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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 26m

Whenever people say to me “what do you think about manchesterism” I try to say the same thing. Do you mean the narrative, or what Manchester did? Because they’re not the same. (Also stop sending me reports about manchesterism)

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 32m

The current situation though is an unforced error. If you sell Manchester as your entire narrative blueprint for PM, without appreciating the incoherencies in your message or reconciling the inconveniences, moments like this will bite you. And Manchester. The city quickly becomes collateral damage.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 33m

I find the way the City/Burnham stuff affects Manchester deeply frustrating. Not because the city’s future relies on City - it doesn’t. Personally I don’t think Manchester is so reliant on a particular club ownership that it won’t prosper without it.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 20m

Why are “the camps” a reprehensible threat when levied at Aaron but perfectly fine when levied at trans women?

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 2h

But he SAID that telling someone to get in the camps was okay!! Also - it’s wonderful that a mod is using his personal acct for policy while also using an AI to auto block anyone that criticizes him

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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 1h

this is useful context and also absolutely indicative of why this is a mess because the only reasonable conclusion I can draw from what's stated here is "when Aaron wants something posted and the comms team doesn't, he just posts it himself" and, like WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A COMMS TEAM FOR

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 1h

"When I have to run my posts by our comm team I never post anything" that's called a red flag Aaron maybe you should think about why

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Paul R @lbcyber.bsky.social · 1h

The bluesky team is just a clubhouse of the whiniest losers. Any actually-serious org would have fired Aaron years ago, if he could even have been hired in the first place. It's astonishing.

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Twilight Vulpine @twilightvulpine.bsky.social · 2h

I was going to say, "didn't he say if was fine to tell people to 'enjoy the camps'?" I didn't expect it to be LITERALLY THE SAME THREAD. Is "it's all fine as long as it isn't to us" literally company policy wtf???

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 48m

It's so funny that he just blocked everyone who said "enjoy the camps" to him, right after he posted saying that "enjoy the camps" doesn't break any rules, and right before he posted about how moderation news comes from his personal account, not the official one. Bluesky is a well-run website.

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sofia @sofia.meangirls.online · 9h

Wish I could see what this policy is but apparently I'm fucking blocked by an official account that announces policies!?

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 3h

oh since a BUNCH of you are blocked. this is the “conversation” i don’t understand how running it past a comms team results in not posting???? fucking hello!???

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If your direct response to our enforcing on our community guidelines to make the folks on here safer is to lash out and say that moderators should be sent to concentration camps - maybe you need to reassess your priors but you aren't making this place safer with that attitude.
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i am again going to politely entreat on you to stop posting about any policy anything without running it past your comms team.
as politely as possible, you are not actually capable of being appropriately objective, which you *should* be when talking about policy
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Yes I've tried that and we then don't post anything. See nearly any post from the safety account as an example.
Users keep demanding policy explanations daily and then make up their own random stories when there's usually an objective and repeatable process on our end (since we train mods).
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this is why, again, i do not think this information should be coming from your personal account and should be going through moderation@ with PR and comms approval. i get that you want to treat this as a small/bespoke platform but it does not function for this
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 5h

I read the news today, oh boy

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 6h

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 23h

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's what gets me about all of these abusers. Not one of them thinks to give up their platform and cease putting themselves in positions where they can have power to abuse again. It just doesn't occur to them, and if asked the response is usually "Oh you want me to STARVE?!"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 7h

My dad was a bus driver; he once got in trouble for bunking off 'sick' and showing up on the telly on the same day, in the depot canteen, in the crowd at the Headingley test match

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 15h

Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 4h

This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at:

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 4h

I don't mean to be rude but this is absolutely insane.

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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 4h

This seems far worse than writing speeches? The case that *democratic politicians* should use synthetic polling seems sketchy even if the underlying evidence for it was good (and it isn't!)

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

Setting aside that these are both odious humans, it's a good example of how the right just talk over the top of people who are proving them wrong, even when it's someone else from the right. They lie and then they shout so noone can hear them being corrected.

