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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Andrew Baynes @baynesa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are many websites that shouldn't be on the web. *DESTROY* them! (Sadly, only destroys a copy, but v. therapeutic). destroy.spritefusion.com

destroy.spritefusion.com

Destroy Any Website

Type an address, break everything. Any website becomes a destructible pixel-art level, solo or with friends.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Via @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social "You know what [Republicans are] good at? Waiting until Democrats win some elections, and then blaming them for failing to cost-free clean up the messes Republicans have left behind." goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-gop-go...

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nice post. Too bad it was plagiarised from the dictionary.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the content I require.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026

Liz Truss has received £319,925 in ‘public duty allowance’ since her exit from Downing Street, figures from the Cabinet Office annual reports show.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trans women in sport: This table shows how massively out of place the UK is in Europe. The UK is the only country that bans trans women from most sport. Even recently-fascist Hungary is fairer than the UK. Britain is a transphobic outlier.

Trans Legal Recognition and Amateur Sport in Europe
Adult amateur women's competition • September 2026
Country
EU
Recognition
Equality-law sex

Adult amateur women's category

Football
Hockey
Cricket
Netball
UK 2024

UK 2026

Belgium

Denmark

•
•

Finland
•
Germany

Iceland

Ireland

Luxembourg

Malta

Norway

•

Portugal

•

、、

Spain

•

Switzerland

•

OTHER LEGAL RECOGNITION

Ancona

•

Austria

•

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

•

Cyprus

Czechia

Estonia

France

Greece

Italy

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands
Poland

Romania

Serbia
Slovenia

Sweden

Türkiye

Ukraine

NO / VERY LIMITED RECOGNITION

Albania

Armenia
Azerbaijan

Georgia

Hungary

Monaco

North Macedonia

スズズズメ

San Marino

slovakia

Broad legal recognition
Partial / very limited

No functioning domestic route

Specific sport exclusion

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Sport: adult amateur women's competition. HRT/estosterone eligibility requirements count as not excluded.
UK 2024/ UK 2026 comparison reflects the pre- and post-2025 Equality Act interpretation.
Sources: ILGA-Eurooe (2026): national aovemina-body policies: UK Supreme Court 120251 UKSC 16: EHRC Code (2026)

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I cannot comprehend anyone targeting RNLI volunteers with hate and threats. I cannot understand how anyone can have anything but respect and awe for people willing to set to sea in hurricanes, with waves as high as houses, to try to save lives.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Live feed from the World’s Smartest Genius Awards.

Trump looking like a dog trying to comprehend quantum theory.

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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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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone considered Mark Carney was radicalized into the worlds most pro EU man by being directly exposed to Brexit for years on end

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The first photo here depicts the building that infamously has the words "WELCOME TO CLEVELAND" scrawled on the roof to scare air travelers arriving to Milwaukee

A photo of a corner storefront in an early 20th century brick building. The scene is centered on a wood framed doorway with a column and pediment motif, joining the sidewalk at the street corner.

A photo of the raised front entrance to a late 1800s wood frame house with some original carved wood details intact on its facade and its porch awning.

A photo of a highway ramps and feeder lanes seen from an elevated vantage point, with two smokestacks for a power plant rising above all other nearby structures

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I realise I repeat this on like a daily basis, but please me restate it again - the ‘status quo’ in the UK for decades was trans inclusion. What we have now is not really precedented for a 21st century democracy.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well this is a spectacular image:

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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I gotta say, this seems like a pretty reasonable line to draw!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week

abcnews.com

New York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 responders

Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 24/12/2025

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.

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Andrew Baynes @baynesa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Vaccines are more effective than YouTube videos? Who knew? (This is awesome btw)

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The sympathetic coverage of the thugs in Dover and Portsmouth is pitiful. The doxxing of the RNLI volunteers is beyond disgraceful and invalidates any claim that these thugs have a valid point.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

YES! This! All your policy work comes to nothing if the wolf is at your gate!!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/09/2026

The Trump administration accused Jefferson County schools of having 61 "biological males" on girls teams. It turns out there were 0, and no trans girls either. They have to manufacture problems that don't exist.

Screenshot of article text against a dark background reading:
"In March, the administration announced that Jeffco had violated federal nondiscrimination laws by allowing students access to restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams based on their gender identity instead of biological sex. A key data point was that 61 boys were participating on girls' athletic teams. The figure startled even district officials, mostly because, they said, there were no transgender girls competing on girls' teams.
The district said the Trump administration had misinterpreted the information. Though the records show male participants on girls' teams, they were team managers and mascots, not athletes. District officials said the federal government also may have confused a cross-country roster in which the same coach oversees separate programs for boys and girls."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Black Shirts are marching precisely because small boat numbers are falling. That is disastrous for Farage, Reform and rest of the far-right. It really should not be beyond the wit of this government to tie it all together. But it is.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026

Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

so all in all, a mixed couple of weeks for her

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