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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/09/2026

ai doesn't "hallucinate" it's structurally indifferent to truth ai doesn't give people "ai psychosis" it automates cult dynamics it's a bullshit engine that makes people go auto cult

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one of the greats by one of the greats: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “The Leaving”

The Leaving
My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not, and the pond was—I could see as I laid the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I get why people are asking “what have we become?” but the answer is “exactly what you’d expect from a decade and a half of the press reciting the spicier bits of Mein Kampf at the public, and our whole ruling class agreeing we need to crack down on the lesser races and their Bolshevik allies”.

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

This is all very awkward because Israel, as a society, is dead set on destroying or removing the Palestinians as a people and they are not shy about saying this is what they want. It makes it difficult to convince the public the people who recognised this are worse than the ones calling them names.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran claiming to be 'culturally Irish' gives the vibe that he thought being Irish was pints o' Guinness and shamrocks rather than implacable multi-generational communitarian struggle against imperialism.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am staggered by the insistence on the part of the press that a small rich village in Oxfordshire flinching at shadows and throwing a tantrum is worthy of news coverage. These people don't have real problems, they aren't afraid, they live in a sheltered bubble and have melted their brains.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Like I can't stress enough that this tension is at the heart of everything and if you try and get round it your analysis is going to fall apart. You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Your bad art is better than AI slop.

four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remember, according to the sensible centrists, this is the news organisation to turn to if you think the BBC is a bit too much. Is there an option for news that *isn't* produced by screaming fascists? Heavens no. Why? Stop asking stupid questions.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Eventually, it will be widely acknowledged that saying a country had the right to cut off food and water to perpetrate genocide, oppressing those who would oppose it, and dehumanising trans people and immigrants were not incidental missteps but, in fact, provided the exact measure of a man.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Mladic may be dead now, but the spirit endures.

Lord Walney & @LordWalney
X.com
So important: Esteemed historian @simonmontefiore counters the claim has deceived so many people - the lie that Israel is conducting is a genocide in Gaza
The New Statesman y @NewStatesman • 2h
Simon Sebag Montefiore: I still don't think there is a genocide in Gaza
@simonmontefiore speaks to @tanjil_rashid_ for the Weekend Interview...

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There is nothing to be done about the people who have been pickling their brains in a constant output of "this group of marginalised people you don't like are taking your money!" from our domestic propaganda outlets for decades. They simply have to be told to fuck off and grow up.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is bracing, remarkable reading by Will Self about Jason Arday, naming names in blistering terms, including several prominent TERFs who joined the kicking of Arday. May Kathleen Stock and Sarah Ditum and everyone else involved never live this down.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The 2010s began with a televised public inquiry into the literal crimes of British newspapers. It ended with the same papers hounding members of the public who inconvenienced and embarrassed Boris Johnson. There’s your nutshell summary.

Increasingly feel the failure/cancellation of the Leveson enquiry one of the most significant political moments of my lifetime at least re the UK
Ben Smoke @bencsmoke • 10h hounded to death by an unrelenting and under regulated media. in any normal society this would give rise to serious questions about the conduct of journalists and platforms and would lea...

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nice to get back from Wales and get my contributor copy of Poetry Wales

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...

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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Issue Ten, pt. 1, is LIVE andotherpoems.com/issue-ten-pa... poems by Sapphire Allard, Tom Blake, Liz Byrne, Oliver Carmichael, Heather Hughes, Nathaniel King, Iona Lee, Jacob Mckibbin, Sarah Meehan, Sarah Rosengarten, Rosamund Taylor, Gabrielle Tse, Fiona Tracey, Mark Waldron, & Ramya Yandava

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 06/08/2026

The EHRC Code of Practice comes into force this week. This is an attack on trans+ people. It is guidance, not law. It does not remove rights or make harassment legal. UCU stands in solidarity with the trans+ community. Join the lobby for trans equality, 9 September with Trans+ Solidarity Alliance

The EHRC guidance and Code of Practice comes into force this week. This is an attack on trans+ people.
These changes will make trans+ people's lives harder.
They will not make women safer.

As a result of this we are likely to see greater exclusion from everyday spaces, increased scrutiny and harassment, and institutions rushing through damaging policy changes.
Let's be clear, it does not:
• Permit harassment or discrimination.
• Remove anyone's legal protections.
• Justify rushed, intrusive policy changes.

