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Musa Okwonga

@okwonga.bsky.social
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Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4h
“All Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it.” Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews the new Elon Musk documentary. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
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404 Media @404media.co · 5h
Today, "The Social Reckoning" hits theaters. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social sat down with Frances Haugen, one of the real-life whistleblowers the movie based on about why she exposed how Facebook’s algorithm was pushing people toward hate groups. Watch our interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3I...
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Schiffskatze (Mehlschwalben Fan Account) @katzenschiff.bsky.social · 4h
geil www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/geric...
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Gericht sieht „hohes Maß an Rücksichtslosigkeit“: 215 Apartments in der Berliner Europacity müssen als Sozialwohnungen vermietet werden
Beim Neubau eines Quartiers in Mitte einigen sich das Land Berlin und ein Investor auf Sozialwohnungen – doch diese kommen nicht. Nun muss die Eigentümerin nachsteuern – und eine hohe Entschädigung za...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 4h
Ignore the headlines. Those kids who are said to be brain-dead, tik-tok-ed out of consciousness, apathetic, etc etc, are the exact opposite. They're smart, imaginative, they're asking the questions their elders do everything to avoid, with the right words, without fear. They are the voice of hope.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h
Breakfast time
The tails of my kitties eggsy, benne and jimmi pickles as they eat breakfast next to each other
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 10h
Y'all denied her tenure
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 9h
Full-on Stephen Millering - "millions" of actual citizens are nonetheless not real citizens, and a mass purge of those ACTUAL CITIZENS is required...
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9h
‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 20 years ago today. If you have any interest in Russia but haven't read her work, today is a good day to start. This is the opening of her book Putin's Russia:
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13h
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11h
Sometimes you just need to sit for a moment with how far and fast things are going.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h
Reminiscent of the public lynchings of African-Americans when white supremacists would turn up for a viewing.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h
They elected Trump twice, I'll never get over it.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All hail brown food: #RecipeOfTheDay is Burnt Onion and Aubergine (Eggplant) Dip! www.nigella.com/recipes/burn...
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Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip
I get many requests for this decidedly brown dip of silky savouriness, the first recipe in my chapter A Loving Defence of Brown Food in Cook, Eat, Repeat, so creamy that you would never guess it’s act...
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So sorry for your loss. Much love maestro Xx
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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lost a friend today. Nothing to say. Too sad. Tell the people you love you love them
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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When society is so anti-children, it is hard to persuade yourself to have them.
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In der Welt schreibt ein Filmkritiker diese Sätze über NAZA: "Danach fällt der Satz „Es gibt keine Unschuldigen in Gaza.“ Er ist hart, aber nicht völlig falsch." oder "Es mag sich bei den Machern Abraham und Szor um Landesverräter handeln " Und man fragt sich, wie hätte es passieren können...
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Literally just had coffee today with a friend in her early forties who told me “I never wanted kids before because I was too scared, but now that I want them I can’t afford them.”
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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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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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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Confederacy did not have the capacity to win a Civil War. Unfortunately, they still started one, and it still killed 700,000 people.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/10/2026
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Russian bomb kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold
Authorities described the attack on Kramatorsk as a targeted strike on civilians.
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Aaron Kablack @kablackquois.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Poetcore
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The perfection of this.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've just been made aware that in May - in a rare and wonderful moment of crypto criminal justice - a German man got 9 years 9 months in jail for running a massive crypto scam. The man, Andreas B., was the person who also ran the massive 3Key scam which sponsored Man City. m.bild.de/regional/thu...
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107 Mio. abgezockt! Hohe Strafen für Krypto-Betrüger
Vier Krypto-Betrüger wurden jetzt vor dem Landgericht Erfurt zu hohen Haftstrafen verurteilt. Sie zockten mit einem Schneeballsystem 107 Mio. Euro ab.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This might be one of my favourite Goodreads review I've ever received.
Very Icelandic feel to the writing. Three stars.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'
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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Serge Katz @sk-serge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‼️ Desistir não é uma opção paulomotoryn.substack.com/p/desistir-n...
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Desistir não é uma opção
Entre o pessimismo e a rendição existe uma escolha: lutar. Ainda há uma eleição a disputar, histórias sobre Flávio Bolsonaro a revelar e milhões que não podem se dar ao luxo de desistir
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
This product should not exist.
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Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”
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ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds
Common Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am 100% in favor of whatever keeps "PUAs" away from actual flesh-and-blood women. They don't actually WANT real partners anyway, they want trophies to impress other men and fawning, compliant half-minds to affirm their every random thought, so it's a perfect match, really.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...
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Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist
The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredible. I tell people that France is the place for me because of the cheese and wine and cigarettes and art and bad attitude but it's also because this kind of behavior is French as hell too.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Syria litmus test never ever fails.
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Beth @bethpdx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention. msmagazine.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention.
Mifepristone is known as the abortion pill, but it has other uses most Americans have never heard about. For more than three decades, scientists have known this medication could do far more than end a...
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🇪🇸 ESPAÑA! 🇪🇸 Way back when, SITGES was one of the first places to give our indie British sci-fi film MOON a chance on the International stage & Im delighted to say ROGUE TROOPER will be there NEXT WEEK! We love you, we love SITGES and we are coming BACK! 💪🏼❤️✌🏼 sitgesfilmfestival.com/en/film/2026...
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Rogue Trooper
19, a Genetic Infantry soldier, is accidentally dropped behind enemy lines in the middle of a secret military operation. With the identities of his fallen comrades stored on biochips that he carries i...
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you so much Thariq, that is so kind of you. That means everything, especially this week. Much love X
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There does seem to be a concerted one would say coordinated manufacturing consent for fewer people going to university and denigrating humanities degrees as universities cut them back - doesn’t there? Love our media and political class!
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Will never, ever get over how avoidable the rise of Putin was at every turn.
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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Zu Sachsen-Anhalt
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Jaime Joshi Elder @jaimejoshielder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes, I hate the internet and then, something like this happens and I LOVE the internet.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They love to tell you to bootstrap Until you DO bootstrap Then they post multi-paragraph, pocket-watching dissertations about how "uncomfortable" your success makes them, and how ~something~ should be done (Cuz they never actually expected you to "Make It," FYI) Ask me how I know :)
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