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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 6h

I have said it before, and I will say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. All you have to do is keep your eyes open and look carefully for them... tomcox.substack.com/p/20-of-the-...

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 22h

Study of 10,000 faculty finds women leave academia because they feel pushed out, not pulled toward another opportunity. Analysis of 6,615 comments showed a gender gap of feeling devalued: 41% of women vs 18% of men. www.science.org/content/arti...

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For women academics, feeling devalued can be a fatal career blow

Thousands shared their stories for a new study of faculty attrition

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I recently found out that my latest novel has been chosen by The Bookseller magazine as paperback of the year for 2026. To say it had an inauspicious start in life would be putting things mildly… tomcox.substack.com/p/how-a-nove...

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How A Novel Came Back From The Dead

A Story In 20 Photographs

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive. Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Personally, I’ve been waiting for the release of Lifce Biromss, tho I didn’t know it til now

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 13/10/2026

Shane Gillis’ Unfunny Misogynist Monologue Dan Levy Takes On Shane Gillis Watch: #BeansTalk 🫘 with @muellershewrote.com & @dgcomedy.bsky.social #MSWMedia ⁠ ⁠ Follow Beans Talk on #YouTube:⁠ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk1...

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Forget LLMs, what we need are more MMLs

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Põhja Ohakas @eex97623.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One left. Of the three hit two are operating at lowest capacity in critical emergency modes, with Vladimir site completely shut down, repairs and replacements won't happen until 2027/2028. I say strike #4, then hit them all again.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My admiration for Zelenskyy is off the scale. The word "hero" doesn't come close.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026

Ancient Greek coins of Aegina island mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/8302794...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” William Congreve, 1697 - The Mourning Bride (play)

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Interior of the new electric 2CV

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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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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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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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Palendromedary @palendromedary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very likely. I'm sure they were kidding.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Palendromedary @palendromedary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember being in a bookshop overhearing someone on their phone. Asked to get a copy of Jeffrey Archer's diaries, they asked "Would that be in fiction or biography?"

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this 👇

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

When you notice your meat-proxy colleagues become absolutely helpless on their own, remember Sam Altman's goal: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter” People paying to make themselves dependent on these companies. You […]

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

U want buy pot. Good pot very wriggly Www.roseschmits.com

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Onagadori Rooster. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022.

Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of an Onagadori rooster with long flowing tail covert feathers on a plum blossom branch. The rooster's comb and wattle are the only spots of red. The piece is smaller than a postcard and is photographed with the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I find it hard to summarise my opinions on "AI" (a term I really dislike, because it refers to a huge number of technologies that are very different in capability, quality, ambition and design), but I think I'm coming round to something like this: [1/3]

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All American @blueskyairborne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember The Epstein Files.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Godzilla and Queen Ghidorah love A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD!! Now you can pre-order the book that everybody is rrrroaring about on Monster Island. (Thanks to @beeragon.bsky.social for the incredible documentary film.) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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