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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 41m

MTG's pettiness is on the side of the right here:

A Trump Truth Social post dated 8 October 2026, reading "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP" is quote-tweeted by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the same day, with the words: "Artificial Intelligence."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 52m

Related news: I reviewed emails received yesterday by two federal agencies—SEC and NIH—instructing them to update all internal and public materials to say "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in order to comply with Trump's executive order.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2h

The best part of getting older is getting bolder. ‘Say what you mean and mean what you say’ without obsessing too much about what others think is the most precious gift of ageing as a woman!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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WoollyLiberal @woollyliberal.bsky.social · 7h

There's a chapter in Adam Kay's *This is Goingt to Hurt* about this. When he was a practising gynae Registrar he picked up some freelance shifts at a private maternity hospital. Mostly it was sit and study textbooks while the midwives did all the work. Until one night there was an emergency.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Often, when services such as health services are privatised/outsourced, it initially looks as if it’s cheaper. But what happens is that NHS in-house expertise is lost & private firms, having the NHS over a barrel, ramp up prices. Can see this too with Care Homes, almost all of which are privatised.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 9h

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Birthday to the stunning & talented Sigourney Weaver, 10/8/1949. I could, literally, watch her in anything. Oscar nods: 86 Aliens 88 Working Girl 88 Gorillas in the Mist Her nom for ALIENS is one of most correct & inspired in Academy history. But...not much of a joke teller! 🤪 #filmsky 📽

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Unlock Democracy @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social · 2h

The Electoral Commission must be independent of the politicians it regulates. We fought to restore that independence. Now a Conservative Peer wants to put it back under government control. We can't let that happen. Help us defend an independent elections watchdog 👇 buff.ly/uavrbNy

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British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 2h

Small sandpipers can be a complex challenge, but structure and plumage hold the clues. 1984 paper; ‘Identification of Stints and Peeps’ gives readers a complete run-through of autumnal wader ID. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 📸Thomas Willoughby 🔑Subscriber content

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1h

There is without question a global campaign to demonise and weaken Muslims. It’s horrific. But it’s having an opposite effect. It’s bringing Muslims together. I have never felt more connected and obligated to my faith or my Muslim community.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 6h

In Spain, Maricarmen lived in her home for 70 yrs before a vulture fund bought it & raised the rent. The 87/y/o was forcibly evicted on a stretcher. She died in the hospital. Hundreds of thousands protested. The socialist government tried to ban evictions until 2030 but was shut down by congress.

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Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds.bsky.social · 8h

6 Glossy Ibis, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Hen Harrier, 4 Marsh Harrier, 2 Curlew Sandpiper snd 3 GW Egret around the Wareham Channel area this afternoon @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 13h

I made a little film about my time at the English Greens conference - exploring whether the party could be a useful ally to the Scottish independence cause, but also giving some on-the-ground insight into the Zionism is racism debate. youtu.be/ygK_0-qGTQ4?...

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What REALLY happened at the English Green Party Conference

YouTube video by The National

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 13h

"Trump has an array of options. He could massively increase pressure on Russia, on Putin. But he doesn't." Many key lines in the pod- but this one stands out. We also cover our Pound Shop Trump - the Reform Party and Nathan Gill! www.opendemocracy.net/podcasts/tru...

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Palantir and the art of Tax Avoidance

Luke Harding on Putin’s war, Biden’s hesitancy, Trump acting as a Russian asset, and Kremlin links to Brexit and Britain’s hard right.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 13h

I spoke to @lukeharding1968.bsky.social about his brilliant and shocking new book Betrayal, about being expelled from Moscow, Ukraine's resilience, the US's betrayal of its allies, and drinking Odessan wine in Kyiv. For @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/podcasts/tru...

