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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/02/2026

The (near) future is a cloyingly named AI surveillance tool micromanaging every single thing you do www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Have it your way?

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is bigger than the UK. My nephew (30s, fisherman/farmer) talks about Zack Polanski in the same breath as Zohran Mamdani. My nephew is Irish, in Donegal! Every wants a breath of fresh air. 💚 Love to see it!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hello darkness my old friend...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 27/02/2026

“I said we were here to replace Labour and this is what replacing looks like.” Zack Polanski talking to volunteers after our stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election. join.greenparty.org.uk

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Investigative Post @ipostnews.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Breaking: IPost has obtained CCTV footage showing a Border Patrol van dropping off Nurul Shah Alam at a closed Tim Hortons last Thursday. Shah Alam, nearly-blind & unable to enter the shop, then wandered the city for days. He was found dead Tuesday. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2025

one of my evergreen tweets went something like "every techbro tripped and fell into a swimming pool full of money and decided that made them a defining genius of world history"

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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Ronan@Thedicepool @thedicepool.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

New anniversary blog post on the dice pool dot com. My guest blogger this time is my wife! She is creating a solo game about packing. The Packing Game is unique and really cool. Go read her post about it. #rpg #solo #journaling #game thedicepool.com/2025/07/27/f...

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First Anniversary Blog Post: The Packing Game

A well-packed bag can mean my day is more comfortable and enjoyable. And, let’s be honest, cuter.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

wow I asked it if it's becoming conscious this is scary

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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The IDF has intercepted and kidnapped the Madleen because they didn't want it to deliver baby formula n other things like that to Palestinians who are experiencing starvation due to the Israeli government refusing to allow aid in. That's the story no matter how you window dress it.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/06/2025

behold the "smarter-than-human" machines that'll soon be "too smart to control"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/06/2025

For eight years, Builder .ai marketed its "Natasha" AI system as a fully autonomous tool that could build software "as easily as ordering pizza." In reality, engineers in Noida and Bangalore manually coded client projects while being instructed to mimic AI-generated responses.

builder.ai

Builder.ai® - Composable Software Development Platform

Get your software applications developed easily. AI makes developing your software applications on our award-winning platform faster and more cost-effective. See how it works.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess.

The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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R. D. Kent 🍉 @rdk96.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is a cartoonish representation of oligarchic domination: a chauvinist billionaire donned in gold jewellery and smoking a cigar, celebrating a supreme court ruling that (by her own side's account) wouldn't have gone through without her extensive financial and political investments

Screenshot of a tweet by transphobic ideologue JK Rowling depicting herself celebrating the recent UK supreme court ruling on the definition of "woman"

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025

I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night. Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:

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Van Hollen Holds Media Availability at Dulles Upon Return from El Salvador

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 18/04/2025

New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers. In a statement to Sky News, the IDF said it is "conducting an inquiry into the incident, which took place in a combat zone, to uncover the truth". Read the full report here 🔗 trib.al/RwskFJX

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025

of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/04/2025

Everyday I think about the fact that iceland jailed the people responsible for their financial crisis

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 07/04/2025

Former Skadden associate: The Administration cannot pick and choose who gets representation. It cannot use executive power to scare lawyers out of advocacy. “I will not allow my fear to manifest as silence. I choose courage.”

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2025

Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials. The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

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Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials

The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“You may have already heard these, but it’s time you hear them again” - John Lithgow reading 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?...

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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

theguardian.com

‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid

Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 25/03/2025

The world is burning and people think they can fix it by inspecting genitalia. But only women’s genitalia.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This sounds like a massive scam. The US collected $100BN taxes on undocumented people who got very limited benefits, and lived in mortal fear? While also preventing them legal paths to residence… And now they stand to lose everything…

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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Hard to believe that after a decade of lost growth attributable to the imposition of austerity, the Labour government in the UK is *doubling down on austerity*, as the only way forward. UK families are thus set to be considerably worse off by 2030. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

No kidding I can’t tell when news is real or if it’s satire. Collapsed context.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What we need is a tax system that severely punishes companies for being anything more than modestly profitable

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Rewilding sees wildlife rebound in Hackney Marshes: how a local community has managed to spectacularly reverse nature loss. Communities everywhere could be doing the same, reconnecting and empowering themselves AND nature, on so many levels. www.bbc.com

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BBC Home - Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio

Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Checking the NY Times pitch bot to see headlines for “Long Live the King. Could the U.S. become a monarchy again?”

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“There’s no magical person who’s gonna take all your troubles away.” - Mum

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Calling them “wellness camps” is so 1984

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Inner life of the cell, narrated. Life is amazing — processes our bodies go every day. This animation of how the body communicates to white blood cells to start healing. 🦠 ‘We don’t consider them to be alive but they allow us to be alive’ youtu.be/dp6qRNNGPj4?...

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The Inner Life of the Cell by Harvard and HHMI narrated by Tydell

YouTube video by AP120 Dr. Tydell

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/02/2025

"When it mattered most, Long sided with cis power over trans survival" - My meeting with Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss why they backed a puberty blocker ban - open.substack.com/pub/hleehurl...

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Exclusive: Naomi Long tries to explain why Alliance backed puberty blocker ban

After a month of anticipation, I left my meeting with Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister Naomi Long feeling deeply frustrated and ultimately deflated.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It’s hard to keep up with what is happening in the U.S. , certainly the news here is lagging. Doesn’t talk about what is coming… this Executive Order 14161 seems like the Muslim Ban on steroids? And it starts next week.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hey whoops. If you’re a Severance fan and you didn’t get to see the show last night - DONT BE ON THIS APP. Scrolled for maybe 2.5 swipes and saw a ridiculous SPOILER.

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Heather @heatherether.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Tip for parsimonious product development: “Don’t worry! If it’s important - it will come back up again later when we know more.” Absolutely stop imagining scenarios that may never happen. Build something. Get evidence. We’ll meet down the road.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 12/02/2025

"This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal U.S. data and install backdoors to allow for future access." foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...

foreignpolicy.com

DOGE Is Hacking America

The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 11/02/2025

i've never actually seen Severance, but from what i've heard online, it seems to deal with the outlandish, science fiction premise of "what if you worked at Accenture?"

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Sage Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @sgrif.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just finished Severance season 1, I can't believe Apple made a documentary about working at Apple like that

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