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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Carol Kubicki @carolkubicki.bsky.social · 4h

Different times in so many ways.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

First results in the first round of the Brazilian Presidential election are in. Lula trailing but looks like the south is reporting faster which skews towards Bolsonaro. That said, prediction markets think this looks good for Bolsonaro (that has signal, unlike prior to vote counting).

Presidential Election
First-round vote share by candidate
50%
TO WIN OUTRIGHT
Flávio Bolsonaro
Liberal Party
Lula
Workers' Party
Others
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3, 894, 436 50. 6%
3, 151, 098 41.0%
645,274 8.4%
Valid votes
7, 690, 808
Blank votes
121,680
Null votes
187,122
Votes cast
8,000,028
Turnout rate
78. 0%
6.5% of expected ballots counted
Data as of Oct. 4, 2026 at 4:44 p.m. US East Coast time

BRAZIL
• LIVE
Brazil Presidential election winner?
• Flávio Bolsonaro 80%
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 21%
• Renan Santos 0.3%
Kalshi
+ $1
_t.$.1.1_
$8,160,036 vol
LIVE
1D
1W
1M
ALL
=+

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 22h

I'd like to once again remind you for #BannedBooksWeek that Huckleberry Finn and Animal Farm don't need you to go out of your way to read them. Instead, support a book, and author, who a ban can actually hurt.

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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 03/10/2026

Moomin dollhouse Roof is done, might go over w paint details. But look! #dollhouse #miniatures #minis #moomin

Photo of a completed Moomin dollhouse on a moderately messy art table

Another photo of the same Moomin dollhose. From the side.

Photo of the roof of the Moomin dollhouse it is beautiful.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 04/10/2026

A large crater was left in the roadway after a UAV strike on Kyiv’s Pivnichnyi Bridge. One traffic lane is currently closed as a result of the damage. #Ukraine

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is pretty cool. A service dog for someone suffering from #schizophrenia. #IllMentally

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The person who made the FOI request was a Mr Shrubsole. The hero we needed.

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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every generation gets the Martin Luther it deserves

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Found this incredible project at the Green Party conference: Stitch their Names Hundreds of women stitching the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. Red are women, Black are men, Green are kids. www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's AI-generated and we do't know the prompts, so difficult to know exactly what they intended, but I note they managed to get non-grey skin for the boat people.

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kemi continueth the War On Fonts Kemi triumpheth

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you’ve not seen it, v good piece by top colleague @matthewweaver.bsky.social on the suburban Ulez camera bomber, the online radicalisation of older people and the sheer toxicity of “war on the motorist” and anti-Sadiq Khan discourse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Ulez bomber: the retired electrician who turned bomb-making extremist

Shy 63-year-old’s decision to blow up London traffic camera linked to online conspiracy theories and Islamophobia

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Kate ✨🐱 but spooky 🎃🍁 @magickitten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My dad used to a tree specialist in the Epping Forest District Council landscape planning department. He would get people ringing him to ask for trees to be cut down because they dropped leaves on the car. In Epping Forest.

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Darren Parkinson @greendarrenshipley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am no longer a registered nurse. Not through any choice, but because I got #LongCovid. 2 years ago I lost my nursing job because I'm too ill too work. Today my nursing registration expired. 20+ yrs given to the NHS. Ended by getting a disease without a cure.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

The Kiltinane churchSheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Mick Lister @listermj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#scape #ForestFriday Mushrooms growing on top of the trunk of a fallen tree with a blurred River Caldew in the background. Near Dalston, Cumbria yesterday. #fungifriends #fungifriday #fungi #moss #trees #nature #autumn #cumbria #photography #eastcoastkin

A forest scene with a close up of a small clump of tan coloured mushrooms growing on top of a horizontal tree trunk at ground level.
The fallen trunk is covered in green moss.
In the blurred background are branches and leaves from other trees in the forest. A calm river also blurred, flows below the level of the trees.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 02/10/2026

My girlfriend just got scammed by some website that pretended to be UK govt website, but charges 104 pounds for ETA. I asked if she didn't though it's too much. She said "no, Britain always has ridiculous fees for all beaurocratic procedures". Well, she is not wrong... But we're still angry.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

It sounds like a lot of books, but then I talk to some of my heroes in the comics/book worlds and they tell me they've made 50 books or something. My goal is to make enough books that I can create a tiny fort to hide under. Oh, and also to uh, educate and entertain

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This book jacket copy is a JOURNEY:

Shirley Bury' s
account not only sheds light on the
seething industrial life of Victorian
England and on the tastes and fashions
of the time, but also includes much
unfamiliar material on the Great Exhibition
of 1851, on electrotyping and
Prince Albert's interest in it, on the
nightmarish electrotyping expedition
to Russia, and on the macabre practice
of putting a layer of silver on natural
objects such as a real roses or dead mice

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tell me which person decided cloning an old phone to a new one should be done by the notoriously uncertain and incompatible wireless transfer WHEN YOU CAN JUST PLUG A CABLE INTO THEM and I will go round to their house and kill them with an axe.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is horrific. Lethal injection has never been a reliable means of execution, because doctors with the necessary expertise refused to help develop the process, and most drug companies don’t want to supply the substances used. It is a story of cruelty and incompetence.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I volunteered for Childline for a decade at uni and I know firsthand a snapshot of how many lives Esther Rantzen changed. Her later years were known for assisted dying but her legacy will be giving vulnerable children someone to listen to and care. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

theguardian.com

Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86

Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted dying campaigner

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had no idea that pomegranates did this, but I guess of course they do! www.facebook.com/panglobalpla...

