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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.com · 5h

Clearly the original intent of the 2nd amendment includes Gundam style mobile suits and other mechs. 🤔

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 23h

wait youre telling me we can make the internet livable again by just giving ukraine more money to blow up more of these??

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Grumpy, Tired Pidgeon Kitty @mypidgeon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The imagery in this short story is a wonderful precursor to the Halloween season. A short, but delightful, thread by the incomparable Anne Louise.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“But surely the public wouldn’t stand for” the press have got the result they wanted at every election of my adult life, and that is not going to change before I die.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnight

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Open-Source Guru Raymond: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

Open-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond explains closed-source software is effectively over thanks to AI-powered reverse engineering.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The tech side of all this is not my area of academic expertise but digital culture generally is so what I will say is that the key sea change here is AI overnight going from being a weapon the corporate class uses against us to one the masses are using against the corporate class

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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well it took them all morning but BBC Newsbeat finally found a mental health nurse willing to follow the government line on overdiagnosis of ADHD, so that they could finish their lunchtime report on the ‘correct’ note.

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Karl 🏳️‍🌈 @karu1402.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Which makes it all the stranger that Labour even try. No matter what they do they will never, ever, win this game. But they're obsessed with it rather than focusing on what it CAN do to win votes

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're polling eight points lower than their general election result, which was itself the worst in their entire history, their leader couldn't explain the big defense policy they opened conference with, none of their big new tax cuts are funded, and yet it's still covered as a triumph

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is, of course, simply a rhetorical play act. Suppose that people do "condemn" all these people? Well, you didn't do it enough. Did you contextualise anything? Stop that. Be more unequivocal. Now hop on one leg. I found someone not condemning them - do you condemn them too?

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am pleased with this evolution of our energy policy. Renewables remain our top priority. This isn’t about fast-tracking new nuclear, but about recognising that in a climate emergency we should be using all the existing infrastructure we have to move off fossil fuels.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*Yes*, they will gladly make hooting mad Twitter crank Kemi PM, if they are required to. If it comes to a choice between her and empowering any kind of meaningfully left wing alternative, they will all line up and sing Deutschland Uber Alles for her, and fuck you. That’s how this system works.

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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s that time of year again, watching the sun rise at work on the seafront.

The sun rising out of the sea into an orange and pale blue sky, seen from the beach in Lowestoft.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Red @randomredhuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there's a lifelong financial tax on existing in public spaces too - ride hailing instead of cheaper public transport, restricted mobility, changing jobs or churches or colleges for safety, legal fees, dammit just mace or needing to be anonymous online so no LinkedIn opps etc.

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burnham is saying all of the right things, it's what he does and he does it very very well. His track record suggests he won't deliver much of it, if any. I would be unbelievably happy if I end up being wrong on this.

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Quinn Tyler (Laura Benanti) Says 'I Would Love That'

ALT: Quinn Tyler (Laura Benanti) Says 'I Would Love That'

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026

“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

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Joe B @joeburden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

100%. It genuinely seems like at the moment politics was about to turn into genuine left versus hard right, a memo came in to reset back to status quo. Thus the noticing of Farage and silencing of Polanski.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@actualnames.bsky.social Petra Corr. I would imagine she smells lovely after it's rained.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’re owed rights more than your shitty candidate is owed a career.

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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh hell no. Absolutely not.

The view out of the front of my friend’s camper van on a dual carriageway, spending entirely too long behind a lorry-load of logs, as 3 Gen Xers who grew up watching Final Destination 2..

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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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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are in a place where a lot of important people who have fucked it very badly might just decide that another war might be easier than trying to fix all the things they fucked up.

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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Donald Pleasence and Dennis Dun couldn’t handle this guy so they’re giving Pope Leo a shot now?

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Grumpyrocker @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Labour government has been a massive disappointment from the off. But its failure to protect the #RNLI has me genuinely seething with anger.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This specific video has been doing the rounds, but this guy’s whole channel (including this video) is such an amazing example of healthy masculinity, disrupting traditional toxic constructions of masculinity.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remember: the liberal moderates kicked and screamed and shat their pants and wrecked and blew everything up so that they could be The Grown Ups In Charge, and this is what they do with it. Cowering away from confrontation with street fascists for fear of the press. Contemptible scum.

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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really happy i managed to snag a copy of this, lovely hardcover illustrated collection of some of my favourite of Laird Barron’s early stories. Shouldn’t be spending money but it’s my birthday tomorrow and he’s one of my all-time favourite writers & I deserve it.. www.psilowave.com/product/lair...

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Laird Barron | Laird Barron - The Broadsword: Best Early Works of Laird Barron Hardcover Chiroptera Press | Psilowave Records

Featured, Chiroptera Press ( / ) - USA Import - Limited Edition! Standard edition specs: * 6" x 9" * 352 pages * Tipped in signature sheet signed by the author and the artist * Smyth-sewn binding * H...

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.

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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And he was apparently available to make a statement about the Piddlington Village Racists, so that’s not much of an argument anyway.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/09/2026

re: Piddlington. I actually also think it’s the wrong location for an asylum centre, it’s the middle of nowhere on a deadly road and no safe way to walk to Bicester, let alone get to oxford, an asylum centre should be right in town with access to resources like drs and dentists and help centres.

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would at some point in my life like to live in a country not surrounded by elites chanting in chorus "things must get worse (but not for me)"

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“but a republican is evil!” then why do all these democrats keep fucking agreeing with them??

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 14/09/2026

Capitalist parties are in the same spot they were in Europe in the 1930's, believing that the only way to prevent threats to capitalism and imperialist interests is acceptance of some amount of fascism. They know the consequences, it's an accepted risk for them (which of course, we have to bear).

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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