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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is always worth the time of reading... reading and digesting what you've just read... digesting what you've just read and then layering that over the world map you'd previously been guided by. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

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A Public Flat Earth

How paywalls killed the public sphere.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

forget context, people can't even read for fiction, the number of ppl who will read something a character said and insist they'd never say it if you the author didn't personally believe it is comically large

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the thing about Word is as writing software goes, it's decidedly mid if that, but when it comes to edits every other word processing application was designed in a psychological torment nexus in order to personally aggravate you as much as possible, so

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Meg seanchaibeag @seanchaibeag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🤣 And the best political quip of the day goes to:

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Meg seanchaibeag @seanchaibeag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am pleased to report that Sir Roger Daltrey can be added to the very small list of musicians who actively ensure that audience members in wheelchairs can see the action. (The others I've personally had the pleasure of seeing are Glen Hansard and Mark Geary.)

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

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The Who This Month @thewhothismonth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

40 years ago today (1 Sep 1986) Paul McCartney releases album "Press to Play" featuring Pete Townshend on song "Angry". Paul asked him after he found himself windmilling while recording the demo. #TheWho #TheBeatles www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fh...

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Angry (1993 Digital Remaster)

YouTube video by Paul McCartney - Topic

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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My interview with @eldiario.es about my new book Betrayal [Spanish]: "The Americans are mired in another quagmire in the Middle East, and the Russians, after almost five years, are nowhere near achieving their objectives in Ukraine. Both powers share the same hubris, and the same miscalculations."

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Meg seanchaibeag @seanchaibeag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Infusion nurse: What are you reading? Me: Pete Townshend's autobiography. Them: Who? Me (resisting the joke): Guitarist and songwriter for The Who. Them:.... Me: Won't Get Fooled Again? Magic Bus? I Can See for Miles? Them:... Me: Pinball Wizard? Them: Oh.... yeah, I think I've heard that.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"If those studies are right, wouldn't we be seeing an effect right the way across society?" Wow, the denial runs deep. I'm gobsmacked too. Like, they literally just listed all the symptoms people have—and then asked where is the proof? You can’t make this stuff up.🤦‍♂️ Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

A screenshot of a text post by Tern (@1goodtern) dated August 21, 2026. The author recounts a conversation with two colleagues about societal changes.
Narrative Summary
• The Observation: The colleagues note that people are angrier, slower to understand, have more emotional problems, and less impulse control "since the pandemic."
• The Argument: The author points out that these are documented effects of COVID-19 infections on cognitive function and mental health.
• The Contradiction: A colleague asks, "If those studies are right, wouldn't we be seeing an effect right the way across society?" despite having just described exactly that.
• The Evidence: The author cites rising sickness absences (kids, NHS staff, civil servants), increased disability approvals, higher expected mortality in lower-vaccinated age groups, and secondary infections.
• Conclusion: The colleagues reluctantly agree COVID-19 makes things worse but remain unwilling to change their lifestyle habits.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

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The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

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Meg seanchaibeag @seanchaibeag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ah. That explains a lot. Too bad, fund your own keggers, Dems. 😆

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Rowling: ssso irelandsss biggesssst artss festival thinkss it can take on jk rowling, britainsss mosst beloved national treassure?? Rowling: we'll sssseee about that!! [later] Rowling: damn feile en phobail got handss

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Meg seanchaibeag @seanchaibeag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In 2005, I was lucky enough to meet Glen and see The Frames before most of the US had recognized his talent. I knew of him from The Commitments; a film I'd adored since I was too young to be watching it. He was warm and kind and a skilled raconteur, and the world is a little darker without him.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/07/2026

What if we just abolish clocks and live on crip time though

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“By this time, Lillard was relying on the iron lung 24 hours a day. According to her obituary, long-haul COVID was eventually named as her cause of death.” #longcovid #polio

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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/07/2026

If Graham's last words in public include "I can't die now" then we've already maxed out on irony for the month and will have to deficit borrow from August to get by

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Respirators in social settings work extremely well and allow one to avoid infections for years…as I have. There is NO way I would not take that option. I have a family & there are things I want to do in life. I don’t succumb to peer pressure. Is this high school? People are DYING from Long Covid.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’m only a fledging author but, having worked in several related art fields, I’m gonna say the problem is always corporate greed and almost never public services.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026

"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/

A medieval one-man band standing on a crate; his head has been replaced with the head of a killer robot. Observing him are a cluster of critics, who are variously gesticulating wildly, peering disapprovingly, looking on in amusement, etc. The background is a phantasmagoric cloudscape.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“The cognitive dissonance of living a “covid conscious” (CC) life while 99% of the world has moved on & returned to “normal”…is hard to stomach on a daily basis. Especially when…the science is on your side. Maybe in 17 years, they’ll finally believe us. I think by then, though, it’ll be too late.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

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Fred Rossi @darthfoo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

They call us obstacles to progress. I’m enrolled in the research. My response to WIRED’s “The Painful Truth About Long Covid.” darthfoo.substack.com/p/the-patien... #LongCOVID #MECFS #Wired #PEM #CBT #GET

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The Patient Who Isn’t Supposed to Exist

