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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.” — Isaac Asimov
Black and white portrait of Isaac Asimov wearing thick dark-rimmed glasses, a suit, and a bolo tie, sitting on a small wooden stool in the middle of a large dilapidated room with peeling paint and scattered furniture.
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
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First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 15/01/2026
ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
fransport or inuniration Targete.
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3. Youwill opproach an access point where you will need to scan your PIv card. Gate should open. (See Black Arrow)
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6. Last garage door on the teft wilt be the sally port. (See black line inside red crcle.).
There will be another access point at that door. Scan you PIV card to get access or Once outside the sally port, agents can call the ERO command post 612-843-8701/612-843-
8708) to gain access to the sally port. Hours 0800 to 1500.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Rachel Reeves has already made a complete mess of her Budget, so I thought I should offer an alternative. This is the first part. There are several more to come. When the country's economy is failing, it's time to be radical. Nothing less will do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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The Alternative Budget 2025 – The Background
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
An AI generated version of Purple Guy’s dead mother is speaking to him on his phone. She says “Look, darling. With AI we can be together forever”

Panel 2:
Purple Guy looking very upset. He asks “Do you love me, mum?”

Panel 3:
The disgusting AI fake mum replies “I do. Almost as much…”

Panel 4:
AI mum turns into an advert for online gambling. She yells: “…As I love getting 10 free spins when I sign up to pocket casino.com”
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I've just realised it's 2025 and yet I only have two items in my home that regularly featured in old cartoons: a sink plunger and an iron. I feel like I immediately need to get an anvil and an enormous red stick of dynamite to fill the chasm that's suddenly opened up in my soul.
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a cartoon of a coyote holding a cane in front of some lights
ALT: a cartoon of a coyote holding a cane in front of some lights
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
You’d hope that real journalists will be voluntarily handing back their press credentials, and that their newspapers or TV channels would be publishing front page articles explaining what a free press means in a democracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pentagon demands journalists sign pledge not to gather certain information
If they don’t agree to limits, including restricting movement within building, Pentagon press passes will be revoked
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is really fckn disturbing. It was funny when it was that #Funzo thing in The Simpsons, but this…. No www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy
The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime...
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The Ghost of Diana Goodman 👓🎥 @lecinenerd.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
One thing I love about the @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast is it’s like James Burke’s “Connections” series. Where Burke showed how rug designs led to computer programming via airline reservations, Andrew shows how Frankie Valli led to Led Zeppelin via Joan Rivers.
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in the 60s looking young and clean cutJoan Rivers in her later yearsLed Zeppelin rocking out
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I seem to be receiving a lot of German language content in my feed today 🤔
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Question: if we establish that Trump didn’t win, that Musk fixed the election, how will the media reevaluate the Harris-Walz campaign?
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Sarah B @sarahbaillie6.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Confused. Are we supposed to be shocked, or even mildly surprised? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elon Musk allegedly took large amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Trump – report
Doge head was at times dosing himself daily, along with ecstasy and psychedelic mushroom use, according to NYT
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Not everyone who invests in crypto is shady, but it certainly feels like all shady people are investing in crypto www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘The ultimate liberty’: how Nigel Farage became a cryptocurrency convert
Reform leader aims to make London a ‘crypto powerhouse’ and has previously hailed an ‘economic insurgency’
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Intrigued as to why the Mail, Express etc aren’t screaming about Gary Lineker being cancelled by BBC. Is it because they believe that “cancellation” is solely the function of the press?
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Not sure about this. It feels like going back a few hundred years. to mutilation as punishment. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Shabana Mahmood considers chemical castration for serious sex offenders
Justice secretary expected to back radical sentencing reforms, including use of libido-suppressing drugs in England and Wales
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Drumpf said yesterday that Qatar invested $5.1t following his visit. Projected 2025 GDP of Qatar is $240b. How does that work?
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Finally! open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
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The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Don’t think I’ve ever felt more ashamed of a Labour PM www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones
The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Proportional Representation is about fairness and making sure that who gets elected really reflects what people want. But it's also about more than that: creating a new kind of political culture where diverse voices can be heard and work together. Well put, @carolinelucas.bsky.social.
Proportional representation wouldn't just change who gets elected - it would bring new voices to the table, reward cooperation over conflict and finally deliver a democracy that reflects the people it serves.

