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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

As Tressie McMillan Cottom said recently about GenAI, nothing is inevitable, in getting academics to think GenAI is inevitable we work to make it so.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

ITV News: BBC to air Would I Lie To You Boxing Day episode featuring David Walliams

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

LeMonde said, not on our watch

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

One thing that gets my goat is to read *leftists* saying that "capitalism" has produced all the great wonders of modern technological advance (alongside the horrors it took to get here). "Capitalism" didn't produce those things; people did, working frankly in a whole variety of social arrangements.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 28/12/2025

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

How far back depends on exactly how you reckon it, but it’s beyond serious dispute that Trump has raised taxes more than any president in decades.

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Mitch McConnell's shambling corpse 🧟‍♂️ @checarina.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In a world where spousal haircuts and hors d'oeuvres and TikTok choreography are considered legitimate expenses, it’s okay to try buying 5000 tampons. The point is ~“this is the sort of people we are”~ rather than to say ~“we are replacing government services”~ bsky.app/profile/meel...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

👇 This sums up underlying problem with actually existing Brexit. The ways you actually maximise the benefits of Brexit run against the electoral coalition for Brexit, are not popular enough with Remainers, just end up with 'you're divorced, but you refuse to join Tinder or move out of your home'.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The Express will keep doing this. Churning out anger and division. They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day. But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different: Humanity. Kindness. Hope.

Apologise! Green Party leader slammed for "offensive insult" towards King Charles

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 24/12/2025

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

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Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...

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Rackletang 🧌🦇🕷️ @rackletang.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

If you're donating to a GFM for the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA, no you're not because there isn't one. Report these unless and until Brittany announces one!

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Sio and Tell @sio-and-tell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Starting my Christmas social media break from tomorrow. I know I'm barely here anyway but I hope you can find moments of peace and love amidst everything else this season.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21/12/2025

Sorry it's just kind of on my mind, but the point is not just to have created, but to create. To be involved in the process of its coming to be. The AI folks see rewards that can come when art is in the world, though actually so much art is not rewarded, & that's all they want. Not to be an artist.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

A Christmas cracker joke which reads:

What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take?

Con medicine

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The main thing to conclude from this Labour strategy to compare the Greens to Reform is that they don’t understand the threat that Reform pose. They’re not bothered by fascism.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Winter Solstice alignment at Stonehenge today. Photo credit: Nick Bull x.com/i/status/200...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Article 22 is a jewelry company that repurposes Vietnam War shrapnel and battlefield debris. A portion of their profits goes to the Mine Advisory Group, which works to remove landmines still left in Laos (they've removed more than 300k mines!). I like the company's "Shard" necklace collection.

The melted metal is used to make bracelets.

One of the designs in their "shard" necklace collection, which is available as made-to-order. Just write "shard" into their website's search bar to find it.

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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

At Xtra: This was supposed to be the year of "post-woke" pop culture. It fell apart because -- shockingly -- no-one wanted to spend time with a bunch of assholes: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

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The year ‘post-woke’ broke | Xtra Magazine

In 2025, bigotry was trendy, and we found out who our friends really are

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Looking up reviews for travel wet wipes and -

Customers say

Customers find these wipes to be a fantastic product that fits nicely in handbags and is perfect for travel. They are handy for various uses, with one customer mentioning they're great for cottaging, and another noting they're easy to share with friends and acquaintances.

Customers appreciate their moisturizing properties, with one mentioning they're resealable to keep them moist.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/12/2025

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

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Sio and Tell @sio-and-tell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I've cried so much watching the Strictly final. I know a lot of other stuff (understatement) is happening but I have been watching this show for 21 years, so much of my life can be bookmarked by different series of this show and Tess and Claudia leaving really does mark the end of an era.

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For anyone who may be hastily returning certain books they bought as Christmas presents, here's a thread of excellent children's books I highly recommend you buy instead: Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell Funny, chaotic and a little bit naughty okay, a lot naughty

The cover of Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell, with an orange cover, a black circle surrounded by runes with horns, and lots of pictures such as a devil, a snake, a hammer, a sword, a chicken, a house, a pencil, a book

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/12/2025

I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Getting the full medieval court painter experience

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

You absolutely love to see it. Indies keep my heart beating.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Again, we are not "at risk" of creating a Trumpian politics in four or five years when Farage wins. Farage looks likely to win because everyone has spent the last decade - at least - creating the same reactionary, racist political system as Trump. It's already here.

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Sio and Tell @sio-and-tell.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Randomly watching Smosh (Courtney and Shayne playing Halo) has unlocked a bunch of really nice memories that had been blocked by trauma. Memories of playing Halo 2 at my then boyfriend's house with his 2 room mates on collab mode, that whole time period has been unlocked. I'm so emotional.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 17/12/2025

How can you have a review of foreign interference in elections without, you know, reviewing past elections? Who wants a review of a film you haven’t seen yet??

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I interviewed Rob Reiner as one of the bonuses for the @criterion.bsky.social BluRay of SPINAL TAP. We talked for an hour about the movie and his career and then they shut off the cameras and we talked about movies for another hour. A delightful, unhurried genius.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/12/2025

In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century. Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.

Tesco gingerbread house "build your own" pack

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2025

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵

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LFCNev @thenorthsace.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Again: all of this is elite radicalisation and none of it is organically arising from the public. It is MPs and the press flame-grilling their own brains on social media, then inflicting their poisonous spiteful idiocy upon everyone.

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Eve Harms, Orph Understander @eveharms.com · 13/12/2025

It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2025

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/12/2025

If you had it you wouldn't harm & you'd do your best to mitigate suffering. People either don't know what words mean or think there's some other way we get a better world than caring about people. Sorry there's not a shortcut around that.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence. -James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972

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