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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Who is going to build the "Nearby burger" app to analyse burger prices from nearby outlets, so you can avoid an overpriced Big Mac?

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15h

Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 22h

Matthew Ingalls. Jonathan Newell. Winston Lee. Gillio Lopes. Diego Sarabia. Scott Norris. Scott Kretzschmar. These are the names of the seven men named as defendants in a civil complaint filed on Sept. 14 alleging they drugged and gang raped a Cornell student Jane Doe in the Chi Phi house in Oct24

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

About 6 outlets are telling this story. None have opted for the headline, "Some guy you've never heard of has quit government without ever becoming someone you did hear of." The Reality TV producers introduced an ENTIRELY frivolous character and now he's gone.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

p.s. And just assume that there's always a footnote adding that men and nonbinary and gender-fluid people also become rape victims. And that not all rapists are men (just nearly all).

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OMG! The God of Islam (and also Christianity) seems to support looking after the environment!! Shocking

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh no! Tesla cars only work properly in good weather...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

Dr. Mestre first encountered the enzymes in jumbo phages in 2022 while searching for new reverse transcriptases. He worked briefly as a consultant for ReNegade Therapeutics, which filed a patent in 2023 on a number of reverse transcriptases, including the ones Dr. Mestre found. He is listed as a co-inventor on the patent filing.

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good to know we are building energy and water guzzling data centres, with all the noise and environmental damage caused so Copilot users can create materials to assist bashing the bishop. So worthwhile... 🙄🙄🙄

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Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft's Copilot Al chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including upskirt photos or putting women into sexual positions. These contractors are then asked to review whether the generated image such successfully fulfilled the prompt as, did the image generator make the woman's Al-enlarged breasts big enough.

When a Copilot user uploads a picture of themselves or someone else, they probably expect that image to remain private between just them and the Al tool. In reality, a workforce of at least hundreds of human reviewers are sometimes looking at that prompt and whatever images they upload. And in many cases, those contractors are inundated with requests to make foot fetish images of children's cartoon characters, shorten a real woman's skirt, or put people into sexual positions.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok, this is probably the most interesting book I have ever bought. * Philosophy of the mind and consciousness * Artificial Intelligence - what is it, how does it work? Still another 200 pages to read, but I am loving this book.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reform UK Councillors, know the 5 stages.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

4/ "Fellow journalists: We need fewer “think pieces” and more “this man cannot think” articles."

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Certainly deserved to be in their list. I loved reading that book and am now enjoying the less fictional Ring the Hill and then 21st Century Yokel

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Rascal 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 @badrascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Folk with legal knowledge in Northern Ireland. With us having no health power of attorney yet, how do we ensure that a named person is the only person who gets to make health decisions for us if we are incapacitated? (shares would be appreciated)

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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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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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Solapse @solapse.uk · 25/09/2026

But they were all of them deceived, for another Muse Charm was made. In the land of Silicon Valley, in the fires of Menlo Park, the Dark Lord Zuckerberg forged in secret, a master charm, to control all others. & into this charm he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.

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Ravenmark @ravenmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A question worth asking: If a president repeatedly violates the Constitution, and enough members of his own party knowingly refuse to use their constitutional powers to restrain him, when does that stop being one president’s failure—and become a crisis of the party’s constitutional legitimacy?

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/09/2026

ed sheeran brought the snakes back to ireland

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone should be following @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social to save themselves wasting time reading junk clickbait articles

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ring the Hill by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social If you enjoyed the fictional story in Everything Will Swallow You and tales of walking around the English countryside, this is a perfect follow up. (Presumably autobiographic rather than fictional.)

Google search for Ring the Hill by Tom Cox

The book cover has a mysterious tower on a hill with a yellow sky behind it and birds circling.

Text box:
Overview
A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked 'Quite A Lot Of Hills' where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Andy Burnham has plunged the plan for a third runway at Heathrow into doubt by privately telling MPs he has always opposed the project, and the new prime minister is said to be “open minded” about whether it should go ahead. www.ft.com/content/0206...

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Burnham’s opposition to Heathrow expansion puts third runway in doubt

New prime minister has been a longstanding critic of the project

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congratulations to Meta, I guess, on failing to take reasonable measures to protect its trade secrets, and on authorizing extensive access to a protected computer.

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Uffda Geek @annoyednerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

iPhone users…tip from me this morning if you run a pihole. When you upgrade to iOS 27, your phone will turn on “Connectivity Assist” in your WiFi network settings and all the ads will pour in. Turn it OFF and your ad blocks will work again. Gotta do it per SSID it looks like.

iPhone network setting screen showing the connectivity assist option.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a big test of (a) the Home Secretary and (b) the police.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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Trumpy @trumpy.studiogart.net · 22/09/2026

and now for a first ever #Trumpy same-day strip update! presenting strip #72.5, mere hours after getting #72 out the door...

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Piers Morgan to sue Earl Spencer?

Guy holding a big sign that says:

I JUST HOPE BOTH TEAMS LOSE

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Imagine trying to explain this image to someone from 2015. "So president Trump..." "President WHO???" "...told Pete Hegseth..." "The clown from 'FOX and friends'?" "...who is now the Secretary of War..." "secretary of WHAT?!" "...to invite Jake Paul..." "..to lecture Pentagon" x.com/Dispropogand...

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Alexandria W. Darling @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ladies and gentlemen, this is columbo no. 5 a little bit of me getting outta your hair a little bit of suspect standing there a little bit of facts about my wife a little bit of you killed him with that knife

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Amazon have brought this on themselves by Enshitification of their search function. I will use any external search (DDG, Google, even Bing!) rather than look through Amazon search results.

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Trumpy @trumpy.studiogart.net · 21/09/2026

#Trumpy strip #72 "if an authoritarian rants into the forest and nobody hears it, did he rant at all?" (thank you @snarky-orwell.bsky.social for the quote) #ShineALight #NoKings

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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Guess its that time again to revisit this 🧵: bsky.app/profile/c0nc...

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sigh... BBC Sounds refusing to play anything again. I pay my licence fee, but for the last 3 years the only app I can use to play 6 Music has been useless. It took THREE DAYS to get it to download Nadine Shah's proms performance.

BBC Sounds app (6 minutes after opening it)

It claims that Nick Grimshaw is 'on air' now. It's actually 18:15 so it's Steve Lamacq on air now.

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seems like Halloween is starting earlier every year.

A house in SW London already decorated for Halloween on the 21st September

There is a witch hanging from the gutter.
Skeletons also hanging from the porch and scattered around the front garden.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote

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From the crafts community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the crafts community

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@herring1967.bsky.social I saw Chris Moyles show posted their video of your chat on YouTube, but I'm not sure everyone will be able to follow the links. If only Richard could enunciate properly. youtu.be/Ovi-RneAK68?...

Richard Herring on teh Chris Moyles breakfast show (radio X)

Richard was telling everyone the website where they can purchase tickets to his show. According to the subtitles it is:
richer.com/rahalista

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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