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Pyromaniac Mariner

@pyma.uk
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Licensed fool in the province of batteaux. Queer, they/them. HSR UID: 707049238

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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/09/2026
openAIs next product is going to be a gun that shoots you in the head so your agent can live your life for you
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Civic nationalism is not, nor ever should it be, a matter of blood or filiation, but freedom and affiliation.” A wonderful piece @peterjukes.bsky.social and also expressing tennents of Scottish civic nationalism so threatened now by casual Racism, intimidation balaclava-ed nonsense and violence
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all. 
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Rape culture is structured by the incident of rape and other forms of sexual assault, yes. But it is also structured by the assaulter’s impression of what the consequences might be. Structured by the unfettered harassment anti-assault advocates face. Given shape by bad behavior being given a pass.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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koda @nulloffset.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
dude telegram has sticker packs. fluxer is federated and self hosted. revolt is now stoat, stoat is just discord but with free nitro features. teamspeak. you can use matrix but it needs a client. bleepy has 10 alternate clients. plumdy is free. you can find me on poob. get on poob. get on poob.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cannot express enough the speed at which I would turn the game off, put down the controller and immediately sell the console.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Would you know if police facial recognition cameras were scanning you? More than 56,000 faces were checked during two operations in Peterborough this summer. John Elworthy reports.
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Police scan 56,000 faces using facial recognition in Peterborough
Cambridgeshire Police have defended their first use of facial recognition after scanning 56,000 faces during Peterborough operations
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.
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Cosmic Penguin @cosmicpenguinov103.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolute cinema as this bunch of large solid rocket motors pushes 9 "Chinese commercial Starlink" satellites, one of which apparently a testbed for Enhanced Ultra High Throughput technology, towards polar orbit from the East China Sea:
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 12/09/2026
8 years ago
Theresa May plans to let people change gender without medical checks
Speaking at Pink News awards dinner, prime minister reiterates her commitment to improving trans rights
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uni @uniw.university · 10/09/2026
its worth noting that none of this is new and its probably been happening for decades in some form or another, but the fact that theyre all open about it is pretty terrifying
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds
Young people, low-income and trans voters were among the groups hardest hit by the policy imposed by the last Conservative Government, academics found
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 08/09/2026
it's less accurate to say of course then that trump personally puppets vox or the afd or sanseito and certainly less accurate to say that netanyahu or modi or putin secretly control XYZ and far more accurate to say that technologies of biopolitics & statecraft are exchanged and validated. this
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek day
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howse
bylinetimes.com
The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026
So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
📌 ICYMI: Lest we forget — the key roles of James Orr, Nathan Cofnas, Toby Young and the Free Speech Union in the persecution of Jason Arday One of this month’s most-read stories.
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here is the full investigation published by Byline Times on 9 July 2026 👇
bylinetimes.com
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 30/08/2026
S/C Sep for Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Asa Kong @othinasakong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lmfao
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 05/05/2026
again: If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/08/2026
No one wants this! Westminster has redicalosed itself against net zero targets. The public has not! These policies are popular, not least because the public only has to look out the window to see the need for climate action.
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Moseph @mojolost.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 12/08/2026
What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 07/08/2026
the entire attempt to focus on moral purity through individualist robot abstinence is really great for this, it really keeps you all quite busy doing something fucking useless and you can just borrow your rhetoric from nancy reagan
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026
Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026
Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 03/08/2026
HRT Café didn't operate in a vacuum. Neither did its closure. Marie Shrewsbury looks at NHS waiting times, DIY healthcare and the campaign that put one major trans resource in the crosshairs. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
How misinformation and intimidation took down HRT café
HRT Café shared gender-affirming care info until Do No Harm shut it down; FDA records show no investigation took place
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Pyromaniac Mariner @pyma.uk · 01/08/2026
hmm
a 4Orbs test result image showing four lines. the first shows the economic leaning as "Communist", the second the international leaning as "Internationalist", the third the authority leaning as "Libertarian", and the fourth the revolutionary leaning as "Progressive"
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Space Man @spaceds8008s.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"we don't like that fact you take pillz to function so we're gonna make up a buncha shit to justify our disgust reaction" I have a friend who tried to pull the "but drugz!" on me and it took everything in me to not pull his glasses off his stupid head and snap them in front of him.
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Pyromaniac Mariner @pyma.uk · 30/07/2026
I'm pretty much resigned now to the fact that people really just can't be bothered to do anything for trans people even if they say they're supportive
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MuteThyNewt🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ @mutethynewt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I forgot where I found this originally
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Cosmic Penguin @cosmicpenguinov103.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Damn this one is even more crazier than Apollo 12 and that Soyuz-2 that got hit launching at Plesetsk several years ago - the lightning strike actually clearly hit the ground here! m.weibo.cn/detail/53239...
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
simpsons out of touch meme:
am I out of touch
no it must be all the human rights orgs that are wrong
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Pyromaniac Mariner @pyma.uk · 20/07/2026
happens with every non-latin script that has letters that kinda look like latin characters if you squint at them
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
40 years after John Cleese stood in a pub and asked what the BBC has ever done for us... www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-xE...
youtube.com
What has the BBC ever done for me?
YouTube video by BBC Northern Ireland
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Cosmic Penguin @cosmicpenguinov103.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Oh the 1st stage's top was heavily smoking during the landing burn, but who cares! m.weibo.cn/detail/53191...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Pathetic. This draft legislation explicitly allows and justifies anti-trans conversion therapy in healthcare, when it could have just banned it all together. Are you really the "LGBTQ+ activist" Labour has to offer? Who do you think you're kidding? xoxo BASH BACK
a transgender identity or a particular transgender identity.
(3) Conduct which—
• (a) is carried out by a person towards an individual with such an intention, but
• (b) is carried out in the course of providing health care services to the individual
concerned,
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