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SUPER nasty google account scam mail i just got! It's all from official google senders etc, but attackers can apparently just put a whole message and url in the title field of an app password, using *official google* emails to send you to scam sites! "login here" was a hard tell though, but still!

the scam email, where everything between "this password for your" and ", someone might be using your account" is injected by an attacker

a normal app password notification email for reference

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 19h

If you ever run out, happy to send you copies of my scenarios.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 22h

If you’re putting a ceiling on tens of thousands of people - defendants and victims - by forcing their serious cases into summary trials - then you’re still *restricting* jury trial. You’re still skinning the cat.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 22h

So - let me get this straight - hardly anyone appeals, but when they do, loads of them are successful appeals? So you’re restricting it because there might well be more? I would jolly well imagine there would be more. The difference is: I’m not sure that’s a bad thing guys.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 22h

But we have to be able to express our opinion, which is one I suspect the general public share: Lay people - legally unqualified people - should not have the power to imprison for two years.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 22h

You are being asked to approve volunteer Magistrates hearing more serious criminal trials and being able to hand citizens two year prison sentences. And, for good measure, to get rid of the automatic right of appeal (rehearing) against their decisions. That’s on you. Today.

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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 21h

Every time this happens its a reminder that Westminster & Fleet St are 100 years behind on workplace culture "Pronouns in email" is as boringly normal in 99% of modern office jobs as "don't drink on the job" is, but you wouldn't know that if you only listened to politicians & journos

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h

Speaking of voting, if you're a member and you'd like to keep the National Trust's Council free from interference from Britain (and the US's) richest financiers, don't forget to vote before the end of the month. Quick-vote takes moments and avoids the Restore Trust slate of candidates.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20h

it’s really frustrating to sit down and write a detailed thing like this, get 1,500 likes and not have @bencollins.bsky.social respond. not even like a “thanks for saying something, i’ll talk to the team.” having to do this labor is shitty. having to beg for basic respect is embarrassing.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026

hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 19h

but i bet there's a whole lot of poppy-shagging content coming up over the next few weeks that won't be blurred out at all, because CLEARLY that's not political enough to get censored like a 'Protect the Dolls' t-shirt

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 19h

I very much doubt that this will be a lens through which we examine a lot of comfortable cishet people going absolutely coocoo in the coconut through lockdown-era online radicalisation about lots of things but largely settling on becoming extremely anti LGBT+

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026

If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As this piece points out, there is a high chance that universities unilaterally withdrawing offers because they think a visa might get rejected is unlawful. The Home Office is effectively forcing universities to discriminate based on race and nationality. wonkhe.com/blogs/who-pa...

wonkhe.com

Who pays the price when universities cancel offers to protect refusal rates?

As visa refusal rates climb, universities are revoking offers and cancelling CAS en masse to stay under the new BCA threshold. Jim Dickinson asks whether that’s lawful – and who ends up paying.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...

jamradio.uk

Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio

Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's also extremely Kafkaesque that one of the three main things that the Home Office tracks in determining whether a university can sponsor students is visa refusals, which are decisions made by the Home Office, not the university.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anecdotally what seems to be happening is that the Home Office is refusing all student visa applications from certain countries. The Treasury should have told them to knock if off years ago but at this point the FCO needs to tell them to stop trying to cause an international incident.

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I so desperately want cis people to understand this - the GCs are not feminists, they dont believe in women's rights, they dont value the agency or rights of children. GC is an abuser, forced birther, misogynist, racist, anti working class manifesto of bigotry. Its Andrew Tate with a Chanel handbag.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Seems under-appreciated how much the former RCP/Spiked cult is involved in trying to get Reform elected. Delo funds their annual get together. Whelan sanitises Reform with more w/c revolt bs. Mick Hulme is heading-up its media strategy old school by pushing Reform propaganda through letterboxes.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.

theguardian.com

‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male

Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think it should be replaced by a set of vending machines that dispense British citizenship to anyone who presses the button, and a massive tearoom where they can go for a celebratory cuppa afterwards.

