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Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier @sispurrier.bsky.social · 5h

Delighted to reveal this. At the core of the Cretan Project is a novel tentatively titled ASTERION. If you've ever enjoyed my work, or like the idea of the tale behind a monstrous myth, I'm inviting you along for the ride. www.patreon.com/SiSpurrier youtube.com/shorts/U7am1...

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The Cretan Project: Patreon announcement

YouTube video by Si Spurrier

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 6h

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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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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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Using Scrooge to attempt an onscreen rehabilitation of Malthusian views of the poor is a choice, given the character was created specifically to eviscerate those sorts of people (as well as the obvious critiques of industrialists and owners and so on).

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The origins of A Christmas Carol | The British Library

Professor John Sutherland considers how Dickens’s A Christmas Carol engages with Victorian attitudes towards poverty, labour and the Christmas spirit.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Following the news that the company that printed 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine has entered administration, our droids have worked tirelessly to find alternative printing facilities and maintain the flow of Thrill-power 🧵

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 31/08/2026

Warren Ellis may have meant Elijah Snow or Spider Jerusalem to depict how he views himself but his biggest self-insert character was Rorkannu from Nextwave, a pathetic, self-aggrandizing loser who's just in it for cash and Suicide Girls

Excerpt from Nextwave of a metal-faced goon from the Beyond Corporation offering a little cash to a blue-flame-headed demonic entity parodying Dr. Strange's Dormammu. The dialogue reads:
Goon: "Um…I have a hundred on me."
Rorkannu: "Yes. Give me your hundred. Yes! I have a hundred of the Earth dollars! Ahem. This is acceptable to dread Rorkannu. Yes. And the girls. I like those 'Suicide Girls.'"
Goon: "Suicide Girls."
Rorkannu: "On the website. The girls with tattoos and piercings. I like those. No blondes."

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The thing you don't realise about grief, until it comes, is how utterly exhausting it is. Your heart is running at full capacity, filled to the brim with love that has nowhere to go, from the moment you wake to the moment you fall asleep.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Want to understand how we got into this mess? 'I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future' ➡️ bit.ly/4d042Si

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"Thorough and intelligent" - John Wagner, co-creator of Judge Dredd

"Deals with a complex and often controversial subject in a nuanced and highly readable way" - Fortean Times

"The in-depth analysis the strip has long deserved" -Garth Ennis, writer of The Boys & Preacher

"Stunning ... An absolutely phenomenal piece of comics scholarship" - El Sandifer, author and critic

"An absolute ripper of a book" - Spencer Ackerman, author Reign of Terror

"A terrifying vision of the future as present" - Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing

"May be one of the most important books about sci-fi published this decade" - Hugo Book Club Blog

"A book equally satisfying for a law geek and a comics geek" - David Allen Green, legal commentator

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"Radical, daring, hyper-intelligent and utterly vital" - lan Dunt, author How To Be A Liberal

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A day of rest, as the Lord decreed.

A cat and a book on top of a duvet on top of a pair of legs (of which the feet are sticking out) on a sofa. A star lamp hangs in the tall, thin window behind them.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Is he visible? Listen bud, you can see circulating blood - #Discourse2000 reaches THE VISIBLE MAN, a minor gem from early #2000AD by Mills, Trigo and Montero. Features discussion of superheroes, girls comics, and much more freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...

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I Was Shocked To Find What Was Allowed: THE VISIBLE MAN

This is a post in the Discourse 2000 series, looking at 2000AD story by story, year by year. Which Thrill? A daredevil gets into a car accident and ends up with transparent skin. Hijinks ensue. ...

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is a fascinating & kind of terrifying piece, the way it rules out various reasons for collapse you might guess (famine, climate) to leave the impression these people just decided to slaughter each other

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I have good news for Americans enjoying freakouts on X - we are now nine years into our most famous city being run by a friendly Muslim guy and the far right are still incapable of being normal about it even for a single day

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Sharing this again because it just doesn't stop being relevant: the racism and spite of Reform isn't a logical or coherent political philosophy, "they want revenge, they want their wages of Britishness".

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Amid the ruins of The Blitz, HG Wells once visited George Orwell and his wife Eileen for dinner and ate so many servings of chicken curry that he had to be hospitalised.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Also it is not the 80s any more! A huge part of bringing up teens now is teaching them that this stuff they cannot avoid online is *not* the world and they can and must regulate their information intake and yes building a “safe space” can be part of that

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Apologies to anyone with a cat, but we live with the best one.

A cat. The best cat. Curled up on the carpet in front of a grey sofa.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

0.3% of the world’s land area is needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure - @mjflepage.bsky.social

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Companion when preparing for podcast. Companion when recording podcast.

A home office with green walls and a desk in the background. A pair of legs stretches out from a grey sofa into a red office chair. On those legs is a similarly long cat.

A fish eye photo of a desk, dominated by the long arm of a podcasting microphone, which sits on a book. Beside it is a laptop with a green tardigrade stress you by the keyboard.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Just heard the long, slow sigh of the carpet behind me as The Boy stretched into a new pretzel shape...

A cat, laying on grey carpet under a desk in a green-walled room. It has twisted into a curl with its hind legs together in a prawn-like configuration

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/08/2025

Defending human rights is the right thing to do. But it’s also – despite the impression you might have from politicians and the media – the *popular* thing to do: a majority of the public supports human rights and doesn’t want to leave the ECHR.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/08/2025

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/08/2025

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/07/2025

imagine telling the columnists who wanted to send in the army on some inner-London kids in 2011 that fifteen years on they'd actually be pro-riots

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The Jean Charles de Menezes anniversary has brought up a lot I haven't thought for a while. I used to write those things down rather than just stewing in a tepid pot of unspeakable rage forever. Anyway, here are reasons not to trust the police (from 2013). nathanieltapley.com/2013/09/12/d...

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Dear Police, Here’s Why I Don’t Believe You…

I’m friends with all sorts on Twitter. Some are members of that puzzling faction who believe that the real problem with the country isn’t deep and abiding police corruption, but protest…

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