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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 11h

A great character indeed, but about as un-feminine as any fictional female has ever been 😏

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 15h

it’s just great marketing

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 14h

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

mass email from me when i transitioned. the body of the email reads-
"about 15 years ago i sent out a mass email stating that i had used the Troy Aikman quarterback rating system to decide that the right choice was to switch email providers from Aol to Comcast. using the same system i'm pleased to announce that the Troy Aikman quarterback ratings system has given me the clarity to go ahead and switch genders.
i'm available to anyone by phone that would like to crunch the numbers. thanks eveyrbody and sorry for the mass email! and thanks Troy Aikman!"

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 13h

I grew up with Asimov so am delighted if there's more female involvement in a story than a passing name 😅

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 16h

Making a t-shirt that spells out "Protect the Dolls" but entirely in poppies

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 14h

Having been caught in it, I recommend more procrastination 🌊

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20h

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 17h

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

bbc.co.uk

Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland

The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 14h

In my youth I put serious effort into learning to appreciate beer, including things like Guinness. Never managed to stomach lager though. Seems a lot of people have the opposite problem?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 19h

The other day I talked to an aunt who has truly seen everything, and she couldn’t overstate how much more racist England now feels. When a working-class black woman in her mid-seventies tells you it’s bad, then it’s really bad.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21h

This is insane. If they decide AI will invent antigravity, will they start yeeting themselves off buildings?

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 12/10/2026

you can tell just how imported the culture war lines are because the reality is that white britain is one of the most secular demographics on earth.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Have had that horrible experience of being asked to change the briefest paragraph in one of my books so a particular foreign publisher could avoid arrest in that country’s massive LGBTQ+ crackdown. I had to decline and therefore not be published - you don’t negotiate with tyrants - but what a world.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

yeah no shit you want to remain anonymous

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On BBC, a “Protect the Dolls” t shirt is erased. In the US, opening of a revered comedy show says women in the gym are dressed like whores - and still we hear talk of the oppression by “the woke” - to hell with every comic that has monetised their base by pretending they’re a free speech rebel

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

People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026

If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"I GOT SENT DEATH THREATS JUST FOR CARING ABOUT WOMEN'S SAFETY" oh everyone with any sort of prominence online gets death threats, you're not special. i got death threats for being shit in a Doctor Who spinoff so what

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Below is the headline of a BBC News article. Next to it is the eighth paragraph of the article. Literally burying the lede that Reform are planning to completely strip all of us of our human rights to help promote the party to their anti-immigrant base.

Headline: Reform pledges to suspend asylum system for up to five years and deport claimants

Eighth paragraph: Under further proposals, Reform said it would pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention to prevent legal challenges to its plans.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Farage announces he wants to deport huge numbers of people just like Trump. Remember that resulted in the deaths of Americans as well as migrants. And let’s ask Americans if their economic conditions improved as a result. They did not. Farage has no ideas except Trump’s.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As I age, I increasingly lean toward dressing like a dazzle ship: I care less about looking good, and more about ensuring my enemies cannot fathom what I am doing, where, and at what speed.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 11/10/2026

wait youre telling me we can make the internet livable again by just giving ukraine more money to blow up more of these??

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 11/10/2026

The absurd lengths cities have to go to to stop drivers taking “every available space”

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

well done lads, it's 2026 & you've managed to allow the fucking Sun to position itself as slightly less hostile to people who support LGBT+ rights than The Big Supposedly Gay Dancing Show

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Useless in itself, but offers evidence of different potentially useful tongue skills?

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've seen quite a few zionist types recently offering things along the lines of, Jewish people should have the right to live in their ancestral homeland. The question they never address is, what about all the other people, of various backgrounds and religions, who've spent centuries living there?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"It's not polite to call rich white men racist." You know what's not polite? BEING A RACIST!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I often wondered, during peak infection control, whether expelling vast clouds of exhaled water vapour was likely to be a transmission vector...

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Vaping is such a strange thing. It's kinda like smoking but also not, so people don't understand the rules instinctively. As for the smell(a), they're far pungent, stickier, and spread further than tobacco smoke. I'd much rather walk in the wake of a cigarette than a vape or joint.

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5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The reason there are so many MPs who are landlords is because it's a fundamental way of accumulating wealth whilst being an MP. Buy a house, charge the mortgage payments to expenses, rent your other house out, leverage the equity of the two of them to purchase a BTL and kerrrrching, it's all gravy

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The two results that keep coming up, study after study, is that universal basic income and taxing the rich do all of the good things their advocates say, to almost ridiculous levels, and none of the bad things their opponents say, to almost ridiculous levels.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

if you think you're personally in too sweet a position to need a union, that they're just for other people, what do you think the best way to support those folks is? that's right: join a union

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please make TV for people who are watching the TV again

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's always a good day to quote Dawn Foster.

Screenshot of a Dawn Foster tweet reading: "I knew Wes when I was a student and he was the NUS president - always been a right wing lickspittle cunt"

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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here it comes- the "The greens need to liberalise and try to win people over by moving towards the center a bit" posts have begun.

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Kieran🏳️‍🌈 @diptripping.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

For some reason even the people on this site without an X account still use Substack…and like you say, there’s literally no reason to. There are alternatives.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The EHRC are stupid enough to do a blow-by-blow repeat of their previous shenanigans. I say: Yes, please do this - launch a deep investigation. Do it when our fugee-hunting Home Secretary is on TV, while Jeremy Vine asks callers whether black people can be British, while fascists riot in the street.

@TimesRadio
X.com
The Green Party has been referred to the equalities watchdog over its 'Zionism is racism' motion.
"The same group made similar complaints about antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn," says political correspondent
Terry Stiastny.

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In recent months, cycling around the centre of Edinburgh, the early signs of this are visible. The number of private cars has dropped, and most of what's on the road is taxis, buses, bikes, and delivery vehicles. It's great, we should keep it going!

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you think about rent, and housing benefit, it's kinda sickening that we're allowing people to demand sums of money from the government just because they happen to own property.

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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are they related to the roaming bands of homosexuals?

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Untypicalboro @untypicalboro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Old proverb revisited: Cheats *do* prosper.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"reopen"? A large part of the UK's problems with the EU comes down to refusing to acknowledge over 1000 years of entangled history in favour of a far more recent (and dubious) Empire / Commonwealth story which could in some hands break down into a little Englander one

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