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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 15h

The Covid wave in England is growing very fast, and the overall Covid risk level has been raised to High. As of 4 October, 1 in every 175 people were infected, up 34% on the previous week. We continue to recommend that Covid-Cautious people take full precautions in ALL indoor places. A thread 🧵

Covid wave rapidly growing in England.
Risk level now High with 1 in 175 infected.
PPE masks recommended indoors.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13h

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 12h

more about far right violence that really should be national news www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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Salford mayor calls for city to unite

'The spirit of Salford is what unites us'

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lizzybeesoraya.bsky.social @lizzybeesoraya.bsky.social · 15h

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2h

You can understand why Cunk might sympathise here

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2h

AIBU = AI Being Unreasonable

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Matt Cohen @mattcohen.bsky.social · 16h

While other outlets were calling Musk a mercurial genius, MAD Magazine had the journalistic courage to let me call him a bigot. Twice. #SatireMatters

"Free Speeches On The Beaches" appeared in the April 2023 issue of MAD Magazine. The parody of Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches discussed Musk decision to sell blue check marks and called him out for turning Twitter into a cesspool of bigotry. The illustrations are by Marc Palm.

This is a single panel from a one-page parody of The Apprentice called "The Oligarch." The full version can be seen in the MAD Magazine issue #43.

A silhouetted figure that appears to be Donald Trump asks Elon Musk to show what he did for this week's task of redesigning the American flag. Musk says "My flag design represents America after my troop of programmers *fix* all of the countries vital systems." The flag resembles a Nazi flag, but instead of showing a swastika in the center circle, it instead has a "404 Error" message.

The article was written by Matt Cohen and illustrated by Hermann Mejia.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h

I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...

religiondispatches.org

Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist

The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14h

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

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Kemi Badenoch invites excellence back to the party
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Unapologetic embrace of dynamism and distinction shows the Tory leader is serious about moving on from mediocrity
Juliet Samuel
Wednesday October 07 2026, 6.50pm, The Times

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 19h

Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live

Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21h

You can sum up Badenoch's conference speech like this - "No taxes, no welfare, no clue"

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 23h

I will just note that after "haha look at these loony green policies" turned into "oops it looks like the loony green policies are popular and it's the press that's out of touch," the strategy has been largely to radio silence the party.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16h

JUST IN: A federal judge has tossed the Trump administration's lawsuit against Michigan over the state's square-footage requirements for egg-laying hens. No standing, she concludes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In May of this year, over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics signed an open letter. In August, Medical Director James Palmer finally responded - yet many of the experts’ most significant concerns remain unaddressed or even acknowledged. This is what they said:

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 22h

Quite unusual for the BBC to be publishing a piece on the release of an indie game that has garnered little interest & wasn’t developed in the UK, but then you see it’s a game by Jonathan Blow and you remember he’s pro-MAGA, anti-diversity and generally very right-wing, so it makes a bit more sense

Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever'

[Picture of a woman wearing armour and a crown with a purple cape flowing behind her showing colourful imagery from the game]

Laura Cress
Technology reporter
7 October 2026, 00:01 BST

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"There have been attacks by Israeli settlers & raids by Israels military across the occupied West Bank [this morning]. Israeli settlers shot & injured 3 Palestinian farmers..." Shot because they were trying to harvest their own olives. Nida' Ibrahim reports on the story.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 19h

So we have a situation where anti-trans hate crime is on the books, while simultaneously the state has been ideologically captured by a movement which promotes the exclusion of trans people from society, the deprivation of our healthcare, and says that our “numbers” must be “reduced.” Lol

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 16h

The point is not that if you pander to the LLM then you *might* remove *some* of the most egregious sources of hallucination. The point is that LLMs cannot analyse data in the way that humans can, no matter how much you pander. And that outputs that you cannot easily verify are worthless.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 16h

I used this article recently to remind people at work of the limitations of LLMs, and one response was "if you changed the labels to Country A and Country B then the results would be better". I think they would just be not so obviously wrong. Which is probably worse.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 18h

Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 16h

You can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#TodayInQueerHistory Oct 5 (1994) Sandi Toksvig is the definition of cosy TV & Radio. After coming out, not just as a lesbian AND a Mum, she was dropped by charities Save the Children and the Children's Society as a host for an event. The Lesbian Avengers protested #OTD & the charities apologised .

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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TiePig @tiepig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the front page of the BBC Politics section atm. The first article that is actually about a member of the current government is SEVENTEEN articles down (past two articles slagging off the Greens). And it's about Burnham's opinions on some football thing. Defund the BBC.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19h

Hamas is a shell of its former self after 3 years of a war of annihilation and genocide against Palestinian civilians, but that has made no difference to pro-Israel apologists who continue to accuse everyone of being supporters or even members of Hamas

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17h

"Journalists"

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22h

On the anniversary of the Hamas attack, I will mostly be forgetting that my former schoolmates said I marched through a village shouting Hitler Youth songs, hung around outside Jewish prayers to abuse Jewish boys by making hissing noises and singing “gas ‘em all”.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17h

This is, of course, simply a rhetorical play act. Suppose that people do "condemn" all these people? Well, you didn't do it enough. Did you contextualise anything? Stop that. Be more unequivocal. Now hop on one leg. I found someone not condemning them - do you condemn them too?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17h

Book on sale in supermarket book aisle shocker! Imagine becoming a journalist just so you can end up reporting negatively on a book which helps people. Next up the Telegraph's ongoing series "people use cookbooks to learn to cook".

The Telegraph

ADHD 'handbook' on sale in Waitrose

Guide to neurodevelopmental condition at upmarket supermarket amid soaring demand for diagnoses

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Health Editor

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Published 06 October 2026 9:09pm BST

Guides to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have gone on sale at Waitrose checkouts amid warnings that soaring demand for diagnoses risks "crowding out" severe cases.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h

walks around with a big coat and no underwear

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s time to pick a side

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20h

why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20h

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21h

"The best welfare is a well-paying job" says Kemi Badenoch, proving she still doesn't understand what words mean.

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree that “Britain cannot call itself a diverse democracy when communities are living with such fear” but I will note some communities’ fears are taken less seriously than others

One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days', says British Muslim Trust

More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism

Aamna Mohdin and Jayni Makwana
Thu 23 Jul 2026 00.01 BST

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21h

You mean like, the things journalists used to do, and historians still do?

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 19h

Spad: Did you find that terrifying analogy to compare Burnham to? Kemi: Sure did boss, nice and cuddly, just like you asked for

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h

Tony Blair here, writing about extremist politics In Bari Weiss’s notorious crackpot far right propaganda sheet, keeping the company that he was born to keep and clearly loves (fascists, wingnuts and true believers)

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 22h

Nah, this is the *profane* subreddit

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have no strong view on a preferred outcome here - “stop the massacre and destruction” feels like the immediate priority - but I invite readers to note the result of decades of nice libs wishing for two states is their own governments assisting in genocide, ethnic cleansing and massive destruction.

Opinion
The Guardian view on the Green party and Palestine: rejecting two states is no shortcut to peace
Editorial
Zack Polanski must defend Palestinian freedom while reassuring Jewish members and showing that his party can handle disagreements

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is correct: all of these wealthy, very right wing men understood Me Too not as a campaign for justice, but as an organised assault upon their right to unlimited freedom, which absolutely includes total impunity and no criticism for e.g. sexual harassment of their employees.

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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 23h

He did an hour long press conference with a bunch of experts on the climate 2 months ago and the entire MSM ignored it Stuart www.youtube.com/live/bsTXZ2V...

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Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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