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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been a very busy and very interesting week at #EASD2026 - and thrilled to discover a negroni bar outside the congress centre. Perfect after a long busy day and a warm night!

Lynda (woman, long dark red hair) sitting outside congress centre with EASD 2026 banner. Holding a tall negroni spritzer!

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Springer Medicine @springermedicine.com · 26/09/2026

#MedNews - An international panel of experts has proposed a framework for the use of resmetirom and semaglutide in the treatment of patients with #MASH and significant fibrosis but no cirrhosis. Full story 👉️ buff.ly/lD8hqCm #LiverSky

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Framework guides pharmacologic therapy for MASH with significant fibrosis

An international panel of experts has proposed a framework for the use of resmetirom and semaglutide in the treatment of patients with MASH and significant fibrosis but no cirrhosis.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Times reporter Emma Yeomams on how vigilante Mr Daniel Thomas attempted to endanger life of a rescuer at sea (fortunately unsuccessfully on this occasion).

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We made a G&B choc stout cake for an 80th birthday last weekend, same one we had at our wedding. A Bake Off challenge I could achieve 😂

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This pretty much says it all: “Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist whose medical license was revoked after he was found to have fabricated research indicating a link between vaccines and autism, spoke before and immediately after Kennedy.”

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RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak

The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh dear lord this should have come with a trigger warning. 😭 Zelda and Fenella from Chorlton and the Wheelies. <shudder>

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Peter and the Wolf; The wolf that lived behind the curtain at the bottom of the stairs; Dr Who; Triffids; Tripods; Rabies (fair); Tom and Jerry.

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There has never been a greater global need for a return of the original format Muppet Show. I wish the powers that be would just get their shit together already.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.

Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Calling all osprey fans!🐟🦅 We’re 94% of the way to unlock our Osprey as the next pin choice! 🎉 This has been one of our most requested designs for years; if you want to wear this beautiful fish-stealing menace, just a bit more support and it'll officially join the flock! ➡️ tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8

A graphic featuring a stylized osprey pin design from the Visionary Vultures series

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking forward to Burnham standing up to these wankers - anytime now would be nice? Hello? Hello?

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As @sundersays.bsky.social just pointed out, these “costumes” are really uniforms, banned under the Public Order Act 1936

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What on earth did I just read?!

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pouring rain, barely daylight and mist rolling down Cleeve Hill. Who turned on autumn?!

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mahmood's proposals would force medium-skilled & care workers to leave the UK & would deter high skill workers from coming in future. This would widen the deficit/fiscal home. Would be deliberate economic and political self-harm for Burnham/Healey to proceed with them. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Mahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion

More Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Except that’s really not how to pronounce Woo-ster-shur. This Scot dreads to think how @merriam-webster.com recommend we pronounce Edinburgh, Anstruther or Garioch!

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If the CDC can’t be trusted to report data…

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Helped referee a rowdy game of Topper football in the Severn. People don’t need to worry about youth of today not coming off screens, i promise you that kids are just as happy to play silly games in the river as they ever have been.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"We need to double the number of teams ensuring safe and dignified burials, triple the treatment capacity, improve contact tracing and deploy more experienced managers," said Fletcher. "Crucially, we must meet the immense needs for water, hygiene, health care… The world needs to wake up, & show up”

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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo killing one person every 30 minutes, UN says

The United Nations says the epidemic is spreading at its fastest pace on record and threatens to become the deadliest outbreak in the disease's history.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 16/08/2026

Please enjoy this owlet learning how gravity works (it's absolutely fine, don't worry!) Thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies for supporting this project through their Digital Accelerator, allowing us to improve our technology infrastructure so we can help you connect with the UK's nature and heritage

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Chedworth Roman villa in a Gloucestershire has graffiti for a soldier’s favourite chariot racing team. Nothing changes.

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Radio 4 just letting Lee Anderson make up crap about roaming migrants committing crimes against women and children. As opposed to the flag shaggers and anti-migrant rioters with their raft of domestic violence convictions?

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 14/08/2026

sorry I can't come to work today there's a credible threat

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Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Astonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat".

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The sun is approx 400 x the size of the moon but approx 400 x further away. That’s why they appear the same size in the sky and why we get the type of eclipses we do with the totality. The moon is moving away from Earth so eventually we won’t get total eclipses. The size/distance relationship is key

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse  🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse  🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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VirtualAstro @virtualastro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Eclipse tomorrow evening. UK times (BST): Edinburgh 6.08 / max 7.05 Manchester 6.13 / max 7.10 Birmingham 6.15 / max 7.11 London 6.17 / max 7.12 Cornwall 6.18 / max 7.16 Sun is LOW in the west. #eclipse2026 NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! Book tickets for The Night Sky Show www.nightskyshow.co.uk

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Let’s hope the manufacturers tell him to fuck off

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Starting the day with my stomach rumbling 😂

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Lynda Williams @leglesszebra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Radio 4 Today need to cut off and close down interviews rather than subject their listeners to racist guff.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 05/08/2026

Dan is gathering important data on spicy fruit, people. Please do this quiz thing.

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 04/08/2026

Vending Machine.

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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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