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Dean Löw

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Illustrator/painter, into medieval history, fencing and f1

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Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social · 13h
Israeli attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians kills 22 aje.io/9bxnv6 via @AJEnglish
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Israeli attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians kills 22
The dead from the strike on Zeitoun School in Gaza City include 13 children and six women.
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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 23h
I'm just going to leave this here, it's a network graph showing Mary-Ann's connections in the gender-critical world. Given that she's already deeply embedded in anti-trans activity, it's difficult to judge her on anything but that.
A network diagram with Mary Ann Stephenson at the centre, showing her  connections to several prominent anti-trans campaigns, and then the huge number of other terfs connected to them.
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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 17h
It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/10/2026
“Indiscriminate mass surveillance," a Meta Muse scoop, and more in today's daily newsletter.
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Muse escapes containment
“Indiscriminate mass surveillance," a Meta Muse scoop, and more in today's daily newsletter.
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/10/2026
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses. www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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PEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was once caught dogging and caused the entire US B1 bomber fleet to leave the nearby RAF airbase
The legend Sir Bob Mortimer on would i lie to you
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is the Burnham government attempting to silence Good Law Project’s criticism of Palantir in the NHS…? Orwellian.
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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Dean Löw @deanlow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sending this to my partner, saying "us"
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...
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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books
Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the informal term of art I have adopted for stuff like Hegseth’s gender act and phenomena like ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ is ‘cis drag’
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
"Bessent has now transformed himself into the Baghdad Bob of bonds." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-beclow...
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The Beclowning of Scott Bessent
Another Trump enabler pays the price
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/09/2026
So it turned out we were wrong. But the fact we all reflexively believed it says a lot about our society. My latest, for The Telegraph
Columnist Monkey
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All this is basically unknowable at present so there’s little point in speculating. But I will say that all these incidents have turned out to be way dumber and weirder than they first appeared www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
independent.co.uk
The RAF Fairford bomb plot was designed to fail. So who was behind it?
If this was a ploy to use old school techniques in the age of drones it was doomed from the start, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 27/09/2026
I think it's bad that the response to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by a segment of his former professional-social milieu—after a period of flooding the zone with shit to protect his accomplices from accountability—has been to recuperate and normalise his modus operandi as an industry standard.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/09/2026
beast mode
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026
Feedback from healthcare providers in response to the AI pilot program has been scathing, with one calling it “a disgrace to the human race” and reporting that they saw patients crying in pain as they waited for care.
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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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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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
404 Media searched one of the ROU official’s phone numbers in Darkside, and found previously breached data indicating they used to work for the Secret Service. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exp...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
motherjones.com
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
i think it is worth noting that one of the first actual elected democrats to prominently call for underbussing trans people, seth moulton, just got crushed in his primary 65-35
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope this queen is having a great day!!!
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Max Read @maxread.info · 22/09/2026
really liked this @himself.bsky.social piece. discursive inversion going on right now where, within ai circles, especially on x, "believing in the imminent machine god" is considered the grounded/serious position while "being skeptical of imminence of machine god" is the laughable freak position
programmablemutter.com
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ten? Twenty? Years of 'legitimate concerns" and "stop the boats" and "you can't say it but" and "the government has heard you" and chasing Farage and pleasing the rabid press and rivers of blood and "migrant hotels" and Yarl's Wood and G4S And now we're here and noone in powers wants it to stop
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The British gov't promised Hong kongers that charges they incurred from protesting in 2019 would not be held against them when applying for BNO visas. Yet more HKers say the home office is denying their applications over protest associated charges.
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'We were promised escape to UK - but they've betrayed us by denying our visas'
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/09/2026
ICE fascists shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in the back. He's now in prison, with the bullet still in his back. This isn't due process, this is fascism. Unacceptable and indefensible. beautyofbelonging.substack.com/p/he-was-mak...
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He Was Making a DoorDash Delivery. Then an ICE Agent Shot Him.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez says there was no foot chase before an ICE officer shot him. Now, from detention, he says the bullet is still lodged in his body and he isn't getting the medical care he nee
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026
there's some through line I'm not equipped to articulate from what google was publishing as SEO best practices between like 2017-2022 and what we now call AI and someone who can explain that evolution in plain language will probably be doing all of us a big favor
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MI5 undermined & obstructed a BBC investigation, covered up the facts & lied to multiple courts, all to protect itself & a violent neo Nazi agent.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bleak but essential read
Navarro told us that she was "shocked to see the growing number of websites in the network and the huge variety of the sites themselves - from cooking and space blogs, to small business and war news." What surprised her the most, though, was how so many of the sites under BBM's umbrella are effectively
"indistinguishable from one another, publishing the same kind of first-person Al-generated stories around self-help topics aimed at people who are lonely."
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
sure would be nice if the UK had a government instead of 17 Sun polls in a waistcoat
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This entire back and forth is bonkers lol
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The real problem Britain faces is unlicensed fades - this is a true social crisis that must be stopped. Unlike, say, UNLICENSED CHILD SOCIAL CARE WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS AND IS BANKRUPTING COUNCILS AND DOING *THIS* TO VULNERABLE KIDS:
From the BBC article "Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils", May 2026: 

The bungalow doesn't look much like a children's home. A sheet of privacy film wrongly placed outside a window is peeling. Inside, the wallpaper is flaking, carpets are frayed and doors are broken. The children's home is unregistered and therefore illegal but the provider is charging a council elsewhere in the country £13,000 a week to care for a vulnerable teenage girl. She requires the support of three full-time members of staff. There are no books, toys or games.

Just a few miles away, another illegal children's home is being run from a council house. Its tenant is subletting the property to a company that is also charging a different local authority thousands of pounds a week.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“One of the most important staffers among Parton’s close circle of supporters was a transgender man.” “In a post last week, Parton’s editor for her autobiography revealed the singer would go on to pay for Pirro’s gender-affirming care.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/doll...
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Dolly Parton paid for the gender-affirming care of her "good friend" & chauffeur of 30 years - LGBTQ Nation
The singer and driver met in the 1980s and became lifelong friends. He even popped up in some of her books!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes: the truly consistent, unanimous theme of politics in Britain at least since the student anti-austerity protests is - angry left wing people are scum and it is not only acceptable for state agents and members of the public to treat them with extreme hostility, it is excellent and essential.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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