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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 23h

Wow. Prescient, and painful to read.

Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"That nice little store of yours looks at risk of a devastating fire from this petrol bomb I'm holding. Perhaps you should give me more money and I'll see what i can do"

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour:

Robert Kraft to Establish a Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism, BDS, Delegitimization of Israel
Jun 20, 2019 at 03:25 PM
June 20, 2019, Jerusalem - Tonight, the Laureate of the 2019 Genesis Prize Robert Kraft was honored at a gala ceremony in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Genesis Prize Foundation Chairman Stan Polovets bestowed the award on Kraft in front of an audience of 600 Israeli and international dignitaries.
The $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed "the Jewish Nobel" by Time Magazine, honors extraordinary individuals for outstanding professional achievement, contribution to humanity, and commitment to Jewish values. Previous honorees include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; actor, producer and peace activist Michael Douglas; and "Fiddler to the world" maestro Itzhak Perlman.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "I am delighted to welcome Robert Kraft to the august family of Genesis Prize Laureates. This prestigious award honors Robert's generous lifelong philanthropy, his commitment to the Jewish people, and his love for Israel. It also recognizes his principled stand against anti-Semitism and efforts by our enemies to undermine the State of Israel through BDS and other similar campaigns. Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft."
Kraft previously announced he would forgo the $1 million monetary award so that the funds could be granted to initiatives combating anti-Semitism, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and other efforts to delegitimize Israel. This is in line with the tradition established by previous Genesis Prize Laureates, who have "re-gifted" their awards to philanthropic causes they support.

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Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Author @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is fucking terrifying

Separate research supports the concern. Anat Perry, a Helen Putnam Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and associate professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, co-authored a paper in Science examining how sycophantic AI responses erode users’ ability to calibrate their own judgment. The paper found that when AI systems consistently affirm a user’s position, the user’s capacity for independent evaluation degrades over time.

Joanna Stern, NBC’s chief technology analyst and author of “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything,” has documented the creep of AI dependency in daily life. Her reporting has shown how users begin with low-stakes queries, such as what to cook for dinner or what to wear, and gradually escalate to consequential decisions about careers, finances, and relationships. The trajectory from convenience to reliance is difficult to reverse once established.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/07/2026

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Mine too. Plus hundreds dead, thousands of casualties and over a million people displaced in Lebanon.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

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Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The UK is holding local elections, today. ..... all I can think about is what Douglas Adams wrote of lizards.

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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

His music was great. His mind was even better.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/05/2026

One would think the U.S. State Department would condemn a foreign nation for abducting and illegally detaining a U.S. journalist in international waters. One would be wrong. Instead, the U.S. government condemns the humanitarian flotilla while parroting Israeli talking points.

A screenshot an X post by Tommy Pigott, U.S. State Department spokesperson on April 30:

"The U.S. condemns the Global Sumud Flotilla as a baseless, counterproductive stunt organized by a sanctioned pro-Hamas entity. Unlike organized assistance mechanisms coordinated with regional partners thanks to @POTUS's peace plan, this flotilla circumvents mechanisms designed to ensure humanitarian assistance is received by civilians. Our allies should take decisive action against this stunt, and participants should face any relevant legal consequences."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Screenshot of a tweet by perrito barista (@Carlitospindola), translated from Spanish, quoting Pope Leo responding to a question about migration by reframing it: "What is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate?" The embedded video shows the Pope holding a microphone aboard what appears to be a plane, with clergy visible behind him.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Leonard Gall (left) architect of the new ballroom, stands with Hitler and Albert Speer at the other major construction project in 1936, the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in München

The new ballroom and reception hall attached to the Old Reich Chancellery, with the floor removed to reveal the Vorbunker. Illustration by Christoph Neubauer www.atelier-neubauer.de

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Doctors Without Borders on the war in Lebanon. Link: xcancel.com/msf/status/2...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Israel continues to demolish the homes of more than 600,000 people in Lebanon, because Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide is what they do. Can you imagine the outrage if this was being done to Israel? But Israel does it. Complete SILENCE.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And you thought AI posed problems for academia...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/04/2026

Pete Hegseth is a disgraced major who was kicked out of the DC National Guard.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

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FreeLuigi @jamscot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Congress now has access to unredacted versions of the approx 3M Epstein files that the DOJ has released. Trump is at the heart of the crimes.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Want to talk to the past? Here' an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 & 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library" Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian. huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...

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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is what trump does with everything he says he’s done. He takes what other presidents did, destroys it & when he puts it back he says it was all his idea. He’s done this his entire life. The republicans think their voters are so gullible that they’ll believe it when they tell them the same lie.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Plenty of evidence of people taking time for deep contemplation in the ancient world. Buddha, Plato, Jesus...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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Bill Walter @billwalter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It is plain and undeniable, that our government is now fully controlled by Epstein class ghouls who celebrate and feast upon the starvation, suffering, and killing of children. www.propublica.org/article/trum... bsky.app/profile/adam...

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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The cost to the people of Iran, and to the world, is far greater.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters

Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/03/2026

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Aw, they just wanted Trump to ruin other people's lives.

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The Scottish Literature volume of the online Literary Encyclopedia seeks entries (1500-2500 w) on works, authors, and topics not featured in the database. If interested, please contact: pre-1945 ScotLit: Arianna Introna, Arianna.introna@open.ac.uk; post-1945 ScotLit, Gina Lyle gina.lyle@york.ac.uk.

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Literary Encyclopedia — Welcome

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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

There are public toilets, civic water supplies, libraries and hospitals in Egypt, Iran, India, China and Morocco which are thousands of years older than the USA. Just saying.

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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

North Carolina’s @katebarrcanwin.bsky.social gave us the perfect metaphor for what we are all doing in this perilous moment. From today’s Politics Chat, watch now on YouTube.

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Mojave Midnights @mojavemidnights.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"Folks like to say that no one believed my warnings. I wish that were the case. The hard truth is officials believed them and let the worst happen anyway." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

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The Confluence

I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"I accept only one nickname: Cosa Nostradamus, because all I see coming is transnational organized crime. Track the profit, not the prophet. America’s fortune’s been told and it’s sitting in offshore accounts."

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

a long quote from the book THEY KNEW about how people who investigate conspiracies would rather be wrong

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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

From: www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/lega...

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