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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 26/09/2026
Leftmost candidate for PM in Israel:
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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of analyses are placing the blame for Dem consultants advocating transphobia on e.g. cowardice, but the better explanation is "modern transphobia is a quintessential elite panic, and these consultants, being elites, have fully bought into it"
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is a metaphor so on the nose it hurts. Literally, they are removing knowledge from the public domain to feed their machines and permanently deny your access to it. The privatization of knowledge and information is their goal.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 25/07/2026
a good piece of advice i once got is to disregard any despairing thoughts about the trajectory of your life that you might have after 9 PM. those are the night thoughts and we do not speak of them
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Viva España
Lamal waving a Palestine flag
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Wonny Jalsh @jalsh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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mimbo jones @mannycoolguy-22.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
not sure why we got tuchel if he was just gonna do what southgate did
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Worse: what Labour did with power - especially the foreign policy and the appalling crackdowns on protestors against it - is so incredibly bad and crooked, that it will bind everyone into lying to the public about it until they retire. Nobody is going to say “Yeah, maybe we were complicit in that”.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If Keir Starmer did “everything” to “make the party electable,” and his party is doing poorly in elections, why would he expect praise for that?
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Or we could look the actual evidence of why people are moving away from Labour?
Stated reasons NOT to vote Labour - LE26 voters in England
Labour switchers, esp left switchers, tend to cite Labour as being 'Tory lite, Labour right switchers cite u-turns and immigration/small boats. For the non-Labour population at large, it's competence, cost of living and migration.
"Below are some reasons some people have given us for why they do not intend to vote for Labour at the local elections this year. Please pick up to five reasons which are closest to your own."
All Labour 2024 defectors
All non-Lab voters
Considered Lab but didn't vote for them
Labour 2024 → Green, Lib Dem
2026 defectors
Labour 2024 → Reform, Con
They have become "Tory-lite" and abandoned
traditional Labour values
It's not clear what Labour stands for anymore
They have been incompetent in government - broken
promises and U-turns
They have mismanaged the economy and the cost of
living is still too high
Keir Starmer is a weak leader and not credible as Prime
Minister
They have raised taxes on working people
Their support for Israel / their stance on Gaza
They have copied Reform's rhetoric on immigration
Their treatment of disabled people and welfare cuts
They are too soft on immigration and the small boats
They give too much to people on benefits and not
enough to working people
Their treatment of pensioners (incl. the Winter Fuel
Payment)
Labour politicians have shown poor standards in public
life (Reeves, Rayner etc.)
Labour-run councils have not delivered where | live
I worry that they can't win in my area - so voting for them
would be a wasted vote
They have not done enough on climate change
Their treatment of transgender people
I do not trust them to run local public services
Their Net Zero policies are damaging the economy
Their local transport policies (LNs, 20mph, cycle lanes)
Don't know
Other
The low quality of their local candidates
They are too left wing / too woke
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I'm really unsure if this new look will succeed in rehabilitating Sir Keir Starmer's image &/or restore British Labour's diminished status among working-class Britons, but good on him for trying, I guess?
Sir Keir Starmer with a radical new look (singlet & tatts).
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
this is my most strongly held political belief
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 18/03/2026
Fun to see how the erroneous predictions line up with how the crypto super PACs were spending. I've spoken before about how Polymarket — despite its PR claims about being more accurate than polls — is often a better signal of what crypto holders WANT to have happen.
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
the fact that this happens from time to time is why oligarchs are much more invested in destroying newsmedia, or convincing you NO media has any credibility, than in building trusted conservative newsmedia
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 26/02/2026
it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI. LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A Republican elected official proudly declaring he has no problem with agents of the state shooting unarmed citizens in the face if they annoy the regime. It is impossible to make democracy work with a party that not only tolerates people like this, but elevates them to positions of influence.
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Pop-up Leftist Cwab Depot @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I recommend submitting a complaint.
App Store complaint about x/twitter making child pornography.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.
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laura @godheadheavyindustries.life · 09/12/2025
so insanely fucking real for this
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I mean the thing about trying to govern with no political ambitions is that your opponents can just project whatever they want onto it and there's nothing you can really do to stop them
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/11/2025
everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Because, again, they *want* to do crackdowns, flag-fucking, migration terror, ugly culture war squealing, belligerent war speeches and scything cuts to benefits, and these are the voters you have to impress and win over to do that in perpetuity. Also, they think libs and progressives are arseholes.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
2024 - NFTS
2025 - Al
2026 - STEW
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/10/2025
white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...
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knight 👮🏻👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🧑🏻‍🚒 @onlythosethings.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We all need to get weirder, more nonsensical and fluid, and hornier, in response to the moralistic, rigid, fascistic, traditional backslide were trapped in.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/10/2025
look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.
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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
this is why you can’t give an inch to transphobes. they are driven by hate and no amount of kindness will make them even momentarily soften. it is a militant ideology.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The bees have discovered Brutalism
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
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oak blanco @abomination.computer · 26/09/2025
(sitting on the computer for 18 hours a day) i’m such a rugged individual haha
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Imagine if Britain had a government of spiteful, deeply crooked, very right wing, Epstein-adjacent weirdos running a highly authoritarian crackdowns and red scares against their critics, denouncing them as terrorist sympathisers and traitors polluting the nation
Will Jennings@drjennings.bsky... • 15h
British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?
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