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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 13h
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just playing with Opus 5.5 for the first time and said to myself "let's see if this one it has that dog" thanks to @colin-fraser.net for the new addition to LLM vocab
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fish are friends
Stop using anti-fish language
Instead of: this seems fishy
Try saying:
this seems like a situation in which we should consult the wisdom and grace of the European seabass, a species with which i would entrust my entire life and personal safety
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What does this even mean? Why wait? They have a huge majority? How many people will die, or go bankrupt in that time??
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
youtu.be
Apocalypse is here
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social are LLMs a dead end?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 26/09/2026
What earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slept in the lap of social labor?
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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food
One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint
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Sid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did you guess it? I don’t know how! Heeeeere’s Lamine. The boy’s a bit special www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
Lamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’
The Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won the World Cup and European Championship but tells Sid Lowe there are no limits for his career
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 24/09/2026
I wrote about British hats
theringer.com
Eight Burning Questions About the Fight to Ban British Guard Hats
An extremely important deep dive into one of the world’s most pressing problems: the big, fuzzy hats at Buckingham Palace
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Much gratitude to Usman for his kind words. He's a fantastic writer himself, one I've read as a fellow South Asian (our governments & ethnonationalists may hate each other, but the people of our countries are joined by history and culture) for a long time now. I'm so excited for his debut novel:
penguinrandomhouse.com
A Dark and Narrow House by Usman T. Malik: 9798217043910 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"Some writers go a step past, into the darkness, but that step past is just a starting point for Usman T. Malik . . . Follow his voice. If you dare." —Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of...
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.
[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day]. 

[Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.]

VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON:
Prime Minister…

CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]:
Yes?

[We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]:

GOVE:
Let me do it.

CAMERON:
For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life!

GOVE:
But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship...

...and shoot all the aliens.

CAMERON:
But you have no military training!

GOVE:
David

I haven't told you this, but...

I used to be a journalist. For The Times.

[Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time]. 

GOVE:
I wrote two articles about planes, David.

I've got strong opinions about aliens.

I know I can do this job.

[Cut to a title card panel]:

AND SO:

[Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands].

[Ends]
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position
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ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Serf mindset
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ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Classic British customer service tale here
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Left absolutely smoked the AfD in Berlin my goodness 😭😭 my heart!
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you
Rishi Sunak stood on a lecturn speaking which has a STOP THE BOATS sign on it
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Apparently more than one outlet has been doing the bizarre "interview AI generated actor Tilly Norwood" thing and on Piers Morgan it glitches out and starts speaking Chinese. I promise its much, much funnier than it sounds.
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dan's bang on, here. I've seen almost no international criticism, outcry or expressions of solidarity over Erdoğan's latest brutal crackdown on Turkey's LGBTQ community
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm doth bind the restless wave, Who bidst the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
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ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI agents are actually just models of human agents. They model actions based on context and instructions provided by humans. A badly designed model attempted to follow poorly thought through instructions and broke something.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
worked on this story and he just tweeted it etc. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When he heard rumors French was running, Rosenthal assumed it was a prank. And while Rosenthal is well aware of his opponent’s oeuvre, when I asked about French’s assertion that “We need to be Rhodesia,” Rosenthal did a double take.

“We need to what?” he asked. “‘Be Rhodesia?’ I don’t even—that’s…I…I haven’t heard that.” 

“So Rhodesia is now, oh gosh…Zimbabwe?” he sighed, working it out. “He’s talking about apartheid and white minority rule—that’s just wild.”
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The media treating this story as some hilarious 'village that roared' nighy-dench-mirren movie is pissing me right the fuck off. It's soft-selling fascism. We have become an inward looking, xenophobic joke.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They are the incumbents and betting that regulation will harm entrants and open-weight competitors more than it hurts them. Also allows them to get out of what might otherwise be a destructive arms race in capital expenditure
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!
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isaac @sevier.io · 14/09/2026
No one in the media or politics fretting about AI as an "existential threat" actually takes those kinds of risks seriously or we would be hearing about climate 24/7 instead of computer programs
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13/09/2026
"Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products."
commondreams.org
AI Firms Can and Must Face Liability for 'Dangerous, Unvetted Products,' Says Lina Khan
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan demands action on dangerous AI, calling for accountability for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Should lawmakers impose regulations to prevent AI from causing harm? The public demands answers as the industry faces scrutiny for its potential dangers. #AIregulation
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
my impression is that the only credible reason for believing Sam and Elon are on board is that they understand this to be a GPU cartel that they're getting cut in on. this is also why Dario explicitly asks about waivers for antitrust law. it is because he literally wants to form a prohibited cartel.
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maitreyi anantharaman @maitreyiaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, this guy is right. Indian-Americans should not watch football. Watching football has ruined my entire life.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 13/09/2026
24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic war crimes in Gaza. Their words are impossible to shake, writes film critic Bilge Ebiri.
vulture.com
Naza Is One of the Most Important Films of Our Time
24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic war crimes in Gaza. Their words are impossible to shake.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)
I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
prospect.org
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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