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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another police officier trying to break the windows of a fast food. bsky.app/profile/smor...

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the city of Reims, masked police men in civilian clothes slipped into a crowd of student protestors and one threw a projectile. These false flag OPs by French police are becoming more and more frequent, as Macron's forces are escalating tensions. Most protestors are minors.

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Good Birdman Mr. Evening: @embirdened.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Realize it's gauche but this is one to file away for later

Twitter screenshot of Taylor Lorenz posting "It's so annoying we can't type with our brain yet"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Untied States @mnent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(Alt text in reply) this Pope is really making me feel there is some hope of him turning around the rotten and poisonous institution he was elected to lead.. I still think their entire assets should be sold and every penny go to their victims, individuals and entire societies, but he's a good man

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI is art without love, dedication or commitment. It is the form but not the content, the physical without the spiritual. There is a genuine reason why the artists, the musicians, the writers, the filmmakers you love aren't right-wing, because that belief system makes creating art challenging

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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bravery from the last man standing.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026

Incredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao

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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Such sad news of the passing of Dr Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social who brought light, humour, horses in archaeology and simple humanity to us. She faced her short illness with dignity and courage #FuckCancer #SpeirGorm

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Macklemore has announced a Free Palestine Tour, with the first show scheduled for Dublin next month. Paris and London shows also scheduled. All proceeds going to multiple organisations including Gaza Soup Kitchen, Jewish Voice for Peace, Medical Aid for Palestinians, and more.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Had they spent as much time reading the region's history as they did staring out car windows and watching TV, they would have found that theme parks and drive-by shootings, rogue cops and actor politicians, amnesia and identity-laundering were nothing new; they were Western heritage....

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Untied States @mnent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An Irish woman and her 2 sons rowed around Ireland in preparation for a trans-Atlantic row - from a Gaeltacht island, and with mother and one son being RNLI lifeboat crew, it would be a great feck off to the fascists if anyone with means could donate to their fundraising www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

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Family rows around Ireland to train for Atlantic race

A woman and her two sons from Árainn Mhór, Co Donegal, have spent 18 days rowing around the Irish coastline in preparation for a 3,000-mile Atlantic crossing.

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was so into my camping situation yesterday, I forgot #Waterfall day! So here is a grab bag of sights from today's hikes! #Hiking #Nature #PNW #Forests

A photo of a tall waterfall dropping down a green moss covered cliff and blasting into a pool below. Small rivlets tin down the cliff alongside the main falls to it's right.
Tall green pine trees sit atop the cliff.
From the waterfall pool, a vigorous stem runs down toward the center of the image. In the foreground either side of the view of the falls are several small young green pines. And in the lower foreground are some green leaved plants with some of their leaves turning gold. And a big dark wet rock at lower right.

A photo at a downward angle of a curtain of waterfall dropping off a low portion of a cliff. The higher parts of the cliff rise to either side, with the left side more visible showing tall regular pillars of basalt columns in light grey. The right side cliff face is obscured by a tall pine tree trunk in dark grey, and lots of green brush.
Above the cliffs are a variety of sizes and ages of green conifer trees that fill the view upwards.
Below the falls are scattered boulders, all covered in evenly colored green mosses, while the pool below the falls runs off from it's right side back toward the center bottom of the image in vigorous white.
The bottom foreground is a smattering of green leaved native rodidendrons and a very small fir tree.

A photo of a brightly sunlit forest of tall green pines teaching into the bright sky.
The sunlight comes in from the upper right.
Foliage of the forest floor green brush practically glows in the light. Up from the bottom right is a brown path that disappears into the brush at middle bottom, with a few bright spots from the sunlight.

A photo of a wooden painted sign with arrows pointing upward that says 'CAMPING", and to the left that says "PICNICKING FALLS".
A wooden split trail fence starts in front of the sign and runs left off frame.
A grey paved single lane road runs from lower right, and disappears behind the sign.
To the left of the sign is a tall shrub with green narrow leaves and visible branches teaching up from the ground.
Big brown conifer tree trunks rise behind the sign, and a few smaller bushy young green conifers to the right.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Tear: an oil painting created c.midC20th, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us

A painting in blues and greens and purples of a female face with one huge blue cyclopean eye, crying tears made of smaller blue eyes, the figure seems to fix the viewer in her gaze and it is reminiscent of Rembrandt's girl with a pearl earring

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Harry Cow @harrycow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Boys In The Band" by LAMBRINI GIRLS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dccs... #NP

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Lambrini Girls - Boys In The Band (Official Video)

YouTube video by Lambrini Girls

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15/09/2026

Heavens keep him from these beasts!

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/x On September 11, 2001 Coast Guard Lieutenant Michael Day, aboard the Sandy Hook pilot boat New York, keyed his radio: "All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island." #maritimehistory

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the face of this white supremacy it doesn't matter that Mamdani was 10. That a million Iraqis were killed. That Palestinians are being genocided. That 11 million are displaced in Sudan. That ICE detentions are stacked with lives destroyed by this country’s policies — their refuge denied. 6/

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 11/09/2026

NEW: Writing this meant a lot to me! Irish place names are extraordinarily rich wells of meaning. Many of them refer to wildlife or landscapes - often much more vividly than English translations. These names are even prompting discussions around nature restoration... www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

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Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's Sept. 9, 2026, which means it's the 25th anniversary of our 9/11 experience. Because for us, the story starts on the Sunday evening before the attack. Here are four emails I wrote to friends, colleagues and family shortly after 9/11, and in the months that followed. medium.com/@BGrueskin/o...

