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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 4h

🙏 ☮️ ❤️🎶 Bringing artists together for @unionchapeluk.bsky.social Nov. 8 Concert for @amostrust.bsky.social ' for breast cancer screening in Gaza is a huge privilege 🩷.Thrilled Ruba Shamshoum will join us, what a voice 🙏 Tickets 👉 www.gigantic.com/tanita-tikar... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQA5...

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Ruba Shamshoum performs Albik Balad (Your Heart is a Country) at Grand Junction W2

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

London’s thrilling underground network, 1961. “Visitors are always fascinated by the escalators, the brightly-lit stations, and the rush of the trains from the dark tunnels”. Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)

Passengers wait on a platform for a train that is approaching around an unlikely bend in the tracks. Some of the passengers are dressed formally with suits and bowler hats and some are looking very groovy.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Jetsons lied to us

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 17h

Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale.

Roman mosaic depicting man carrying a large bird like an emu.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!"
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!"
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..."
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do Not Take Your Eyes Off The Weird Tech Billionaires

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why do Epstein whistle blowers keep committing Suicide? Simon Andriesz age 57, British, exposes Howard Lutnick, now he is dead. How many now?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UNICEF - More Than 64,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Since October 2023 www.unicefusa.org/stories/more...

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More Than 64,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Since October 2023

Despite a nominal ceasefire, the number of child casualties keeps climbing.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another example of how the racist thugs who claim to be 'protecting our women and children' are actually the biggest physical threat to our women and children. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

In honor of Banned Books Week, a reminder that Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges called book banning an excuse to "cover up history": "History is sacred—that none of us should have the right to change or alter history in any way.”

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Ruby Bridges blasts book bans as "ridiculous" attempts to "cover up history"

"The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it's happening in the world."

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h

Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 16h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...

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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years

Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 05/10/2026

It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.

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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’

Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’

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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta’s ad ban on progressive Lula shows US #tech #billionaires aren't just aiding far-right figures—they ARE the transnational #oligarchy seizing power across borders. Big Tech, Donald #Trump, and jailed Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flávio operate as one global network targeting democracies. #Zuckerberg

News graphic featuring side-by-side portraits of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looking serious on the left and Mark Zuckerberg smiling on the right. White text below reads: "Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Days Before Brazil Election / But allows paid posts calling for the military to ‘take back power’."

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Felicia Ratarina @shoggothmaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have seen a lot of people mentioning Elon Musk as the main responsible for Brazil's electoral disaster, but this overlooks the real culprit It's Mark Zuckerberg. WhatsApp dominates communications in Brazil. In a lot of mobile data plans, WhatsApp use doesn't count towards the cap.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From the beginning of the war in Iran, I've warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home. History is full of leaders - from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hungary - who have used foreign wars and real or manufactured threats to expand their authority.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h

Massive protests continue in France as hundreds of thousands turnout. People are sick of managed decline where the rich keep getting richer while everyone else is driven into poverty.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Since 9/21, high schoolers across France have shut down more than a thousand schools, demanding teachers, smaller classes, and buildings that aren't falling apart. The state answered with tear gas and nearly 2,000 arrests in a single day. Here, a right-wing reporter getting schooled by a HS student

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

The fact that the French establishment is targeting children with stun grenades 🤬

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h

I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 18h

Nearly 70% of Police Scotland officers currently suspended while under criminal investigation are accused of offences relating to violence against women, according to figures obtained by STV News. The allegations include domestic abuse, sexual offences and stalking. news.stv.tv/scotland/nea...

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Nearly 70% of suspended police officers facing criminal probes accused of violence against women

Allegations against suspended Police Scotland officers include domestic abuse, sexual offences and stalking

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“None of it was a joke. That’s why the audience is sitting there in stunned silence.” Tim Dillon clowns 🤡 Bari Weiss for listing dark, very real stuff about Peter Thiel — with Thiel in the audience — to crickets 🦗 🦗, as Politico’s German publisher Axel Springer got an award.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”

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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours

Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10h

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We allow monsters to rule us

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/10/2026

Good morning. Just how much have successive UK governments spent - or is the current one due to spend - with Peter Thiel’s Palantir? 🧵⤵️

Graphic showing Palantir founder Peter Thiel and totals of money spent since 2014 – or due to be spent – by UK government departments and agencies. Design: Lynsey Irvine

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026

🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎶 ☮️ 🩷 @unionchapeluk.bsky.social 8 November an evening of solidarity & songs for @amostrust.bsky.social 's campaign to screen women in Gaza for breast cancer. 🎫 Tickets link 🔗 👍 www.gigantic.com/tanita-tikar... 🙏 🎶 🩷 #breastcancerawarenessmonth

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alice Russell , one of UK's finest vocalists & songwriters is joining us at the @amostrust.bsky.social fundraiser on Nov 8 @unionchapeluk.bsky.social ☮️ 🕊️ 🙏 This is her classic performance of ' Crazy ' recorded at @unionchapeluk.bsky.social Tickets 👉 ❤️🎫 www.gigantic.com/tanita-tikar... Love ❤️

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Alice Russell - Crazy (Live at Union Chapel)

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lichen, algae, funghi ‘Plants and how they Live’ (1965) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

An illustration from the book showing different sorts of funghi growing at the base of a large tree in autumn

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Jem - In the UK @jemimajones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank Goodness it's that day. Happy Friday Stacie and the 👂🏻🪱ers! Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social is giving a concert in aid of the Amos Trust who help women in Gaza (check out her posts) I now have her wonderful haunting song Twist in my Sobriety as an #earworm

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Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety (Official Video)

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