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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21h
Genuinely the best physical game work I've seen in a long time. Escalatrónico7000 was playable as part of the GLITCH Collective showcase at @sagabcngamefest.bsky.social - tactile, poignant, and fascinating. Endless conversation about the little climber friend. www.todonormal.com/pages/escala...
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 13/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA
A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.
FAKE NEWS!
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ranked responses to winning the Nobel: 3. Anne Carson (see below) 2. Peter Higgs (Went for a walk in order to hide) 1. Doris Lessing www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
youtube.com
British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
YouTube video by ReutersLC
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We stayed at home for Christmas and had relations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Trump: "Canada behaves very badly with the United States. We've caught them in the act. They charge us a lot of tariffs that nobody knew about except me."
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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
not yet merged into github.com/olaugh/pfsynth main branch. i made some progress on physically modeled synth for the violin family. some registers and some techniques are still sounding rough. didn't stop me from making a demoscene style string quartet tracker. they let you post anything on here
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026
A brutal bodying for the median bluesky user
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 03/10/2026
Lane || Boot.dev v @wagslane
Holy shit, America is cooked. They were able to perfectly clone the Microsoft Teams experience.


POLTICO
POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope • Oct 1
The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams.
But officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as "absolute shit."
vist.ly/5kje9
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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martinturton.bsky.social @martinturton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amen
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/10/2026
I wrote a little something about how we should better separate the legitimacy of the challenges people are experiencing from the legitimacy of what they're then holding up as the solution to those problems. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-legitim...
dmitryopines.substack.com
On Legitimate Concerns
Problems, Policies and How To Parse Them
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martinturton.bsky.social @martinturton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ms. Rachel for President
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martinturton.bsky.social @martinturton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Blimps, burlesque and brass bands: America takes flight – in pictures
A new Taschen book comprising 700 images from the National Geographic’s archives charts a dramatic century of dizzying change in the US
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
open.substack.com/pub/dwarkesh... Highly entertaining/terrifying
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The perfect illustration of how America has gone to war on itself and is now less able to face external challenges.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Techno Fledermaus 🦇🦇 @mousedib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My theory is that the raf base stuff is literally just diesel thefts, but that the US government accidentally divulged another completely unrelated top secret terrorist threat
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 29/09/2026
"Hero farmer" may not actually have been the one who alerted the police to the men in balaclavas 🤯 www.ft.com/content/e9b1...
ft.com
Suspect in RAF Fairford incident called 999 shortly before arrest
Motive for the emergency call is unclear, as police continue to investigate incident at air base used by US bombers
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still putting ‘bomb plot’ in headlines in the glaring absence of any bombs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Fairford Event. Updates every 15 mins about how nobody knows anything yet, other than the residents of Fairford don't seem to like living next to an airfield that's been there since 1943.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No explosives were found in the three white vans, Bloomberg reports. The investigation continues.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is not, under any circumstances, that one has to hand it generally to the Daily Mail. However, after this charmer recently rocked up outside their offices, I think it would be churlish to deny them the enjoyment of this one specific case. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activist 'Danny Tommo' dabs his eyes as he's refused bail
Thomas appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on Friday morning, with Tommy Robinson attending in support of his friend.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026
Yes, you read that right. NINE times cheaper.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Autumnal Equinox. Six months now until we have this much daylight again.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Rotten Tomatoes @rottentomatoes.com · 23/09/2026
All-new trailer for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's 'You Can See Everything.' The Elizabeth Holmes documentary is in theaters on October 16.
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Alastair Harper @alastairharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads
Someday some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire.
I'll do the trick myself if someone doesn't get at it....
This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful.... We should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel.
We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed.
Now, I am not sure but that my new storage battery is the thing. 167
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A boat purchased by far-right activist Daniel Thomas (aka “Danny Tommo”) to interfere with Border Force operations in the English Channel has sunk.
thetimes.com
Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks
Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations
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