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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 8h
I'm sorry, but I can't.
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 11h
Sigh
Screenshot of my daily puzzle folder on Android, including @andrewt@mathstodon.xyz's puzzles, cluesbysam, metazoa, @hankgreen's smush (and 4x3), maptap, 4x6, outlier, and now parsewords
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 14h
Did not need another daily puzzle... But thanks! Parseword #255 ⏱️ 1m17s 💎 Perfect 🥚 Learn Mode
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Calvin Bailey MBE MP @calvinbailey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My statement on the Green Party's 'Zionism' motion 👇
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17h
It's actually not complicated. You end homelessness with safe, dignified housing people can afford.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
OMG
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Perhaps in German. In English, Anorexia is a psychiatric disorder, and can have drastic weight loss as a symptom. In any case, I used "concern troll" incorrectly, so 🤷
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Are you playing armchair psychiatrist and concern troll, or is there some reasonably vetted information out there that she is in fact suffering from anorexia?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a bad IHT cut. For the same money we could increase the nil rate band to £900k/person, or alternatively cut the rate from 40% to 17.5%. Either would be simpler, fairer, and not distort the housing market.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This paper makes school closures look pretty good! It finds they are the second most effective NPI overall, behind only masking, and argues that cost doesn’t justify it. But to get to that $26mm number they need to use an absurdly high number for education value and still only end up at 2x VSL.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Macron n'aime pas le slogan "Macron BZ ta prof, pas les nôtres" ... Internet, do your thing.
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Welcome to America
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Oct 7 attack by Hamas was a horrific act against Israelis that made everything worse for Palestinians, the Israeli government committed war crimes, Hezbollah is a fascistic organisation that exploits its community, the IRGC feeds off endless war at home and abroad All these things are true
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent news. The good thing is that Palantir isn’t unique and there are many options, all of which will save the taxpayer money. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?
The top of the Google results when I went looking to see just what Mamdani's tweet that mentioned the Talmud actually said (a search for "mamdani talmud"). This top search reasult appears to link to Mamdani's Twitter account ("NYCMayor" on "X"), then has a truncated header ("Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...") and then it has a vile lying antisemitic screed that ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME FROM MAMDANI and I can only assume is some typical-for-Elon's-Nazi-website antisemitism someone wrote *about* Mamadani's post, but it's presented in the Google search results as if it's from Mamdani.

(text of the screed below, if you want to read it)
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.
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Mamdani's post, linked from that vile preview, in full (but a screenshot, so it doesn't include the video). Text below:

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have never understood why knowing that Rs will almost certainly fail to do their duty somehow eliminates the responsibility of Ds to do theirs to the extent they can.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/09/2026
Swiss voters roundly reject a proposal to tighten their country's neutrality. Voters dismissed an initiative championed by the hard-right and dubbed "pro-Russian" by opponents. The vote exposed deep disagreement over what neutrality entails u.afp.com/S9MQ
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“(talking about when he tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope) Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals.”

Kurt Vonnegut
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The correct solution is to take one step back and ask, why do I need my fiscal rules to depend on the future? Why don’t I commit to varying the tax position to meet a simple rule that debt should be going down now at full employment and rapid nominal growth.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026
am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It looks like RP Hypertrophy. Website based rather than native app.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry, but this pin is amazing and I desperately want one. Or maybe 10. To hand out to people.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US will soon have the world's only triumphal arch whose features were driven by litigation strategy.
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bracketing whether it's even true (probably not), giving the money back to one of Putin's stooges isn't the right option anyway. Give it to Ukraine.
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And not the person you quoted in this instance, to be clear
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storkk.bsky.social @storkk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your quote-tweets make up like half of my copious block list. How do you find them? (Rhetorical, i don't really want to know, but thank you for your service 🫡)
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026
This feels like something we should be asking right wing politicians about, but I appreciate the media is busy demanding every leader on the left individually parse and disavow each chant overheard at a uni protest.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FALSE BERLIN and BIZARRE LITTLE MEN are categories, they did the thing
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These newscasters should be so fucking embarrassed
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel about this roughly the same way I would feel about all the pharmaceutical companies getting together to say they wanted to waive anti-trust laws so they could form a cartel to ban medical research: these people are the enemies of humanity.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am so tired of nasty, insular, smug gits playing PR stunts to prevent people finding safety. I say grant them independence and then see how they react to facing immigration restrictions when they want to do a big shop or work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 03/11/2023
i'm pretty sure i need a shower to wash off the stupid after reading this
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/09/2026
Showing a co-worker what it means when an AI hallucinates imagery and cannot be relied upon for *any* information. Played NCIS ENHANCE ENHANCE ENHANCE from a pixellated construction site photo.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Interesting and accessible counterpoint to the latest concern hype about AI by @leninology.bsky.social (And it has a good explanation of the functioning and limits of LLMs, for those curious.)
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Kill all humans | Richard Seymour
It seems a strange publicity gambit, to say our product could wipe out humanity. In the lingo of our evolving tech empire, though, this is e
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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 12/09/2026
I’ve been running @theyworkforyou.com for over 20 years; if you want to point your ill-managed swarm at trying to compile a local democracy version, I probably have some thoughts on a slightly easier way of going about it than hacking ruby packaging
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