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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 6h
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 8h
Today & tomorrow are first days of strike as Uni council makes final decisions on massive cuts of courses &staff. Please show your #solidatity by sharing this, to encourage management to take our alternative financial proposals seriously. Compulsory redundancies not necessary!! @uonucu.bsky.social
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 8h
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The tribunal found a clear pattern of the university trying to shut down complaints made by Wyn in a bid to protect itself from reputational damage” If preventing reputational damage is Cambridge’s aim, it’s not doing very well atm. thetab.com/2026/09/07/c...
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Cambridge professor wins tribunal after exposing alleged staff bullying
Wyn Evans, a professor of astrophysics, told the tribunal in June that he had witnessed a 'bad history of misogyny' within the Institute of Astronomy
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
whenever people say “cancel culture isn’t real, it’s just facing the consequences of your actions” I think about all the people who were the target of the internet’s hate for things they didn’t do, or for things that had much more nuance. it can ruin lives, over things that often do not matter
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow, can't believe they printed this
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st century ARE:

1 - 99: The 2009 episide of "One Tree Hill" where a guy dropped his heart transplant heart on the floor and then a dog ate it

100: "Battlestar Galactica" or something
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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would be much more likely to visit the Lucas museum if there was a secret room, decked out to look like a slightly messy apartment, that was just a gallery full of pictures of Carrie Fisher having a nice time.
Carrie fisher and Meryl Streep  in 1991 at a party. They booth have blonde bobs and Carrie is urgently feeding Meryl chocolate cakeCarrie Fisher with short dark/res hair and. Black dress at a party in 1990 she is holding a cigarette and is doing a silly duck face with her hands to her ears. Tom hanks stands behind her Carrie fisher and Harrison ford at a party in someone’s apartment - I’m guessing around 2003?

She holds him close with her face in his chest and they both stare with faux, scandalous intensity into the camera Carrie fisher (black dress) and Margot Kidder (white blouse -
Holding a drink) at a party around 1980 if I had to guess they’re both smiling like crazy - it looks like Margot just told a funny story
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hutton is a consultant for privatised water. This article is about explaining *to you*, the dickheads, that nothing should change, that this is great and the unavoidable, immovable order of things.
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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane
Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
see now this, this is time-honoured british piss-taking
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
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Simon @semisomnus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Drexel University is planning to close America's oldest natural history museum in spite of the wishes of...well, everybody www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 23/09/2026
At some point you just gotta believe that the BBC report this way because they’re sympathetic to anti-immigrant white supremacists and their mission.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
2 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy saying: let’s just throw trans people under the bus

Panel 2: Red Guy replying: Whoa there. That could damage the bus.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow, you mean to say ministers in Westminster got totally wowed by a big sales pitch by Americans who sold them a load of duff software that didn't work? That's incredible. I can barely believe what I'm hearing.
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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These are hugely satisfying.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Simon @semisomnus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Less than a week after the Brexit vote, I saw a young white woman lean over her steering wheel and scream "LEAVE!" at an East Asian girl, as she crossed the road in front of her car. I realised the UK's racist rot affected more than just the Facebook-poisoned boomers, and Brexit was bringing it out
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🇬🇧 Honest UK Train Ad
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 THE KAPOW HANDBOOK IS FINALLY DONE!!! 🚨 6 months, 5 authors, and 60 pages later, we’ve written a guide on how to integrate mutual aid and direct action into electoral politics. And we’re not gatekeeping this info either. Get a free digital copy on 9/21 at kapow.works/handbook !!!
Me, holding a spiral bound notebook that reads “how to KAPOW the system”Two pages of the book, one is an FAQ asking why campaigns haven’t been doing this the whole time. The other is a black intro page for PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURE that reads “Cynicism is for losers. We can build the world we want to see.”Two pages on how to make a mutual aid hub in your campaign office with loads of
Polaroids of our office and volunteers
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/09/2026
But they’re doing a PR stunt out of racism and frankly maybe we should let them have ‘indepedence’ and see how many want to show their passport every time they go to the big Tesco
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/09/2026
re: Piddlington. I actually also think it’s the wrong location for an asylum centre, it’s the middle of nowhere on a deadly road and no safe way to walk to Bicester, let alone get to oxford, an asylum centre should be right in town with access to resources like drs and dentists and help centres.
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Danny Kodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This really is worth a watch. A mother of mixed-race children in Piddington breaks down when thinking about the bigotry that's been revealed in her village. It's so awful to see how quickly the mask of politeness can fall off to reveal the evil face of racism beneath.
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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Moments like this make you realise quite how much the media dictate policy in the UK, meaning we're governed on the basis of what editors think will get clicks and eyeballs.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 16/09/2026
Interesting side detail on the whole Ed Sheeran and his promoter kerfuffle: www.instagram.com/reel/DdUZuPt...
instagram.com
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/09/2026
I'd misclassified Rupert Lowe as a Twitter thing. But he's now *really* gaming Facebook's new algorithm with a mixture of 'remigration' and 'who remembers' memes. Crazy levels of engagement and he's all over the feed of every boomer I know regardless of their politics. www.facebook.com/rupertlowemep
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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Hideously bad AI illustration
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagine having more money than you could ever need and instead of using it to tackle poverty or disease you give it to a bunch of entitled grifters who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've been saying for years they walk amongst us. What we see isn't nearly as scary as what we don't see. That's personally why I react very strongly when I see it!!
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Saying there’s no merit in arts or humanities is what fascists do
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Journalists should be asking how much longer this ludicrous palaver can go on for. Not pretending this was offered in any good faith via pointless deconstruction
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sceenshot of a poem. It reads

You kids today, with 'net and games I fought in World War 2 You're not content with airfix planes, I fought in World War 2 In my day (nineteen ninety three), We didn't have what's yours Things were simpler, much less woke, I fought in both World Wars. School lunches, Oh! Pink custard too, Four channels on TV Not like the iphones you have now, Was simpler then, you see? "Image Macros" were all the rage, There was no twitch tv I fought in World War 2, respect The man who's forty three
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
60-28?? I'm getting a taste of what it's like for one of our guys to be teflon for a change and I like it
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Simon @semisomnus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT this with your home river. The Nene. Pronounced NENN, not NEEN.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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