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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.

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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If Andrew and friends chose to keep silent about what he himself said is the core, critical business of the incoming government, then what else might they have known about that they choose not to share with the public? Is this how we would expect a free press to operate.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm forever telling the Mrs that she's never seen the Hitchcock film Gaslight, which we've watched together twice. I'm not anywhere near as cute as I think I am.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Important to understand: Tom hasn’t *just recently* taken a job promoting and protecting the interests of Labour’s corporate friends, by getting his journo mates to print articles bigging up their business and shitting all over the left. That was always his job.

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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And others that I haven't mentioned. Like I feel right now as a queer woc that I have to keep dancing around the fact that the actual governments don't want my work and also the publishers don't want it cuz they're scared of the government and I'm not allowed to say that cuz it's gauche and too true

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Kit Gonzo @kitgonzo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just rewatched this episode The West Wing recently...

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James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All you have to do is write from the heart, learn the skill to convey it with meaning, and murder anyone who gets in your way.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Right through this whole debacle, the very best and most categorical I’ve heard from the lobby journos about Labour’s behaviour re: the destruction of the Gaza Strip and the horrific behaviour towards minorities was: it’s difficult, it’s tricky, it’s awkward, it’s complicated, it’s contentious.

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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have an odd feeling that in the future this moment when the government went full steam ahead on data centres, asked tech funded think tanks to effectively write legislation and acted as Big Tech's protector against the EU will be seen as a pivotal moment on the journey down an unpleasant road.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The explanation here is that Starmer is an incurious dolt, so he simply believed everything he was told about well-meaning Sensibles being persecuted by thugs and then dug his heels in, when his handlers tried to explain Forde would not understand the Labour Party’s, uh, unique situation.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026

It isn’t a coincidence that many rich countries are accelerating policies to reduce immigration at the same time we are witnessing more natural disasters supercharged by climate change.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Not long to go until spooky season, and I'll be doing my bit to contribute to those chills with my online course on WRITING GHOST STORIES this September and October! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-gh... #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #haunted #hauntings #spooky

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A four-week course exploring the essentials of writing a ghost story, taking in atmosphere, characterisation, pacing and much more!

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We are back! Please join @kitgonzo.bsky.social and myself as we take a look at one of Barker’s more unusual short stories: The New Murders In The Rue Morgue. youtu.be/1XkI9uJHsbw?...

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Clive Barker's Books of Blood: The New Murders In The Rue Morgue

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Because the last years have seen one brainless absurdity after another, the NFT craze feels longer than 5 years ago. I just checked values. The Dorsey NFT, sold in 2021 for $2.9mill, was worth $280 by 2022. From 2021-2025, sales lost 93% of their value. Now, "95% of NFT art has no value at all".

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The coda that the kid in the sham ADHD documentary *went back on medication later* and no one thought hmm, "maybe we shouldn't broadcast this" is really indicative of where we are, isn't it.

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Kit Gonzo @kitgonzo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah. I notice we're entering the 'next, they came for people with disabilities' phase...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Party with 8 MPs, falling in the polls, whose leader is likely to be posted by the standards committee, sabre rattles to cut essential services. BBC reports this as if it were a positive thing that is likely to happen

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/08/2026

Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software. youtu.be/8GWPjTDPVIM

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Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box talking NVIDIA, unprofitable AI labs, and the Greater AI Bubble

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Dr Lynne Hardy @lynneahardy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Never a truer word spoken

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Gender-critical” transphobia is not feminism. Transphobes do not represent women… 142 feminist organisations sign a manifesto in support of trans people’s human rights. gcn.ie/feminist-org...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2026

Today on Whatever, @athenascalzi.com offers a rebuttal to my "Guitar Hero" analogy for "AI" - Not because she's defending "AI" (she thinks it sucks) but because she believes I am slandering Guitar Hero. Catch up on this intergenerational clash at the link: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/w...

