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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3h
“Everything made of words will be taken over by AI” Yuval Noah Harari spoke to Nobel-winning journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social and the Nerve’s @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about the threat of AI, for an in-depth and sometimes alarming conversation about humanity’s near future
Yuval Noah Harari on the threat of AI: ‘Fascism isn’t the worst-case scenario. Fascism is still human’. Photograph: Yuval Noah Harari in conversation with Maria Ressa and Carole Cadwalladr in an ornate hall
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3h
‼️ Russians attacked Dnipro: 4 injured, including two 8-year-old children. One girl was hospitalized. A high-rise building was damaged, warehouses with food and cars were burning. 😡 Russia attacked Odesa. Damaged residential building.. ❗️In Bucha, a fire broke out in the warehouses of enterprises.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 22h
This basically boils down to Trump agreeing to fund Russia’s war against Ukraine by buying diesel to try to save his own ass in the midterms because of the mess he has made in Iran.
aa.com.tr
UK vows to maintain pressure on Russia over Trump-Putin diesel deal
'We will continue working closely with international partners to ensure Ukraine has the military and financial support' | Anadolu
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
theferret.scot
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 5h
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 13h
Oh hurry, please. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h
Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.
theguardian.com
Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue
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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 9h
Via BoredPanda.com
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23h
Huge respect for Caroline Lucas this week, repeatedly standing up to antisemitic entryism while remaining staunchly critical of Israel and the government's failures on that front. You can see why she used to be leader
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
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The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18h
Google, who was the piano accompanist in a 1973 Franco Corelli/Renata Tebaldi duets recital in London's Royal Albert Hall? Gemini: "No such concert ever took place. It is a common misattribution in collectors' circles." Gemini's source for this? An ebay listing of *the actual concert programme*. 😂
ROYAL ALBERT HALL
General Manager FRANK J. MUNDY
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1973
S. A. GORLINSKY and DENNY DAYVISS
present
RENATA TEBALDI FRANCO CORELLI
and
in Duo Recital
At the piano:
GORDON JEPHTAS
S. A. GORLINSKY Lid. 35 Dover Street, London, W.I.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 13h
Trump is lying when he says Zelensky was offered many deals. Ukraine hasn’t been offered ANY deals. They've been repeatedly pressured to make concessions in exchange for NOTHING but a promise to start peace talks. Meanwhile, russia has repeated non-stop that it intends to achieve ALL its goals.
theguardian.com
Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with Russia
US president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h
🔥 Multiple explosions reported in Vladimir region. Locals report that Yandex data center is under attack.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23h
“She definitely shouldn’t be here tonight.” The Nerve’s @carolecadwalla.bsky.social introduces silenced Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams at a screening of the Social Reckoning, where fellow whistleblower Frances Haugen - whose story inspired the film - spoke out on Sarah’s behalf 🧵
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15h
Larry is, of course, on it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
adambienkov.co.uk
Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics. Low wages have caused brain drain, loss of skilled staff. Part of privatisation of the NHS by stealth. Private sector picks up NHS contracts, profiteers, higher cost to public purse, increases NHS queues.
theguardian.com
NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics
Brain drain of psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses leaves NHS ‘weaker’, driving patients to seek care elsewhere
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/10/2026
Interview with the Bard of Salford aka the great John Cooper Clarke. “The defining nature of art is its uselessness. As soon as it becomes useful, it's something else” @johncooperclarke.bsky.social Q&A by Ursula Kenny www.thenerve.news/p/john-coope...


The Nerve Q&A: John Cooper Clarke, pictured looking downcast in a hat, red patterned scarf and sunglasses: ‘I could go to six funerals a week. But no man can live on vol au vents alone’
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don’t ever tell me that the BBC doesn’t favour Reform UK. This was on their feed yesterday?
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scientists believe a killer whale found dead in the Western Isles is one of the oldest male orcas ever recorded following analysis of its teeth. The animal, discovered on a shoreline on South Uist in 2015, is thought to have been 65 years old or older. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Orca found on South Uist 'one of oldest males ever recorded'
A Scottish team of researchers analysed a tooth to work out its age.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today, Russia thanked for lifting sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five KABs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. 12 people are known to have died, including 3 children. 14 people are injured, 2 are in serious condition. Information is being clarified about 12 people.
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine responds to Trump’s deal with Putin by striking russian fuel export terminal in Rostov.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bleak:
ft.com
Trump agrees deal with Putin for Russia to release diesel on to global market
Pact between Washington and Moscow comes just weeks before critical midterm elections in the US
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 Axios: Zelensky criticized Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports following a call with Putin, calling it “not fair and not honest.” Zelensky described the move as a “happy birthday present for Putin,” saying it looked “absolutely terrible.”
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelensky isn’t pulling his punches
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is what Christo-fascism looked like — specifically the Romanian fascism of the 1930s. Hegseth is a Christo-fascist. (1/3)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
;-)
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/10/2026
Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
A newly elected Reform UK councillor has been arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers. Reform UK is haemorrhaging the people it recruits. We keep track of all of them: bestforbritain.org/reform-uk-defect…
independent.co.uk
Reform councillor arrested over election paperwork
Elected representative for Nigel Farage’s party arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“This is the first time the United States has declined to invite in OSCE monitors since they began observing US elections. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly president…said that the Trump administration’s decision ‘represents a significant departure from an established democratic practice.’”
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To be clear, we're going straight back to Brexit chaos if the Conservatives or Reform are in power, and that is because of their commitment to withdraw from the ECHR, which would almost certainly mean parts of the TCA suspended and huge US diplomatic pressure. www.ft.com/content/f923...
ft.com
Tory plan to rip up UK-EU food deal risks ‘huge uncertainty’, producers warn
Food and drink industry fears it may be forced to comply with different regulatory regimes every few years
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Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An important development, but I wonder if EU preparing to fight the last war. Measure assumes threat comes mainly from newer members at a time when enlargement isn’t moving fast and populist breakthroughs look imminent in West European founders members. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
‘No more Viktor Orbán’: EU plans 15-year probation period for new member states
Enlargement commissioner Marta Kos outlines proposed safeguards to protect EU from undemocratic leaders
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
bbc.com
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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