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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I love it when privately-educated people just blithely announce to you that "I didn't grow up wealthy, my parents just made sacrifices" like, ok m8, what sacrifices were my parents supposed to make? How much can you really get for a pre-owned burgundy Renault 19?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Re: latest “adhd is over diagnosed” culture war slop from the Wes Streeting Piss Factory. Ban neurotypicals, they simply cannot be trusted to use their brains in a sensible way

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just imagine if the UK had some sort of national broadcaster that had a duty to act in the public interest.

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is funny but does kinda remind me how important and undervalued the creative industries are in the uk

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The kids using “Brexit” and “AI” as insults makes me think the kids are pretty great, actually

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was it in the form of 30 twiglets?

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Bauhausandmies 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I paid my student loan (a hefty $90k thanks to interest being applied from day one) and I would happily support a government paying off other people’s student loans. Just because I don’t benefit directly from the policy doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

think about all the cool things he could do right now if he was prime minister with a supermajority.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you want to understand why ADHD diagnoses in the UK currently appear to be increasing, the following data explain it. The best estimates are that around 5% of people globally actually have ADHD. However, in the UK, only 3.4% of children and 1.8% of adults have a formal diagnosis.

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bob Vylan, Kneecap, Macklemore- not just bans but police "terrorism" investigations(!) I don't think there has been music censorship like this since the 1990s/"Parental Advisory "/Cop Killer /2LiveCrew era. There was an Iraq War bit (Dixie Chicks), but not like this. Born of establishment fear imo

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interesting thread on DW Griffiths and the myths around him

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“First they came for the communists and I did not speak up because I was not a communist. Then they were chill and everything was ok” - no one, ever

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ameliorates is definitely not the right word, I mean it provides moments where that tension is released by his outsized emotional reactions

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh I've only got through the first 4. I feel like Tim Robinson's prior work approaches social and status anxiety at a Kafka level and weirdly this element ameliorates the tension of the central mystery somewhat

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah my partner covered Veronica Mars for a recap podcast and it feels as if it should have been able to be much better, that was mid oughts. The Ferengi, oof. Maybe they were just going for a satire of free market capitalism and weren't aware how that might come across with prosthesis

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah that's fair. Maybe I give her a pass because I don't really give a shit about the books! It really feels like "THESE are the books you're giving money to persecute trans people for?"

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is also a bunch of stuff (eg antisemitic goblins) can be put down to unintentional - given she seems to be very derivative and not that smart?

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I agree that it’s kind of a throwback. I think some things - like Harry supporting the status quo - can broadly be supported by the idea that the status quo in world is meant to be Not That Bad. I think she thought she was doing a certain thing with SPEW that misfired tbh, but maybe that’s generous

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This reminds me a bit of Claude Shannon’s measure of “surprisal” - that went into his informational definition of entropy

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alan Partridge pretending to like wine, except the caption reads "Can I just shock you, I like the the dictatorship of the proletariat"

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Well it's a good thing trans women are women innit

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh sorry due to poor reading comprehension I genuinely thought you were talking about Deadloch

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m a bit too tired to get into how important or intentional I think all of that stuff is but I do think I would give her more grace/benefit of the doubt in her writing if she wasn’t like she is irl

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I didn’t include the replies there obviously! Anyway, now we know she sucks can we just move on to some better authors who will bring us even more childlike wonder but without all the real life shittiness?

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Many years ago - before the full extent of her monstrous bigotry and ego was revealed - I asked my Facebook friends what was good about her writing. Don’t get me wrong - I liked reading those books, but when I tried to break down why I struggled. It was pretty interesting to hear people’s replies.

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A wizard of Earthsea is literally my favourite book ❤️❤️❤️

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m not assuming this will crash and burn but it’s sort of hilarious having this amount of faith in your mediocre characters and world. Obviously the reason is that they were hugely popular and made you rich, so it’s not baseless, but they are mediocre.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 18/09/2026

Not giving a fuck about Harry Potter the first time around certainly gives me a leg up on this. But I do feel a bit for those for whom the books and movies were so significant... But also, there's so much other stuff out there that doesn't directly enrich an awful transphobe.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 18/09/2026

does this ever end? who am i to ask this now as the beast’s belly? #haiku

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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