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Several were seriously lacking in relevant skills, very limited IT competence etc. Most got their management roles through pure seniority and attrition.

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Most of my bosses (not all!) got their jobs with no particular qualifications and had salaried contracts the whole time. They had never been required to get qualifications or do serious CPD to catch up with their employees.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.com

UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa @alranz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#Antichoice Health Minister Simeon Brown banned puberty blockers against all expert advice. It's w/the courts now. If he can ban treatment for one group of people, TRUST that he will go after #abortion if this government is given another term. Brown & any antis do not listen to experts. #nzpol

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very much this. So many damn jobs, qualifications, moves, still on what works out to minimum wage.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fix your economy with this one weird trick

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nice little nugget of horror buried in there

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Memories are vague but I think it was *under* the human cities, that being how skaven generally operate. Under the biggest city with the best sewer network is the biggest skaven city.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026

Such a good thread both for letting you know what's going on in Paris and for showing standard police tactics. Telling protesters to disperse while blocking all the exits, singling people out with the intent to harm, and using tools that we know cause serious bodily harm? That's the cop playbook.

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Got myself a second hand camphor chest that's the perfect size for storing some old chinese books. The seller thinks it's chinese or japanese but it doesn't seem like it to me. Anyone has any thoughts?

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Asking genuinely: you spend a lot of time pleading with the front bench and PM to do better, but do you get any impression that they are actually listening? I appreciate your effort. It doesn't feel like they're listening, though.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Private Eye reported on this last issue, but this is a remarkable stat which neatly shows what massive, fuck-off donations from interested capital mean in terms of practical reach, influence and visibility (and your regular reminder that you can say literally anything you like in social media ads)

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026

oh look paid protesters

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Except in the countries where there is no death penalty, an easy fix)

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No, this is a terrible idea. Awful for shy people, anyone who cannot spontaneously organise complex information but can easily do so given time. Great for bullshitters. Very open to bias, hard to prove bias in ephemeral tasks, hard to anonymise and second mark.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is Stranger Things sci-fi, or is it supernatural horror? I'm aware it's a genre blending thing, but if you were reading about tv sci fi from the last 40ish years, would it feel like a clanger to be omitted?

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

UK folks, you can get your COVID vaccine at Boots now even if you don't qualify on age or disability grounds. If like me you couldn't find one six months ago, check again. It is very expensive though because of course it is.

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This looks interesting; I see from other posts it's for Cairn, which I've not played. How adaptable would it be to other systems? From these spreads it looks reasonably system-neutral to me.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/10/2026

The heroine is clipboard-dependent. The hero has no idea what he's doing. The reader won't want to put it down. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0... Apple: books.apple.com/us/b... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c...

That awkward feeling when you want to ask a girl to marry you, but she doesn't know your real name or the fact that you own her house and she owes you fifty-three years of rent.

The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan

The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan

An Asian couple embracing. His hand is on her neck, and they are leaning in to each other, touching foreheads.

The Wedgeford Trials by Courtney Milan
covers for The Duke who Didn't, The Marquis who Mustn't, and The Earl who Isn't

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 04/10/2026

A reminder: this is worse than judge-only trials because it means for many offences you will be tried not by a Circuit Judge but 2 or 3 non-lawyer volunteers given legal advice by someone else who may have no experience of practising criminal law in the CPS or a defence firm.

And courts will have the final say over where cases should be heard, preventing criminals accused of relatively minor crimes trying to game the system by electing a jury trial in an attempt to avoid prison.

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was under the impression the point of Americans being allowed to carrying guns around was they could intervene when anonymous men people carry out abductions in broad daylight. I mean, I wasn't *really*, but that's always been the claim.

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Shimmin Beg @shimminbeg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chemically-treated water at that. Not something I would personally want to test. When I last had swimming trunks, some of them had pockets, but none had sealable pockets. I'm sure some do though. I assume sports gear has the same issue? Nowhere for house key etc. if you go for a run?

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