I taught Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) before Long COVID made me a patient. WIRED got the story exactly backward.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

PS: we have told you constantly that it never stops with one group. We told you leaving us to rot would carry moral consequences. You took off your masks and declared freedom from caring. Yeah. We’re mad.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

At worst—we know shit has been getting darker and darker since 2019 at least. We have been screaming into the wind to try to get people to notice, let alone care. And now that they do, the same old bullshit. “Just lose some weight and think positively.” And a lot of you are lapping that up.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

—“personal responsibility” for unwanted thoughts and emotions. Right at the time the guy who believes chronic illness is our fault plans to get his unwashed little hands on all Americans’ medical data. It’s a short jump to “get back to work and if you die, that’s on you.” It’s already happening.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

With all the... you know, everything over the past few years, I somehow missed the fact that we sold off the strategic helium reserve entirely. I thought I was fairly inured to governmental malpractice, but this is just breathtakingly stupid.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“His lungs were so inflamed from COVID and asthma that they just couldn’t handle it” An 8 year old boy died after being given a dairy despite requesting a vegan ice cream treat A heartbreaking reminder of how serious food allergies can be, and of the impact COVID is still having on health outcomes

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Ontario boy dies from anaphylaxis after allegedly receiving wrong treat at Dairy Queen | Globalnews.ca

An eight-year-old boy died of a severe allergic reaction after he was allegedly given the wrong treat at a Dairy Queen in Kingston.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Should perhaps be required reading for lawyers and law students (Although the AI addicts among them will probably just generate an AI summary of it, which will hallucinate more nonsense) The glorified toaster industrial complex isn't just tech bros; it's their gullible and lazy consumers

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Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out Podcast @bigsort.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

And if you happen to be in Georgia in the States, get along to Wax Galaxy Records in Milledgeville. That’s my tip for an indie shop to buy Macca’s album from!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There has to be a level beyond “I told you so” where one turns into an incandescent dwarf star or something.

Meaning: These findings suggest that approximately 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 develops postacute se-quelae, predominantly chronic conditions currently invisible to surveillance systems, representing an accumulating rather than resolving health care burden.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“My job is to explain…why the confidence they feel is the model’s confidence and not their own. They do not take it well. The tool has given them the experience of building something, and the experience feels like expertise.” YES. And this experience isn’t a teaching one, as outlined in studies.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A judge's report on a document submitted to the court, but based on an AI's false account of the law. The solicitor involved spent 59 pages' worth of chat with an LLM rather than looking up statute. Then used AI again to write an apology to the court. A fascinating story, coolly told.

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Studies have suggested that somewhere between 6%-20% of people with COVID-19 will go on to develop long COVID... Currently, there are no effective cures for long COVID, and treatment entails trying to manage the symptoms as best as possible... "

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

happy 85, Bob. still my favorite of his TV appearances, and it's a shame that its recording didn't make the Bootleg Series cut (due to the extended wrong-key-harmonica coda, no doubt, but that adds to it for me) www.youtube.com/watch?v=944J...

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Bob Dylan Performs "Jokerman" (1984) | David Letterman

YouTube video by Letterman

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The web has always been free and open. AI is a grift by rent-seeking billionaires. They aren’t remotely the same and anyone comparing the two is a useful idiot to billionaire propagandists.

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Public Increasingly Unsure Which Ongoing Disaster They’re Supposed To Be Ignoring

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Meg seanchaibeag @seanchaibeag.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

When you're good, you're good! Which applies to all four gentlemen mentioned. 😁

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The only successful armed coup against a city government in US history happened because the editor of a Wilmington paper suggested that white women might be having relationships with Black men of their own free will. 2000 men from three states armed with military hardware descended on the town.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I want y’all to spend some time ruminating about what happens to your brain, marginalized groups, and society as a whole when you start deciding everything is a false flag.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Tech bros, destroying the very value of truth, intensifying and reinforcing historic bigotry, stealing our creative work, torching trillions of dollars, abusing the rights of underpaid workers, laying waste to the environment. ‘You hate us because you’re too stupid to understand what we’re doing.’

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026

Anyway, allow me to suggest that the response to "Golden Age" authors regarding the current iteration of "AI" would be, at best, "nice tech, where's my fucking money?" I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be upset at any of us for our current set of positions. Rather the opposite. And now, here's a cat.

Smudge, looking beleaguered that the human is bothering him.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My best friend gave his life for this country. He's buried less than a mile from that podium, and two of his children, whom he loved fiercely, are trans. This is just a giant middle finger to a man who was 1,000x the soldier the secretary could ever hope to be.

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Thierry @tcote.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Apparently it’s #InternationalCatDay, so here’s a picture of Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys walking a cat on a leash at Caribou Ranch in 1974.

Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys walking a white cat on a leash.

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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This isn't what makes the DRC an "Ebola hotspot." This is racist bullshit (and I'm a medical anthropologist whose whole job is to care about how culture shapes health). Conflict, chronic under-investment, and US carelessness make DRC a hotspot.

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How bushmeat, burial rites and geography make the DRC an Ebola hotspot | CNN

Recurring Ebola outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo are linked to rural communities’ customs and reliance on bushmeat as a source of prote

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