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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15h

Amongst all the hideousness and inhumanity of Jenrick’s ‘let’s shoot migrants’ policy, there’s the idea that if they know they might be shot they will stop crossing. Newsflash: they already know they’re risking their lives.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 14h

I suspect it may be an attempt to challenge expectations that an encyclopedia focused on women and marginalised groups shouldn't have that gravitas and authority associated with Latin, or something like that.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 14h

Toksvig is a humanist, so I wouldn't say she's doing it specifically for Christian connotations. Other connotations, I'd certainly hope not. But then I'm biased, my instinct is to enjoy all languages rather than see any as *inherently* problematic.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know, I don't think there's a language that ticks all boxes of neutrality, widespread familiarity, lack of problematic historical baggage, euphony and memorability. Wikipedia mixing Hawaiian and Greek was maybe a good compromise.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 15h

😂 In which language?

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 15h

I suppose "rival" may be better and making headlines and gaining traction though - I just hope that's not how it ends up working in practice.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not a fan of the zero-sum "rival" framing. Wikipedia certainly has its blind spots - but to my mind it represents the best of human co-operation. Its epistemic rigour contributed to my deconstruction from evangelicalism when younger. Might Mappa Mundi not instead be a corrective supplement?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Okay, so Reform is now actively advocating for the armed forces to murder unarmed civilians as official policy. At what point does the media at large stop treating these people as anything but fascistic far right thugs who under any normal functioning system would be condemned as extremists.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026

Finally realised what tech companies insisting 'you need to suffer some hurt right now to enjoy a glorious future' reminded me of

Tech CEO speaking on stage about AI, gesturing with a small remote while colorful, scattered light points form a network-like pattern behind him, illustrating an interview about accepting some risks for the benefits of artificial intelligence.

Interview excerpt with two highlighted passages: a red highlight likening A.I. to surgery—"they've got to hurt you first...to save you"—and an orange highlight stating "over the next several years we have to unfortunately use fossil fuels" before transitioning to sustainable energy.

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make" — Lord Farquaad smirking between two armored knights, a meme mocking callous leadership.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Gadget Revieu_

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EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
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Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yet again, Labour showing itself to be the single most racist and hostile anti-asylum government in living memory. It can take decades, if ever, for refugees to be safe returning to countries they fled, and that's when those countries are stable which Syria is not www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This line of thought seems to imply that 1. Recent successes were achieved only because of Polanski 2. Every other Green is incapable of similar success as leader 3. Successful leaders shouldn't be challenged even to fix serious moral flaws in party All of which I'd question.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10/10/2026

This may seem like a petty grudge match, these sanctions on the International Criminal Court on using US banking, technology, and currency resources… … but they absolutely are not. Buckle in for why we should all be concerned 🧵

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New sorrows strike heaven on the face:

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

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184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This at least is nice to see:

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And to facilitate this I think Polanski needs to step down as leader sooner rather than later.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hope this loss prompts Greens to carefully but firmly course-correct and drive out the cranks, and do so in good time for the next general election.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is half the story imo - he absolutely has a darker and more authoritarian side across the NT that can also be cherry picked. But ostensible inerrantists can't admit to cherry picking. bsky.app/profile/joeh...

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tried to be suitably presentable for a hearing today. Weather gods had other ideas...

Me in suit and coat at train station, drenched.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At any rate I won't be doing any more canvassing in Holborn and St Pancras. The UK desperately needs a party that can put pressure on Labour to move the Overton Window towards egalitarianism, but in order for that to work that party has to itself be egalitarian.

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Myr @radiatzim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’d believe this if the amendment that says this had actually passed

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Definitely predates the union jack though!

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorely tempted to quit pronto over this, however should probably first investigate the possibility of getting involved in some movement to wrest the party back from these cranks without having to pick some other poison (terfs, plutocracy, etc) in order to do so.

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of all the biblical claims they could attempt to prove in order to win people over they go for the one about God massacring almost everyone?

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Latvian politics is really complex, but the international media is only interested in whether parties are pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia, which does make it somewhat easier.

apnews.com

Pro-Ukraine governing coalition wins 35% in Latvian election

Latvian lawmakers plan to start negotiations to form a new government after a parliamentary election.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 02/10/2026

“a “both sides” diagnosis obscures the asymmetry between a faction seeking to reverse social progress and those resisting it. Polarization is this less the disease than democracy’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic mvmt.” @lilymasonphd.bsky.social Yes. This is a prob in science too.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s not the right way to think about it. Putting a Brit label on it but doing the same things that Palantir does is still wrong. We need a rethink of *what* as well as *who*.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remarkable that the Telegraph is not screaming this morning about Burnham's pledge of a closer/rejoining EU relationship because Brexit has failed.

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...

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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.

We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds

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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions The advice to people concerned about this very thing was once "Well, if you don't like it, don't use it," writes Amber Neely. "But that doesn't protect you anymore. Muse can get access to your information via people who do use it."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/09/2026

‘“Hard borders” are a creation of the modern age. Until the late 19th century, borders almost everywhere were more or less open, often fuzzy or undecided.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This tyrant whose sole fucking name blisters our tongues...

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For more or less the 763,109,456th time: you can only think that "the West created Vladimir Putin" if you essentially do not give a shit about any Russian history /up to/ 1989

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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gabriel is keeping quiet about the impending family bust-up of Mark 3:21 & 31-35 - it's apt that something would seem off to her!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

omg. i love this version so much

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the most acceptable form of magical thinking in politics - believing things that are both untrue and unpleasant as justification for “tough but necessary” action which will achieve nothing and harm many.

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Scare Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

an absolute rainbow of wonderful Facial Expressions

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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