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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Back in MY day we got mad and wrote a 100,000 word fix it fic. Fandom these days is SOFT I TELL YOU they would never survive the things I have seen
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hey. Labour MPs. And other MPs, too. Are you on your way to the Commons for the Courts and Tribunals Bill? Grab a coffee. Come over here. And pay attention. 👇🏼
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In Titanic, Billy Zane refers to someone as a moron, a word that was only coined that year, and was very unlikely to be in widespread use, even by posh villains.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's true, there's no precedent in French history (nor, uh, at the Bastille) for popular protest or property destruction. Great point. No one tell history-buff & self-styled francophile Thomas about Gustave Courbet & the Vendôme Column. He might short-circuit & issue another Open Letter
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Its kinda wild seeing corporate management just obliterating the gates that keep them relevant ; namely the assurance that customers are getting quality products made with all the resources and institutional knowledge a corporation entails
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
hey cool that's awesome
Harriet Williamson • @harriepw
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related activity, by legislation, years ending June 2002 to June 2026, Great Britain
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3,500-
3,000
2,500 |
Number of arrests
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Arrested for peacefully holding signs
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Section 41/
Terrorism Act 2000
Year to 30 June
Other legislation
(not linked to supporting
Palestine Action)
Other legislation (linked to supporting
Palestine Action)
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just read this as it came across my timeline, I needed that today!
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 09/10/2026
I just took a nap and had a dream and it was that meeting where the Fellowship of the Ring was being formed and they did the "you have my sword, and my bow" bit and then I was pushed up to talk but I didn't have a weapon so I said "and my unwarranted confidence of a white man" and then I woke up.
static.klipy.com
You Have My Sword
ALT: You Have My Sword
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes  radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.
A paragraph from Brian Blessed’s autobiography:

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these student gatherings.
I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who doesn't love a good spreadsheet error. Especially when it informs policy. Wonderful.
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks pal
in a home invasion my attacker goes for a knife in the kitchen drawers but it's jammed by the potato masher and I make my escape

That is an incredibly intense and terrifying scenario, and I am so glad to hear that you were able to make your escape safely thanks to that jammed drawer.
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Strandschaf @strandschaf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ha! I'm delighted! After I found out, with some tedious work, how to type Ea-nāṣir in cuneiform (𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕), I put it into the search bar of 🦆🦆🚶and someone did the work on the search engine to understand it!
Screenshot from DuckDuckGo. In the search bar the name Ea-nāṣir is entered in cuneiform and the results show the Wikipedia page for Ea-nāṣir.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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ogre-g 👹 @libidinalspaces.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
she's got that joie de leave
A thin, red leaf on concrete. It's on its side such that it looks like a pair of lips
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That song is still one of my weird 90s faves. It goes harder than I expected.
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great googly moogly it's all gone to shit @carnivorousmoogle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
thank you for saying this because it's one of those things that's so. obvious. that it feels hard to even make myself spell it out. because i feel steadily more fucking insane every time someone acts like this is not an incredibly basic truth. Abusers Can Lie About Things. They Can Just Lie
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/10/2026
1) "... the medical aspects of the illness are on the whole better understood by sick people than by their doctors..." In this new paper, philosopher Chloé De Canson details how the ME/CFS community shares and produces scientific knowledge.
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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pls read my books - they take place in my homeland, Texas, where they are challenged & it makes me sad for Lipan readers who want to see characters like them.
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
regressive men are so dismissive of women as human beings, we’re still just Flighty Man Accessories
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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who the hell deploys stun grenades against kids? Gas is bad enough, but stun grenades have far from a pristine history of non-lethality themselves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Teenager's hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and riot police
The prefect of Pas-de-Calais says the teenager's life is "not in danger" after the "very serious" incident on Monday.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I HATE THIS ERA I HATE THE SLIDE TOWARDS PURITANNICAL MORALITY I HATE THIS SO MUCH IT MAKES ME FEEL CLAUSTROPHOBIC AND I'M JUST A STRAIGHT WHITE CIS WOMAN THIS ISN'T AFFECTING ME IN THE LEAST AND STILL IT MAKES ME FEEL COMPRESSED
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oooh thank you, that one has been on my radar to look out for!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026
Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
notable both that this is happening and is being pushed by popular GC accounts
Tribunal Tweets 
@tribunaltweets
Mental health nurse Amy Gallagher is bringing an employment tribunal against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust claiming racial harassment, belief discrimination and victimisation. While undertaking
psychotherapy training with the Trust, Miss Gallagher says she raised concerns about aspects of teaching on race, including material concerning "whiteness", "white privilege",
"white fragility" and critical race theory.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
The Orange Order, and the police, have got this all so badly wrong and every person in the country could have told then that before it had to happen
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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been hoping studies like this would happen since 2020. This is just the very beginning, but it is the beginning. Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatigue | ScienceDaily share.google/7NxfWS1IJtm2...
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Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatigue
Scientists found that five seemingly unrelated conditions, including long Covid, ME/CFS, and PTSD, may disrupt many of the same biological networks involved in immunity, metabolism, and cellular energ...
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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing
Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We got the cd set and yeah, the art...
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I finished playing it in April/May ish and have not stopped listening to the soundtrack since.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There’s a behavioral dog rescue in NC called STAB that does absolutely hilarious dog bios. After posting “Two Mommy Tommy”, a dog looking for lesbians because he despises men, men have been bombarding their FB page and escalated to doxxing and threats to family. Men: validating Tommy forever
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
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The Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was
All five men arrested in RAF base plot are British nationals
The five men who were arrested and subsequently released on bail are all British citizens, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has just told the Labour party conference.

She adds that the scene is “now safe” and the residents living near to the RAF base are now able to return home.

“Let this be a reminder: you will never defeat us,” he says.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
personally I think its awesome that tech rhetoric has gone from "we will not only give you whatever you need, but fulfill desires you don't even know you had" to "fuck you buy this shit you don't want also there goes your job"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But yeah it is a lot to do with (theoretical) earning power (or simple 'power' in the case of PPEists) isn't it, such silliness.
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like law might be an exception to this? Not sure where it sits in 'Humanities' exactly but we engineering students always knew the lawyers looked down on us...
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Dave Rudden's off to Fantasycon! @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
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Susannah @skittledog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zero (I became weirdly sensitive to caffeine and had to give it up, boo)
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