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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15h

Very much here for Jon waking up and choosing violence by arguing (not without justification) that Cardiff to Wrexham is actually a better rail service than Paris to Brussels.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 15h

Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 20 years ago today. If you have any interest in Russia but haven't read her work, today is a good day to start. This is the opening of her book Putin's Russia:

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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 19h

Deadline 9th October!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy 80th birthday to the PS Waverley launched on 2 October 1946 at the A. & J. Inglis Pointhouse Shipyard on the Clyde, Glasgow. The Waverley is the last seafaring passenger carrying paddle steamer in the world: a piece of Clydeside history & testimony to the skills & work which made the Clyde.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 02/10/2026

Should be on in about 10min!

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the late 00s on Twitter people would literally post what they ate for breakfast (usually without including themselves as the subject of the sentence) or they would say things like “San Francisco I am in you” and actually meet new friends that way?

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'So that's the book finished. All you need now is a title.' 'I was thinking about calling it "DIE." 'Just DIE? Nothing else?' 'No. Why?' 'Hey don't get me wrong, it's a good title. I'm just not sure that it's clear enough that it means a MURDER story.' 'So what do you suggest...?'

A large print paperback titled Die - As in Murder

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 01/10/2026

Hi everyone! I'm going to do a live stream tomorrow at 9am PDT (16:00 UTC) with @bernsteinbear.com. We're going to hack on ZJIT! Join us if you have time!! youtube.com/live/h9_FyHY...

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Pairin' with Aaron: ZJIT Internals

YouTube video by Tenderlove's Cool Stuff

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 01/10/2026

This has been on the cards about a decade. It's inevitable sadly - numbers are the owners can make £11-15 million selling plot for redevelopment but tenants only pay ~£130k annual rent. Arts organisations just can't compete with a distorted market like that and a laissez-faire planning environment

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ScottishTechnology.club @scottishtechnology.club · 01/10/2026

Thu 1st 📆 CTO Craft Mixers: Edinburgh with CTO Craft, Edinburgh luma.com/9r5qct14

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 30/09/2026

My cofounder Rich and I are making a bold attempt to become the Car Talk of software (enterprise or not, AI or not) which means we need YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING CODE AND CAREER QUESTIONS (anonymous is fine). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ask Aboard

On The Aboard Podcast, Rich Ziade and Paul Ford discuss how AI is changing software development—and everything else. We're introducing a new segment, "Ask Aboard," where listeners send in questions ...

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Aaron Allen @aaronmallen.dev · 30/09/2026

Today I have published the first issue of "Hanami, why?". This is a new series I'm starting where we will dive in together to learn about #hanami. aaronmallen.me/writing/hanami-why-i… #ruby #hanakai

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 29/09/2026

Fresh what now?? Another great example of @karenmcgrane.bsky.social’s maxim “truncation is not a content strategy”

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The UK's AI minister just made a big and important admission on AI & copyright, which creatives around the country will celebrate: "It is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model based on the transformer architecture given the copyright position that we have in this country”.

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Tim Riley @timriley.info · 29/09/2026

GIANT SPONSORS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT SPONSORS

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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WNB.rb (Women and Non-Binary Rubyists) @wnb-rb.dev · 28/09/2026

October is for meeting IRL! WNB.rb is helping members connect in person through self-organized mini-meets. Grab a drink with other WNB folks in your area. We'll cover one drink per person. Learn more: wnb-rb.dev #WNBdotrb #RubyLang #RubyCommunity #WomenWhoCode #WomenInTech #NonbinaryCoders

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

Its amazing how little impact all of the grey zone events, and war in Ukraine, have had in UK. Where is the comms campaign even Starmer promised. Other countries are rebuilding their bunkers - and what are we doing? Where's the sign of life in UK politics. Its like autopilot bsky.app/profile/step...

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have YOU signed up to be notified when the BETWEEN EARTH & SKY roleplaying game backerkit launches? Because you should!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Between Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying Game

Get notified when Between Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying Game launches on BackerKit!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dreaming of a day an artist might create something like this for the waters beneath the ice of Enceladus and Europa; or even the surface of an oceanic exoplanet 🌊 (though in the latter case we'd be seeing wave expressions already thousands of years old)

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Ismael Celis @ismaelcelis.com · 23/09/2026

I'm doing the first talk at TinyRuby next week, which means I can relax and enjoy the full conference afterwards! helsinkiruby.fi/tinyruby/

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tiny ruby #{conf}

A tiny Ruby conference in Helsinki, Finland. Now in its second year.

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've never taken part in a Critical Mass ride, we ride as a large group every month to peacefully protest for better and safer cycling infrastructure in Edinburgh. Join us every one is warmly welcomed!

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 23/09/2026

The Kirk abandoning Edinburgh for ministerial training will no longer cause the sort of ripples it might once have. (There was probably a time when a literal war would have broken out over this sort of thing)

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

⏰ Start your countdown clock for the exact moment of the autumn #equinox, 01:06 (UK) 23rd Sept, when the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere are equally illuminated. The day length in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland will be ~the same as in 🇳🇿New Zealand 🤓🧪🔭 📷: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

The main diagram shows the Earth's annual rotation around the Sun, surrounded by a zodiacal scale that gives the names, symbols and images of the signs of the zodiac. The seasons and the positions of the equinoxes and solstices are marked. Text at the corners describes the Zodiac and the Earth, and a longer text at the bottom explains the Phenomena of the Seasons.

From https://collections.rmg.co.uk/media/501/182/l1073_001.jpg

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How Scotland is run & how power is dispersed matters. The SNP Scottish Govt proposals for reducing local government to potentially six strategic authorities would be the biggest centralisation of power seen in public life. This matters more than today's Scot Parl debate on indy.

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WNB.rb (Women and Non-Binary Rubyists) @wnb-rb.dev · 21/09/2026

There’s always something happening at WNB.rb! All month long, you can connect with an amazing community, learn together, sharpen your skills, and support your career. Come hang out! #WNB #WNBrb #Ruby #RubyOnRails #Rails #WomenInTech #NonbinaryInTech #TechCommunity #CareerDevelopment

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

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Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it." Eric Williams, still on point all these decades on. All is changed while everything has stayed the same.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Miranda Heath @mirandaheath.website · 20/09/2026

Super excited to be a speaker at @viteconf.org this year, where I'll be talking about burnout in OSS and why we should care about it 🔥 viteconf.org/tickets/t/YB...

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Miranda's ViteConf 2026 mission credential

Miranda is on a connect mission for ViteConf 2026. Create your own credential.

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