Caroline Lucas, The Observer, 04/05/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
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He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"You won the West of England Mayor's race, but the winner gets 25%... does that feel to you like democracy?" "Do you think we've got to look again at the voting system?" "Less than 10% of the total electorate voted for the candidate who won - which feels crazy" #r4today #TodayProgramme
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A six does it www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05... Labour lost to Reform in Runcorn by six votes last night. But there is a much bigger story than that, which is that unless we get electoral reform now, last night made clear that fair elections in much of the UK might be over.
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A six does it
I am glad that I did not stay up all night waiting for the by-election result in Runcorn and Helsby, because it was only called at 6.00, after several recounts. Reform has overturned a Labour majorit...
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I’m intrigued as to how Barclays are gonna enforce this. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Barclays says bank will bar trans women from using female bathrooms
Boss confirms policy change as businesses move to comply with recent supreme court ruling
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/04/2025
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society theonion.com/histori...
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics […]
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
$50k to clone your dog, but Americans still whine about paying too much tax www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Experience: I spent $50,000 cloning my dog
I know not everyone would agree with what I did, but Lucas was my soulmate
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
First 15 minutes of this podcast by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social are essential listening open.spotify.com/episode/1EVo...
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The Emergency Is Here
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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Iain @iainmspillane.com · 16/04/2025
You can always rely on 2000AD to tell it like it is...
Judge Dredd clone subtly talking about how the Sovs got a sleeper agent to be elected President.
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Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
How Disinformation Works - 20 Threads: 👇
https://www.ucs.org/resources/how-disinformation-works
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Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"How to fight back: 🔸 Slow down before sharing 🔸 Ask: “Where did this actually come from?” 🔸 Leave groups that feel like echo chambers 🔸 Report coordinated inauthentic behavior" Disinformation Thread: 👇
https://blog.alertswiss.ch/de/rubriken/gefahren/wie-sie-desinformation-erkennen/
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We cannot have a better society unless those with the lowest income have a larger share of the income of the UK. When will politicians realise that this is the path to growth and the path to justice, which they should want, or why are they in office? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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The problem with the UK is that we do not redistribute income – let alone wealth
This chart comes from the House of Commons Library. They, in turn, took it from the Office for National Statistics What it shows is four versions of the Gini coefficient for the UK: The Gini coef...
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
EU artists deciding not to travel to USA because they don’t feel safe. Not from Americans, but from the US government. This is where we are.
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Good to see @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social here. “Best Chancellor we never had” probably isn’t the tag he’d want, but he’s still contributing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This government has one last chance to take a progressive path. Otherwise, we’re at the point of no return | John McDonnell
In her spring statement, I urge Rachel Reeves to look beyond short-term economic stability – and towards tackling long-term inequality, says former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I’ll just leave this here. 56 years. So happy 😊😊😊 #NUFC
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Autopsy verdict on Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa deaths is incredibly sad 😢
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Spotify hosting Andrew Tate courses on how to exploit women. Petition here: chng.it/f9fpw9hT6p
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Sign the Petition
Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
OK, that’s Amazon Prime and Audible cancelled, along with every subscription on my Amazon account. I doubt Bezos will be terrified, but I feel a teeny-tiny bit cleaner
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Love this. He really needs a grown-up to check his work. Shame he’s surrounded himself with needy little boys with daddy issues mashable.com/article/trum...
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Did Trump's executive order just make everyone in the U.S. female?
All Americans are now AFBT (assigned female by Trump).
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yep, this is obviously gonna end well
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is pretty much what’ll happen. Loads of maga idiots doing Nazi salutes and pretending it’s about their enthusiasm for Mars
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flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Fair comment. Constantly amazed by how needy these guys are www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Massive away win for the little fella.
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