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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There's something to be said about how in the US CS Lewis is seen as a writer of Christian apologetics above all else & as a result Narnia is *only* seen as allegory, while in Britain he's seen as an author of beloved children's books, & we find the whole "the lion is Jesus" stuff a bit embarrassing
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Webb does like 5 offensive things simultaneously here. It would be impressive if it wasn’t so disgusting.
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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PSG have 7 different Ballon d'Or nominees who played less than 50% of league minutes: Kvara: 48.3% Hakimi: 44.9% Neves: 42.1% Mendes: 41% Ruiz: 37% Dembéle: 34.7% Marquinhos: 34.4%
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
England's young people performing esp well, putting UK in the top ten for maths, reading and science. One driver of bucking trend is better integration: closing white/minority attainment gap for children of migrants, where west European countries lag www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science
OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills
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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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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved
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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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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...
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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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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A far less established and powerful actor has decided he cannot appear alongside a very vocal bigot. So he has decided to decline what is probably a very important opportunity for him. And now Lipman is berating him in the mainstream press. Who's the bully here?
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qntm @qntm.org · 31/08/2026
Plants are kind of odd when you think about it. What's your survival strategy? Oh, I'm going to stand perfectly still, largely defencelessly, growing very slowly, for years. Does that work? Yeah it works incredibly well thanks
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
"how can we harness gen AI to [insert hefty demands like support democracy, preserve fundamental rights, advance human flourishing]?" STOP, step away, read work showing fundamental limitations of genai & harm it has caused, reassess what you’re demanding from genai, rethink & adjust your expectation
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robpartrobot.bsky.social @robpartrobot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think I mostly enjoyed the end of oak street, but found it a little confusing in tone. Mostly honey I shrunk the kids vibes with occasional Jurassic park
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just imagine a political system in which small extremist parties end up dictating the policies of the larger parties
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Of the 33 peer reviewed and highly successful papers Jason Arday produced, only two have been challenged. They were cleared once. They will be cleared again. But of those two only 3% has been cited as problematic. So 3% of 7% of his output. Can anyone do the math that makes Arday a plagiarist?
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Academics that publish in their own crank journals claims that vitamin C will cure cancer are dangerous to the public; but ‘race scientists’ are far worse, since their work is propaganda designed to provide the patina of justification for subjugating and harming *billions of non-white people*
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
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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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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mother and her children killed today in southern Lebanon in an Israeli attack.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It remains striking that Cambridge University – which has rightly found itself subject to immense scrutiny in recent days over its academic appointments process – did not answer any of Byline Times' questions re Cambridge Professor James Orr, Reform's Head of Policy, and his activities there. Why?
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This research paper in The Lancet - the UK’s oldest and most respected medical journal - estimates that Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID will cause over 14,000,000 avoidable deaths by 2030. Fourteen. Million. Deaths.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 08/08/2026
Relax! The so-called "blood rain" is simply a natural phenomenon brought about by our annual deathstorms
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy 22nd Anniversary of the Dave Matthews Tour Bus Incident to all who celebrate
On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank
through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto the passenger sightseeing boat Chicago's Little Lady sailing in the Chicago River below.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
From the what could go wrong department
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Matt Damon at the end of The Odyssey [getting in his boat]: I Odyssey about a girl.
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📌 ICYMI — How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs — @nafeez.bsky.social Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked…
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How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises
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AlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm always sceptical when the press start on "the victim's family want this guy to fry!" Of course they do, they're the family. We made the decision to remove ideas about justice from the wounded, furious victims *centuries* ago so we don't all kill each other
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.
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Microplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I think we can all agree that the important thing here is that we keep giving lots of money to private water companies.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is a great video if only because of the art, his delivery, and I have to double underline the art lol youtu.be/oYE9OwUzzeI?...
youtu.be
How One Plant Murdered a Continent
YouTube video by Make Thing With Hand
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I have to say, the men's Lionesses football team did pretty well in this World Cup. I know they haven't reached the final for decades so not quite up to the standard of the actual Lionesses, but they're getting there. Come on lads. Keep it up. Let's prove that we can be as good as the girls.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 15/07/2026
England had 12.5% possession between the Gordon goal and going 2-1 down 😵‍💫
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/07/2026
cabo verde held both world cup finalists to a draw across 90 minutes and almost took argentina to penalties, easily the best performance anyone has put up against either team all world cup
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Tessa @tessicat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 15/07/2026
"football, bloody hell" but without the football
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
it's interesting there have been no shots and many, many fouls but I don't think this game has been bad exactly? defensive intensity is absurdly high and it's taking a ton of good possession play to work the ball through I figure neither team can keep up this intensity but no idea what's next
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Ted Knutson @mixedknuts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Argentina is like "cute, small, hyper-technical Lionel Messi" who grew up in the Barcelona academy... And then 10 dudes who came of age in the grindiest, most boring, kick-the-shit-out-of-you league in world football. (Scouting Argieball suuuucks.)
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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James Yorke @jair1970.com · 15/07/2026
This is the first World Cup ever where I have been entirely fine with the match by match personnel adjustments of an England manager
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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 15/07/2026
90+ minutes of maximum violence. The real winner is Spain lol.
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 06/07/2026
"He has dined out on a career about taking back control, yet he won't tell us, he won't be straight with us about who controls him" 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql11kk…
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Nigel Farage says 'no wrongdoing' after benefits from ally not declared
The Liberal Democrats have asked the Reform UK leader to be "straight with the British people".
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