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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 20h

I guarantee you AI won’t kill us all. The claim’s a projection of reckless rich buffoons who can’t wait to be the only humans alive, openly fantasizing about a cull. Again. I’ve never been scared of AI, but the megalomaniacs forcing it on us are terrifying. I can’t guarantee they won’t kill us all.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 20h

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 10/09/2025

This bird with a gotdamn jheri curl been killing me since yesterday.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes I feel like the only academic on the planet who cares about how to write a good Abstract. It certainly doesn't seem to be something we bother teaching students.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

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Niall Huggan @hugan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Poor sods, eh?

9 photo meme. What my friends, family, society, tenants think I do all have a photo of a leech. What I think I do frame has an image of Jesus. What I actually do frame shows, yup, a leech.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The whole thing's a mess. My books are on the LibGen/PiLiMi databases & were scraped for AI training by Anthropic/Meta et al, but I've been removed from the compensation eligibility list due to a narrower defining of class action criteria. If someone's getting a payout, it sure as shit ain't me.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It would be nice if we had a party in power that wasn’t constantly indulging in exactly the same “disabled people cost too much” rhetoric and policy as in nazi Germany - and that’s not an exaggeration

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not a word of this is wrong and yet I fundamentally disagree that research should he remade around specific missions. Plus to do so requires extensive material financial support which universities are not in the position to provide.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd love to live in a country where it was the students - those most impacted - who protested against staff cuts rather than it being the staff who stood in the rain while the students just posted "I'm being ripped off!!!" on social media.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 in 6 people living in the UK were born abroad. And yet the public discussion about immigration is so often about us, and very rarely with us. Almost no one in power has interest in talking to us, very few consider us people with agency, plans, desires, aspirations. Just numbers to bring down.

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As Andy Beckett has argued, recollections of the 1970s depended a great deal on how wealthy you were at the time & the now supposedly commonsense folk memory of the 70s as a uniquely awful time is a largely a product of how the rich experienced & then recounted the decade

"Very significantly for the direction of British politics during the rest of seventies and beyond, some Britons were affected by the bad times more quickly, and with more sense of shock, than others. Between 1974 and 1976, it was the comfortably off who suffered. ate their savings. The low pound spoiled their holidays. A crash -house prices fell 13 per cent in 1974, 16 per cent in 1975 and 8 per cent in 1976 - devalued their homes. The stock-market slump did the same for their shareholdings. Share dividends shrank or were not paid at all. During these years, disposable income fell considerably faster for the richest tenth of British households than for everyone else, and by larger and larger amounts the further you were up the financial scale."

Andy Beckett, When The Lights Went Out

Bar chart showing the income share over time

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tiny hill I will die on: women expressing height preferences in dating apps are performing patriarchy every bit as much as men who indicate breast or butt preferences.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think both these characterisations are correct but also neither feels any more specific than the other.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not to make everything about me but one unexpected outcome of GPL1 inhibitors is that my favourite restaurant buddy is no longer interested in going to restaurants and over indulging a bit. Which is honestly a sad shift in our relationship

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know, all this talk of the cost of pensions would look a whole lot different if the state did anything to actually reduce the cost of living. But I'm told this is an unachievable idiot fantasy for commie scum

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

transphobia is sexism if you have a penis you must have these characteristics if you have a vagina you must have these characteristics the more transphobic a person is the more sexist they are the more sexist a society is the more transphobic it is this should be obvious but apparently it isn't🙄

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, I'm not some kind of irony expert but perhaps don't use AI to make your Butlerian Jihad T-shirt?

A t-shirt with an AI generated image of a computer. The headline reads "Butlerian Jihad Now!", the main text reads "Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

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Rue - I Have Guns in my House (for murder) 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @rueshine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thomas Sankara planted 10 million trees in 15 months, in Burkina Faso in 1985.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deliberately misspelling all homophones to prove I'm not an AI. Your welcome

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are 48 hours away from farage standing up and telling reform voters that their pension has been robbed to fund illegal immigrant benefits

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is btw really common in all kinds of settings, conservatives love co-opting progressive language, and the reason it works is that liberals use the language without understanding the underlying power analysis

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Extremely hard to disagree with this and has been a project for at least as long as I've been an adult which is a fair old while now

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't know where to begin with a Prime minster with years left on his term and a huge majority saying he won't do anything until the next general election. Is he intending to just not govern until 2029?

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🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ @maddox.xmission.com · 28/09/2026

AA Gate agent: Do you have the American Airlines app? Me: No, I'm fine actually, I'll just walk.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

David Lynch and Grace Zabriskie on the set of Twin Peaks.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

To address the threats of the climate crisis, AI (and reactionary tech billionaires), inequalities, failing public services, the rise of fascism etc, all we are being served is more of the same We know there are solutions and we know they are popular but these would require democratic societies

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I like the implication at the end here that internet manz can also be prompted like an LLM to respond (or not) in a required way.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you see an increase in cancer diagnosis you don’t impose a wait limit on time it takes people to get assessed. You employ more cancer specialists. People are going after a disability because it’s an easy target. This is state sanctioned suffering, abuse and neglect.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

I think every corporation is dumb

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How quickly with burnham's poll numbers tumble in the face of Daniel Thomas inaction and the coming fuel crisis? Will the labour voting public actually tolerate either of these?

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It would be absurd, but entirely fitting with the UK response so far, if Thomas ended up being prosecuted by the French authorities while the UK continues to look on meekly.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This thread is all a very good point and certainly at work and out with the general public I never bring up the extent of my left wing beliefs for fear of how the average person might react in a political climate where the likes of Daniel Thomas are allowed rampage around the south coast.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

incredible to say oh it’s harder to “disagree well” in the UK and to note that one topic where this especially applies is gender identity. because a) the new statesman has been very much part of the media trying to make that a contentious issue, actively and doggedly, for several years…

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

there was a thing on twitter years ago, where people riffed variations on the queer eye format where mine was "Historical eye for the pol sci guy" where it was just 5 historians trying to get a political scientist to historicise literally anything

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Railcard discriminating against real ska-heads 😡

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