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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 41m

Muppets Rich List: - Miss Piggy - Statler - Waldorf - Fozzie Bear - ???

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 53m

I wouldn't hire him to play himself in a movie. I'd get someone better.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 7h

If you don't want to use the democratic mandate, don't ask to hold the democratic mandate.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 20h

Note to myself, but "An unjust law is no law at all" - Saint Augustine Vs. (Seneca?) Stoic acknowledgement that human law can be unjust, and is separate to natural "good" Vs. Piscator Active/Passive obedience Vs. Pos/Neg liberty.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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Healthy Habits @thinkbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

October 2026 marks 500 years since enslaved Black people led the first successful revolt gainst slavery in America. #500YearsOfResistance #sanmigueldegualdape

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I dont think these flags have ever been seen in a photo together before outside of the Olympics

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your regular reminder that Andy Burnham is the most transphobic Prime Minister ever - and by a very wide margin…

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026

Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

End of dollar hegemoney as per earlier post: bsky.app/profile/samu...

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With a bit of matrix multiplication we can now prove BDSM.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A day that's seen a highly antagonistic Orange Order march get greenlit, and a major incident at an RAF base feels indicative of current national stability and outlook.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hate to be like "they're trying to replace a large number of humans with robot slaves", but they're trying to replace a large number of humans with robot slaves.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 27/09/2026

How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe The Hate Review reveals how the anti-gender movement has taken root and evolved in Europe over the last 25 years, it traces how far the anti-gender movement has spread through society and how deeply it has reached into laws and institutions.

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The Hate Review

How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone at my restaurant ordered 140 cases of shellfish this morning. The chef and delivery driver are currently outside arguing about it. I'm calling for clam on all sides.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a clear indication that the vast majority of cisgender women don't discriminate against trans women, so the question goes back to why so many men are acting like they do.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... The Battle of Holbeck Moor in 1936. Oswald Mosley (whose grandson runs Palantir UK) tried to start nazi shit in the Jewish quarter of Leeds. *30,000* antifascists showed up to tell him to eat shit and die, pelting him and his buddies with rocks til they fled.

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Battle of Holbeck Moor - Wikipedia

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the UK it is now 'too expensive' to diagnose people with ADHD because it costs over £1000. For a person who is paid about £25 an hour to work for 2 hours doing it. That is another brilliant benefit of privatisation.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just want to point out even Nazi Germany never levelled a City as completely as this.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

omg. i love this version so much

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This woman is unimaginably wealthy, almost solely due to the "suggestions" algorithm Amazon ran in the 90's. Rather than suffer the consequential humility that acknowledgement might provoke, she's committed to a crusade that gives a plausible alibi to those disgusted by her self-conceit.

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/09/2026

I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update.

Android Pixel system update screen, showing Harry Potter customizations as a bullet point.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not going to pretend it was daily life, but London in the 2000's you could walk between three or four art galleries and see this exact install twice. You'd pick a free beer out of an ice bin and put one in your pocket for the bus home.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When we talk about dark money infesting our politics we generally think about Reform's Russian links, or the ADF pouring overseas cash into Christian anti-abortion and anti-LGBT lawfare. But here we see dark money in the heart of the Labour movement, quietly funding transphobia and exclusion.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wanting to kill innocent children out of a fear that they'll grow up to hate you...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The questions are 'which AI tools' and 'used how'? Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent. And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To celebrate Spooky Season, let's learn why this vampire bat is running on a treadmill. The three species of vampire bats are the only known mammals to be obligate hemophages: 100% of their calories come from blood. The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) prefers mammals... (📷: Giulia Rossi)

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

A Post Office (well, 'Post Service') counter.

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🏳️‍⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lost media found, maybe only the second arcade game to ever have a TV commercial. But now the question is: Can we find a higher quality source? (Should I @ @flemishdog.bsky.social?)

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

rotation quaternions without roll form a topological torus in quaternion space c: if you also disallow being upside down, half of this torus is cut away, leaving a squiggly ribbon

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I agree with Suella that we should keep pushing for increasingly pathetic hairs to split over who counts as "English". But she's too timid. You're not English unless three grandparents are buried within twain leagues of Repton. There I said it.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think about Melania Trump in relation to the quote attributed to Bob Thaves that sure, Fred Astaire was a wonderful dancer, but Ginger Rogers did everything he did backwards and in high heels.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I knew someone from uni who was like "I want to date Gaston from Beauty and the Beast". It was her ideal man, and i just thought about that again today because I need to remind myself that not everyone can be talked round.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Archaeologists in Paris have uncovered what they think is ancient Lutetia, a Celtic oppidum mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars that had never been found. 🧪🏺

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Missing Celtic fort annihilated by Julius Caesar finally found under Paris hospital

Archaeologists in Paris have discovered the remains of a missing Celtic fort sacked by Julius Caesar in 52 B.C.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He blatently wanted to hold court around a fire pit like a bronze-age warlord.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES HOLDING IT TOGETHER YOU MORON,

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