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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1h
RIP Esther. A wonderful campaigner for many causes, including the right to choose assisted dying with terminal illness. I was so sorry that she was not able to die in peace at a time of her own choosing. I hope her end was as good and as painless as possible. 💐 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86
Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted-dying campaigner
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 4h
Wait for the sparkles of water! Rocks below the harbour at high tide.
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Debbie Abrahams MP @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social · 6h
Brilliant announcement by Yvette Cooper just now saying VAWG is an epidemic and her aim to treat it as a public health crisis. More details in these posts: bsky.app/profile/jess...
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 6h
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of people with power living out their parental issues recently - especially men in power acting out their childhood trauma & ‘daddy issues’ & inflicting it on the world. There’s Johnson - lots of information out there on alleged coercion & physical abuse 👇
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Do parents make the politician? Find out on the Today programme’s psychotherapy couch
Dad’s the word for Andy Burnham, so maybe all party leaders should be seen afresh through a Freudian lens
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 7h
Some good stuff coming out as a bi-product of the HS2 works. This is one of them! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Wildlife arrives on time at rewilded chalk grasslands built along HS2 route
The trains may be running late, but the Western Slopes project is already attracting birds and insects on lands around the high-speed railway
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Welcome to my daily life, always having to battle tedious doom mongers on our own side, and who get proven wrong again and again. Politics is about the art of the possible, and we campaign day in, day out for something they tell us can’t happen. It will. Believe it, and make it reality. Join me! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 14h
The good news keeps coming 5pillarsuk.com/2026/09/24/r...
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Rupert Lowe MP referred to Prevent and parliamentary watchdog over anti-Muslim rhetoric
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail 5Pillars has learned that formal complaints have been submitted against Rupert Lowe MP to counter-terrorism police and Parliament’s standards watchdog over his repeated rhe...
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 10h
Of course Trump thinks A.I. is “super intelligence” & thinks he is too, as he also hallucinates, gets facts wrong & has the capacity to f*ck up the world.
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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
Time for this classic again.
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 11h
I do think people under estimated the stability Rachel Reeves worked to give UKplc, and how it has helped the UK be resilient after tory omnishambles & in the face these global shocks - from Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, to Trumps Middle East war shutting straits of H & USA tariffs etc.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 11h
The figures are welcome news for Andy Burnham and John Healey ahead of the budget in four weeks time - and mean that Rachel Reeves handed over a slightly larger economy than previously recognised.
thelondoneconomic.com
UK had fastest growing G7 economy in first half of 2026
The UK had the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in the first half of 2026, after the latest figures showed growth was faster than expected.
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 11h
Yvette Cooper up now talking about The National Care Service. She has just announced a new Collective Pension Scheme for careworkers! #Lab26
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 11h
Burnham’s speech: Vision, values, a clear ideology well communicated, design thinking ie identifying problems, seeing systematic issues, acknowledging the fiscal constraints, providing innovative solution & inviting the country to come with him on the journey to deliver, even if it’s a challenging 👇
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.
There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it. A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.
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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People who are worried that Molly on #GBBO didn’t have a lowered counter, www.instagram.com/reel/DduD7A_... She did! This is an IG post about the specific accommodations they did for her
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Molly GBBO on Instagram: "Let’s talk about my Bake Off bench in the tent. There’s been a bit of talk about my set up and whether or not it was suitable for me. But I can categorically say that I LOV...
36K likes, 291 comments - mrs_molly_c on September 25, 2026: "Let’s talk about my Bake Off bench in the tent. There’s been a bit of talk about my set up and whether or not it was suitable for me. Bu...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
Finally, a Prime Minister has admitted Brexit has done 'more harm than good'. Burnham has promised to lay out "the different options" for what a new UK-EU relationship would look like. EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. Help us ensure Andy takes that option. 👇
bestforbritain.org
Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joe Pike: "I'm here with the only person anyone wants to speak to, Sharon Graham." <Graham bellyaches at length about triple lock> Joe Pike: "So, this gives you a flavour of the debate here." NO IT DOESN'T! You literally only spoke to one person, sought out explicitly because she disagreed. 😂
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👇A thing which is really striking once you see it is that people visibly think that the words “triple lock” means “all pensions”, from the people who think scrapping it means “no pension” to the people who start ranting about boomers on cruises.
