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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If some academic is not charting far-right organising against the price of street cocaine, then what is the point of academia really?

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saving this to read later with a nice cup of tea and biscuits as a lovely treat.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spam messages when your Dad is dead. Absolutely fuck you cunts.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.uk

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm older than Madge and Harold Bishop were supposed to be when they entered Neighbours. It hurts, it hurts deep.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always, always follow the money. Even when it's hard, even when it hurts your side. Regulating dark money is always going to hurt, but it will only work if you apply it to your friends and your enemies.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Colleagues at the Ghent University respond to Nathan Cofnas’ suspension. Please read and share widely.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Millionaires take note. This is how you get loved when you die, everyone fucking loved Dolly for good reason.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You got it.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend of mine is going through a rough time at the moment. I didn't know how best to let her know that I'm here for her. But I ordered this and they printed the message I wanted with no questions asked. Huge recommendation for Mademoiselle Macaron (based in Edinburgh). She loved it ❤️

A box of macarons with the message "Fuck this shit" printed on them.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We already have robots faster than Usain Bolt. They are cars.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/08/2026

A Chinese humanoid robot outran Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record on the opening day of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, posting a time of 9.39 seconds — 0.19 faster than Bolt’s pace in 2009.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here’s 7k words about Palantir and the British state that @lucasamin.bsky.social and I wrote for @lrb.co.uk TLDR: it’s tech just isn’t that great, and yes the company’s avowed relationship to US state under Trump matters. Obviously. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.uk

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The 'ex' nazi standing down from standing as a Tory councillor candidate only for Kemi to make him a special advisor instead

Chidi from Good place saying 'OK but that's worse. You do know that's worse, right?'

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

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kavishj611 5h
+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?

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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wordle 1,868 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It might be the only time this happens, so definitely sharing.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 28/07/2026

The Resolution Foundation is hiring! We are looking for an exceptional individual with a passion for improving living standards and the skills to lead a world-class research and policy organisation, to become a Director. Application pack available here ⤵️ buff.ly/xcFddMf

We're hiring - Director - To develop and deliver organisational strategy and lead
research and policy programme
Apply by 08:59 on Friday 14 August
£90,000 + dependent on experience

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Important role here - Chair of the Information Commission (which will replace the ICO). £120k, 3 days a week. Apply by 19 August apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9276

Appointment details
Information
Commission Chair

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

"The department posted applications online on Monday for $1mn-$3mn grants for European civil society and non-governmental organisations as well as educational institutions and for-profit groups seeking to “address national sovereignty, migration, censorship, and lawfare challenges..." 🤡

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“The purpose of such interrogations has never been to determine whether someone needs disability benefits, but to make them reluctant to apply for it.” Today’s col. on Pip, its impending overall - and what a humane and effective system could actually look like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Burnham has a chance to overhaul Pip. Here's what a truly progressive system could look like | Frances Ryan

Last week’s Timms report shows how disability is still vilified. But some pragmatic fixes would help both claimants and the economy, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Jon close @joeyclose.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

3 minutes and I'm at 'actually the hospital built it with palantir other hospitals had similar results with less evil companies.' and also 'cost is the biggest barrier.'

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Last week the BBC mentioned in local news that Ryan Bridge and Ben Cullen of Raise the Colours had been banned from putting up flags in Oxfordshire after a sustained documented campaign of intimidation This week Ben Cullen is on trial for making over 70 indecent images of children BBC: *crickets*

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Activists agree to stop hanging flags from Oxfordshire lampposts

It comes after Oxfordshire County Council lodged a High Court case to prevent the flag hanging.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Literally had this conversation with someone last week about how when we've received "feedback" on policy papers from those we less than respect; we've changed the font and/or first paragraph and they're happy. 💅

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Andy Burnham also has a Gary Barlowesque Giant Son.

Picture of Andy Burnham, his wife, two daughters and giant son.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yeah, totally wasn't a Nazi salute.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Oh, so just because I'm specifically concerned about the ethnic purity of the German race, suddenly I'm a Nazi?"

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For work, we are trying to make a list of reasonable right-wingers. Jeremy Hunt might be one. I'd really appreciate more suggestions. (Reasonable means pro-human rights and the Rule of Law. Ideally parliamentarians but at this stage, taking anyone)

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/06/2026

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

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Zee Zom @fnafilms.com · 26/05/2026

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot from TUC on Facebook

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.
So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.
Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.
In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.
When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Paul Evans @pauledevans.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

…is the answer “men in computer science”?

graph from https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding showing medicine, law, and physics as lines going up for percentage of women, while computer science goes dramatically down from the 1980s roughly

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Some men will gladly torch their own dignity in public rather than let someone correct them

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Bedwellj101 @alyx.whatthetrans.com · 21/05/2026

With the EHRC guidance looming. I just want to remind people that any actions, protests, letter writing campaigns that we hear will be organised will be published on this website: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 17/05/2026

The vampire hunt is ON! Do you have a beat up VHS, film print etc of the 1922 Nosferatu? Alexandre O Philippe and our team are making a doc about our global treasure hunt called IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU. More info here, or email us at albingraufilms at gmail dot com deadline.com/2026/05/in-s...

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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Rape, domestic abuse, and stalking victims may no longer have to surrender their phones to Police. New tech by UK company Kulpa enables victims to send digital material – messages, photos, emails – to Police in England in a format that can be used in court. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/954069a...

telegraph.co.uk

Rape victims will no longer have to surrender phones to police

App sends digital evidence direct to detectives in move that boosts convictions and speeds up judicial process

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Thought this was a model response from @celiarichardson.bsky.social to a pretty harsh article in the Spectator about the National Trust

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The National Trust is run by 'infantilised morons' according to a spectator article published this weekend.
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It is of course entirely reasonable to question how organisations like the National Trust serve the public.
But I found myself less struck by the argument and more by the tone.
During the school holidays this year the National Trust will be hosting Pokemon adventures for children and families in beautiful historic landscapes and gardens.
I'm one of the morons behind the decision.
This isn't something unique. From the Van Gogh Museum to the Natural History Museum, and city-wide experiences that lead visitors around landmarks like the Louvre, it's a global pattern of cultural organisations experimenting with how people encounter heritage.
We know from their writers that articles attacking the National Trust get a lot of clicks for the Telegraph and Spectator, so we tend to expect more negative headlines than other culture, heritage and nature charities.

There's a serious discussion to be had about how heritage organisations balance conservation, interpretation and access. That includes how we invite in children and young families-often their first step into places they may come to love for life.
We won't all agree on how these places should be enjoyed and critics have every right to voice strong opinions. But I think we share a common goal: that the places continue to matter to people, and are cared for long into the future.
The tone we choose shapes the debate and the kind of public life we create, around our institutions and everywhere.
I'd like to think we can hold ourselves and each other to a standard that is both robust and respectful.
Much of the article is behind a paywall. But anyone can read the opening abuse of our staff for free. And there is a cost to this kind of commentary.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

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