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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. —George Orwell, "1984"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also really puts pay to Trump’s ‘we were monitoring these guys for ages’ line and is example #981 of British journalists need to stop taking what he says about these types of things seriously.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still sort of struggling to believe that amidst everything else going on, Andy Burnham popped up this week to say we should bring back drinking in stands at football.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

there is a lot of AI slop going on in this photo. more than i noticed when i posted it.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This thread is my Odyssey

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Patrick Reid @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Will always remember our school assembly on Rememberance Day. When they got some poor year 8-9 kid to play the Last Post on the Bugle, from off stage. Clearly putting his heart and soul into it as halfway through music stopped and we heard a thud and a clang as he passed out.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The SRA may appeal - I can't comment on prospects because it's not my area. but the Government shouldn't run the risk of having the solicitors' regulator unable to regulate the profession properly. The Government should change the law.

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Lisa Jaffe @wordywoman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That someone thinks there is a market for this and has found funders that agree should be the top line story. "Men spike so many drinks that a start up for an alert found quick funding"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

They're on a continuum with other hacking tools that have been steadily demonstrating the fragility of the modern digital world, albeit without inspiring anyone in power to *do* anything about it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Riley had a very good way of summarizing this: "LLMs are real, AI is fake." LLMs - chatbots trained on things like CTF logs that can break into servers - are real.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

that's even true if you're just being narrowminded about electoral politics. people being selfish and antisocial in public directly impacts views of what the role of the state ought to be [i attest]. "we should all be dickheads" is only going to help the "we're all dickheads" party

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we need an army on lifestyle influencers who say stuff like “hey chat you gotta turn your phone off at the cinema, say thank you to waiting staff, take your glasses back to the bar too if poss“

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“I’m not the only one” how many people are tracking this woman’s son

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Designing autonomous, malicious software is generally considered irresponsible and dangerous.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

They did what they were designed to do, and because OpenAI ran them with inadequate supervision (without a "human in the loop" that checked each iteration through the Python loop to ensure it hadn't gone off the rails), they trashed a competitor's servers.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I may have posted before this excellent short video discussing Mar-a-Lago face from an anthropological point of view. It’s so good. I want to quote almost every line. Subtitles are on if you don’t like sound m.youtube.com/shorts/A-1Kf...

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Mar-a-Lago Face #makeup #anthropology #beauty #psychology #womenempowerment #culture

YouTube video by AnthroDorphins

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am against retrospective legislation, but Labour's plan to cap political donations from non-resident Brits was announced 25 March, effective immediately questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Return of the Prodigal Son — Nataliya Bagatskaya, 2025 Acrylic on canvas www.artsper.com/us/contempor...

Painting of a woman walking toward a White House under a crescent moon with a flustered black cat over her shoulder.
there are there are a couple more black cats on top on top of the house

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, it is Day 7 of the Be Specific Challenge, where I beg any reporter talking to these tech CEOs about how, exactly, AI is going to make us extinct in a year. If they dreamscape 50 hypotheticals, ask them to be specific, because they are doing a creative writing exercise for money, not policy.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The people running these companies believe that climate change could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a fringe worry. Publicly, many executives soften their language to sound reasonable, but privately, the fear is real. No other industry poses this level of danger to civilization.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Do not underestimate the scale of this climate crisis. We are watching feedback loops accelerate, ice sheet collapse, ocean heat content, methane release, that could lock in irreversible warming. We have all witnessed the data, and it is not slowing down.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart #September

Photo of twelve different and colourful toadstools and mushrooms created from crochet against a black background

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Since most people today shop online, these items arrive to you through the same process that you receive junk mail and self-heating coffee mugs. There's no real experience at all. Yet, luxury prices climb up every year without any innovation in either product or presentation.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're even having to have an argument over whether your passenger was truly 'sucked out of the window', you've perhaps not provided perfect service as an airline.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

We forget that things used to be better, and we forget how things were made better, and we forget how they got worse. Like vaccines, antitrust worked *too* well.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

Sure, a monopoly can reduce prices - but as soon as it eliminates its competitors and captures its government, it's going to raise those prices, safe in the knowledge that a company that's too big to fail is too big to jail: pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/t...

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Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If MI5 and SO15 were aware of the operation being planned, then they clearly either chose not to inform Kent Police and withheld vital operational information needed for adequate policing.* OR If they were unaware, which indicates a massive intelligence failure, undermining UK national security.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More seriously, I do think it’s unappreciated how far Reform are not just an even more racist and corrupt version of the two main parties, but a force specifically aiming to overthrow what passes for our liberal democracy

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"We will take action if we have reason to suspect the political finance laws have been broken" "The laws can *also* be enforced by the police and some offences can only be investigated by the police. If we identify one of those offences, *we* can notify the police.

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