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Morgan GD

@morgangd.com
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Cymro yn Hackney. Policy wonk, working on girls' & womens' rights. Views are my own. Personal posting - photographer, Pokémon, and Pop Punk kid in my 30s. Films and folklore. LibDem for my sins. 🥃 linktr.ee/morgangd

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 5h
I don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4h
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

Yes. Official materials say President Trump's name appears in the released Epstein-related files. A mention is not proof of a crime.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Does the president have the unilateral authority to tear down large parts of the White House?

No. Federal law does not give the President unlimited power to demolish or rebuild large parts of the White House on his own. I cannot give legal advice.
Main legal limit
• Congress has plenary authority over federal property and the District of Columbia.
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I alone know how to generate the revenue to fund all my policy proposals with one neat trick
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think: ‘we are bound by our current manifesto so things are going to be tough for a few years but don’t worry, if you vote for us again things will get better but also taxes will rise’ is a good political strategy.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
See also: reforming social care in the next Parliament. And thinking about the big three taxes but in the next Parliament.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are going to end the triple lock, you’re better off just ending it. Talking about a process of maybe ending it in the next Parliament, following some sort of review, feels like a way of minimising the fiscal saving while maximising the political pain.
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Morgan GD @morgangd.com · 29/09/2026
* checks inbox *
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026
💥 We're snap polling the triple lock - national care service announcement - keep your eyes peeled for results soon
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 29/09/2026
Burnham promised in his speech to change the voting system after the next election. I hear he's also promised to put a bolt on the stable door any decade now.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026
person talking to computer, saying "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
computer replies ">you got it, boss"
person replies "oh my god."
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham: "On my first day in this job, on the steps of Downing Street.." Once again - there are no steps, and prime ministers do not speak from the single step, they speak in the street
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham says he will invite other parties to be involved in this. It will be fascinating to see how Reform respond to this. Nigel Farage was a very big fan of PR for years - until FPTP started to work for him.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham: "Today I am announcing a new national commission on electoral reform." The "Andy Burnham is in fact a Lib Dem" theory gathers pace.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"What an indictment of my generation of politicians, too cowardly to fix something as basic as the care we give to each other ... people caring for other people's parents on poverty pay ... invisible to the political class of this country." Burnham is very emotional and driven on social care.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I am sorry that my profession has let down yours for so long", Burnham says to the care sector.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Show your fun side. Back my new book, "FUN," on Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to capture how much the sky is glowing in London right now
Sunset over Dulwich and the City
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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 27/09/2026
I wonder what could possibly have caused the local party to turn against a woman who has won her seat three times, has a massive majority, is popular in the party at large and among the diversity AOs in particular, and fights tirelessly for liberalism in the commons and beyond? 🤔
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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 27/09/2026
*casting a beady eye over Edinburgh West * Hmm. Notable that those who are (so far) handwringing about sadly having to vote to deselect CJ for vErY sAd rEaSoNs are all cis white men, and so is the heir apparent. And people wonder why women don't want to stand...
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Christine Jardine "will not be Lib Dem candidate" at next election
Christine Jardine MP (Photo: The Scotsman) Christine Jardine, the Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West has confirmed she will not stand as...
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another totally normal day on the completely normal planet.
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Peter Black @peterblackwales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was told that somebody was encouraged to stand against her and force a selection contest. It is regrettable that she may have been forced out in this way.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Morgan GD @morgangd.com · 26/09/2026
This sounds very surprising. Jardine has been a key supporter of trans rights and effective advocate on the W&E Comm. First ousted by Davey from the front bench for voting against welfare reforms, and now this? Either she's decided the party is broken or the party has fixed this.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2) insurance fraud, from a consumer point of view, consists of filing fake or excessive claims, not paying premiums and then making no claims. Where’s the payout?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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Morgan GD @morgangd.com · 26/09/2026
Outrageous. @andrewhickey.500songs.com is totally cancelled for this.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why the fascists welcome the TERFs. It’s one goal, and the TERFs think they will be somehow exempted, because they are fools.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me, watching the transphobes coming for ND people now: huh, I wonder who's next Also me, Bisexually:
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Chuckles I'm In Danger
Alt: Ralph Wiggum Chuckles & declares 'I'm In Danger'
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 26/09/2026
The Consensus for Showdown № 244 is in 🗳️ Here are the top twenty best legacy sequels with a decade gap, as voted by the Letterboxd community. View the list: boxd.it/XxGly
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I mean, I prefer the glass ones, but you do you, I guess.
A sign which says ‘LEGO WINDOW THIS WAY!’
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this shit would be funnier if I could get ny fucking doctors to believe that I am capable of feeling pain
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.
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Morgan GD @morgangd.com · 26/09/2026
Genuine question - can AI agents do captchas? Is there a version they can't?
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Same thing with gig tickets. Bots already fight to get Glastonbury tickets and the like. That will get so much worse. A lot of things depend on friction to work well. Being an early adopter of AI agents is gonna be a lot better than when everyone has one
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For example, I have a friend who has been known to make a half a dozen restaurant reservations for a single night so he can then pick later which to use. This is obviously psychotic behaviour but AI agents will start doing it for loads of people automatically
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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️‍🌈 @johnbarnes.org · 26/09/2026
It was wonderful to lead the Preston Pride parade today as the Town Crier and Bellman of the city and to make the opening proclamation. Love is love my friends.
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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For your safety, we are now triple washing our lettuce. As a result, we have had to completely stop washing other foods, but y’all like to gamble, don’t you?
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm so tired of the bullshit "rogue agent" framing on this shit. It's OpenAI's software. They designed it badly, at best. At worst, they are using "rogue agents" as an excuse to cover up deliberate malfeasance. They should be fined out of existence and held criminally liable.
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