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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Them: I’m in the computer science department (AI fanboy, extractive labor, lack of consent, thinks they’ve built god) Me: I’m in the computer science department (the kind of dweeb excited by the combination of a disc drive and number pad)

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026

I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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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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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thomas, again. The bar for being arrested and brought to justice is clearly very high in this country, unless you're a shoplifter or carry a Palestinian flag.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

... That doesn't look like a correctly adapted bench for Molly, right? You'd imagine a bench she could get under and a higher oven might help for wheelchair access (and maybe lower dropping chance 🫣). Though optimistically they asked her and she just didn't want anything changed! #gbbo

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't do guesswork nonsense for your week ONE technical. #gbbo

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sure, it would be nice if Spurs were ever in Squires for non 'being a nonsense club' reasons, but you do have to appreciate the description of Saturday as "a couple of late, possibly sarcastic, goals".

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Giorgio Locatelli clearly just thinks Lauren Steadman is swell. She keeps a tidy bench, she shrugs and figures out how to quenelle one-handed, she opened comp with sushi like she couldn't imagine why not. He keeps appearing in background watching her fondly, and it's very cute. #CelebrityMasterchef

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 16/09/2026

The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend legal discrimination protections to people in polyamorous relationships and people who identify as pansexual and asexual.

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Seattle makes polyamorous and asexual people a protected class

The legislation extends LGBTQ+ civil rights protections to pansexual, asexual, and polyamorous people.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m not an action person, but this is top-tier accessibility. The idea of being able to adjust based on my own capacity—which changes! Not everyone’s does, which makes one size fits all tweaks frustrating—is amazing.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If I were in that room, I would pitch that the premise should be: It's time to play the music; it's time to light the lights. Indeed, it's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m so fascinated by Ben McKenzie and his life trajectory. What a fascinating and thoughtful dude.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I needed help, I didn’t want anyone to touch me. These were two mutually exclusive states.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Broken brain helpfully responding to Sisyphean anxiety list with infinite loop of: "Well that's great, but I'm late, and I'd hate to delay her" (Buffy) "George Washington's coming home." (Hamilton) "One day more" (Les Mis) "She'll get pissed, if I'm missed, see my sister's the slayer" (Buffy again)

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My favourite painting in the Ulster Museum ❤️

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We visited Toronto this summer and were extremely charmed to discover the nearby bento place had an Irish-Chinese section on its menu. So whatever the challenges finding one in England/Italy you can for sure eat a spice bag while looking out at Lake Ontario. #CelebrityMasterchef

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Earth 2, we can't believe how good the new HBO Animorphs show looks. "They nailed the morphing," people enthuse. The nonbinary actor playing Ax's human morph is cutting it up on the Las Culturistas podcast. The actress playing Rachel has handcuffed herself to a data center

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026

"Gold-colored but struck from base metal" sounds like a sick Shakespearean burn

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

literally every day in the UK, a twenty-nine-year-old chooses not to breastfeed a baby that they actually have and are responsible for feeding and if that is none of your business -- which it fucking isn't -- then the idea that a trans man will not breastfeed a *hypothetical future baby* also is not

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

AI: When you absolutely do not want your customers to find your restaurant.

An AI map directing customers to their restaurant. Parneel Street is now a river. O'Connell St goes in the wrong direction. Parnell Square is on the wrong side of the Jervis Shopping Centre.

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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you see “dolls” in a course title and do not immediately realize that the instructor will use dolls as a lens to think about other things—gender, parenting/childhood, consumerism, etc.—then you couldn’t teach your way out of a wet paper bag and your opinions about teaching are garbage.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some people have clearly never experienced any degree of curiosity about the workings of their own mind in their life and - perhaps ironically - I simply can't relate. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Rising number of people seeking ADHD diagnosis without treatment, say experts

Psychiatrists in Channel 4 documentary argue it is more a ‘social construct’ than a medical condition

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are game shows games? Are they gross? What do you need to know to be on them? What makes one good? I got far too invested in "An Deis," an Irish-language game show that has made me very confident in how to say the word "wrong."

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If I had fuck you money and presumably a range of interesting career options open to me, I don't think I'd spend my labour enriching the woman currently threatening Amnesty International and plotting to photograph people in toilets.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

“What if it’s just a thousand-to-one chance?” said Colon agonizedly.
“What?”
“Anyone ever heard of a thousand-to-one shot coming up?”
Carrot looked up. “Don’t be daft, Sergeant,” he said. “No one ever saw a thousand-to-one chance come up. The odds against it are”—his lips moved—“millions to one.”
“Yeah. Millions,” agreed Nobby.
“So it’d only work if it’s your actual million-to-one chance,” said the sergeant.
“I suppose that’s right,” said Nobby.
“So 999,943-to-one, for example—” Colon began.
Carrot shook his head. “Wouldn’t have a hope. No one ever said, ‘It’s a 999,943-to-one chance but it might just work.’”

