Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16hSir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'. 9829911112
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 10hNorthumbrian rebels led by thegns Gamelbearn, Dunstan and Glúniairn stormed the absent Earl Tostig’s York home #OTD in 1065, slew his retainers and raided his treasury. It was partly in revenge for the execution of thegns Gospatric, Gamel and Ulf. 📸York Archaeological Trust 0262
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Leo has been sincere, consistent, and correct from the beginning on AI. www.usccb.org/news/2026/le... 0579
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread: 611037439
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The UN Older People’s Day will be celebrated in Oxford on October 7th at the Town Hall, with an event organised by older people for older people, to consult, inform & involve residents of 50 years and over on issues which are relevant and of concern and interest to them. 145
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦John Gilda @verbalprimate.com · 30/09/2026Google is good at keeping down low. But they are a linchpin for the surveillance economy. @psychopete.bsky.social explains how you can stop them tracking every zig and zag you take. Some things you can do in less than five minutes. 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌖🌗🌘🌙🌚 #Blues #GTS substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comDe-Google Your LifeAnd starve the machine while you're at it. 11410
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That “super intelligence” executive order was another insider grift, this time to sell “.si” domains - they bought the domains over the summer. x.com/adamscochran...x.comAdam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) on X1/15 SCOOP: Trump’s “Super Intelligence” Scandal: I believe Trump’s “SI” Executive Order was ANOTHER criminal plot to enrich the Trump family. Insiders seem to have profited MILLIONS off of .si domain names before his Truth Social posts. 45926
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Burnham’s speech has offered a significantly new Britain, a fundamental break with the politics and economics of the past — but we are going to have to wait for it." - @robertshrimsley.bsky.social's take here www.ft.com/content/122a...ft.comBurnham’s brave new world — just one more election awayThe starting gun for the prime minister’s real revolution will not be fired till he has gone to the country 141
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Jess Asato MP @jessasatomp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My case is about saying we do have rights, based in law - and it doesn’t matter how rich you are or how big you are, you have to abide by the law in our country. observer.co.uk/news/politic...observer.co.ukThe women taking on the tech giants over deepfakes and di...Under new legal rules companies like TikTok could face big fines for failing to take down illegal intimate images. Yet victims say police are still finding it difficult to act 0125
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Written before the latest round of the championship where Ethan Bamber helped to illustrate my point perfectly! Thank you to The Cricket Paper for this season. 3233
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Should just set up a reporting system for members of the public. We will all be safer. 010
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Michael Rosen Day 2026: how schools can turn a poetry party into a reading habit. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/mi... #kidlit Michael Rosen Day 2026 event details, free school resources and poetry competition dates, with practical ideas for extending the celebration into regu...schoolreadinglist.co.ukMichael Rosen Day 2026: how schools can turn a poetry party into a reading habitMichael Rosen Day 2026: event details, free resources, poetry competition dates and school ideas to keep reading for pleasure going. 075
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026John Keats: On First Looking In To Chapman's Homer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukPoetry Extra - Adventures In Poetry - John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - BBC SoundsDaljit Nagra marks National Poetry Day with a highlight from the BBC's poetry archive. 000
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249632747
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“The water in Majorca...” HEINEKEN (1985) Sylvestra Le Touzel nailing it an iconic ad from back in the day when Commercials had some wit & guile about then and therefore cultural impact 1459
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Buckinghamshire @buckinghamshireuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Dispersal order returns to village following ASB and pony and trap reports #Bucksbucksfreepress.co.ukDispersal order returns to village following ASB and pony and trap reportsA dispersal order has been introduced in Chalfont St Peter following reports of anti-social behaviour linked to pony and trap racing on a major… 022
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20817327
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My current read 2186
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).- 43675257
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...azhdarchid.comImagining the Car but not the Traffic JamYour typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying 212743
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 26/09/2026Amid the ‘great wealth transfer’, inheritances are an intense source of conflict — are parents partly to blame? Isabel Woodford reports: ft.trib.al/XNfDa80 1172
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.docs.google.comOPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLSOPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “... 39567
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359792004
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Saif Zaib keeping Northants hopes alive @homeofcricket.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None. 298169464976
