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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/10/2026
I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today
A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive. ​Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"You shouldn't call Reform fascists". Reform: We are going to lock up people who help others because we just don't like foreigners. I think it is absolutely justified to say Reform is a far-right fascist party at this stage. No ifs or buts about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted
Reform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLI
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/10/2026
Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this
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Heart Research UK @heartresearchuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Make sure to follow our top tips so you can bag your favourite piece of artwork in this year's #anonartproject! Join us for the anonymous heART eBay auction at the 🔗 in bio from 30th October – 8th November 2026 ❤️
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Pointing to estimates of about 30,000 job losses in the past three years..." www.ft.com/content/ded7...
ft.com
UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students
‘Very sharp downturn’ in enrolments risks hitting economic innovation and academic pipeline, lobby group says
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026
If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 10/10/2026
“I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.” #FuckAI
variety.com
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 10/10/2026
Your kids could have the best trick-or-treat bag: eatf.art/boo
a tote bag featuring a bird skeleton beside the text "I am a goddamned nightmare"
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Claude is the software equivalent of a brick with a face drawn on it.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
bristolpost.co.uk
Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 15/09/2026
Hello there, may I interest you in switching to a European web browser that has: ❌ Zero AI slop. ❌ Zero tracking. ❌ Zero external investors. 🤩 Endless ways to customize your setup. 🤩 Tons of powerful features. Oh, and it's an employee-owned alternative to the Big Tech giants. Welcome over!
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 07/10/2026
If you’re visiting Chicago, the Museum of Post Punk & Industrial Museum has a 4-bedroom Airbnb above it that is an exceedingly cool place to stay. Road case furniture, a killer vinyl/book/media library, a jam room, and real artifacts/memorabilia lining every wall, from Joy Division to Skinny Puppy.
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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
thetimes.com
ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge
Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.
nytimes.com
‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There is one simple trick to stop Amazon harvesting your data Don't use it!
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Labour and Conservative Governments have been hiding the real scale of the climate crisis They know that if everyone knew the true threats, we would make them act - the oil and gas billionaire funders of those parties don't want that to happen www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The government has rejected an application by North Yorkshire Council, the University of York and Drax Group to turn the latter's power station into an AI Growth Zone. Had it been accepted, the status would have fast-tracked Drax's plans for a 1.2GW data centre.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The spirit of death may like to know we’re having a 3 for 2 deal this week on corrupt men in their 80s.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's some news I can't believe I've kept to myself for so long! My second novel, End of a Century, now has a bold & beautiful new look courtesy of the brilliant designer and illustrator @gailmyerscough.co.uk. I'm a huge fan of Gail's work, so this is a dream come true. Isn't it gorgeous? #BookSky
A gorgeous new cover for 'End of a Century', designed by the great Gail MyerscoughHardback edition of End of a Century
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Those of us who do care, have got our work cut out and we can’t afford for “Made by Humans” to become some kind of “”Fairtrade” sticker on slightly more expensive stuff which only a minority of people actually give a shit about.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The inside-the-newsroom account of a 22 yo reporter, her 20 yo editor, a 23-month investigation, and the decision to publish the names of the Cornell 7 on the front page—the spark that lit the fire. The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Heart Research UK @heartresearchuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Learn the symptoms, treatments and preventions for heart attacks this #WorldHeartDay 💜👇 heartresearch.org.uk/information/he… #HeartAttack #HeartDiseases #HeartResearchUK
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Installing solar panels and a battery in a UK home saves £681 a year on average, the first study of its kind has found: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
thetimes.com
Solar panels and a battery cut energy bills by two thirds
Private installations reduce costs even during winter months and would pay for themselves in 17 years, researchers found after analysing data from bills
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The year is 2026 and research has just now started on what the ovary do after menopause. It is not a dead organ. Removing ovaries even after menopause may not be advisable except for women at an increased risk of ovarian cancer. www.wired.com/story/ovary-...
wired.com
The Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why
A growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes...
Article header from Stand.earth showing a large headline that Microsoft is quietly backing away from a major West Virginia data‑center project, with the site logo and date above and a cropped photo of a Microsoft building and logo.
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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026
It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A reminder that Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for the crime of using starvation as a weapon of war
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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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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. 1,026 cancer trials 273 pediatric trials 115 heart disease trials 184 diabetes trials This is unacceptable and inhumane.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
19thnews.org
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will post this again for context. The difference between a billion and a million dollars
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dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Day 82: Mission accomplished! Reach Buka after last 24-hour leg from Rabaul by ferry. Delighted I completed this 28,000km journey from Europe without catching a plane, thus reducing my CO2 by ~10 times. It's all I could do for this fragile planet & I'm glad I did it! 96/ youtube.com/shorts/JzJzW...
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After 82 days, I reached the final destination of my no-fly trip from Italy to the Solomons!
YouTube video by Gianluca Grimalda
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 14/09/2026
Heatwaves. Wildfires. Floods. Europe's climate reality is here🚒🌊🔥 30+ organisations urge the EU Commission to make nature Europe's first line of defence as it develops the European Framework for Climate Resilience. Open letter in comments⬇️ #ClimateResilience #NatureBasedSolutions #EuropeWildfires
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...
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Climate action comes in waves
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“It is not beyond our collective means to build a wealth disarmament movement, or a tech disarmament movement”. Let’s do this. A WEALTH DISARMAMENT MOVEMENT.
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