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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4h

The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h

2. Burnham tryinh to be main charscter of British politics: he wants to set policy agenda + the political weather In 745 days as PM, Keir Starmer often did not often seem to be the main character: Farage more often did (esp 2025). Agenda set by events (eg riots) + others too (eg Trump, Tommy R)

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 11h

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 7h

‘The main purpose of his trip, however, was to study art. He had already written two novels, without any signs of success. A more viable career, he now believed, would be as an art historian’

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8h

On the day after the referendum I remember saying to someone "the worst thing about this is we're going to leave and then we're going to spend the next 20 years trying to get back in and by then I'll be retirement age..."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 11h

‘The real question is no longer whether Britain could recover its old opt-outs and budget rebates, but whether it is prepared to join a union that is more fiscally integrated, more interventionist, more geopolitical and, in many respects, markedly less British than the one it left.’

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Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 11h

Emmanuel Macron salue la réouverture du débat sur une réintégration du Royaume-Uni dans l’Union européenne ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/ttmg

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 16h

‘Mr. Olah grew excited when a participant brought up the idea of having models confess, much like the Catholic sacrament of confession’ Penance will be five million Hail Marys and ten million Our Fathers.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026

Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 14h

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Facebook post about “Superintelligence” from the White House…

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 15h

Don't believe the Europeans when they say the UK is no longer interesting, a priority etc etc Every senior EU official I've met today in Brussels has spent 20 mins talking about @andyburnham.bsky.social speech. The EU is paying attention and interested - even if it pretends otherwise

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 15h

To think there are still people out there talking about "targeted strikes" and "minimising civilian casualties". This is no different to what Russia has done in Eastern Ukraine.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15h

infuriatingly, I just found this reference as a screenshot on my desktop and spent too long trying to find it in a library catalogue before I remembered that it's an AI hallucination

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 15h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nin...

They rent a computer capable of printing all the possible permutations, and hire two Westerners to install and program the machine. The computer operators are skeptical but play along. After three months, as the job nears completion, they fear that the monks will blame the computer (and, by extension, its operators) when nothing happens. The Westerners leave slightly earlier than their scheduled departure without warning the monks, so that it will complete its final print run shortly after they leave. On their way to the airfield they pause on the mountain path. Under a clear night sky they estimate that it must be just about the time that the monks are pasting the final printed names into their holy books. Then they notice that "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out".

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham's speech hasn't gone unnoticed in Brussels (where I am) Maybe Canada helped pave the way But a sense among senior officials here there's a more purposeful and political Govt in London that's willing to be clearer and more strategic about what it wants with/from EU

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18h

‘Mussolini transformed his birthplace into a monument to his own myth, broadening its narrow main street into a boulevard punctuated with reminders of his supremacy.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the cult of Mussolini. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 20h

Radio 3 playing ‘Moonlight Sonata’ at 7am. They want to get the nation up and running obvs.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like the way the Fairford story keeps getting smaller.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 21h

Ada, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing. Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836. UK Government Art Collection

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like the way the Fairford story keeps getting smaller.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Conservative Party debated for a couple of hours and decided that no, they are not a serious party. Inevitably.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social removes the absolute tripe lock on mischievous speculation about an early election.

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LMcNell @lmcnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Woah…anyone else notice CEO Dario Amodei’s faces behind Mike Johnson?!?!

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘AI might threaten humanity’ is really not helpful. Cognition isn’t a boxing match with AI in one corner and humans in the other.

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OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns

The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hymns are mandatory for the proles. À la carte for the ruling class.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Where should our tax and immigration policies be trying to attract researchers from?' for example, is a question that has a different answer when your starting point is 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hymns are mandatory for the proles. À la carte for the ruling class.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

View of Interior of Pantheon, c 1734, oil on canvas, by Giovanni Paolo Panini, commissioned by collector Francesco Algarotti. Italian architect & painter (1691-1765), Panini was admired for architectural views & capricci of Ancient Rome; trained Hubert Robert & influenced Canaletto, Bellotto. NGADC

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If he is the code, I suppose he can be the farmer as well.

Daily Mail headline “‘Iran Bomb Plot’ at RAF base foiled by farmer’s 999 call’

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wife is looking for ‘a solar person’. I suggested Apollo, but this was met with disdain. Perhaps he doesn’t do panels.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If he is the code, I suppose he can be the farmer as well.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Vase of Flowers c 1660 by Abraham Mignon, German still life artist (1640-1679) active in Utrecht. Profuse, vibrant composition of flowers & insects, with rare flamed tulip Semper Augustus & pink Rosa Centifolia, arranged in glass vase reflecting cloudy sky; with dark background of stone niche. 1/2

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Political parties that are firmly pro-human. Or am I going too far?

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fergal Keane, ex BBC: ‘I reported on all the Garvaghy Road disputes through the Nineties and the associated deaths and destruction. Also reported on the first banned parade in Portadown in 1985. Terrible times. It’s incomprehensible that we could be heading back there.’

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Mark Reel @markreel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot put across how much this Garvaghy road shite has fucked with my head

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘he struggled to read his own handwriting at times, as some of the reference errors in Naissance de la clinique at least would attest.’

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/09/2026

‘𝘐𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 (1890), Whistler implied that an inability to appreciate unfinishedness in painting betrayed a failure of negative capability – the capacity to dwell in uncertainty.’ Harry George Daniels on the painter. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Harry George Daniels · At Tate Britain: Whistler’s Contradictions

Whistler has not had a major retrospective in Europe in the last thirty years. The Tate show should have been an...

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The first town where humans will be second-class citizens.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

La Classe de Danse, 1874-76, by Edgar Degas, French artist & sculptor of rare versatility; a founder of Impressionism, his raking diagonal views of ballet & race courses expressed a deep interest in the light and movement of contemporary life; died #OTD 1917. Musée d’Orsay

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

See also the U.K., and capitulation to racism and xenophobia even without Farage getting close to winning.

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Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Submissions for academic journals requiring a personal interview.

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The first town where humans will be second-class citizens.

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