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To be clear, it would make ZERO difference to my personal or professional life. Actually, scratch that. It would make both of them better, because I wouldn't have to consciously avoid consuming their output.

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Media Storm @mediastormpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 🎙️ Patriotism: Whose flag is it anyway? Can you love your country without envisioning an enemy? When does pride become prejudice? Can the Left ‘take the flag back’? 🗣️ Imam Adam Kelwick and Kojo Kyerewaa from @blmuk.bsky.social

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Patriotism: Whose flag is it anyway?

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm loving "xkcd feldspar" as a verb xkcd.com/2501/

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"there is nothing wrong with a newspaper, particularly its opinion section, having points of view." But there is a lot wrong with a newspaper having opinions whilst pretending it is an objective "view from nowhere"

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not hyperbole, just the simple truth. Trans people are a "huge problem in a sane world" (Helen Lewis). Stopping kids getting care blocks the pipeline. They can't accept that trans people, exist, because in their mental model of the world they don't. And they want to force reality into that model.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 01/10/2026

journalism is more a good like education, not a personal consumption choice but a prerequisite for our collective life. that it is costly to produce doesn’t mean it’s right that it’s financed and distributed according to the same logic as sandwiches, seasoned to consumer taste, have it your way.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you permit nakedly political appointments to run agencies like the FCC, this was inevitable. I'm just surprised it hasn't happened sooner.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok, everyone can correct me if I'm wrong, but: the Parliamentary Labour party is not "the government." All parties in the UK (even the Greens) contain multitudes. It is not only possible but inevitable that the executive may enact policy which is unpopular with the party.

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the FUTURE ⬇️

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh Christ. I'm logging off for the evening.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Nathan Ramsden @nathanjramsden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you have experienced transphobic harassment within the Labour Party or if you know someone who has, please get in touch with us by emailing labourfortransrights@gmail.com

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can we add "don't join a US college fraternity?"

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Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rights are by definition universal, rights only granted to a few are privilegies. Suddenly the whole conversation makes a lot more sense; they are percieving themselves to be a privilegied class, protecting their societal position from their inferiors. They guard the Patriarchy against erosion.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breeding grounds for rape culture

Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social

Seven men took turns.

57 men where in the chat. None face charges.

Three were expelled.

Four wrote essays as a "punishment" One day, will one of them cry when his nomination for the US Supreme Court is questioned

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking forward to reading this! To be clear, I bought and paid for this book, but didn't realise it would be delivered in LCPL format. Yes, Amazon is evil. But my Kindle is the only e-reader I have. Stripping the DRM required downloading three separate bits of software.

JK ROWILNG AND THE ANTI-TRANS PANIC. On a Kindle.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

This is a scatter plot of energy use vs AI score, essentially a test of capabilities. It shows *really* nicely how the 'advancements' of LLMs are really just brute force energy intensive spam: repeating and re-repeating looping queries in a shockingly wasteful way.

an increase in energy use to perfom better on tests

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know much about IPOs, but if the best spin this selective leak can put on it still looks like the company is losing money.. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For those wondering: the "conversion therapy ban" currently mooted by Labour will do nothing to change this. In fact it will entrench it in the NHS because of a strong presumption of innocence for medical providers (whether registered or not)

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just like Musk and DOGE, the damage (ie her job) has already been done

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Makes Don't Look Up! look subtle.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This point needs to be made more often

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Without having read the link: I predict this will be another recycled Christian Concern press release

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Labour party listen to the labour movement challenge (impossible)

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even @labourlist.bsky.social, which is covering every aspect of Labour Conference in Liverpool, hasn't run a story covering what happened at Women's Conference. Indeed I challenge you to find a *single* story about this boycott written after the event in *any* news outlet anywhere. Remarkable.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to know who that leg belongs to

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Made up a safety data sheet? 1. That's terrible, but 2. .... 3. Actually no, that's just terrible

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/08/2026

Useful generally is Ryle's distinction between knowledge-that vs knowledge-how. This allows one to notice that knowing how to ride a bike is unachievable through knowing that it has two wheels etc. No number of books can ever be read such that then one knows how to ride a bike. It's not possible.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Money – like software – creates abstraction. Distance to the friction of the world. The ability to never be touched and to never have to touch anyone or anything. To have nobody else’s life matter." Also featuring my favourite William Gibson quote. tante.cc/2026/09/24/t...

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The Test

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa...

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There was very little outcry when voicing support for trans people became a fireable offense for adjuncts. Now we're pretty much abandoning the principle that academic thought shouldn't be dictated by conservative governments.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

was just talking with @rezwan.bsky.social and @ameyann.bsky.social and other colleagues today about how often tech is following the classic int'l development problem pattern of "add new technology -> fail to maintain or remove -> people left worse off than they were before"

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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

So absurd and embarrassing ..."

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