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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...
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Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn
Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Christian cosmology includes an afterlife presided over by an angry and hateful being wreathed in flames, but, uh, that’s not heaven.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Still puzzled that the signs in Bath asking people not to feed the gulls are exclusively in French. Are French people especially likely to do this? Are the seagulls French? I think we need to be told…
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The headline they assigned is pretty hilarious, too. Professor points out that a fictional story is fictional! That that is news, well.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So apparently numerous celebrities have nonexistent children for whom AI is now hallucinating entire biographies.
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Charity Nye Doesn't Exist
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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.
newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What gets me about this sort of nonsense is that “ordinary people” - in the sense of not having lots of wealth and formal training- make up the majority of artists of all types.
Threads idiot: Unpopular opinion: Most people don't hate Al content. They hate that ordinary people can now create without their permission.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 23/09/2026
Americas conservatives never wanted a “free market”, that was always just identity politics. They actually love picking winners and losers it just has to be whatever they’re heavily invested in (usually oil and gas).
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026
A landlord making £100,000 a month says young people have “no excuse to be poor”. Excellent. I love financial advice. Gather round, children, let's examine how he himself stopped being poor. metro.co.uk/2026/09/20/i...
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I’m a landlord making £100,000 a month — young people have no excuse to be poor
Samuel bought his first home aged 17 with a 100% mortgage.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The free rider problem is the defining factor in whether someone is left or right wing, this is because if you think free riders are a problem you tend not to be intellectually curious enough to understand long chains of cause and effect.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They literally tell us they’re carrying out genocide every few days. It’s not complicated.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am so confused. Apparently it is terrible when young people want to buy lattes or avocado toast, or the poors get a take away rather than eating gruel, but packed lunches are a "pathetic office trend"?
The Telegraph column 
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This pathetic office trend is a damning symbol of Britain's decline

Photo of fridge boxes of potatoes, carrots and sprouts
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Arron Automata @arrontk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Hideously bad AI illustration
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
NEW: EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Scoop here: www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"
Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The symptoms of #ADHD are just normal behaviours!" If you or anyone you know has been confronted with this argument as to why ADHD is 'not a thing', I made this for you. And yes, this IS my professional opinion.
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Dean Burnett on Instagram: ""The symptoms of #ADHD are just normal behaviours!" That's what many claim, at least. This is the rationale for dismissing it as a genuine medical condition, like @channel4 did in 'The Great ADHD Myth?' But is that true? Or is it just a deeply cynical, and clearly deliberate, misrepresentation of how diagnosis and symptoms actually work? [Hint: its the second thing] #neurodivergence #symptoms #medicine #diagnosis"
2 likes, 0 comments - drdeanburnett on September 9, 2026: ""The symptoms of #ADHD are just normal behaviours!" That's what many claim, at least. This is the rationale for dismissing it as a genuine medical condition, like @channel4 did in 'The Great ADHD Myth?' But is that true? Or is it just a deeply cynical, and clearly deliberate, misrepresentation of how diagnosis and symptoms actually work? [Hint: its the second thing] #neurodivergence #symptoms #medicine #diagnosis".
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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/09/2026
Hi, my name is Mister Beast, and I can't read. Haha, that's why I've written this book, with another man's name on it. His name has been on LOTS of books HE didn't write either. Who knows who really wrote this one! Haha please, buy this book, and maybe even read it, but mostly buy it. It exists.
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Growing up I thought books were boring, in reality I just didn't read anything that actually interested me. Which is why I teamed up with James Patterson to write The Most Dangerous Games! For many people this might be the first book they actually read (and hopefully enjoy haha) give it a read and tell me what you think :D
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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES
MRBEAST THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES PAT TTERSON
JAMES PATTERSON
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026
How many students were kicked off their campuses for protesting this stuff? It's not just the psychotic openly genocidal propaganda, it's that the people in power in the US made it so that if you criticize this openly, your life could be destroyed.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
most embarrassing guy of all time
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
wild story www.thenational.scot/news/2650201...
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US woman at centre of dog-ban legal battle with island group breaks silence
THE American woman who is at the centre of a fierce legal battle with two community organisations in the Outer Hebrides has broken her silence on…
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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tommy Robinson fan James English was found guilty of abusive behaviour to his partner between July 2022 & November 2023. English grabbed her by the neck & pinned her against a door while she was pregnant. He was also found guilty of kicking her off a bed. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/podc...
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Podcaster and Tommy Robinson fanboy James English convicted of domestic abuse | Searchlight
James English, whose podcast has increasingly provided lengthy platforms for figures like Tommy Robinson, Katie Hopkins and Andrew Tate, has been convicted ...
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I like it when I see a screengrab of someone on TwitteX, the free speech anything goes platform for badasses, and it is just saying that over on leftist cuck Bluesky we are being too mean.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This bit from The Times’ story on the killing of Bradley Townsend, a fisherman from Barnsley who volunteered for the Russian Army, leaves quite a lot out. Aiden Minnis is a former member of the National Front who was jailed for four years for a racist attack. "Another Briton”, indeed.
Aiden Minnis, another Briton enlisted with Russian forces, paid tribute to his friend on social media, saying he had "sacrificed his life for our cause".
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Steve @esteef.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How was this picture made?
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14/08/2026
Anyway, see me say most of this on the news earlier: youtu.be/CDukygyaW1g
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What connects the Wickford and Lewes rail crashes? | Sky News
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14/08/2026
Whilst there's no firm evidence to connect the Lewes and Wickford derailments, there are a lot of circumstantial factors that mean it wouldn't be unlikely for there to be a common cause. Do please pay close attention to that wording, though.
an aerial view of derailed and overturned vehicles on a set of tracksa view down the tracks towards a derailed train, there is very little ballast built up as a shoulder on both tracks
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