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"If you study the... treatment of children in Europe [and the west], going back to the times of Aristotle, there's always been [a] dehumanization of children... that [wasn't] in... Indigenous cultures... We have to [leave behind the idea] of 'badness' and [reflect on] what our parents deserved."

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 31/08/2026

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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 5h

That’s Niamh Dunne from BEOGA on the fiddle and the Artists for Palestine jumper on her, and the other two BEOGA lads across from her on guitar and squeeze box

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 7h

Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.

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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day'

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Anti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal.

Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

filled the local duck trinket box last night... I am sure that it's already empty this afternoon, lol. will stop by next week again...

A white box labeled “Give A Take A” holds various colorful rubber ducks and small toys. The box is on a sidewalk at night. Post-it notes are attached to the box.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 4h

The entire NPR interview w Mahmoud Khalil, about his new memoir, is worth listening to, but I esp loved his description of the Columbia encampment and the feeling of solidarity during the Palestine encampment mvt

KHALIL: I believe the Palestinian movement or the movement for Palestinian liberation at Columbia was really rooted in dignity, safety and equality for everyone. And we are so proud to have built this movement with our, you know, Jewish peers, whether they are students but also faculty. And to me, the movement itself - absolutely, there was no antisemitism. There was no place for antisemitism there.
And that's why I keep repeating again and again against, like, the narrative that Columbia itself helped push, because, you know, we must take antisemitism seriously, like all forms of bigotry. We have also to acknowledge when antisemitism is being used or weaponized to chill or, like, to protect Israel from criticism. And I went to Shabbat dinners. At the encampment, there were Seder meals. And that's where I learned a lot about the Jewish faith, about why these Jewish students were also protesting Israel, because they refused - all these crimes that Israel is committing was basically committed in their names. And they refused that to happen.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 4h

My one experience with frat guys when I moved to Canada for grad school was that the night after 9/11 a bunch of them marched through campus in Nazi uniforms shouting anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, anti-semitic, misogynist and homophobic slurs, and the campus police just stood around watching.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 4h

"What is beautiful in a good novel hasn’t strayed in accidentally. Beauty in the novel is bone-deep, essential. Everything in a good story or novel is essential." You can read the original post here:

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 25. Petty Expectations

Part One. Critical Expectation: Genre and “Literary” Fiction I’ve been pondering, tracing connections, wondering about expectations. The first object of my brooding is a pair of sentences from a boo...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 5h

I should cry my heart out in desperation at work more often, it resulted (eventually, many spreadsheets later) in writing a poem while waiting 25 mins for a bus that said it was due in 2.

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Umit Ozturk @umitozturk1.bsky.social · 5h

A prelude to the #BlackHistoryMonth: We're in London today, at the NUJ Black Members' Council event and book launch, celebrating the life and legacy of Lionel Morrison: journalist, anti-Apartheid activist, and the union's first Black president. Love, peace, solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️ @nujofficial.bsky.social

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Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 5h

I’m going to be delightfully busy! And an NYC event is being actively worked on! Can’t wait to see many of you! (could one of you lovelies create the alt text? I can’t find the button)

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5h

"It’s as if the children are moving with us through the poems. The effect of crossing mediums is soul-preserving." Christian Wessels reviews Fady Joudah’s "Exhibit G" and resisting the "unspeakable": lareviewofbooks.org/article/fady-jo…

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 5h

Tilda Swinton has taken charge of some of the weekend trades! This 1990s American film tie-in of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is now in Secondhand, alongside Penguin Moderns, Paul Lynch’s Grace and a wonderfully mixed stack of recent favourites. She insisted on standing at the front!

A 1990s American film tie-in edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, with Tilda Swinton on the cover, stands in front of a stack of weekend trades. Visible behind it are Penguin Moderns, Paul Lynch’s Grace, Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and other secondhand books.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 5h

Idk if it makes my brain lazy bc I don't use AI, but it sure makes corporate "help" pages fucken chaotic and unreliable, even when you're within a secure site. Good work guys who want me to give them money for goods & services yet make them impossible to find let alone use.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 10h

Brendan Behan: "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse”.

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 6h

As booksellers, how could we not adore Dolly Parton? An extraordinary musician, songwriter, absolute force of nature AND founder of the wonderful Imagination Library, which has gifted millions of books to children. Celebrate this absolute legend with us! foxlanebooks.co.uk

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real talk: Donald Trump is going to try to steal the Brazilian elections.

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bricup.bsky.social @bricup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a joint investigation by Liberty and Al Jazeera, thirteen British universities have been exposed as collaborating with BAE systems to ‘handle’ pro-Palestine campus protests. www.bricup.org.uk/news-2/uk-un...

