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Fiona Reeves

@freeves.bsky.social
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Software Engineer. Graphic designer. Mother of two. Electric vehicle driver. Solar panels & batteries. She / her.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/09/2026
If Palantir are so trustworthy, why are they intimidating anyone who criticises them? www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-tom…
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'We're watching you': MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel's AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously'. By Carole Cadwalladr
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We covered the suspension of referrals some time ago. Some NHS ICBs in England have now gone a step further, imposing a two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ada Lovelace Day is coming up again on 13 Oct and, as you know, these days it is almost entirely unfunded. I've been invited to speak at or attend a few events, all of which I've said yes to because the mission won't further itself. I'm also still writing my report...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gasoline prices in the US are soaring. EV sales should be booming. They're not. Policy rollbacks have left the US trailing China and Europe just when drivers need an alternative most.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026
“To think that the right to access health and care for some people in this country is now up for debate is unthinkable.” Anthony Slaughter introduces a debate in the Senedd on the pause in gender-affirming surgeries and its impact on Wales’ trans community.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Would you expect a non-disabled person to live like this? And if not, why do you think it’s OK for disabled people?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances Ryan
This scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My husband wore his new RNLI t-shirt out and about yesterday. I always enjoyed popping into the RNLI museum and shop in Whitby and getting a few things when we used to go there every year on holiday. One time they gave my youngest child a pin badge for free - it says “respect the sea” - wise words!
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The RNLI are absolute heroes. I spent many holidays with my grandparents in Port Isaac and Cornwall has a special place in my ❤️ Mum and I used to collect for the RNLI. Only later in life I realised that a bespectacled kid with a gap-toothed grin grasping a plastic lifeboat box might aid donations.
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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The station walls at Gare du Nord in Paris are decorated with the equations that help us model climate change.
One board at the station, written in English, explains the equations.One of the equations for modelling circulation.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 20/09/2026
Electric vehicles used by public bodies across Wales are estimated to be saving up to £1.9 million a year in energy costs and avoiding the purchase of more than two million litres of diesel
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Electric vehicles saving Welsh public sector up to £1.9m a year, analysis finds
Electric vehicles used by public bodies across Wales are estimated to be saving up to £1.9 million a year in energy costs and avoiding the purchase of more than two million litres of diesel. The Welsh...
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How incredibly shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station off service after anti-migrant protest
The RNLI says it hopes to have the lifeboat station operational again as soon as possible.
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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RNLI donation page. Save lives, support a great institution, send a message rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Ben Ambridge @ambridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fantastic news for all @manchester.ac.uk staff and students! You can now read @manchestermill.bsky.social for free at access-manchestermill-co-uk.manchester.idm.oclc.org
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now THIS is incredible. 26 decommissioned wind turbines from Scotland's first commercial wind farm were - wait for it - 99.9% recycled? Less than 0.1% of their materials into landfill: www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/uk-fi... Blimey.
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‘UK first’ sees decommissioning of ScottishPower wind farm demonstrate turbine circularity | New Civil Engineer
Hagshaw Hill Wind Farm in South Lanarkshire opened in the mid-‘90s and was decommissioned in 2023 before being repowered and brought back onstream in late
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/09/2026
Asking polluting water companies how they want to be held accountable by the public isn't regulation, it’s a stitch-up 🙄 www.theguardian.com/business/2026/s…
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Labour’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’, say campaigners
Exclusive: Documents reveal water firms have been allowed to advise on how they wish to be held to account
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/09/2026
Palantir have just signed a new £21m contract – this time with Britain’s grid operator. Who were the other bidders? Well, there weren’t any. The National Energy System Operator said it was too dependent on Palantir already to invite anyone else 🤔 bit.ly/4d3Z1Ku
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Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids
Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Feminist Greens (GPEW) @feministgreens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An important petition calling on the Senedd and Welsh Government to immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect patients of the Welsh Gender Service. Please sign and share (you don’t need to live in Wales to sign). It will be considered for debate if it reaches 10,000 signatures.
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Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who ha...
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 04/09/2026
Schools should be places of learning, not religious recruitment. Yet some churches & religious organisations are using publicly funded schools to evangelise to children — often without parents even knowing. Add your name if you agree evangelism has no place in schools. humanists.uk/action/end-e...
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Add your name to stop schools trying to convert children to their religion
Help us stop the dangerous role of church and faith institutions in education
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Count Binface will return.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 02/09/2026
Please enjoy this stunning image of the lunar eclipse over Pitstone Windmill 🌔 📷️: @andymagicman.bsky.social
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some things never change! 😂 The oldest known written customer complaint dates back almost 4,000 years! An angry customer called Nanni complained to his copper merchant about poor quality product, lack of refund, and rude customer service! Sound familiar? 📷 Zunkir #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology
The image by Zunir shows a tall, rectangular ancient clay tablet densely covered with rows of cuneiform text, displayed upright on a clear stand against a dark museum background. The tablet is Nanni’s famous letter of complaint, written on a clay tablet to a copper merchant named Ea-nasir. Nanni complains that he has been sent low-grade copper, rather than the high quality copper agreed. Ea-nasir has treated Nanni and his messengers with contempt, sending them back without a refund, and telling them "If you want to take them (the copper ingots) take them, if you do not want to take them, go away!" 😮 

