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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust @bbowt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🦔 Have you spotted a hedgehog this year? Maybe in your garden, or perhaps dead on the road? Complete our quick survey so we can see where they’re living locally. 👉 Let us know here: buff.ly/k8Lr6Yg 📷 Tom Marshall

A hedgehog curled up in a ball on top of fallen autumnal leaves

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust @bbowt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The problem is clear - our water isn't. The UK's water system needs fundamental reform. As the UK Government develops a new Water Bill, we can take this opportunity to create a water system that works for both people and for nature. Email your MP today: buff.ly/9STWFmz

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Ask your MP to back water system reform

Our water system is a mess. And that's putting it mildly! Your MP can fix this: tell them you want new reforms, and why clean water is necessary to you and to nature.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘Swarmchaser’ researchers who hunt down AI agents have just uncovered an incident involving a Chinese model. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Chinese AI agents targeted maps website, say ‘swarmchasers’

AI researchers reveal incident involving rogue agents - and tech giant Tencent could be involved

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It might look a little quiet from out there... It isn't. 😃 The Calls for Papers, Rookies & Workshops have closed & submissions are now being reviewed. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we're busy putting #BSidesLDN2026 together, just 67 Days to go! 😬 #BusyBusyBusy #BearSides

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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HATE Mulgrew @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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heladepela.bsky.social @heladepela.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is beyond ridiculous, we're arresting a 94 year old for holding up a piece of cardboard. This needs to change, I'll be writing to my MP about this. If there is more I could do, let me know and I will try!

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO! ⏰ The #BSidesLDN2026 CFP closes at midnight TONIGHT. Still working on that submission? You’ve got time, but the clock is ticking! 🐻 🎤 Papers 🐻 Rookies 🛠️ Workshops No REST ’til Hammersmith! 🎸 bsides.london/cfp2026 #Security #BSides #London #CFP

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Researchers at Huntress have uncovered the newly formed tag-team of ChatGPT feature abuse and a ClickFix attack laying the smackdown on users searching for ChatGPT via Google. All to deliver Trojan Malware. (Me for Infosecurity Magazine) www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chatgpt...

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Attackers Combine ChatGPT Feature Abuse With ClickFix to Deliver RAT

Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress identify campaign to deliver potent trojan which targets users searching for ChatGPT via Google

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 28/09/2026

NY Times: "Israel Has Taken Over More of Gaza Despite the Cease-Fire. The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza." Life is hell for the displaced Gazans. They rely on our donations to survive. Please give to my dear friend. And to others. 🙏

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Help A Mother in Gaza Protect her Children

Hello, my name is Lucy and I've set up this campaign to rasie funds for my friend in Gaza, a mother who is relying on donations to provide for her family at the moment, and needs your help.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎤 Just 6 days left to submit your talk for #BSidesLDN2026! Got some security research, an idea or an experience worth sharing? We want to hear from you! ⏰ Our CFP closes on 30 September. No REST 'til Hammersmith! 🎸🐻 bsides.london/cfp2026

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They are saying it can end humanity mysteriously at some point in the future because they don't want anyone to focus on the less exciting damage it's doing right now. They are volunteering to self-regulate against threats that don't matter so we won't regulate them against the ones that do

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What is it actually like to face a ransomware attack? In this interview for Infosecurity, university CISO Zach Lewis told me about the toll an attack took on his team, how the org recovered & the lessons he wants others to learn from his experience... www.infosecurity-magazine.com/interviews/c...

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A CISO's Lessons in Ransomware Response and Recovery

Zach Lewis, CISO at UHSP, shares lessons from a real-world LockBit ransomware attack, covering incident response, recovery and leadership under pressure

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 14/09/2026

I am incredibly excited for this project. We take the stewardship part of maintaining these lists very seriously. Our goal is for IFIN to become a trusted source of independent, vendor-agnostic threat intelligence and defense techniques.

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Quentyn @quentyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.techradar.com/pro/expert-f... and this is why legislation is being brought in in Europe and in the UK. Whilst legislation would not stop imports from temu - it should stop local vendors from selling massively vulnerable products

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A cheap Temu device allows attackers to execute instructions remotely.

This six-antenna £3 Wi-Fi extender came with a secret password shared across every unit running its firmware

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Israel’s culture minister wants to strip film directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of their Israeli citizenship for their movie Naza, which features testimonies of IDF soldiers admitting to knowingly killing civilians in Gaza

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The #BSidesLDN2026 Call for Volunteers opens on Monday! Volunteering is a great way to get involved and helps make BSides London happen. There can be a lot to it, so we want to be very open about what volunteering involves. Still interested? Please read: bsides.london/volunteers

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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

Just so it's absolutely clear for everyone: the rate of renewable growth and the rate of fossil fuel phase-out is nowhere near high enough right now. Shrugging it all off because 'renewables are inevitable' = complacency and failure. We need to do way, way more www.wri.org/research/sta...

a screenshot of a table with many 'right direction but off track' items for climtae action

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 11/09/2026

mondediplo.com/2025/02/11bi... Posting this because I am getting back into cycling a lot and am only getting back up to date with news, but it's worth knowing that a lot of mainstream bike manufacturers are using debt bondage and slavery to improve profit margins.

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The bicycle industry’s dirty secret

Open access // by Peter Bengtsen (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2025)

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this picture is still one of my favorites from the artemis missions. it’s just so beautiful and perfectly framed.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft flies past the Moon, with part of its white exterior and solar array visible in the foreground. The Moon’s heavily cratered surface fills much of the frame, while a small blue-and-white crescent Earth appears in the distance against the blackness of space.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Daily Mail reports on the balaclava-led vigilante army visiting their offices to protest the newspaper's coverage of Daniel Thomas's background as a middle-class privately educated man jailed for armed kidnapping [the wrong person, over allegations of drug money being nicked]

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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you’re looking for things to help evidence your cyber resilience progress in your board reports this year get in touch - we provide maturity assessments along with help building crisis management teams, tabletops, full day simulations and building your playbooks with you. 🫡

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. 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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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

AI news is exhausting. Huggingface : We tried to defend ourselves, but guardrails prevented us due to "cyber". So we used a Chinese model (Gee, who could have predicted this? 😂) OpenAI: Our models are so powerful, the world isn't ready for them yet (Wink […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The asymmetry problem

When we started the log analysis, we first used frontier models behind commercial APIs. This did not work: the analysis requires submitting large volumes of real attack commands, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts, and these requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails, which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker. We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.

Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident⁠(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models. After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI models — including GPT‑5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes — while being internally tested on a benchmark⁠(opens in a new window) of cyber capabilities.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh hello, excuse me, has Monday gone yet? 📷️ Robert Sawyer

A fluffy Long-tailed Tit clings to the side of a slender tree trunk, peeking around it with its head tilted almost upside down. Its tiny black eyes and rounded face give it a curious, slightly cautious expression against a softly blurred woodland background.

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heladepela.bsky.social @heladepela.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Very pleased with this result ! I wonder how @ewacat.bsky.social got on today ?

A screenshot of the map game called Map Tap showing a very good score of 997 out of 1,000.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026

For your Saturday morning coffee reading:

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social

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