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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18h

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.

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Michael Havard @michaelhavard.bsky.social · 19h

I believe the expression "No shit sherlock" applies. Thanks to people like Carole and others some people have known about this for a long time.

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DepressedClown @lizardunicorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Toxic nostalgia for the masses, tax dodging for the upper classes. They're selling the dream of a pastiche England, a country that never existed outside of various TV series and bad literature, to people who're afraid of the future.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For a political class that talks so much about national and regional pride the British elite is really shit at the ABCs of nation-building

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even those who, following Lord Darlington "know the price of everything and the value of nothing" & think music, languages and culture aren't that important... should still be worried. Universities make huge economic contributions to their areas. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting...

timeshighereducation.com

Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Awful news. 'Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, has died by suicide. He spoke about the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s mistreatment of whistleblowers, describing the personal cost of coming forward to his career, his health and his family.' www.thebanker.com/content/0228...

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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry but this is a good piece about the sclerosis of the modern economy in the hands of rent seekers, one of the fundamental challenges that we are failing to address, in part because we all (including me) prefer social media snark.

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ingstructool @ingstructool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Le mont Cervin perd son manteau blanc 🏔️ En un an, la transformation est radicale. Après un été 2026 historiquement chaud en Europe occidentale (+2,5°C par rapport à la normale), les glaciers fondent à une vitesse folle. Le changement climatique en une image. #climat #cervin #nature #rechauffement

Montage de deux photos comparatives de la montagne du Cervin prises à un an d'intervalle depuis Cervinia. À gauche, le 28 septembre 2025, le sommet et ses pentes sont largement enneigés. À droite, le 28 septembre 2026, la neige a presque entièrement disparu, laissant la roche sombre et le sol montagneux totalement à nu après un été de chaleurs record.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Fabrizio Scarpa @fabrizioscarpa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A parable of the UK modern state. " ... key leadership across the Defence Nuclear Organisation are [...] populated by administrative [...] managers, commercial lawyers, investment bankers and Treasury accountants rather than [...] submarine command experience" www.navylookout.com/mounting-con...

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Mounting concern in Australia over UK ability to deliver SSN-AUKUS - Navy Lookout

In this guest article, Rear Admiral Peter Briggs, RAN (Rtd), articulates the worries held by some amongst the defence establishment in Australia about the promises the UK has made on submarine deliver...

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oleg Levushkin is behind the attempt to plant explosives at Leipzig airport - joint investigation by The Telegraph and Welt Am Sonntag. Evidence analyzed by these media suggests that there are clear similarities between the attacks in Leipzig

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Englishness & Britishness have never been fixed concepts. They have been redefined & debated for centuries. Shakespeare did it loads. John of Gaunt’s lament for an imagined glorious past England vs the present crap one from Richard II is like a really well written version of a Tory conference speech

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Australia’s latest international education overhaul will manage student flows “without trashing one of our nation’s largest and proudest export sectors”, the government says, but critics say near-weekly “whack-a-mole” changes are sending colleges to the wall #edusky #visas ow.ly/tLvB50ZTPkK

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Fabrizio Scarpa @fabrizioscarpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given her activity so far, a hundredth of those FTEs would be more than enough.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tragedy now of the UK's EU question is that all answers are difficult. Much more so than in 2016

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another clear-cut defeat for the radical right (this time in Switzerland) about which, l am sure, we'll hear very little by the mainstream media. Anything contradicting the "radical right on the march" narrative doesn't sell and doesn't generate enough online clicks... aje.news/0botb8

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Swiss voters set to reject tighter neutrality rules in referendum

About 71 percent of voters oppose initiative to impose stricter limits on neutrality, projection suggests.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Labour is a party disappointed by the people who vote for it and by the economy of the country it's running. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

And how will it do that? Healey, it turns out, has the kind of idea of work you’d expect from a man who has been active in politics since 1986. There were a lot of references to the coalmining heritage of his constituency, and even the more modern work he talked about was hard, manly toil like pipe-fitting, the sort of thing that involves bulging forearms and mucky overalls. Aside from his wife, the one woman he mentioned was Reeves, and she’s just lost her job.

