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Great post by All That's Lebanese about the way that etymology is sometimes romanticised beyond the objective reality, but also how three distinct dishes are often mushed together in an attempt to simplify. Great reading (but yes its on substack) linasaad.substack.com/p/baba-ganou...

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Baba Ganouj and the Monk's Salad

On Names, Fire, and What Survives Translation

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Luna2 loves legals @luna2lovesacandd.bsky.social · 4h

He hasn't seen or heard of the absolute insanity of millions of people spending 3 days trying to get oasis tickets and the joy from those who have. Live music is the best thing ever, even when you aren't that bothered for the band - he's got no concept of atmosphere in his life.

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 5h

Poor Nick has not absorbed the full joy of going to a concert, seeing music performed by people, live. He has not considered how humans pour their life story, trials, triumphs, influences, and spirit into their music. Music is just slop. It is personalised to you, but has no soul, heart or mojo.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 14h

There was a speech. It had nice words, well delivered, promising much. The promises were vague or a long time in the future. And the people who needed reassurance the most (the disabled, the migrants, the victims of racism/Islamophobia/xenophobia, and trans people) received none. Let us see action.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 15h

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Netherton Foundry @nethertonfoundry.bsky.social · 17h

A pan of patatas bravas for punch & a soothing cheese sauce for the cauli and broccoli was liquid comfort, but something was missing.……. texture! Tortilla chips!

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OnlyFranz @protopigeon.lol · 16h

New Stevie ❤️

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17h

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years after being convicted of child sexual abuse. Judge Lord Harrower said Dott robbed his victims of "a significant part of their childhood" and said his behaviour bore the hallmarks of grooming. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for child sexual abuse

The 49-year-old was found guilty of two charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy between 1993 and 2010.

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rankamateur @rankamateur.bsky.social · 18h

Always a thought provoking read - choline, restaurant loos and AI food pictures feature, but lots of other good stuff too.

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My September favourites list is here, with new cookbooks, food articles, recipes, and a spotlight on the delicious food of Myanmar at Lahpet Larder. snigskitchen.blogspot.com/2026/09/sept...

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September 2026 favourites list

Welcome to this month's list! This month’s pictures are from my delicious lunch at Lahpet Larder from this summer. The food of Myanmar is u...

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.

vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...

independent.co.uk

SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip

Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cases included a 3 year old child. It's nearly like 17th century England where an 8 or 9 year old boy was tried and hanged in 1629.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cannot overstate how important seeing Floella Benjamin being unapologetically herself on TV was in the 70s and early 80s, and what it meant to thousands of us little children up and down the country. Representation matters. Thank you from one of your Playshool Babies. ❤️

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Your regular reminder that the Corporation of London founded a charity in 1282 (!) to look after London Bridge. It now has assets of £1.5B (!) generating an income of £42M (!) most of which is, unsurprisingly, not needed for looking after the 5 bridges it is formally responsible for...

BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES - Charity 1035628

Charity details for BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES - Charity 1035628

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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Luna2 loves legals @luna2lovesacandd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always lovely good stuff in Snig's monthly blog - recipes and recommendations. Lots for veggies and vegans as well, most things can be tweaked easily and there's serious spicing (not heat) going on to make for lush food and great batch cooking.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...

vox.com

An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself

An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We, the workers on strike at Legal 500, will not be on the picket on Monday. We will resume the picket on Tuesday at 8am, 188 Fleet Street, and plan to run as normal until Friday. www.unitedigitaltech.org/2026/09/lega...

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

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good to know we are building energy and water guzzling data centres, with all the noise and environmental damage caused so Copilot users can create materials to assist bashing the bishop. So worthwhile... 🙄🙄🙄

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Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft's Copilot Al chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including upskirt photos or putting women into sexual positions. These contractors are then asked to review whether the generated image such successfully fulfilled the prompt as, did the image generator make the woman's Al-enlarged breasts big enough.

When a Copilot user uploads a picture of themselves or someone else, they probably expect that image to remain private between just them and the Al tool. In reality, a workforce of at least hundreds of human reviewers are sometimes looking at that prompt and whatever images they upload. And in many cases, those contractors are inundated with requests to make foot fetish images of children's cartoon characters, shorten a real woman's skirt, or put people into sexual positions.

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Amazing news for Bodhana. Commiserations if you have Desi grandmother. Although it won't quite top when Desi Mummies learned Rishi Sunak became PM. We all got told we were underachievers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Bodhana Sivanandan: British schoolgirl becomes youngest woman grandmaster

The 11-year-old has broken another chess record after a remarkable performance representing England.

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Your Friend Paulie @ohhipaulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

soup sunday Moroccan chickpea and lentil stew. this is a keeper.

A large blue bowl filled with a hearty stew and a few pieces of grilled bread.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 25/09/2026

The Prospect paywall is down!! Head to our website to read all our online content FOR FREE until Monday 5th October. lnkd.in/eUYscDfv This includes our entire current issue: www.prospectmagazine...

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I thought Reform types always said "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear"?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

💦 Public service announcement 💦 Thames Water has said the following postcodes may have no water or low pressure due to a large burst water main: CR4, KT1, KT10, KT12, KT2, KT3, KT5, KT6, KT7, KT8, SM4, SW16, SW17, SW18, SW19, SW20, TW10, TW16. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Five London boroughs have no water or low pressure, Thames Water says

Specialists are on their way to investigate the issue, the company said in an update on its website.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are a few tickets remaining for this @burylitfest.bsky.social event with the fabulous Jad Youssef from Lebnani restaurant. He's bringing food too! www.burylitfest.co.uk/product-page...

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Iona Abbey OTD in 2023

Carved stone head with a drinking cup on a column in an old abbey.

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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, 28 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

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