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Caroline Hooton

@carolinehooton.bsky.social
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Writes a little, reads a lot.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 3h
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 8h
For my fellow British Gen Xers. We were all scarred by this.
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Noseybonk Thumbs Up
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Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 10h
So the Conservatives are now presenting leaving the Aarhus Convention as "levelling the playing field" - when in fact it will remove the rights of citizens to access environmental information and challenge environmentally damaging developments. So... in fact giving developers more power.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 21h
Productive weekend of adulting. I got a haircut, renewed an insurance policy, ran a load of errands, started putting together my to do lists for Christmas, ordered some stuff that I'm going to need and did some cleaning. Feeling very mature as I get ready for the new week.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is hard to be a #fox in 2026.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this
Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs. 

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.” 

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.” 

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with. 

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The large spider that's terrorising my lounge now has a smaller, incredibly fast accomplice. I think I'm being herded ...
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Saturday to everyone except the bitter old biddy who, when a stressed mum very politely asked her if her young daughter (who was visibly busting for a wee) could go in front of her in the queue for the ladies said “Well some of us are old and need the loo so we all need to wait.”
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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New piece: I've written about Manchester's relationship with Abu Dhabi and how this scandal has forced Burnham to re-adopt old doctrine: Bernsteinism. With @jackdulhanty.bsky.social and @alecherron.bsky.social - featuring some scoopy details. manchestermill.co.uk/man-city-bur...
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A very Mancunian scandal: How Man City forced Andy Burnham to face his past
We tell the inside story of a city's relationship with Abu Dhabi, including notes that show a council official saying: 'You don’t criticise the council’s relationship with the football club’
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A spot finally opened up in my local book group so I have taken it, only to discover that I cannot attend the October meet as I have another commmitment. 🤦‍♀️ However I can make the November meet so now need to buy the book.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 03/10/2026
“So! You’ve been fighting again! … And in your new suit, too!”
“So! You’ve been fighting again! … And in your new suit, too!”
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not come across Jeremy O Harris before but yes to everything he says here. Everything.
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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SEND children were assaulted, left in soiled clothes and locked in isolation cells for hours at school in East London. Parents and officials tried to warn Waltham Forest council about it, but they were ignored. Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's investigation
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Dozens of children were abused at a Walthamstow school. Why didn’t the council stop it?
Autistic and learning disabled pupils were assaulted, left in soiled clothes and locked in isolation cells for hours at Whitefield school. Parents are now suing the school and the council
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is fascinating and also explains a great deal.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gorgeous moon out tonight. Very dramatic.
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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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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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
meanwhile from @banxtoons.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7992...
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thor's representatives would like you to know that the care bears started it
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
THE CLANS HEIR IS A TRANS WOMAN (2013) is like Steven Seagal decided to Write/Direct/Star in a love letter to his trans friends, but it looks and feels like every action movie he's made... except Hitoshi Ozawa is way way way way cooler than Seagal.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”
Pete and Dud.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Went to pickleball for the first time in a fortnight. Got smacked in the wrist twice with a pickleball and took one to the lip, which is now a little swollen and bruised.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The UK's AI minister just made a big and important admission on AI & copyright, which creatives around the country will celebrate: "It is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model based on the transformer architecture given the copyright position that we have in this country”.
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Wild Gesticulations @apolicious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a tweet from a censored source: "Last night Corona led me down a youtube rabbit hole and I ended up watching a video of an Australian cheese maker making parmesan. he starts his videos by saying 'g'day curd nerds' and all the comments are Italians telling him to go fuck himself"
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With Michael Gove cosplaying the PM, and Jim Murphy in the wings, we know we're doomed. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social on why Sky’s ‘The War Game’ is arms industry propaganda
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In the terrifying world of Dr StrangeGove
Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.
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luke 🐾 @earthen-were.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Couldn't let fat bear week pass me by without sculpting a little something 🐻 cheeky fella!
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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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a spoopy red rock 🕷️ @unfixable.place · 27/09/2026
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can’t share Bob Fosse without sharing this dance tutorial from Broadway Barbara
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Doctors in Houston Report Complete Disappearance of Aggressive Liver Cancer in a 3-Year-Old Using a Personalized Immunotherapy Made From the Child’s Own Cells No Cancer Detected One Year Later
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got some genuinely shocking news this morning. I am still trying to process it so cannot imagine how bad it must be for others. The one thing I keep thinking is that life is far too short so you should hug your loved ones and let them know you love them.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
back my book kickstarter ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00.
Sign in a Clacton charity shop which reads Books 99p each. Fact based books 4 for £1.00
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pervert Tamagotchi.
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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shit. I have been away for a fortnight and a giant bloody spider has moved into my living room. It scuttled under the sofa before I could get a glass. It is not as big as the 2 I put out a few weeks ago but it is still a chonk.
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