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Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense Of Guitar Hero

My father recently wrote a piece detailing some of his thoughts on AI, and in doing so he compared using generative AI to playing Guitar Hero. I shall not let this analogy stand. If you think I&#82…

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The older I get, the more sure I am that Britain will never have a Prime Minister who is not absolutely committed to automatically obeying Washington, keeping the right tills ringing and never, ever opening the big bulging file marked “Northern Ireland (1969-1998).”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

McGowan: The president's personal defense attorney should not be the attorney general. The man who ignored the Epstein victims and then moved Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum security prison to where she is now, should not be the attorney general. I think Cassidy is a spineless coward.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is because the great lesson of the 2010s was: politicians can mostly ignore the collapsing public realm they vandalised and stay in their important jobs, so long as everyone is willing to join in with whatever ludicrously inflammatory horseshit they are shouting into microphones this week.

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If only the quiet collapse of our universities got as much attention as Jason Arday has.
Here's @gsoh31.bsky.social's recent piece for Arguably on the "slow, grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages".
. www.arguably.uk/p/
the-quiet-...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/08/2026

Also, of course, this, still bsky.app/profile/scal...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/08/2026

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 01/08/2026

This is an indication of an insecurity

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 01/08/2026

When the free-chatbot spigot finally gets turned off and everyone has to pony up serious $$ to keep using these things, we're gonna see a LOT of addicted journalists go through a form of delirium tremens

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I would suggest that cynically indulging the bullshit and horrible behaviour of bad faith, very right wing crackpots is *precisely* how we wound up in this abysmal situation in the first place

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With current risks to/worries about politicians safety and need for cross politics approach to tackling it surely the best thing to do is just apologise for them that mistake.
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Zack Polanski says guillotine re-post was mistake but refuses to apologise

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Kit Gonzo @kitgonzo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We're now over a quarter of a million people displaced by wildfires in Europe. Fossil fuel companies continue to set the agenda for most governments. Welcome to dystopia. Welcome to the apocalypse. Capitalism isn't going to magically self correct. Climate change deniers = death cult.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

For absolutely no reason at all, I'm reminding you that Andromeda was Ethiopian. Her pappy, Cepheus? Ethiopian. Her mammy, Cassiope? Ethiopian. So, she wasn't even mixed ethnicity.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We keep acting like there's time to both sides this issue. But there's not. The AI debt crisis is beginning to unravel. We have a narrow window of time to retrieve compensation from creators before that ponzi scheme collapses. Enough talk. It's time to get back what's been stolen.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ketamine freak has completely lost what’s left of his mind because there’s a Black lady in a fictional movie.

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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Write your stories in first person. That way if the story is bad you can blame the character, not your own writing. Follow me for more writing tips.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Amazing what even a little bit of Noticing Things can achieve

YouGov has Farage at his least popular for a decade. Starting the story after June 2016 misses something significant about what 2014-16 changed
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Nigel Farage's latest net favourability rating of
-46 (21-22 July 2026) is the joint lowest figure recorded by YouGov in the ten years we have run our favourability tracker
Favourable: 22% (-3 from 12-13 July)
Unfavourable: 68% (=)
Net: -46 (-3)

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've just noticed, when I said you could request A NUMBERS GAME from Netgalley I didn't put the link up. So here you go. ASK AWAY www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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A Numbers Game

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Rupert’s papers finally exercising their veto, here. A thing they could’ve done at any point. It’s infuriating to see what these horrible organisations can do with their status, clout and resources, when they want to do it, and to then look at what they chose to spend the last ten years doing.

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Farage’s furious clash with Times editor stuns figures close to him

‘Strong confrontation’ comes at fragile moment for Reform’s relations with rightwing media as coverage turns negative

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I mean, where would I start with this one

Alastair Campbell: "No he is not. Farage, finally, is being treated as a politician rather than a cheeky chappy commentator. He got away with so much for so long he thought he could do anything for ever."
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Nigel Farage Says He Is Being Treated Like
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