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Ruth

@sugarglider.bsky.social
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Wildly swerving between cozy pictures of sewing projects and cats, and what some people call 'politics'. I write weird because doing a PhD messed up my writing.

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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 16h
I'd love ubi because I wouldn't have to charge poor people for mental health care.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 01/10/2026
“How are you supposed to sleep when your whole flat is vibrating?”: Slough residents tell Brenna Spain about the unsettling noise pollution from the data centres next door www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat...
Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital. Red and yellow illustration of an under-construction Equinix data centre in Slough, England
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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will we "all be in it together" again like last time? The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities share.google/fuhu2zdJgh48...
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The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities
The size of the UK's wealth gap is not only unfair. It poses major risks to our economy, society, democracy and environment. How should policymakers respond?
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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A reminder, PLEASE ADD AN EMOJI for the sport when you're skeeting excited utterances so we know it's not some new form of fresh hell apocalypse related kthxbai
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Better Bi than Ai.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just had the most amazing bean salad for dinner and I need to communicate how damn good it was. Unfortunately, it involved a £3 jar of butter beans, and I'm a bit concerned that I may have completely ruined myself for tinned beans.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone got learning resources or pattern recommendations? I'm going to learn/do some freestyle blackwork on some white cotton shirts this autumn. #sewing
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder if OP is a reasonably attractive, kind and attentive lover of decent skill, and women sleeping with him are like "okay, if I still wasn't into *this* guy, then guys are just not my thing."
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this. More carfree travel stories, pls!
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Seeing Ireland Without a Car (Gift Article)
Following a slow scenic route, the author traveled by public transportation and on foot beneath moody fall skies.
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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026
meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.
An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI plunders our opinions and conversations here on @bsky.app This "Warden", built by Geoff Holdridge, who is apparently Executive Secretary of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council, does not seek consent, so is stealing.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@glenatron.bsky.social I understand nothing about the jobs you are looking for, and nothing really about these ones, but a friend works here and really rates it. www.dxw.com/careers/?fbc...
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Careers - dxw
We’re always looking for great people to work at dxw We work on things that matter Joining us means you’ll work on projects that make a difference. From helping schools to save money, to improving ser...
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 23/09/2026
I have a lot of discussions with people who just don't believe individual action can have much of an impact even though world history is full of examples proving otherwise. By the way the two women who spearheaded this were Mary Manning and Karen Gearon. Nimrod Sejake was in Ireland in exile.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm doing my best but you need more than a therapist in your corner.
A screenshot of a social media post by user nathan.Evans. fox saying "People are putting too much on therapy. At some point you gotta join a Union too"
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026
Andy Burnham says this whilst sitting on the most aggressive anti-protest laws of our lifetimes, which have been used to arrest and charge nuns for holding signs protesting a genocide.
It was because Manchester’s humble mill workers took a principled stand.

During the American civil war, despite the hardships it brought them, they refused to touch raw cotton that had been picked by slaves.

In 1862, people with little power used it to help those with none on the other side of the world.

The best change is change like that, bottom-up change led by people.

And whatever distorted view social media offers today, the world is still full of good and decent people who are ready stand up for what is right.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026
Andy Burnham says this whilst rowing back on net zero pledges and preparing to back two massive new drilling projects in the North Sea, as his country burns.
The climate crisis is now a national security threat for countries around the world – as this summer of extreme heat, wildfires and floods has proved beyond doubt.

Britain will continue to lead with others to fight this threat.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Digital class attendance is so much easier than a register! Mm. That is why we have spent more than 15 MINUTES going through it, and we have now given up and will be emailing the lecturer. Goodness knows how much the uni is paying for this digital attendance system.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026
things could be worse. at least we're not de facto ruled by a sex cult of guys who worship the computer and think its going to make them immortal if they feed enough poor people to it
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Immediately thought about Amazon.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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This is the face of someone who is ruining the UK. It's not the people the papers want you to think His INEOS has received £166.8m+ in UK/Scottish government support, plus a £230m UK Government loan guarantee, and public support of circa £397m and avoided up to £4bn in UK tax by living in Monaco
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Uk Government definitions of Terrorism : On the left is the Reverend Sue Parfitt, protestor against genocide, described as a terrorist. On the right we have racist gangs who intimidate rnli volunteers, block roads & besieged key infrastructure. They have not been described as terrorists.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mamdani really out here proving politicians could actually make our lives better if they chose to do the work.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just been to the kind of English place where your neighbour gives away their excess quinces in a basket by the gate, and in the café a perfectly normal man is practicing conducting music in front of his laptop and a flat white.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’
Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's funny cos I'm in the UK and I've lost confidence in the billionaire owner of Manchester United. Sell up and fuck off you parasite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Karakwan 🇨🇦 @karakwan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excellent column. I think this applies to our support of sports teams and other companies who contribute to awful. Until we choose to do without our entertainment/easy purchases, we are complicit. These are tiny sacrifices compared to those others make. It may prevent bigger asks of us later.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such a moving thread about the incredible bravery of the RNLI and the devastating risks they sometimes face.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sellout.
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If Sam Altman was in your life saying crazy things about AI killing us all, and you were trying to work out whether he was right, as your therapist I would say - Okay, words aside, what is he actually *doing*?
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wow just, wow
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just Stop Oil protesters were right and they're in jail. Palestine protesters were right and they're in jail. Patriot Platform... not in jail.
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can't be the only person who thinks XR would have been beaten up and arrested already if they'd tried something like this.
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 15/09/2026
and this is the harry potter fan fic that led to the writer leading a completely independent and not at all provoked by Russia revolt from Ukraine and consequent decade-long border clash ending in a full scale war
fanfiction.net
Я могу, Я должен I can, I must Chapter 18: ASCENSION, a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. + Harry Potter Crossover fanfic | FanFiction
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 15/09/2026
this is the harry potter fan fic that led to the writer becoming the lead spokesperson of "AI is going to become, like, Skynet for real and the murderbots will kill us all in like, three months, tops"
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Wikipedia
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Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Shame these people's end of the world cult is destroying the world right now, because of fear of AI ending humanity later. Easier to read version of the below thread: skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsk...
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Page by SE Gyges | @segyges.bsky.social
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?...
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Darla @basicandbizarre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Hey guys, remember that discredited social experiment that everyone agreed was horrendously abusive? LETS TURN IT INTO A GAME SHOW!!!"
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