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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

free to read piece about a loyalist rapper from the Shankill in Belfast. He played at the Belfast Féile recently in front of Kneecap fans. People (esp politicians) don't realise how united young people already are in NI. The shackles of settler colonialism are being shaken away.

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‘Protestant and proud’ Young Spencer: Meet the Shankill Road’s answer to Kneecap

Rapper says music is bringing young people together in Northern Ireland and talks about how his association with nationalist rap trio ‘divides opinion’

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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, so *this* is what they mean when they say AI poses an existential threat to humanity

Extract from Time article claiming Trump was persuaded to attack Venezuela by Grok

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026

Voting them out is just the opportunity, not the solution!

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Are the menz all right at all. Can you not drink the beers, eat the chips and have a good time without hassling women. timehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/women-given-free-cycling-shorts-prevent-upskirting-oktoberfest-amusement-ride-teufelsrad-germany

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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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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is one of those headlines where, though they are becoming more and more common, it requires such a leap of imagination for normal people, that the scale of it is is hard to communicate. It’s like our world is screaming at us, but it’s in a frequency most of us can’t hear.

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I bet all of these are worth reading. I've just finished 'Said The Dead' by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, which definitely deserves its place on the list. I look forward to hearing her speak to @rickoshea.bsky.social the weekend after next.

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Carrie N Baker @carrienbaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new PBS series, inspired by Ms. reporting, explores how medications used in abortion and emergency contraception could transform women’s health and why patients are still waiting after decades of feminist advocacy. 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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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

This. Not sure the Brits have fully grasped that 'welcome back' means no extrawurst.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 01/10/2026

“Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater,” writes Simon Callow. “Martin Sherman’s play Bent (1979), an excoriating account of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals…, belongs to this select category.”

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The Road to ‘Bent’ | Simon Callow

Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater. Beaumarchais’s Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken" 😬 Disposable vapes are also horrible for the environment, throwing away so much plastic, batteries, and electronics.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Pacific Screech-Owl 20-25 cm Pacific slope of Middle America, southern Mexico down through Central America to NW Costa Rica. Mate for life nest in a tree cavity female incubates 34 days, male feeds her both parents feed chicks 5 weeks Parents feed , protect for 10 more weeks until they leave

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.

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

Time for this classic again.

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The soundtrack for the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show is now available. I loved the music in the show so I'm delighted this is out. By the hugely talented Oli Julian. open.spotify.com/album/4twL7m...

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Leonard and Hungry Paul (Music from the Programme) - Compilation by Oli Julian | Spotify

Oli Julian · compilation · 2026 · 14 songs

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the perfect swimmer body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something that has troubled me over and over in these AI years is how we seem to need to redraw every line to accommodate AI. It is possible for writing to have value for thinking and for oral exams and discussions to have value. We don't need to remake the world to eliminate writing/5

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

stupidest email chain: them: long rant about how I use AI pictures for my youtube thumbnails me: they're stock images them: well they're AI my AI checker says so me: that image was drawn in 2015, here's the link them: why are you being so rude i was trying to be helpful

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Cue retrofitting of suspects into Trump delusional conspiracy, even if it turns out they were dogging/nicking Ag diesel etc...

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We've created an international security story by mistake!"

Richard E. Grant & Paul McGann in the "We've gone on holiday by mistake!" bit of Withnail & I.

Fun fact: They have both technically played incarnations of Doctor Who. McGann, definitely. Grant was an animated one.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

The woman wondering if people have personal agendas seems to have ah, um, personal agenda.

Screen shots of a series of WSJ articles by Elizabeth Bernstein, 3 of the four are questioning the 'epidemic' of adults cutting contact with their parents. One of the articles says 'personal agendas are creeping into the therapy room'. Bernstein appears to have a personal agenda herself but hey.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Canyon wrens 12-15cm rocky habitats from southern British Columbia W USA and Mexico. Canyon Wren does not drink water, getting all necessary moisture directly from its insect prey. nest build inside cliffs, female incubates 18 days, male feeds her parents feed 17 days in the nest, 14 days after

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A pastel assortment of native perennials for #SixonSaturday. I thought the hibiscus were finished blooming, but the recent rains woke them up. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱

A collage of six flowers, left to right: white Frostweed, Verbesina virginica and potter wasp Eurodynerus pratensis; lavender Maypops, Passiflora incarnata; pink Swamp Rose Mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos; Azure Sage, Salvia azurea; Blue Mistflower, Conoclinium coelestinum; Mealycup Sage, Salvia Farinacea and a pink Pyrausta inornatalis, Inornate Pyrausta moth. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

There was like one tiny ember left and they couldn't resist fanning it.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Another hour, another shocking revelation from broland.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I was a kid, one of my best friends was in a Republican family (would probably be Trumpy today). They had a beloved cat named Robespierre, and looking back I have so many questions.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Arriving late to the "new flag for Ireland" debate to say given a UI at the moment is technically a hypothetical surely the more practical discussion is what are Unionists and Britain doing to make sure the Irish feel welcome in the UK in other news 200 cops are coming from Scotland to Drumcree

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 26/09/2026

Canada was a manufacturing leader in hi-fi systems in the 1950s and 1960s. Friends. Romans. Country people. Let me present you the Clairtone G2.

A Clairtone G2 stereo system with two shelf layers, the lower being a turntable and amp plus a box for records the upper shelf beings being something I’m not sure and on either side. There are black spheres that are actually the speakers there are four of them it is against a white wall and a floor that is made of blonde hard wood

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026

This nonsense has become a fucking cult. Collective AI psychosis intertwined with shameless grift. Two of the authors operate out of AI thinktanks opaquely funded by philanthropic donations (i.e. tech-bros), they used chatbots to help write it, & the paper hasn‘t been peer reviewed. Garbage.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

It's such a pity that it's impossible to legislate to control this, and that nothing at all can be done except expand it.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spurs have a big interest here because a big points deduction for Man City could mean the difference between 17th and 18th at the end of the season.

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