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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h
No 10 gathering evidence on public support for rejoining the EU
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No 10 gathering evidence on public support for rejoining the EU
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit Senior Downing Street officials have been reaching out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test public support for the UK rejoining the EU. Aides to Andy Burnham have been talking to EU experts in a range of organisations about how the public would view a promise to rejoin, as momentum builds behind including such a pledge in the next Labour manifesto. Continue reading...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 20h
AM 1229-512 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2f7WRGY
A super faint edge-on disk galaxy, and somewhat of an enigma. How it formed like this and how its frontal morphology might appear are subject to speculation, but chances are if we saw it from a sufficiently inclined vantage point, it would be practically invisible beyond its nucleus, assuming what we see is spread out fairly evenly along the disk and not concentrated along some very skinny arms.

Anyway, I'm happy to simply enjoy yet another wonderful variation that nature has given us.

HST Proposal:
Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems

All channels: ACS/WFC F606W

North is 16.50° counter-clockwise from up.
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
queen of hearts 💔
a stylized 3d render of dolly parton playing the banjo. the queen herself.
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
taiko 🐟
a stylized 3d render of a cat playing taiko (except the drum is a can of wet food and the sticks are churu)
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
kirimi-chan 🍣
a stylized 3d render of the sanrio characters kirimi-chan and takuwanwan
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 20h
free throw contest
a stylized 3d render of young link shooting a bomb like a basketball into the large spinning goron vase in ocarina of time.
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 23h
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a fake screenshot from the game Final Fantasy Tactics with Rapha saying "why is a woman's future never as promising as her abusers?"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
levernews.com
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: The Supreme Court, over the objections of the 3 liberal justices, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to. The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 CERTIORARI GRANTED 26-426 DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL. (26A406) The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed. The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims. (2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1). (3) Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile, New Mexico (one of the poorest states) managed to enact free childcare in March.
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Earlier today, without warning, Stevie Wonder dropped an EP‘s worth of previously-unreleased songs from the SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE sessions, and they’re pretty awesome. youtu.be/8Mxfk7YAPvk?...
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It's Easier
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026
Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ came out 50 years ago today. An anniversary tour celebrating the double album masterpiece begins next month, and today Wonder shared four previously unreleased tracks from the sessions. stereogum.com/2512942/stev...
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
50 years ago today, Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was released. It spent thirteen consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and won a Grammy for Album of the Year...
Album cover for Stevie Wonder's 'Songs In The Key Of Life."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Upton Sinclair remains undefeated
Upton Sinclair man/job quote
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/09/2026
This job is hard enough when I'm not competing with a machine that promises magic solutions that don't exist whilst endangering them in the process.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/09/2026
I am seriously so sick of arguing with people who tell me that it's fine to use AI for their legal matters and it does not waive any confidentiality or privilege because the AI told them so.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"
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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Meme of girls going back in time they say "im your Granddaughter" response "really" and then me with time machine I'm a wizard  and I state "hello , Art Bell, I am a time traveler. " Art Bell says "Yes caller you are on the air" Coast to coast  radio show meme
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That’s Not Quite All Folks: A Looney Tunes Podcast @thatlooney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming December 1st, wherever you get your Blu-Rays or 4K's! COYOTE VS ACME, IN YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM! (AND LOOK AT THAT! BONUS FEATURES! Haven't seen one of those in a while with Looney Tunes releases!)
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The now defunct 2024 Title IX ruling provided significant protections against sexual harassment and assault, as well as protecting LGBTQ+ students in schools. edsource.org/updates/u-s-...
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UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new understanding of ribosomes and transfer RNAs has unlocked the ability for scientists to create custom genetic codes incorporating noncanonical amino acids. #chemsky 🧪
cen.acs.org
Custom genetic codes can now be created with ease
A new understanding of transfer RNA biology means researchers can assign up to 34 codons to amino acids of their choosing
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
“sorry, honey, I didn’t think the people obsessed with the weird harry potter fanfic were going to end up running the world, that’s on me”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
just had to explain the AI sex cult to my offline wife and I hate so much that it has come to this point
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seems like a “my bad” isn’t really sufficient here.
theguardian.com
OpenAI ‘sorry and working to do better’ after hack of Medicare and other Australian government websites
Artificial intelligence firm to front parliament as it apologises to Australians for agent attack
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DoNoHarm BC @donoharmbc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ACTION ALERT📣 It’s past time for BC to protect patients and healthcare workers by reinstating a mask mandate in healthcare settings. Join us to tell policymakers that we would rather have masks than:
Dark blue, purple, yellow and black graphic with an illustration of a person in an N95 mask, fist raised, holding a sign that reads: Restore (and improve) masks in healthcare. Next to the DoNoHarm BC logo and a QR code, smaller text reads, Add your voice: www.DoNoHarmBC.ca
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Story after story right now about OpenAI models failing on safety, but it’s all been in the context of cybersecurity. What about ChatGPT fueling school shooters? We just published a major investigation exposing that further and the details are beyond disturbing www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
wsj.com
Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product
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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The first four illustrations of my 2027 Cinematic Cats calendar! Eight more to go! Now available for pre-order from both my etsy and ko-fi shops! www.etsy.com/listing/4583... ko-fi.com/s/1ae08cade0
Bringing up Baby illustration.Hocus Pocus illustration.The Long Goodbye illustration.A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night illustration.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026
Working on my Mars slides for class, which means it's time to bring back my favorite slide I've ever made:
The "we're so back/it's so over meme" that has been edited so the x-axis is time from 1960 through 2040. The plot oscillates semi-sinusoidally between positive (we're so back) and negative (it's so over). It's labeled Mars Exploration Timeline.

The start of the timeline is small oscillations close to zero. These are labeled: first Soviet attempts (note: none of the Soviet attempts worked but they sure tried). The steep positive peak next to it, we're back, is labeled Viking landers. Then a massive negative, it's so over, is labeled: everyone crashes in the 90s. Look up Mars exploration to learn more about this. Then an even larger positive spike, we're so back, is for Curiosity and the other Mars rovers.  Then a positive/negative combined spike is labeled Mars 2020 (for various reasons). Then a last negative, it's over (real) is labeled Mars Sample Return. This is accurate.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids. It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
how can you tell me the algo’s not alive when all my targeted ads are things like this
Peacock Ad:

Somebody stop me! I'm about to watch The Mask for the millionth time. Stream it now on Peacock.
MASK
A SSSMOKIN' MOVIE CHOICE
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion, perhaps shrinking the number of providers willing to see Medicaid patients, according to a new analysis. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/r...
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Doctors and hospitals to see lower Medicaid payments in three dozen states • Ohio Capital Journal
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of…
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like techbros imagine themselves to be Tony Stark but in reality they’re every banal technocultic tech obsessed villain who thinks the world is overpopulated and many must die so some may thrive
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MyRadar @myradar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hurricane Nolo is now a Category 4, and is making a run at Category 5 strength. (This is the one southwest of Hawaii – NOT the one offshore of Mexico heading for the Baja). It's an annular cyclone, meaning it's made of one solid ring of thunderstorms, rather than spiral bands.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you can’t even write jokes better than this
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/09/2026
Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AutoZone workers are holding a union election to join @uaw.org next week, seeking to become the first store at the largest auto parts retailer in the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Workers in New York seek to create first AutoZone union as company resists
Company may have spent about $200,000 to fight union effort in White Plains, where 11 people can vote to join UAW
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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OBS Studio versions 32.2.2 and lower are vulnerable to this attack
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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