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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm delighted to learn this, not least because the next item on my task list, which is to take my pet geese to see a well-known play by Samuel Beckett, is also a palindrome: "TO DO: Geese see Godot".

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feels like this is one more step on the long road back towards having a state (in the broad sense) that actually. fucking. works. I think the symbolism of that sort of thing has an underestimated potential for unlocking further possibilities.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We started The New World in 2016 as a four-issue pop-up paper. Ten years later, we're about to publish our 500th edition. 🚨 So we're opening everything up until 30 September. No paywall. No catch. 🔗 See what all the fuss is about: buff.ly/OgU0K9b

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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James Calbraith @jamescalbraith.co.uk · 27/09/2026

For one moment I'd like a British mainstream politician to consider foreigners are human beings too.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once I interviewed a guy who brought one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. I hired him but he immediately used his 2 weeks of PTO.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

dear lay people, journalists, and tech fantasists: i need you to understand that software runs on computers. "AI" is software, running on computers. it's all just instruction sets and operators and networks, they haven't starting weaving gold from straw.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, Bad Apples then. A film I am very happy I saw, but absolutely did not enjoy watching.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘The Coal Hopper’ In the Train, 1955 Artist: WC Watson

A green steam locomotive stands under a gigantic coal hopper as the coal truck is refilled

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Last night on ITVX, a boy brought up on a rural Yorkshire farm who became a nuclear fusion scientist spoke about his life, three days before his death." After the last episode of 70 Up, I woke up today with a fire in my belly desperate to review it and write about it...

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Typology of Pedestrian Walking Symbols walking-men.com/product/hood... Via @kottke.org

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a shame no chemist ever came up with the idea to say "I'm working on something that might kill all of humanity, so please give me several billion dollars so I can stop myself" That feels like something that should've been right up our alley

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 21/09/2026

It’s back to school and for lots of parents it’s the first time you are not receiving updates on what your child is doing all day and you want to know, but when you ask your child they have amnesia and tell you they did “nothing” all day.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OMG actual rising bollard action outside the office today. A sump-cracker! @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

A man in overalls stands in front of a truck with its front bumper utterly destroyed and a dented but unbowed rising bollard which has stopped it. The bollard and the roadway are covered in black engine oil.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Uncontrolled" immigration is just so untruthful, it's beyond tiresome

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more likely to break traffic regulations? Research at the University of Helsinki provides some answers.”

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The fast and the furious: Research shows that owners of high-status cars are on a collision course with traffic | University of Helsinki

Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more li...

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dreams of having to conduct an orchestra, for which I was under-prepared.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s unimaginable that a union leader would be given the sort of platform Ratcliffe routinely is. That’s revealing of the politics of class and power in 2020s Britain.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's an apotropaic gesture — but it's not that I think that saluting a dryad will ward off bad luck. I knock on wood in the hope that self-consciously indulging irrationality will ward off the danger of overrating my own rationality.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#82: Location-tracking

A screenshot of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads 'Location-tracking apps have turned me into a gibbering wreck - but I just can't look away'

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The silence is the worst part. When the dust storms abate and the metal shields which form the walls of our base camp stop resounding with the pock pock pock of wind-blown gravel, all that is left is the quiet hum of the life support system. That, and the sound of my own fevered breaths.
I’ve long given up hope of anyone responding to my distress signal; this planet is too far from the trade paths, not even named on our star-maps.The chances of someone coming to my rescue are infinitesimal at best. If any of the others were still here, we could perhaps together have sought a way to repair our ship, but alone it’s hopeless; I’m no engineer.
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So I sit and wait, and listen to the silence. And watch the screens in front of me.
And gibber with terror at what they show.
When we first crash-landed here, thirty-eight cycles ago, we were a crew of four; myself, Landon, Contreras and Masur. We thought the planet uninhabited - the rocky terrain and lack of plant life seemed to indicate a dead world, or at least one that was inimical to sustaining life.
How wrong we were. Seventy-two hours after landing, while Landon worked on attempting to repair our propulsion system, we heard for the first time the sound of movement outside our base camp; scuttling sounds, as though from many legs moving quickly across the rough ground. Then a scream.
Landon.
Visibility is poor on the planet - the nights are weeks long, and the atmosphere above so thick as to block any light from the surrounding moons - so we could not see what was happening to him, even as his cries grew further and further away.
I ran to my screen, saw his location indicator - the signal, as for all of us, broadcast from the tiny bio-chip implanted in his skull - moving rapidly towards a nearby cave formation.
Contreras and Masur acted fast. Instructing me to wait behind, they took their weapons and headed out into the darkness.
I never saw them again. Their location indicators however, kept moving, out there in the night.
When eventually I ventured from the base camp, I found only horror. Landon’s legs, ripped off and scattered in the dust. The whole lower part of Masur’s torso nearby. Of Contreras there was only a ragged, torn foot.
But still, on the screen, they moved.

