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Sir Gaerfyrddin. He/him.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 4h
have you tried unplugging it and never plugging it back in again
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 5h
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1h
those behind this terrorist’s radicalisation must be rooted out www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast
Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 4h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 3h
This is exactly the foul, rancid, racism that my dad got when he arrived from Ireland in 1950’s needing to board somewhere A powerful man if he’d met Matt Goodwin spouting this vile shit he’d have knocked him out He built a sucessful biz & purposely employed blacks, asians etc to give them a break
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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 1h
JOLENE IN WELSH! I never knew Dolly Parton had Welsh heritage. A massive percentage of people I follow (and people who follow me) are about to absolutely lose their shit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dolly Parton sings Jolene in Welsh in recording released after her death
Parton's niece Jada Star and Welsh singer Bronwen Lewis say the country artist was proud to sing in Welsh.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5h
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 3h
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 2h
EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h
Bosses of three firms that supply trains to UK railways made £3.5m last year
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Bosses of three firms that supply trains to UK railways made £3.5m last year
Rolling stock companies, which also paid out nearly £400m to shareholders, accused of profiting at passengers’ expense The chief executives of three firms that rent out trains to Britain’s railways were paid a combined £3.5m last year as they passed on almost £400m to shareholders in dividends. Rail unions accused the rolling stock companies (Roscos) of raking in profits at passengers’ expense. Continue reading...
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 2h
I will fart in your general direction.
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Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social · 4h
they do- I actually messaged a seller to say I wanted to buy the thing but I wouldn't buy anything shipped by Evri, and she said eBay didn't give her a choice. Possibly the choice came when the listing was created, but it sounds like eBay is heavily invested in sellers using Evri.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h
To put this into perspective, in England the cost of a free school meal per pupil: 'In April, the government said those rates would rise by 3p in the next academic year, from £2.58 to £2.61 per meal - a rise which Mr Hales said was "inadequate" and "almost considered an insult".'
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School meals smaller and have less meat due to cost, caterers say
A 3p rise in free school meals funding is "almost an insult", school caterers organisation LACA says.
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 3h
Lol.
Electrician turned anti-Ulez activist is jailed for 15 years for blowing up roadside camera with homemade bomb
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Eamonn Griffin @eamonngriffin.bsky.social · 3h
A London Underground roundel for Hobbs End station, as featured in Quatermass and the Pit.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 6h
They made seven arrests—and earned $14 million. See how local police are cashing in on Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Exclusive | Police Score Big With Little Work in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Department of Homeland Security pays local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Jo Price (she/her) @joprice.bsky.social · 11h
I’d spent most of the past couple of days laughing at this dinosaur with tiny, tiny human-like hands that was posted on work’s stuff for sale page. They were selling a few and all the other dinosaurs had ‘proper’ arms. Apologies for the pic quality!
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11h
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Rachel Taylor-Beales @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social · 11h
Huge thanks to the lovely folks who have already bought and shared the Lucky Bag album today - on Bandcamp Friday release day!! Here it is! racheltaylor-beales.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-...
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Lucky Bag - Reboots & Rarities, by Rachel Taylor-Beales
12 track album
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 16h
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 11h
This is incredibly sad apple.news/A1GTUmliDSMW...
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I told my father Jonathan Aitken I had been sexually assaulted at 15, but he didn’t seem to care — The Telegraph
As a priest and prison chaplain, he’s shown compassion to criminals. I don’t feel he’s extended the same support to me
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 13h
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Hannah Peel @hannahpeel.bsky.social · 12h
This month! I’m doing a takeover at Londons Barbican! We open the 23rd with my Mary Casio album from 2017 played live with brass again 🎺 plus a live soundtrack show and the album with BeiBei Wang on the sat 24th… www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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🦉sean sean sean🦉 @avesmaria.bsky.social · 23h
man it’d really suck if our society was currently being entirely run by people this stupid
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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 21h
keep thinking about "personalised" books/art made by AI and remembering James Baldwin's quote "you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" these AI bros are deliberately doing a psyop on themselves to cauterise their capacity for empathy
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The AI industry continues to be trapped in an endless panicky improv game, where they have to think up new uses for the humorously pointless object they’ve been given.
