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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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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

As I've said, the language/framing of commercial LLM techbros is the same as that of colonial occupation & of rape culture: "accept this is happening (against ur will bc we don't give a fuck about consent), accept bad things (happening to you not us), & be grateful for the supposed positives."

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He ate them raw. Even the thought of it makes me retch. If anyone has plans to torture me, this would be it. Winston has his rats, for me it's raw margarine pastry topped with thin pink jelly. Absolutely revolting.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My brother prefers margarine, which I find obscene. He would sneak raw margarine from the tub. In Sunday school, they once made "jam tarts", with pastry made from margarine and strawberry jelly instead of jam. The oven had broken in the chapel kitchen, so my brother brought home his raw tarts.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have strong opinions about butter on toast. The toast should be hot, but you don't spread the butter over it like you're raking a grass lawn; you gently break the surface of the toast so the butter can soak into the hot bread layer beneath. This way the butter doesn't run everywhere.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why does it also sound like a drag queen name 😭 welcome to the stage ... Britannia Shield!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/10/2026

> an increase in thin papers of narrow scope, as well as ‘salami’ papers, where a single work is broken up and submitted as a set of smaller papers. There is also a marked increase in dense, AI-written papers. AI tools are making it easy for authors to flood arXiv [and others with] low-value papers.

A histogram showing the incredible increase in submissions.

> In September of 2016, arXiv received 9,869 submissions. In September of 2024, arXiv received 20,569 submissions. This September, arXiv received 40,363 submissions, which in turn generated almost 9,000 support tickets for arXiv staff and moderators. In only the past two years, submissions have doubled.

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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For our planet. For them.

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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(1/2) got a reminder in my campus mailbox (postal, not email) that this is, in fact, amerikkka. last paragraph says, "This is a formal warning: your words and conduct are on record. When violence follows from ideologies you promote, responsibility will point directly back at you....

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would watch this reboot of Taken

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.

Screenshot of an X post by Graham Linehan (@Glinner) commenting, "It looks like these two are heroes who may have saved some kids".
Linehan quotes a post by Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) that reads: "Damn. According to a witness of the shooting homicide of the trans New York Times executive in Dublin, Calif., the elderly Chinese grandparents calmly walked away after the exec was dropped to the ground".
Below the text are two police mugshot photos side by side: on the left is an elderly Asian woman with short, wavy gray hair wearing a white shirt, and on the right is an elderly Asian man with short dark hair, slight facial stubble, and a white shirt.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Microsoft is claiming that AI will solve the problem of its increasing carbon emissions by somehow coming up with new technologies that don't exist yet. It cannot know that AI will fix the climate emergency but it does know that AI itself is skyrocketing its carbon emissions, erasing any progress.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You are Microsoft and your promise to pay me back is Microsoft's carbon-negative-by-2030 pledge. The get-rich-quick scam is AI. Microsoft is claiming that even though its carbon emissions have increased, it's confident it will still reach its carbon negative target.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, and it turns out you've actually stolen more money from me to pay for this crazy scam. I am completely fucked. I'm never seeing my £50 again and there's no chance of getting back the additional money you stole. Surely I should have nothing more to do with you?

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's also banking on something that doesn't exist yet. There's no prototype. There's no study. It's something that has not been invented and maybe never will. You are Jack and you've just sold my cow for magic beans that do not work because magic isn't real.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm a bit concerned so I ask you how you're gonna make this money. "I found this amazing get-rich-quick scheme!" I groan. When you explain the scheme to me, it turns out it's not just unethical, it's not just exploitative, it's not just harmful to you, me, and everyone we know.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I check back in with you on day 3. You tell me "So...I actually haven't saved any money. Instead I've spent more money. But don't worry, I think I'm now on track to make enough money to pay you back on time, maybe even pay you back tenfold. I'm fully committed to paying you back on time."

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine I lent you £50 and said I needed it back in a week's time, and you said, "sure! I'm gonna save a little money each day and put aside enough to pay you back. In fact, if I manage to save a bit more than £50, you can have that too for your trouble." So I say, "great! I really appreciate it".

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

why not just call it “fetch intelligence”

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Multilinguo @multilinguo.app · 29/09/2026

Some languages force you to mark how you know something, in the verb. Turkish -mış / -miş / -muş / -müş (vowel harmony) = reportedly, apparently, inferred. "gel-di" = came (witnessed). "gel-miş" = came, apparently. ~25% of world's languages grammaticalize this.

The Turkish evidential suffix. Turkish tacks a small suffix onto past-tense verbs to signal reportedly, apparently, or inferred. Called the evidential or indirective. English reaches for 'apparently' or 'I heard that'; Turkish bakes it into the verb. Vowel harmony 4 forms: -mış (muhsh) after ı, a; -miş (mish) after i, e; -muş (moosh) after u, o; -müş (mewsh) after ü, ö. Example: gel-di came (witnessed) vs gel-miş came, apparently. Doubles as inferential perfect: waking up, seeing wet ground, saying yağmur yağmış means it rained, I infer from the wet ground.

Turkish isn't alone. Evidentiality is grammaticalized in about 25% of the world's languages. Three examples across three continents. Turkish: -mış suffix on the verb, gelmiş reportedly came. Quechua: sentence-final particles, -mi direct or witnessed vs -si reportative vs -chá conjectural. Bulgarian: full renarrative mood, dedicated verb conjugation for events the speaker didn't witness. English can express any of this, but you have to add words like apparently or supposedly. These languages make you commit.

A grammar that asks how you know. An evidential-marking language forces the speaker to commit to their source of information every time they open their mouth. Reported by someone else? Directly witnessed? Inferred from a clue? The verb gives it away before the noun does. The take: Some grammars ask you to say what happened. Others ask you to say how you know it happened.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026

Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My uni has partnered with Microsoft to roll out an institutional Copilot license to all staff & students. MS' carbon negative by 2030 pledge was cited as a selling point. I've been pointing out to anyone who will listen that MS has been dropping hints that they know won't meet this because of AI.

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Jamie Saoirse @jamiehare.org · 25/08/2026

1. I am so smart, S-M-R-T! 2. You don't make friends with salad 3. It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen 4. In theory, Marge, communism works in theory 5. I'm high on LSD, love of son and daughter

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was not ready for the name of the guy who invented the thermometer pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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James Morton @glesga-grognard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They should have went with Dream on or You wish

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Feminise a band name Radiohedda Gabler

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminise a band name Manic Street Pixie Girls

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ernie: Bert? Bert? Bert: I'm reading. Ernie: What did you say? Bert: Go away. I'm reading. Ernie: No, I mean, what did you say, Bert? I can't hear you? Bert: ... Ernie: I can't hear you bc I have a banana in my ear! Bert: ... Ernie: It's for the alligators! Bert: You're in my light.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Such an important story from @candicenorwood.bsky.social. As menopause conversations pick up in the U.S. incarcerated people have been left out of the conversation. This woman is doing something about it:

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine if more people with money cared about saving lives

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just bought a load of my Christmas shopping from the RNLI website - they have a great range!

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

This shit is serious. Trans people get hurt, sexually assaulted, denied emergency medical treatment, outright fucking murdered. It's not a culture war to us, it's our fucking lives.

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A man has admitted drugging and raping his wife over a period of 20 years. 13 other men are implicated, one of whom has admitted guilt and the others are still on trial. The men range in age between their 20s and their 70s. This was in Manchester, not France, and their surnames aren't Pelicot.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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