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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Great post about how AI can make things much less efficient, despite the common narrative that it is automatically more efficient

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i guess the more recent wrinkle is if youre horrible enough a lot of people will convince themselves youre funny

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If enough people think you’re funny, you can get away with a LOT. I’ve seen it over and over again. Guess this guy just isn’t that funny.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Don’t have much to say about the current comedy controversy that hasn’t already been said But that’s the thing, it was all said ten years ago, when people were defending comedians who harassed and stalked women, or told women they needed to get over the sexual assault. They still are. I’m tired.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I physically felt the disgust all over my skin

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Quite an important aspect of this story right there at the end of the piece: "He (Sir Mark Rowley) told the London Policing Board that Palantir's system would have allowed the Met to cut 500 jobs to help close a budget shortfall of £100m this year and £125m next year."

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"A No 10 source said: “Andy understands why some politicians don’t want to face up to the reality that Brexit has not delivered what they once promised. But it is time for a different conversation about what our long-term relationship should be." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EU

Post-recess statement will focus on damage caused by Brexit and the need to cooperate on immigration and trade

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"The move is believed to be the first time the Home Office has cancelled refugee protection for a particular nationality, and thousands of Syrians settled in the UK are likely to be affected." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

'Vice President JD Vance, who is a Catholic convert, appeared to cast doubt on Friday about the livestream, telling reporters he wouldn't watch it and, "I don't know that that's actually going to happen".' share.google/0FFuoMxIW7qu...

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Pope Leo calls death penalty "inadmissible" as U.S. plans to livestream Fort Hood execution

The firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed, the U.S. Defense Department said.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"People don't need a diagnosis for AuDHD, we should just accept and accommodate people without needing labels" "That's cool, I kinda agree in some ways, ok, well, this is how my brain works, does that make sense to you?" "What?! No! Look just be normal you weirdo"

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That voice! The electric Mills-Berry rhythm section! Those curls! The eyelashes!

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When he says heaven maybe he means the nightclub

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Definitely not you, it didn't even occur to me that you (or anyone) would think I was talking about you because that was so obviously not what you were saying and you were very clearly highlighting how awful he is, as was I. Thanks for understanding what I meant!

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wasn't hijacking, I was reposting it, I thought I was adding to your point about him. I'm really sorry and have taken it down because it obviously seemed like I was doing something else and I'm just really confused now but I did not mean it like that at all

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm saying he is so obviously vile yet I keep seeing people say they agree with him in progressive spaces in spite of that. But I'm taking this whole post down because I don't want anyone to think I was implying that about your post

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

His motivations for talking about Israel the way he does have always been pretty clear. But if they weren't, they are now.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"My enemy's enemy is my friend" is always silly but on Israel specifically it will lead you into some very dark places, very fast.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of my favourite covers they did... and it's tough competition for that title! (Dark Globe or Pale Blue Eyes probably takes the top spot)

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fantastic interview with Ian Hislop on journalism and satire. I especially like how he keeps emphasising that being a journalist (or cartoonist) is skilled work, takes time and deserves to be paid properly. If we don't pay for journalism, we will get nothing but "content" youtu.be/TCOdomjE0dw?...

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Ian Hislop on 40 years as Private Eye editor and why Britain "isn't" broken

YouTube video by BBC Politics

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be fair she looks suitably baffled by the question too

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Supply side economics trying to "solve" all the things that make us human with crap products that no one asked for

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Blimey. "We could stay as we are... we could look at what George Osborne has said about a customs union, we could look at what the Liberal Democrats said at their conference about the single market, or we could go all the way - so there are clearly options". www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, Burnham tells BBC

The PM was speaking after using his conference speech to say the government will end the existing triple lock on pensions from 2030 to help fund social care reforms in England.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You, Tongue, and Crush with Eyeliner are still all-time favourites. Love what Michael Stipe does with his voice on this album

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's frustrating how rarely we hear people link together these very obvious things

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my absolute favourite R.E.M. moments of all time is Michael’s increasingly growled delivery of “combien de temps" on that song

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1. Murmur - R.E.M. 2. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman 3. Horses - Patti Smith 4. The Smiths - The Smiths 5. Debut - Bjork

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bisexuality Day, to show respect please celebrate gender and sexual fluidity for 3 minutes and 52 seconds by playing Pretty Persuasion by R.E.M. For bonus enjoyment you can also enjoy Michael Stipe confirming this song is about "what we now would call trans rights" youtu.be/kAA5FlnQ24U?...

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A Tree That Sounds Like Daft Punk Doing A Sea Shanty - What To Expect On Michael Stipe's Solo Album

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She's used the term "cultural Marxism" before too so

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does "cosmopolitan" mean what I think it does in this context?

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They just assume you're not really watching properly now. And sometimes they're right. This is why Severance really, really stood out for me. You can't fiddle about with your phone while you watch it. And nor did I ever want to, not at any point.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A classic! Always makes it on to my list of 200 or so favourite R.E.M. songs...

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Something about the way R.E.M. write a bridge, it just elevates so many of their songs into something truly divine for me. World Leader Pretend, Driver 8, Old Man Kensey, Fall On Me, Shaking Through, Electrolite, West of the Fields... But ask me tomorrow and I'd probably have a different list!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Years of discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community, continuing homophobia and transphobia, all coupled with ageism. Older LGBTQIA+ facing ongoing discrimination/ stereotyping/judgment. Things were meant to be better by now. Instead they just seem to go backwards. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Adam Porter, a housing development manager from the LGBT Foundation charity, says he regularly meets older members of the community in exactly that situation.

"It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

"In the case of someone moving into a care environment, that means hiding who they are in their own home, for what could be the rest of their life."

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes it really is! Lyrically, vocally, compositionally and (an incredibly competitive field for an R.E.M. song) possibly my favourite bridge (a close call between that and Driver 8)

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm feeling cheerful, somebody told me today that my new haircut (not pictured) makes me look like River Phoenix. (Don't worry, I am aware that I do not, in fact, look like River Phoenix. But it was such a kind thing to say that I appreciate the generosity of the lie)

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes I'm never sure whether the chaos adds to the beauty or if it distracts me. Duality, contradiction, reaching out for connection then pulling back are themes over the whole album so the push-pull of styles does fit with that. Agree on the Wrong Child 💜 It still hits me in the guts on every listen

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The track listing doesn't help it. Stand is great fun and I don't hate it at all but having it sandwiched between one of their most beautiful songs and one of their most brilliant is... a bold choice. I love Green but the sequencing is absolute chaos

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have heard this pronunciation three times this week and I've never heard it before! So weird

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