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Orla Fiona Mulholland

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually? www.dublininquirer.com/to-counter-a...
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To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter
Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"This? Oh, this is the _last_ client who mentioned ChatGPT in my presence." Happy Feast of St Jerome to all who translate.
St Jerome, by Lucas van Leyden (1521). A bearded chap pointing at a skull while wearing a very meaningful expression.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Tigray Government and civil society organisations have been warning of the imminent threat of another war. A military offensive was launched on 1 August 2026, along with encirclement of Tigray and drone attacks.

Following the attacks, open letters were sent by UK and global Tigrayan advocacy groups to the UK and US Governments, the UN, EU and African Union, urgently calling for international action to prevent another genocidal war in Tigray. The academic Dr Sarah Vaughan has cautioned that “If we neglect to push for peace and accountability, we are complicit in entrenching impunity” for atrocity crimes (25).

Advocacy groups urge that the path forward is neither complicated nor unattainable: it requires decisive international action.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!”
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The electrically-powered aerial railway across the Kelvin which was displayed for the 1911 Scottish Exhibition should have been made a permanent feature!
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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 12/08/2026
Seventy-seven years ago, states came together after the unprecedented destruction of the II WW to adopt the Geneva Conventions. But that promise to preserve humanity in war is eroding at an alarming pace. ICRC president on this anniversary of the Geneva Conventions: ms.spr.ly/63322aHoCC
In today’s interconnected world, no one is immune to the effects of war. As parties to the Geneva Conventions, states bear a unique responsibility to uphold these lifesaving rules.   Doing so is a moral and strategic imperative that protects people both near and far from the frontlines. It is also foundational to global peace and prosperity.  Changing course is still possible, but only if exceptional efforts are made now to strengthen respect for and commitment to international humanitarian law.”
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In response to an Assembly question today posed by the leader of the opposition, @otoolematthew.bsky.social, the most recent numbers show 180 households lost their homes in this year’s pogroms. 550 households lost access to goods and services during the worst of the violence. And nothing changes.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Commemorating you on the 30th anniversary (August 9, 1996-August 9, 2026) of your passing May Ayim. thank you for being an inspiration
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today is the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima. Yet despite the gut wrenching horror, the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs & still want more. This is madness. #NoMoreHiroshimas @cnduk.bsky.social
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/08/2026
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...
We call upon you to:

