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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Really indicates the scale of the problem - and the vulnerabilities of the technology we use every day.
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 08/10/2026
In honor of Margaret Hamilton, you can play with a browser emulation of the Apollo computer here svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.h...
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Online Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here here, that chinless spineless wonder enabled the train wreck - he just leapt from the engine as it was clear the direction was daft.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Mincepies @mincepies8888.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
US Vote: October deadlines soon Registration ends: 4th - AK, RI, SC. 5th - AR, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, OH, TX 6th - NM 7th - MO 9th - OK 13th - DC, MD, NJ, OR, WV 14th - WI Help Desk: www.votefromabroad.org Citizens abroad request ballot by e mail. Please repost everywhere to remind other Americans
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
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beeps @beeps.gay · 02/10/2026
★ New blog post: AI will kill open source A post about wot the title says. beeps.website/blog/2026-10-02-ai-wi…
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AI will kill open source
Rambles from near the front line.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Original and best. Still just love the AV clips for various wonders; very sad when they got “improved -meh” in later incarnations
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Via @milkkarten.bsky.social The Norwegian Consumer Council made a video about enshittification; its fun. www.instagram.com/reel/DdY8GKn...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/09/2026
Excellent thread re: the first radio detection on an exoplanet! Really love seeing how the handedness of the Stokes V changes, modulated by rotation of the magnetic field orientation. The one thing I am really puzzled (as in intrigued) about is the 1200 Gauss ... that is .... *strong* ....
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Putting not pointing…
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good heck above, This treatment of volunteers, volunteering to save peoples lives (while coincidently pointing their lives at significant risk from mother nature) do not need shit from utterly cretinous subhumans, Honestly I’m dumbfounded. Would you slash the tyres of a paramedic? A fireman? FFS.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They do not follow the news.
The Pokemon Swampert and Quagsire eat ice cream together in the sunshine.
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Provided they pay for them from each micro nations pothole fund. This stupid performative shit costs real money.
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning 🌞 Is anyone interested?
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Jeff Terflinger @jeff-terflinger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...
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Democracy sausage - Wikipedia
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Completely agree; but for all sake make voting easy. Stop listening to the bullshit artists who led us to voter id bullshit. Make voting easy: Why the hell Thursday? How about a weekend day. Out of local electoral area? Onsite registration, anywhere. Yep, voting sausages, also a good idea!
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/09/2026
The Ordnance Survey (OS) has created a heat vulnerability index for all cities in Great Britain (see 🧵). Areas most at risk of extreme warming are those with the least tree cover, green space and waterways. It's why we need more trees & their inate air-conditioning.
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Shade, cooling and survival: why we need more trees
Trees are nature’s air conditioning – cooling streets by up to 5°C, cutting heat risks, and helping cities withstand hotter summers
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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Inspired by the recent HEPI report, “The invisible majority: Professional and support staff and the future of UK higher education”, to do a little analysis of the costs of these benefits. astromikemerri.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
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The Cost of Academic Administration
I was just reading the Higher Education Policy Institute’s report, The Invisible Majority: Professional and support staff and the future of UK higher education, which, perhaps unsurprisingly given its...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's entirely possible to outsiurce services and achieve efficiencies. It just requires your business processes to be simple and consistent with clear governance. There is not a single university in the UK whose business processes are simple and consistent with clear governance.
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A recent conversation had me recall a favourite PSA youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw
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Dumb Ways to Die
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Liz Tufte Art & Design @liztufte.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Move fast and break kings! ... our policymakers created an enshittogenic environment that rewarded companies for being shitty and ushered in the enshittocene, in which everything is turning to shit. Let's call time on enshittification." @doctorow.pluralistic.net #DigitalRights #BigTech
The enshittification of technology – the decay of the platforms and systems we rely on – has many causes: the collapse of competition, regulatory capture, the smashing of tech workers' power. But most of all, enshittification is the result of anticircumvention law's ban on interoperability.

By blocking interop, by declaring war on the general-purpose computer, our policy-makers created an enshittogenic environment that rewarded companies for being shitty, and ushered in the enshittocene, in which everything is turning to shit.

