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Cinematographer Eternity (A24), The Power, Dating Amber, Sea Fever, Line Of Duty etc… Available wherever on this Earth you want to film.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 20h
From Gaza Scholars. 58 students in Gaza won full scholarships to Irish universities. Their visas were refused and they are still in Gaza. Put your name behind them, then ask your TDs to act. #LetThemStudy gazascholarsireland.org?utm_source=i...
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Stand behind Gaza's 58
58 students in Gaza won full scholarships to Irish universities. Their visas were refused. Make your poster and email your TDs.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded. Well, to be strictly accurate, today is the 68th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state. (Yes, sorry. This thread is absolutely disgusting)
Papal Swiss guards in costumes – and especially helmets – that could have come from the 1980 Flash Gordon film, flanking the dead body of Pope Pius XII in a big, posh room in a palace in Rome
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It comes after years of cover-ups & denials not least from Boris Johnson who was in charge of MI6 as foreign minister at the time & whose first act as PM was to ennoble the Baron of Siberia. But it also went beyond Johnson & Starmer continued it too. We now finally need some sunlight. 2/
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I trust @carolecadwalla.bsky.social more than any other journalist I can name. Confirmation of what was long suspected.
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can’t wait to see who wins the Russian election…
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/09/2026
“It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.”
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 18/09/2026
Source @erininthemorning.com 
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Elon Musk’s PAC Drops $100 Million On Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems Who Already Capitulated
Anti-trans capitulations didn’t stop Musk from spending big to attack these Democrats.
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Jim Pipkin 🇺🇲🏴‍☠️🏴🏴🏴 @jimpipkinmusic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Euronews @euronews.com · 15/09/2026
Taxing billionaires could save nearly 30 million lives ➡️ l.euronews.com/Vytk
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔥 Epic shooting down of "shahed" by a military helicopter crew
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote about Ben Delo back in July... was obvious something like this was about to happen. Also, further evidence that Starmer was completely asleep. Donations reform should have been a priority as soon as Labour got in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sunday Times: Rupert Lowe told potential donors that Elon Musk had offered Restore as much $$$ money as they want. That he "deliberated" but turned it down, re optics & it being illegal. He says Musk will support in many other ways insteas.
On Tuesday Lowe, 68, claimed that Musk had offered Restore “as much [money] as we want”. He said he “deliberated” over the offer but ultimately rejected it because of concerns about “optics” and the fact that accepting foreign donations was illegal. However, he insisted: “His moral support and his support on social media is incredibly powerful. It’s not tangible and therefore it doesn’t have to be disclosed.”

Musk has more than 241 million followers on X and his endorsements, coupled with the platform’s algorithms, have proven invaluable for Lowe. Analysis by the Financial Times in May found that the Restore leader had greater reach than Farage, with at least ten of his posts attracting 10 million views or more since he launched the party in February. None of Farage’s did the same despite him having three times as many followers.
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Nerve is a new news organisation set up by five ex-Observer journalists, including the always impressive @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Very exciting to see their work.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ukraine quietly rolled back a Russian salient Moscow spent about a year building. ㅤ In four months, the 3rd Army Corps retook 200+ km² north of Lyman and pushed Russian forces toward the Zherebets River. ㅤ A year of Russian gains, cut down in four months.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1. Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lots of mystery meat news this week! I did a livestream going through the stories here! If you've wondered "Where is this bonus tariff-free beef coming from?? "Is it HORSE?" youtube.com/live/av5QXbH...
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Mystery Meat Situation Is Insane
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My AuDHD brain refuses to let me forget anything I read in those 900 pages of mayhem. Been warning about Project 2025 for years. This was July 2024, from my Twitter days. Sigh..
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A source in the oil industry named the actual purpose of the Venezuela deal: “a price stabilization nuclear bomb.” Trump can say he has 65 billion barrels in reserve when Iran closes Hormuz again. The oil doesn’t have to be extractable. It has to be announceable.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You can’t say you weren’t warned
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Everton Blair Jr. wins runoff for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, meaning he will be the first Black openly gay Congressman from the South. Congrats to Everton Blair Jr. on his victory.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.
Chart: Annual US measles cases
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
IDF confessionIDF confessions IDF confessoons
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 13/08/2026
New, by me: Apple told me it's sending out threat notifications to customers in 110 countries saying they've been targeted with spyware. This latest batch also features a new push notification, warning users to take action and what to do next. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260813...
techcrunch.com
If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously | TechCrunch
Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone's devices.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
this is very, very bad
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Vaccines are an important scientific breakthrough in improving life expectancy #vaccines #healthcare #science #vaccineswork #vaccinessavelives
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cartoonist: Bill Bramhall
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Kumail Nanjiani @kumailn
A day may come when I am not mistaken for another brown actor. But it is not this day.

