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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 20h

Kind of imagining that guy in 2042, suddenly bereft when his kid leaves home for college, realising his terrible selfishness, and calling the kid for a chat. And eventually realising he's talking to a chatbot they've trained in vengeance.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

look at the ai act bsky.app/profile/abeb...

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 6h

In an increasingly hostile world, it’s imperative that the principle of medical neutrality is upheld, ensuring that doctors and healthcare workers in conflict zones can continue to provide care without coming under attack. We back this WMA declaration.

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World Medical Association @medwma.bsky.social · 8h

Global Physicians Demand Accountability for Attacks on Healthcare. WMA has adopted the Declaration of Rotterdam on the Protection of Medical Neutrality at its General Assembly: www.wma.net/news-post/gl...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16h

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 6h

A new study from Flanders, Belgium found that social media users really do learn true things about current events from political content—but that the people doing most of the talking are, on average, less informed than those staying quiet. Tim Bernard on what that means for democracy.

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Who Participates in Politics on Social Media, and Why?

People really do learn about politcs on social media says a new study from Belgium, but the loudest voices are often not the most objective, writes Tim Bernard.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18h

Graham proved that governing and public service require more than political theater. He defined his career through practical action, meticulous policy work and a hands-on approach, endearing him to voters. When he died on April 16, 2024, he was mourned throughout Florida and across the nation. /end

A portrait of Bob Graham is displayed inside the Old Capitol building in Tallahassee, Fla., where Graham was lying in state, April 26, 2024. When Graham died on April 16, 2024, at age 87, public officials from across the political spectrum united in praising his integrity, transcending modern partisan divide. The public response underscored how everyday Floridians felt closely connected to Graham, largely due to his “Workdays” campaign. The official oil-on-canvas portrait seen here was painted by Marshall Bouldin III in 1986 during Graham’s tenure as Florida Governor. Bouldin wisely chose to depict Graham holding one of his notebooks. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Florida History. It hangs in the Florida State Capitol to commemorate his tenure as the state’s 38th Governor. Photo credit: Brandan Farrington / AP.

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Sophia Grene @sophiagrene.bsky.social · 6h

More politicians should do this. Spend time alongside those affected by laws who have no voice in making those laws.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 09/10/2026

a masterclass in alt text

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 6h

You wanna ruin your own career? You wanna give your face away? Knock yourself out. No one has the right to do this to anybody else

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 6h

Last RT: I know someone who asked a mate to provide a blurb for his novel, and instead of reading it the mate fed the whole book into ChatGPT and got that to blurb it instead. I had to be very gentle as I explained that meant his book was now in the cloud, his life's work stolen by a alleged friend

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Luerikerin (Mads Pedersen Ultra) @weltverbesserle.eurosky.social · 22h

Sakher: "Please, don’t ignore my suffering. My family and I have lost our home, our jobs, and everything we once had in Gaza. This link is our only source of income and hope for survival. 💔 We’re not asking for much. Even $20 could help us buy food and survive another day." tinyurl.com/help-sakher

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10h

This powerful book by Amal Chatterjee identifies clearly and unequivocally the mechanisms enabling colonial economic extraction long after colonialism is supposed to have ended. Highly recommended: hurstpublishers.com/book/prisone...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6h

Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 15h

Nicanor Parra, trs. Jiménez-Orrego & Quasha

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Write the way you want
Too much blood has gone under the bridge
To go on believing I believe
That you can only go one way.

In poetry everything is permitted.
The poet who sleeps on the sofa
Greets you with thunder and lightning.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 7h

"The death toll from the Israeli offensive on the #Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023 has risen to 74 370... ...hospitals... received 10 fatalities... & 65 injured people over the past 24H." Gaza death toll rises to 74,370 as Israeli offensive continues english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail... #GazaNews #Israel

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 7h

"Since the ceasefire took effect on October 11, 2025, the number of Palestinians killed has reached 1481, while 5254 others have been injured. An additional 836 bodies have been recovered..."

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 6h

Fyi we still have no idea how many people have been killed and not certified, and therefore are not in the "official" (~75k) count. Normally, hospitals are responsible for issuing death certificates, but of course they've all been bombed.

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Nelly Delly @marconi333.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Let's face it, we were working-class, unmarried girls having babies that were being adopted by middle-class women" "Everything, from the minute you cross their threshold, is that you're unworthy to be a mother and we're taking your baby from you" #Adoption #Adoptee www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I was told I was unworthy to be a mother. Then they stole my baby

Marion McMillan was one of about 250,000 women who were forced to have their babies adopted between 1949 and 1976.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6h

Finally got to go on the guided tour of the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park this morning. Lovingly restored, wonderfully atmospheric. As is always the case, the #OPW guide was brilliant - informative and entertaining.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 6h

The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/afte...

