Reposted by Baby octopusElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 1hYes there are lots of brilliant trans people and allies fighting. But actually, as a collective society we have no need to do this. There is no serious economic or security context pushing us into this like other political decisions - it’s just pure cruelty and discrimination. 1394
Reposted by Baby octopusKathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1hIf you're a politician, journalist, lawyer, artist, medic or social services or civil servant and you follow me, then this is the one thing I ask you to read. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look… 22313
Reposted by Baby octopusNetpol @netpol.org · 1hHampshire Police have imposed a "mask-free zone" order today from 11.00-17.00, covering most of central Southampton, in advance of a far right demonstration and an anti-fascist counter protest. This gives officers the power to arrest anyone wearing a face covering, regardless of whether they need to 191
Reposted by Baby octopusCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 8hNew blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look… 71578205
Reposted by Baby octopusNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12hEarlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 402843873
Reposted by Baby octopusJeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 7hLLMs can be both a threat and a non-entity. LLMs --> AGI is a non-entity. LLMs stealing IP, exploiting global south, creating a debt bubble to crash the world economy, damaging fragile minds, wreaking havoc on the environment, creating automation too quick to respond to, etc. Those are threats! 1125
Reposted by Baby octopusillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 15hlol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd. 14659991038
Reposted by Baby octopusDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14hHahaha. Muscovite Russians are whiter than snow and I'm not sure "high trust society" and "social cohesion" are the exact terms sociologists reach for when describing life in Moscow at any point in the last century or three. 28813
Reposted by Baby octopusMenestune @menestune.bsky.social · 15hPosted a photo of this scene the other day, here's the accompanying video of the moon on the water as the day breaks on Maui. Maximum zen. #nature #ocean #peace #love #goodmorning #nokings #marinelife 2853078
Reposted by Baby octopusJack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 19hDid you notice that when the woman youtuber was a confirmed plagiarist everyone was happy to end her career forever but when the man youtuber is a confirmed rapist we suddenly get dozens of posts about how "disheartening" it is that people don't believe in restorative justice 301557276
Reposted by Baby octopusAle @alepresser.com · 19hThe black ink was running low when the second cat was made. 1997475
Reposted by Baby octopusNicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 19hHelen picked today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. It's #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill that has striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. A Great Egret showing office breeding colors #ECK #photography #birds 411413
Reposted by Baby octopusLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this 354330565
Reposted by Baby octopuschiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026When will we have a government that makes the "brave decision" to call racism what it is, and say it's unacceptable, and that we need immigrants? When will we have a government that makes the "difficult decision" to support the young workers that hold this country together? #bbcqt 0171
Reposted by Baby octopusBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026WE GOT THEM! SNOWY EGRETS IN FRONT OF THE FULL MOON! 🪶 1230257
Reposted by Baby octopusbugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 02/10/2026To my knowledge we also don't send the IDF any money either and it's depressing we need to clarify this 042
Reposted by Baby octopusBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes 782779509
Reposted by Baby octopusPaul Hanley @paulhanley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I know the tiny audience I have here is mainly for Doctor Who work I did years ago, but @gailsimone.bsky.social checked out the original series I'm co-writin' now with Laurie Foster and digs it! So maybe give it a look, huh? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lag... 29625
Reposted by Baby octopusPunished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 30/09/2026Laundry helper 26912
Reposted by Baby octopusBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 01/10/2026It's a good thing for these guys that they don't have to wait for peer review before they get this stuff out there, these days. 1122
Reposted by Baby octopusSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/10/2026so that’s where children of dune come from 2753433
Reposted by Baby octopusEmmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"teach your sons..." I mean I feel like "don't put your dick in an unconscious person" shouldn't be something that boys need to be taught but here we are. In case it's still not getting through, I wrote this 11 years ago. youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8?...youtu.beTea ConsentYouTube video by Blue Seat Studios 23013
Reposted by Baby octopusBrandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 01/10/2026This newly discovered feathered dinosaur, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that bird-like flight features evolved separately and gradually, in a step-wise manner, across multiple related dinosaur lineages! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12410
Reposted by Baby octopusNika @nikavia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The other side of that coin is how incredibly easy it would be for Burnham to fix the most immediate problems we face. Minor amendments to the GRA and EA2010, rescinding the puberty blocker ban and the schools guidance; these are things he could do right now if he wanted to. He just doesn't want to. 0607
Reposted by Baby octopusSteve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The deadline for donations to the appeal to purchase the #Rothbury Estate in #Northumerland has been extended to the end of October - an extra month in which to raise the remaining £2.1m needed. #Rewilding #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/environ... 11910
Reposted by Baby octopusEurosky Social @eurosky.social · 01/10/2026RIP EU-Haul 🪦 Welcome Eurosky Migration Service 🤗 They grow up so fast 🥹 -> move.eurosky.tech 1024872
Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 01/10/2026No mate. That's Thanos talk. You cannot let yourself go around thinking that a quarter of the population of your country needs to be genocided. You are talking about human beings here. You won't defeat fascism by becoming an even more evil fascist. 120
Reposted by Baby octopusFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cities around the world are taking action to control the threats posed by ebikes in cities. 1023557
Reposted by Baby octopusciv-il disorder 🇵🇸 🕎 ☮️ @uncivil.work · 01/10/2026You and I in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one they were gone Back at base bugs in the software Flash the message: "something's out there!" Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by 0259
Reposted by Baby octopus👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026bsky mods when they review my posts 763073
Reposted by Baby octopusIndie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/06/2026‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm. 1526821049
Reposted by Baby octopusVeeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tiny orbs are getting all up in these crabs and secretly eating their eggs 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 22810
Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 01/10/2026The slaughter of 80 million of your political enemies - an order of magnitude more than Stalin or Hitler killed - would not make people want to visit your country again. It would not fix anything. It would destroy your country and make you the greatest monster of all time. 120
Reposted by Baby octopusJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it. 11707168
Reposted by Baby octopusTACC @tacc.org.uk · 30/09/2026...We have written a response to the Supreme Court calling for it to fully address our concerns, including additional concerns about how our complaint was handled. We have therefore requested a formal review. 28821
Reposted by Baby octopusThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411305342
Reposted by Baby octopusRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries. 1051360
Reposted by Baby octopus😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026she will tell you your fortune … for a price 2341
Reposted by Baby octopusThem Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 30/09/20263 - cont Other RCN nurses are using foodbanks, Peggie has been off work, paid, and come Jan 1st 2027 it will have been for 2 years. She has a crowdfunder of 38K. No other nurse get a KC for their problems at work. That is the reserve of privilege. 1393
Reposted by Baby octopusLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry 1440787
Reposted by Baby octopusPepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shit like this is why I think the bsky-only lefty political posters aren’t unjustified in being a little snobby about it jfc 0298
Reposted by Baby octopusLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026Fuck me, the amount of people trying to get this Manchester City cheating scandal to be called 'The Pepstein files' is going to drive me off a cliff. Take a second and think where the joke is here and what you are using to land it. Then stop it. 1845862
Reposted by Baby octopusKestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 30/09/2026Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in. 1022953
Reposted by Baby octopusLibby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 31/07/2026Especially seeking SINGLE PEOPLE, SOLO POLY PEOPLE, BLACK BRITISH and BRITISH ASIAN PEOPLE at this stage. Please alert your networks! 13343
Reposted by Baby octopusRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Its good there’s people pushing pro trans things within the labour party but i do wish they could understand that when you say “the only way back to trans rights is through the labour party one way or another“ that is very upsetting actually cause all i hear is that we’re fucked then 521831