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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5h

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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A Hong Kong housing project with 1,000 starter homes under a government scheme will have to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch after it was found the reinforcement steel bars failed to meet standards, resulting in the arrest of 10 people for bribery www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

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Tougher inspection regime needed, experts say after CK Asset building fiasco

Hong Kong lawmakers call for more inspectors and barring of errant contractors from government tenders after serious lapses at Kwun Tong project.

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 16h

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11h

A reminder that a UN body had ruled that China doesn’t have any legal basis to claim the South China Sea

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dave sounds like an absolute cunt.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are fields, Neo… endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For longest time, I wouldn’t believe it…and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watch them liquefy the dead, so they could be fed intravenously to the living…

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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s legally flawed because ”genocide” is the crime of intentionally destroying a *people*. In principle, a genocide could have zero killings. (e.g. mass sterilization, or—as Russia is doing in Ukraine—abducting children and raising them in your own culture.) This distinction was always intended…

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it was a genuine virtue in the UK that the bookies was always full of guys who were obvious losers.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You guys ever think about how unrelentingly stupid everything is all the time

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 08/10/2026

I feel like OpenAI could do a little bit better job acting like they give any amount of a shit whatsoever about the results they are publishing. They're just like, here, you piggies love this math shit right, here's a million pages of it. Should be mostly right.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don’t understand why HKPF needs AI for natsec when the government just regularly hallucinates crimes anyway

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John Carpenter's dEF0G 🌁 @defrog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder if GovHK thinks this is "soft resistance"?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026

Now being back in Hong Kong, I don't think Americans are aware of just how vile the racism and colorism is in this part of the world.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel like people do not generally know when the last big bubonic plague outbreak was and how many people it killed (1855 in Yunnan, went worldwide, at least 15 million people, lasted for over a century.). There's a ton of apotropaic Chinese ritual from the period to ward it off.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026

BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd have more respect for racists if they just said "I am a racist." All this dancing around "they won't integrate" and "legitimate concerns" is mealy-mouthed bollocks. Just grow a spine. Have the courage of you fucking awful convictions, and stop assuming we're all as stupid as you are.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We always go back to the fact that most people don't know how restrictive, harsh, expensive, punitive and absurd the UK immigration system is.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 05/10/2026

The horror stat remains true: The average American household is closer in net worth to Jeff Bezos than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I am once again saying that white flight private schools are engines of fascism, not only because of what they teach, but more importantly you have zero chance of getting your ass beat for being racist.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What UK fash really looks like.

Restore MP Rupert Lowe and a pack of pink and white generally older supporters holding signs

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“It goes to 11”

oh my god read the vertical axis

“Open Al's internal benchmarks show GPT-6.1 Sol crushing Opus 5.5, with Anthropic struggling to keep up”

(the y axis is model numbers, and had no relevance to capability/efficiency, costs, profit, loss, etc)

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this. Would love this even more if the Hong Kong men's rugby team was referred to as such officially rather than that of Hong Kong, China. In any case, it's funny to realise that Hong Kong, China beat China, China 26-0.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just an awful lot of words for what should be a simple statement: these are a bunch of anti-semites and we'll have nothing to do with them

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s simply not true that “no one has a good answer on what to do with rapists.” In fact, there is a depth of feminist scholarship on exactly this subject. It’s just that people won’t engage with it seriously since none of it says “nah you gotta be nice to the rapist cause that’s your buddy.”

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J @childofthecave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love Nevil Shute's books but some of them are decidedly dated...

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J @childofthecave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You mean something like this, available right now? www.lego.com/en-gb/produc... Lego offers a massive bigger range of sets than when we were kids - in the nicest way possible, buy the ones you like and piss off and let others play with the ones *they* like. 😁

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LEGO® Medium Creative Brick Box 10696 | Classic | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB

Create your own LEGO® vehicles with LEGO Classic!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A glorious bit of How It Works here, being said openly in public

Alex Wickham € @alexwickham
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Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5
UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City's punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter
They consider the Premier League's actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information
The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City's Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Blown away that flydubai aircraft landed intact. It probably helps that the flight was presumably pretty coordinated compared to more normal high altitude upset scenario. The data's still pretty fuzzy, but it might be the highest descent rate recorded by a surviving airliner

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, they really ARE running the government like a software company

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Reported Pentagon data breach
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Hegseth to cut 20% generals

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Immigration is mentioned 4 times in Burnham's conference speech. The first 3 repeat the idea that we "lost control" over immigration, or that control was "weakened", and the fourth says that we need to work with the EU on immigration. Nothing about the positives of immigration or immigrants' rights.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is it free? Because the absence of tax and overheads allows a vast investor bubble, which will burst and cause a financial crisis like 2008, when we haven't even recovered from that yet. You think the far right came from nowhere? No, it came from a financial crisis. Which we are still in.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile we undermine every attempt at controlling climate change, just so you can write a complaint to Tesco without having to think about punctuation. Which, let's face it, is what most of us use it for. It's basically free to use at that level.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The big risk isn't AI nuking us. The big risk? In the 80s 1-in-10 were employed for 18 months and we had riots What happens when 1-in-4 are unemployed forever? What policing could possibly contain that?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How is it possible? Because he told a personal, emotive story, sure. But also he told a moral story: using the funds to help establish a care service. It feels fair. And the decision to opt for a branded institutional structure with strong echoes of the NHS makes it tangible.

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