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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

BIG MOOD

Claire Willett
@clairewillett
I have a soft spot for any episode that feels like Gene Roddenberry's cousin just closed a community theater production of "Antony & Cleopatra" and called him up like
"I'm downstairs right now with five boxes of costumes in the trunk of my car can you take them off my hands"
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12h

I’ve been saying for a while that the most effective route to Rejoin is probably to have a big whip round and buy us some politicians. They’re so cheap! Sofa change would probably do it!

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 12h

God imagine if Starmer had gone ahead with that income tax rise, providing money to knackered state, building fiscal credibility and lowering inflation. At least ducking it let him keep his job Hang on

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had no idea this was an option.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21h

You may sneer at the term “Super Intelligence“ for AI, but many said “Information Super Highway” would never catch on.

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In these dark and fractured times, humanity needs to find common ground. Let us come together and acknowledge that, no matter our sexual orientation, our skin colour, our gender or our ideology, we all fancy Gillian Anderson.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember, folks: for every author you see on here describing how they’ve filled out forms to get *some* compensation from the Anthropic AI case there are dozens, hundreds, hell THOUSANDS of us who get 0 because our books weren’t registered with the US copyright office yet have UK copyright!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How the f- is any of this normal? Labour can choose to undo this immediately. Deproscribe Palestine Action. It was a disastrous decision by the Starmer admin and Burnham can undo it.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"I know 90 pound female drone operators in Ukraine with more confirmed kills than smallpox. Your post goes hard if you don't know jack shit about modern warfare."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Narrator: it wasn’t mind-boggling. It was entirely predictable.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Mike Sterling, A Comical Fellow @mikester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh an AI Doctor Who fan-film where Tennant's 14th Doctor *doesn't* regenerate into a Black queer Doctor, huh, go figure

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your reminder why many women, when asked what they’d do if there were no men for a day, said they’d go for a walk at night and look at the stars. Also, why we’d choose the bear.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 01/10/2026

Since I'm on strike, I haven't checked my work emails but I've heard about this email that HR have sent asking us to be nice to senior management. Tell me, is it nice of them to make staff redundant? Is it nice of them to cut Scottish literature and Gaelic courses? Are these nice behaviours?

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one time a guy catcalled me and i flipped him off, and another guy walking the opposite way scolded me for "not being nice" to the catcaller. never heard of a bear doing that shit

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is correct but doesn’t quite engage with why private schools remain popular. Fundamentally most state schools aren’t set up very well to deal with two high grade professional career career families.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 01/10/2026

If anyone is in touch with any of the local trans inclusive safe spaces orgs around the country can you reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to speak to me over the next day or so please. I have opened my DMs.

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Adult Human Chicken @markclapham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very taken by the idea that Monica is a powerful necromancer but hasn’t realised it so is working reception rather than raising a skeleton army to conquer the world.

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Piers Beckley @piersb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Vicar, quietly, standing up to preach: “Remember, my friend, you must not eat me!” Muffled Voice: “I will not eat you, Vicar.”

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you were planning to get something done by the end of September, then Professor Sir Fred Hoyle FRS has some bad news for you, sunshine.

Paperback cover to "October the First Is Too Late" by Fred Hoyle

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve seen the pitch document for The Day Today and it’s about a paragraph long. I paraphrase but: “This show worked brilliantly on the radio and we know what we’re doing.” A world in which that is a viable pitch document is something that we surrendered without a fight, which is so sad.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BBC reveals preferred bidders for the Doctor Who franchise tender.

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Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I have a best punishment for Man City. They can’t win a trophy for 10 years. They might make a cup final and play in it but the best they get is a runner up medal. That’ll drive players elsewhere for a decade.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

As a society, we need to move past the concept of "guilty pleasures" tbh. The world can really use some more joy, and if you get that from bubblegum pop or 80s power ballads, then that's only lovely and to be encouraged

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cannot stop giggling at the image of being out with your mates, looking forward to a quite afternoon of nicking heating oil. Sun's out, it's warm, you're mooching round Gloucestershire... Dazza's just got the siphon going and suddenly a small army of armed police appear and start screaming at you.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a study I'd actually like to see- one similar to the one discussed in the OP of this thread, but with an astrologer, psychic or tarot reader as the control group. My intuition is the results would be replicated, that even here the human would offer more pushback, more difference of opinion.

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"From that social security you can build that national security" -- AB to BBC Last time he struck this echo pundits howled about a gaffe -- benefits before bombs! But he's actually doing something more interesting, not using "social security" to mean "welfare spend" but invoking as an ideal

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 30/09/2026

I'm 17 episodes into a Twilight Zone (1959) watch and I'm quite convinced it's the greatest show ever. Each one is a small jewel of a complete movie that fucks off in 25 minutes and then Rod Serling smokes at you and tells you to come back next week.

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Lawrence Miles @lawrence-miles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"AI is the future!" The cry of people so conditioned by tech-consumerism that they've forgotten how horrific most imagined futures are. I remember '80s survivalists filling bunkers with guns and baked beans because "nuclear holocaust is inevitable". If a future is shit, you're allowed to resist it.

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Piers Beckley @piersb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are still people thinking that Trump and his Project 2025 pals are not going to try to steal the midterms and impose a dictatorship on the US. I beg of you, _have a plan in case I’m right and you’re wrong_.

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh look, the AI bros overhyped some bullshit we all told them was bullshit and they implemented it anyway and it turned out to be bullshit.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"There's one final thing we need to change if our plan for Britain is succeed," Burnham said, inexplicably not then going on to talk about the Postcode Address File.

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Piers Beckley @piersb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well that was one hell of a speech!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only time the word “confidence” should be used around the AI bubble is when it’s followed by the word “trick.”

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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Get young people off benefits” is deliberate toxic framing. Why not say “we have a moral duty to create jobs for young people that pay a living wage”?

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026

PARISIANS! Come take a look. Take a closer look. There are 30 space sci-fi classics that will be screened over the next 20 days at La Cinémathèque!! Solaris, Silent Running, Moon, Alien, Marooned, Wall-E, 2001, 2010, Interstellar... You should enjoy it for me. Thank you for your attention.

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