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Mick Brooks

@mick666.bsky.social
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No pasarán. Poole-based, retired from NHS, birdy, movie, music and politics interests 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). Ex-SAFC. PhD in neutron physics. Full list on eBird (ebird.org/profile/MzUwOTAxOA) Films: boxd.it/mBT

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 2m
Journalists are predictably, stereotypically, writing columns seeking to mock @greenparty.org.uk Inclusive Terminology Guidance. But with Far Right broligarchs & friends gleefully embracing awful, abusive language, respect matters more than ever nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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Change Everything No 43: 'Moron' - more than a schoolyard insult?
‘The word ‘retarded’ is back,’ Joe Regan crows
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Comrade DiaMat @comradediamat.bsky.social · 2m
Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... Paywall free: archive.ph/LrX1z
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 32m
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’. Distraction from Trump's economic failures, midterm blues, capitulation to China, court rebukes, tariff and press wars, self-aggrandizement, family fortunes from corruption Why does US Congress not check his abuses?
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Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran - latest
The US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h
US Navy awards RTX's Raytheon $24.4 billion contract for Standard Missile-6 amid stockpile concerns reut.rs/4rH8cqp
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US Navy awards RTX's Raytheon $24.4 billion contract for Standard Missile-6 amid stockpile concerns
The US Navy said on Thursday ​it had awarded RTX's Raytheon ‌unit a multiyear contract worth up to $24.4 billion to produce Standard Missile-6 interceptors ​for the US Navy, as ​the Pentagon pushes to replenish munitions ⁠stockpiles depleted by conflicts in ​the Middle East.
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Gwen 🌈🌺📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 1h
Yesterday the most exciting visitor to my little spa was a Brown Thrasher. Watching it dip their break into the water and swallow was a little bit of magic. 🪶 1/2
A large brown bird with a brown patterned white chest and belly is on the side of the water saucer looking up to the rightThe brown thrasher leans their head up to swallow the water
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Paul Brown @pbrown4348.bsky.social · 1h
Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case in Spotlight. “We have the right to demand safety from our university administrators,” said one student journalist. us.list-manage.com/GRdTaq138Ut?...
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1h
There are no words for how idiotic this is.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 4h
Congratulations to @rufusdawson.bsky.social winner of @marshawards.bsky.social for Young Ornithologist! 🎉 Rufus has conducted tremendous work in leading a monitoring scheme for Lesser Spotted Woodpecker using Passive Acoustic Monitoring. We can’t wait to see more of his work in the future!
An image of Rufus Dawson features in a circular frame. Wording over the image tile reads: Winner. Marsh Award for Young Ornithologist. Rufus Dawson. The BTO and Marsh Charitable Trust logos feature top right of the image.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1h
Oli Dugmore calls out Suella Braverman’s dog-whistling. She then squirms and evades when asked FIVE times if she really thinks you can only be English if you’re white. Oli Dugmore has the perfect response to her incoherent absurdity: Ian Wright and Bukayo Saka. 🔥 #bbcqt
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1h
Suella Braverman, trying to flog her book, says she’s not English (implying nor are any brown/black people). She’s then asked SIX times to clarify what makes someone ‘English’ and she can’t answer. She’s a racist’s dream. How on earth was this dangerous fool Home Secretary? Twice. #bbcqt
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h
I have never heard football fans and journalists be so angry at a club that they want them destroyed. But that is the majority view here. Burnham thanked them and threw the club he's supposed to support under the bus by comparing the equivalent of a parking ticket with industrial scale fraud
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h
While much more trivial, he said he wanted pints back in the stands at football and football fans went 'shut up'. Are we sure he actually knows what football is? He said nice things about the City owners after the verdict. Football fans want City obliterated for what they've done.
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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 1h
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 1h
How many likes can this pig lying happily in its own slop get??
A pig lying in mud, smiling with its eyes closed
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ianballam.bsky.social @ianballam.bsky.social · 1h
Seal at Lytchett Bay 20/08/26
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 1h
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Grebcomics 🐸 @grebcomics.bsky.social · 5h
that time of year again! 🍂
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 1h
I have once again updated my ever-evolving list of my very favorite horror films for October, ENTER IF U DARE 👻🦇🎃 (Also how can you not love @horrornonna.com being front + center here!) letterboxd.com/thathagengrr...
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K8's Horror Canon 👻
A list of 275 films compiled on Letterboxd, including 1000 Women in Horror (2025), 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Years Later (2025) and 3 Women (1977).
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 8h
#BirdOfTheDay is #Black&White; any shot in black and white Alt. is #Vivid; any bird with bright colours Been holding this one a few days for Spooky Season & today's BoD is perfect! You may be goth, but you will never be yard crow goth! #birds #becurious
black and white photo of a crow in silhouette. they are standing on a maple branch, framed with maple leaves and moss. they are in profile facing right, standing upright head looking up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump and Ronny Jackson have a chuckle about the botched execution in Tennessee: "The medication didn't exactly work. He [Jackson] would answer it better than anybody. How does that happen? It shouldn't be very difficult."
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 6h
Bonaparte's gulls in the mist of early morning, taken from the kayak. #birds 🌿
A little, white gull flaps its wings over its head as it comes in to land on the silvery water while a second one takes off behind it in a blur of wings.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h
MAGA’s favorite Democrat has reportedly been working with right-wing groups behind the scenes to get Trump-sympathetic voters’ attention.
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Fetterman’s Secret MAGA Cash Grab Exposed in Leaked Message
MAGA’s favorite Democrat, John Fetterman, has been secretly fundraising with Republicans.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 3h
For #NationalPoetryDay Charlie Hankin New Yorker November 13, 2023
Description: A penguin wants Edgar Allen Poe to write about him like he did with the raven.