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 15h

The guilty verdict comes from the Man City owners and UAE "sponsors" essentially being arms of the same entity. Now that one arm gets burned the other lashes out in pain, proving the thing they say isn't true. Lol amazing

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Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 9h

The reason i wanted an 'office job' was because of how physically difficult and personally isolating farming was. Physical labour breaks your body too soon. Blue collar, trade, outdoor and craft jobs (i have the latter now) are hard physical work and they will break you, low wages or no.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 9h

Starmerism was seeing the Tories promising cold puke sandwiches, and Reform promising hot puke sandwiches, and listening to consultants who said the gap was lukewarm puke sandwiches.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 9h

This is one of the (many) reasons I believe societies should structure their tax systems to prevent people from becoming billionaires. It’s bad for society & it’s also extremely bad for them. Many of the super-rich are totally messed up because they can’t trust anyone & they’re right, they shouldn’t

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 9h

It's fogeyness, but I swear it's not *only* fogeyness. Looking at a page of links gives me a ton of meta information. I see who is in the information space. I get a sense of what kinds of ways they're in it. I get a sense of how densely populated it is. I get a sense of time and related topics.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22h

As always, I have to ask: how many plumbers, electricians, or, uh, bricklayers, does a country actually need, how quickly will a glut of them destroy the current high earnings, and what exactly is the plan for when an entire generation can't bend their knees after 40?

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 9h

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Treasury Brain.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 9h

“You're not an Ai influencer”, the sickest of burns a pope has ever received

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11h

The British class system in literature hits peak bewilderingness around 1870-1930, because you have basically modern characters. There's an early Nevil Shute novel where I swear the plot revolves around whether a young middle class man and woman can marry when one is upper-lower and one lower-upper.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But she had, in fact, warned the investigator about the gaps in their first meeting. They didn’t write it down. And then they blamed her later and used that as an excuse to keep her perpetrator on campus.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Her abuser had shared a full transcript of texts. Investigators knew what was missing and knew it wasn’t relevant to the case. But they claimed she wasn’t credible because she hadn’t explained why those texts were missing.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the age of technology, we all expect that every conversation will be recorded. But that isn’t true. A lot of records come from the recollections of someone in a position of power. And we know that investigators—including police and Title IX—severely overestimate the amount of false allegations.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is your brain full of mind vampires?

A comic all in red, depicting a man with a cut out of his brain with a vampire skulking inside of it.
Big text at the top says "is your brain full of mind vampires? you are not alone."
The vampire says "bleh! bleh! I am 2000 years old. Bleh! your only desire now is to find my amulet."
The man says "Dang, gotta find that amulet."

Further text at the bottom says "there is no cure for mind vampires but there is support and management. Know the warning signs, get help early."

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like my men like I like my Ocado grated mature cheddar

Ocado
GRATED MATURE CHEDDAR
Rich and versatile

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12h

It’s 170 years since 10,000 people in South Carolina honoured their Congressman with a public dinner. That’s nice, isn’t it? People so rarely respect politicians these days. Unfortunately, they were showing their support for him beating an abolitionist almost to death with his cane

Bizarre monument (in the form of a blue plaque on a post at a street corner), with white text which reads: PRESTON BROOKS DINNER National attention was focused here on Oct. 3, 1856, when some 10,000 people honored Preston S. Brooks, Congressman from this district, with a public dinner in vindication of his assault on Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor for a speech insulting to this state. The Preston Brooks home was five miles south on Highway 246. ERECTED BY NINETY SIX CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

Another aspect of the Cornell case and also every sexual assault case that has come up in political work I’ve done: who actually cares about D.A. win ratios? Voters don’t. They do care about whether they see a D.A. fighting for what they think is important, even if they lose

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

One thing you can say about Michael Caine is that Michael Caine is a political conservative who made 70 movies where the entire idea was to make Michael Caine money but he never did this bullshit

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15h

“This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter […] At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

Two successive governments laid themselves open to war crimes charges, beshitted their reputations and radicalised much of the populace against them because the American government demanded we assist this man’s atrocities.

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Benjamin Netanyahu tells NATALIE LISBONA:
'Britain under Burnham is like a rogue state - attacking Israel while appeasing an Islamist, leftist alliance'

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

I implore all cis people to read this.

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