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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution.' Brave politics, wise policy, good news.

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This was always - and incredibly obviously so - the business strategy for these companies. Desperate pushing of mass adoption that is worse than humans then making it basically the same cost as humans once organizations and people have been de-skilled and have little choice.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

AI drafts your job application and reads your job application. AI writes a report and then the reader has AI summarise it. The AI on both sides of the transaction just got real with this neat fraud. You get AI to make garbage music, get AI to listen to it, and get paid! www.ft.com/content/8a47...

French streaming service Deezer said streams of AI-generated music on its platform were dominated by fraudsters, who upload and then repeatedly listen to thousands of songs to generate royalty payments to the detriment of legitimate artists.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Lobbyist: "We need to make a choice! Climate or AI! We might lose to..." Me: *smacks climate button Lobbyist: "But we have to open the conversa..." Me: *punches climate button Lobbyist: "But our competitive..." Me: *JUMPS UP AND DOWN ON CLIMATE BUTTON www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Some good news: church grounds and graveyards across Ireland are becoming havens for birds, bees and bats as part of a biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

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Biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis soars

Church grounds and graveyards across Ireland are becoming havens for birds, bees and bats as part of a biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Brexiters’ claims that the UK would be able to aggressively deregulate and forge new trade alliances with the likes of the US have failed to bear fruit

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janemick @janemick.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This cannot be shared too often:

Roald Dahl on Measles: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.
'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.
'I feel all sleepy,' she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.
...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
Roald Dahl, 1986

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This kind of stopped me in my tracks. Kudos to this man for speaking powerfully, and with unwavering moral clarity, about our collective obligation to fight cruelty and hate wherever, and whenever, we see it.

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow. An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag

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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ICE's budget could fund the ACA (healthcare) extension and expand Medicaid to millions. Instead, it funds home invasions, family separation, and killing protesters. Republicans made this choice for you. Remember in November... #FundHealthcareOverICE

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 28/01/2026

a) wow it's a while since I've heard a full on protest song, good work b) you do have to wonder if "Bruce Springsteen wrote a song calling you, personally, a twat" might get through to ICE lackeys and Trump cultists where other stuff doesn't.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Here is the actual fresco - no people, the bridge isn't a bridge it's a ramp and the entire thing is fuzzier, as you might expect.3/n

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

He came to bear witness against his own country. He ended up getting his arse handed to him.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 20/11/2025

No I will not be in your goddamn Kindle Translate beta programme.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025

I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 28/10/2025

I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w... There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Here is a link to the report itself It points to upcoming break clauses in the contracts in 2026 and the end of the contracts in 2029 providing an opportunity to make better decisions -& better contracts If those were 10 year contracts that points to 2019 committees.parliament.uk/committee/83...

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Billions squandered on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement – Home Affairs Committee report finds - Committees - UK Parliament

Flawed contract design and incompetent delivery left the Home Office unable to cope with the surge in demand for asylum accommodation, a report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.

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sionnach @erica-w.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Note that it's the Conservative Mismanagement of the asylum system that has been revealed in the report. BBC news don't seem to have mentioned this...

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

One of the first metaphors Dickens throws out in "Bleak House" is "a Megalosaurus... waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." WEIRDLY specific... Unless you know Bleak House was originally a public oral performance, and the Crystal Palace dinosaur exhibit had just opened that year.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

All the Tabloid Telegraph does nowadays is publish sensationalist pro right ring headlines, and utter BS.. and then quietly do a correction afterwards, once the damage is done👇🏼 See the article pinned on my profile, that was a complete lie, which the telegraph subsequently went onto “correct”❗️😡

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Authors, look up your name and file your claim for settlement money here. I have no means to answer questions except for this one: Q: "But didn't I do this last month?" A: "DO THIS ONE NOW." secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.

While the training did the job that was intended, I see it as part of the pernicious normalisation of the use of gen AI in higher education. The case studies imply that the best way to e.g. update course materials is to use gen AI. Why not just use your knowledge and experience? Major ethical issues are passed over e.g. gen AI's training on stolen data and its reliance on exploitative labour practices. Gen AI has many negatives and few positives. It is antithetical to the critical thinking that should be central to working and studying at university. It is inherently unsafe, unethical, and irresponsible. We should be discouraging its use.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22/09/2025

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 28/08/2025

Frightening and important piece for any Brit looking at the US collapse and thinking it couldn't happen here. It could, and there are people out there right now who want it to.

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Caroline Shea @therealcshea.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to interview @kjcharleswriter.com. We talked about world-building in historical fiction, genre promises, odysseys in self- and trad publishing, and kitchen hedgehogs (!). Read our conversation here: www.patreon.com/posts/interv...

"...in the same way that my historical work is energized by detail, I think my paranormal work has to be energized by detail and place and by history. [...] Any old place, old country has got old myths and old history and a whole accretion of people's ideas around it. And London's absolutely stinking with it. So a lot of that just sort of comes together very nicely to drive the paranormal engine.”

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/07/2025

This is a marvellous deconstruction of the Scene That Makes You Cry Uncontrollably. Happy Bastille Day.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/05/2025

I have a book out today! 1920s m/m romantic suspense with flirting / pining / murder / curry. books2read.com/u/4NE2KG

Promo image for Copper Script. Centres on the cover, with 1920s styling, London skyline, copper and dark blue colours, the faint outline of a pen nib, and two figures in copper: a taller man in raincoat and smart hat, shorter one in flat cap. Title in elegant handwriting font. The image is annotated with notes of what the book offers: '1920s London', Conflicted policeman', Chronic Piner vs Chronic Flirter', 'Spot of murder', 'Stroppy graphologist', and 'Some really nice meals out'.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 26/05/2025

Good. Let's.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 30/04/2025

Last minute addition to the amazing Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction! I'm offering to dedicate ALL OF US MURDERERS (Sourcebooks, Oct, Gothic romance) to you, and will send you a signed print copy to prove it. :) Bid quick, it only runs to 2 May...

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Dedication of KJ Charles’ New Book

Auction item 'Dedication of KJ Charles’ New Book' hosted online at 32auctions.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"This is a blatant infringement of the Author’s copyright" Thank you to @carolynharris.bsky.social for raising awareness in Parliament of our petition with over 50,000 signatures calling for action following Meta’s use of 7.5 million pirated books. #MetaBookThieves #MakeItFair #DoTheWriteThing

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Committee sent a strong message to the government on AI training today: “The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…” 🧵

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/04/2025

Also: The government does not have the right to give away my copyright. Mark Zuckerberg does not have the right to take my property. AJ West called AI the largest copyright theft in history, and he was spot on. The ultra rich tech bros are stealing from us all and it has to stop.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/04/2025

So even the govt's craven plan to weaken copyright and suck up to the tech bros isn't enough for them. Open AI and Google think they just ought to have all our work for free, always, because...they want it, that's why. #MetaBookThieves www.politico.eu/article/open...

politico.eu

OpenAI, Google reject UK’s AI copyright plan

The U.K. government’s AI copyright plans can’t seem to please anyone.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/04/2025

Amazing. #MetaBookThieves refusing to accept the @societyofauthors.bsky.social letter.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/04/2025

Hi @davidpintod.bsky.social, are you aware that Meta has stolen literally millions of books to train their generative AI? Please stand up for the intellectual property rights of British (Hendon!) authors, share our protest, and ask META to #DoTheWriteThing and pay for our work. #MetaBookThieves

Society of Authors flyer reading 'Compensation for Creators. Meta must Do The Write Thing.'

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