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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

y'all... 🤭😭

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The quotes in this piece .... from internal Microsoft documents. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These people were never going to limit their hatred to trans people and Muslims

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Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"...I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." G. M. Gilbert (Nuremberg trials)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

blog.google

Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth

Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK PM." @financialtimes.com www.instagram.com/reels/DZnQRx... Is New Zealand as vulnerable? Yes. Do policymakers know this? No. Are safeguards sufficient? No. #nzpol

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

The most jacked up pile of yarn barf you've ever seen in your life. It looks like pastel ramen noodles

Several replies from volunteers who want to help

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 11/05/2026

Ah yes... all those AI artists taking their lives because their work is being called AI slop... countless...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Good luck with AI without humanities, UK.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Artist whose work was stolen for AI content has her works taken down by #youtube for copyright violations against the plagiarised versions, so no longer can make money off the source music she produced. #aiethics #digitalGovernance #platformRegulation #dsa #llm #genai cc @jeffdean.bsky.social

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

i stand by this statement every year

tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...”

ME: “Yes”

GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...”

ME: “YES”

GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online”

ME: “I’m out”

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/10/2025

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Kvarckendahl @kvarckendahl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I will never forget when, in therapy during a severe burnout, the psychologist emphasised the need to make me 'more resilient'. There was a hurricane inside my head, screaming "WHY THE HELL DO I NEED TO BE MORE RESILIENT WORKING 90-HOUR WEEKS?! THIS IS INSANE!" Years later, I'm still not okay.

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Kvarckendahl @kvarckendahl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

'The message is not “I believe” but “look what I dared to do”. Violence is no longer a means to an end, it has become the end itself.'

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

thank god for the three strong and independent branches of government 🙏

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

id be worried if theyd been banning books the last few years, throwing aside vaccines for survival of the fittest and/or talking about government sponsored murder of the destitute

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

if we want to talk about why so much outright inhumanit and evil has been totally normalized we could start with how much online platforms actively reward hostile and antisocial behavior with money and attention

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

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Frenchie McFrightface @frenchie.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025

In 2014, French weather program presented what would be the temp in August 2050 ( so peak heat). Below, the 2050 one and the Juillet 2025.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Even linkedin gets it

Mark Butcher

1) Sandra used AI to write a report
2) Bill used AI to summarise the report
3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report
4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions
5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report
6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation
7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared

No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers.

No business value was achieved

But but but AI adds business value

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

amazing q&a with paul krugman

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...

pressgazette.co.uk

Journalists are adding extra checks to keep ahead of the fake experts

Fake experts and SEO: How journalists must adopt new checks to keep one step ahead of AI-generated responses provided by fake experts.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy

How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL: The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening. On the other side of me was my son Tim he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.

JEFF GOLDBLUM: I love that story, Sam. I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The GOP trifecta may ban states from regulating stuff like this for the next 10 years — if they push the reconciliation bill through.

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Ale @alepresser.com · 16/05/2025

Y'all, it's REALLY close and the deadline is TODAY! If you're an EU citizen, please sign and share this petition to ban conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union!! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

A screenshot from the petition website showing the numbers: "Signatures collected online
942,348 of 1,000,000.
End of the collection period: 17-May-2025"

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered

book with the title "what's cooking potatoes"

food storage item called "stay fresh cheese bags"

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Canadian Association of University Teachers recommends that academics travel to the US "only if essential and necessary", and to be careful about what information we have on our electronic devices, especially if you fit into a fairly wide set of categories. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Text of CAUT advice:

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.

In addition, CAUT recommends that academics who fall into the following categories exercise particular caution:

Citizens or residents of a country identified in media reports as likely to be subject to a travel ban
Citizens or residents of a country where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S.
Travellers with passport stamps evidencing recent travel to countries that may be subject to a travel ban or where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S.
Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies
Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration
Travellers who identify as transgender or whose travel documents indicate a sex other than their sex assigned at birth
Academics should carefully consider what information they have, or need to have, on their electronic devices when crossing borders and take actions to protect sensitive information where necessary.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is some deeply unethical shit. Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries. Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs? To find accurate info? To their political beliefs? No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...

blog.google

Our experiment on the value of European news content

We launched an experiment measuring the value of European news results for Google which showed that European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenu…

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My lecture on Information Disorder and what to do about it will be livestreamed here tonight at 5:30pm CET www.youtube.com/watch?v=d051...

youtube.com

Information Disorder - Public Lecture by Eliot Higgins

YouTube video by Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

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Dr Charles Smith @smith-brocca.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
Replying to @janky jane
I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
Replying to @janky_jane
Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright
@dufflest
Replying to @janky jane
I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
@L20_MTN
Replying to @janky_jane
I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.

Austrian Airlines' farewell to the Twitter.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Apropos of nothing, here are some of the actual jobs Hitler's top guys had before he put them in charge of Germany: Von Ribbentrop - wine salesman. Added the 'von' to his name cos he wanted to be an aristocrat Goebbels: Bank clerk Himmler: Chicken farmer/ manure processing plant worker 1/2

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

this thread tho

i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.

daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.

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