What you can do:
• Look out for each other, solidarity is practical, not just a post.
• Report harassment, it is still illegal and your union will back you.
• Push your institution to protect every student and member of staff.
• Join us in Parliment for a mass rally on September

Violence against women is real, and it is serious. It is also being used to justify this attack on trans people.
This guidance will not prevent it.
The dangers women face do not come from trans people sharing a bathroom.
UCU sends solidarity to the trans+ community. We will keep fighting for trans+ inclusion, and against the misuse of the EHRC Code of Practice.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bit tasteless for Robbie Williams to come dressed as Jimmy Savile

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Liberals like Hinsliff are big fans of ~tough decisions~ for the peasantry, at best apathetic about policies that kill refugees, disabled people, trans people and many more. Proud to say how nice hatemongers were to *them* but then shocked the peasants don't like the people harming and killing them.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

You only sue Amnesty International if you are anti-rights.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This lad makes me laugh every time I see him. I've never seen a man look 48 years old more than this man. I can't wait for him to get pancaked by a drunk dump truck driver

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Thinking about war and pastoral in July – a while ago I wrote a response to ‘As the Team’s Head-Brass’ by Edward Thomas. It is based on an encounter I had as I walked the Ridgeway one summer: www.bathmagg.com/sashadugdale/

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Sasha Dugdale — bath magg

Sasha Dugdale - Hedgecutter

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Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#poem #poetry #writingcommunity This from Anna Swir (1909-1984)

POETRY READING
I'm curled into a ball like a dog that is cold.
Who will tell me why I was born, why this monstrosity called life.
The telephone rings. I have to give a poetry reading.
1 enter.
A hundred people, a hundred pairs of eyes.
They look, they wait.
I know for what.
1 am supposed to tell them why they were born, why there is this monstrosity called life.
Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

That's my hand at the start of this video. And more importantly, my poem in the book

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 27/06/2026

We need to adopt as a nation a politics of kindness and empathy and peace. And to do that we do as a nation unfortunately have to put a bunch of specific people in the ground

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Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here's an extremely topical poem, 'Antifa', from Rachel Davies. Please submit your political poems to the Morning Star at: thursdaypoems@gmail.com We look forward to reading them. 🌿 @mstaronline.bsky.social @ruthaylett.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/antifa

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Antifa

I’ve seen mounds of bacon and sausage and heard crazy claims for Sharia lawhow a hijab is an existential threat to a full EnglishI’ve seen plumbers come and gostuttering stopcocks, warped u-bends...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Being right about Gaza is likely to be even worse for the left than being right about the Iraq War or austerity was, because it binds together the Sensible Moderates, the right and the far right in a kind of death-pact of denial. They’ll have to stick together screaming abuse at us forever, now.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our next Masterclass Webinar is led by Ian Humphreys, author of #poetry collections Zebra and Tormentil. Monday 29th June, 7-8pm BST Recording link also sent to ticket-holders £17 Wings of Desire: poems of love, loss and receovery. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclas...

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment. It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_s...

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Keir Starmer denies saying Israel 'has the right' to withhold water and power from citizens in Gaza

YouTube video by LBC

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

From 'Ring Cairns', in 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' (Longbarrow Press, 2019), Peter Riley

The bit of pavement in Birstall where
Jo Cox was killed, near the library. I take
a photograph, of nothing, to remind me

of nothing, and how her name sails clear of it
how her speech is written on a history and
the killer’s name forgotten soon as said.

All we demanded was justness, to see it
brightening the air over as plain a piece of pavement
as you’ll find between love and hell.

And still a report echoes across the dull town
and still an answer stands in the language.
The photo goes into war records under “Whatever”.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I mean, it’s obviously one of the most idiotic and disastrous bungles in British political history: an absolutely clownshoes piece of unnecessary slapstick, entirely because this one tiny group of clueless dorks nobody likes wanted it and thought they were much better and smarter than everybody else

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Rich fresh wine of June, we stagger into you smeared with pollen 🖤

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If there was ever any doubt remaining that this was 100% correct, you might think that - say - the actual President of the United States recruiting actual Tony Blair to help flog his big Disneyland Gaza selloff board would’ve banged a nail through those.

The Irish Times • @IrishTimes
'World's richest nations' facilitating
'undisguised genocide' in Gaza, says Sally
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One more note. The media's near-silence on this astonishing legal shift is almost as disturbing as the issue itself. This vast change is covered in most outlets way down the bulletins, with almost no explanation or context. This is how democracy dies: not with a bang but a whimper. Thank you.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Compare their awkward stammering over constant summer far riot riots vs your gran on the anti-genocide protests. Look at for whom they summon boiling fury and vows of unrelenting vigilance and crackdowns. They are telling you what their priorities are.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 09/06/2026

There is no democracy without a healthy media ecosystem and therefore it is clear there is no democracy in the UK (or anywhere else for that matter) As such, any party serious about the threat of the far right and authoritarianism must place radical media reform at the top of their agenda

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/06/2026

Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide. The experts already have. A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading human rights organisations all agree: it's genocide. Andy, why won't you call it what it is?

CALL IT WHAT
IT IS:
GENOCIDE

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Again, “Marxist Bolshevik intellectuals are conspiring with the lesser races to undermine the Reich and abuse Our White Women” has been the narrative *for fifteen years* on TV, radio and news stands. The difference now is it’s a) undisguised, and b) targeted at Sensible Moderates, not the pig people

we are absolutely fucked unless this process is somehow pushed into reverse, because otherwise the only hope is 'the left (as very broadly defined) wins elections forever', which is a bit of an ask
• Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsk... • 16m
The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism.
It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.
debate on wieter o police are anu-wate

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

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