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MeredyddB

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MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Essential reading - martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If I am me and I am competent then so what if I'm evil? Billy Shakes wrote this rationalizing horseshit and wrote it way better, Pete: "What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. Then fly! What, from myself?"
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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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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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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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:
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Once a reporter asked him, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?" A.J. Muste replied softly: "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is from the newsletter which has done most to uncover what's going on.
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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The first Orangeman to back a united Ireland.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/09/2026
This is insane and also I think we should start doing this very specifically to politicians who profess Christianity and use it to justify their policies
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Cutscene Jensen @eggover1979.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reminds me of the fact that Arnold couldn't do the German dub of the Terminator, since his Austrian accent sounds like a yokel to German audiences, which lead to this hilarious, sadly deleted scene in Terminator 3. youtu.be/kayFrIR-Qfw
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Terminator 3 Sergent Candy Scene
YouTube video by Rohon Nag
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/08/2026
Conservative policy: - Demand criminals get long sentences - Don't build prisons to house them - Oppose early release of prisoners - Cut prisons budgets so that fewer people are rehabilitated 👍
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The traditional move in this situation is of course to name the street in Ottawa where the US embassy is Renee Good Avenue
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️
b&w page with a photo of a man in a suit extracting a book from a vending machine
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Patients with Power @ptswithpower.com · 28/08/2026
Why is it that every time I have to describe something medical, people don't believe it till a doctor signs off on it. Imagine if they were like that about cars.. "I couldn't get my car started this morning" "Did a mechanic actually say it wouldn't start, or is it just you thinking that?" #NEISvoid
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“May your reign continue for eight thousand generations, for eight thousand generations may continue your reign”
Daily Star: Bruce Forsyth's 'ghost' terrorising joggers by singing Japanese national anthem.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Harrison Ford and Cookie Monster nom nomming their way through the Indiana Jones theme fills me with an unreasonable level of joy.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not hard to see why Reform did not announce their plan to abolish Personal Independence Payment until *after* the by-election..
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MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Perfectly put.
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MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Daniel Greenberg back on the job…
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/08/2026
🇫🇷 French village hosts annual pig-squealing championship The French village of Trie-sur-Baise celebrates the 43rd edition of its Pourcailhade festival, an unusual event famed for its pig-squealing championship.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”
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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"People are being attracted to the right for a whole variety of different reasons ... My message to Labour, and to all politicians, is that you’re not going to change this by just changing immigration policy. Underlying all of this is economic pessimism"
newhumanist.org.uk
Q&A: How to resist the far-right in Britain
Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate says we need our political leaders to defend Britain’s multicultural society
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Someone needs to lock Matt Damon in his fucking house. You know how much money we've spent bringing his ass back home???
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Tried to bring raccoon onto airplane
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
it’s very funny to believe that you’re headed to eternal paradise, most people are headed to eternal suffering, but while we’re very briefly on this mortal plane we need to be more racist
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
MARCO RUBIO: “Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.’ IRAN: “Let me explain this in simple English: The United States is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
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MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I think this deserves an airing again. Perhaps it could be updated?
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Bayeux Tapestry is very long. They should shorten the first act, do all the battles as a montage, and give William's character arc closure by having him personally shoot Harold in the eye, resolving the trauma of not being metaphorically "seen" as legitimate by his father.
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I wont stop him." <stop stop he's dead gif>
Rachel Reeves
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I will accept Nigel Farage's request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better.
But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him.
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/ Impossible to square these cuts to creative + performing arts teaching grants with the Government's pledge to put the creative industries at the heart of its growth strategy www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dfe-sla...
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DfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts Professional
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Omg Matt, you're not supposed to say things are 4D chess seriously, you big weirdo
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Sel 🏳️‍🌈 @selonsky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Becklo Becklophoto
Alt: Mamdani and Miss Rachel fake crying gif
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/07/2026
The former U.S. Olympic canoeist faces a charge for destruction of property.
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Former Olympian David Hearn Indicted On Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charge—Could Face 10 Years In Prison
The former U.S. Olympic canoeist faces a charge for destruction of property.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/06/2026
This is a very important distinction.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate.
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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
No no let's hear it out it's worth considering
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
That’s the problem with recognising climate change is a scientific reality and then trying to ensure the only biosphere in the known universe remains habitable, it’s just such a downer.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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