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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is where supporting the fascist reform party gets the UK , a lad sitting down being bullied by self appointed vigilantes. These two are disgusting, but this is where Farage has dragged the UK.
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d. @danveresque.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Only nearly 60 years after its first broadcast, I am obsessed with Amok Time. Has any science fiction show ever given as much as this show and episode? All good sci-fi leads back to TOS.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”
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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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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Jeff Bezos: Men we are *told* are brilliant businessmen, but every time they open their mouths they prove themselves to be ridiculous idiots.
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Workers at the prestigious medical journal The Lancet are striking for the first time in its 200 year history over inadequate pay. The work they do is essential for advancing medical research and for public health and wellbeing. @nujofficial.bsky.social
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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d. @danveresque.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026
Funny -the trope of the rich villain used to seem a little far-fetched once, but these bastards really are out to destroy the planet because of their hairlines or something.
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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Garth Merenghi knows writers you use subtext, and they're all cowards.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A 70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology. 
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d. @danveresque.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026
I love that Larry Dean seems to be channeling Mr Burns in his imitation of Charles. #snluk youtu.be/3DVIESl8OFE?...
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Charles and D.I.A.N.A. | SNL UK
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meh @mharvey816.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#SNLUK going harder than you'll ever see the US version manage. youtu.be/hFMq4bw2cW8?...
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Weekend Update: Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and Diana's Swan Song | SNL UK
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
""WHY DOES WANTING CLEAN DRINKING WATER MAKE YOU AN ACTIVIST, WHILE POISONING IT DOESN'T MAKE A CORPORATION A TERRORIST?" - WINONA LADUKE
""WHY DOES WANTING CLEAN DRINKING WATER MAKE YOU AN ACTIVIST, WHILE POISONING IT DOESN'T MAKE A CORPORATION A TERRORIST?"
- WINONA LADUKE
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Years of discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community, continuing homophobia and transphobia, all coupled with ageism. Older LGBTQIA+ facing ongoing discrimination/ stereotyping/judgment. Things were meant to be better by now. Instead they just seem to go backwards. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Adam Porter, a housing development manager from the LGBT Foundation charity, says he regularly meets older members of the community in exactly that situation.

"It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

"In the case of someone moving into a care environment, that means hiding who they are in their own home, for what could be the rest of their life."
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bambi and Thumper in real life! A deer and a little bunny sharing a super tender moment that seems straight out of a Disney movie... impossible not to melt with love! 🦌🐰✨ National Geographic
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ll take this a step further and say, I believe we should be able to support an average-sized family on a single income at what we determine to be the minimum wage. A lot of Boomers got this. But for whatever reason, we’re considered ridiculous for proposing it.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026
Anyway if you're trying to launch an exclusive literary network with just a smidge of AI, I refer you to the observation that a sandwich with just a smidge of dogshit is still a dogshit sandwich.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Plan to limit number of NHS patients diagnosed with ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare
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Plan to limit number of NHS patients diagnosed with ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare
Review due next week expected to say patients should be ‘triaged’ and offered support without formal diagnosis Proposals to limit the number of patients being formally diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been atacked as “rationing” healthcare and pushing children and adults to self-diagnosis via social media. The comments come ahead of a government review due next week, which is expected to say that patients with ADHD symptoms should not automatically be formally diagnosed, but should be “triaged” and offered support without the need for a formal diagnosis. Continue reading...
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 18/09/2026
Palestine, 1906 #impressionism #americanart
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 17/09/2026
A radio station dropping Ed Sheeran because listeners hated the Macklemore decision is one hell of a backlash loop. Macklemore donates $1 million, the openers walk, and suddenly everyone involved is explaining exactly where they stand on Palestinian lives.
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Radio station drops Ed Sheeran music after listener feedback on Macklemore row
A radio station has dropped Ed Sheeran’s music after “the reaction from our listeners” to the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour over…
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
I'm enjoying these cultural touchstones where "I'm not political" is clearly demonstrated as both political and feckless important for this country to get past the "no politics at the dinner table" or my "favorite celebrity shouldn't 'get political'" bullshit if we're to behead some oligarchs
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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushin...
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Starting to look like the artist-boycott of South Africa back in the 80s. Maybe it can grow equally big? Boycotting ALL artists who support IsraHell/ refuse to use their voice against genocide? It only takes one to start the ball rolling. www.thenational.scot/news/2655742...
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Radio station drops Ed Sheeran music after listener feedback on Macklemore row
A radio station has dropped Ed Sheeran’s music after “the reaction from our listeners” to the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour over…
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning 🌞 Is anyone interested?
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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ouch.
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All of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore Debacle
Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
history is genuinely going to look back on this era and ask what a society has to do to be debauched enough to freely elect an admin whose no 1 agenda was international protection of and solidarity with sexual assaulters irrespective of the species they assaulted
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The horse made that guy fuck him a bunch of times and now he's an FBI field agent investigating Woke, because here in K-Pat's agency, we don't judge Great American horse fuckers, because they are victims of Socialist Woke Stallions." *slams a beer* *belches* *stares forever unblinking*
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Forbes @forbes.com · 14/09/2026
Macklemore defended his remarks last week, saying, “Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.”
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Macklemore Removed From Ed Sheeran's Tour After 'Free Palestine' Remarks, Report Says
Macklemore defended his remarks last week, saying, “Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Just one more thing, Mr. Saruman, why does a man of peace need ten thousand Uruk-hai? I’m no wizard, but that feels a little like overkill.”
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Peter Falk as Columbo Pondering
ALT: Peter Falk as Columbo Pondering
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bethbethbeth @bethbethbeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Late night talk shows have hosted 100s of candidates for office, from every party. But after pressure from You Know Who (the one who isn't Voldemort), the FCC said @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social couldn't air an interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social It's airing on YouTube instead. Please watch.
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Time to re-up my finest work metro.co.uk/2018/02/05/f...
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Fearless man risks his life by venturing into London sharia ‘no-go zone'
Surprisingly large selection of wines
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