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I run a machine first website and I'd say 90% of the robots that visit it are spoofs, pretending to be frontier AI models, or reputable SEO tools. And you can trace which data centres the spoofs route from. I might just have to check my logs to see if bots register to Yandex have indeed dropped.

On a more nerdy level, the idea this caused a drop in Russian bot activity is circumstantial. Without access to server logs at X or Threads or Facebook, how do you prove that this caused a drop in bot activity? Also, those bots can be routed through data centres elsewhere in the world very quickly

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It's obviously true that Russian data centres were hit. I imagine that's why Elon is so pissed off. Not sure if the data centre escalation is on Ukraine? Like, has Russia been targeting them too? Probably. What it does do is make data centres outside Russia/Ukraine a target for sabotage.

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Not to be a nerd about this, but the u axis on this chart runs to 15 October?

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The jerks who let a literal fascist become president

Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

And which country's foreign policy is an engine for creating the conditions in which people flee to get into Europe? Yours. And don't for a second demand props cos Dems use a kinder tone of voice.

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Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Unfortunately politicians seem to be more interested in inflaming racial and cultural tensions rather than seeking to be above it.

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It would be really useful if a politician was willing to talk about the crisis of religious identity in the UK. It feels like a really important one to be had, particularly if you are Muslim or Jewish. But also if you are a white Christian. >>>

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It's almost like she woke up from a fever dream transformed into an insect. A truly Kafkaesque world it must be for Hinsliff.

Er... Does this make Messi Prince?

Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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At first I thought something weird was going on but then I realised No, it’s simply planes based in Oxfordshire going off to fight a war that the UK is not involved in, so I went back to sleep www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The first time the window-rattling roar of a B-1 bomber woke me up this summer, I thought for one crazed second we were under attack.
By the second time, I'd learned to recognise the sound of US planes taking off from their base at RAF Fairford for what it was: a reminder that although Britain wants no part in this war with Iran, we cannot quite escape the consequences.

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

One by one the sensibles reveal themselves to be crackpots of the first water, and yet nobody will ever admit they might have been wrong.

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Sorry losing the money is harder, once you're wealthy, is what I'm saying

The economy is just a giant wealth protection machine. If you're lucky enough to inherit or accumulate wealth, you'd have to be an utter idiot to lose, let alone grow that wealth. It's literally the hardest thing the world to do, far harder than... You know being economically productive, or working.

Like wealth has gone from X3 GDP to like x7 GDP, since 1990. That's not productive, its mostly socially useless flows of property and pension wealth.

Yes, and in the ingenuity, entrepreneurialism and creative of people educated in the UK. It's like we've created this constantly valorised group of Uber rich people and confused their Uber wealth with actual wealth creation. They are not the same thing, particularly in the UK.

Interesting riposte to the anti-wealth tax crowd

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 09/10/2026

I don't think people realise just how impossible it will be for a future non Republican US president to undo what the republicans have done. Like, it would require years of boring party consensus just to reverse the corruption. To prosecute wrongdoing and that's never happening.

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I don’t know a lot about ADHD but i do know a young guy who struggled a lot and might not have finished university who got diagnosed and treated, then did extremely well, and now makes a boatload of money at a good job I thought "getting people into work" was labour's whole thing

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"

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Who, Saudi or the Yanks? (mad that I have to ask)

Huzzah $200 free API credits from Claude, god knows why but I'll take it.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've had a newsworthy piece of climate research spiked x5 TIMES this year by broadcasters, despite meticulous research into the localised impact of climate change on poorer working class communities, in a particular region of the UK . But climate sceptic comms get a free pass. Our media is a joke.

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It would be lovely to think that on discovering an error of this magnitude it would prompt the Tories to stop and ask themselves if maybe we can afford net zero after all. Sadly, there is zero chance of that happening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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America is ignorant and utterly entitled. I'm often astounded even at the supposed liberal / left politicos. Americans' thirst for war has been utterly destructive for the rest of the world many times. But this feels different. Such a wildly ignorant people.

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The lack of pushback against Trump in the US, the seeming lack of awareness of what America seems to have set in motion elsewhere in the world, is shocking, though not surprising to me.

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UPDATES: US War on Iran, Day 225 - Houthis Hit Riyadh's International Airport - EA WorldView

So much victory, totall winning-ness. When do we start to wonder if the Saudi regime will fall? I have no truck for the Saudi or or the US regime but the war on Iran is looking like the biggest fuck up by the entitled, self proclaimed leaders of the free world ever? eaworldview.com/2026/10/us-w...

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Attack by Yemen's Houthis on the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh sets afire and heavily damages a Saudia Airlines commercial plane

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STC @blobbystc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I get that the people around Trump are nasty and that they say and do vile things. And I really don't know anything about this Dell woman, but the relentless focus on her appearance is cheap, nasty and stinks of the kind of mysogynistic cruelty that Trump himself luxuriates in

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Meanwhile

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also - what to say of a Tory party that loses its deposit in Makerfield but keeps it in Holborn! Curious times

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Green target voter is basically a normie lib or elderly nature minded voter. Since Gorton there’s been chat about replacing Labour or winning Reform voters(!) all while ZP seems to have been slowly radicalised by his own social media feed. Refocus and they can still get 15-20 MPs next election imo

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holborn and St Pancras - fairly unremarkable in the end except to say: - Burnham slowly piecing back the Lab 24 coalition, albeit mostly the left bit so far - Greens a shade underwhelming and reflects less space for them but also taking their eye off the ball a bit in the last six months

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