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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 18h

‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us

The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 3h

Will we be growing peaches in Würzburg and wine in Dundee?

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 7h

Last chance to get some food in for the weekend!

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 7h

Me to client: to give you an idea of the hotel’s vibe, you can borrow an e-guitar to plug into the amp in your room. Client: I’d rather borrow a kitty. Do any hotels have cats you can borrow?

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm pro Rejoin as I was pro Remain. It seems Burnham has the courage to tell the truth to the people, i.e. that Brexit didn't work. The courage that Starmer and, even more so, Corbyn lacked. Above all, though, he must avoid a second so divisive national fracture. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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No 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU

Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 12h

Normally: nothing If I can’t sleep: the Calm app. Either Stephen Fry reading lullabies or ‘Hello there’ Matthew McConnaghey. Let my little old Scottish ladies listen to the latter and they screamed with laughter. ‘Och, nooo. I couldnae be doin’ wi’ that!’

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 12h

I have no opinion on daylight saving time, but it’s hilarious (not really) that his main argument is that it would be good for golf, and that it would save cities with ‘watchtowers’ millions.

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Mauerschauer @mauerschauer.bsky.social · 19h

#Bodensee sah schon mal besser aus. Ich stehe hier, wo eigentlich Wasser sein sollte, blicke zum "Ufer" und frage mich, wann der #klimawandel endlich als Bedrohung wahrgenommen und behandelt wird. Stattdessen #tankrabatt

Foto am Hörnle in Konstanz - Blick von da, wo Wasser sein sollte zurück zum Ufer

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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Emma Joyce was sick and vomiting for days when she died. The next summer, Ava Joan got sick: wouldn't eat or drink, rapid breathing, and her vomit was black. It was untreated diabetes. The girls' toddler brother was next to die. Years later, another brother. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PSA Germany: Saturday is a public holiday. All the shops will be shut. That includes supermarkets. If you are visiting Germany this weekend, do your grocery shopping tomorrow! But be aware it’ll be utter chaos as everyone panic buys like in a pandemic cause the shops will shut for two days.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Outwith means ‘outside of’. The word ‘outwith’ is rarely used outwith Scotland. Outwith Germany and Austria, it is uncommon to wear Lederhosen.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is the word ‘tatties’ in iPhone UK dictionaries generally, or have I just used the word so often that it knows it?

iPhone suggested words for ‘tatties’ include the actual word and an emoji of a potato

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by.

The arm of one beast through the arm of another. Very black and white. I’m posting these here because Instagram is so utterly fucking pointless for photographers.

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Mark Dziak @markdziak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And then there is this, which @chrisward.de touched upon last year. It's always guaranteed to make me giggle bsky.app/profile/chri...

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PeaceandQuiet @peaceabdquiet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Way more trucks nowadays because of rivers having low water level .They also cancelled the no trucks on Sunday rule , the only day I would drive cross country .

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PeaceandQuiet @peaceabdquiet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is how woman have to live . From being a girl to an old lady . You have to always check what you say and how you say it ! You have to always check how you move and where you move!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Preishit. Preis-hit – a bargain. But my brain never reads it that way. Once worked in a shop that had signs with this all over the place. Hilarious.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just back from picking son up from Frankfurt airport. Lost count of the number of Schwertransport convoys. Maybe it’s normal at night – huge pipes, machinery, wind power blades …

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do read romance novels. The only ‘formulaic’ part is the happy end. The ones that are enjoyable to read require the same as any other genre – good plot, pacing, character development, dialogue, etc. AI is just as unreadable in romance as is any ‘worthy’ genre.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As far as views go I'm going to file this one under 'holy fuck.'

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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 30/09/2026

🦋🐞🐝🐛🦟 Hey, am Sonntag stelle ich hier beim NABU Hamburg mein Buch vor. Eintritt ist frei, müsst euch aber hier anmelden: www.nabu-hamburg.de/lesung2026

Ich halte mein Buch Gärtnern für die Artenvielfalt in die Kamera

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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a half Sicilian I both understand this and will be using it going forward.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cruel, but funny, and well worth 1 minute 44 seconds of your time. (Sound up recommended for the full effect)

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a good joke about local beer rivalries in NRW in the comments section beneath the Guardian article.

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The Anti-Christ Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 29/09/2026

As a non-fan, this is a fantastic bit of explanation. Hoo-boy. This is one spicy meatball right here.

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aesche @aesche.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interessante Wolken gerade am Frühabendhimmel, von der Sonne als Prisma genutzt.