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After three years of genocide, Gaza’s olive harvest is going extinct

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great to see Ardtornish Estate using livestock grazing to restore #ScotlandsRainforest. It needs the right level of grazing to develop a varied woodland structure & create space for bryophytes & lichens. Being able to adjust grazing levels is important too. Advice ➡️ buff.ly/RvJxXmM buff.ly/txVfEwh

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Endangered Irish cattle brought to Scotland for 'rainforest' restoration project

The animals are known for their ability to forage over difficult and varied ground

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 6h

In memory of: Muna Nahed Bashir Al-Aklouk / منى ناهض بشير العكلوك Age: 36 We will not forget you.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 6h

You cannot leave prison without a documented place to stay, a job or rehabilitation program lined up, and someone to come and pick you up. There was one woman we met who was there for 2 EXTRA years at the state prison cause she had no living family and simply couldnt get a ride

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8h

I need your help to help trans people. Please share this around and add your voice 🏳️‍⚧️

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8h

Here's a whole thread about our trans inclusive guidance, including the website, a professional pdf you can print, cite, and share directly, and a professional animated guidance video. Please help me share the work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6h

This is immoral

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 03/10/2026

enjoyed @lindseyadler.bsky.social’s piece in @flaminghydra.com about PMOS. as a chronic illness haver, these types of medical diagnosis shifts can be huge for patient relief and treatment, and i appreciated how that was communicated on the page flaminghydra.com/on-womens-he...

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On “Women’s health”

Until The Lancet published the link to a new paper on social media a few weeks ago (“Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus ...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For @bmj.com, I wrote about the doctors who are aiding and abetting Trump & RFK Jr in dismantling public health: www.bmj.com/content/bmj/... And Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, said “we should not forgive” Drs Makary & Bhattacharya for their roles www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Offline: Those one should not forgive

What was even more shocking than a US President telling pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol [paracetamol, acetaminophen], don’t take it…fight like hell not to take it”, was watching the Director of th...

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 6h

DO NOT trust this "Irish language" podcast. The pronunciation of salmon (bradán) is devilishly bad - it's clearly AI because they give a trashy, fake French accent for no reason. open.spotify.com/episode/6IcG...

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Irish for the Salmon - Bradán Basics

Learn Irish with Fexingo · Episode

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Google, Microsoft -- known as FAANGM), Wall Street's Standard and Poor's (S&P 500) index would have been down 4.2 percent in the first half of 2020, rather than setting a record gain of almost 5 per cent." 2/2 www.plutobooks.com/978074534697...

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Platform Socialism

Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expa...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

One thing I learned last week was that if you don’t count the BS market capitalisation bubble of 7 “AI” firms, the US economy as measured by the s&p 500 didn’t go up 13% last year; it went down 7%. The EU may be a larger economy already. We need to get our own O2 mask on, then start helping others.

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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lina and Mahmoud have 3 young children and are also caring for Mahmoud's disabled mother. Mahmoud was injured at one of the trap aid stations that Israel set up and used to fire on aid seekers. They really need our help chuffed.org/project/omsh...

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Help Lina 💔 to leave Gaza and take care of her children and her husband injured in the Gaza war 🦴♿💉

I am Om Sham (Lina, 31). My husband Mahmoud Abu Shamalah (31) was injured in war in both legs and is now wheelchair-bound. His right foot is at risk of amputation — it has a 15cm bone deficiency requi...

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 11h

The Dalai Lama has congratulated Navi Pillay on receiving the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008–14), she challenged Beijing over its treatment of #Tibetans. www.dalailama.com/news/congrat... #navipillay

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The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama | The 14th Dalai Lama

Congratulating Nobel Peace Laureate Navi Pillay

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 11h

THE NEED TO GET OUT FROM UNDER US DOMINATED PAYMENT SYSTEMS One of the many things that Europe (and I exclude the myopic British here), have realised is how pervasive American payment systems Visa and Mastercard are. The same ICC sanctions that triggered many to abandon Microsoft emphasised that

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 13h

Dropped in to see him/her in @nmireland.bsky.social National Museum of Ireland Country Life Turlough Park, Co Mayo recently. The Irish Hallowe’en ur-turnip from Baile na Finne, Co Donegal, getting ready to carve one again for October 31st #Samhain

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Attracta Uí Bhroin @attractaub.bsky.social · 20h

One of those days when u want to hug a lawyer - because they right wrongs & make this currently awful world better. We are in ur debt SMD Solicitors, Phoenix Law, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC & the legal team for #Palestinian students so unfairly refused visas to Ireland www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

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Three Palestinian students granted visas after Minister reverses refusal

A fourth student lost their appeal to the visa refusal

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 11h

Scottish government: Please change or scrap the archaic rule that means the Glenelg - Skye ferry must pay 5% of it's annual income to a millionaire landowner and cannot pay less than the previous year - no matter how much it actually makes you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 11h

And perhaps we could all just stop pretending that there are simple and quick fixes to “growth” gileswilkes.substack.com/p/please-sto...

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please stop asking prime ministers for their theory of growth

look, I said please

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 09/10/2026

Thinking about and studying the way science functions and how it could do better is important work. It's amazing that the UK has a specific metascience unit to do this. But what a shame that instead of doing so they're investing in projects to study how AI can automate research evaluation.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2026

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Instead of the talk I spent hours preparing, they urged me to switch to a fireside chat and talk about my professional “journey.” But… this is the journey. And walking away is also movement.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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