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Our 9/11 Year, in Four Long Emails

Report From NYC, Chapter 1, Sept 22, 2001

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Time we spent

Wastwater, Lake District
27mm, f/8.0, 1/80 sec

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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Elizabeth Holmes got away with crimes because she looks like Gadget from rescue rangers became human.

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Untied States @mnent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I had to check this was genuinely a Saudi Liv golf trophy.. Fucking hell, America - first to cover up for them, then to allow them to rub your nose in it like that!!!!

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 08/09/2026

RIP bozo *LIV GOLF SAYS IT FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY IN NEW JERSEY

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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In 1992 I introduced Tom Stoppard to Bob May, who'd put chaos into biology. A year later I was reviewing Arcadia. It closes Saturday, at the theatre that now carries Stoppard's name. My story, plus my lost 1993 review rogerhighfield.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

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On the Origins of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

In 1992, I introduced Stoppard to the professor who put chaos into biology. A year later I reviewed the play that came out of it. As Arcadia is about to leave the West End, here's what happened.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Roses are red Ray Winstone’s a geezer

Daily Record headline: “Iceland jobby horror for Scots mum as hand hits human poo while fishing chicken nuggets out shop freezer”. Subhead: “They did say sorry and gave me a box of Lindor chocolate balls as an apology.”

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm going to experiment by also posting a version of this as a thread... It’s amazing to think that we can pinpoint the most magical two seconds in pop music, which occur exactly one minute into ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ by The Beatles, as Take 7 melts into Take 26.

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Hugh Roper @hugh-roper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How do we know it's a protest? No banners etc. Looks just like something on a scale from a picket line to a quasi-military show of force.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

5 years ago almost to the day, I got a large delivery of googly eyes to my office…

Cover of Discourse in Method and The Meditations featuring a portrait of Descartes with googly eyes added.

Cover of The Critique of Pure Reason featuring a portrait of Kant with googly eyes added.

Cover of Utilitarianism featuring a portrait of Mill with googly eyes added.

Cover of The Tractatus featuring a portrait of a very young Wittgenstein with googly eyes added.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Psilocybin, they found, protected the microscopic nerve endings that detect touch, pain, temperature and pressure. At the same time, psilocybin preserved the ability of mitochondria, the 'powerhouses of the cell,' to deliver energy to far-flung nerve endings, ensuring their survival."

Researchers used advanced imaging to chart how psilocybin shields fragile sensory nerves in the hands and feet from the toxicity of chemotherapy, which kills cancer cells but also harms healthy cells and tissue.

Psilocybin, they found, protected the microscopic nerve endings that detect touch, pain, temperature and pressure. At the same time, psilocybin preserved the ability of mitochondria, the “powerhouses of the cell,” to deliver energy to far-flung nerve endings, ensuring their survival.

Those benefits, the scientists found, were the same for both hallucinogenic psilocybin and related compounds that do not produce a pronounced psychedelic effect.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I agree there is a literacy crisis in this country, and it’s impt to acknwldg that plainly... It's not just ‘brain rot,’ it’s the intentional, predictable result of decades of divestment in public education, libraries, class warfare, attacks on books in general... and [the] attention economy..."

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Standing up for your own full humanity is an example you can give to others. Bring equality into your workplace & home—and follow the sense you probably had as a child, before gender roles took shape, about fairness."

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026

fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres wipe out either a large chunk or more than all of Tesla's global avoided emissions
Fossil fuelled chatbot emissions
Avoided emissions from Tesla products
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xAI data centres
32
2024 (Tesla report)
20
2023 (Tesla report)
13
2023 (Independent estimate, high)
10
2023 (Independent estimate, low)
...from its EVs, solar panels and batteries (depending on which year and calculation you use). All numbers in megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Collectively, through malevolence, through self-interest, through indifference, the rich world killed the 1.5°C target

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Kuhestak wedding strike is the fourth episode reported by @nytimes.com in which U.S. strikes with no military use were bombed and civilians were killed. Feb 28: Tomahawk on Minab school Feb 28: PrSM on Lamerd sports hall July 31: 2K bomb on residential area

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Regardless, we believe the U.S. used multiple munitions across various sites in Kuhestak last night. One strike destroyed a communications tower, but two witnesses (the bride’s father and a young guest) report the wedding location was hit by two separate strikes.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I remember feeling, for the first time, in a sudden flood, the sense that I was an adult who could do what she wanted and build her own life. It was just a movie. It was more than a movie. It was transcendent.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

3. Women's Aid and Dubin Rape Crisis Centre both call on the government to regulate the use of smartglasses - saying there is an 'epidemic' of secret filming of women & girls, and the technology is only going to be exploited to make that worse.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...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?’” -Jennifer Nelson (quoted in the linked booklet, alongside other extraordinary pieces)

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Untied States @mnent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The grand jury report said the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida"

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/08/2026

Facebook directly enabled the Rohingya genocide. Every executive involved in running the company today chose to work at a company that directly enabled those deaths. Compared to that, it is _nothing_ for their products to cause your children harm. Billions for a settlement is a pittance.

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