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As I've said since the beginning of this nightmare, transphobia is inextricable from ableism. They are the same mechanism producing the same results for the same reason. Any disabled people throwing their lot in with transphobes are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

screenshot of a times Facebook post advertising an article by Kathleen Stock (famous transphobe), titled 'Why are young women using walking sticks?' the blurb reads '"This week a video went viral of a young woman in a wheelchair at a train station, filming the laborious attempts of staff to get her chair up some stairs after the lift failed. Towards the end of the video, somewhat unexpectedly, she gets out of her chair and walks upstairs herself, saying she "had a bit of energy that day" so could do it. In another video, she films herself putting on roller skates before pushing off from her wheelchair and skating happily away, Lazarus-like. Even severely debilitating physical conditions produce good days as well as bad. On some bad days, a person may need extra help. But when a disproportionate number of young women are insisting this applies, we need to find out what is going on. Why do Gen Z females, apparently unlike every generation before them, have strangely unstable bodies that intermittently require support?""

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New essay! "This Is Not About AI" by Hana Lee! buff.ly/LU6gc80

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And then this World Cup happened. and FIFA did the Balogun thing. And the target was Belgium. and if European history teaches us anyrhing its that no European power gives a shit about Belgium until suddenly EVERYONE does. Because if you can fuck with Belgium, you might do it to any Euro power.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So Concacaf sides with Uefa. FIFA's financial power grab is done. What's funny is Infantino would probably have just about got away with this if it wasn't for the Balogun thing. As i said at the time, that scared the absolute shit out of the European FAs. So they instantly closed ranks on this.

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Statement on behalf of Concacaf and its 41 Member Associations | Concacaf

Statement on behalf of Concacaf and its 41 Member Associations

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is some small comfort, amidst it all, that at least Gianni Infantino is finally and belatedly having a really terrible day.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is genuinely baffling to me how specifically terrible AI is with maps. Côte d'Ivoire both moved inland and maybe trying to be Namibia (unclear to me whether the mystery line is pointing from/to actual country borders - doesn't look like); Cameroon presumably vanished; colour coding meaningless.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/07/2026

That's an incredibly misleading headline from the Belfast Telegraph. It didn't get any sort of 'go-ahead'. They got nothing, They even gave up the right to protest. That they are holding another event elsewhere is irrelevant.

Féile row women’s rights event gets the go-ahead a t an alternative venue
Legal proceedings now at an end after agreement reached at court
Belfast Telegraph30 Jul 2026EIMEAR MCGOVERN
A women’s rights event cancelled by Féile will now go ahead at an alternative venue, the Women’s Rights Network have said.

It’s after the group and the festival reached an agreement at Belfast’s High Court, which brings legal proceedings to an end.

Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland (WRN NI) had started legal proceedings after an event Respect, Rights and Reality was cancelled last week. It had been due to be held on August 4.

The group, which describes itself as “putting the sex-based needs of women and girls first” said Féile had “chosen to silence the voices of the very group that makes up half the population”.

In a statement, Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland (WRN NI) said it “is delighted to have reached an agreement with Féile an Phobail which brings the current legal proceedings to an end”.

Féile an Phobail said it would continue to promote events “which provide balance and inclusivity”.

Papers submitted by WRN NI to the High Court in Belfast stated the cancellation was “wrongful, null and void”.

A hearing had been set to go head in the High Court yesterday, but shortly beforehand, both parties released statements.

The group said: “The Judge congratulated the parties today, saying they both deserved credit for reaching a resolution in this difficult domain involving emotive issues.

“Féile has agreed to meet with WRN NI to explore and discuss our potential participation in future Féile events, and we warmly welcome the opportunity for continued engagement.”

They thanked their supporters and said: “Our work continues. We look forward to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) Judicial Review later this year, where WRN NI will continue advocating for women’s sex-based rights and for the safety, privacy and dignity of women and girls across Northern

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Less people live in NI & Ireland combined, than live in London. So the 5 million in Ireland have self ID with zero problems yet these dingdongs want to make out the NI <2mil population has trans stranger danger that warrants this amount of lawfare. It boggles my mind.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Channel 4 back on their 'oh, the title is just a provocation' bullshit, I see. Apparently with a side order of imported 'have we considered just blaming parents feeding their kids "UPFs" - a genuine construct! - rather than the effort of addressing chronic under diagnosis and support chasms?'

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

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