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026President Trump-Rubio are reportedly preparing to unleash sweeping sanctions to cripple International Criminal Court. One potential consequence: The release of some of the world's worst criminals held by the Court. Case 1: Philippines' Duterte held for crimes against humanityjustsecurity.orgProposed U.S. Sanctions Against the ICC Could Lead to Detainees’ ReleaseA list of individuals currently in ICC custody awaiting trial or judgment, who could be released if U.S. sanctions dismantle the Court. 70669361
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just when I thought I couldn't admire @mayor.nyc.gov more ... this comes along ..... 010
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It feels like Britain and ireland needs to start talking about the mass scale of cocaine usage that seems to be happening Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’ 4745695
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Nest @nest69.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Higher education teaches critical thinking more importantly than facts. The accumulation of facts does not enable one to dissect complex arguments or to communicate one's own argument. In my opinion universities need, more than ever, to teach us not what to think, but how to think. 0168
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions.”technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 39733
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: bit.ly/47fu2b0bit.lyThe British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new FellowshipsThe British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences. 02234
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/a...nytimes.comUnstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux TapestryThe medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected. 000
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I hadn’t watched #GBBO for several years, tbh. Somewhere between format-exhaustion and Pru Leith’s politics, it had just lost its shine. So, I am actually quite grateful to @nigella.bsky.social for giving me back a show I used to love. And after one episode, I cannot fathom it without her on it. 6367223
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Interesting speech by Burnham at the UN where he announced a new National Centre for Information Defence to counter, mainly, Russian disinformation. Oddly, Reform and GB News are already angry about it.bbc.co.ukUK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards, Burnham saysThe UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN. 36425137
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...eventbrite.co.ukRHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR 13220
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Mostly piratey @allanboroughs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you are ‘classifying words’, filtering content and advising changes then that makes you a publisher, no? 2436
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Attention economic historians. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ... Up to £20k of research funding. And with a smooth and quick application process. 396
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Live Updates: Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After CNN Is Barred www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...nytimes.comCNN, MS NOW and Politico to Sue Trump Administration Over White House Access: Live UpdatesCNN, MS NOW and Politico said they would sue to regain access to the White House. They argued in a joint statement that President Trump’s decision to block them violates the First Amendment. 010
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Devon Women @devonwomen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚴♂️ Our Assistant Coach Jon Musikanth is on his way to John o' Groats to raise money for Devon Women! 🗣️ "It's a challenge I have wanted to take on for years. Devon Women are a fantastic group of talented and committed cricketers who deserve support." #DevonCricket | #HerGameToo 🏏 112
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Techmeme @techmeme.com · 21/09/2026Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink 21710
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What 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. 34920129
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026History Day is back! Join us on 18 November. 12111
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A first-rate resource for anyone who writes on British and Irish (including colonial and postcolonial) history, from the Romans to the present. Also available via national libraries and individual subscriptions (discounted for members of various associations). And it cannot hallucinate citations! 23217
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A cautionary tale for all of us who are Affinity Water customers…😱 110
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 20/09/2026If corruption is overt, is it even corruption anymore?bloom.bgDon Jr.’s Wedding Fails the Sniff TestNothing says eternal bliss like an intimate wedding bash bankrolled by a Russian oligarch. Such was the case for Donald Trump Jr. and his bride, Palm Beach socialite Bettina Trump, who celebrated their May 2026 wedding on a private Bahamian island with 50 of their closest friends and family … plus a clutch of Russian guests with limited English skills. Much of it was paid for by a man named Umar Kremlev, an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin who heads the Kremlin-linked International Boxi 465
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Nottinghamshire CCC @trentbridge.co.uk · 20/09/2026Join the General Committee 💼 Applications to join our committee from 2027 are now open. We’re keen to hear from people who are passionate about the club and who can bring different experiences, ideas and perspectives to its future. Full details 👇 f.mtr.coolJOIN THE GENERAL COMMITTEE: APPLICATIONS NOW OPENNottinghamshire County Cricket Club is seeking four exceptional individuals to join the club's General Committee from March 2027. 012
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Does Jonny Dymond ever have any time off? Not complaining - he’s one of the BBC’s best anchors imho. 000