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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 12h

his book is open access - download it! #philsci.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 12h

I just recorded a great episode of Conversations at the Center, the podcast of the @center4philsci.bsky.social with my colleague Jon Fuller. Epidemiology, lab banches, Claude Bernard, personalized medicine, metascience, medical skepticism, and more, in this episode to be released in 3 weeks.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

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Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Brilliant to meet with Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics. We discussed monetary and fiscal policy, bond markets, the climate crisis and global wealth taxes. Also recorded a podcast for @boldpolitics.bsky.social - out soon!

Thomas and Zack sat on the steps of the Paris school of economics

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h

Former special counsel Jack Smith: “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.”

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 12h

Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 8h

Yep... "Those vehicles have been subject to extensive examination, with the support of military assets and forensic experts, and we can confirm that no improvised explosive devices were found. However, a quantity of petrol was recovered." — Laurence Taylor, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing

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Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile

ALT: Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 8h

It feels as if the words “Sudan” “Darfur” ”humanitarian catastrophe” and “unspeakable acts of violence” have been regularly scattered thro’ my entire life. And here we are again samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Apologies to the neighbours. I will stop laughing at some point.

Jenrick X

When I revealed terrorists were using the
small boats to enter the UK, the Home
Office - with the support of Yvette Cooper
- threatened me.

They sought to cover up a national security
emergency.

We may now be seeing the consequences
of their unforgivable complacency,

Farage X
How is it that Danny Tommo sits in a cell
while five suspected terrorists are out on
bail?

Is this two-tier Britain, or am I missing
something?

RAF base terror suspects are "British
nationals". So were most of the 7/7
terrorists, the murderers of Lee Rigby &
many more

Citizenship is not the same thing as
belonging. And belonging requires more
than a piece of paper.

We should redefine what it means to be
British.

Bbc
No explosive devices were found in three
vans searched near RAF Fairford as part of a
terrorism investigation but a quantity of
petrol was recovered, police have said.

Five British nationals were arrested in the
early hours of Sunday morning after a
resident living near the Gloucestershire
airbase reported suspicious activity
involving three vans.

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 8h

Peter Beinart has been on quite a journey to reach this point (in 2021). Some heavy detail on Nakba atrocities here. #Zionism has not changed. jewishcurrents.org/teshuvah-a-j...

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Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return

Given our history, how can Jews deny another people the right to return to their homeland?

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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 12h

The announcement comes as heavily indebted Thames Water remains under a creditor-led rescue plan. Shares in Severn Trent, Pennon and United Utilities fell following Burnham's announcement.

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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 12h

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has announced plans to REPEAL the legal barrier preventing water companies from being brought into public ownership. The PM says Labour's strengthened Water Bill will begin a 10-year transformation of the industry and allow greater public control.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 12h

It's Tuesday, and you're wondering: "Why should I care about eels?" Well...in addition to being great fodder for memes, eels are super-important to stream ecologies! Historically, eels have made up as much as 50% of the total fish biomass in lower reaches of US & European rivers. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Picture of an eel underwater. The picture is taken from the side, so you can only see one of the eel's blue-tinged eyes, fixed on you like the red-rimmed Eye of Sauron (if Sauron were a happy fish). The eel (we'll call him Kryztaphix) seems like he is peeking out from a hole in the rocks. There are stones in the water behind him, one of which seems like a lovely speckled granite. Kryztaphix is a dark grey on top, and a shiny silver below. He is likely stopping to say hi on his way to sea.

Kryztaphix has a kindly smile on his face, and you feel comfortable in his presence. It's the sort of look that makes you want to spill out your whole life story, including that one time in middle school. You know the one. Kryztaphix won't judge you. He seen worse. Hell...he's done worse. And he will take your secrets to his Sargasso grave. You really couldn't ask for more.

Meme text reads:
"Half your streams
are belong to us."

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14h

“People who work in universities are feeling absolutely betrayed by being dragged into this conversation as if their contribution is not recognised.” Migrant staff put down roots, build lives and make an enormous contribution to our universities and communities.

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can see one full rotation then my brain breaks

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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 19h

I do have to wonder all the news attention to Google’s updated satellite images: didn’t we know all that all along? I mean — didn’t all those *journalists* see the pictures and other million satellite images about levelled #Gaza? What’s the real story here? ”Its only real when its on Google?”

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 14h

We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...

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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14h

See below: bsky.app/profile/wear...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14h

💢 Israeli attacks killed a pregnant woman & at least 1 other Palestinian, & wounded others, including children, across Gaza from Mon. into early Tue., as attacks continued despite the ceasefire. ➤ Amal Khaled al-Ajla was killed & her husband critically wounded when Israeli forces shelled their...

💢 Israeli attacks killed a pregnant woman and at least one other Palestinian, and wounded others, including children, across Gaza from Monday into early Tuesday, as attacks continued despite the ceasefire.

