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@barryrichards.bsky.social
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Welsh & European Graphic & Interactive Designer/Developer, especially in e-learning, but also in indoor mapping. Lomographer. Views are own; weithiau yn Gymraeg

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h
Developer Josh Abbottoy, who aims to build a “far-right ‘aligned’ [Christian] community” in a tiny TN town has now proposed building a drone factory there. (Abbottoy is tied to New Founding—backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen—& to American Reformer where Thiel ally Chris Buskirk is a director.) 1/
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Proposed drone manufacturing facility sparks intense backlash in tiny Tennessee town
For almost two years, some residents in Jackson County have been resisting what they view as a far-right takeover of their community.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1h
Ask yourself why the CEO of an online gambling company is giving money for research into the history of art using AI.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1h
Denise Coates info from Wikipedia

Denise Coates

Denise Coates CBE (born 26 September 1967) is a British businesswoman. She is the founder, majority shareholder and joint chief executive of online gambling company, bet365.!"! She is one of the highest paid executives in the UK and the highest paid female executive. 21 In September 2026, Coates' estimated net worth was USD $8.1
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 12h
It's always a good day to quote Dawn Foster.
Screenshot of a Dawn Foster tweet reading: "I knew Wes when I was a student and he was the NUS president - always been a right wing lickspittle cunt"
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21h
Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review
The review, which focuses on younger age groups, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis or mis-diagnosis.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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Keep The Faith @europeaninsf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There ought to be a special courtroom in the courts of future for just this kind of fuckery
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kremlin: It's not Plague, it's a Special Bacterial Infection
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A political party having its own media outlet (I mean, more than the old media was a Tory operation) is not a sign of a healthy democracy or a healthy media.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
As I said back in 2020, 2021, and 2023: Without meaningful repercussions, a failed coup attempt is just a training exercise.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/10/2026
Wales’ best-known miscarriage of justice campaigner has threatened the Ministry of Justice with High Court action after being blocked from having contact with a man convicted of murdering five members of his own family ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1uH1
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chubby cuddlebot Lemma! @lemmaeof.gay · 07/10/2026
the 1979 IBM training document stays true as usual
A sheet of paper with all-caps words reading "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE / THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"
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Spike Prime [Art Comms Open] @spikeprime.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The worry is that all these BS articles about Ai supposedly having intelligence and will is setting up for corporations to demand they have rights, so that we can't just demand LLMs be shut down. They already made it so "corporations" have rights, which is absolutely insane.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We need to hold this computer program accountable for its actions" is similarly nonsensical Mentally replacing "ai" with "a computer program" stays winning
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
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Public figures sign open letter in support of the Garvaghy Road residents
The letter, to Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant, expresses support for the Garvaghy Road residents in Portadown.
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boycott Israel. Divest from Israel. Sanction Israel. Remove Israel from international sporting and cultural organisations. #BDS
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
France’s student protests are about basic demands: teachers in classrooms, working toilets, heating, shorter school days, educational equality. Thousands marched as hostile misinformation recast the movement as riots, race war and “the fall of France.”
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The Basic Demands of French Student Protesters: Reasonable Hours, a Teacher, a Warm Classroom and a Working Toilet
Lycée students marched across France on 6 October to demand teachers, repairs and smaller classes. Old riot footage was recycled as proof of "migrant" violence, a woman was burned in Marseille, a trai...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lots of Zionists trying to manipulate the international coverage of the French student protests; active Israeli measures against France. Has been ongoing for years. Backs the Kremlin friendly far-right Rassemblement national.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Holy Jury Nullification! An enslaver was killed. 41 people were charged with treason.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This MFer appointed the past *two* Fed chairs. He’s about a month away from claiming Biden started the war in Iran.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/10/2026
IKR I'd absorbed it long before I started writing books myself, that the kind of books I wanted to read would simply never be discoverable via ratings-based bookish platforms—they represent a mode of collective reading out of scope for these apps
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reports of another Russian who’s fallen ill.
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WHO demands answers from Russia about ‘second plague victim’ — The Telegraph
Pressure increases on Moscow to disclose information about lab worker’s death following reports of another employee contracting the disease
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Hilarious." via Barry James
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seck’s coach “encouraged supporters to donate toward legal expenses, write letters describing Seck's character and share messages supporting the effort to bring her home. That effort now appears to have reached an important milestone.”
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Tories, who have not been elected to power by Scotland for 50 years, want to change the planning laws within the devolution settlement to impose Nuclear Power Stations on Scotland.👇
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LStewartSC @lstewartsc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 03/10/2026
This is an official from the Austrian People's Party talking to a young man of colour at the Oktoberfest in Munich. He tells the young man: "How about you just go home and wait there until we come there for vacation?" And then proceeds by saying: "You are not at home here".
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Millionaires and stars line up at Super-Rich Tax Match to tell Chancellor: “Tax extreme wealth” Millionaires, comedians, footballers and content creators are taking to the football pitch to call for a fairer tax system ahead of the Budget @patmillsuk.bsky.social
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Millionaires and stars line up at Super-Rich Tax Match to tell Chancellor: “Tax extreme wealth”
Millionaires, comedians, footballers and content creators are taking to the football pitch to call for a fairer tax system ahead of the Budget
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Greetings from Occupied Athens. As Marco Rubio is visiting, we are in lockdown. The boss of our rulers demanded that Athenians are under lock and key so that he feels safe as he inspects his troops. One day we shall be free again. But not today. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...
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Rubio arrives in Athens ahead of meetings, business deals | eKathimerini.com
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Athens late Tuesday for a visit expected to see the signing of a series of deals on new US weapons purchases by Greece.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026
Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to do the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Why exactly would a man who a judge said "raped" E Jean Carroll, is credibly accused of raping a 13 year old repeatedly, and has allegations from dozens of women for sexual assault hanging over him, decide to pardon another paedophile? ...oh, wait. #Trump #Epstein bsky.app/profile/npr....
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump does love excusing men who sexually assault women and children, doesn't he? Just loves it. Do you think it's anything to do with him being an adjudicated rapist himself, and that he's credibly accused of multiple other rapes, including of a 13 year old child? #bbcpm #Diddy
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Why does the news media rarely mention that the current president of the US is an adjudicated rapist (with dozens of other sexual assault allegations as yet unlitigated), and a multiple felon. This should be stated in every report of whatever the vile pos does. By not doing so, they normalise it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And yeah, this was at the back of my mind.
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Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse
Sam Altman's sister amended her civil lawsuit accusing the OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing her ​more than two decades ago, after the judge said ‌she could try pursuing her case under Missou...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 06/10/2026
kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason in what prosecutors believe could be the biggest national security breach since the Cold War. 16 years of it together with a serving BND officer, “Manfred D” www.ft.com/content/4c56...
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Former German spy chief arrested for treason
Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power
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