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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9h
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh THERE we go. Via @edjefferson.com - it was a spec Who script someone had used AI to animate/illustrate, so not 'AI generated' at all.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do not believe that A) a 50 mins AI ep of Doctor Who could be generated containing anything approaching a story and B) anyone would sit through it, let along describe it as 'pretty good', so I'd love to know what the real story is here.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do the stats for women! It’s 5.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Put together with Mandelson’s conduct and the revolving door with big money business interests, you’d have to say New Labour was basically an influence peddling operation for a tiny number of people that took over an entire political party.
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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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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two times Conservative British Home Secretary Suella Braverman here... X-ing away without an apparent care for the paradox
The invasion has reached Gosport- just
next door to Fareham,


Why?


Because successive governments have
made Britain a soft touch.


Only Reform UK will stop the invasion,.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia
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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Guardian Vs BBC News headlines on the same story
Far right activist slashes dinghy in Channel while rescue worker on boardMigrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enjoying this discussion about the cost of living crisis on Kuenssberg about how the unimaginably rich might be inconvenienced. Glad she steered it that way.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s Batman day, so here’s a chunk of Lorenzo Semple Jr’s peerless screenplay for the 1966 Batman movie. I love that *this* is how the world’s greatest detective does his detective work. Unbeatable.
REVISED - "BATMAN" - 4/12/66
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GORDON
x
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(gasp)
The JOKER!
O 'HARA
t all adds up to & grisly
RIDDLER RIDDLE!
•.RIDDLE-ER!
Another beat of aghastness.
GORDON
A thought str1kes me...
(choked)
So dreadful I scarcely dare give
It utterance!
BATMAN
The four of them! Their forces... combined!
ROBIN
Holy nightmare!
GORDON
Batman...
Could it be???
BATMAN
I don't know... But I think I know where to find a clue...
(snaps)
Come on, Robin! To the Batcave! we haven't one moment to lose!
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Talked loudly about how good the Worst Witch books are while walking past The Elephant Cafe in Edinburgh. #doingmypart
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026
I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this
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OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)
The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/09/2026
I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames
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I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames
I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New panic just dropped... It's "better food" for our kids apparently
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11/09/2026
Zack Polanski is standing to be the next MP for Holborn and St Pancras. 💚 He is here to fight for lower bills, affordable housing and a fairer society.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It turns out you can’t appease people who openly hate you and want to destroy everything you’ve ever worked for. More on this shocking news as we get it
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Roxana Halls, Laughing While Leaving, 2017 #womensart
Painting of two laughing white women carrying bags and a cat carrier, in the background is a burning building
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 09/09/2026
Washington journalism is in a moment of generational change. We're rising to meet it. Welcome to The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com
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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 10/09/2026
I've also just read, for example, that wearing an Apple Watch in a courtroom could be contempt of court.
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John Weston @johnweston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You fucking what
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 09/09/2026
me when I'm trying to choose a healthy breakfast
A screenshot of Prime Minister's Questions with the subtitle 'Mr Bacon, I don't need advice from you.'
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Quite. bsky.app/profile/pkan...
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interesting on BBC News at ten here, where they’ve just laid out exactly what the settlements are, why they’re illegal, graphically shown how the settlers behave, that they are terrorists, why the government is imposing sanctions and that a long list of European nations will follow suit.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?
Fr Paul @revpaulwhite • 1h
Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
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