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Stig @stigofthedump.bsky.social · 13h

Night moves 📷 Nikon F80 - 24/85mm Zoom 🎞️ Ilford HP5 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 13/10/2026

'Lola Salem was charged by Thames Valley Police in May this year along with Henry Hopwood-Phillips, a historian and geopolitical analyst with whom she worked with at the Critic Magazine

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I haven't been inside it yet. I am clearly overdue

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That is a beautiful chapel

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Grace Hopper Celebration, a conference for women in computer science, has been canceled due to declining sponsors and registrations. Depressing sign of the times. As a manager at Microsoft, we routinely encouraged women on our teams to attend, all expenses paid. Those days are clearly over.

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‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Patrice Lawrence is the current Waterstones Children's Laureate, but her books range from picture books to her adult debut, SONG OF RESISTANCE. Her YA books have won many awards. Patrice has an MBE for Services to Literature & is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Pic: Sam Stephenson

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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#VirtualPub We welcome Manuel Majrouh, Institut Pasteur, for a talk on "3D tissue architecture of Vibrio cholerae infection ultrastructural analysis by SBF-SEM in the larval intestine of zebrafish." 🗓️ Oct 16, 1 pm CEST Join us! ⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/3d-ti...

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HARMAN Photo @harmanphoto.co.uk · 13/10/2026

Plot twist: Our field trials found a potential issue with what we’ve been teasing. We could rush it, but that’s not our style so we’re pausing to get it right. Thanks for all the excitement, we promise something exciting is still coming. Watch this space a little longer!

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 13/10/2026

The LMB’s annual Forging Pathways networking event for Black heritage scientists is being held in partnership with @cruk-ci.bsky.social on Tuesday 3rd November. Discover more about the event & register here: engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-lmb-hr/f... #BlackHistoryMonth @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social

Event poster for Forging Pathways on 3 November 2026, 9:30am-3:30pm, uniting Black heritage scientists in Cambridge's biomedical research sector.

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tombobwarland @tombobwarland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I recently did a darkroom guide video about different paper stocks in partnership with Firstcall Photographic; you can read a little about it here and follow a link to my video. firstcall-photographic.co.uk/blogs/news/d... I also discovered some new papers that will fast become favourites for me

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Black-and-White Darkroom Papers Compared: RC, Fibre, Bamboo and More

Watch Tom Warland compare RC, fibre, warmtone, coloured, bamboo and direct-positive darkroom papers to see how each shapes the finished print.

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🦇bat-ilda jay @wavesounds.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

yashica rapide/yellow filter/fuji acros ii/hydrofen #filmphotography #streetphotography

person with tote bag takes a drink while walking in small patch of light on london side street. above are some diagonal shadows cast on the brick wall by canopy of a small balcony

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That is the largest size I have an easel for. In theory I could do 16x20, but I don't have a need to

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*projects envy from my bathroom setup* How big can you print with that enlarger?

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11/10/2026

Perhaps the Bridget Phillipson of August should have a word with the Bridget Phillipson of October and tell her to either condemn the racist violence and intimidation or get the Home Secretary to. samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...

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The Far Right Are Escalating

...and someone is going to get killed

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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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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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.

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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser

Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It really is too perfect that the same people who claimed participation trophies were ruining our children and keeping them from actually achieving things have devoted their lives to a man who demands the world’s most prestigious trophies for doing nothing at all.

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

Luckily, the AI and defence booms are going to create lots of jobs, so there’s no need to feel sad for people who will so easily get new employment.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 10/10/2026

ProPublica investigation documents ICE detaining at least 500 US citizens, including at least 70 children/teens, and deporting a dozen, mostly children. "“ICE isn’t looking for criminals,” Aceituno said. “They’re looking for Latinos. Having papers in this country does not protect you.”"

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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

A thread - of racist attacks in Glasgow that received no media attention whatsoever

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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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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Looking on the bright side, at least there'll be no higher education sector left to destroy when a far-right party finally takes power in the UK*

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Still one of my favourite cities

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

These are all from Notting Hill Carnival. Those negatives will keep me busy for a while

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ghana used to celebrate June 4, which was when Rawlings overthrew the previous government

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

mCranberry: A rationally engineered monomeric red fluorescent protein with 85% quantum yield by Premashis Manna and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Winter darkroom printing season is upon us

Three 8x10 Black&White analog prints hanging on washing lines in my bathroom

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Victor Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs star, who is French, supports the French high school protests: I am glad that young people and high school students are making their voices heard. Because I hear them and I support them. And I hope that the people at the very top will do the same.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

US & UK media are doing a poor job of covering the student protests in France. The network France24, however, has excellent English-language reporting with no paywall. This story from 2024 will help you understand why the protests began with working-class students of African descent. f24.my/AI4Q

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Paris suburbs get spanking new Olympic venues while teachers and pupils seethe in decrepit schools

Teachers and parents in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris have staged several weeks of strikes and protests in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, leveraging the Games as they call for urgent measures…

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Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Brixton, London - 2013

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/10/2026

"archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards."

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Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From a trip to Mill Rd Cemetery in May about a month before my hip operation. @emdashman.bsky.social and @olu-gh.bsky.social made it a lovely day and I’m just getting round to the half frame photos from the Pentax 17 - the HC negs are a little contrasty for my taste so may tweak the print a bit.

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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was assuming this probably meant a large collection of Nazi- adjacent books?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 04/10/2026

The dragon watched the girl climb up to its mountain lair. She stopped to catch her breath, then shouted: "Oi! I've got some questions." "Ask." "Princesses, why?" "They're educated and smell nice." "No noble blood?" "All humans are humans." "Yes! The revolution is go! Cheers!" "Good luck."

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression & denial of my humanity & right to exist.” ― Robert Jones Jr. That said, I'm not certain that we can reduce this to "polarization" when investment in the status quo of oppressive structures explains more

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Birthday to the legendary MC. In his honor, here's the 10 minute Funk Flex freestyle that when you hit play, you think you're gonna turn it off after a couple minutes but then you end up watching the whole thing, just mesmerized: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmQ...

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BLACK THOUGHT FREESTYLES ON FLEX | #FREESTYLE087

YouTube video by HOT 97

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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