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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The EU Kids Act will make private servers illegal as it stands now. Read up on the Act yourself: hub.edri.org/index.php/s/... Contact your MEPs, tell them to scuttle this bill, and sign the Stop Killing Internet Initiative to ensure the protection of our digital spaces: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 22h

Evening/dinner watch: Star wars, empire, and how Star Wars functions(or functioned) as a national epic for American Empire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lao6... Cardinal West doing cool videos again!

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My New Empire

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Inspired by getting this signed last night, I took the day to polish off @davidveevers.bsky.social 's astonishing 'The Great Defiance'. It tells a story of a huge swathe of the early modern world in its encounters with, and resistance to, British Empire - and in so doing enriches every angle. (🧵)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/JEqTe... Absurdly relevant to things I have encountered lately.

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Conniving Corporate Companies

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GO SIMON! What a brilliant event, getting to hear about Piratical States and the way this fab book is shaping conversations in world history, Indian Ocean history, history of capitalism, & of empires. You’re gonna want to read this. Get your (library’s) copy here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Picture of an extremely full Royal Asiatic Society venue of people listening to a brilliant panel

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/JEqTe... Absurdly relevant to things I have encountered lately.

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Conniving Corporate Companies

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can say this already, for folks who do want to teach this into their classrooms the piece by Jesús has four fantastic principles at the end which I could happy incorporate. My own position of refusal comes from a different place but if we're going to do it, let's proceed as he has outlined.

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The Machine’s Silences: Teaching History with AI | Historical Transactions

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have had cause to re-read Helen Sword's article on dismantling the dogma of writing every day being the only way to write. (www.scribd.com/document/483...) Writing methods and practice have to be bespoke to you, which means you have to spend a little time learning about how you work best.

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Client Challenge

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 22/09/2026

MOM LOOK I'M ON ROCK PAPER SHOTGUN

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As someone with a portion of blood from the euro end of the Mediterranean, specifically an olive/wine area... ... I have a story I want to write about burned olive trees, about revenge, about how groves take decades to set up and run for generations afterward, but... Boy howdy, it'd be political.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Alice Dryden @huskyteer.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Finished painting this tiny forest prince! Thanks to @foozzzball.bsky.social for help and advice, and to @adsomenk.bsky.social for introducing me and my wallet to @crookeddice.bsky.social.

A miniature clearly based on Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin from the 1980 Flash Gordon film, dressed entirely in green and pointing some sort of futuristic crossbow. He's mounted on a base cut from a branch, and displayed on a tree in woods.

Another view of the miniature, taken at a different angle so we see the green stuff lovingly glued to the base.

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Hovering Skull @hoveringskull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This September, as a tactical rpg nut, I am: [ ] playing Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. [ ] playing Zero Company. [x] recreating the cast of Twin Peaks in XCom2

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Alice Dryden @huskyteer.co.uk · 23/09/2026

I have an article on #FurryWriting in the latest issue of Focus, the magazine of the British Science Fiction Association! www.bsfa.co.uk

Cover of Focus magazine featuring an abstract image in yellow, black, red and blue. The contents list includes Furries, Pitching, Witches and Huckleberries.

Photo of a magazine page. It's a diagonal crop but it's possible to read the title, which is Space Vixens The fuzzy border between speculative and furry fiction.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.

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AI Took Something From Doctors and Nobody Noticed. The Lancet Caught It. Here Is the Story

A landmark study in The Lancet measured what happens to a physician’s diagnostic instincts when the algorithm is switched off. The findings…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets theonion.com/nsfw-artist-struggling…

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of today's oddball finds while doing a little research: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing... A document advocating for the assassination of Cromwell, by implying the killing of tyrants is moral and good.

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Killing No Murder - Wikipedia

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love how this excellent policy from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social separates the desire to be a "writer" from the desire to "write." 1/

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do not track your kids. DO NOT TRACK YOUR KIDS. It's bad for them and bad for you. DO NOT TRACK YOUR KIDS.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

trot with me if you want to pound

scene from TERMINATOR 2. top panel is giant truck chasing a young buckaroo through the la river. truck is labeled 'AI GENERATED BIZARRO EROTICA SLOP.' middle panel is chuck tingle showing up on his motorcycle. bottom panel is chuck aiming shotgun with label 'SINCERE, HUMAN-CRAFTED STORIES ABOUT BISEXUAL MOTHMAN THREESOMES'

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Hovering Skull @hoveringskull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Coding with AI isn't useless, but if you lean on AI as you learn to code, you won't develop the muscle to solve the hard problems AI can't solve. also it's fun to learn #programming #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzS7...

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Should I use AI while learning how to code games?

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please be aware that neo-Nazis are literally hunting furries for anti-LGBTQ content, and stay safe.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 12/09/2026

Same goes for authors. You don't have to buy expensive hardcovers of our books. You can request them from your local library, tell your book clubs about them, read and review on netgalley, share and repost covers and quotes. These are things I'm encouraging people to do for THE FIST OF MEMORY.

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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A little motivation

4 panel comic:
Panel 1: forg is drawing. There’s some extra pencils and some coffee on his desk. He says “all I can do..”
Panel 2: he is now doing work on his computer. Looks like he completed some drawings. He continues “..is my best”
Panel 3: he is now making some food in the kitchen, wielding a pan and wearing a tiny chefs hat. He continues talking to himself “..and my best..”
Panel 4: at the end of his long cozy day he’s in bed, and finishes his sentence “.. will do”

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Jesus Christ this newspaper is an embarrassment.

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just finished Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City as part of my current crop of research reads. Absurdly good, beautiful diagrams throughout (just like the cover image), lots to think about around urban design, but also around demystifying Japan, looking at how cities are grown, etc.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everyone in a place that has either enacted an age ban or is considering it should read this thread…

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026

An article on the solving of the Navier Stokes equations by a mathematician who knows what's going on bms.ulb.ac.be/data/uploads... (Yes it's in LateX I am sorry)

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

when in doubt: potate

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