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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

Posts that can *only* be seen by a specified audience (however specified) would be ideal. Not exactly 3, but close.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

But in that case the chances are they’re at least aware of each other’s standard terms?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

Oh well, separation of church and state was nice while it lasted, eh?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

They would raise you the LibDem peer Lady Garden.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

In practice other than briefly when you’re learning to read musical notation you never actually *call* them, you just… sing or play them, surely?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

Don’t get me started on crochet stitches where the same name means different things depending on where the pattern you’re reading comes from. At least these are distinct!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h

Goodnight from the phantoms stuck in the cells below Coreham Crown Court, bemoaning their contemptible state of waiting upon judgement. Goodnight from Eleanor Merril, looking for tide-gifted Blood Lace blooms in the moonlit rock pools of Clinker Cove. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“this government wants trans people and their families to feel safe and accepted in our society.” I think I can speak for most trans people and their families when I say, they don’t and increasingly they aren’t, precisely because of Labour’s decisions. How can they believe this stuff they type?

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m sick of the bullshit “sorry for your loss”letters I get from the politicians I engage with, the latest from Baroness Merron, Labour peer, who takes 6 pages to say nothing of value and who appears to prefer wilful ignorance and worship at the altar of Cass over genuine engagement with the facts.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Until then the suicide rates of trans people like Alice will remain high as will the rates for: autistic people disabled people those of low socioeconomic status homeless people victims of csa, domestic violence and corporate bullying like the estimated 13 deaths from the post office scandal.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These prevention campaigns can have a really negative impact on those left behind. And they detract from the real systemic issues that need addressing that we know protect against suicide: equal access to healthcare, housing, employment, food, warmth and justice for all of us.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve been very quiet during #suicidepreventionawarenessweek because it’s shit being constantly reminded of all the things I might have done to save Alice. The “check-in” narrative is particularly distressing. I get that its’s appealing, plenty of people have an anecdote that it saved their life…

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11h

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 7h

the human centipede is the ur-thought for all of ai and its surrounding ideology tbh!

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 7h

Finally-- Student: How are AI companies trying to solve this? Teacher: Most are scams. The few who believe in it all think if they build the right centipede, its feces will basically be real food. Student: That sounds crazy. Teacher: Depends if you think all human creativity is really just shit.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 8h

Today I heard someone use the Human Centipede as a way to explain why large model AI is inevitably heading towards its own self destruction by tainting its future inputs, and honestly? It was a beautiful teaching metaphor.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8h

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

This is what peak performance preaching looks like.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 8h

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10h

Fill in your book, take it back to the tourist centre and get a special Mr. Lookout certificate and badge ...

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

Rain check to coffee tomorrow maybe. Yep.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 22h

It’s important that Google Earth/Maps has done this, but worth noting that so far the updated 2026 imagery is only of southern Gaza—the imagery of northern Gaza is still from before the final destruction of spring-fall 2025, giving the impression that large areas of Gaza City and Jabaliya are…

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

I unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representative

jewishinsider.com

Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed

Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 8h

that’s enough internet for today

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 8h

Russell Brand can guess the brand of pepper spray by taste

thecut.com

Russell Brand Opened His MAHA Panel With a Consent Joke

Ha.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 10h

“Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now." Amidst the AI-pocalypse, we can't lose sight of the climate crisis and the urgency of electrification. Gift link! shorturl.at/On4Jk

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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

why don't women come forward though (Also, p sure this is yet more indication that Michael Tracey has committed sexual assault, possibly often)

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Alatar The Blue @doctorimpossible.bsky.social · 9h

Just how underwhelming is this guys dick exactly? I’m trying to doomsday prep depending on the answer

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 9h

I’m glad the USA built up the hugest, most destructive military apparatus in the history of the world so that this pathetic creep can use it to act out his deep psychosexual issues

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16h

Because the others have accepted the injunction and agreed not to put any more flags up in Birmingham, the remaining people named in the High Court case are Ryan Bridge (multiple bails for various crimes), Ben Cullen (awaiting CSAM trial) and Billy Allison (awaiting trial for murder)

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 8h

I have watched this a million times and probably will one million more. Do the right thing and you can help change the world.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 9h

I did know this but it upsets me every time I’m reminded of it.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 9h

It is possible to just state your opinion even if it isn’t backed up by polling. It’s the job of politicians to *shape* public opinion not to follow it like pathetic little lickspittles.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

it is extremely funny every time they try this “look at this malevolent, sinister agent of communism” *smash cut to the most cheerful man alive*

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026

I've met a lot of academics who absolutely refuse to understand that they have power over students / employees just because those students / employees are legal adults.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 10h

As part of the People Vs Palantir days of action, Amnesty International UK and Just Treatment brought a destroyed Palestinian ambulance to Palantir HQ in London in order to highlight the company's links to Israel’s systematic attacks on Gaza’s health system throughout its genocide in Gaza.

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 9h

Which is why I go to listen to bands play live … then buy their T’shirt or whatever. I want to feel the music, not just hear it.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

big dynamic this fall

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12h

The NYPD hired their first statisticians to use math to find crime in *1916*---predictive policing and AI in governance are often exacerbating deep-seated problems and to address them we can't just address AI, we also need to address the bigger issues.

A new yor times article from 1916. Headline: "Arithmetic used to detect crimes" and the subhead "police department employs it with success through bureau of statistics."

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Brendan Halpin @bthalpin.bsky.social · 15h

An afterthought: "rural" is probably a stand-in for "provincial". As a word & idea, provincial seems outdated, but the relationship of periphery to centre is as relevant as ever. The centre is no longer Dublin or London, but Silicon Valley, SF, NY, DC etc, & Limerick is remote & inconsequential.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 23h

Americans now assume that hockey itself possesses its own potent eroticism?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10h

Re-introducing a Hookland childhood nightmare/beloved icon. Mr. Lookout – the ghost bear mascot of the Hookland Tourist Board's 'I-See! series of books'. The scarrer of many a child's imaginations as depicted by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. #MrLookout #Hookland

A ghost bear. A big, fat ghost bear. Wearing spectacles, holding what appears to be a bone wand. Trust me, it is one scary bear. The text says: Mr. Lookout

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13h

Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 10h

The grim likelihood here is that the training data for the RL is generated by some poor buggers in a low-pay economy interacting for hours on end typing "that's not quite right" and "you've missed the five" Jesus.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

Amichai Chikli, minister of diaspora affairs in Israel says British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (like New York Mayor Mandami) is a dangerous Islamist. The occasion for this prejudice is new phase of community sponsorship of refugees (begun by David Cameron 2016) + Likud's election campaign

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 10h

Enthusiastic consent sounds like “Yes, yes, now shut the fuck up and fuck me already!”

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