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he/him/they/them pessimists are never disappointed #NotAllMan Fully Automated Nuclear Powered Luxury Gay Space Communism FTW high masking NT \../ Hail Satan! \../

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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another bit of the Horns Of Plenty mural
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
But Xitter - srsly?!
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
also intergenerational
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Is there a way (equivalent to threadreaderapp) of saving threads on Bluesky itself?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I’ll tell you who definitely didn’t give consent - the CHILDREN whose images were turned into pornography on the very platform you’re supporting by still posting on, Joanne! The whole “Protecting children” schtick is just such gaslighting BS! 😣 Just call it what it is: TRANSPHOBIA!!!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The cartels or other illicit drug orgs didn’t force the US to shove shit into their bodies, that guilt belongs to the billionaires, politicians, and corporations that stripped people of the resources, medical care, and housing and placed them in situations where they’d choose illegal narcotics.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
BREAKING: “We have given strident powers to ofcom..from heavy fines all the way through to banning X from our country if deemed appropriate and this government stands full behind ofcom in their ability to do this and they should do so” Secretary of State for Business and Trade Peter Kyle
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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 10/01/2026
The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
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Just Nancy @justnancy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
www.thenation.com/article/acti... Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work
thenation.com
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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Climate Crisis Info & Progressive Politics (by Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"Many expected the EU to back down on the “green tariff” rules, but the bloc has pressed ahead despite protests from China, the US, Australia and others. Chinese steel could lose its price advantage over European steel." This is how tariffs should be used. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
EU’s new ‘green tariff’ rules on high-carbon goods come into force
The ‘border adjustment mechanism’ aims to create a level playing field while also encouraging decarbonisation
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Kate Bond @littleoldlady56.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We are now at the stage where all those who knew him in the past have warned us that Nigel Farage is unfit to be PM. About the same stage as when those who knew him in the past warned us that Boris Johnson was unfit to be PM.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 04/12/2025
Actor Sam Buchanan speaks to the Big Issue about his journey with type 1 diabetes, including the shame he has felt on film and TV sets.
bigissue.com
Most people with diabetes have faced shame and judgement
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'd find it hard to put aside my distaste for a SWERF, TERF bigot MCing the event. Fortunately I'm nowhere near the venue so it's not an issue.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Really interesting SD article specifically on the East Oxford LTNs, assessing support and opposition from those who live inside and on the boundary roads. It would also be interesting to see how this now looks given the Congestion Charge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Histogram showing bimodally distributed support and opposition for LTNs.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Police arrested over 20 people protesting in Oxford against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as ‘a terrorist organisation’ The protests were part of a day of action, in what Defend our Juries describe as “the most widespread civil disobedience campaign in modern British history.”
Woman being arrested, and put in a van by four police officers. It is being filmed by a police officer. Protesters with signs supporting Palestine Action
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Bodleain steps, surely?
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Stoked to have been part of making this, and very pleased and big thanks to Roger and the Clarion for featuring it in their excellent newspaper,
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.
The march down the HighMarchersBanner 'Oxford Stand up to Racism, Refugees Welcome'
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
But non-fossil and renewable is not necessarily low carbon or sustainable: how much of that energy comes from burning whole trees from virgin old growth forests in the Americas and Eastern Europe, at Drax?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/11/2025
Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Stay tuned for: ✊ Grassroots activism campaigns 🧬 Educational resources about the science behind sex, gender identity, and gender-affirming care 📰 Summaries & commentary about major news relating to trans health, research, and politics. 🫂 Community building for trans people in the field of biomed
Logo reading "Beyond X&Y" where the X and Y are part of the trans symbol. Beneath it reads "Trans is natural. Transphobia is learned."
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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
Logo reading "Beyond X&Y" where the X and Y are part of the trans symbol. Beneath it reads "Trust the real science. Biology is nonbinary."
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
FWIW I asked ChatGPT about this; it's response tl;dr: there isn't a kill switch but doesn't need to be as US can effectively degrade/disable a customer's F35s in other ways chatgpt.com/c/68c73c23-0...
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’
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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
peace is terrorism
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Wakefield women led the fight to prevent infant blindness – pushing policy change long before the government acted. ♥️
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Wakefield women: pioneering advocates for the blind
Wakefield women led the fight to prevent infant blindness – pushing policy change long before the government acted
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I'd pass on Tesla even if Musk weren't a Nazi www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What’s a worse lie: The lie from the US that Iran is close to nuclear weapon, which US intel & the IAEA disagree with. Or the lie from the EU that Iran could avoid all this by returning to the negotiating table when they were ALREADY at the negotiating able & heading to Oman when Israel attacked?
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Juliet Brando @sliderulesyou.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Me crying at the screaming of an injured Palestinian child isn't antisemitic. Her screams aren't antisemitic. The Israeli government isn't doing Jewish atrocities. None of this is Jewish. Every Jewish person I know denounces this. I'm only a little bit Jewish, not religious, but I denounce this.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hundreds of thousands of people living in disabled households will be at risk of needing to use a food bank if the government goes ahead with its plans for benefit cuts, new research has found www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
bigissue.com
Benefit cuts will force nearly half a million people to turn to food banks
Food banks are already overwhelmed by demand for help. Disability benefit cuts will make it worse, the government has been warned.
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Planet Trans @kellibusey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
chng.it/W9TRdf75Ry
chng.it
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The world is laughing, even the island of Penguins.
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Jennifer Taylor @jtaylor27.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Oh I get it now!! 🤣
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
BREAKING: Water regulator Ofwat has fined Thames Water almost £123 million following two investigations into the company
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
a lot posted on Facebook www.facebook.com/OxfordshireP...
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Oxfordshire Play Association - OPA | Abingdon
Oxfordshire Play Association - OPA, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. 3,380 likes · 112 talking about this · 21 were here. Oxfordshire Play Association promotes and develops play opportunities for children and.....
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Oxon Play Association also do lots of other play days around the county during the summer - a handful of which are listed on their website oxonplay.org.uk but I don't know where you can find them all
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Oxon Play – Oxfordshire Play Association promotes and develops play opportunities for children and young people aged 0-19 years across Oxfordshire.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We acknowledge that many are not comfortable calling out Israel, whether its due to guilt or sycophancy, the point isn’t to attack Israel for their identity but actions & supremacist ideology. Israel is committing war crimes, land theft, and genocide. It doesn’t matter why, only that it stops.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
So in the last month, Oxfordshire's Conservative Alliance has told @theoxfordmail.bsky.social that the £44k/year additional payment to THEM is a "drop in the ocean" but the £55k/year cost of the LTNs is the reason that there's "no money left" at the County. Which is it lads?
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“I wish ministers would stop staying it brings ‘clarity’, because it doesn’t,” one MP said. “It just opens up a huge legal can of worms. And then the EHRC just put rocket boosters under the uncertainty… …There appears to be limited confidence in the organisation and its chair from some MPs”
theguardian.com
‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling
Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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johnstumbles.bsky.social @johnstumbles.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A few days ago Lidl had spuds and parsnips at 8p a bag, which was handy as I'm on a low FODMAP diet and they're one of the few things I can stlll eat!
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