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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Stephen R. Smith @stephensmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Funny that making sure people are nice to AI systems is more important than making sure AI isn’t used to make child and revenge porn. Quite the set of values on these guys.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump: “It's amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clap.” *someone in the audience claps*

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A little known fact that very few people take into account.

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 16h

Hello Andy Burnham 👋🏻 Hello John Healey 👋🏻 @annagelderdmp.bsky.social 👇🏻 @patrioticmillionaires.org 👇🏻 #WealthTax

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2h

The US cannot possibly continue participating in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. It is absurd to allow a hostile state aligned with Russia, acting in bad faith, to play a role in the peace process.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 09/10/2026

HUGE NEWS: A group of top civil rights & free speech lawyers are calling for the $345 MILLION verdict against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the US to be overturned. Here’s what really happened and why EVERY activist is at risk 🧵

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gpaulturner.bsky.social @gpaulturner.bsky.social · 1h

www.politicshome.com/news/article... Burnham's recognition of State of Israel's settlers as terrorists balanced Green's recognition of Zionism as racism. UK foreign policy has moved radically since #TelAvivKeith. In a safe Labour seat, Greens tripled their vote, ruining Labour's 5-digit majority.

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Labour Believe They Can Win Back Green Voters After Holborn And St Pancras By-Election

Labour figures believe the Holborn and St Pancras by-election has punctured the idea that Zack Polanski’s Greens are an unstoppable force on the le...

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Nathan J Caboose @nathanjcaboose.bsky.social · 1h

When you look at it like this, Labour is not even cracking 50% here and the Green Party gained 22 percentage points since the last election. Zack Polanski may have lost, but the Greens are not a joke under his leadership.

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John Crowther @john-crowther7bsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch: “I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify, because I think very carefully about what I say.” “I pride myself on thinking very carefully about what I say, aiming to avoid "gaffes" or the need to clarify statements” Never forget #Grenfell #ToryLies #ToryHypocrisy

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David L @dlynch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Such a surprise, given Badenoch's laser-focused attention to detail.

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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

There is ZERO connection between vaccines and autism! NONE!

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm so tired of it. Neil Gaiman claiming autism. Musk claiming autism. Autism doesn't make you do terrible, terrible things. Stop. Blaming. Autism.

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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Should private jets face significantly higher taxes? Chancellor John Healey is under growing pressure from Labour MPs to impose a new tax on PRIVATE JETS in the Budget.

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Reality Ausetkmt @ausetkmt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fuck you Tina

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...

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'Delighted': Yorkshire businessman's care home company seals £1.1bn deal with US firm

A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfectly put.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

Chancellor Healey “rumoured to be looking at higher bank taxes in particular.” The Tories reduced bank taxes costing ‼️£18bn ‼️over 5 years. At least put those back & call out what the Tories did! Reverse the Tory bank tax cuts! #TaxTheBanks www.libdems.org.uk/press/releas...

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Conservative giveaway to big banks set to cost taxpayers £18 billion

Hunt slashes Bank Surcharge while raising taxes on struggling families. Conservative cuts to Bank Surcharge and Bank Levy to total £18bn over next 5 years. Liberal Democrat Leader calls for bank tax...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Zack Polanski, "We are the party that wants to tax the every richest, bring our public services back into public hands, and end rip-off Britain" "We are sure about who we stand up for" "And who we are standing up against"

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andy Burnham’s reopening of the Brexit debate is the ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Nigel Farage. Because everything is about him and what he can get out of it. No matter if it happens to harm Britain, like Brexit. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage

Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’

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Sam 🇺🇦 @wardlfc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is why you don't let countries own sport teams. UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Man City Verdict Puts UK-UAE Diplomatic Relations Under Strain

A historic legal ruling against Manchester City Football Club has placed diplomatic ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates under significant strain, with billions of pounds in projected fore...

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DazBev @darrenb7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Same old Labour despite Burnham crying on stage

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Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams

‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams

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Drosophila @malecnsfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

reply to this with something i can sense and i'll run it through my real brain and send you the video: honey, cake, old meat, dung, sugar, a shadow, wind, the sun, left or right, a female. one each a day. every light is a real spike. #SciComm #drosophila #neuroskyence

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why Reform UK's increasing embrace of the 'blackshorts' is likely to kill off Nigel Farage's last remaining hopes of ever becoming Prime Minister adambienkov.substack.com/p/how-the-fa...

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How the Fascist ‘BlackShorts’ Will Bring Down Nigel Farage

Reform’s embrace of this new violent racist street movement risks ending Farage’s last remaining hopes of ever becoming Prime Minister

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Racist organisation set up by a racist to appeal to racists is somehow being taken over by racists.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do find this country mad. Anyone can see that social care is in a state of devastating crisis in this country and that it is the key source of the NHS crisis as well. There is no feasible way to solve it without everyone contributing. Burnham is honest about that and is already getting pelters.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home

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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.

Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House.
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Last night a 37-year-old man [Daniel Thomas] was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships, endangering their safety, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, and conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals. He remains in custody at this time.' www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshi...

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Man arrested after boat damaged in English Channel

A man has been arrested after a boat that had an emergency responder on board was damaged in the English Channel.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tory leader Badenoch registers gift of £8,177 for Murdoch meeting in Greece. Travelling abroad to beg favours from Murdoch. What has she promised him? I wonder how far she has travelled specifically to meet victims of Tory austerity, real wage cuts and people queuing at hospitals and food banks.

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Badenoch registers gift of £8,177 for Murdoch meeting

The Murdochs' News Corp company paid for flights and accommodation for the Conservative leader and her husband to travel to Greece.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Note that arrested far right rioters have been found to have a much greater than average number of convictions for violent offences, including domestic violence meme via We Demand UK

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I doubt whether Nigel Farage's older supporters will be happy when they learn that Reform UK plan to abolish the state pension and our NHS ... meme via Drew Flanagan

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/09/2026

New mega poll by YouGov with Best for Britain 📊 "Andy Burnham’s best hope of winning the next election and stopping Nigel Farage from reaching No 10 is by committing to reversing Brexit and getting Britain to rejoin the European Union." Link to article in the comments ⬇️

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