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He/him. I’m fine with they/them, it annoys TERFS. #RightsNotRescue All chaps are by definition assless. It’s all about talent, until talent has tits. Ní saoirse go saoirse an Phalaistín.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/10/2026
feels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 7h
“The US government would never interfere in foreign country” is a statement that will come as a surprise to the people of Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Greece, Albania, Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Iran, Iraq, Laos….
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US lobbies allies to cut ties to anti-disinformation conference over panel critical of Washington, sources say
The US State Department lobbied Canada and European allies to withdraw support for an anti-disinformation conference because ‌it included a panel examining Washington's role as an alleged information ...
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia
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Russian papers silent on the 20th anniversary of journalist's murder
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s the mad Kremlin midget’s 74th birthday today. Either the butcher saved up missiles himself to murder Ukrainian families in their beds, or his sycophants leveled those apartment buildings as a birthday gift. At least 18 people are killed, including children, and the toll will keep
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From this morning: heads-up streamers there’s a JS execution in OBS, Reddit will kill all RSS feeds on November 13, another cautionary tale about Meta’s dangerous Muse agent, and more: www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...
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Cybersecurity: October 6, 2026 | Threat Model
This week: How to turn off Apple Intelligence permanently and get 12GB back, Doom in a SQL database is obviously a bad idea, your car is a s
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines
RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Major Republican donor fights for his right to continue generating images of naked children
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: We are one! The @thenerve.news is celebrating its first birthday today!!! With the news that we are financially sustainable!!! THANK YOU so much to the many, many people who helped us get here. Your support is everything! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...
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The Nerve reaches 5,000 paying subscribers in first year
Newsletter-led newsbrand from ex-Observer journalists now said to be financially sustainable.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My latest over on Substack: An annexation of any part of Canada would be a disaster for the US. A full discussion of why almost everything in the analysis strongly favors Canada. brynntannehilll.substack.com/p/an-annexat...
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An Annexation of Canada would be a Disaster … for the US
The US could easily invade Canada. Holding on to it is another story.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was just starting to be able to support myself with my erotica and nonfiction sex-ed books when they disappeared from view on Amazon, FB, and search engines. Now almost *three dozen* of those books are in the Anthropic settlement because the same people who disappeared them stole them.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seating chart for today’s AI meeting at the White House—Trump is seated between Jensen Huang and Elon Musk:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Super Intelligence Luncheon
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Seating Chart | East Room
[image of seating chart]
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe the "very English" aspect of it all is that the entire thing turns out to be an embarrassing mistake.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Again, this proposal- accurately denounced here as incompatible with the EU Chart of Fundemental Rights- is the product of our Government. One of our Ministers has proposed it. Amongst other changes, it proposes that the rights of AI companies to harvest data should stand above humans’ data rights.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fascism targets widening circles of people because , at heart, it is a mode of behaviour for people with an empty core who cannot bear to look inward.
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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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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In a world of Ed Sheerans, be a Gavin Bazanu
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Utterly shameful Where's their basic fucking decency? Choosing to fucking football match instead of making an easy stand against genocide. Cowardice. Utter cowardice.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[Laughs in Streisand Effect]
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t have long COVID thankfully but I had undiagnosed POTS my whole life (got diagnosed ~2 years ago now) and my sister has similarly only recently been diagnosed with MCAS after a lifetime of being allergic to everything. We only got our diagnoses bc of the advocacy of people with long COVID.
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing unites people across the political spectrum like deciding an invisible illness that disproportionately affects women is actually hysteria
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.
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Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests
People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
8 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday!
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
South African white supremacist Nazi space lasers.
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
My time in this world is very likely to come to an end in the coming days - although I'll keep trying to push it out a bit. Huge thanks to my old friend @gavinsblog.bsky.social for these kind words and appeal on behalf of my family. Love each other. Be kind
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/09/2026
Christian extremism has a stranglehold on US politics and culture and they believe some WILD stuff.
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We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think it's a coincidence that Trump is banning news outlets the week before a court's deadline for Todd Blanche to release interview notes with underage girls Trump is alleged to have raped and threatened. He'd rather we talk about his censorship than his pedophilia.
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I must share with you this epic community note on Twitter 😂
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you were wondering why the Irish government is fine with a CSAM-generation app having its HQ in Dublin. They're captured, every one of them. #SpeirGorm
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Max Schrems @maxschrems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#GDPR & #AI - Irish EU Presidency proposes that "AI trumps the GDPR" in new leaked documents. This is nothing but the #DigitalExpropriation of Europeans on behalf of Big Tech.. 😣 noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
noyb.eu
AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/09/2026
And yes, the fact that we still have the government using X is unacceptable - the right time to leave was when Musk’s robot started making non-consensual sexualised images of woman and girls. Easy as that.
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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 21/09/2026
🤖 Will the profits of #AI companies trump data protection? In a #leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to #EU Member States that, if they train or use an AI product, companies should automatically be assumed to have an overriding “legitimate interest”. 👉 Read more: noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
noyb.eu
AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What surprises me is that people who have left Britain for the sake of their own greed still feel entitled to express an opinion about the country.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reading this and asking myself why Simon doesn't have a bigger platform, while some pick-me contrarian arsehole who has never even licked a book is given a regular column to spout their inane bollocks about whatever culture war shit they saw on TikTok. We deserve better. We deserve Simon.
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