The complaint was inscribed on a clay tablet using cuneiform script, one of the earliest systems of writing, characterized by its wedge-shaped characters. Tablet dimensions: height 11.6 cm, width 5 cm. Old Babylonian period, 1750 BC. 

The tablet was excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in modern-day Iraq in the 1920-30s. Acquired in the division of finds.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A former EA employee told me an extra problem was that the 2015 Deregulation Act gave regulators an "obligation to support economic growth", which would then be quoted by managers any time the tiny remaining cohort of enforcement officers suggested bringing proceedings against polluters.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Took this video yesterday of a squirrel having a good scratch!
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 30/08/2026
To be clear, 5 nuclear plants opened 2025 & 2026, with 5.2GW total capacity As construction began 2017-2019, they are not as a result of the announced x3 target But - since Dec 2023, world has installed: ☀️ Solar Power: ~1,230 GW 💨 Wind Power: ~280 GW 🔋 Battery Storage: ~185 GW ☢️ Nuclear: ~5 GW
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...
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The car industry didn’t see this coming
From Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What I think of as the cat superhero pose.
Photo of black cat with white paws lying sleeping with his front legs stretched out straight in front of him towards the camera. Photo of black cat with white paws lying sleeping with his front legs stretched out straight in front of him. Photo taken from above.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I also saw about this on iam8bit’s Instagram, they had their laptops stolen with 2 in development games on them (that they were demo-ing). It’s awful 😞 www.instagram.com/p/DcmGv5bneC...
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Today at gamescom we arrived to our station in the business area hall to discover that our two laptops had been stolen over night, despite the presence of Koelnmesse security.

These were machines we were using to demo iambit Presents titles Petal Runner and Escape Academy 2 to media and content creators during the show. On top of obviously disrupting our very busy appointment schedule, this theft has potentially put unfinished builds of these games at risk of being leaked.

This is hugely disappointing for us and our development teams at Nano Park Studios and Coin Crew Games who worked tirelessly to prepare for this show.

We ask that anyone who may have information about what happened to please reach out to us.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Here's a fun one! There's a facility in the UK that generates electricity by burning wood shipped across the ocean from the U.S. and Canada. They want to put a data center on-site, which would be powered by American forests Burning wood is way more polluting even than burning natural gas
bylinetimes.com
Keir Starmer's Government Allows UK's Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood
Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/08/2026
The Green Party are standing up for their right to make trans people feel safe and welcome, so we're defending them in court Get involved 👇 goodlaw.social/yndo
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Help the Greens protect trans members | Good Law Project
The Greens took action to protect trans people. Now the party is facing legal action – so we’re defending them in court
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just finished playing Theropods. Lovely feel to the game & story & gorgeous pixel art - just look at all the colours in the bark on that tree! I definitely enjoyed the game, but I did get stuck quite a few times!
Screenshot from the game Theropods, showing its pixel art. A woman with ginger hair and a small robot are standing next to a pool of water in amongst trees.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Repeatedly failed in examination for Chief Engineer (gallantly, the examiners also failed the men who scored lower than her, ie virtually everybody), Drummond finally passed when she realised Panama accepted examination by post, an error greatly reducing the chance of anybody noticing her gender.
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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just heard @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social say that "we [the UK] still consume more carbon than we have ever done—we just have the t-shirts made in China". I've heard this point being made elsewhere recently too. And it is simply not true.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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John Ossoway @ottomancer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NPC names for the next six months. 😂 youtu.be/h5Iuc3EJc1E?...
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Best Strange/Funny Names - Toast of London Original Series Edit
YouTube video by Cathode Ray Goblin
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Theropods - OUT NOW @losttoken.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
10 years in the making — we poured all our love into those pixels. Theropods is out now! store.steampowered.com/app/1091870/...
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bought Rosewater game when it first launched, but only just got around to playing it! Finished yesterday & loved it, great storyline & really connected with & got to love the characters. My rarest achievement was ‘Special Delivery’, 9.9% of players, for returning all Dr Clark’s belongings to him.
Glowing icon showing a journal and two letters. Title says Special Delivery. Description says return all of Dr. Clark’s belongings, 9.9% of players have this achievement.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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