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Underpriced possibility: Republicans do so badly in midterms that Mr Vance is able to get 8 colleagues to sign a 25th amendment removal and becomes president. He pushes a vice president through the lame duck congress.

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Kath Coyle @mrscoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 8h

I have a very dim memory that this had some sort of LED indicator built into the neck

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have been excited in the past. I’m familiar with the sensation… but how to explain the buzz im feeling after a 25 year journey to get it made, to finally… FINALLY bring ROGUE TROOPER HOME! Hard to express really. See you at the premiere at the LFF tomorrow night, LONDON! ❤️🇬🇧❤️

Poster for Rogue Trooper with lovely quotes and list of festival accreditations

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

Jenrick has wildly overshot the degree of racism that his cold-blooded political opportunism requires. Farage knows it is unwise to sound exactly like the National Front but ambitious new boy Jenrick does not. Most British racists require at least a thin veil for appearance's sake.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Crazy Rupert Lowe has a new angle. Ban folic acid in flour. Follows a mandate that all non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with synthetic folic acid (vitamin B9) by the end of December 2026 to prevent upward of 200 neural tube birth defects including spina bifida and anencephaly each year

The official petition to end the mandatory
fortification of white flour with folic acid
has just hit 100k.

Great news.

It helps me take the fight to the
establishment in Parliament

Let's end it.

7:21 pm. 08 0ct26. 271K Views

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026

the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 9h

Just watched a trailer for Jessica Chastain in Heartldan, and was struck by the idea that while it might be good, what I really want to see is Jessica Chastain in The Savant. Apparently it now has an unspecified Spring 2027 release date.

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 10h

Regardless of the costs on net zero, on which we probably agree, I'd be interested in your answer to your question. If the UK achieves Net Zero, what benefits do you expect that would not be seen if it fails?

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 11h

It's the festive season in India and that means lots of sweets! I've written about why they're going to be more expensive this year and what it tells you about India's sugar market www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h

Feel bad for the janitor who has to mop the floor after this debate is over.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We made a whole season about the complex history and different meanings of socialism and he just comes out and nails it in a sentence. Damn

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 10h

It was a great thread so I assume this is a great substack

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 10h

There's a lot of space under that hat

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 13h

First in a new series: great mathematicians and their even greater hats. Today: David Hilbert.

A photograph of German mathematician David Hilbert (1862 – 1943) at the age of 50. He is still quite boyish-faced, despite his goatee and moustache; prominent ears and a spectacles. Fully one half of the image is taken up with a tall soft-looking pale hat wide-brimmed, with a fat black band. A summer hat, one would think.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15h

So happy that my former NYU colleague Anne Carson has won the literature Nobel. She used to run a class that involved physical improv (confronting for MFA writing students). I taught straight after her, moving the tables back and wishing I too had spent three hours with Anne being a tree

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've just been reading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for a thing and Trump definitely resembles late-stage Hitler: surrounded by sycophants, rejecting all criticism, denying facts about the war he's losing, making mad declarations, seeing enemies everywhere. Not great

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 11h

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*"Adversarial poetry malware." Yeah: it's infected poetry. Evil poetry that powns machines and mines crypto. I'm pretty jaded when it comes to malware hijinks, but that's plenty weird www.theregister.com/security/202...

theregister.com

Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers

Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fischer-Z on their 50th anniversary tour!

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Something I just realised about this year’s three Best Actor frontrunners:

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cortes was not motivated by “knowledge”, lads 😬

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In case you were wondering dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#global

A clip from the climatebrink dashboard homepage. It says
365-day mean
1.50ºC vs preindustrial 1850-1900

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well well!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

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. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*sings* Boost Noodle Lives on his back The Boost Noodle Loves chimney stacks! (The Boost Noodle)/He's outrageous, he screams in his bowls The Boost Noodle Let yourself go, oh!

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hugely here for sitting down tonight with Pierre by Roy Williams and John Donnelly on whatever More4 is now called

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well that's a headline I wasn't quite anticipating. But I think I like it.

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He still has to win a Nobel of his own...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A tough day at the Axios HR department

It's my last week @axios.

I joined soon after launch in 2017 not knowing I was boarding a rocket ship. Immensely grateful to my colleagues and proud of what our ragtag startup has become.

Next week I'll join the incredible national security team @WSJ. Can't wait to get started!

This is not protocol for giving notice. Please contact the People Team

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

GREAT ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE NEWS!!! (Not a typo!) The Indonesian government has cancelled its insane Food and Energy Estates project, which would have deforested a land mass the size of Maryland. Amazing work by @mightyearth.org. A massive victory for the planet. mightyearth.org/article/indo...

mightyearth.org

Indonesia Announces End to “World’s Largest Deforestation Project” - Mighty Earth

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@zekehausfather.com You've probably already explained this somewhere, but I wondered why the probability of 2026 as warmest year has fallen back so markedly on the dashboard over the past month?

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