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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺

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Dutch resident, Australian novelist with earlier careers in criminal law & biology. Green 💚 Human Author. ✍️ Death to genAI. 🚫DM www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret… www.margaretmorgan.info

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Anne Welsbacher @awelsbacher.bsky.social · 8h
For authors: beware emails or other approaches by an outfit called ClaimsHero offering to represent you in suing for use of your works to train AI without your knowledge. authorsguild.org/news/claimsh...
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Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
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True Blue Liberal @trueblueliberal.bsky.social · 8h
"It's not artificial"? Really, Donny? Is it picked from an AI tree? Or is it dug from an AI mine? We have a person who doesn't understand that "artificial" simply means "made by humans rather than occurring naturally" trying to manipulate our language, which he neither understands nor appreciates.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 8h
“To all those with a short memory: antisemitism isn’t an accident in the RN, it’s that party’s history. That’s the real face of the far right.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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National Rally’s Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war’ on party after antisemitism claims
President of Marine Le Pen’s far-right party faces calls to resign over comments he allegedly wrote as a teenager
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 12h
🔴 BREAKING - Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes first woman prime minister of Morocco
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Morocco's king appoints Marrakesh mayor El Mansouri as first woman prime minister
King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's first woman prime minister on Tuesday after her liberal-centrist party came out on top in a September 23 parliamentary election, the…
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13h
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 14h
The Dutch centre-right government has scrapped plans to drastically cut support for the disabled and unemployed, as a result of sustained refusal by the leftwing opposition to agree to it. Bravo PRO! www.volkskrant.nl/cs-b2b14214/
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Kabinet schrapt de bezuinigingen op de WW en de WIA, bonden willen weer praten
Het kabinet schrapt de voorgenomen bezuinigingen op de uitkeringen voor arbeidsongeschikte en werkloze mensen. Dat is dinsdag bevestigd door de oppositiepartijen Pro en ChristenUnie.
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Marco Fechner 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pankowerpflanze.de · 28/09/2026
Die 4 Berliner Fraktionsmitglieder aus der grünen Jugend haben einer Koalition mit der CDU eine kategorische Absage erteilt. ⚫️🟢🔴 Ist damit nicht möglich.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16h
Andy Burnham will set out process to identify a replacement for the First Past the Post voting system as part of his platform for fixing politics, according to the Guardian Earlier this month almost 200 MPs supported an elections bill amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 16h
From Latino voters in focus groups, who regret voting for Trump: "And they said, you know, this is not what I voted for." Sargent: "It is what they voted for, in the sense that Trump said he was going to do that." Exactly.
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 18h
🇫🇷 Le président du #RN Jordan Bardella, a dénoncé "les prémices d'une guerre totale" et une "tentative de déstabilisation de la campagne présidentielle", après la publication d'un article de Mediapart l'accusant d'avoir tenu des propos antisémites en 2013
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 17h
After I broke my foot in April, and had to slowly hobble up and down our Dutch staircases, our pooch Rüb would accompany me, take a few steps, then stop and look up to see if I was okay. Dogs ❤️
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 17h
A little help from Earth 🌍 On 28 September, our Juice spacecraft flew by Earth, using our planet’s gravity to adjust its course towards Jupiter, increasing its speed by 3.5 km/s while using very little fuel. Next up: another Earth flyby in 2029, before Jupiter in 2031. 🔗 esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 17h
We need to stop accepting AI vendors using the word "misalignment". You keep running software you know has unpredictable behaviour, without monitoring or controls, in a way that could harm others. This isn't "agent was misaligned" - it is (possibly criminal) negligence at this point.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost songs from Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett found in garage
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Lost songs from Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett found in garage
Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett recorded the songs with Split Enz's Tim Finn in 1998.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 17h
Goed gedaan. www.techradar.com/pro/dutch-go...
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Dutch Government is the latest to ditch Microsoft — US sanctions push Netherlands towards home-grown NixOS-based software
Netherlands seeking sovereign software options
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every bit of this 👇
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h
Yes! Kill first-past-the-post! Kill it with fire! (Or with legislation. That'd work too.)
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allunderonebanner.bsky.social @allunderonebanner.bsky.social · 20h
Bring it on 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, in Russian propaganda:
Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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• Translated from French Show original
I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyEls van Veen O
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I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemyNadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
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I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyDday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy
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🦘 Markedly @nogravitasatall.bsky.social · 21h
Try moving an photo in Microsoft Word - in a document for “The Board” youtube.com/shorts/T2lgR...
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Moving a Photo in Microsoft Word
YouTube video by Jess and Quinn
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21h
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h
Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears
Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 20h
Just look at this garbage take. "Troubling"? No, if they were believed to be terrorists, they wouldn't have been bailed. The UK has powerful anti-terrorism laws, ergo... "A strategic US base"? No, it's a UK base which the US uses. Maybe the US should just shut up.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22h
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 21h
This is terrifying. Combine the Kelvin wave, fed by the super-El Niño, with already raised ocean water levels, a king tide, and increased storms and storm surges, and the potential is catastrophic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 21h
This is such brilliant news! (Also, great cartoon.)
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming soon: 'AI company apologises for accidentally triggering multiple missile launches causing WW3, it was trying to find a definition for the word 'silo'.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 21h
The heat isn't giving up. Hoping this is its last hurrah before we finally get some autumn.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning...” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God, yeah, whatever could lead you to speculate that they might be fuel thieves?
Text from a Times story on the Fairford incident:

The vans contained barrels and were marked with a fake logo and phone number so they gave the impression, wrongly, of being owned by a legitimate fuel transit company. It sparked speculation about whether the men were fuel thieves.
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Whale hits yacht!" "Yacht hits whale!" 2 different headlines. 2 different channels. SAME STORY! I guess the difference is that the owner of 1 channel also owns a yacht?
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, they certainly won't be selling much outside the US. They won't be allowed.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Andrew Scott might just be the finest actor of his generation. And I suspect this film might seal the deal. youtu.be/XHQ9sWe40bk?...
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ELSINORE Official Trailer (2025) Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman
YouTube video by ONE Media
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#JoinYourUnion
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AndyInBrum @andyinbrum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s going to end up that they’re going to be a bunch of scotes who were going round nicking fertiliser and farm stuff and hadn’t realised how close to the air base they were
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Fairford suspects out on bail already. This is a very intriguing situation.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Greg Sargent holds the best conversations with political experts in his brief, daily podcasts about the Dark Days of Trump. No hyperbolic headlines screeching with hysterical exclamation marks, just thoughtful, evidence-based journalism. Like here:
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social, an excellent dissection of Sky's "The War Games", featuring undisclosed conflicts of interest, political self-aggrandising and exploding egos, and blatant propagandising for the arms industry. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-the-ter...
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In the terrifying world of Dr StrangeGove
Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Greens have revealed that the leader has been dealing with a pre-existing medical condition, which has worsened.
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Breaking: Greens leader Larissa Waters steps down due to illness
The Greens have revealed that the leader has been dealing with a pre-existing medical condition, which has worsened.
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Difficult & Problematic @fladdle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Available here on SBS. All seasons.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blue Lights, set in Belfast, is one of the best police dramas I've seen. So pleased another season is about to drop! theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘My husband has to remind me: You’re not a real cop!’ Siân Brooke on the perils of playing a tough Blue Lights ‘peeler’
She lit up Sherlock, made a brutal exit from House of the Dragon and now she’s back in the hard-hitting Belfast-set police drama. Will she have to stuff a chopping board into her flak jacket this time...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Linocut by contemporary printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While establishing the use of the first person by its chatbots was initially a deliberate marketing ploy by AI purveyors to make users trust the algorithms, it seems that the psychoses that some poor souls developed as a result is in fact the default state of those drug-addled techbos themselves.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re buying subs from the US because insane nutters on Govt think we need to defend ourselves against China, which the US is proposing to sell weapons to…
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The base is used by the US for heavy bombers to attack Iran, thanks to a decision by Starmer earlier this year. This attack was thwarted by sheer chance. Not intelligence or surveillance, not by the UK or US authorities. A local farmer. Boggling incompetence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/sep/28/raf-fairford-counter-terror-police-suspected-bomb-plot-iran-link-investigated-latest-news-updates

I was coming home late from a party. On reaching our farm, I found both the driveway and the road blocked by three white vans… We had noticed some activity from what I assumed were plain-clothed police officers for the previous few days, so initially I thought perhaps this was more of the same.

I had no choice but to turn my vehicle around and return back the way I came. On driving a short distance from the vans, I saw a large group of hooded and masked men. When they saw me, they ran ahead of me, some into the field and some towards the neighbouring village of Kempsford.

I then realised that something highly unusual was taking place. In light of my awareness of a security threat to the base, I immediately called the MoD (Ministry of Defence) police, the phone rang out and they didn’t answer.

At 1.36am I called 999 to report what I had seen. Within 10 minutes, the village was full of armed police. I think it was pure luck that I arrived in the village at a similar time to the vans.
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