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Palantir and the art of Tax Avoidance

Luke Harding on Putin’s war, Biden’s hesitancy, Trump acting as a Russian asset, and Kremlin links to Brexit and Britain’s hard right.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

Charlie Downes (Restore Campaign Director) says "Restoration or Death: there is no other option" video to share a video on Restore Britain's case on replacement, remigration + fighting an existential threat to an ancestrally British + English group, denaturalising + deporting other British citizens

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There has been some fair discussion about whether or not the rising proliferation of HARRY POTTER references in media is deliberate astro-turfing or tone deaf millenial nostalgia and denial/ignorance. This though? This is DEFINITELY on the suits

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey everyone, the next entry in my Wes-tober series is here & I’m digging deep into THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/wes-tober-be... Open to both free & paid subscribers. Shares greatly appreciated - cheers!

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Wes-tober: Beneath the Surface of The People Under the Stairs

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 23h

Wtf kind of shithole are we in where the POTUS can say "Trannie" and it not even make the news

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 23h

Murder, voyeurism, dark comedy, and one very strange hotel. TFH Guru John Landis revisits Paul Bartel’s Private Parts, the wonderfully twisted 1972 cult thriller. trailersfromhell.com/private-parts/

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Private Parts | Trailers From Hell

Too Out There for producer MGM, which released it through a subsidiary company, this wild and wooly multiple-murder perversity is director Paul Bartel's most fully realized movie, a zonked-out psychos...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23h

#OtD 7 Oct 1922 Italian anarchist Lidio Ettorre was assaulted by fascists in Giulianova, Central Italy, who then burned down his house stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 23h

"The twisted tree lives its life, while the straight tree ends up in planks." -Zhuangzi

A tree with twisted trunk, limbs and roots with leaves hanging down faintly on the left.

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Glubdub @eradicatemes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This while thing is him just trying to unsuccessfully prove his own masculinity to us all

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The DAM Archivist @thedamarchivist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just a note, several of those soldiers appear to be women he wants to boot from the military for "not being as fit as the men and unable to compete with them."

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego

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Bek Andrew Evans artcoms in 📌 @bekandrew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yup! Some people in the med sphere really are so Fox-brained that any hormone a trans person is taking is apparently related to transition.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“At least 26 senators, more than a quarter of the chamber, hold data center-linked investments … Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose data center investments total between $2.1 million and $8.6 million, takes the number one spot.” 👀

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The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers

Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/10/2026

Just going to leave this here for no particular reason

A graph showing a steady upward trajectory for RTX's stock price since October 6, 2023, after being mostly flat for the preceding two years.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Iain Dale said he had never heard the word "ethnonationalism" until a couple of years ago on his show. "It's a posh word for racist, basically", I suggest. LBC have put that on X x.com/LBC/status/2...

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LBC (@LBC) on X

'It's a posh word for racist, basically.' With ethnonationalism on the rise in British politics, @Sundersays gives @IainDale an unfiltered explanation on what it means.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Being a piece of shit to strangers on the internet based on their name doesn't make you politically astute, it makes you a lazy piece of shit If you have a question about someone’s views, you can literally search their posts but also ask yourself what the foundation for your suspicion is

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CC @casaconnie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The government often socializes some of the financial risk of economic development while leaving most of the equity upside with private investors. This is the problem.

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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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this corrosion @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Read books in between doomscrolling. Make stuff & then give it away. Watch shit that makes you laugh. Protect your neighbors. Do things that make evil people sad. Stay alive.

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

✨ New Project Alert ✨ We’re working on a new partnership project looking at Curlew chick survival, key predation pressures & interventions in relation to population recovery. Your donation could support our work to restore breeding wader populations ➡️ www.bto.org/breeding... #Ornithology

A wading bird known as a Curlew is amongst green grass showing its brown mottled plumage and long decurved bill. Wording above reads: Support BTO's work with breeding waders.

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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Permanent political mood

Divine in Pink Flamingos saying, "Kill everyone now! Condone first-degree murder!"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Monopolization: great for executives, terrible for everyone else.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty Awesome 👍

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Wobbly Sausage @wobblysausage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sadiq Khan green lit Harry Potter lights to be out up in London to promote the new series of Harry Potter - the one that's funding JK Rowling company to erode trans rights. He was supposed to support trans rights, funny way of showing it. London deserves better. Vote Green

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Poll Check are projecting the result as incredibly close. We CAN win this! Join us tomorrow anytime between 7am-10pm and then come celebrate the Green victory you helped make happen!! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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