Whose line is it anyway. Stiles and mocherie play an improv game with a big white foam object
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Brooklyn Rousseau's Lonely Heart @glamgothcollective.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21h
oh god what if I've influenced urban dictionary to be wrong
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Cycle Advocacy Network - South East England @canseengland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New guidance from Active Travel England with the "Women and Girls’ Safety Hub" for street design with women’s and girls' experiences at its heart. activetravelengland.gov.uk/resources/ac...
An aerial daytime and night time split shot showing a steet and park with human scale design taking female safety into account e.g. good lighting at night.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
not me, but growing up my best friend was the vicar’s daughter, and I vividly remember one day overhearing the vicar’s wife imploring him to NOT refer to their lunch guest as “the baby eating bishop of Bath and Wells” because “we have established that he does NOT find it funny”.
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alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what does it say about bluesky that all the replies to this tweet are from people who met the bishop of bath and wells in the 90s
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Richard Drew #MDANT @ourmanincairo.bsky.social · 21h
Aside from Art Directing it in 1992, I’ve had something to do with this forthcoming new DVD release. You do have to Live in Australia and New Zealand tho. #ghostwatch
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 22h
On the train back from London after the best evening ever! Still pinching myself… and beaming from ear to ear about my beautiful medal. Thank you SO much @btobirds.bsky.social for this most unexpected and wonderful award. And thank you again for all the amazing things you do…
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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 22h
I have no idea why, but I don't know why anyone would, really...
Screengrab showing that the 'long island sound conditions' bot account has followed me
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Mochyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 22h
Too many people using it to justify their "I was here first" nonsense, and to exclude and discount others. You belong here because you're here. And your right to be here isn't amy greater or more special than anyone else's. So stfu with your genetics crap because it sounds stupid and so do you
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Mochyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 23h
The biggest mistake was giving the public access to dna tests etc it's like ai. It should have stayed in the realms of the scientific and anthropological professional and should never have been handed to idiots to use to justify their blood and soil, "I belong here, you dont" bullshit. Fuck off.
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Mochyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 23h
It's just a handy byword used to describe a collection of related languages. It could have been called anything else but it stuck. You're not celtic because folk someone described as celts used to live there two thousand years ago. It's a linguistic/cultural reference, shove your dna up your arse
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Garek Maxwell 🔞 @garekmaxwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This actually may make me reach out to past professors, and ask if there's new books they recommended. I had a few who challenged the hell out of me and others open my mind to what more there is. I'd love to learn more. I never stopped being a student, and never stopped being curious.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay
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Low Traffic Hackney @lowtraffichackney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our new blog post explaining why SUVs are more than just a safety risk. www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...
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Why SUVs and car bloat are causing congestion in Hackney - Low Traffic Hackney
SUVs; Carspreading; Car Bloat; big vehicles; congestion; bus delays
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this:
Kim Addonizio
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY
IN THE NEXT STALL
If you ever woke in your dress at 4 A.M. ever 
closed your legs to a man you loved opened 
them for one you didn't moved against 
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach 
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away 
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled 
into the back seat for lack of a tampon 
if you swam across a river under rain sang 
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire 
ripped out the stitches in your heart 
because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is comingTattoo on my arm that reads “listen I love you joy is coming”
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 01/10/2026
A little video about care of our feral cat Mendel, who has returned from his summer holidays now that evenings get cold. I spray feliway happy cat pheromones and give him toys, too. 🐈‍⬛🎃
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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love Þ, ſ, and Æ. I appreciate ð, and I am confused by ȝ, ƿ and ᵹ
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Contributors who are completely turned away by the fact that they can’t use LLMs are probably contributors you don’t want in your project... [they] are probably not able to review and understand the code by themselves (or they will lose that ability soon enough)."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nurse! He's out of bed again!
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NationalPoetryDay ✒️ Roses are red, Water comes in litres, Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres. #Wales
A wooden replica siege engine, stands in front of a stone castle. A piece of purple fabric is wrapped around the tall central support beam.
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