Screenshot of a Facebook post from Pan Global Plants shows pictures of pomegranates on street trees in Chiswick, London, UK.

The fruits have ripened and split to reveal the red berries/seeds within.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026

There we go. The former Mayor of Manchester, who was very cosy with the owners of Manchester City who have been found guilty of the biggest cheating scandal in British football, would be "really concerned" if they sold the club www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes. AI was invented to destroy truth.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The graded shading that radiates outwards from the hip has created the impression of a firework launched into the night sky in a starburst of silver. You can almost hear the crackle of the sparks as they fade. Early #1920s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A flapper style 1920s evening dress of black chiffon decorated almost entirely with silver beadwork in a firework design. It centres over one hip and then burst outwards in shaded silver lines

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Only today to go - please help if you can...

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Pronob Antiballs @captainfanny.co.uk · 28/09/2026

It will actually be Enid Blyton's lot won't it

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the key slide. Scotland NHS now categorises SARS-CoV2 as R1, which apparently means that it no longer causes severe disease, no longer spreads in the community, and there is vaccination and prophylaxis available. We're in for an *interesting* winter methinks.

Slide from Cat in the Hat's thread on Xitter:

from Appendix 11 of Scotland's IPC guidance document.

Table shows that patients with coronavirus infection (Sars-CoV-2) with respiratory symptoms should be placed in a single en-suite room, that staff should wear FRSM as respiratory protection, and that the respiratory categorisation is R1.

Footnote:
The categorisation of infectious respiratory agents into the categories R1, R2 and R3 are informed by the UK Health and Safety Executive’s Approved List of Biological Agents:

• R1 = respiratory infectious agents that can cause human disease and may be a hazard to employees; if exposed but they are unlikely to spread to the community and there is usually effective prophylaxis or treatment available.

• R2 = respiratory infectious agents that can cause severe human disease and may be a serious hazard to employees if exposed;
they may spread to the community; but there is usually effective prophylaxis or treatment available.

• R3 = respiratory infectious agents that cause severe human disease and are a serious hazard to employees if exposed; they are likely to spread to the community; and there is usually no effective prophylaxis or treatment available.

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wessely weeping tears of rage because someone else got to the "Phineas T Barnum of medicine" title before him.

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huh. Think someone once told me the word redact (to censor) came from the "Red Act" (anticommunist measure). Turns out it's from Latin "redactus" and the censorship meaning was popularised by the Iran-Contra hearings. Duh.

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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...

counterdisinformationproject.substack.com

Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?

Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huh. The people who wrote this seem to think you can scare anivaxxers into getting jabbed by saying it will make the Big Bad Autism LESS likely. Bold strategy; let's see if it pays off.

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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guess it's for the Flying Doctor.

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interviewer: do you have any skills that aren’t listed on ur CV Me:

A person carrying like 20 bags of groceries w a 12 pack of Bud light on his head

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day 1479—Nursing a PEM crash and this exchange from "Inside Britain’s Plague Nightmare | EP101+102 | The Black Death With Dan Snow" caught my attention. In the absence of facts, we always fill the gaps. With bullshit. It's evidence-based medicine or bust. Rigueur, esti. #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

November 1348: At the height of the Black Death, people flocked to plague-riddled Canterbury to purchase a pilgrim badge — a medieval ampulla filled with water tinged with the blood of Saint Thomas Becket — in the hope it would help heal them.

Historian Dan Snow:
"It's desperately sad to think of people going to all this effort to avoid the plague, to try to save themselves, actually might have put themselves in harm's way."

Dr Cressida Lang:
"Inevitably, but the draw to come here to seek healing and comfort was just so strong."

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two design powerhouses here with soft lemony drapery by Halston and a pearly tasseled belt by Diane Von Furstenberg combining into a mid #1970s gem #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Partial view of a layered pale yellow evening dress with a deep v neck and side that is gathered in with a pearl tasseled belt

Full length view of a pale lemon chiffony draped dress with a layered, fluted hem from the mid 1970s

Fabric detail of the mid 1970s pale yellow dress which shows the tasseled end of the pearly belt

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Blaze Ward @blazeward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop calling them "AI Artists." They are "Sloperators." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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