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Di Eats Toast

@dieatstoast.bsky.social
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Interested in art, nature, economics and neurodiversity. She.

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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a brilliant show - can't wait for series 2!!
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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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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 22/08/2026
A Russian "double-tap" drone attack on a busy Ukrainian shopping mall on Friday evening killed at least 16 people and injured more than 130 others, including 23 children. Nine people in the mall during the attack were still unaccounted for on Saturday morning, including two children.
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Russian ‘double-tap’ attack on Ukrainian shopping mall kills at least 16
Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on allies to pile ‘real pressure’ on Moscow to end the war
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A little empathy and human kindness, eh, even when people have made mistakes. Perhaps especially so. Imagine where that might get us.
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trees served some pretty cool eclipse shadows this evening.
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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
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Real signals or artificial stereotypes?
Adventures with a cultural Copilot
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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A(nother) cautionary tale... read to the end!
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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Oof.....
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Headline: 
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I think if I were to send the head of legal at Grammarly a note that said I broke into his house and took his wallet, but in future, he could opt out of me stealing his wallet, that would go great and they would be fine with that 👍🏻
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 19/02/2026
The paradox of work timharford.com/2026/02/the-... This one is quite a journey...
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The paradox of work
In the late 1930s, the Roosevelt administration embarked on a curious project. Officials hired thousands of unemployed writers to produce guidebooks, children’s books, local histories, collections …
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Abigail @abigail.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm trying my hardest and not doing badly. It's also making me think about if I really need things or not when I can't find things elsewhere easily enough. I'm a big fan of World of Books. They are signed up to the second hand book royalty scheme which is ace. 😊
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just ordered a book from my local Waterstones. Click and collect so I’ll get it on way home tonight. As cheap as Amazon. Also bought an instant camera earlier this week from Argos, cheaper than on Amazon. It’s proving very easy not to use the evil billionaire’s website. More of you should try it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 06/02/2026
To weaken Trump, stop buying iPhones.
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Scott Galloway: To Weaken Trump, Stop Buying iPhones
Pivot hosts Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss why a national economic strike could be so effective.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boyc...
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'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE starts February 1
Small businesses struggled to observe the national shutdown to protest ICE. Here's why a boycott of companies like OpenAI and Amazon could be easier and more effective.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."
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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Great post. And actually for all of us thinking a bit harder, a bit earlier, about what life is for and what gives us value would help all of us lead happier lives. And by "earlier" I mean before we ourselves become disabled, which most of us will if we are lucky enough to live long enough.
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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I always think this when I pass through Tring Station - really not very close to Tring - but why not build houses here so it's close to something? There is so much space and many trains....
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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Interesting thread with lots of pretty charts to make my heart happy...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/09/2025
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline.

The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people." From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 22/09/2025
Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”
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Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority
Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported.  The USA, where you can p...
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Di Eats Toast @dieatstoast.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"Let’s just say Bronze’s story will probably resonate a lot more than Wallace’s with the many, many autistic people quietly exhausting themselves trying to decipher and comply with all the unspoken etiquette of office life." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Yes, the problem is men like Gregg Wallace – but it’s also those who should stop them and don’t | Gaby Hinsliff
Agents, employers, board members all have a moral and legal duty to make people behave decently. If not now, when, asks Gaby Hinsliff
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Caring for stationery in hot weather, a brief guide: - pop pencils in a jar of cool water to prevent wilting - lie erasers somewhere dark, under a damp cloth - vintage stamps will curl, pop into an envelope & under a book - paperclips warping? Refrigerate. - bury wax crayons, note location
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are running errands. Green turns to look at Blue, who is frowning with agitated frustration.
Blue: Aargh! I hate this! It's too loud, too bright, and there's too many people!

 Somewhere in the distance, someone's baby is crying. Frowning, Blue turns to glare towards the noise.
Blue: ...And someone's crying baby, of couse.
Green: Can I try something?

Green pulls out a strange little device, which Blue studies with confusion.
Blue: What?
Green: This baby translator.
Blue: A what?

As both of the foxes study the contraption that Green is holding, it speaks up.
Translator: Wail decoded: It's too loud, too bright, and too crowded. I hate it.
Blue: Okay, that's fair.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Ask yourself: If you wanted to bring manufacturing to the US, would you reduce tariffs on smartphones and computers that are fully made abroad, or cut tariffs on the intermediate inputs used by American manufacturers?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Nobody could have predicted this:
NYT: As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely.

Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power in state and federal government, are behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech  guarantees.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 10/03/2025
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please retweet. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!
A collage of Gail’s designs and a photo of Gail
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
America has turned on its triends
Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure
Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend.
There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or
Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within.
These moments will live in infamy.
What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/01/2025
Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Thank God Starmer is prime minister. Imagine if we had someone in that position desperately doing whatever Musk wanted, as Badenoch evidently would. This moment would amount the complete subordination of Britain to a foreign tech billionaire.
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Tjeerd Royaards @tjeerdroyaards.com · 06/01/2025
Cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social quits the Washington Post after a cartoon mocking Post-owner Jeff Bezos is refused. Cartoon for @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #StandWithAnn #pressfreedom
Cartoon showing Jeff Bezos walking into the office of the Washington Post, followed by two servants pushing wheelbarrows filled with money. The slogan 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' lies discarded on the ground, while a new slogan 'Whatever You Say, Mr. Bezos' is being installed above the door. A cartoonist labeled 'Ann Telnaes' walks out through a side door with a sign on it that reads 'Critical cartoonists and journalists - exit here'.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I see that some of the Press today are having great difficulty telling the difference between powerful, rich men being sexual predators in the workplace for year after year, and our lovely autistic people. Good grief.
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