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bent Pylon. A small ink drawing
An ink drawing of a bent pylon, kind of cloudy and overcast , loose and expressive
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those not following Labour Conference announcements… (from politico london playbook www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...) “GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS AT CONFERENCE SO FAR: A new export finance scheme … a new marine research ship … three new floating docks for subs on the Clyde👇
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gorgeous flowers collected in a glass vase, plus what appear to be some glaceed cherries. And butterflies. By Carstiaen Luyckx, on his day.
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The weird thing about the whole ‘dementia tax/death tax’ stuff is it implies we don’t already have one. Surely we basically do, we just don’t tell people about it in advance and it’s totally unpredictable and random.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💥 HUGE NEWS 💥 “Ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next election manifesto” Exclusive for The Independent.
independent.co.uk
Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
Exclusive: After Ed Miliband told the Labour conference in Liverpool that Britain’s future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next el...
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Project to help map empty and neglected buildings, and to join up all the local communities of people who are already working in this nationally. cado.community
cado.community
CADO – Communities Against Delinquent Ownership
Mapping the buildings left empty and stuck, and connecting the communities bringing them back into use.
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like a good initiative to repurpose empty and neglected buildings. endstate.substack.com/p/communitie...
endstate.substack.com
Communities Against Delinquent Ownership
Putting Britain’s empty and neglected buildings on the map
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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chancellor John Healey calls Nigel Farage "Liz Truss with a bitcoin account"
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Alzheimer's society radio advert that’s on LBC is really weird. As someone with cognitive processing issues, sensory overload, memory issues etc I find it quite dehumanising. It’s something like.. 👇
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good to hear Gordon Brown is emailing John Healey & advising. In his Labour Conference speech Healey made some good announcements (rolls Royce investment, ship building & apprenticeship investment, union learning scheme), & direction of travel, but is obviously keeping his powder dry for the budget.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
🚨 Ed Miliband: "Europe is not just our geography, but so much more. "And on economics, on defence, on security, I say to this conference: our future lies in a stronger, deeper partnership with the European Union."
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026
Carly responded to a Bluesky post two years ago when I was in a panic and needed someone to do some really basic photoshop. Instead she came up with illustrations that shaped how the publication looked. Do send her more work if you need actual talented human illustration.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social the recent @bestforbritain.org YouGov research suggests the answer to your current @lbc.co.uk discussion question is “Yes” - Labour would deffo benefit from @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan’s suggestion to start the call to rejoin & have Brit-IN EU
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey @bestforbritain.org & @pimlicat.bsky.social - have you time to phone into @lbc.co.uk right now? @mrjamesob.bsky.social is asking if now is a good political time for Labour to talk about Brit-IN EU aka rejoin. And I thought of your research that shows “yes” is the answer!
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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lesser Ury was one of the first artists in Germany to take hectic modern city life, with its traffic and busy nightlife in theatres and bars, as a topic for art. As in this work from 1920, Berlin, its motor vehicles and a wet evening, plays a prominent role in his work.
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s one of my fav Culture novels. It’s a brilliant engaging story, exploration of what is being human (purpose), and how values shape our ways of seeing. I feel it’s a storming critique of our currupt systems & inequality (the night tour) - a mirror to ourselves - & how values can help overcome 👍😊
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27/09/2026
For every £25 we spend on income support on young people who are out of work, we spend just £1 on employment support to get them into work. We’ve got the balance all wrong, says Alan Milburn at our Labour Party Conference fringe event
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sharon Graham hasn’t got her finger on the pulse of current UK citizen sentiment, nor got UK citizens’ jobs & money at heart😳 “The British people voted for Brexit. I think if we’re going down a road of trying to undo that, I think that will be seen as a problem” www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
theguardian.com
UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
Work and pensions secretary says the current system is flawed because it consigns too many people to a life on benefits when they would be better off working
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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