Let's call time on enshittification. Let's seize the means of computation. Let's build the drop-in, free, open, auditable alternatives to the services and firmware we rely on.

Let's end the era of silos. I mean, isn't it fucking weird how you have to care which network someone is using if you want to talk to them? Instead of just deciding who you want to talk to?

The fact that you have to figure out whether the discussion you're trying to join is on Twitter or Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram – that is just the most Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve-ass way of running a digital world. I mean, 1990 called and they want their walled gardens back.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalitionFor one thing, this is a targeted response: go after Big Tech's margins and you're mounting a frontal assault on the businesses whose CEOs each paid a million bucks to sit behind Trump on the inauguration dais.

Raiding Big Tech's margins is not an attack on the American people, nor on the small American businesses that are ripped off by Big Tech. It's a raid on the companies that screw everyday Americans and everyone else in the world. It's a way to make everyone in the world richer at the expense of these ripoff companies.

It beats the shit out of blowing hundreds of billions of dollars building AI data-centers in the hopes that someday, a sector that's lost nearly a trillion dollars shipping defective chatbots will figure out a use for GPUs that doesn't start hemorrhaging money the minute they plug them in.

So here are our new allies in the war on general-purpose computation: businesses and technologists who want to make billions of dollars raiding Big Tech's margins, and policymakers who want their country to be the disenshittification nation – the country that doesn't merely protect its people's money and privacy by buying jailbreaks from other countries, but rather, the country that makes billions of dollars selling that privacy and pocketbook-defending tech to the rest of the world.
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
But sadly not like this
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I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory
ALT: I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There aren’t a huge number of folk in my industry I truly admire. DENZEL however is one I very much do. “So what a responsibility you all have, to tell the truth. Not just to be first, but to tell the truth.”
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 31/08/2026
“There is just so much about this that is magic.” www.iflscience.com/scientists-c...
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Disappointing but perhaps unsurprising the article drives an “increase prices” narrative with bare a mention of the utter disaster the privatisation process has produced. The money Denmark needed for work on sewage and so forth, we also paid - in our case it went to dividends and directors.
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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ways to raise readers: 1. Read to them. A lot. 2. Let them find you reading, as often as possible. 3. Read books they recommend to you. Value their tastes! 4. Let them choose their own books! 5. Yes, audiobooks count. Graphic novels count. 6. Talk to them about the issues of book banning. 7. Read!
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That sounds…. Intriguing. I might imagine child-sized samurai scampering around a bucolic meadow, sword-net in hand chasing butterflies….
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Monkey Pirate
ALT: Monkey Pirate
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Elisabeth J. Hobbes author @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 25/08/2026
The stuff Dolly did with the Imagination Library and Covid jab showed exactly what could be done with $ billions if you weren’t a cunt. #DollyParton
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nice work Australia! Turned the gas peaker plant “duck curve” on evening prices as solar stops generating, into a flat, platypus looking graph, as batteries charged on cheap daytime solar remove the need for expensive, evening peakers. youtu.be/jltRq_KlGH4?...
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Australia Killed the Duck Curve (With Batteries)
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/
A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Nick Telford-Reed @mountainhippo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Cory Doctorow has been fighting the good fight against the enshittifying evil megacorps for as long as I can remember, but earlier this year, he laid out a credible path for world to fight back. It's an excellent read and worth 10 minutes of your time, IMO. pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/p...
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Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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NixxiLePixxi @nixannabanana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Totally different” 😬
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(Yeah, not good.) On a lighter note I am sad you forwent the opportunity for (more) unsavory and entirely inappropriate puns. I might suggest I am all over the place in disappointment.
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Btw I am an amateur library scholar and know the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria weirdly had some really good outcomes, but don’t let a few facts get in the way of noting how obscene companies are for recreating their own personal Alexandrian fiefdoms….
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So we see the latest Great Library of Alexandria destroyed…. But this time not burnt but consumed….
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
And one of the ingredients is fairy’s? Poor tinkerbell.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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Andrew W Moore (he/him) @awm22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’d even refine this and say ….“Pity you built so many AGI machines”….
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