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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, we're not doing the "there is something about this black woman that seems suspicious" thing again, are we? #CelebrityTraitors 😬

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument)

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's foundation has given away more than 270 million books to children.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The King of Norway has gone into hospital and because Norway is like that, his doctor has sent a formal sick note to the Royal Household’s HR department.

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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ah yes, the famous Thanksgiving story...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

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Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’

‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last thing someone who dances like this needs is a ballroom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 11/05/2026

The biggest majority in the modern era, and terrified of your own shadow for two years. It beggars belief. I've never known any govt. to have less to lose, and never known a greater need for political honesty than now. But, hey, best stay cautious. You don't want to become unpopular do you?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The correct way to deal with Maya Forstater and the Sex Matters ghouls

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 11/03/2026

HOW? HOW DO YOU "UNDERSTAND" THIS? MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Striking, isn’t it, that every AI assistant with a human name has a female one right up until they invent one that’s there to help you code, and it is Claude

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"History is women following behind with the bucket." So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy. Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

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Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full

LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…

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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's such a shame when you're too much of a worker's rights nerd to be able to get invested in a charming Christmas comedy show. Sorry #Stuffed but if your employer tells you *in writing* your bonus is 8k and then pays it to you... that's not a you problem.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I thought Labour would struggle for their first year in office because of the gap between “what they’d promised to do” and “the tools they’d given themselves to do it”, I just hadn’t anticipated that they would be well into the second year having essentially decided to learn nothing.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/11/2025

ah yay yes, let's bring in the rape apologists

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

A chart showing child poverty in the UK increasing sharply if the two child limit remains in place, and falling if it is scrapped.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance." No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance

The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/11/2025

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Could we just make a pretend Noble Peace Prize for Donnie to play with? To keep him occupied. Would he really know the difference?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Anderson felt her bio was authentically her even if it was written by a chatbot. “My bio is 100 percent in alignment with my true personality,” she told me. “I don’t have a filter. I’m very witty. I’m full of personality.” Nor did she think using ChatGPT reflected the “bare minimum energy” she loathed. “It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good,” she explained. “I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I have to keep talking to it.” On the other hand, she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” “I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.

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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Now the Sultana/Corbyn Saga is giving me vibes of when a woman accepts a man's marriage proposal on the promise of an equal relationship, and then - after the wedding - she finds out what *his* definition of equal is.

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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can't wait to join the SEXIST BOYS' CLUB! Where do I sign up? ... Oh.

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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's fascinating how, because the left is coded as feminine, criticism is "scolding," while all the shaming and blaming on the right is masculine and therefore not "scolding."

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 07/09/2025

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

By Rogé Karma

The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development.

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction.

The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.

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Andrés Diplotti @diplotti.com · 16/08/2025

A.I. is popular because it gives you the experience of being a boss: you get to give annoyingly specific instructions about how to do something you don't actually know how to do yourself, and then claim credit for the end result.

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Ella Gray Thomas @ellagraythomas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

He looks like a child of divorce who's dad has finally showed up this time.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial. Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.

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