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

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Viability for my biz friends and visibility for my bi friends!

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I’ve said before, if a government doesn’t think it can win the argument on “violent, murderous thugs are bad, actually.” then it’s finished, both electorally and morally

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We could see four parties within the margin of error sooner rather than later at this rate. Chaos without Ed Miliband (and ironically would probably be catalysed by Burnham ignoring Ed Miliband and endorsing North Sea drilling)

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@rigg.lgbt 🖤 🦇 HAPPY DARKNESS ASCENDANCY NIGHT 🦇🖤

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cat-Bat~

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wouldn't go as far as "love," but I have far more time for Westlife than I feel I have any right to; they may be utterly formulaic but it's a formula for sensory comfort and I have far more use for that than I do for being "cool"

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 20/09/2026

I think there are arguments on both sides about harm reduction voting and the lesser of two evils and so on. I also think that *if you attack a member of a persecuted minority for disagreeing with you on that -- either way -- when it comes to persecution of the group they're in* you're despicable.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm nine hundred and three years old

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⛧The Hallokweeny⛧ @kweenytodd.monsterden.xyz · 13/09/2026

IN OTHER NEWS: (Getting back into the holiday spirit)

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one

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Ancient Seahorse @ancientseahorse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts [& conversations w the chatbot]…[some have] sensitive personal information…most of ChatGPT’s more than 900 million users probably don’t realize [any/all of their chats can] be read by actual people”

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's only one solution to the danger of an AI-triggered nuclear war: decommission all nuclear weapons everywhere. On paper, the major powers are signed up to this objective. Now they need to do something about it.

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Khantalas @khantalas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

also broadly true for a lot of cases of oppressor vs oppressed, imperialist vs imperialized, fascists vs perceived minorities, etc. some fights can only be safely ended unilaterally by one side because the alternative is complete subjugation or extermination of the other

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Allan Lorde @allanlorde.com · 13/09/2026

100%. For those unfamiliar, Van Halen had a line in their rider that essentially said “no brown M&Ms.” It was a way to see if the promoter had actually read the contract. They had a shitload of gear to tour with, so if they’re skipping one thing, it’s guaranteed they’re skipping something essential.

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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

British Broadcasting Conservatives

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

theguardian.com

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Soft on fascism, soft on the causes of fascism

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know we're all snarking away and it's all fun and games but it really is quite frightening that some kind of wannabe fascist militia are blockading our main port and the government and police don't seem to have a problem with it.

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Magpie @shy-magpie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

if you are asking on social media if you can buy Harry Potter books 2nd hand or pirate them to avoid harm then you have just proven you can't do so without providing free advertising for the transphobia fundraiser series by talking about how indispensable they are to you

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is the progress the far right want to reverse

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am Team Dark Mode and I approve this message 🦇

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 04/09/2026

A vision popped into my head of a Spider-Man climbing Galactus and singing "CRAAAAAWLING ON YOUR SKIIIIIIIN" Linkin Parker.

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wouldn't consider that a lock but would consider it very possible. I do feel confident that he'd have been the one to start Band Aid if he was alive in 1984

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 30/08/2026

In case you missed it: Iif you’re giving your money to Starbucks right now, you’re officially crossing a picket line. The union has called for a boycott, and we respect the union’s wishes.

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hell yeah I'm into GTA6 Going To Attempt 6 hours of sleep

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The world is getting darker and more comfortable again, yay. Happy #InternationalBatNight! 🦇

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 27/08/2026

You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

abc.net.au

Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns

Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.

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Aulet 🍂 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.

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Hello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Learn to Ode!

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A5: That sometimes it's not a case of "can't hear enough" but "can hear too much" Sensory disability and it's completely different but also still a sensory disability #AutChat

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A4: Most of my food shopping is now online and the bits that aren't tend to be late at night when it's quieter; additionally, text-based communication is my preference wherever possible #AutChat

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A3: Definitely with the sound sensitivity, I'm not sure how separable those are. But there's a multi-layered connection with my OCD-flavoured anxiety too; e.g. I'm a composer who is drawn to low and/or soft treble voice singing and have crushing concern loops over fear of misinterpretation #AutChat

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A2: Loud environments generally are deeply overwhelming because I simply cannot filter out the sound coming from all angles. And I think this has become worse, although perhaps reinforced by COVID associations and me continuing to avoid those spaces like the plague (pun intended) #AutChat

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A1: Basically always, tbh. But more specifically, overlapping sounds/general auditory complexity is the worst, both in terms of understanding speech and in terms of being able to think coherently without feeling an overwhelming urge to fly off into a quiet dark cave 🦇 #AutChat

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A0: Hello, I'm David, and I am cursed by my bat ears 🦇 #AutChat

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 23/08/2026

Very interesting post about compromise creep from a thread over on Mastodon about businesses quietly returning to Twitter. Source: bit.ly/4c6g0eV

Post by L Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town on Mastodon

Compromise creep explains a lot. You're trying out this new technology when you find out that its really bad for the environment, so you back off. But then there's a deluge of articles saying it's not so bad for the environment. You're not sure what to think, but maybe it's not that harmful to use it every here and there. So you compromise, but only a little. Then it turns out that the technology is exploiting writers and artists. That's bad, but also, you're finding the tech really useful, and maybe the idea of intellectual property is changing, so its not much of a compromise to keep going. Oh, yeah, and the technology also aids genocide. You don't condone that, but that's not what you're using it for, So... Bit by bit, you compromise on SO many of the ideals and ethics that you endorse that doing business on the marketplace of fascist ideas isn't THAT big of a compromise.

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Wait, it's all fascism?" "Always has been"

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The amazing Emma Monk 👏 Are we happy that citizen journalists like her (or me during Tories), acting with no resources, working in our own time, untrained and unpaid, can so easily expose so much that the BBC, Telegraph and Times *somehow* manage to miss? It's almost like they're not trying.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

transnews.network

Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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David Howl @shinydh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Venture capitalist: The cup can be downsized by 50% for efficiency.

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you use the technology fascists are pushing that they stole the work of millions of people to create and are powering via neighbourhood destroying data centers, you should feel shame. Shame is a powerful thing, more people who do thoughtless things that harm others should feel it.

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