Zwei trichterförmige Wolken, deren Aussehen in der Struktur an Zuckerwatte erinnert, eine wirkt am Rand, von der Sonne angestrahlt, in Teilen der Regenbogenfarben leuchtend, da sie das Licht der Sonne bricht.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵

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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The activities in Fairford appear to be an overconfident, poorly planned, operation to steal large quantities of fuel oil. But enough about the US Military

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Ben Elton's Politics Bit

Alt: Early 1989s Ben Elton,with long hair, making a joke about a little bit of politics

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish medical history. Finally James Young Simpson gets a moment of peace, locks himself in the toilet and sits down on the throne to enjoy a cheeky half hour of me time with the latest issue of Nuts magazine.

Statue of James Young Simpson in Edinburgh, he looks a bit like he's sitting down on the toilet leafing contemplatively through a book

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

R-R-Rrrrrrandom Illustration Monday!

Illustration of a cartoon boy and anthropomorphic sabre toothed cat (apologies to Bill Watterson) standing next to each other, staring with confusion/surprise at a museum diorama display of a stuffed sabre tooth cat attacking a paleolithic human with blank gazes in the foreground.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic post of the day

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like self-checkout, but it did occur to me lately that in many cases, we are saving companies money by doing the job they used to pay employees to do. Not just in supermarkets.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From a German perspective, this is such a weird argument. I was a SAHM when my kids were little and they went to kindergarten, like most other kids. It’s not only about enabling parents to work – a good Kita fosters cognitive and emotional development. In fact, that’s the more important aspect imo

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Ustinische Sümpfe @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Ich habe eine kleine interaktive Abfrage gebastelt, wo ihr euch die Stolpersteine in eurer Gegend anschauen könnt (Link). Beispiel: Magdeburg. Beim Klick auf den Kreis erhaltet ihr den Text auf dem Stein. Einfach die Karte zu eurem Ort verschieben und neu ausführen. overpass-turbo.eu/s/2xap

Karte von Magdeburg mit Markierungen für den Ort eines Stolpersteins

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Niemand: Die Linke sollte einfach mal regieren, dann wird sie sich schon von selbst entzaubern. Wir sollten die Sorgen & Ängste von Linke-Wählern ernstnehmen. Daher kopieren wir jetzt Teile ihres Programms und sprechen vor allem über ihre Themen Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Lebenshaltungskosten & Mieten.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again – anyone who lets an AI agent or bot communicate in their name is just asking for trouble.

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Christa Dürscheid @christaduerscheid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Das Verb zügeln ist in grammatischer Hinsicht vielseitig verwendbar. Man zügelt sich (reflexiv), man zügelt das Pferd (transitiv), man zügelt (intransitiv). Die intransitive Variante kommt vor allem in der Schweiz vor. Und das gerade jetzt: Der 1. 10. ist für viele ein Zügeltag.

Was du am Zügeltag griffbereit haben solltest
Wenn alles noch in Kartons verpackt ist, hilft eine «Erster-Tag-Kiste» mit den wichtigsten Dingen für die ersten Stunden im neuen Zuhause.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are many things in this world I do not know nearly well enough to offer what would be a presumptuous opinion. On #Ireland, the #OrangeOrder, and #GarvaghyRoad, I did come across this comment on Insta that I'd like to offer instead. Peace is fragile. This is how we hold on.

kev_buchanan writes on Instagram in response to a news item:

I understand tradition. I understand freedom. And I understand the principle of having the right to walk peacefully on a public road.

But surely rights also come with responsibility, judgement and an understanding of history.

For almost 30 years the Orange Order has not walked down Drumcree Garvaghy Road. That restriction didn't appear from nowhere. It followed years of confrontation, violence and division surrounding a period in which people lost their lives and, amid the horror of 1998, three young brothers, Richard, Mark and Jason Quinn, were murdered in a loyalist petrol-bomb attack.

Yet here we are in 2026, after an administrative failure opened the original decision to legal challenge, with men sitting through the night in court and now apparently prepared to wait however long it takes to exercise their "right" to walk down one particular road.

But why?

Tradition matters. Freedom matters. The rule of law matters. But so do remorse, empathy, responsibility and knowing when a tradition has become more damaging than meaningful.

Nobody needs to surrender their culture or identity. But after almost three decades, if exercising a right means insisting on walking through a community that overwhelmingly does not want you there, reopening wounds that Northern Ireland has spent years trying to heal, perhaps the bigger question isn't whether you can.

It's why you still feel you must.

At some point preserving tradition has to matter less than preserving peace. Otherwise we aren't honouring history - we're refusing to learn from it.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I dare say most of us already have a personal agent that intimately understands us. We call them mum, partner, spouse, or friend.

@ASTROPHILESZ posts on Insta:

BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg declares everyone will have a personal Al agent that “intimately understands you” within 5 years.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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deedotkurses @deedotk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Terrified for the kids now coming up that may have their dreams crushed, and for the humanities as a whole.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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