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Long Cat Media @longcatmedia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dearest listeners! After three years (both in the story and in real life), MOCKERY MANOR is back for Season 4! S4 E1 - INVERTED TRIANGLE The first new episode is out in all the usual podcast places (except Spotify), plus Bandcamp, where you can listen in HD and purchase episodes to own forever.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 10/08/2026

Right then! Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU is live! crossborderrail.eu/longestjourn... #CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

#CrossBorderRail
Longest train
journey in the EU
longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu

On a picture of the Tornio Haparanda bridge

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct

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Esoteric Collector @vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Let's take a look at the history of Dungeons&Dragons Dice, a thread. #Dungeons&Dragons #Dice #TSR Part One Continued below...

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Hayley Stevens @hayleystevens.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

'Skepticism that never makes the skeptic uncomfortable is just suspicion aimed at other people.' www.theghostgeek.com/p/critical-t...

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Critical Thinking Is Not a Personality Trait

What the latest 'famous skeptic man turns out to be idiot' episode can teach us all

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For @aftermath.site, I reviewed the Steam Machine. It costs $1049 base. It is beautifully designed. It might be one of the most important computers ever made, launched at the worst time imaginable. aftermath.site/steam-machin...

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The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times

Valve has released a tiny, silent, entry level PC that does important work bringing PCs gaming to the living room and desktop Linux to the masses. The timing could not be worse.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

#BeachSpectres day 1 went really well. I heard that we might have completed 100 level-metatiles, which would be around 800-900 tiles stamped in the sand. The unusually gloomy weather didn't get us down. Same again tomorrow!

A couple of dozen people stood around a large area of sand stamped with Spectre tiles.

Selfie with me and Max Hughes looking at the camera, and the Spectre tiling in the middle of shot with people spots around it.

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Two bird pins. A series if birds sitting on a branch. Each bird is the colour of a stripe on the rainbow flag.

Pronoun pins with rainbow motif:
She her
He him
She they
He they
They them

An array of pride themed science and sci fi pins.

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 29/05/2026

🚨 all science officers to the bridge 🚨 I’m looking for Scientists to come and speak at Destination, the Star Trek convention in Blackpool. 30 min + 15 min questions on any science topic linked to the show. (£125 + weekend pass for 2 people) 21-23 Aug. DM if interested.

A photo of Ethan peck, Christina Chong, Star Trek uniforms and a Lego Voyager space ship.

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Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I did a thread on 15 minute cities on X which went so viral I ended up in the Times and on BBC Radio. I thought I'd repeat it here... This was my parents house in Coventry. They bought it in 1965 and it was my home throughout the 1970s & 80s. My mum lived there until 2021. It was a happy home. 1/22

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Feels apposite right now

And then he realized why he was thinking like this.
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me?
After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us.
It's Them that do the bad things.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a prime, *prime* case of the headline misleading the reader who doesn't click through and read the entire piece. Yes, JP said this BUT she also said..1/n: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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More migrants making false domestic abuse claims, minister Jess Phillips tells MPs

Jess Phillips says the Home Office could do more to weed out false claims, following a BBC News investigation.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 14/04/2026

Great to see our patron Stephen Fry on ITV's The Assembly! Here's Stephen on the afterlife, the humanist approach to life, and finding wonder in the here and now 👇

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Ruth Mersereau @ruthmersereau.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

1/7 I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward. I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me. I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these. Since 2023, I’ve …

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/04/2026

It's easy to dismiss the Ninja Creami as a viral trend or cheap plastic appliance, but it's a bizarre machine and nothing does exactly what it does at its price point. aftermath.site/ninja-creami-d...

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You Do, In Fact, Have To Hand It To The Ninja Creami

It is easy to dismiss the Ninja Creami as being cheap and unserious, but there is nothing like it at its price point.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man... a) amazing investigation of something you won't have consciously noticed but immediately realise is true and b) brilliant example of how game design is interaction design is safety design

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Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green

The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"

Photo of a cuneiform tablet with some dark spots on it.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hey. Hey guess what. Guess what day it is? It's our birthday, and the Vagina Museum is nine years old today. The world has changed massively in those nine years. We started out with a tweet... and now we're a vibrant community space, dedicated to education and celebration!

A tweet from Florence Schechter saying "PEOPLE there is a penis museum in iceland but no vagina museum ANYWHERE. Who wants to make one with me?" Around the screenshot is a montage of people enjoying the Vagina Museum. Mia, a young musician, plays the guitar on a stage in our industrial-vibe event space. Our gift shop looks warm, welcoming and cosy with shelves of books and vag swag. Dr Alex and Katja stand, smiling, outside our blue double doors. Lily and a group of volunteers pose wearing F Uterus t-shirts, a black shirt with a white graphic of a uterus where the tips of the uterine tubes are replaced with hands, middle finger up. They echo the pose, sticking their tongues out. A huge party rages in the event space.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Today we have a double debunk: 1. A debunk of the idea that 67 dog breeds are being banned in Britain 2. A debunk of what the usual suspects are saying online (because they are so tediously predictable!🙄) 🧵1/21

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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account:

Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and
gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police.

Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/02/2026

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

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Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Good overview of the workload on staff and MPs, and what the role of the MP is/could/should be. I prioritise dealing with casework quickly over replying to policy emails because e.g. helping a person access disability support is more important to me... 1/?

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/02/2026

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, there are three beautiful blooming roses, and the text says "Roses are red..." In panel 2, there are some lovely violets budding and blooming, and the text says "Violets are blue..." In panel 3, there are some terrifying red and flesh colored plants with toothy maws and the text says "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyl..." and in panel 4 there are some cute hearts and the text says "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day"

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse-2 #smbc

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Andrew @lesswrongmorekind.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social just listening to your new food pyramid episode, and you briefly mentioned the hate for oat milk. Did you see this yet?

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

When your anti-leftist campaign fails hard 👀

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 25/01/2026

Some of you really need to step away from the news and go out and get some fresh air or something. It's not healthy to be constantly immersed in and drowning in horrors. Go and fuss a cat or pet a dog, for the sake of your sanity.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Tickets for the 2026 #DinoConUK - happening July 25th-26th at Hilton Birmingham Metropole are NOW ON SALE!

DinoCon 2026 'tickets available now' advert

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 12/12/2025

"Trees Hate You" Steam page now live! Wishlist if you want to be bullied of horrible trees: store.steampowered.com/app/4171850/... #indiegame #steamgame #ragegame #gamedev

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/01/2026

behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks

The ministry of silly walks, cross-stitched, with darth vader, darth maul, the emperor and kylo ren all doing silly walks

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11/01/2026

This Sunday evening, episode one of Bear and Monk Debunk is live, in which @monkemma.bsky.social examines the shooting of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis and how it’s been misrepresented, while I dig into the panic and confusion around the Online Safety Act and X. Listen below.

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Bear and Monk Debunk #1: Minneapolis & The Online Safety Act

Separating fact from froth: Minneapolis, the Online Safety Act, and the misinformation pipeline connecting them.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Bobby Seagull MBE @bobbyseagull.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A thing just happened! 🤯📚 “Bobby Seagull MBE for services to public libraries”✨ Just on BBC News talking about my passion for books, libraries, and our incredible librarians ❤️📖 and why they're so vital to our communities. Tomorrow 📺 BBC Breakfast 6.40am 🎙️ LBC 7.40am 📺 Good Morning Britain TBC

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

A wreath made from a variety of 'everlasting' flowers, tied with fibre.

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