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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

There’s a very simple test for “is this person concerned about Palestinians or an anti-Semite using Palestine as an excuse” and it’s what they were posting on October 7-8.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A key point which few have noticed yet... Tory voters have already shifted a lot. Polling shows they back Burnham's pledge to consider closer relations. And a third back joining again. This is a major problem for Badenoch's supposed "recapture the centre" strategy.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let me help. The motion goes way beyond criticising Israel (it seeks to replace Israel) and an amendment to protect Jewish members was voted down. You would not know this from Polanski's evasive statement

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the continued crankery of the English left-of-Labour flank is also, let's be quite real here, downstream of the fact that Corbyn's fanboys and fangirls, instead of ever recognising that they have in fact been huffing paint, invented a stab in the back myth, and I chose those words very deliberately

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The thing he cannot do. Which is not to say that Ukrainians are a super species of resilient humans (though they really are quite awesome), but rather that they know well what capitulation will bring. So, it is win or die for all Ukrainians vs win or die for Putin. He can't overcome that deficit.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More trouble for the Greens after their 'Zionism is racism' vote - the umbrella organisation of European Greens has condemned them, and the German Greens in particular are scathing. Felix Banaszak, co-leader, called the motion "intolerable and unacceptable".

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Putin has passed the point where he can simply end the war without threatening his own hold on power." This point needs front-loading. It needs to be loudly stated that Putin only continues for his own survival. It must be understood globally and internally within Russia.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gotta say until you read the actual motion it's not clear just how rabid the Greens' positioning is. The motion calls for the end of the State of Israel.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you still believe “the antisemitism crisis in Labour wasn’t real” pls look at what’s happened to the Greens, and what happens when these people do when given a free rein

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.

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Jewishness itself is now the offence

The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.

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Ari B Friedman @abfriedman.com · 04/10/2026

If you're not following Phillips P O'Brien you should. His background as a preeminent historian of strategy and economics of WWII, his moral clarity, and his realism have made him right about at startling number of things since the start of the most recent invasion of Ukraine.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Dave J @davejbrighton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is this a ‘whisper it’ column somehow published in the wrong paper?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Free weekend update is out. Russia has a strategy for this winter--massive war crimes to make Ukraine unlivable. We need to speak the truth on that. One reason they need to do this is that they are struggling in other parts of the war--see Vivaldi. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

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Weekend Update #205: Russia’s Strategy In Two Words: “War Crimes”

Operation Vivaldi, Even More Robots; The Trump-Putin Quid Pro Quo

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

Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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Dave J @davejbrighton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wtf is going on and who on earth thought this was a good idea?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Latest piece out. There was some confusion about why the UK, France and the Baltics were not invited by the US to its NATO meeting. Its actually brutally simple and part of a US strategy of divide and rule towards European security. And it might work. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...

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Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe

And Why It Could Work

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else?

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Neuroscientist here. I have studied the brain for 40 years. I make serious use of machine learning and AI in my research. Sam Altman is full of shit. These machines are not conscious, any more than a movie of a train coming out of the screen is a train. AI does remarkable things but isn’t real.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RUSSIA RATTLED BY UKRAINIAN ADVANCES Milbloggers have revealed far more than Ukraine has, down to quite detailed maps. They complain about the endless culture of lies about whats really going on and tell the leadership that its self defeating. Nobody is listening. Ukraines advances have been deep,

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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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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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if hundreds of uniformed and balaclava wearing non-white extremists gathered outside a police station because their leader had been arrested, it would be the lead national story

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OBVIOUSLY the underlying issue of radicalisation amd anti-social behaviour needs addressing. but one way to do that is to stop "fash agitator" being a fucking paying job.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be clear, what these models do is predict what word should come next. That is all they do.

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