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Crisp lover, dog botherer, digital at ActionAid UK though views here are my own.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The guy that owns Manchester United is complaining about immigration real fuck you to the majority of his players isn’t it
Manchester United team picture on a field - at least eight of the 11 players look as if they have Black or Asian heritage
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we need an army on lifestyle influencers who say stuff like “hey chat you gotta turn your phone off at the cinema, say thank you to waiting staff, take your glasses back to the bar too if poss“
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026
wow who could have anticipated Meta’s pervert glasses would be used to ruthlessly harass women and girls, except for literally everyone smarter than paste
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
its pretty telling how much silicon valley tech "innovation" is specifically products useful to shithead teen boys to harrass girls with
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
One day you or I may need to cross a border in desperation like this and, if and when we do, every one of us would hope to be treated, and indeed discussed, with more dignity and respect than these people, rather than dehumanised and hated for our misfortune.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They’re so self evidently a bad thing, and the fact they were deployed with no public consultation or debate at all (everywhere) is really disqualifying to me. Fuck companies that intervene in our lives with impunity like that.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If the Secretary of State responsible for social media regulation and oversight says X/Twitter "isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities" she should take more decisive action - not just leave the platform. 1/6 🧵
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Disasters Emergency Committee @decappeal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The DEC has launched an appeal following the devastating earthquakes in #Venezuela. The earthquakes struck within seconds of each other. The scale of destruction is huge. Survivors urgently need shelter, food, water, and medical care. Donate: donation.dec.org.uk/venezuela-earthquake-appeal
DEC Venezuela Earthquake Appeal poster with image of destroyed buildings and 15 DEC member charity logos in the footer on a red background.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm pro air-conditioning, but I do feel like the intensity of the AC debate has got a bit out of hand. London has had an average of six days a year with temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius (86F) in the past decade. Chicago has 30+ days at 90F (32C) a year. There's a reason Brits didn't have AC
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If I look tired IT’S BECAUSE I AM. Listening to women at the latest Turning Point USA conference talk about giving their husbands their right to vote took five years off my life at least 💀🪦🕊️
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The fact this was posted first on X tells you exactly how seriously we should take it
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming
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sallyoc.bsky.social @sallyoc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ha ha oh my fucking god
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows the IDF demolitions in Gaza's Rafah haven't stopped. Between April 5 and 16, three schools — some of the last remaining buildings standing — and homes were destroyed. May 1 imagery shows homes near the UAE field hospital in Rafah Stadium have been demolished.
A SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on April 5 2026. The image consists of mostly rubble, due to previous demolitions conducted by the IDF. There are some schools still standing in the center of the image.A SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on April 16 2026. The image consists of mostly rubble, due to previous demolitions conducted by the IDF. Three of the schools still standing in the April 5 image have been destroyed, along with a number of other buildings.A SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on April 16 2026. The image consists of mostly rubble, due to previous demolitions conducted by the IDF. In the center of the image sits Rafah's municipal stadium, one of the few remaining structures in central Rafah to remain standing throughout the war. Beige tents in the stadium represent a UAE filed hospital, though it's unclear if it's still operating. Small clusters of buildings surround the stadium.A SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on May 1 2026. The image consists of mostly rubble, due to previous demolitions conducted by the IDF. In the center of the image sits Rafah's municipal stadium, one of the few remaining structures in central Rafah to remain standing throughout the war. Beige tents in the stadium represent a UAE filed hospital, though it's unclear if it's still operating. Numerous buildings to the north and south of the field hospital and stadium been demolished since the April 16 image was taken.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/05/2026
Hackney's new deputy mayor was born after Girls Aloud released "Biology".
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It’s actually incredible that Musk can spend years off his gourd on drugs, dismantling the federal government, turning X into the leading platform for white nationalists, and making absurd claims about his vaporware technology, and America’s #1 courtier will still claim he’s just a smol science bean
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson
manage to rustle up
Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself "skint" because "there's no money in politics".
Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to
and change utterly. How?
The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given E5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift
disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him "safe and secure for the rest of my life". But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the
- cash-rich, status-poor
- who've often made their money using murky means. They usually
Trump for flouting US money-
proposes a new "Big Bang" that
And if you're not an MP-
- like
could add tens of billions to crypto
laundering rules, has said he'll move
Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive
companies market value. A Reform
"shadow" home secretary there's
Left have champagne
government would order HM
no financial transparency at all.
Treasury to stop work on its own
The next UK general election
digital currency apparatus, which
socialists, right have
looks set to usher in hundreds of
could threaten the current crypto
Reform MPs to join the governing
plutocrat populists
elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin,
party (or coalition). How many more
to Britain to keep his cash flowing t…
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fwiw I don't think protests should be banned. If people are doing illegal things on them they should be arrested under existed laws. Otherwise it's important to protect free speech.
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Lisa Bahr @lisabahr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Impt 🧵👇 by @gregsargent.bsky.social 🙏 & Thank you, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social - I've called my 3 Republican reps last night telling them to stop F47, impeach, convict & remove both F47 & Hegseth. They are committing war crimes & are threatening to commit even more war crimes.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Meanwhile, the Fox Cabinet, like the official one, could choose to act as a restraint on the president’s most deranged plans. But the network’s stars seem fully bought in on the proposed attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...
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Between Hegseth and the Fox Cabinet, no restraints on Trump’s war crimes plan
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/04/2026
I would like to hear our Government and every opposition party speak up now.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
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Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’
The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Nobody would bemore delighted to see more EU-UK rapprochement than me, but I am simply exhausted by the way in which such a major decision is entirely framed in terms of what is politically expedient in Westminster. How about pursuing goals because you think they are right?
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 15/03/2026
EnKITTification Artist: bruised_blood b3ta.com/board/11426454 From the '80s Tech Today' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/pop… #80sTechToday
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Subject: EnKITTification
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It’s insane that the world has gone to hell because of the actions of less than 10 dumb psychopathic politicians. Ten or so people are f**king up things for the entire planet.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Terrific essay on inter-generational fairness from John Lanchester, that brings up some of the discomforts of the past but still broadly accepts the problems now faced. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap
It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code. But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted. The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"
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Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places)
Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
David Frost with an absolute cracker here. Who among us hasn't wondered when the slow political news cycle of 2026 would finally become exciting?
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Folks, @womensaidireland.bsky.social have closed their X account on principle. Follow them here, give them some real engagement to acknowledge both the rightness of that decision, but also of letting go of high follower numbers (even if the algorithm meant that no longer signified actual reach).
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
trump has a billion terrible qualities but his worst may be his simpleminded gullibility and the ease with which he can be manipulated
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/12/2025
This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
A tweet from Big Balls, linking to techforce.gov reads: Our first website using the new America Design System! Building a framework for beautiful, performant, secure and inexpensive websites to be very easy to build in Government.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no
Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history.
He doesn't care about the life of the mind
OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper.
He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or youngson. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them
— and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he'svery ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Philanthropy as a radical act in the face of authoritarianism
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Disasters Emergency Committee @decappeal.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Across Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people are living in makeshift shelters which offer little protection from the wind and rain. Winter conditions are adding misery to the devastation. Please donate today: donation.dec.org.uk/middle-east-appeal
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is among the funniest things I have read all year and I laughed out loud several times. Highly, highly recommended. It reminded me of the best days of Deadspin.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
'Musk may have revealed that the platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.'
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