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Mark Simmons

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Mostly harmless. Disappointed. Be nice. He/him.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19h
Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h
This really dents Katie Price's image as a serious political figure, and I'm not convinced there's any coming back.
STARS CUFFED Katie Price &
Suella Braverman chained
together for C4's Celebrity
Handcuffed - as pair are
seen debating in street
Rod McPhee, TV Editor Felicity Cross, Showbiz Editor
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Updated: 14:33, 5 Oct 2026
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h
“If you’re keeping score, the things that are borked if AI encounters a serious problem now include: The entire global stock market Private markets The dollar”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“astrology for men” was too generous
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h
When the lads say “this party is unelectable”, that is their cast iron promise: we are going to raise hell and scream abuse until you rue the day you opened your big mouths to criticise. Fuck you.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h
You should understand this stuff not as analysis of public opinion - since when did the lads give a fuck about that? - and not even as threats. These are promises: we, the press, are now going to fuck you up, and we won’t stop screaming until your lives are utterly miserable.
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ANALYSIS: Zack Polanski may regret not using his influence when Greens needed him to act - by @peterwalker99Daily Mail @@DailyMail • 1h
DAN HODGES: History will record Zack Polanski as a coward and charlatan who led his once-decent party into political oblivion
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Christ, what an asshole"
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If a large asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, their response would be to call it a socialist rock, cut inheritance taxes ahead of extinction, lower benefits, blame France, deregulate rockets, and privatise all spaceports.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
“This is a huge scheme, maybe the biggest, most illegal scheme anybody has ever seen.” — Donald Trump
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Trump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against Him
WASHINGTON—During an address to the nation Tuesday in which he claimed to have obtained definitive proof that the election was stolen, President Donald Trump presented bombshell evidence showing his o...
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 23h
**blinks in Melania**
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 05/10/2026
Tired: Let's lead the news with "AI might someday wipe out humanity, 10 percent chance" Wired: Let's lead with "the nuke-enabled lunatic might wipe out humanity tomorrow, 45 percent chance" Inspired: Let's lead with "nobody could have seen that nuclear strike coming, good night forever"
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 05/10/2026
The five Ws of journalism: Who, what, where, when, and why the fuck isn't the president's madness the lead story every day, all day
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
ugh, can't believe the woke bluesky mob is scared of bold political thinking, just because it comes from a money launderer who keeps moving headquarters to stay ahead of basic financial regulations
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines
Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‘We do not want a society where people are concerned about hidden audio recordings, photography and filming in places and situations where they are used to being without being monitored.’ www.ft.com/content/a352...
ft.com
Norway is first to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in public places
Law would prohibit use of the technology in parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens
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Arturo Magidin @magidin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shades of officials in the Inquisition telling people that the pain they are suffering is worth it because it will save their souls...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing that’s become apparent to me as AI generated text proliferates is how much we’re being influenced by short attention span/clickbait styles of writing becoming the norm—or even the new accepted & desirable standard.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.
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blair @blairaf.com · 04/10/2026
Some marginalia from my full reading of the Pope's Encyclical on AI this morning: - AI does not love - AI does not intrinsically value truth or justice - AI does not experience hunger - AI does not experience communion with the natural world or any sort of higher power
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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"the point of fraternity hazings and gang rapes is to create a history of criminal activity between groups of men" Yes, yes, somebody here gets it. It is to normalize and imbue them with authoritarian sadomasochism A hierarchy of who gets to abuse who
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Super Intelligence. bsky.app/profile/apne...
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every time he says something completely insane or incoherent and the media basically ignores it, they look more and more disingenuous for acting like Biden was some doddering old fool and I am so fucking sick of it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We normally mention her work as part of why the fluoroscopes vanished from shoe stores. Yes, it's fun and all to let kids see their toes wriggle inside their shoes but not the best idea. In my field, she is far more important for her work at Hanford.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rectangular sticker that shows a simulation of the Oregon Trail game screen with the wagon and below it says you have died from American salad
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
What’s a little blasphemy between friends 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness
An Anthropic delegation at the Vatican tried to lobby the Pope's advisers to convince him that AI models could be conscious.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She’s doing a great job as a leader of a party that is not going to be in government for the foreseeable future. I can say with perfect certainty that if it was even vaguely possible she’d be PM she’d be doing a lot less well.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
at this point pretty much everybody outside the US wonders why a university runs its own police department
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
This should be an entire impeachment trial on its own. The destruction of NSF through impoundment, office shuffles, etc. is obliterating 70 years of bipartisan efforts that turned us into a global scientific superpower and thus a technological and economic superpower.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As for UK influence in the world, having been fortunate enough to attend various events internationally in recent months, it isuch diminished compared to 2016. Something I hope to write up soon. Conservative plans to leave the ECHR would reduce it further.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
UK trade policy failed in large part under the guidance of those quoted in this article, and worse still none of them appeared to learn anything from it, so really not a strong counter to movement towards the EU. www.politico.eu/article/tori...
politico.eu
Tories warn Burnham’s EU ‘pandering’ will shred post-Brexit trade deals
Three former ministers tell POLITICO of “grave consequences” if the U.K. moves closer to the EU under prime minister’s bid for a revamped relationship.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026
More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...
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Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis shows
FT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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