Kunal Nayyar @kunalnayyar
Every time I get recognized for you I think “man I wish it were true:)”

Kal Penn @kalpenn
I have taken credit for both of your accolades in the last 2 weeks so I guess I owe you each a photo, half a beer, and an awkward extended hug

@SarahKSilverman
Replying to @kalpenn @kunalnayyar and @kumailn
Why do you have three accounts?
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 02/08/2026
Milos Zlatanovic’s proposed redesign of Serbian currency.
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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Farmer who supplies hay to me and many others yesterday said his pastures have only dried grass and without rain very soon he will have to start feeding his hay supply to his sheep, in an Irish summer -- something he has never had to in his farming life
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So long Glen Hansard. You’ll be truly, deeply missed.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same
a simple Google line chart titled "What The Fuck Is Going On" that shows growth in What The Fuck from 2021 to 2026, with a significant increase in 2024 to 2026

x-axis is Year
y-axis is What The Fuck

the values are:

Year        What The Fuck
2021	11
2022	8
2023	17
2024	19
2025	42
2026	84
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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
what’s twice as Nazi as fox and powering the information environment of 3 billion people
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Cllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You may have heard Gazan students, who have all been accepted onto fully funded scholarships for third-level courses, have had their visa applications turned down. As a nation we proclaim to be supportive of Palestine and want to help them however we can. Allowing students to complete degrees 1/2
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026
Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026
See you in court, creep.
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Oddessey. It’s amazing that Christopher Nolan got ten years of story into three hours. It’s also amazing that these three hours really feel like ten years…
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Michael Clarke: When people in the States say, "Oh, look how corrupt Ukraine is," I’d say, "First of all, pal, I think Ukraine, objectively, is less corrupt than United States is these days." You can construct sensible argument, which says: "Ukrainians talk about corruption because it bothers them.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Week three of the couch to 5K for reading is here! naomialderman.substack.com/p/reading-is...
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'reading is a radical act'
"Couch to 5k" for reading week 3. includes: an interview with Emma Gannon! a celebration of reading plays! and: how to memorise a poem! (if you want to)
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 16/07/2026
I said what I said. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026
“This data included the user’s birthdate, birth control type, reproductive goals, and specific symptoms that the user was experiencing, and it tied that record to a unique identifier in place of the person’s name.”
techcrunch.com
Period tracker Stardust shares users' health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research | TechCrunch
One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast differences in user privacy among these...
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lindsay Graham’s ‘sister’ has been asked to take his place. Have they ever been seen in the same place?
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
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Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you post on X, you are an active participant in the richest man in the world’s far-right, racist disinformation campaign. But, you know, gotta get that engagement clout.
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Harry Potter And The Cudgel Of Wealth.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
So, I found out on Friday that my gig at the Guardian is coming to an end in late August. Needless to say I'm rather bummed by this development AND in need of a new job so if anyone's looking for a cartoonist HMU.
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Ruairí O’Brien ISC BSC @ruairiobrien.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump has asked FIFA to reverse the death of Lindsay Graham.
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Kayla Calkin @kaylacalkin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Clean energy and clean vehicle manufacturing and electricity generation projects abandoned since January 2025 will cost the U.S. economy nearly 468,000 jobs, including more than 343,000 permanent jobs...." e2.org/reports/canc...
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One Year Since the One Big Beautiful Bill | An Economic Impact Analysis Of America’s Clean Economy | E2
If completed the projects announced in the first two years of the IRA will create 621,000 direct and indirect new jobs – including 154,000 permanent jobs— throughout the economy over the next five yea...
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