I watch them even now, for hours at a time. It’s almost a compulsion. I know they are out there, the remnants of Landon, Contreras and Masur, carried by legs that scuttle on the earth, circling the camp, waiting for just this silence.
I will watch them as they come for me. I won’t be able to look away.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m always so tempted in these situations not to remonstrate with the offender, but to join in the conversation. “Wow it sounds like Liz is really ill! Is she going to make it??”

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I am but skin & bones..."

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK but hear me out. I got massively into HHG as a kid, listened to OG radio series endlessly, and as I've got older the realisation dawned that the entire thing is a howl - a genteel, articulate howl, but a howl nonetheless - of nihilistic despair. Adams DID doubt both machine and human sentience.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To fight fascism we need to remember the most neglected commandment of Bill and Ted. Don't just be excellent to each other. Have a good time all of the time.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you work at an oil major, I urge you to think hard about what the next decade will feel like. Do you want to greenlight another decades-long extraction project without reckoning with its full climate cost? Or use this moment to demand a different path?

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes yes, of course the hospitality lobby says the tourist tax will hammer tourism. Of course they've come up with huge, scary numbers (which we can't verify). But the thing is, they're right. The tax *will* reduce tourism. The question is: how much? So we tried to find out:

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Is It A Bike Lane? @isitabikelane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Calling all London cyclists! Kensington High St consultation closes this weekend. Please respond and ask for a fully segregated cycle lane. Current proposals are welcome but mostly superficial and include nothing for cyclists: consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/...

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Draft Kensington High Street Local Action Plan - Kensington and Chelsea's Consultation and Engagement Hub - Citizen Space

Find and participate in consultations run by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 11/09/2026

Speakers of languages other than English: What is the # key/symbol called in your language? (Please also mention the language). #️⃣#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

me: goes on LinkedIn, sees person X who used to run a committee I was on has made an arsehole anti-refugee comment, unconnects from them LinkedIn: … LinkedIn (emails): Hey, here’s a post by person X you might be interested in! LinkedIn (emails): Go on, have more stuff from person X! In your face!

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London is fine @londonisfine.co.uk · 11/09/2026

Little reminder that I’m still on the hunt for your (or your friends’ and followers’) answers about London at londonisfine.co.uk with the hope that somehow together we can make this sort of weirdness less likely. Reposts very much appreciated, ta x www.lbc.co.uk/article/dona...

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Third of people share Donald Trump’s belief that London has no-go areas | LBC

A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found that 34 per cent of the public believe there are areas in London where Sharia law dominates and non-Muslims cannot enter

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Warrington Climate Emergency Commission @warringtoncec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📅 17 September | ⏰ 1pm-3pm 🎟️ Book your free place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enterprise... #CommunityEnergy #NetZero #ClimateAction #Cheshire #Warrington

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This tells us nothing useful except what it says. It cannot be used as a proxy for integration success or anything else. If you want to examine integration in this context you cannot use covariate free data (and yes I know I’m shouting into the void)

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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do I know anyone at a Scandinavian university — Who could advise me what ‘scientific publications/expertise’ is actually looking for in the context of fine art/artistic research?

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It seems simple to me. The first duty of a government is to safeguard the lives of its people. If you die it makes no difference whether you are killed by Russians, poverty, or anyone/ anything else that can be prevented. Social security, like defence, is simply part of national resilience

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Came to post the ‘where’s the Duo Dock’ gag but of course about five other people already have. Someone should totally make one though, right? With powered eject obvs. Bonus points for a working SCSI connector.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The number of small boat entries has dropped. Fact. There will always be refugees; this is a certainty. Fact. I don’t understand how the Enochian narrative of “waves of savages” hasn’t been stopped dead now. It’s laughable.

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