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UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests – BRICUP

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cook and eat with others for the pleasure of companionship and the taste of food. Look out the window for the sake of it. Put the phone away on the bus to work and watch people. Make a drawing in your notebook. Read something new. Life is for living, can't optimize out of death

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 29/09/2026

I don’t know if I trust the data retention practices of a group whose stated goal is eavesdropping on rats

screenshot from the article in the quoted post. the paragraph reads:

"This microphone is hot," said Basis scientist Nick Jourjine told walk participants. "It's picking up all the speech that's happening here, but our pipeline, once we upload this data, will detect that speech and remove it from the audio so that we can safely record rat vocalizations at scale without putting the people in the communities that we're trying to help at risk of having their personal conversations recorded."

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A pretty enormous part of expertise is knowing what work not to do.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Free Press bravely challenging the orthodox belief that film criticism should involve watching the film.

A headline from Bari Weiss’s The Free [sic] Press:

“Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary

There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,' including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.”

First line: “i haven't seen the film,”

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the most fundamental things we learn, what opens up a world of understanding and communication, is the alphabet. While we typically learn that "A" is for apple, "Indigenous From A to Z" teaches that "A" is for Always, "B" is for Before 1492, and "C" is for Colonization.

A photo of the just released book, "Indigenous From A to Z" by Traci Sorell and Illustrated by Natasha Donovan, leaning against two plants.

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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Help! Does anyone, by chance, have either photos or transcriptions of Thomas Parsons's diary? In whole or part? He was a stonecutter in Bath in 1769. It's at the Huntington and all I can find a handful of articles :/ #18thc #skystorians

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone who works a few blocks north of Oxford St, I'm pro-pedestrianisation, but anti-live facial recognition tech being installed on every lamp-post, which somehow isn't mentioned. Also v interested: does pedestrianised mean no ebikes, which ebikers will ignore. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from 26 October

Buses, taxis, bikes and other vehicles, will be banned from Orchard Street to Great Portland Street.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read an extract from the forthcoming feminist gothic novel, NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HELLS, by Intan Paramaditha. Translated by Stephen Epstein and @tiffanytsao.bsky.social, the book blends Indonesian folklore, Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoning. buff.ly/bzoppj9

Dark blue background. Header in white and yellow reads: Online Exclusive: Book Extract. Underneath to the left is the book cover. It is bright red and has an illustration of a tiger's face in the centre. To the right is a photo of the author. She has black, shoulder-length, curly hair and wears a red top and red lipstick.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

💥 We are happy to share with you our new issue "Diasporic Introspections" (September–October 2026), where we reflect on the diaspora's pitfalls and phantasmagoria. Cover artwork by Kelly Sinnapah Mary. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! WE SHIP WORLDWIDE. thefunambulist.net/shop/67-dias...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@fiercemum.bsky.social and I are really pleased to see this one out.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 23/09/2026

Absolutely love that we have the one and only @maris.bsky.social reading one of Ursula's tart and satirical and pointed publishing posts this week

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Using Alt text is so sexy. It shows that you have patience, empathy and confidence, because taking time to describe what you are sharing, to me, shows that you just know what you’re about to be posting is important enough to be accessible to everyone.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From the album "Synonym" Cynthia Erivo & Meshell Ndegeocello cover "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" I love the Aretha Franklin and George Michael original, but this one is a vibe from beginning to end. 🎶 And I love the video.

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Meshell Ndegeocello, Cynthia Erivo - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Visualizer)

YouTube video by MeshellNdegeVEVO

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aaah look what I got in the mail! Congratulations to @miriamposner.com on publication and congratulations to everyone else who finally gets to read this incredible book.

My hand holding the very groovy white and rainbow book cover of "seeing like a supply chain: the hidden life of logistics" by Miriam
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yet another shitty unfunny Ben Jennings editorial cartoon belittling sex workers while also diminishing the threat of the far right.

A cartoon of a car parked in the dark by a road sign with directions to RAF Fairfield. The driver has a speech bubble that says "Hello police, there are suspicious men in balaclavas near my farm. I fear they could be terrorists, far right thugs or staging a Bonnie Blue event!"

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm middle-aged and cranky and probably not the target user for a lot of demographics, but if given the choice between a website and an app, or a website and a newsletter, I am *always* going to choose the website. To me it's the difference between opt-in and opt-out.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh my goodness, it CAN be done!

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An update for those who recently submitted to us...we've been a bit delayed on processing your work thanks to a whole lot of day-to-day life stuff impinging. But we're trucking on now and should be in touch over the next few weeks.

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Les Sept Nains de Blanche-Neige

ALT: Les Sept Nains de Blanche-Neige

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