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Anna AMD

@performmonkey.bsky.social
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From the west coast of Scotland, now living in the heart of Europe. Photography, history, and screaming into the void. And yes, I miss the sea.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10h
“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Photo of Gaza
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h
Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Anna AMD @performmonkey.bsky.social · 10h
Not now Russian plague, not now!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19h
Margaret Beckett: I blew up my party as a cautionary tale Zack Polanski: At last, we will recreate blowing up our party from the iconic “Labour party”
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 11h
It rained most of yesterday, and it's raining now.
Grey sky over mountains and sea.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11h
Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"
politico.com
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18h
Nobody is prepared for the world of drone warfare that is coming, in fact is already here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22h
The real question here is why someone in 2026 died of Y. pestis, which is highly fatal *without treatment* but responds VERY well to your most basic antibiotics. We can treat the plague these days! So why didn’t they.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 22h
Thinking that what's going on with Man City is just a football story is like thinking that the Enron scandal should have never left the business pages. Size of Enron inflated profits = £585m, size of Man City total profit and loss mistatement = £921.4m
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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 20h
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It might be because I’m tired, but the Lee Child one sounds the most appealing
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...
My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Glimpse of Ben More from the Machair, Iona, painting by Frances Macdonald, Scottish artist.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS the newest womensart book #BestSeller #MostGifted Here, at a shop which supports indie booksellers 👇 or at any bookstore of your choice... bookshop.org/beta-search?ke…+
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Poltergeist".
In the first panel we see a woman with a worried expression on her face. She says, "stuff keeps moving around my house."
In the second panel the same woman says "I'm terrified. I can't sleep."
In the third panel we see a ghost holding a candle and a pillow that reads "live laugh love". The ghost is zooming through the house.
In the fourth panel we see the same ghost hanging up a frame and thinking, "home decor is my passion".
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Couldoran. (Photo taken last week).
House amongst trees.
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Marcus Wadsak @marcuswadsak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gletscherfläche 2005: rund 415 Quadratkilometer. In den Jahren 2021 bis 2023 nur noch ungefähr 285 Quadratkilometer – Abwärtstendenz stark steigend. science.orf.at/stories/3237...
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Österreich auf Weg zur „Entgletscherung“
Die Eisschmelze in den Bergen schreitet rasant voran. Nicht zuletzt angesichts des vergangenen Sommers mit neuen Höchsttemperaturen sieht die Glaziologin Andrea Fischer Österreich auf dem Weg Richtung...
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Anna AMD @performmonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Manchester City whistleblower Rui Pinto to leave Portugal over safety fears www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Manchester City whistleblower Rui Pinto to leave Portugal over safety fears
Rui Pinto has had his witness protection status removed but his lawyers said they will appeal and that his situation is ‘critical’
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Anna AMD @performmonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘The enemy is tearing our city apart’: terror in Kyiv as Russia ramps up attacks www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘The enemy is tearing our city apart’: terror in Kyiv as Russia ramps up attacks
Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Kyivans can no longer pretend it is ‘peacetime’ amid strikes on school, hospital and bridge
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 02/10/2026
I was pretty cynical about Man City’s financial doping and didn’t like the idea of stripping titles etc, but seeing their utterly shameless response and desperate threats makes me want the book thrown at them.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Israel paid US contractors millions for an influence operation designed to shape “GPT framing” in chatbot answers. Government-funded sites were engineered for AI retrieval, and major chatbots cited them without identifying Israel as the funder.
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DOJ filings show Israel's $46.5m Parscale contract included a plan to manipulate AI answers on Gaza
DOJ filings show Israel hired Brad Parscale's Clock Tower X for "GPT framing results on GPT conversations" and paid Piro Inc. to run a think tank that put out 124 largely AI-written reports in nine da...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bless him
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy little accidents
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Holly Thomas @holstat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We shouldn’t be surprised that no men in the Snapchat group interceded that night. To gain access to the chat in the first place, they had to pledge their allegiance to a brotherhood defined by its brutality, entry to which is gained via torture. www.thenewworld.co.uk/holly-thomas...
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The Cornell rape case is a direct consequence of the fraternity system
The Cornell rape case is a direct consequence of the fraternity system If you keep teaching young men that they’re exceptional and that women are playthings, then yes – this is how they will behave
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Something very striking about it being 2026, all the talk of AI and super intelligence and tech competition and here we are talking about diesel inventories. A useful reminder that these two books are a useful frame for understanding the world.
Material World by Ed Conway The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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Hiking Historian @hikinghistorian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rescuers say TikTok and Instagram posts don't prepare hikers for dangers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
TikTok, Instagram posts don't warn hikers about dangers - rescuers
Rescues of 18-24-year-olds have more than doubled in Wales and England since 2019, rescuers say.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Staff fears grow that BBC will shut its Three and Scotland channels next week
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Staff fears grow that BBC will shut its Three and Scotland channels next week
Redundancy process suggests home of Gavin and Stacey and Fleabag could go online-only again in £500m cuts push The BBC has started a redundancy process in its TV and streaming division, heightening staff fears that Matt Brittin will announce the closure of the poorly performing BBC Three and BBC Scotland channels next week. The corporation’s director general, who has repeatedly said that linear TV and radio services may have to shut as audiences move online, is expected to inform staff on Wednesday of the latest stage of a plan to save £500m and shed up to 2,000 jobs. Continue reading...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/10/2026
Got a really scary one to start off the month @erinbiba.bsky.social don’t watch in a dark room!
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/10/2026
“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is Ilya Honcharov. He was only 14 years old. Russia killed him in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Region on September 30 🕯💔 ​Ilya’s family had moved to the Kyiv region from Sumy to escape relentless bombings, only for a Russian missile to strike the building where they lived.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK PM Andy Burnham is now looking for a Brit company that can take over from Palantir.
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A town in Germany has banned the laying of Stolpersteine, the "stumbling stones" remembering victims of the Holocaust. A couple of years I interviewed Gunter Demnig, the artist who came up with the scheme, and met the family behind one of the over-100,000 stones. www.economist.com/europe/2023/...
economist.com
Stolpersteine grieve for victims of the Nazis, one at a time
Gunter Demnig’s paving stones spark countless acts of remembrance
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Anna AMD @performmonkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims
Heidenau council has halted the laying of Stolpersteine installed to remember individual victims of the Nazis
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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank goodness for all the participants in this #sea rescue operation: the #RNLI Stromness lifeboat, two #HMCoastguard helicopters, coastguard rescue teams, a maritime aircraft from the #RoyalAirForce, local vessels in the vicinity and #NorthLinkFerries
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Anna AMD @performmonkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Looks like a comedy relief robot out of a Hideo Kojima project
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They've lost a fifth of their mass in five years. You can almost watch it happening in real time here.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Splitting NATO is just another objective shared by the Kremlin and the current US administration. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Screenshot from linked story about splitting NATO 
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Novocastrum @novocastrianufc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NUFC #ManCity
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