said…
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this
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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Domestic abuse is so widespread an issue that a major employer is incorporating employees' need to deal with it into their employee benefits. Union rep: "said domestic violence and abuse affected the lives of at least one in five women, and he urged other employers to introduce similar support."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what in the WHAT
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Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That potato doughnut looks glorious!
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy birthday Linus!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💚💚💚
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
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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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh no, I was not prepared for the ending 😭
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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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy birthday! This is the best story I'll read all day 💕
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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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy birthday! 🥳
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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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy birthday Peggy! 💖
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dignity and Impudence (2026)
"Dignity and Impudence" (1839) by Edwin Landseer - oil painting of a noble looking tan bloodhound next to a perky little Westie
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are so totally fucked
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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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Holy shit
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Would
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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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😭😭😭
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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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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I must thank you for this thread. My mother was a big fan of a peaty malt whisky and seeing the names of all her favourites here has given me a lovely nostalgic moment 🥹
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Aunticles @aunticles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Glove (singular)
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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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