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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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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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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) @theacms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ACMS 📆 TONIGHT 🏰 The Albany 🎟️ £10 from wegottickets.com/f/27747 till 5pm, then £12 on the door from 7pm 😻 MC'd by @turlygod.bsky.social & Robin Ince, with e.g. @naomipaxton.bsky.social, @natmetcalfe.bsky.social, @thatbaldyfella.bsky.social etc. 🌈 free guestlist for trans & non-binary folk, just ask
The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)
The Albany, Great Portland Street, W1W
Monday 5th October 2026, 7:30pm-10:40ish
Thom Tuck & Robin Ince (MCs); umpteen excellent guests: Ada Campe, Bec Hill, Casey Filips, Clemenzia, Gabriel Featherstone, Ian Lane, Joz Norris, Judy Harris, Luise Wolky, Max Devine, Nat Metcalfe and Nick Kirk
£10 (£12 book)  tickets from wegottickets.com 
£12 at the gig, doors open 7pm
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.
A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war, and broken logistics for food, and this is not Nepal’s private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other country in our region, and you’ll hear the same account.

“Hit by the climate, we did not warm, and again hit by the wars, we did not start.”

Shah is right. Nepal contributes less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It does not have the institutional or global power to force change, even as its people are swamped by the consequences of inaction.

“Our glaciers are retreating, our mountain slopes are becoming unstable, our rivers are becoming less predictable and every major disaster threatens to erase years of development,” he told the UN.
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Boo B 👻🐝 @vtbee80.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
not book smart or street smart, but a secret third thing (dumb)
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'The upside' in the guardian's first edition newsletter is 99% piss but today is really taking the mick. Good news! And it's an advert for fucking holiday cottages, get all the way in the bin.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians
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Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians
As the war pushes deep into its third year, what does daily life look like for people living there and how has the conflict changed it?
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
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Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
Officer forced to admit relationship with woman lasting at least six months while working under fake name Dave Evans An undercover police officer who infiltrated leftwing and animal rights campaign groups appears to have lied to the spycops inquiry when he claimed he did not have a sexual relationship as part of his deployment. The officer who used the fake name Dave Evans had originally testified that he did not have any relationships while using his fake identity. Continue reading...
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil, Thomas The Tank Engine. God will not hold you guiltless.
"As I came on, they had not secured the rights to Thomas. We had to do this whole thing where we did this presentation for the people who own the rights to Thomas.

"Thank God they agreed and found it funny, but there were definite stipulations. For example, nobody could be tied to the tracks and run over by Thomas. Thomas couldn't be doing anything that could be perceived by children as evil[...] Thomas had to stay neutral in the battle, which was always our intention. Like anybody, they're protective of their brand."
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On the one hand the cat I'm sitting for is very nervous of me and doesn't like it when I move. On the other hand he's just found my jacket on the table and turned it into a nest so I think he likes me?
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/09/2026
M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint @willyandbill.bsky.social
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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food
One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I once had to watch every episode of Downton Abbey and all I can say is that if you think it is one of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century you urgently need to get checked for concussion.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 24/09/2026
i love writing except for when i'm doing it, thinking about doing it, or thinking about having done it
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
your da shouts at hotels and your mum lives in Piddington
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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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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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tom Watson joining Palantir and claiming it is a force for good is a new low for someone who had already hit the bottom of the moral Grand Canyon.
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Drunk girl who keeps derailing this comedy show just pointed at my partner and yelled 'there's Johnny Depp!' so taking him away immediately to therapy
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
a real advert on UK TV currently: Oi! Grown ups! Save some water for us kids! ADULTS! stop having such long showers! GARDENERS! stop using so much water for your plants! WATER COMPANIES WHO HAVE DRIVEN RESERVOIR INFRASTRUCTURE INTO THE GROUND: Keep up the good work! PENSIONERS: stop drinking tea!
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Guy just got off the train at Brixton wearing half business casual half horse riding gear - helmet included. Very intrigued as to his weekend plans. Galloping down the high street at 12 and then back in the office by 3?
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I was lamenting the fact that my cats get tired of one brand of food after two days then I tried to think of it in a different way and asked myself "What if YOU ate salt’n’vinegar crisps every day?" then realised I do that already and that my cats should shut the fuck up and stop acting so entitled.
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We've all suspected it, but finally science proves it. Rich people are evil.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/09/2026
At the Antimatter Factory at CERN there are vacuum cleaners in cages. Those cages are there because when you vacuum the experiment hall, you might pick up some radioactive material, and so the vacuum has to be in a time out until enough half-lives of the contaminant have elapsed.
A bright yellow cage marked RADIATION with vacuum cleaners inside it
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In a "collaboration" (which we left), someone used an LLM to make a "summary" on topics for the project (without our consent) in which published research ideas from @olivia.science & me understandably popped up, but were credited to men, while our names showed up nowhere in the "summary". 🧵
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 30/08/2026
A friend of my wife’s actually posted online yesterday “Well now it’s raining all the climate change people have shut up” and I can’t help thinking a species this stupid might not deserve a planet.
theguardian.com
Nepal-Tibet death toll rises amid new flood fears and race to free group trapped in tunnel
Combined toll of at least 750 dead and more than 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of my many toxic traits is the unbearable smugness I feel wafting past a long British passport queue with my lovely EU passport.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...
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The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just one mainstream party with a mild sense of preservation, I beg you
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My @refugeecouncil.bsky.social colleague Imran Hussain has a letter in the Guardian today following up on Andy Burnham's pledge on ending rough sleeping. He highlights the importance of addressing the role that the Home Office has in making refugees homeless in the first place to meet that goal.
Text of the letter: he prime minister’s pledge to end rough sleeping is admirable, and he’s right about the importance of catching people “long before they hit the pavement”. But to succeed, the he must confront the Home Office’s role in creating homelessness. Last year, around 21,000 households in England needed homelessness help after eviction from Home Office accommodation.

Research by the Refugee Council and others has highlighted how delayed documentation, inadequate support and too little time to find accommodation leave refugees facing homelessness and destitution within weeks of a being given leave to stay in the UK.

Current plans making refugee status more precarious, putting refugees in thousands of pounds of debt and further restricting asylum support will only worsen this. Until the Home Office stops pushing refugees on to the streets, ending rough sleeping will be out of reach.
Imran Hussain
Refugee Council
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/08/2026
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability. www.wired.com/story/teache...
wired.com
They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
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Molly @tossmycausticsalad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AFIIIIIIIII
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/08/2026
god if you'd told me that one day I'd witness people coming out of shops to take a proper look at the rain falling out of the sky, in ENGLAND
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