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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Scientists believe they have found previously unknown sketch of Anne Boleyn

A computer science team believes they have discovered a previously unknown sketch of King Henry VIII's second wife - but not everyone is convinced.

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The monarchy is a political institution, and it exists at a cost to democratic and well-being society (abolish the monarchy and fund the NHS maybe?). Well done to Zack for highlighting this and a Christmas message of compassion and kindness towards the most vulnerable

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The Guardian accused me of hubris because I dared post at 3pm. The Calais Appeal donations are shooting up. Maybe the King might like to donate too? Or maybe the Government could actually implement a fair & managed migration system? A Christmas miracle!

Polanski has had remarkable success but lining up against the king might be a touch hubristic.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.” Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Get yourself a party that doesn't mess around with public ownership. We own it. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain. The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services. That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🎉 Lots of people have said they joined the party following this interview! 💚 So in case you missed it: here's how we're going to lower people's bills, protect our NHS and fight off the far right. youtu.be/1KsgxOrgbOA?...

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Is Zack Polanski the Left's answer to Nigel Farage?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Umm. In all of NYC, only 956 new jobs were added from January to June? Versus 66,000 additional workers in the same period in 2024? "It is shocking because we aren’t in a recession,” said economist @lmelodia.bsky.social. [Maybe that should be called a recession? – Me.]

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Just sickeningly inhumane. People are forced to take dangerous small boat journeys to flee danger because for the vast majority there is no other way to claim asylum in the UK. The ONLY way to prevent horrific channel deaths is to open safe routes and Yvette Cooper knows this

Screengrab of a news article headlined 'Migrants arriving on small boats where a child has died should face prosecution, says Cooper'

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

People, seriously, will you PLEASE knock it off with the AI/LLM usage. You are causing actual droughts, and for what? Bullshit and slop. It’s embarrassing. You are embarrassing.

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Only Iranians will free Iran. Don't fall for it. Palestine will be free, and this nightmare in our region will end, but we must see past this truly perverse live manufacturing of propaganda and consent. [4/4]

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Speechless at how every media story related to the destruction in Iran somehow continues to miss the death toll, while photos extend only to obnoxious Israeli equipment of war. Meanwhile, Netanyahu's internal, self-imposed victimhood propaganda tour is getting the full bells and whistles. [1/4]

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it. Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants. Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/06/2025

First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people. Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat. As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Hi everyone! I've written (and voiced) an audio tour all about the remarkable women of Cambridge who overcame adversity and resistance at the university to become pioneers in their fields, campaigners for reform and leaders of the world. Available to download now! :) voicemap.me/tour/cambrid...

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True Trailblazers: The Women of Cambridge | Cambridge self-guided audio tour | VoiceMap

Meet world-changing pioneers, campaigners, and leaders in these historic streets with this self-guided tour of Cambridge, the United Kingdom. For the best experience, install the VoiceMap audio guide ...

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If you're ever in Cambridge (or not, but wish you were) the wonderful @rowenasquires.bsky.social has an audio tour feminist history, incl the time male students literally started a riot & burned down shops in city centre to protest women being granted degrees voicemap.me/tour/cambrid...

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True Trailblazers: The Women of Cambridge | Cambridge self-guided audio tour | VoiceMap

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True Trailblazers: The Women of Cambridge | Cambridge self-guided audio tour | VoiceMap

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is an invaluable (and free!) resource for educators, students and anyone else who is curious or concerned about the implementation of AI in their workplace and daily life and what we can do about it!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We can protect people. We can protect nature. But Labour are protecting the profits of property developers. The Planning & Infrastructure bill needs ripping up & starting again.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Been waiting for this episode! Tech oligarchs “don’t hate the state, they hate the state that provides”

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Bye bye Duolingo & passive aggressive owl. You will be missed. But I refuse to support a company implementing an "AI-first" policy.

Notification confirming that Duolingo account and its data has been deleted.

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“There’s no environmental justice without social, racial and economic justice.” Hearing from Zack and his supporters confirmed that he is both the leader and person we desperately need to take on Reform and fight for the 99% not the 1%. #BackZack 💚

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just joined the Green Party to #BackZack as the next leader 💚

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 17/04/2025

We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ We’re creating a fighting fund to look at both domestic and international cases, all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights. Join us 👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Absolutely my FAVORITE book of all time, Diana Wynne Jone’s “Year of the Griffin” is a screamingly funny novel about the neoliberalization of a wizarding university (almost broke from funding the chancellor’s prestigious moonshot project and turning upper floor of college into luxury bachelor pads)

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’ www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Can we start with the Prime Minister?

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025

OpenAI right now

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It's crazy that this & previous governments (rightly) constantly hymn 'Britain's world-class universities' and (rightly) consistently identify them as central to national strategy, and yet pursue policies which are eroding, if not destroying, an asset that other countries would give anything to have

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 21/01/2025

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.

People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The idea that *outer space colonization* could be good for the environment is ludicrous

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"While communities will face heatwaves, droughts and water shortages over the coming decades, this strategy locks us into pumping huge amounts of water into AI datacentres. One estimate said AI-related infrastructure may soon consume six times more water than Denmark, a country of 6 million people."

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Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone sited close to new reservoir

First datacentre site proposed seven miles from Abingdon reservoir planned for water-stressed south-east England

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Matthew Humphreys @americanninjax.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’ve said as much during story meetings. What about the children who are already isolated because they feel different. Refusing to show them they matter and deserve to be in stories we see just causes them more pain which sounds to me a lot worse than having a conversation with your kids.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result. This story arc is way too common in modern society. deadline.com/2024/12/max-...

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Max & HBO Wind Down Deal For ‘Sesame Street’ Original Episodes, Retaining Some Library Rights

A television staple is looking for a new home. "Sesame Street" original episodes will no longer air on HBO or stream on Max, though some library titles remain.

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If the suspense was killing you, never fear! The episode with @rowenasquires.bsky.social is now available! We discuss the depiction of outer space colonialism in children's animation — from WALL-E, to Treasure Planet, to Disney's ex-Nazi rocket scientist open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

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The Final Fun-Tier: WALL-E, Treasure Planet and Disney’s Nazi Rocket Scientist

A Conversation with Rowena Squires

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Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hi everyone! I'm new to Bsky. I'm a PhD candidate in #childrensliterature looking at outer space colonialism in #Disney. If you want to learn more about my research, check out the podcast episode below! Look forward to connecting with y'all. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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The Final Fun-Tier: WALL-E, Treasure Planet and Disney’s Nazi Rocket Scientist

Podcast Episode · The Anti-Dystopians · 16/12/2024 · 1h 6m

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