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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 22h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

A couple of years ago, I interviewed a leading attorney who represents survivors of sexual misconduct on campus, Iliana Konidaris (whose brother is the awesome 🔭 Nick Konidaris). I learned A LOT:

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How This Lawyer Confronts Sexual Assault on Campus

Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

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beforecast.bsky.social @beforecast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beforecast Episode 4 with @adapalmer.bsky.social is now live on Youtube, and everywhere you get podcasts! In this episode, we discuss why Machiavelli truly loved Florence, and refused to go anywhere else. Youtube: youtu.be/ehJRm-OzbHo RSS feed for the show: feeds.libsyn.com/622815/rss

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Why did Machiavelli love this city so much? | Beforecast Episode 4 with Ada Palmer

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quaker version of the Bobson Dugnut names list from NES MLBPA Baseball…

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coffee on keyboard moment

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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Given that AI is ideologically and technologically driven by exploitation, entitlement, theft, plagiarism, sycophancy, narcissism, a refusal to accept consequences and a baseline level of hostility towards human rights, it should surprise nobody that this extends to the industry's treatment of women

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Talk TV on migrants: 'culturally, I'm an ancient Roman; culturally, these people are barbarians' 😖 Truly grim. No one should be advertising on this toxic channel. What are IKEA thinking? Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... #migrants #mediahate #ikea #stopfundinghate

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

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Fucking Bitch Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jesus FUCKING Christ on a cracker.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

They should absolutely have to disclose AI use.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Curious coincidence: the Royal United Services Institute warns that 'malign networks' will use free speech arguments to attack the new government anti-disinformation unit at almost *exactly* the same time as as Farage issues a statement saying the unit is an "Orwellian attack on free speech."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/09/2026

It seems like the police are assuming the far-right losers are 'looking for an excuse' to do more damage and so must be given maximum space. In fact, they are turning a big dial that says 'thuggery' on it and constantly looking over at the state for the slightest sign of consequences.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

@andyburnham.bsky.social I wrote you an email about racism this morning, and here's one I wrote to Helena Dollimore on the same topic. We need action, and honesty. No more placation of the far right. No more placation of the media and rich social media barons. You have a huge majority. Use it!

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brilliant stuff. (Russ's writing; not Truss's Premiership.)

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We should start calling data centres 'SI units', just to add to the confusion.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He commits at least 3 offences right on camera. Criminal damage. Endangering life at sea. Carrying a knife in public. Possession of any offensive weapon. Etc.

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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently episode one was first broadcast on the BBC 50 years ago today. Still one of the most remarkable television dramas ever. I Claudius

Scene from opening credits of the BBC TV series I Claudius (1976)

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 22/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: We have obtained accounts from Circulo Independente LDA, a Portuguese company established by Adam Geary to run Stephen Lennon’s political operation. Was the company established overseas to avoid British company rules and, ultimately, Corporation Tax? hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...

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Tommy Robinson’s Algarve Empire: Exposing his shadowy Portuguese companies – HOPE not hate

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there...

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Maria Christou @mariacervin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Consume everything. Digest nothing" Sums up AI in two phrases. Perfection! #StopAI @olivia.science

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

It's called terrorism, and a serious government would be proscribing it as such.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If Canada is such a terrible trade partner that’s been “ripping you off for decades”… Why are you so upset to see us taking our business elsewhere? 🤭🇨🇦🇪🇺

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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