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@timmorton2.bsky.social
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 2h
Gif was better than my typos
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h
Egos Sir! Thousands of e’m!
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Zulu: Thousands of 'Em!
ALT: Zulu: Thousands of 'Em!
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Michael George Hartley @georgegawler.bsky.social · 6h
It's like in the film Zulu (set in 1879) when a character says "your bloody egos don't matter any more", decades before Freud popularised the term It grates every time
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h
You can call them Al
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paul simon flute
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 6h
Every time an AI-cultist warns about consciousness, independence and apocalypse, they’re trying to distract us from the real, *right now* harm they’re inflicting on us. And by ‘them’, I mean the cultists.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h
Sikorski - not a name to mess with
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h
Exhibit A: bsky.app/profile/tend...
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 6h
It’s odd when that happens, it’s like a needle sliding across an LP and the wall is broken
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h
This one surely has to be parody but it did make me laugh
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 7h
I spent half the night tracking Russian ballistic missiles and hearing them hit. Got a few hours of sleep, then woke up to Starlink speed restrictions. Now reports say the limit isn't even 160 km/h, it's as low as 80–100 km/h in some areas.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 7h
14 October 1919 | A Pole, Lucjan Sikora, was born in Końskowola. In #Auschwitz from 30 July 1941. No. 19596 He perished in the camp on 14 March 1942. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_pol…
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 7h
Allies need to step in immediately and find way of addressing these events and figure out how they can support #Ukraine both with connectivity and critical intelligence. This must be a highly prioritised issue for European leaders and other western allies.
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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 19h
Excellent
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
Oh lord, I’ve just posted a signed copy to #LittleSis for her birthday. Indie bookshop special edition with bookmark too, and now this dreadful news. Maybe she’ll like the wrapping paper.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
If so I got it quicker last time
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 7h
2) Last night the operation of #starlink terminals in #Ukraine was restricted meaning that a number of critical missions was disrupted. It is suspected that #SpaceX took these measures at the request of the #trump administration. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
Big Unit @themerl.bsky.social 👆🐏
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 7h
BREAKING: @greenpeace.be climbers are on the roof of the European Parliament in Brussels, protesting the EU's dependence on dirty, expensive fossil fuels Burning gas ruins Europe – it fuels the climate crisis, and financially ruins households with sky-high energy bills
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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 7h
Two rooms, two atmospheres, make your choice...
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
Grim Tale www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state
Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
Meet the Zachbot, smiling at odd moments and putting the emphasis on all the wrong words. "A great relationship.." (looks down, sighs, sounds like her cat just died) "with Venezuela" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Enter the Zachbot: Trump’s new press secretary malfunctions on podium debut
Katie Zacharia’s maiden briefing was excruciating – at least her predecessor had delivered her propaganda hot
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
www.maptap.gg October 14 97🔥 97🔥 98🎯 92🏆 89🎉 Final score: 933
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7h
No words Wordle 1,943 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 22h
The most important thing - *most important thing* - is that the countryside is only used in ways that enable me to kid myself that it's 1800, as I barrel through it in my 2025 fossil fuel-powered SUV.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Counting the days until the insurance industry makes the inevitable turn and sues Big Oil for selling a product that amplifies extreme weather and causes rates to skyrocket. Insurers do it all the time in other cases. They will do it here eventually. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u...
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The New Affordability Fight in the Midterms: Home Insurance Prices (Gift Article)
Extreme weather is driving up insurance rates, impacting races from California to the nation’s central Tornado Alley.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13h
“I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.” --Michael Hobbes I think the reality is funnier. The marginalized were merely talking to themselves.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 8h
Full Rainbow #1388 ⚪⚪⚪⚪🔵⚪⚪ @5s 🔴⚪⚪⚪🔵🟤🟣 @7s 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤🟣 @10s 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤🟣 @10s in 7 moves. BRILLIANT! FULL RAINBOW www.fullrainbow.co.uk www.gylesbrandreth.net
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Full Rainbow - A daily word game
Re-arrange the 7 letters to make a word, full rainbow if you're fast enough! New game every day.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 8h
There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth
Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8h
I appear to have gotten this at least partially wrong. With that said the lack of any kind of announcement by SpaceX or triumphant tweeting by Musk makes me wonder if, having sent a message, they're now about to claim it was a technical glitch or all in the Ukrainians' heads.
