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Blackavar @officer-blackavar.bsky.social · 2h
The Great Jammining is complete. 11kg of jam in 27 jars.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h
New Study Finds Elephants Mourn Cancellation Of Favorite TV Shows theonion.com/new-study-finds-elepha…
New Study Finds Elephants Mourn Cancellation Of Favorite TV Shows
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Blackavar @officer-blackavar.bsky.social · 2h
Trump is no ally to Europe.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 7h
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10/10/2026
for when you're skint but currys pc world has that tv you're after
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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 5h
When you have a machine think for you, your mind deteriorates. Don't let AI take your brain!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
Trump posted that Putin and Zelenskyy agreed to a deal this morning for a cease fire on energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy is asked about it and says: “That’s news to me.”
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 22h
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 20h
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Probably a good time to put this out there again.
vice.com
This Website Will Let You Know When Rich People Are Fleeing the Apocalypse
The “Apocalypse Early Warning” site watches for unusual spikes in private jet travel, just in case the rich know something we don’t.
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Blackavar @officer-blackavar.bsky.social · 5h
It's that time of year again. The Great Jammining. All the excess fruit we've grown over the summer was frozen for this purpose. The creation of the imaginatively named "Garden Jam".
Three large cooking pots full of fruit boiling away on the hob and another with cheese sauce in it.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 6h
Ukraine's new campaign of destroying Russia's data centers will prove devastating for Putin's economy and war machine if the White House is unable to prevent it. The chaos we're already seeing across Russia is only four days into the campaign and 3 facilities targeted.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 6h
If Ukraine attacks any energy infrastructure in fascist Russia, both Trump and Putin will be able to loudly condemn Kyiv for breaking this non-existent ceasefire.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11h
This. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
I have a lot of disagreement with Dem leaders like Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries— but they’re not out there calling for violence. I would decry them if they did. Donald Trump is a violent bloodthirsty racist misogynistic homophobic slug. He is the problem with political violence.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
In fact my biggest problem with Democratic leaders is their unwillingness to directly confront the right wing threat.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
In a story on political violence (where they depict the targets as equally democratic and republican), the @nytimes.com gives a sympathetic ear to a member of Congress who was part of January 6.
Representative Derrick Van Orden, a Republican from Wisconsin seeking re-election next month, attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in support of President Trump’s false claim that he had won the 2020 election. Mr. Van Orden was outside the U.S. Capitol that day when a mob attacked it, though he has denied entering the building. He was elected to Congress in 2022That’s when the threats began.

“I was a Navy SEAL for over 22 years,” Mr. Van Orden said in an interview with The Times. “I hunted terrorists around the world a lot and was very successful at that. Never had a single threat to my family. Ever.”
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Blackavar @officer-blackavar.bsky.social · 6h
"American values".
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h
Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7h
Obvious... but great that ex military people with credibility are pointing it out, so that voters can take notice
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6h
Turns out Ukraine knows nothing about the "energy ceasefire," Financial Times reports, citing a senior official close to Zelensky who says crews are busy restoring power and water in Kyiv right now. "No one has heard of any ceasefire," the official says.
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Blackavar @officer-blackavar.bsky.social · 6h
What the actual hell? The Telegraph somehow continues to sink even lower. What next? How many aren't white, or straight or Christian? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 9h
Trump-Zelensky relations have sunk to their lowest point since their 2025 Oval Office blowup, WSJ reports, with Trump's harsh criticism now threatening 18 months of European efforts to keep the US backing Ukraine and pressuring Russia. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10h
There is a cacophony of noises out there. Russians planning to assassinate European officials, the US president riding to Vladimir Putin's aid, the Russians increasingly targeting Ukrainian civilians to break their will. The one constant tune? Russia is getting desperate.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10h
⚡️Ukraine welcomes Baltic push to ban Russian grain transit through EU. "It is important to see this initiative now being advanced at the EU level," wrote Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi.
kyivindependent.com
Ukraine welcomes Baltic push to ban Russian grain transit through EU
"It is important to see this initiative now being advanced at the EU level," wrote Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi.
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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 9h
I don’t know if Christianity in America will ever recover from these people.
Robert Jeffress
@robertjeffress
Thank you @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
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Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, says he supports public execution announced by the Pentagon:
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Dave Merritt @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social · 8h
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... The government is still in denial over Putin asset Trump. It’s time, with our European allies, Canada etc, to make the break. The US has gone to the dark side and it isn’t coming back.
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Britain stands behind Zelenskyy, says Streeting after Trump’s call for new leader in Ukraine
Defence secretary backs Ukrainian president and says priority is to maintain western unity over Russia conflict
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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 8h
Well said Andy B. It’s way past time to *officially* pull together the evidence on interference and outright lying in 2016. The vote was unsafe, the effect disastrous.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 8h
Russia is equipping its Geran attack drones with image-based navigation using Google map imagery, Ukrainian defense adviser warns. By matching camera footage to stored terrain images, the drones can navigate with less reliance on satellite signals that Ukraine can disrupt with electronic warfare.
euromaidanpress.com
Russia equips Geran attack drones with image-based navigation using Google map imagery, reducing reliance on satellite navigation that Ukraine can jam, defense adviser warns
Russian drones can use stored images of terrain to navigate toward targets, making them less dependent on satellite signals that Ukrainian electronic warfare systems can disrupt.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 8h
Before being was sworn into office in 2025, Trump said he could "understand [Putin's] feelings," and made clear he would devote his presidency to delivering Ukraine to his ally in Moscow. That's one promise Trump has made good on.
open.substack.com
Putin needs Trump's help more than ever
And Trump is signaling that he'll deliver.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 8h
"Christian nationalism" in the UK is essentially a post-religious identity. Unlike the evangelical right in the US, it has no theological content, does not require belief in God & demands no moral or religious commitment. It reduces Christianity to a cultural "heritage" to be "defended" from Islam
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
Another tanker hit while it was leaving the Strait of Hormuz after hitting.
UKMTO has received a report of an incident within the Strait of Hormuz.
The CSO reported a tanker transiting outbound had been struck on the port side by an unidentified projectile, resulting in damage to the vessel. All crew members were reported safe, and no environmental impact was reported at the time of the attack.
Authorities are investigating.
Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO.
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 8h
The Yanks did it because they have a Nazi in charge, as far as I can make out we did it in AU and UK because the people in charge hate themselves for getting educated instead of cheerfully wallowing in the dirt like the far-right voters they're now seeking to pander to
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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 14h
In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.
observer.co.uk
From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 13h
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.
Crack 'em while you can, though, because Suella's star might just be on the skids. Despite plugging her book on Question Time, on Tim Shipman's Spectator podcast, in serialised excerpts in the Daily Mail, and in a fawning interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, in its opening weekend, Patriot sold precisely 106 copies.

— from Ian Winwood’s New World piece.
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Blackavar @officer-blackavar.bsky.social · 8h
Scrap the Home Office www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians
UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 14h
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who served under Trump from 2017 to 2021, condemned Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel, calling it a lifeline for Putin’s war machine. “Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine,” Pence said, urging Trump to rescind the deal. #Ukraine
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14h
Less 'plan' more the latest publicity seeking brain fart of someone who has already shown he has no understanding of the world whatsoever. Yeah, tariffs on Afghanistan, that'll show them, except there's barely any trade.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15h
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14h
This is M&S is a clear sign that civilisation is coming to an end. There is no dignity anymore.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13h
Okay
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban
Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026
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