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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Formula 1 raced through Baku yesterday, lending its broadcast to a government that holds 328 political prisoners. The perpetrators rule, the enablers pay, the accommodators watch the race. #F1 #AzerbaijanGP 🏁
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just bringing this back to remind everyone that F1 is validating ethnic violence by moving the grand prix to a Saturday for a fake ass remembrance day from a war that displaced a hundred thousand Armenians *in 2023*
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: The Army secretly relaxed its vetting policy for at least 2 years, meaning recruits could pass through basic training into specialisms without completed checks A far-right extremist later convicted of terror offences was among 13,000 who joined during period inews.co.uk/news/army-se...
inews.co.uk
Army secretly relaxed vetting - letting in far-right extremist who backed Russia
The revelation raises questions for British military who are a key target for Russian intelligence in Vladimir Putin's 'hybrid war'
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Playdate @play.date · 09/09/2026
Season 3 CONFIRMED, starts October 8. Pre-order now! 🛼 play.date/s3
S3. Playdate Season 3. Pre-order it!
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New from @vantortech.bsky.social. Absolutely astonishing images of the China-Nepal Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post. Literally nothing is left. (Before 19 April, After 27 Aug)
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
the UK press attacked jason arday because it is deeply racist & so the idea of a black intellectual is abhorrent to them. they enjoy that they have killed him, they will be celebrating in private even as they offer tepid excuses in public. they're all nazi freaks and should be treated as such
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is Britain, under a Labour government.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
For days, Reform politicians claimed that significant numbers of migrants who surged into Ceuta would be heading to Calais and onwards to Britain Not only have most already returned to Morocco, but Moroccans have made up just 0.07% of small boat arrivals since 2021 inews.co.uk/news/no-thou...
inews.co.uk
No, thousands of migrants won't come to the UK from Ceuta - here's why
Fears of a new migration crisis impacting the UK are misplaced despite the chaotic scenes witnessed in Ceuta, an expert has said
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
NEW: UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised in newsrooms. The abuse now means some journalists are changing what they write about… Grim findings: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
theguardian.com
UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
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MegaSlippers @megaslippers.net · 05/07/2026
Clement Attlee
WAS ABLE TO BUILD
the welfare state in 
1948
WITH A
bankrupt post-war economy
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Carlos Gonzales @mabl2k.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Satellite Imagery Shows Scale of Venezuela Earthquake Damage Bellingcat has received satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC that shows one the worst affected areas in the country, including a large number of collapsed buildings and apartment blocks in La Guaira. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...
bellingcat.com
Satellite Imagery Shows Scale of Venezuela Earthquake Damage - bellingcat
Satellite imagery provided to Bellingcat shows one of the areas worst impacted by the Venezuela earthquakes.
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Carlos Gonzales @mabl2k.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Up to 40 cm surface displacement in the radar line-of-sight of satellite and along the Puerto Cabello- La Guaira Axis after major earthquake in Northern Venezuela gis.earthdata.nasa.gov/portal/home/... Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech Team, NISAR Operations Science Team
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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Ross @scrapod.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Total own goal, so stupid from Starmer.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 26/05/2026
Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham
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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 20/05/2026
never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
when you utter “cereal” in a hard-surfaced room
a cereal aisle in a supermarket.  there are various brands of cereal on the shelves to the left.  hanging over the boxes of cereal are black signs that read “cereal” like it’s echoing down the aisle because one sign to describe the contents of said aisle wasn’t good enough
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!
Uggi the dog next to my hand, holding a copy of Dead Weight Two copies of Dead Weight with teethmarks
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The president is negotiating against his own administration to shake down taxpayers for $10 billion. The corruption meter is flashing red and sounding the alarm. ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-consider...
ca.news.yahoo.com
DOJ considers settling Trump’s IRS lawsuit which could send taxpayer money directly to the president’s pockets: report
Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion in January, accusing the agency of failing to prevent a leak of the president’s tax information
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...
"In his role as a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Guillou had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. Months earlier, some of his colleagues in the court had been similarly targeted by the US.

The shock was the reach of the sanctions. “It was not clear to us at that time the extent of disruption that it creates in our daily life,” Guillou says.

Within days, he was cut off from all the services that rely on US companies. He could not have an American credit card and instead had to rely on cash and national payment systems such as iDEAL in the Netherlands for online transactions.

Wire transfers bounced back. His hotel reservations on Booking.com and Expedia were cancelled. He could not rent a bike from the City of Paris’s public Vélib’ Métropole scheme, which requires a credit card guarantee. Packages delivered by UPS were returned to the sender. His health insurer tried to cut him off.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/04/2026
"My home is a Grade II Listed building," a local writes *in their objection to an expansion of a cancer hospital*. "The development would cause significant harm to its setting, character and historic significance, contrary to the statutory duty to preserve listed buildings and their surroundings."
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READ MORE
If they’ll block this, what exactly counts as acceptable development?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I've done a deep dive into the enduring drone problem driving up a violent trade in drugs and contraband inside Britain's prisons Security measures are being introduced to stop inmates being able to access drones, but smugglers are inventive and business is booming www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...
nytimes.com
In Britain, Drones Are Flying Contraband Into Prisons ‘as if by Uber Eats’
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/03/2026
1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary
The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Updated:
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
And so. The Home Secretary and the Home Office threw everything at defending the botched proscription of Palestine Action. They failed. They may win on appeal. But. Today was a useful reminder that they don’t always get their own way. Terrorism law is important, but it should not be abused.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/02/2026
I am just sad and tired today.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 31/01/2026
There’s still a “ceasefire” btw
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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I Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
Cumulative US measles cases
As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year.
Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026. 
2026
478 cases
2025
2253 cases
2024
283 cases
2023
63 cases
Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Horrific. We are disembloweling any sense of online privacy in the name of child safety.
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