Caption: “Do me next.”
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 1h
New in #BirdStudy Breeding habitat preference of the Pallas's Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus in north-eastern Bangladesh www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology
Pallas's Fish Eagle;  wiki commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(5)_Pallas%27s_Fish_Eagle_at_Corbett_National_park,_Uttarakhand_India_March_2013.jpg
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
A third aircraft carrier and a second Marine division has now been sent toward Iran, the WSJ is reporting. Looks like Trump wants to empty those stockpiles completely.
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Comrade DiaMat @comradediamat.bsky.social · 1h
Never forget that ADL spied on and systematically collected files on over 12,000 Americans, including Jewish activists, and sold the confidential information on these activists to the South African apartheid government’s intelligence services. People who work for this org are evil motherfuckers!
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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 2h
Why bother? We could just steal it.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 2h
From asking around today the sense seems to be that he’s genuinely worried about the impact on Mcr - he also said something about wanting to “review” decision when it first leaked - and has made an unusual error in not reading the room (+mistakenly equated it too closely to the Everton situation)
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A Bear @helloiamabear.bsky.social · 3h
One of the "triumphs" of the early SS was the creation of gas wagons, so detained Jews wouldn't even need to be carted to camps. They'd just be put in the back alive and killed by exhaust on the long trip to the body dumping ground.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 8h
Yes but I’m not talking about popularity, I’m talking about it the fact that it’s been abolished for 60 years as it has in almost every liberal democracy.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 16h
Do Americans realise most liberal democracies have solved this issue by… not killing our own citizens?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 8h
Portrait of a Merchant by Jan Gossaert. He's wedged between all the things of his world, but his skeptical gaze crosses effortlessly to ours from 1530.
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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 2h
If aparthied was racism in the 80s why isn't it in 2026?
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 6h
I met Alma and her sister at a restaurant as a tiny tot and they forced Alfred to give me this:
Alfred Hitchcock self-drawn profile sketch and autograph on waiter's pad.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21h
Courtesy of @kevinddaly.bsky.social, a cool photo I don’t think I’ve ever seen before of the family Hitchcock.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h
For the typical worker, more than half of every dollar of income growth is going right back out the door in debt payments. This new report from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @protectborrowers.bsky.social makes it clear: the economy is rigged against working families.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 3h
At a State of the Force address held at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA, Defense secretary Hegseth confirmed plans to cut 20% of generals and admirals. He also stated "We are no longer the woke department or the we... TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Attacking education | Controlling information]
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Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
Amid latest extraordinary attack on diversity, US defense secretary also suggests military is retaining service personnel at ‘record’ rates
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klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 3h
Always following the Roy Cohn playbook: 1. Never apologize or admit wrongdoing 2. Always counterattack & with greater force 3. Use the legal system as a weapon, not recourse for justice 4. Manipulate the media ruthlessly 5. Use fear as a shield & sword 6. Build a fortress of loyalty around yourself
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 3h
Voting Labour is voting to harm disabled people. That’s a fact. Considering there’s only 700 thousand vacancies currently this plan will end up murdering people. This is the real Andy Burnham.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ ⳕ⳽ 𝖽ⲉf @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3h
the drunk part is such a key detail.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 3h
All this ruin. 3 old rich men.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 4h
Trump reportedly told oil executives to raise $1 billion for his campaign while promising them drilling permits. He got the money. They got their permits. Your air and water were never consulted. #PayToPlayPresident
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 3h
One downside of being a fancy middle class professional tran is that it’s clearly unethical for me to ever ask for money to help with the medical things that I really do actually need and can’t afford. And this means I react in quite emotionally ugly ways to my trans siblings getting what they need.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h
Schroedinger Jared Kushner both negotiating peace in Gaza and linked to Israel's largest weapon supplier. Hint: only one is true.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 3h
Thank you everyone for the many shares and vouches and nice words. Made a sizable dent in the total and I’m feeling a lot more buoyant than I was two days ago. I’m sure you know how I feel about asking for this kind of help so I won’t repeat it, but the response has meant a lot to me.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 3h
This is ridiculous. If you need money to leave when you can’t work, your age is of no relevance!
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Curlew Curlew @curlewcurlew.bsky.social · 3h
Who's being politically cynical here? Labour has exerted no pressure on Israel re devastation of Palestine, for many it's too late. Wrong to tar all *Jews with that brush, yes. But *Zionism has moved far from its origins, as Zack well knows. This is worth watching👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aB7...
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Zack Polanski on Anti-Zionism, Being Jewish, Starmer & Taking on the Media
YouTube video by Zeteo
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Someone should tell President Trump that the best way to turn the Iran War around and stick it to the Democrats this fall is to have Pete Hegseth lead an infantry charge that they'll air on live TV.
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