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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf @jozebwrites.bsky.social · 12h
On Sally Rooney - we are not an overly political shop but books have always been about freedom of thought and expression, and we support that. We are able to continue to stock Sally’s books, and we will continue to sell them. Jo and Chris
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Debbie Keatley @debkeatley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In Greenland, 4 polar bears test positive for H5N1 avian flu antibodies The detections, along with the animals’ nutritional and cultural significance to Indigenous people, highlight the need for ongoing surveillance. bit.ly/4s5InAB 📷: Christopher Michel / Flickr cc
Polar bear in snow
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
People arrested under terrorism legislation are now more likely to be female, older (average age of 59, maximum age of 89!) and white, entirely because of PA.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brent crude prices declined during Ukraine’s sustained attacks on Russian oil infrastructure but surged after the US-Israeli war against Iran began on 28 February 2026. Trump is 100% to blame for rising fuel costs worldwide, Ukraine had no impact or was actually lowering costs.
Line chart of Brent crude prices from September 2025 to October 2026. Prices fall from US$68.52 to US$62 while Ukraine strikes Russian refineries, then rise to US$94 and US$112.90 in March 2026 after the strikes on Iran, dip to US$78.09 in July and reach US$102.60 in October.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/10/2026
got most of the way through a roll of 120 film before i noticed that the cap was still on the lens.
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Whomp Whomp Reaction
ALT: Whomp Whomp Reaction
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So Trump has been planning to stitch up Ukraine for weeks.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Neil Schofield-Hughes @neilschofield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well. Real world evidence that wealth tax does not cause a mass exodus or affect business activity, while broadening the resource base for a generous society and reinforcing democratic norms. Who knew?
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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Imagine if the Executive parties treated the Lough Neagh scandal with even half the effort which they expended on Drumcree: Crisis meetings, emergency court cases, constant pressure - even breaking the law to achieve a goal. Instead, there's simply no urgency as the lough dies.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What they tell you in Genoa about St George’s Cross.
The true story of the english's flag
In 1190, king Richard and the Court of London requested and obtained authorization to fly the flag of Republic of Genoa on their ships sailing in the mediterranean and Black seas.
In that periodthe English ships were prey to pirates and bandits, fling the Genoeses flag these episodes passed.
Forthis authorisation they undertook to pay an annual tribute to the Republic of Genoa.
Since that moment England has been represented throughout the worlo by the flag of Sansiorgio, the flag of
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Republica of Genoa
Supertor non recognoscens
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: A recently unsealed court filing that heavily cites government-produced documents + DHS agent depositions alleges that yes, there *is* a DHS database that's filled with protesters, called ICM. It's built by Palantir. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
this is why activism (for the preservation of fundamental rights) has become costly
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 02/10/2026
It is now.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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Ann Bruen @annbruen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Mourne Mountains basking in some lovely pre sunrise light over Carlingford Lough yesterday morning. Camera & Lens: Canon EOS R6 Mark III with RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM  Settings: ISO 125 | 39 mm | 0 ev | f20 | 13.0 s #MourneMountains #CarlingfordLough #LongExposure #IrelandsAncientEast
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 25/09/2026
Telltale signs of financial abuse can be identified in bank records, according to an analysis of UK banking data published in Nature. The findings reveal up to 373 indicators of financial behaviour that could help pinpoint customers who may be experiencing economic abuse. #econsky 🧪
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Banking records reveal characteristics of financial abuse - Nature
An analysis of UK banking data reveals that people who reported being victim-survivors of financial abuse experience worse financial outcomes compared with a control group.
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Debbie Keatley @debkeatley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
whatever the question, hegseth comes up with the wrong answer
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.
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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day' 

📸 Precious LifeAnti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal. Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in ­Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Paul McGhee @pmcghee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The principal question @labourlewis.bsky.social should ask "If the US government ordered Palantir to disclose any or all of the data it holds (as custodian or otherwise) on UK citizens, would it be obliged to do so?" My experience of working in multiple US companies is that they have to obey US law.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta hosted senior Irish Government officials & regulators at an event titled "Ireland as a Trusted Digital Regulatory Hub". Ireland's former regulator who sued all other EU data regulators to avoid investigating Meta was a speaker. (She now works for Meta's law firm.) lnkd.in/p/dYg9TPnk
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strongly against using terms like "honest" or "lie" or even "hallucinate" with respect to data retrieval systems, generative or no. #OpenAI don't want liability for a system they have not yet constructed to be sufficiently accurate or transparent that it can be used safely. #AIEthics #GPT-6.1Astra
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recent photo at the NHS. Over 6 years into #COVID, and we still have “wash your hands” under “AIRBORNE PRECAUTIONS.” We are failing hard to communicate one of the most basic lessons of this pandemic: Airborne means spread through the AIR. Clean air is infection control. #Airborne #PublicHealth #NHS
Photo shows a sign at NHS that says: Airborne precaution
Please wash your hands before entering the training room. Thank you
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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is Palantir hoping that Lord Watson can provide the Labour connections they previously relied on Lord Mandelson for? Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social writes for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ne...
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Palantir's New Senior VP Swaps Lords Pass for Labour Leverage
Lord Tom Watson’s new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago, writes Foxglove's Martha Dark.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Debbie Keatley @debkeatley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Palantir has hired former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson ahead of a December government decision on a break clause that could end its £330 million role in the NHS's data platform. Foxglove's Martha Dark writes that his "new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago."
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Palantir's New Senior VP Swaps Lords Pass for Labour Leverage
Lord Tom Watson’s new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago, writes Foxglove's Martha Dark.
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026
There is no ethical use of AI.
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Debbie Keatley @debkeatley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stanislav Petrov … survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.
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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can Goblins bake? We can at least draw a picture of a Goblin Bakery. Study reignites debate as to what, if anything, Goblins put on their scones
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 26/09/2026
Know who your friends are.
A man in a suit speaking into a microphone with text overlay. The man wears a red tie. Another man stands behind him.
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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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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 25/09/2026
Happy Friday! Iʼve created a game for you to play! Will AI cure all diseases in 10 years? Inspired by bottlenecks discourse, I created a game to help build your intuitions. Play it here: game.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog Naturally, it’s bottle-themed with bubbles and there are leaderboards too.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The journal gives us a flavour: “An example given in the study is that “the activities of surgeons and paediatricians” at a hospital “are assumed to be dependent” on a data centre if it is located within 50km of one.” www.thejournal.ie/government-d...
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Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims
The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Faced with energy prices soaring and data centres eating up over a fifth of all the juice in the country, the Govt paid KPMG €100k for a report which made such absurd claims about the employment dependant on them that it could have just been published as an appendix to Mr Frankfurt’s On Bullshit.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Hard limits are in view and true believers, with no vision for the future beyond whatever they think ‘AI’ or ‘AGI’ are (usually whatever they’re told by the corporates), dimly aware of these limits but unable to accept what it means, are lashing out." -- @cloudquistador.eurosky.social
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Construction capacity directed towards building data centres driven by speculative, debt-driven market demand, rather than socially-necessary housing and infrastructure projects. This is highly irrational allocation of resources can only be reversed by a progressive, green industrial strategy.
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