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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 11/10/2026

Feels like Israel is in some combination of a "1978 in Rhodesia" or "1984 in South Africa" situation, except if we'd given both countries the nuke. It's going to collapse as a state in its current form, albeit at a slower rate than those two did. But collapse is inevitable.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If there's one groups in society who NEED to stop using AI to make resources, slides, posters, it's teachers. You're literally showing your students that you used AI to do your own homework. You look like a moron. It's shameful. Do not do this.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is it Frank Herberts Dune or Franks Herbert Dune?

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026

One of the frustrations about "engineering" as a discipline is that the heart of the actual discipline is about taking care to make sure things work within specifications and requirements, but tech industry gender politics has characterised engineering as a work of disruption and disregard.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem with benevolent dictators is that we have empirical proof that access to that much of power inevitability turns your brain into spaghetti. So we should have elections and term limits for those benevolent dictators and maybe a system of checks and balances and some mechanism for removal.

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a Mae of blood @eversonpoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's almost like spewing hate constantly affects people negatively huh, who would have thought?

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026

basically, the whole TLDR of this - Clean Label Project is an org that doesn't peer review or make fully public its 'studies,' it relies on scientific misinfo, and its sponsored by orgs that cozy up to RFK & MAHA and in at least one case are explicitly antivax.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man, he is just *demolishing* that branch.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.

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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.

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Cseed @cseedsilentc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the foxtail grass was really pretty last week with the dwindling queen anne's lace and canadian goldenrod... also felt like drawing good ol Kevin

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got to hug a 600 MWe turbine yesterday. Can't do that with a solar farm.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 21/09/2026

The United Kingdom is awash with an epidemic of medical professionals who don't want to do their fucking jobs

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They explained that it isn't very smart and often highlights innocuous stuff like similar bibliography entries as potentially plagiarised. I'm glad to see it hasn't improved in the last 16 years.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back when I was a lad and doing my undergraduate degree, we had a lecture on what plagiarism was and that the uni was using Turnitin to check all submissions. They said that a similarity score up to 15 or 20 % was normal.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

aw shit turnitin you're right, I did plagiarise my page numbers from a Homewood-Flossmoore High School student paper you caught me

Screenshot of a Turnitin plagiarism report, where Turnitin has highlighted the number at the bottom of the page as similar to a student paper sumbitted to Homewood-Flossmoor High School.

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Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 20/09/2026

tropical flight attendant

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xX_Doctor_Cucumber_Xx @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last night I found out I was fired shortly after filing a worker's comp claim and reporting bigotry at work. I need help to get back on my feet, as even if I pursue retraining, it'll be a >20% pay cut! #transcrowdfund gofund.me/301fc89d4

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Hi, I'm Alex. You might know me from my work in the community helping… Alex Smith needs your support for Help Alex Recover After an Injury and Loss of Work.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

My issue with paywalls that I do think rises above simple personal grievance is that the misinformation news outlets don’t use them & now people’s perception of reality is upside down & I think those two things are connected

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety."

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Snarky Sardine @snarkysardine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

leo alvarez as red lionfish unnecessary amount of effort was made

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve seen enough people expressing confusion about why it would be in their interest to try to become regulated, or why they would be saying things like “we might kill the world!!”, that I’ll do an explainer. Buckle up.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mr. Big! 🖤 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black-and-white photo of a large short haired black cat lying on a floor inside. His coat is very beautiful and shiny. Handwriting in the bottom right corner reads “Mr. big”.

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ajdecon @ajdecon.org · 12/09/2026

Continually asking folks to stop and ask themselves: - What goal they’re trying to achieve - Whether what you’re doing actually pushes that goal forward - Or whether it just makes you feel better / more important / more alive

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s cool how the economy is putting all bets on companies deeply embedded in a group of people who are basically on the level of Scientologists

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A few years back there was a project that aimed to put a 3D-printed autoreactor in everyone's homes as a way to get around high drug prices, and this has basically all the same problems but with the extra problem that AI is telling you what to make.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love the implication that both the Unabomber and members of congress are not smart, categorically. Which isn't wrong, but it's nice to see.

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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Mike Ginn
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

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discopawbs @discopawbs.buny.social · 30/08/2026

i finally painted up sizewell and hinkley! they're two married nuclear scientists who are consulting on the 1960s build-out of the bUnK's civilian nuclear infrastructure

Two anthropomorphic cartoon mouse ladies: one, Professor Sizewell, is tall, brown-furred, and wears a blue cardigan with a striped midi skirt and heels. She has her hand on her much shorter partner, Professor Hinkley, a smiling, grey-furred mouse with a mop of long hair and a gogo lab outfit.

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 28/08/2026

Seriously, I hate that my pinned post isn't about my writing or my interests or explaining the sort of things I post/repost on my feed, but me begging for money for my GoFundMe and food off my Amazon wishlist.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A creature that's adapted to the snow, but still not happy about it.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You simply cannot get around the fact that the only high-profile benefit of AI is a bunch of weirdos getting really fucking rich, and not a single town “saved” by a data center. The Data Center Consortium argues they’ve created thousands of jobs. Okay, show me three towns where it happened.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.

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Dr ThatIsNotHowThatWorks @nothowthatworks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One absurd wig away from a live action Gerry Anderson production.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

it is not a unique space, you live on earth with the rest of us, i hate to break it to you. cofnas is not pursuing controversial questions where they lead, he is not astray or incorrect, he is a racist. people like him would gladly destroy your whole field in the name of racism

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