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This Sunday in Berlin Dust up your best white clothes and join this silent march @medico.de @medico2.bsky.social @ippnwgermany.bsky.social #medaolidar #vdää www.medico.de/termin/2026-...
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Schweigemarsch - Veranstaltung - 26.07.2026 - medico international
Free Dr. Abu Safiya & All Healthcare Workers
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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The latest substack daftness here. open.substack.com/pub/writerer...
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Stuffing a Petulant Windsock With Teeth and Frog Meat
The 6th Part of a Continuing Episodic Thing - You may wish to begin with the earlier episodes. (We'll wait, our coppery hands hanging patiently by our knees.)
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Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dawn Foster died five years ago on this date. I really miss her and I think about her every day. If you’re new to her work or want to introduce it to someone, this was the best tribute written about her: tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/in-m... Dawn Foster Forever
Dawn outside the Sunflower pub in Belfast. Sign reads “no topless bathing Ulster has suffered enough.”  Dawn in front of a print reading “greet the Dawn five Labour its chance” Dawn in the Bread and Roses pub in Clapham and a painting of John Burns Addressing and Open Air Crowd by Alexander Joseph FinbergDawn looking amazing and eating oysters
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Israel's impunity is limitless. Not a peep from our governments, who support this and other outrageous acts of violence against Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
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Jailed Gaza hospital chief in life-threatening condition, rights group says
Elyas Abu Safia says his father Hussam can barely breathe or speak after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of the most destructive tenures in recent political history. Enabled some of Reform’s worst rhetoric at so many turns and laid the foundations for a personality just as hateful towards non-white people but less openly toxic than Nigel Farage to be PM at some point. Good riddance.
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The Critic: Nothing Of Value Was Lost
ALT: The Critic: Nothing Of Value Was Lost
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 05/06/2026
City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...
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There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop
City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Everybody to Kenmure Street" is a great documentary. This evening’s special screening in a packed theatre at the GFT was wonderful. I think everyone left the screening and the Q&A feeling a bit more hopeful.
The screen in GFT, showing a still image of "Everybody to Kenmure Street" today, before a special screening.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
like i said www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
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Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism
Humans, however flawed, are
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
the fundamental job of journalism is to report facts & uphold public trust, which is rapidly eroding. brushing off the careless use of AI to spread misinformation shows why that is. this kind of conduct needs to be treated as a serious violation & called out as absolutely unacceptable.
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Orla Fiona Mulholland @orlafmulholland.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Vampire slop - excellent & cathartic from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Vampire Slop | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A culture of divination has grown all around us - from machine learning, to prediction markets, and forecasting of all kinds, not to mention psychics and astrology. But have you ever wondered what, exactly, is in a prediction? TED talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4w... #PROPHECY #authors
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Deborah Feldman @deborahfeldman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In honor of the podcast, my essay on German philosemitism is once again briefly available to read free of any cost (even registration!) so if you missed your shot first time around… hop to it: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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Deborah Feldman · For the Love of Jews
After the Holocaust, the moral architecture of German identity was built around a responsibility to Jews. Yet the redemptive philosemitism that has come to characterize that commitment flattens and wa...
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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I can’t stop thinking about the scene in THREADS where a pub TV is broadcasting news about the US doing a coup in Iran that leads to nuclear war while everyone just goes about their business like normal
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
People keep advertising “refuse” And I’m a contrary bitch .. but I’m also right. It’s not refusing . It’s about LIVING, it’s about not letting them define the convo because you are doing OTHER THINGS.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...
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Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal
Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 13/03/2026
this is shocking only if one is not remotely familiar with the history of Palantir, Thiel and Karp newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just watched the new Louis Theroux Manosphere documentary. Really insightful and depressing in equal measure, but not too much of it was actually surprising. 🧵
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Make our day: subscribe to PassBlue, the only women-led news site covering global affairs via UN passblue.com/subscribe/
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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In 2003, the Daily Record supported Labour and the illegal invasion of Iraq. A few months later, Jack McConnell announced his 'War on Neds'. 🧵 1/9
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You know what’s hilarious about these two headlines? The party that beat the CDU in this election wasn’t the AfD - it was the Greens. Now granted under Bartbock the Greens were hardly recognisable as an environmentalist party but still.
German politics
German chancellor's party heads for narrow defeat in key regional election
How job cuts and the AfD fuelled Germany's far-right 'alternative union'
Green Party UK
Is the Green Party too radical for Britain?
1 HOUR AGO
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Julie McDowall @nuclearwar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
FREE TO VIEW 📚 Join my new nuclear book club, the Doomsday Library. Vote for the books, get a video on the 1st of each month, and chat on the dedicated thread. First up: THE CHRYSALIDS by John Wyndham.
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This thread is very good, and additionally something I've been thinking about in the field is the dearth of fact checking. Books have the opportunity to do things right because of longer lead times, ask we should be using that to our advantage instead of blowing it off buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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The Fact of the Matter
Fact-checkers, legal, reviews, and the truth in nonfiction.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/03/2026
WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran reut.rs/4rP5zlx
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WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran
The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday that it ‌has verified 13 attacks on health infrastructure in Iran amid a U.S.-Israeli campaign and it was checking reports that four healthcare workers were killed and 25 ​others injured.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
But this Claude incident highlights another problem with AI: My story and the Post's work are carefully written and reported. We deliberately choose what we can and can't say. Editors review our language and challenge us on facts. AI summaries throw all that work into a copy blender.🫠
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school
Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Offshore Britain created the Epstein Class. open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... By me
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Offshore Britain created the Epstein class
Britain's tax-haven territories are all over the Epstein files - because the global super-rich rely heavily on them
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/03/2026
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
today we had a class of young students (12-14 yr old) came to visit the @aial.ie on campus. they were so keen to learn about AI and most importantly I was blown away by the type of questions they asked us: water consumption of data centers, how openai makes money, why RAM prices keep going up, ...
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"We condemn Iranian attacks on countries in the region in the strongest terms" but we will certainly not condemn unlawful US-israeli strikes, specifically we will not condemn the attack on a school that killed over 80 people. This is a farce www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktu...
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E3 Joint Leaders’ Statement on Iran:
by President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Prime Minister Keir Starmer
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
"Now is the time to stand up together and fight. We thought we have good democratic foundations in Europe. We don't." Ailbhe Smyth Ailbhe Smyth also comments on how big tech and the AI industry is the biggest threat to civil liberties
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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Folk out last night flyering the premiere of Everybody to Kenmure Street with practical information on how to resist an immigration raid:
Black and white flyer with simple line illustrations and this text:

See a raid? Don’t walk by! We can resist the raids together!
Make sure people know they don’t have to answer any questions and can leave. 
If they want to leave, walk away with them.
Film immigration officers and police. If someone is being detained, check with them first or only film officers. 
Challenge the officers - why are they questioning specific people?
Tell people around you what’s happening. Call your friends. Tweet @antiraids to get word out.

If someone is being detained give them these numbers 
Bail for immigration detainees 02074569750
SOAS detainee support 07438407570Black and white flyer with simple illustrations accompanying this text:
IMMIGRATION RAIDS 

If immigration officers come to your home or work…
You do not have to answer any questions
You do not have to let them in
They can only enter with your consent, a warrant or assistant director’s letter  unless the business is licensed to sell alcohol or late-night food/drink
Try to leave if you are not under arrest 
southsidearn@proton.me
Linker.ee/southsideantiraids
DON’T STOP & TALK - JUST GO
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I appreciated how De Linke has bona fide economists, supported experts, and political leaders to articulate how to enact their prescriptions in the complexities of the real world and markets. People can agree or not but it’s more grounded than a lot of internet-based political culture and grievances
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I'm co-hosting a new BBC podcast! It's called The Interface, and it's all about how tech is rewiring your week and your world. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Karen HaoNicky WoolfThomas Germain
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
it’s exciting for people who care about Westminster chess, that they’ll publish the documents about how Mandelson got appointed, but for people who care about the UK, id like them to publish the full details of the deals he negotiated with the US tech & pharma interests on (supposedly) our behalf
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