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Leftie, scientist, research software engineer, fan of alternative comedy and tabletop gaming.

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 8h
It's the incel human resources meme. Instead the handsome man is Andy Burnham saying better things are possible, and the other man is Jeremy corbyn saying better things are possible. Ian dunt is saying awful you're sweet to Burnham I'm calling human resources on Jeremy
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Sargoth (discursively endogenous feliform) @longersky.com · 07/09/2025
The famous sociologist slash rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke once posited that self-help book fill a function by making you feel like you are doing the thing, without necessarily leading to you actually doing the thing. I sense that this notion, formulated in the 60s, might be relevant again
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Far Right's response to RAF Fairford (whilst I make poached eggs) Let me know if you'd like to see more of me cooking whilst talking about politics I am REALLY good at one of those things
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With alt text. I yelled
INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works. 

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind. 

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast. 

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love humor that transcends language
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not that it counts for much now but Rafah had been inhabited for over 3000 years and appears in the book of Maccabees. Now it's just gone.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry, I saw your message, but I also saw nineteen other phone alerts that same minute. My brain evolved to evade predators. I will not improve.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Think it's important to grasp that when people like Ovenden use phrases like "rapidly medicalised layabouts" they get a little thrill like they're daring to break taboos, but actually they're repeating the tiresome but orthodox belief of their coterie. (Cf his treatment of Diane Abbott.)
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026
Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know it's late in his career but I'd like to see Tom Jones release a follow-up song called 'It IS Unusual', which focuses on rare but documented phenomena like Halley's Comet.
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The tribunal found a clear pattern of the university trying to shut down complaints made by Wyn in a bid to protect itself from reputational damage” If preventing reputational damage is Cambridge’s aim, it’s not doing very well atm. thetab.com/2026/09/07/c...
thetab.com
Cambridge professor wins tribunal after exposing alleged staff bullying
Wyn Evans, a professor of astrophysics, told the tribunal in June that he had witnessed a 'bad history of misogyny' within the Institute of Astronomy
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2018 I wrote an hour-long comedy show about mental health, toxic masculinity, and how close the world has come to nuclear war. I think those things share a LOT of traits. Running through the show was the story of Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world on this day in 1983 youtu.be/kU9_3bOe_8I
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Guy Kelly's Letter of Last Resort - Full Show
YouTube video by Guy Kelly
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you think "employee needs to consume fluids to function" is a dealbreaker for your business, I have *terrible* news for you about AI...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Australian Institute of Marine Science This timelapse captures just over two years of coral growth, between May 2011 and August 2013, in the central Great Barrier Reef. The footage was taken by our fixed underwater camera at AIMS' weather station at Davies Reef. linktr.ee/AustInstitut...
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reason we should actually crack down hard on racist agitators, and yes, using the force of the state, with the courts, and the police, and power, is not because it can cure racists from being racist. I don't know what can. I don't care! You shouldn't be allowed to say and do these things
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026
guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”
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Fagatha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sue Sylvester from Glee saying 'I am going to create a jihad that is so Butlerian'
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. It depicts a moorland scene in a range of green shades, about 70% completed.
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Naming my cat Rich but beating people with a tire iron if they don’t pronounce the ch as a Xhosa aspirated click consonant.
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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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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would argue that paying people cash to attack refugees is, in some ways, actually not very Christian at all.
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the “first they came for…” Martin Niemoller poem, he doesn’t specify who “they” is who comes for all those people. I think we have our honest to god “they” here.
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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 22/09/2026
Grant me the temerity to resent the things I cannot change, the cowardice not to change the things I can, and the stupidity to not know the difference
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My tour rider is water and coffee AND a request that the stage be dressed with a step ladder decorated by the tech crew in any way they see fit. Hats off to Leeds City Varieties tech. Salut x
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026
great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The free rider problem is the defining factor in whether someone is left or right wing, this is because if you think free riders are a problem you tend not to be intellectually curious enough to understand long chains of cause and effect.
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Cowbo Bebo at his Computo @dochaus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RIP to Tilly Norwood, who was accidentally uploaded into a Quake 3 Arena match and gibbed by a rocket launcher instead of the SFM machinima she was supposed to appear in. She is survived by her closest kin, Gal Gadot.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU
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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
comic about imagining a guy to get mad at
1817, Frankenstein residence

Dr. Frankestein sitting at a table, drinking tea, holding a newspaper and looking out the window watching a graveyard. 

Dr. Frankestein: I should make a guy to get mad at
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wait. Hang on. First, beastiality isn't a blocker to joining the FBI, and now the FBI is suggesting that other agents don't trust ladies. Sounds like SOMEONE is in the pocket of big kangaroo, if you know what I mean.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Toaster @toaster.codes · 18/09/2026
If Chris Packham is the next David Attenborough, Hussein is the next Adrian Chiles.
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sexy pride month lukedovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are 48hrs from Allegations dropping
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It's Happening Meme
ALT: It's Happening Meme
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a man sitting at a restaurant table. He is sweating. He says "Y-you have beautiful eyes".
The second panel zooms in on the man's face. He says, "I'm sorry. I'm just so nervous."
In panel three we see that a biblically accurate angel is sitting on the other side of the table.
In panel four we zoom in on the angel's face, who says "BE NOT AFRAID".
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What I take from this is that a presumably substantial chunk of the British security services and our state apparatus are absolutely wowed by the Israeli government’s murderous fascism, they swoon and gasp with delight at the mass killing of anyone they deem a threat.
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MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, did not give Burnham an emphatic 'Don't do it' message, but it outlined that it could risk intelligence-sharing with Israel.
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'People in 6 are pulling their hair out,' says an influential Labour figure close to the security services. 'They presented warnings about the consequences of doing this.'
That source even suggests that Sa'ar only took Miliband's call after a request was passed on by MI6 via Mossad. Netanyahu routinely refuses to talk to British politicians.
A non-political source with deep roots in the intelligence community has this to say: 'If you appear like a lightweight who will selectively virtue-signal, you're not going to be taken seriously again.'
He says that Mossad already views MI6 as competent but overcautious: 'The relationship was difficult because we did national security, the Israelis do national survival. I think the Israelis see us as pretty professional, but a bunch of pussies in terms of the methods that we would use.'
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is he the only politician whose obsession with bathrooms is actually good
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Have you found a solution for the situation with Ed's opening acts?" "Sure have" "And it's not another mortifyingly embarrassing misstep that'll just make him look even more ridiculous, as I specified?" "Yep... wait, *not*???"
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