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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 02/10/2026

"And if this so grips the collective imagination, that is because we are already -- not in some other world, but in this life itself -- in a state of socio-, photo- and videosynthesis." - The Perfect Crime

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What "consciousness" and "undersdanding" ultimately amount to are philosophical questions, and I find this derision of philosophical expertise on them hypocritical at best. And I'm probably closer to Bender's position on AI consciousness.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drawing created by Paul Davidson c.1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where he was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of his surviving works & no biographical information is currently known to us

A crayon drawing of a white boy’s head with short brown hair and purple and orange rays emitting from his eyes, he is inside a square structure reminiscent of a window of theatre set with prance curtains, above a rectangle full of blue and green stars with red legs, and on either side are hands with their index fingers pointed

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest case of far-right youth radicalization, involving a 13-year-old who attacked his school in Rome, Italy. 🇮🇹 "Professor stabbed in Rome, shocking video goes online: 'Instigated by white supremacists'"

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Prof accoltellata a Roma, in rete il video shock: “Istigato dai suprematisti”

La preparazione, i coltelli, l’aggressione e il compagno che lo ferma. Le immagini girate dallo studente. Al setaccio tutte le sue chat

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨🚨Under-reported but strikingly radical #enlargement proposal from the @ec.europa.eu where the EU would offer unprecedented "gradual integration" into the EU SM and access to research programs for candidate countries, while their applications are being worked on. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

politico.eu

EU to offer single-market access to candidate countries

Economic benefits would be conditional and can be taken away if non-members backslide on democracy or share sensitive tech with unfriendly governments, the plan says.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

nytimes.com

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Duncan Buchanan @duncanbuch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here we go, another antisemitism scare story to try and taint everyone pointing out the racist evil being perpetrated by Zionist Israel and anyone opposing the genocide in Palestine. Antisemitism is wrong, opposing Zionism as racist and current state of Israel is not wrong and is not antisemitism.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 01/10/2026

For National Poetry Day, another favourite of mine and brother, Ginsberg knew what he was talking about.

Howl By Allan Ginsberg
Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine
Gotta, gotta be down, because I want it all
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
Chest now, he takes off her
Dress now, let me go
And I just can't look, it's killing me
They're taking control

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I listened to Ed Davey on the Today programme this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point. The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'10 universities reported adjusted operating deficits in 2024‑25, with the same number forecasting deficits for 2026‑27, despite an increase in SFC funding'.

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

US Ambassador to the EU has said that EU's push to favour its domestic arms industry is "alienating allies" and fragments the transatlantic defence industrial base. So the EU should therefore remain dependent on the US, which wants to destroy the EU and will not defend it if Russia attacks it.

euronews.com

US ambassador slams 'Made in Europe’ defence push as ‘self-interest'

Preference for European-made arms could disrupt the transatlantic defence industrial base and benefit Europe’s "enemies", Ambassador Andrew Puzder warns. #EuropeNews

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am a pessimist on this. Most polls do not even attempt to point out to punters that Rejoin is unlikely to mean Revert. We can't be sure of terms but we have a pretty good idea. And it'll involve 'a commitment' to the euro. A low enough bar for the Stayouts to make hay. bsky.app/profile/rola...

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 01/10/2026

On rejoining the EU Support: 55% Oppose: 34% ... but on the conditions of single currency and Schengen membership Support: 35% Oppose: 43% via YouGov, Jun 2026 britainelects.substack.com/p/is-rejoin-...

britainelects.substack.com

Is Rejoin happening anytime soon?

Ten years on from the EU referendum

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

theguardian.com

New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm ever so puzzled how - according to Allister Heath - leaving the EU was neither extreme nor mad, but rejoining it is. #Brexit

Screensjot from today's opinion piece in The Telegraph:

ALLISTER HEATH

Burnham's real plan for Britain is mad, nasty, and shockingly extreme

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday, Trump’s America dot gov site answered factual questions like “who won the 2020 election” accurately. Today, it no longer does.

Daniel Dale
@ddale8
X.com
Yesterday, asked about its chatbot's many debunkings of Trump, the White House said it "will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government."
Today...lots of accurate answers have been simply forbidden, with the chatbot framing information like who won the 2020 election as forbidden "political commentary." x.com/ddale8/status/...

Daniel Dale * @ddale8 • 20m
Yesterday: Trump administration chatbot says it's not true that Trump inherited the worst inflation in history.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions...

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Brigitte...'dissident' @brigitteatyale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is unlawful to use an 'Air Horn' to someone over the phone. So, if you use it, call it something else.

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 30/09/2026

The 2026 Right Livelihood Award goes to women and women-led organisations challenging entrenched power structures: 🏆 Jalila Haider @jalilahaider.bsky.social 🏆 Rural Women's Assembly 🏆 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association 🏆 Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app rightlivelihood.org/2026-announc...

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@ohiorivvalleyinst.bsky.social warns that data center communities could suffer from the same "economic paradox" as Appalachia’s gas-producing communities: GDP growth outstrips that of the nation but local prosperity plummets.

ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org

Why Data Centers Will Be Economic Development Duds

Data centers are highly capital intensive, non-labor intensive enterprises that create few jobs & inject little money into host communities.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

press.princeton.edu

Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.com

US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor.

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MsBlueWednesday @msbluewednesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

94 years old & in a wheelchair. You’d think they’d just turn a blind eye? Wheres the humanity, where’s the sense? How is this worse than Danny Tommo & his thugs?

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on it. She was among hundreds doing the same.

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

1. There is something going on in the burger #LinguisticLandscape of Korea. Something maximum? Something to do with meat and masculinity? Something to do with style and excess? Something interesting, regardless . . . .

A burger king poster for a maximum one pounder burger with a man gesturing to yiu

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026

i remember when i first heard about american college fraternities as a teen and was like well i must be missing something culturally there must be more there that isnt just the evil stuff but then i learned no its pretty much just the evil stuff

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JamesGecko @jamesgecko.com · 30/09/2026

We had LAN parties! And nerf wars. And rented a conference room to give very dumb speeches. And held an event to test all the things we’d been told not to microwave. And made waffles for people who had finals before the dining hall opened. It was so wholesome.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026

Pirate island's plunging population shows Greece's demographic decline Like the rest of Greece, the tiny Greek island of Thymaina is facing the effects of an ageing population. The education ministry is closing 43 nurseries and 32 primary schools this year due to low student numbers u.afp.com/S9hc

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As I wrote in September 2024, there's probably only two realistic UK-EU models, the one we have possibly strengthened in a Swiss way if we accept free movement of workers, or membership. But how to work that into a political narrative? Tricky. ecipe.org/publications...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People who’d still vote Labour are being conned. There is little to no difference between the current government and the Starmer project. It’s just better PR. Their policies and politics is still to the right of Theresa May. Labour are just neoliberals who are in love with austerity.

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Mrs. G @janbellina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The British state pension 'triple-lock' was introduced because of this (graph). Article: BBC News - Why Andy Burnham could finally drop the triple lock pension pledge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Graph from 6 years ago, showing UK pension as the lowest in NW europe

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The christofascists said they would do this in 2017. Well, we warned you that trans people were the testing ground, but you all thought, “If we throw them trans people, they’ll leave the rest of us alone.” As with the manufactured ETs against trans people, youre going to get the same against LGBs.

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