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Trump’s Diesel Deal
Writing So I Don’t Scream.
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 8h
Superb 👌🏼
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 14h
While millions of everyday people experience devastating climate disasters, the world's most polluting corporations continue to profit. Time to make them PAY NOW. act.gp/4usPymE
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Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 14h
When extreme weathers strike, some nations like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mozambique and a string of Pacific and Caribbean island, are hit worse than others, though they contribute the least to global carbon emissions. qz.com/climate-vuln...
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Climate-vulnerable countries and the funding gap
These climate-vulnerable countries face floods, drought and rising seas, yet global climate finance pledges rarely arrive in full
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 8h
when im thinking about ways to mitigate RF interference
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 8h
Gah 🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #1393 🌟 Length Score: 86% 🚀 Letter Score: 61 🔗 Play Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🅁🄸🄼🄴
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Wordiply | The Guardian
Play the Guardian's new daily word game, and share your score with your friends. You have five goes to get the longest word including today's starter word.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h
It seems very likely that the US has decided to facilitate Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians to try to force Ukraine to surrender. Betrayal. And if they can do that to Ukraine, they can do it to any ally. We should take note.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8h
Quite a wild story here. A wind project next to a data centre in Southern Norway was cancelled due to fears that.......a wind turbine blade would call on the data centre 😵‍💫 www.europower.no/vindkraft/da...
Data center does not want wind turbines nearby: – Turbine blades may fall down
Norsk Vind gives up on establishing wind power plants at data centers in Southern Norway. “We are perceived as a hair in the ointment,” says the project developer. Now he is calling for requirements for new power production in connection with power-intensive industries.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Man who enobled a KGB agent's son... despite SIS raising concerns... says what?
This is just not true. As soon as I became
foreign secretary I asked the security
services the same question and they
replied that there was no evidence of any
successful interference in the 2016
referendum, by Russia or any other power


Either the security services have changed
their view - which would be very odd - or
Burnham is lying about what he has been
told. After all Starmer was in power for two
years and had access to exactly the same
information.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 17h
Charges have been brought, so sub judice?
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 18h
Please can they accommodate more than 2 bicycles per train, and not just road bikes or Bromptons?
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 18h
This really is a major change.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 18h
the problem includes most flights stop in a Schengen state www.skyscanner.com/routes/wars/...
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Skyscanner
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jakey762.bsky.social @jakey762.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's not just about the felony. He has organized and operated an armed paramilitary group that has an anti-government agenda. This guy is a known seditious firebomber; why let shit like that in? The US became accepting of these types of organizations. That blew up in Lady Liberty's face on Jan 6th.
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jakey762.bsky.social @jakey762.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Enrique Tarrio is a convicted insurrectionist. He's a violent, marked man. Security officials in sane-minded countries are paid to track individuals who pose a terrorist threat to their country. Tarrio shouldn't have gotten into Poland.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just because I led an insurrection to overthrow the US government...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
“State sanctioned intimidation”.
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Judge says Musk engaged in intimidation of ex-FEMA CFO Mary Comans, clears her name
Ex-FEMA CFO Mary Comans' name was cleared by a federal judge after Elon Musk and other government officials falsely accused her of criminal actions in 2025.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 22h
It’s all just so tawdry and embarrassing this administration. Scary and dangerous because of the power wielded but also tacky and pathetic. A formerly great country soiling itself every day, revelling in mediocrity and incompetence
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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 20h
Soldier on a BSA folding bicycle during World War II 🚲🪖
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
It's paired with an edited transcript of a conversation I had with the ever-brilliant @theradr.bsky.social and Marina Sitrin in the wake of the Cornell gang rape news.
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“We Can’t Punish Our Way Out of This”: A Conversation on Meaningful Accountability After Cornell
A discussion with Rebecca Solnit and Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg about what accountability should look like for survivors of sexual assault and rape.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
Not my misadventures, to be clear! Just my reporting on the sad mess there. (Didn't know that'd be the title and I'd be the cover image.)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
"Today, a vast array of online platforms—misogynistic porn, crypto, sports-betting and prediction markets, masculinity influencers, and right-wing and racist propaganda—gnaws through minds, hearts, and souls on its way to wallets."
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Rebecca Solnit’s (Mis)Adventures in the Manosphere
The writer, historian, and activist explores an America where the right has turned hatred of women into an ever-expanding, multi-platform Internet grift.
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