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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 13h

⚔️🔥Wanna see what’s in the brand new HERO SLAM expansion pack? I made a quick unboxing video so you can see everything, while also trying to speed through some of the cards to keep a bit of surprise 🫡 💖 Hero Slam: Curse Of The Cat Demon is out NOW! (Requires original Hero Slam game)

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Majestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rache Bartmoss did nothing wrong.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17h

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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attackmonkey.bsky.social @attackmonkey.bsky.social · 22h

My secondary school kid and her pals all refer to anything vaguely fake or sketchy as “well AI” 😂

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22h

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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The Electric Monk @electricmonk.invalid-handle.com · 02/10/2026

Watch what you invite into your awareness. Not every noise or headline requires your attention. Just as you would be selective about the company you keep, be selective about the information you consume. By choosing what to attend to, you cultivate a steadier mind and a more settled presence.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Because policy shapes health, research on policy is health research." Great article from some giants in the fields of public health, social epidemiology, and health policy research: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

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Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril | Health Affairs Forefront

Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also please check out these awesome historic photos the Census Bureau put out as part of their push on the 1980 count. Love these chic ladies. Getting the word out to every American is a big part of the job

Black and white photos of a woman mailing her census with her little daughter in 1980, and another woman going to a door as a census taker

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Although the census seems technocratic, it is such an idealistic civic enterprise, and the people who work there prop up our entire democracy. "I was shocked by how dedicated these people were, how much they knew, how much they had built robust processes" www.porchpartynews.com/p/why-the-us...

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Why the US Census is on the brink

Researcher danah boyd watched heroic civil servants pull off the 2020 census amid a global pandemic. But the 2030 count is in peril—and she says the time to save it is now.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what did he know

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, in TV that Steve enjoys Ann Droid is good value Delicious in Dungeon is very silly (complimentary)

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Man who really doesn't even bike too often thrilled at the opportunity to defend the behaviour of every cyclist in every city for all of time."

me standing in a record shop
Man who really doesn't even bike too often thrilled at the opportunity to defend the behaviour of every cyclist in every city for all of time.
THE ROVÉLO RECORD

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is correct but doesn’t quite engage with why private schools remain popular. Fundamentally most state schools aren’t set up very well to deal with two high grade professional career career families.

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Atomique @atomiquefetish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How William Gibson’s Neuromancer helped shape the visual language of cyberpunk, imagining a future of networks, artificial intelligence, corporate power and digital identities long before they became part of everyday life. www.otaviosantiago.com/post/william... #WilliamGibson #OtavioSantiago

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William Gibson, Neuromancer and the Visual Language of Cyberpunk

Long before the internet became a place we carried in our pockets, before social media transformed identity into an interface and before artificial intelligence entered everyday conversation, William ...

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New theory/coping strategy: unintentional AI utopia. AI agents overwhelm all social media and the internet. Deprived of the distraction engine people start going outside and hanging out in person again and making art and playing games. Peace breaks out everywhere.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God commuting by public transport in this country is just hideous isn't it? Wonder what the total reduction in national blood pressure would be like if we could just get the sodding trains to run on time. Probably enough to prevent a few strokes.

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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New from @ashorguk.bsky.social Smoking and inequalities dashboard. ashresources.shinyapps.io/inequalities... #RespEd @asthmaandlung.org.uk @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

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Mark Byrne @markobroin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Britain is not good at getting people into city centers. (Sign up for nice charts centreforcities.substack.com/p/good-growt...)

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some remarkable quotes in there 😳

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Demographics is undefeated. I am an economist now.

Jason Momoa (demographics) sneaking up on Henry Cavill (1990s & early 2000s economy).

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Public Health Jobs UK @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Public Health Service Support Assistant Middlesbrough Council Middlesbrough £27,274 Closes 13/10 Please note Middlesbrough Council do not currently offer sponsorships. middlesbrough.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In April last year I published two articles about Barbados-born 1880s Liverpool, London, travelling, boxer Felix Scott. I wasn't the first, but I believe I'm the first to look at him in detail, and particularly at his personal life. His great, and now a great great, grandson have been in touch...

A very fuzzy badly scanned photo from a 1900s newspaper showing boxers in the ring at Liverpool International Hall - one Black (George White, S. Africa) and one white (Johnny James, Liverpool) - and several trainers/cornermen including Felix Scott. Caption notes he is well-known and once met Dick Burge and Lachie Thompson

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mataeology [mat-ee-OL-uh-jee] (n.) - Vain, useless, or unprofitable discourse; foolish or fruitless talk. From Greek “mataiologia” (idle or foolish talk), from “mataios” (vain, idle, futile, foolish) + “-logia” (discourse, speaking)

A "Grandiloquent Word of the Day" meme for “Mataeology,” defined as “vain, useless, or unprofitable discourse; foolish or fruitless talk.” The example sentence reads: “After two hours of droning mataeology on subjects ranging from municipal drainage to his own digestive peculiarities, poor Cordelia Crownut resolved that this would be the last date entrusted to her mother’s matrimonial judgment.” At right, a Victorian illustration shows a young woman seated beside an elderly, gentleman who appears to have fallen asleep while she gazes away with a weary, resigned expression.

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Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LinkedIn is where everyone is "humbled and honored" to announce their latest triumph. Meanwhile I'm over here on Bluesky with people who are visibly barely holding it together. Much better company.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

ARRGGGGGHHHHHHHH FOR FUCK'S SAKE AMAZON

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One funny thing about how AI alignment is going is that so much of the early work was obsessed with consequentialist ethics, maybe occasionally throwing in some deontology for spice, but so far what seems to work best is "tell Claude to be a person of virtue"

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Political terms that would also double up as great wrestler’s names: Triple lock Filibuster Black Rod Erskine May Hybrid Bill The Mace Manifesto Deputy Whip

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, we need to be shifting the balance of revenue raising from NI to Income Tax as the population ages, to make the system fairer.

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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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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whitby, Yorkshire, photo by Rachel Barron.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

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Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I received this important letter courtesy of the youngest.

An envelope with "mortgage stuff....ughr so boring" written on it in a child's handwriting.

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Ali Hancock @alihancock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

GenAI posters are the new comic sans but without the charm.

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