➤ Amal Khaled al-Ajla was killed and her husband critically wounded when Israeli forces shelled their home on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City around midday Monday, Shehab News reported. Local accounts said she was pregnant.

➤ An Israeli drone struck near the desalination room at Al-Sawarha School, west of Camp 2 and south of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, wounding several people, according to Shehab.

➤ At around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in Gaza City's Al-Nasr neighborhood and set it on fire. Palestinian journalists reported that at least one person was killed, with remains recovered in pieces. Others were wounded, including children taken to al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Gaza's Health Ministry said Monday morning that Israeli attacks had killed 1,421 Palestinians and wounded 4,983 since the ceasefire began. It said 74,022 had been killed and 175,980 wounded since October 2023. Those figures don't include the deaths later Monday or overnight.

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🚨Breaking | One Palestinian has been martyred and several others injured, including children, in an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 15h

The previous labour government kicked me off the dole when I was young, I didn't know I was disabled, I was incapable of working. These days I work. Took 20 years to get the Scottish PIP equivalent I should have had the entire time. I'll hate this party til the day they finally kill me.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17h

Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19h

Farage again proves he's as trustworthy as the Brexit benefits he promised ... 'Nigel Farage posted a video claiming the RAF Fairford plot proves [his] point "on Iran and the IRGC", just moments before the government confirmed the five suspects were British nationals' via We Demand UK

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 18h

WHOOOP!!!!! This is VERY welcome news - PM will announce a process to introduce PR for Westminster elections: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15h

Here is a sample of Denby's economic expertise: "Bond markets... don't believe in Britain, they think we are too much of a risk, because of our out-of-control spending and our out-of-control taxes and all of those things." I hope the Nobel Economics Prize Committee is paying attention.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16h

Why is this CAROUSEL OF NOBODIES constantly platformed by our state broadcaster? This woman was reviewing restaurants and books until recently - then she lands a spell with the Centre for Policy Studies and - hey presto! - she works for City AM and is on the BBC as some sort of expert on economics.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16h

Alys Denby, spouting utter guff with huge confidence on Politics Live, like "bringing the review forward by a year is just kicking the can further down the road" and "if you bump into the Laffer curve you get no tax revenue at all", has no economic training I can find, except from Tufton Street.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In defence of HowTheLightsGetIn Hay 2026, they may have a gender fascist (Stock) that's championed maybe the one person you can legally call a Nazi in the UK (Nina Power) and a red-brown crank (Zizek) as headliners, but at least it's not last year's headliner, the outright fascist Curtis Yarvin

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here’s a primer bsky.app/profile/nate...

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I get that for some philosophers, it must be a fun time, twice a year, every single year to wait for Lionel Shriver to exit the stage and do a wine and cheese tasting or whisky tasting and say you’re doing public philosophy of sensation, while up next in the wings is Curtis Yarvin or whatever

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every year HowTheLightsGetIn, the biggest (nominally) philosophy conference in the world, takes place, and I wonder why certain UK academic philosophers continue to speak there, because I keep screaming at them that they’re participating in a decades-long right-wing extremist laundering operation

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15h

It is pretty funny that the theme of this year's Labour conference is "ANDY'S GIVEN US HOPE AGAIN", considering thst the theme of last year's was "SHUT THE FUCK UP ANDY FOR FUCK'S SAKE'

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 18h

Found the best Labour Conference protestor.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 18h

The landmark International Exhibition of Persian Art which took place in the Royal Academy in 1931 is largely forgotten. In a new blog, Parnian Ferdossi reveals what was in the show and how it relates to the unique collection & mission of the #Warburg. Learn more ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Image: 'Rustam kills the dragon', folio from a Shahnama, Qazvin, 1576 to 1577. Toronto, Aga Khan Museum. Credit: The Warburg Institute Photographic Collection, London.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

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Breaking Free

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when someone last tried to make Israeli soccer hooligans suffer the consequences of their actions, a UK chief constable was forced to resign. Best to keep the head down.

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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 17h

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 17h

Holland, France, Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Yugoslavia, the list goes on. Almost every European country played Germany in those years. And countries from all over the world competed at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. These lads are about as good at slurs as they are at football.

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 18h

Stuff doing the rounds about Ireland playing Germany in 1936 indicating anti-semitism on our part. Everyone played Germany then. In 1937 Sweden, Estonia and Finland in world cup qualifying. And in 1938 England not only played them in Berlin but gave the Nazi salute beforehand. Fuck off IDF fans.

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 17h

British media caught pants down #Jobbie

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Coliboo @coliboo999.bsky.social · 19h

It’s no longer journalism, it’s rabid speculation and click bait headlines. Shameful and only worthy of the red tops!

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Stevie @officialstehee.bsky.social · 21h

BBC desperately trying to make up a plot by claiming the 5 may have acting as proxies. Absolutely pathetic.

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