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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2h

As the famous Al Capone saying goes, "you eventually get the mafia by focussing on their failure to make the monthly NICs payments to HMRC Cumbernauld".

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

well done to the Government on this planned abandonment of the triple lock. The right people are booing.

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 30/09/2026

The Reform-led Derbyshire County Council has banned a Derbyshire Live democracy reporter saying it has "lost confidence" in his reporting due to "concerns regarding reporting standards, accuracy, balance and professional conduct" www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

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Derbyshire County Council bans Derbyshire Live’s Local Democracy Reporter

We utterly reject false accusations about our journalism and urge the council to lift this ban immediately

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Knee, meet Jerk.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“In areas where nature has been allowed to flourish, the ground held more water & the droughts were less severe,” Environment Secretary Angela Eagle will tell conference as she announces £79m for more trees & Local Nature Recovery Strategies #MakeBritainWetAgain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More evidence of UK economy’s strong first half to the year, despite the very real impact of the Iran war: - ONS have revised up growth (and gdp/capita growth) in Q2 to 0.5% - confirms the UK as the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2026 (given growth of 0.6% in Q1)

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For #BestOfTheMonth in today’s #BirdOfTheDay, I’ve chosen this well timed shot taken over the weekend of the return of the Blue Tits to The Garden Jungle #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So UK economy looking... pretty decent? Sadly it's hard to get that message across against the global bond market moves, tough fiscal arithmetic and dire geopolitics.

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Get this - real GDP per head has grown by 1.1% over the first half of 2026. Excluding the swings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, that's the largest increase since late 2017.

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🥳 UK economy grew more than thought in the second quarter. • GDP +0.5% qq versus a previous estimate of +0.4% (same with GDP per head) • Strong business investment growth (see 👇) • Current account balance (exc. precious metals) smallest in 5 years at 1% of GDP thanks to services exports

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A bit like net migration figures being lower, the fact that UK economic growth has been higher than expected cuts against the narrative but can’t be ignored forever. Maybe (probably) I was wrong and Labour did have a theory of growth after all.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.

People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

(and it's not about physical protection, which is a thing I'm sure a lot of you know but maybe some don't. it's about avoiding the need for protection because if you appear to belong to another man the confrontation never happens. the deeply fucked up math of misogyny.)

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

parents talk to your sons about what is going on. It is your job to guide them and for them to hear from you and understand the importance of their presence to stand up for what is right especially in the face of everyone doing wrong.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong with Britain. A service where the shareholders never lose and the public never win' PM Andy Burnham announces plans for a law change to allow public ownership of water companies 👏

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Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our report from June explains how the replacement for the triple lock will work (we called it a 'smoothed' triple lock). It's a much better policy than the current triple lock - State Pension is protected from inflation spikes and tracks earnings long term, but the expensive ratchet is removed.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That seems to me the best delivered Labour leader spech since at least 2007/2009 On content, it was a manifesto for a centre-left pitch to the public, often for beyond the next election beyond stepping stones of first 12-18 months.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026

Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/09/2026

It was transformative to see a trans person who could live their life, be supported through their struggles, and have a positive storyline www.wearequeeraf.com/heartstopper...

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Heartstopper's legacy is showing me what trans joy felt like for the first time

It was transformative to see a trans person who could live their life, be supported through their struggles, and have a positive storyline

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Security services are still trying to gather information on a potential huge terrorist incident. This is a critical time for them. Nigel Farage is publicly criticising them for not releasing information. He knows the law, he knows they cannot. He is palpably unfit for public office.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 26/09/2026

The point at which you start to sympathise with the Pope rather than Galileo

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026

it's been less than a year, and already the socialists are forcing people to go to the opera

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AG @troyella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To brush up on all things Jane Austen, why not read/listen to her books?

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sure it can. Prosecute OpenAI amd its directors for breaking the law.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exactly. If you or me hacked into a company, the law would prosecute us. How come an AI can do this and nobody responsible for the AI is prosecuted? One law for us, one law for AI companies. This cannot be right.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

Force Majeure is generally used as a kind of “act of god” measure for energy companies when wars or weather makes it impossible to deliver service. In this case Oracle is using it as a means of saying it shouldn’t pay in the event the data center isn’t ready. It is completely unprecedented.

Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico, adding a fresh wrinkle to a project beset by opposition and regulatory setbacks.
The technology giant sent the project's developer, a unit of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a notice citing force majeure, according to people familiar with the situation. Rather than trying to walk away as the site's main tenant, Oracle is attempting to put off payments should the data center dubbed Project Jupiter get derailed and fail to come online in 2028 as planned, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private matters.

Even if the force majeure notice is intended as a precautionary step to win some wiggle room, it risks alarming lenders backing the project.
The debt tied to the development is already trading at stressed levels, below 90 cents on the dollar, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
A group of about 20 banks provided an $18 billion loan to help fund the construction of the data center campus, one of several mega-debt deals that have helped bankroll the AI infrastructure boom.
The notice also stands to raise questions yet again about the resilience of data center leases.
Contracts often include a clause allowing customers to back out if service doesn't begin as scheduled. Earlier this year, Alphabet Inc's Google agreed to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX for computing power through mid-2029, for example, but reserved the right to terminate if it didn't gain access by a certain date.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/04/2026

Premium Newsletter: OpenAI needs to raise or make $852 billion through 2030 to pay for its compute costs, and must pay $75bn a year for Oracle's 7.1GW of Stargate data centers, or Oracle will collapse, destroying its share price and Larry Ellison's entire empire. www.wheresyoured.at/how-openai-k...

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Premium: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

Soundtrack — Brass Against — Karma Police It was January 21, 2025. Per The Information, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, had just flown to Washington DC from Florida, and had to borrow a coat “...so he...

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 24/09/2026

There is not a single person in the world, other than the Ellisons, who would not cheer if Oracle went down in flames. Few human creations in the entire of history have occasioned as much misery as Oracle has.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gnasher cartoon. Dundee is the birthplace of the Beano & Dandy

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AG @troyella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who could possibly have predicted

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s probably better that politicians do shut up about specific cases as long as the police are going to act.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Another thought on this: we’re going to end up with PR-like electoral fragmentation, but without any of the predictability. Worst of both worlds.

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screenpopnews.bsky.social @screenpopnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy 23rd birthday to 'Heartstopper' and 'Agatha All Along' star, Joe Locke!

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/09/2026

More than a third of the Tube network is now step-free. The new entrance at King’s Cross St Pancras is another milestone in making London more accessible and ensuring more people can enjoy all our city has to offer.

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One of London’s busiest tube stations just opened a game-changing new entrance

95 London Underground stations now have step-free access.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was 10 months ago , BBC's framing of far right thuggery as protest expressing legitimate concerns , it's complete disinterest in the hostile actors who finance these protests & corruption in Reform, their hounding of Prof Jason Arday & their shameful coverage of the genocide in Gaza continues 👉

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