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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I keep thinking, they can't be this cartoonishly evil, can they? And then
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[No//Thrones] @krakoan-lorax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Diarrhea in the lettuce, glass in the popsicles, E. Coli in the berries, screw worms in the beef, salmonella in the chicken & eggs, listeria in everything else. Man I love deregulation. Libertarianism is such a great philosophy.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026
May the entirety of the British gutter press face justice, preferably in a court of law.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house
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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bloody hell.
Thread - on Threads - of three posts from someone whose screen name is 'blueskies 1977':

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 | have been an election agent for the Labour Party for 8 years Yesterday, for
the first time ever, | cried at a count. Was it because we'd lost a lot of seats,
because we had? No. | cried because a very hard working, dedicated, British
born Councillor of Pakistani descent had the word "deport' written next to her
name on a ballot paper with a Reform vote. When the doubtful papers were
shown to candidates and agents, | challenged the Reform agent to disown the
vote and he refused.

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 | saw a number of other ballot papers with racist, islamophobic and antisemitic
comments. I'm used to the abusive comments about parties and policies on
papers, we tend to have a laugh with them. I'm also used to the many pictures
of penises on ballot papers (you guys are all so original), but | haven't seen so
much hatred written on ballot papers. What are we becoming as a country?
Why do people feel emboldened to put their hatred out there? It's vile.

blueskies 1977
For those commenting that the ballot paper should be rejected, in law it can't be. If a
clear voting intent is shown for the correct number of candidates, it will only be
rejected it there is anything, such as a signature, initials or name, that could identify
the voter or the official mark is defaced or damaged.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
'Police gave chase hoping to retrieve the haul, but the thieves just gave them two fingers'
Ronnie Barker as a newsreader
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slowdrifter.bsky.social @slowdrifter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In fairness this is what the ref should have done when the players left the pitch anyway.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
From the article: 
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's Elmo's birthday
Dr Jordan B Peterson
@jordanbpeterson
Go to hell you woke
Virtue-signaling race-baiting
Anti-science postmodern neo-Marxist
Clickbait disseminating
Bastards
Pop Base
@PopBase • 12h
Today is Elmo's birthday.
He turns 3½ years old every year.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
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And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
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slowdrifter.bsky.social @slowdrifter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
When they did that and don’t come back they should have forfeited the match. Regardless of the decisions (penalty: soft but defender gave himself a problem; disallowed goal: also soft but ref did blow immediately). Everyone has been on the wrong end of bad decisions but that was indefensible.
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slowdrifter.bsky.social @slowdrifter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I hate that. I usually really like Senegal but that was atrocious. I honestly can’t think of much I’ve ever seen on a football pitch that was worse than that. It’s just given every team at every level of the game the ability to walk off when they like with impunity - and then still come back and win
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petercbowden.bsky.social @petercbowden.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"I'm a politics YouTuber and podcaster with almost half a million views, so I know the odd thing about backstabbing and deception! Also I was the Prime Minister for a brief period in 2022."
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
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I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
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slowdrifter.bsky.social @slowdrifter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Great interview. Agree he seems to be growing into things and it’s definitely a show of faith from KM that he’s starting regularly, which I didn’t necessarily expect at the start of the season despite the price tag
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken.  How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
If you're stuck, have Batman come into the room and punch somebody.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/07/2025
I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/06/2025
the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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slowdrifter.bsky.social @slowdrifter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I don’t believe in the death penalty but I’d probably make an exception for this absolute shit stain on humanity
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
But this manifestly isn't a way to "counter" Reform. It's just an endorsement of Reform. If it's what Glasman believes, then he should simply join Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk is committing a genocide
The worst is not really covered as the worst.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025
the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com
Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Our administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life. by J.D. Vance
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is a really telling chart and emblematic of the political era.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
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You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
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