It’s far from clear that the Chancellor has a handle on what the more modern bits of the economy look like. There are a million young people out of work, he said, and the solution he pointed to was shipbuilding apprenticeships. Do this year’s unemployed graduates actually want to go into shipbuilding? Are there enough ships for them to build? His first job, he said, was washing glasses at a pub, exactly the kind of work that has disappeared in the face of minimum wage and tax rises. On artificial intelligence, which has destro

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026

Releasing the five people arrested by the airbase on bail after 24 hours is so weird, would be fantastic if it turns out they were just up to no good on an unrelated minor jape and accidentally created an international security story.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026

My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Private equity controlled TalkTalk, UK's 4th largest broadband provider, facing administration. Loaded with debt by PE, asset-stripped, low investment, poor service. PE control of essential services damages economy and national security. Neoliberals eye a bailout.

lbc.co.uk

National security concerns as broadband giant TalkTalk 'could go into administration within days' | LBC

Security officials are warning that the Ministry of Defence could be impacted if the telecom provider goes under

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Fabrizio Scarpa @fabrizioscarpa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Con quella logica solo cittadini, non abitanti di villaggi e frazioni 🙃

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somebody please explain to Mahmood that - for all her performative cruelty and targeting of care workers - she'll never be cruel enough, tough enough and heartless enough to impress the Reform UK electorate.

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M.C. @mcmgoptimist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Britain doesn't change. I'm rereading Holmes. It's 1887 and the Daily Telegraph speculates that a murder must have been perpetrated by refugees or socialists, and advocates a closer watch over foreigners, while the Standard blames such outrages on a liberal government. A Study in Red, White & Blue?

1st edition of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everything is framed, defined and explained to the public as the extreme right would. Except, it's the country's government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

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Fabrizio Scarpa @fabrizioscarpa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible but it happens when George Osborne is in charge of something.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How, exactly, am I, a mere political historian, supposed to explain this...thing that economists did for FIFTEEN YEARS....to my students?

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was a pogrom attack. The South East Antrim UDA, a proscribed terror group were linked to it - yet this man is prosecuted for burglary and damage? This is why pogroms keep happening - because the state downplays loyalist terror.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well we’ve lost faith in your cycling team you penny pinching twat, before you bought it they used to win grand tours regularly, and whatever you’re doing in Manchester clearly isn’t working either

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are already seeing it play out day after day in South America, Iran, Africa and who else knows where we aren’t hearing about. AI has a place in the intel world, but it ain’t doing the heavy lifting. This is one area where you can’t replace humans with decades of experience and ability.

Quote from the Hunt for Red October after a plane crashes on an aircraft carrier: “This business will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What's happening is that the line for what counts as normal has shot rightward at breakneck speed. Both the Conservatives and Labour helped drag us here, but this is clearly not just a UK problem.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 17/09/2026

The good news for Labour is that they have gone 2 days without a Cabinet Minister endorsing a racist conspiracy. The bad news is everything else.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.

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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests

RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This Sunday Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social will be speaking about farming & river health at The Big Brue in Somerset. If you'd like to attend, tickets & information are available here 👇 bigbrue.com/programme/ma...

Photo of Rachel Salvidge, Journalist and Co-founder of Watershed Investigations who will be speaking at Big Brue, Somerset

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If the government allows lower-volume fracking to occur, it opens the possibility of fracking far beyond the few existing test sites. Below is a British Geological Survey map of parts of the UK with fracking potential: nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...

$British Geological Survey Map showing parts of UK with fracking potential.$

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Fabrizio Scarpa @fabrizioscarpa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He may not be wrong on the written constitution.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 15/09/2026

A paper in Nature Communications reports a detailed structural analysis of the Roman Empire’s entire road network, covering topographical information from nearly 300,000 km of roads. go.nature.com/4gU64b5 🏺🧪

City streets in Ostia, the ancient sea port of Rome at the mouth of the river Tiber. Credit: Tom Brughmans

So-called Arch of Drusus in Rome, near the start of the Via Appia. This was an ancient road over 2000 years ago, and is still in use as a road today. Credit: Tom Brughmans

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

holy %+/= the Dutch train system just announced they are being sabotaged: piles of junk dropped across several different tracks simultaneously #netherlands #trains #publictransport

headlines in Dutch: great disturbance on tracks, train traffic in north and east severely out of order / cause of disturbance seems to be sabotage, stuff found lying on multiple tracks

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