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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1h

Yeah, Phillips is one of the worst monsters in music history, which is saying something. Thankfully for my mental health his evil stuff happened long after his relevance to music, so I didn't have to tell the story and could just say "there's some horrible shit. You don't want to know."

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 1h

Palantir’s Tom Watson hasn’t missed an opportunity to fearmonger about “highly organised pressure groups” affecting public interest procurement. We’d say firms like Peter Mandelson’s Global Counsel, who lobbied the government on Palantir’s behalf, are a bigger risk 👀 bit.ly/3VALODg

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Palantir and Sadiq Khan drop legal battle over Met contract

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 4h

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

Thai is presented as a “finding” rather than an escalation of invasion . Her argument doesn’t lean o. The Pangram scan , It leans on the embedded perception that Black writers are unqualified … and Pangram is the tool to finally prove that

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 1h

same dude who literally hit a student with his car and ran over another's foot earlier this spring lol, resulting in the latter student being banned from campus... sensing a trend here!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3h

personally i think it's really great that the shop owner defended himself from the charge of being weirdly hostile and condescending to someone asking whether an item with a price tag is for sale by being weirdly hostile, condescending and evasive to a reporter asking whether the item is for sale

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 5h

It is not possible to use a machine which relies on plagiarism; ongoing, and unending, in any way which can be said to protect/support human artists.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

What else is the boss of Heathrow going to say?????

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 7h

Ed Davey is fighting on as Lib Dem leader after a rumoured challenge fell flat and last night’s meeting with MPs went largely without any conflict But “watch this space”, said one MP Some Lib Dems think a move against him has been delayed, not defeated for good

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 8h

It's dynamic so if someone comes off the list they become unblocked

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 8h

Of course the problem is when some random person sets up a list, it gets popular, then abandons it, leaving things frozen in aspic

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 8h

Tbh I find these lists useful, and I subscribe to them, but I use them as a labeller, not as a blocklist, because otherwise you're treating them as infallible, which they're not, rather than an advisory.

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William Barter @wjbarter.bsky.social · 10h

And, as @fitzparticle.bsky.social points out, this seems to run foul of one of UKRI's guiding principles - the Haldane Principle - that the people closest to research, and not the government, make decisions over what is funded.

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William Barter @wjbarter.bsky.social · 10h

For almost a year we have been told about the UK government's record investment in science with large amounts set aside for fundamental, PI-led research. It's been extremely difficult to square this with the cuts UKRI have chosen to make to Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Nuclear research.

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William Barter @wjbarter.bsky.social · 10h

This morning a crucial piece of the puzzle has been revealed - at a crucial meeting at the end of 2025 UKRI undertook the targeted defunding of fundamental research in order to redirect investment to government priorities. Suddenly a lot of the decisions over the last year begin to make sense.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19h

@ippr.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, 4 retweets and 3 likes in 11 hours!

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19h

@resolutionfoundation.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, here recording 0 likes and 0 retweets in 7 hours.

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 9h

bsky.app/profile/asuk... Don't know if you can even see this post, depending on how the blocklist works

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 9h

This is now common in various countries at this late stage of mainstreaming of far-right politics For centrists, the threat is no longer the far right which is treated with respect, as a reasonable contender for power The threats are the very extreme right and anything left of centre

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 9h

OddThisDay is, for some reason, on a transphobia blocklist. As in account is flagged as being a transphobe, but the list owner apparently has a hair trigger given the number of trans allies I see on it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot

Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 9h

Nigel Farage is in no position to be dictating anything to anyone about racist, and shame on the former Labour minister who said this, what an absolute disgrace.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 20h

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19h

My god can you imagine if a British Prime Minister managed to speak with this kind of moral clarity?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
“I tried to live a good life. Does that help?”
THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Classic Linux experience. Searched an update error i was getting and first two results: 1) A 36-page thread of dudes linuxsplaining at each other and angry when OP says "okay, but what do i DO" 2) a reddit post that says "just run 'remove orphans' under apps/tweaks it'll fix that" reader, 2) works

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A really good example of this is how few posts I've been connecting events at Cornell with the women's campus protests going on in India about wide-spread sexual assault. There's no question there would have been mass solidarity between the two movements on ~2016 Twitter.

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland

The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don’t think there’s any fixing that kind of deformation professionelle, myself. If the best-paid people believe their job is to repeat what they’re told then move on to Match Of The Day coverage, and anyone saying Wait, What Is Going On Here? is greeted with hostility… that will perpetuate itself.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But by 2015 we had a top-tier of people who would listen to the repugnant little fash crank Michael Gove brandishing a hoax letter about Muslim conspirators waging secret war on high schools, say “Thank you sir, how scary” then simply repeat what he had said on TV, radio and in front pages.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"companies don't REALLY care about queer people when they do pride marketing!" No shit. I also don't think they market during Christmas to spread the good news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but it still indicates something about the cultural power of Christianity that they do

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh FFS!! Stop regurgitating press releases from AI companies and taking their claims as gospel!! Validate their claims! Yes IoT devices are insecure but can they run an AI model? Probably no. Do they retain persistence? No. Will criminals use AI models over current scripts, e.g. Mirai? No.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can’t show “Protect The Dolls” on BBC but you can make a fluff propaganda film supporting the world’s greatest transphobe, its impartial cause we can all agree trans people are subhuman scum obviously

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I watched Continuity Remain line up for Starmer 2020-24 even as McSweeney was making MPs mouths say “Absolutely fuck you FBPE, you losers get nothing 🖕🖕🖕” and those guys were *still* saying it was just a smart ruse to fool the stupid voters. By which they did not mean “Us, the people who are fooled”

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 13/10/2026

Oh. Well this seems bad.

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

20% of the population of the new council live in what was Middlesex and they feel pretty passionately that they're not Surrey. A name change would have cost nothing and would have recognised them without removing recognition for anyone else. Seemed sensible to me.

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Rebecca Gellman 🩷💛💙 - Dignity & Respect stolen by UK Government. @starfleet-net.co.uk · 13/10/2026

At some point we need to stop classifying people like Charlie Downes as "people with legitimate concerns" and correctly refer to them as "campaigners for Aryan Britain".

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I want you to think about a two year prison sentence for a moment. Frankly, think about a two minute or two day sentence. But two years. Think about how it would wreck your life, your job, your home. This is not the ‘easy’ end of criminal allegations. This is serious stuff.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hey. Labour MPs. And other MPs, too. Are you on your way to the Commons for the Courts and Tribunals Bill? Grab a coffee. Come over here. And pay attention. 👇🏼

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13/10/2026

The boss of the French supermarket chain should be really REALLY concerned about the fact that the freezers were running on software that hadn't been patched since the dawn of time. tbh it's a bloody miracle they hadn't been taken down before.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wheee, another fun spin on the “Drax, PWC and BAE Systems shoving money at Labour conference shows the party is Serious and Ready to Govern/Oh no, it’s all crooked as fuck now” merry go round. Faster, faster! Woohoo

Standards watchdog warns Burnham of growing concern that wealthy donors exercising 'undue influence' on politics -

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

UK politics will never not be astonishingly cheap

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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The guardians of time on Earth meet near Paris starting today for talks including on whether to extend their ambit to the Moon and beyond. They will also consider how to deal with the conundrum of the "leap second" used to adjust the world's clocks to astronomical time. www.ft.com/content/ae38...

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The collective global duty to safeguard time

World powers need to agree on standardisation crucial for infrastructure and space travel

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

give me a j. give me a k. give me a rowl...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is with the big thumbs pushed hard on the scales for a return to two main parties. It’ll get squeezed in an election, but here is how it is.

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