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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20h

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is surely your incumbent duty to write a script to ask this a bunch of randomly-generated questions and cost them $1,000,000,000 in AI credits

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My Irish-passport girlfriend living in France, watching as I navigate a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy, literal scams, confusing forms, documentation requirements, and surrendering my passport for a month, just to get a work visa and join her:

$Invincible meme: two fighter jets fly by in the background as Omni-Man says "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"$

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How’s that for “effective altruism”?

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Dan Tuke @danieltuke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It would be so cool if the liberal state would, like, just once use an ounce of the violence they police the left with to police the right

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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merritt @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable what a huge waste

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Website when James Talarico grits his teeth for an uncomfortable white lie: GENOCIDAL MONSTER WE KNEW ALL ALONG BASICALLY A GOP NAZI TRUMP FASCIST Website when Tucker Carlson tries to sink a Muslim’s campaign by Shanghaiing him into alliance against The Eternal Jew: omg friend??? ally??? hero?????

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Millions dying because USAID was wiped out isn't enough. Secret police in masks kidnapping people to take them to concentration camps & deporting them while stealing all their earthly goods isn't enough. People dying in those camps from disease & malnutrition isn't enough. It will never be enough.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Criminal crypto billionaires giving £40m to Reform, I’m sure this is fine and healthy for our democracy. I’m certain at least that Labour will treat it as such.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No one will be "taught a lesson" if Talarico loses, any more than anyone was "taught a lesson" by Harris losing. In each case, the evil side wins a significant victory - transphobes get the senator they want, and Israel got the foreign and military policies they wanted.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your giant Kemi Badenoch BuzzBall

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I might've stayed in academia if there were this much money floating around! Instead, there are literally *no fellowships* offered by the EPSRC - the main funding body for UK physics - in the physical sciences.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think that if a source tells you 60% of Americans, i.e. inhabitants of the richest nation on earth, cannot achieve a "minimal quality of life" you should express some skepticism of the source

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The reaction to this really mundane article (which is basically saying, don’t stress out about drinking enough water to the point you’re chugging huge bottles) is insane. No, this isn’t a plot to take your drinking water away and give it to data centres.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Buried in this article: we lose 20% of the supply due to leaks. Data centre usage (0.2% of non-domestic supply!) is a rounding error. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Greens call for temporary ban on new data centres

Zack Polanski wants stricter rules to limit the use of water and energy by data centres for AI.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Yes, I'm still patronizing the social media site run by the white nationalist billionaire who vocally supports murdering immigrants, but you see, I have to go there for news about this minor league baseball team I like. I have no choice. I'm powerless here."

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Academic freedom means protecting people like Adolph Calipers, not just mainstream views like “racism is bad” or “climate change is happening”. That’s why I support Adolph Calipers, but have fuck all to say about the attacks on academics who say racism is bad and climate change is happening.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

- i need an economy - hey I like planning economies and helping people who need them, take these - thx

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

unironically using “spreadsheet people” as an insult during a massive anti-intellectual demolition of government capacity to manage society is really a statement about your approval of it

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

He didn't. He kept calling them weird throughout the entire campaign until his last event on 11/2/2024 in Phoenix. It was a lie told by the media because they wanted Trump in power and they had stopped covering Harris rallies live as soon as she came out in support of a wealth tax.

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free bahruz samadov (mike) @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

but automated traffic cameras do not typically involve the police at all, as they're automated? in sweden the state transport agency owns and operates them

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Simon Horbury @simonhorbury.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When I was a police officer, I would always expect motorists to ask why I wasn’t trying to catch proper criminals. Motorists who exceed the speed limit, drive in bus lanes, stop on zigzags etc etc just don’t believe they are breaking the law.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026

your Tesla supports mass child death

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The thing is that in this respect the BBC, operating under a default environment of E&W defamation law, is a bit like a bunch of cats dropped onto an oceanic island of flightless birds. The BBC has had to learn to survive in a far tougher environment and that leaves a certain advantage.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/08/2026

Driving a car is incredibly dangerous, it should be one of the most regulated experiences on earth, and it is very upsetting to watch people who correctly don’t trust the cops turn against automated enforcement because the alternative is relying on a cop’s judgement to enforce the laws.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

TIL: one singular bus is considered Mass Transit™, but an underground metro is not.

An image of text with "Typically, Mass Transit would use one or more modern high-capacity bus, tram or tram-train type vehicle" highlighted.

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How does Mass Transit fit into our wider plans for transport in West Yorkshire?

Mass Transit will offer another way to travel in West Yorkshire that will improve choice and reliability for residents.

It will connect seamlessly with other modes—buses, rail, walking, and cycling—through the Weaver Network, creating one unified network. Typically, Mass Transit would use one or more modern high-capacity bus, tram or tram-train type vehicle.

In strengthening travel choice for residents, it can play a key role in supporting the region's economic ambitions making it easier for people to travel for work, learning and leisure. It can increase opportunities to bring forward new housing and regeneration projects, and make it easier for businesses, workers, suppliers and customers to connect.

The meme of the guy pointing at the butterfly. He's labelled "West Yorkshire" and he's pointing at a bus, asking "Is this mass transit?"

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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yeah. The moderate position that gets drowned out is: Lockdowns were necessary. Lockdowns were *hard* (and probably did lasting damage). Some lockdown rules and enforcement was absurd and counterproductive

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’m announcing my new documentary, “The Great Channel 4 myth”, which seeks to determine if Channel 4 reporters are real journalists or a social construct

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

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Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

at a very basic level, 'this grocery is 30 percent cheaper than other groceries' incentives people to *go to that grocery from outside of the neighborhood.* When you're trying to alleviate a food desert you may not actually want people coming in and clearing the shelves early.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Politics aside, do people believe federal government gas stations with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/b...

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Trump promotes ‘Freedom Fuel’ stations that sell cheap gas. How they’re able to do so is unclear | CNN Business

President Donald Trump is heralding a new chain of gas stations that are selling gas for $3.479 a gallon, well below both market prices and wholesale costs.

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