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@nthandiwe.bsky.social
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Scientist. Writer. Baker. Immigrant. Pro trans 🏳️‍⚧️

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What chills me more is that the Atlantic article's author not only scanned Kundieza's work, but also scanned 25 years' worth of Caine Prize awardees to check whether they were human. A prize for African writers. It feels like the literary equivalent of doing a non-consensual genital check.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC
BBC screengrab from within their Russell Brand trial coverage.  Image of Brand in 70s-style aviator glasses, with earpods in, blank expression. Long dark wavy hair, black and grey beard, dark unbuttoned shirt. All on a fire red/orange and black background
BBC logo top and centre, underneath a subdeck reading: Fame Under Fire. Then the headline 'Russell Brand On Trial'. 
The words 'fire'and 'trial' are coloured to look like they are glowing orange at the bottom
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
French. Onion. Soup. Season.
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921.
Screenshot of a Facebook post recording the fact that on this day in 1920, women were awarded Oxford degrees for the first time. Image of graduating women.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10/10/2026
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/10/2026
The Tories want you to trust them on the economy. But they can't even get the numbers right on a spreadsheet.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ da
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
There’s an argument in the comments about when public executions stopped, but like… State actors have been executing people in public, with little consequence or holding them accountable, for a very long time.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Anyolo @anyolo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Of course
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's because they can't afford to live.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026
New sentence dropped www.tmz.com/2026/10/06/a...
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American Airlines Passenger Allegedly Put Her Legs Against Window As She Masturbated
11:57 AM PT -- TMZ has obtained video of the incident.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hamas is a shell of its former self after 3 years of a war of annihilation and genocide against Palestinian civilians, but that has made no difference to pro-Israel apologists who continue to accuse everyone of being supporters or even members of Hamas
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 7th Oct was the biggest single-day massacre in the modern history of Palestine/Israel. It was followed by the most lethal campaign in the history of the country. In the last three years, Israel inflicted a 7 Oct on Gaza every three weeks on average (in absolute terms; more in relative terms).
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the abolitionist's dilemma
venn diagram
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some people need their ass beat
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punishment does not transform people
middle
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He poured fuel on the fire and now he is hiding the petrol can.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will never forgive or forget a single Republican Senator who voted yes on RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. But as you know I hold especial contempt for Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) for greasing the skids for RFK Jr. and for the destruction of U.S. public health.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 01/10/2026
Nobody: Cate Blanchett:
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete there is a war going on in the middle east right now. You might have heard about it. You could literally go right now instead of doing whatever this is.
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Erik Ten Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026
I'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis, which is being pitched as a cute romance but is personally horrifying to read / watch as a woman in STEM. (I know the author is also a woman in STEM and honestly I don't get that at all.)
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you imagine being a son of “good” immigrants, learned to talk, walk and act like an elite, distance yourself from any semblance of ethnic and religious heritage, and reached the highest office in the country, only for a bunch of podcasters to do phrenology on you for YouTube bucks
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
British columnists love getting everything they wanted and still moaning about it
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cuth pube
A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Most of this Silicon Valley network in AI is also Epstein's network. It's not just women and girls who are groomed and abused by these men. Perhaps a death and sex cult shouldn't be left to self regulate tech products. We need accountability and justice.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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