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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1h

“Suicidal empathy” is the calling card of the international fascist movement.

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Is love all you need? The Beatles and the risk of suicidal empathy

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 4h

more than that, if "the country is in mortal danger" is your pitch then you should be largely indifferent to how it's paid for, should you not? I mean, not much point keeping Inheritance tax low if the Russians are going to invade and take all your stuff anyway!

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 4h

Now, I'm sure the military (and their retired friends) are naturally going to take a view on the resources required to defend the country but how that's paid for is actually none of their fucking business, is it?

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 5h

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David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · 5h

The scene on the pavement outside Parliament encapsulated the fiasco. On 15 July, MPs arriving for the ritual of Prime Minister’s Questions were greeted by an enterprising young businessman bearing two large cases filled with the American edition of Spycatcher. Michael Marvin had flown to New York the previous day, bought 140 copies for a cool $3,000 and, after landing back at Heathrow in the early hours, was not hawking them openly next to the Palace of Westminster for £100 each.

- from Tim Tate’s “To Catch a Spy: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold”

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 5h

(4)If Suella Braverman is Reform's spokesman for equality and keeps saying "Of course I'm not English " on telly , is it any surprise Reform Councillors are filmed saying they think that 'at most 1% of the Country' should be 'non-White' ?

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 5h

"We're just Normal People."

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 5h

LLMs are genuinely impressive and very new. But is seems that most people involved in finance (who, by and large, are not engineers) equate [new, impressive] with [must make money somehow].

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 6h

This is an incredibly bad idea. We should never use photosynthesis for any sort if energy. It's 3% efficient. Solar panels are 25% efficient. Put panels on ONE EIGHTH of the land and rewild the rest.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 20h

This is an outrageous slur by Adam Boulton on Sally Rooney and Irish people. Our support for Palestine is rooted in solidarity, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and of course simply being against apartheid Israel's genocide. Let's hope Sally Rooney has called her lawyers.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 6h

"Classic Irish racist. Just a tiny little nation full to the brim of inconsequential, failures-at-life racists."

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 6h

Frustrated with the service from Dublin Bus, one man took them to the Small Claims Court. "Please note, I am only looking for the restitution of €2.75 – the fare cost."

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Frustrated with the service from Dublin Bus, one man took them to the Small Claims Court

"Please note, I am only looking for the restitution of €2.75 – the fare cost."

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 17h

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19h

Mein Kampf legal, Sally Rooney not. The UK.

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 6h

Selling a second hand copy of Normal People wouldn't be breaking the law, would it?

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Cozy and Comforting Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 6h

"The elements of the Section 15 offence appear to be made out. Rooney and her publisher have not adopted a fanciful interpretation of the law. Indeed, when stripped down to its basics, their construction of Section 15 is unexceptional. There is a risk of criminal liability."

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 16h

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

CALEB CHUNG: Well, I have to ask you, when is something alive? Furby can remember these events, they affect what he does going forward, and it changes his personality over time. He has all the attributes of fear or of happiness, and those are things that add up and change and change his behavior and how he interacts with the world. So how is that different than us?

JAD: Wait a second, though. Are you really gonna go all the way there?

CALEB CHUNG: Absolutely.

JAD: This is a toy with servo motors and things that move its eyelids and a hundred words.

CALEB CHUNG: So you're saying that life is a level of complexity. If something is alive, it's just more complex.

JAD: I think I'm saying that life is driven by the need to be alive, and by these base primal animal feelings like pain and suffering.

CALEB CHUNG: I can code that. I can code that.

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Matt @thefleeb.bsky.social · 17h

Starmer should never be allowed to escape the shame of proscribing Palestine Action. The "decent" man jailed pensioners and betrayed the left of his party to whore himself, and the country, to Israel. The anti-Irish bullshit being stirred up around Sally Rooney now, is on him too. Gobshite.

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 6h

Hiding the books before arrival at Holyhead like locking up the booze on Saudi Arabia flights.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 6h

Reading Normal People while floating just off Anglesey as the rozzers shout at us from a police chopper.

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

Marks & Spencer in-store signage for a tomato sauce that says "The same Calabrian recipe for over 20 years"

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 16h

I really wish international media would put some effort into understanding the concept of the Brits Being At It again.

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The Men Who Stare At Goatse @ohgodscrewthis.bsky.social · 19h

Do any of my Scottish people want some cacti? There's a fellow from Kilmarnock over on r/cactus who sadly needs to give away his grandfather's entire collection, including some quite old and impressive specimens. @scottishinsider.org @h1twom4n.bsky.social

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to connect to wifi using eduroam

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 20h

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 17h

I think all the Irish Sea ferries could do a nice business in selling Sally Rooney novels in the duty-free shop

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 17h

Indecent proposal for tax purposes.

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Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 18h

"Danny why do you want to save our seas?" tells you all you need to know about the useless state of British journalism.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18h

UNMUTE this is GLORIOUS

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/1…

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 19h

If you're tall, stand at the back at gigs. Only fair.

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 15/10/2026

The British would like to have an important cultural artifact returned to their possession. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"This woman having to refrain from selling her books in case the British state arrests her reminds me of my story and how I threatened to sue Goodbooks reviewers for literally quoting me."

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Senedd has barred the National Poet of Wales from reading a poem at the opening of the Welsh Parliament in front of the King because it was “too political”. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/wales-watc...

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Wales watching - The midweek briefing (Oct 14)

Exclusive: Senedd bars national poet’s work from ceremonial opening...

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

People gather down Cardiff Bay to welcome King Charles.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Comic from 2023: Who would have won WWII if a racist American auto manufacturer had the power to control one side's access to technology?

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/10/2026

BREAKING: University of Sunderland staff have declared a formal industrial dispute over plans for sweeping cuts. Management wants to slash £40m from its budget, putting jobs and students’ education at risk. Staff are ready to fight back. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1467...

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University of Sunderland staff declare dispute in fight against job cuts

Staff at the University of Sunderland have declared a formal industrial dispute in a row over job cuts, the University and College Union announced today.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The left has been saying this for decades and getting called stupid children by, like, the New Statesman in particular. Going to be super interesting to see if this tide shift is going to come with anyone saying "we were wrong, it turns out."

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

3) Note here what counts as unacceptable racism: Send them all back, all migrants are rapists, machine gun the boats? All within the mainstream, sometimes crass and embarrassing but acceptable. Using the N-word? ☠️ ❌ 🔫 ❌ 💣 🔪 ❌

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Today saw a really significant strike- the biggest in, really, decades. It happened because the people in the Government (politicians and civil service management alike) had no experience with how to address a strike. It had never happened to them and they were all over the shop in responding.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is advertised in the Liberties for €700 per person per month. Something major needs to happen about landlords.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don’t want to discourage the lads from noticing Reform is full of roaring racist cranks: I encourage them to go further. But how are we squaring this with e.g. the Tory leader appointing a convicted neo-Nazi criminal as an antiracism adviser one month ago, and MPs and the press basically shrugging

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Irish

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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Smoked in the exhaust fumes of a Lancaster bomber, seasoned with ash from a Benson & Hedges cigarette, Nigel Farage's dandruff and the drool from an XL Bully..."

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Adam Boulton: "she, in common with a lot of people in Ireland is taking a very strong pro Palestine & I have to say anti Israel & anti Jewish stance" Adam, can you provide evidence that Sally Rooney is taking an anti Jewish stance? Or are you, in fact, lying to smear critics of Israel?

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 14/10/2026

BREAKING: Selling books while having an opinion the government doesn't like is now terrorism

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