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Lillian Badger

@lillianbadger.bsky.social
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Joined after all my favourite Worldcon authors and creators said they were here. I don't create, I audience. But I audience with gusto.

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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Am quietly devastated. Why do the best, funniest, most observant and succinct writers leave?
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A meme is Born
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely. Purely homosocial. And this is one of the core tenants of fascism. 
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This should have gotten a hell of a lot more news! The United States was the only NO vote at the Commission on the Status of Women, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday. America voted AGAINST women’s rights! healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-...
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch
President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is absolute perfection.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.
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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RNLI teatowels are a bargain. So much information! And a reminder the organisation covers the entire coastlines of both these islands.
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Howled wirh laughter multiple times at Bad Apples, plus screamed once. Can't believe there are so many reviews complaining that this surrealist parable isn't realism, when it's not trying to be. It is viciously funny satire.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026
"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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Max @jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Discord did a dragon x fruit challenge. Banana dragon
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy morning to me
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just is a simple message: I am minimising what you do and how much I am asking because I think you're beneath me.
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 01/09/2026
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.
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Planting crops in fields of solar panels is more efficient, protects the plants and helps keep workers cool, study finds
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Go Olivia and gang! I would have loved to be atbthe inaugural Daisy Chain Festival. Brilliant level up.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Look this is grimly amusing but I don't think functioning democracies have a masked secret police that a non-government official can dispatch on their personal enemies. It's sometimes genuinely stunning what we've gotten used to.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In short: A significant percentage of OpenAI's top brass is taking fat payouts and bailing on the company what common sense would tell you is the worst possible time for it: right before its stock market debut, where, theoretically, they would make exponentially more than they're currently getting.
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Read the room God. Wrong 80 year olds.
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Anna Calvi. The absolute phenomenon you are. Life changing gig at Green Man. From soaring cinema to absolute shivers
Anna Calvi against the Sugar Loaf and Tabletop, on 23 Aug 2026 compelling me forward.Anna Calvi resplendent in scarlet against red backdrop as she pulverises that guitar,  from as close as I could get.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 21/08/2026
All the time. People seem to think I’m insulting myself when I say this, but I know SO MANY talented people who didn’t hit like I did. Yes, I AM talented! Yes, I DO work hard! But you can wallpaper a battleship with talented hard-working artists, and we don’t all get that break.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 21/08/2026
Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops playing an Uno Reverse card on the De Santis admin re: religious freedom and vaccines. "You must grant vaccine exemptions for people's sincerely held religious beliefs." "Yeah, well our sincerely held religious beliefs say we should vaccinate our children."
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In case your brain’s also tired and sad here’s a floral pick-me-up I grew:
Flowers I grew in my garden arranged in a rainbow of colour on a white linen background
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Why do Master Race people always look like shabby little freaks" is one of those questions which answers itself if you think about it for even a moment
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RV 🇸🇩 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
White Professor. Still at Cambridge. Still alive. "...complaint of plagiarism had been upheld by a university tribunal...the professor would keep his job...tribunal ruled that the offence was the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate." www.varsity.co.uk/news/26105 @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Shadowy eclipse

Me and pal casting spooky shadows, tree casting crescent 5 mins before our peak.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 12/08/2026
"Taking the rubbish out" by The Rebel Bear in Clacton-on-Sea, England.
Satirical street art titled “Taking the rubbish out” by The Rebel Bear in Clacton-on-Sea, England, showing Count Binface lifting the lid of a real wheelie bin containing Nigel Farage, marked “Failed Quality Control.”
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Gina Yashere on the cancellation of “Starfleet Academy:” “I’m fucking furious. It had nothing to do with ratings or online trolls or any of that bullshit. It was a purely political decision. There were too many Blacks, too many gays, and too many women. That’s it.” #STLV /1
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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What can tiny people learn from fairy tales, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Gulliver’s Travels? In Terry Pratchett’s Nome Trilogy, quite a lot. New Miniature Fantasies essay: dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/terry-prat... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social
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Lillian Badger @lillianbadger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Had the thrill of taking tea with legendary @diane.dianeduane.com today. Cherry on top - turns out she's an amazing raconteur.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
An achievement of western capitalism, folks.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Charles Addams ( 1912 - 1988 ) 'Woman feeding tiny men birdseed ' 1975 ♥️
Charles Addams ( 1912 - 1988 ) 'Woman feeding tiny men birdseed ' 1975
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