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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"We only get one life. Her childhood has already been hard enough. She only gets one adolescence. We are collectively broken by the experience of fighting every day." This is worth reading, to understand more about what the stakes are for people that need your support.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I actually get my information from people who understand exactly what it is and why it’s a fucking autocorrect slot machine that does nothing but extract. This is hot garbage. Just because I have ethics and a spine doesn’t mean I don’t also engage critical thinking. Slop boosters don’t.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you are the sort of dude who has misgivings about these discussions surrounding sexual assault or feels the need to say “not all men”, I implore you to develop some platonic female relationships. You’ll find out REAL QUICK how carefully curated a bubble you’re in and how often this shit happens.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still have a lot of “but why don’t the residents let the Order march?” Well, because they remember. A community activist from Ardoyne I won’t name, but goes under Belfast.jpeg, has compiled some of the stories. There are 21 deaths total linked to the Drumcree “dispute”.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Data centres • Increase our electricity bills • Pollute our water • Increase unemployment via AI • Accelerate climate + eco collapse • Offer NOTHING to ordinary people in return Why is the Irish government pushing us headlong towards them? www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

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New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’

Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep seeing Americans losing it over the price of petrol so I just looked up what they're paying and it's the equivalent of £1.07 per litre. In the UK it's currently around £1.73 per litre. Other than during COVID, the last time fuel in the UK was that price it was over a decade ago.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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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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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think about stuff like this a lot more frequently these days. Good thread:

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just signed - working petition link in first reply.

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Literally thought this must be an AI hoax because how the fuck would any self-respecting brand be associating their products with symbolism like this... and yet it seems this is where we are. Kinda gobsmacked tbh.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The articles she quotes here are beautiful but poignant - I haven't read the full things yet but I will, and I encourage all AI haters, resisters and worriers to read this piece.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2026

Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beautiful! Sarah Kendzior: "I do not use AI: not for research, writing, photography, or anything else. I never will. I’d rather be a ghost haunting the machine than a vampire imbibing it."

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5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very funny that Ed Sheeran, who was so keen to co-opt and monetise Irish culture, failed to take into account how ingrained support for Palestine is in a country that has suffered from famine and genocide from its overbearing neighbour (where he was born and raised)

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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah dude, I fuckin' am. That's how I know this shit is for posers and hacks.

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It has to be psychically devastating on some level to have such a clear vision for how the back of your car should look and then the absolute closest you can get the licence plate is this. Like think of the options he had to reject and compare if this came out on top. Sorry, "toib".

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even without the ethical and environmental issues, cannot wrap my head around the uncritical use of genAI and the likes of ChatGPT - why would you want to outsource your cognitive ability, your own capacity for thought and reason and creativity? Why are people so unconcerned about losing that?

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Enjoyed the comments here tbh

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just back from Sigur Rós with the Ulster Orchestra - ye gods, what a gig. A treat. A treasure. Phenomenal.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2020 btw www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/a...

Extract from the Guardian: "Lipman’s hardline stance on Israel, she suggests, means that she won’t work with certain actors who support the Palestinian cause. “I won’t be going on tour with The Killing of Sister George with Maxine Peake and Miriam Margolyes, put it that way.”

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He is well informed and articulate - thankfully so, given the role he played in his own acquittal - but more than that, he is dedicated to justice and committed to helping others. He is one of the good guys, and I know that any system trying to put him away is not a system that cares about justice.

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sharing this not just because it's important in the wider context of rigged justice and free speech, but because I know Tony Greenstein. He helped me, as he has countless others, when I was young and poor and needed legal advice I couldn't afford. 1/2

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SO THICK! SO WHITE! SUCH PERFECT MARGINS, SUCH A SATISFYING RIP FROM THE PAD! We've lost so much.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026

Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Missing Easons so hard as I try to cobble together decent back-to-school rations from a decimated high street and an Amazon boycott

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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A child attending his first-ever live concert was brought on stage by British rock band IDLES in Belfast, Ireland. When asked to say one thing to his people, he shouted “Free Free Palestine.”

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.

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Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny @dpsl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wonder women hates Nazis just like the rest of us should

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026

A phenomenal woman

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 25/08/2026

Definitely worth your time all the way to the end...

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Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ah fuck, not Dolly... No point even trying to explain how it feels or pay tribute to the legend she was. An exemplary human in all she did and said. What a shitty loss for everyone 💔

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