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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 12h

I refuse to even think about claims that chatbots are conscious beings whose rights must be protected until I live in a society where all humans are treated as conscious beings whose rights must be protected.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Elaine at Ellie's Treasures @elliestreasures.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#UKGiftHour With Halloween fast approaching, this pretty flying witch charm brooch is perfect for adding a touch of magical spookiness to outfits and jackets. Hand sewn and truly unique 💙 elliestreasures.square.site/product/witc...

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Sue @veg-grower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Socks this week, and I confess I am a bad bad sock knitter, I haven't finished a pair in over 2 years and I really need to get on and finish my fleegle heel socks, but can't work up the enthusiasm! So here is a pair knit 12 yrs ago from squares & neatly folded into slipper socks

Shot in artificial light, two feet wearing non-matching garter slippers. The slippers are constructed by working garter squares joined in a specific way so that when folded, the toe, heel, and cuffs form naturally.
Yarn: unrecorded, probably worsted or aran weight, in solid shades of pink and blue.
pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/8-square-socks---8-nelion-palatossut

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Verybusymonkey @verybusymonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sale info: 2026vbmsocks10 for 10% off any sock pattern purchase (no min) 2026vbmsocks20 for 20% off sock pattern purchases over $20 2026vbmsocks30 for 30% off sock pattern purchases over $30 Links: verybusymonkeydesigns.com/products/che... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitsky

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Chevron Fold Socks

Named after chevron fold geological patterns, this top-down, lace sock design is written up for two sizes (64- and 72-st) and includes both charted and written instructions.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"your lawyers spent so much time trying to prove that you could, they forgot to ask if you should"

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Dianne Woodward @diannewoodward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Even if all of 300 million barrels of European reserves are released, it will only cover around 10 to 11 days of the world's diesel demand". In other words, kicking the can down the road. www.euronews.com/video/2026/1...

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Video. European diesel reserves cover 10 days of the world's demands - expert

Video. "Even if all of 300 million barrels of European reserves are released, it will only cover around 10 to 11 days of the world's diesel demand", energy expert, Osama Rizvi tells Euronews and Europ...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?

gmb.org.uk

£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year

We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference

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Fasten Off Yarnalong @fastenoffyal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧶CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS! Our volunteer signup period has begun! Ends Sunday, October 18. This directly impacts the activities, games, and platforms we can have. Sign up at www.fastenoffyal.com/volunteer-si... #FastenOffYAL #yarnalong #stitchalong #knitting #crochet

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actually, the IDF removed almost 150 journalists from their database - Interesting.. 🤔🤔 Here's the real list of all 367 journalists murdered by Israel in the last 1091 days 👇

stopmurderingjournalists.com

Stop Murdering Journalists - Databases for Palestine

Israel is on a journalist mass-murdering spree.

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Verybusymonkey @verybusymonkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Socktober!!! 🎃🧦 means revisiting the past year's sock designs AND that all of my sock designs are on sale! You can use any/all of the codes as many times as you want (they work on both Ravelry and my website - links below). Shown here are my Fusion Socks from January 2026. #sockknitting #knitsky

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Verybusymonkey @verybusymonkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

* Code 2026vbmsocks10 for 10% off any VBM sock pattern purchase (no minimum) * Code 2026vbmsocks20 for 20% off any VBM sock pattern purchase over $20 * Code 2026vbmsocks30 for 30% off any VBM sock pattern purchase over $30 verybusymonkeydesigns.com www.ravelry.com/designers/ve...

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Verybusymonkey Designs

Digital knitwear patterns for socks, shawls, hats, blankets, and more.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.

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Lavish Craft @lavishcraft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dash has now been released at an introductory price of $5.25 until Oct 7. No code needed on either my ravelry www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... or my Payhip payhip.com/LavishCraft 🧶 #knitting #knitsky #knitpattern

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Dash Neck Warmer pattern by Lavish Craft

DASH Neck Warmer

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Faye ~ Tech Editor & Knitwear Designer @fayeperriamreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey folks, it’s that time of year again! My #socktober KAL starts tomorrow in my new(ish) Ravelry group & there’s a prize raffle for anyone finishing by the 31st. To celebrate, all sock patterns are 20% off for a limited time. Pop along to fayeperriamreed.com/socktober-knit-along-2026 for details 🥳

A white model is wearing pastel blue lace socks and sits on a white painted wooden chair. We only see the feet pointing slightly together. The background is pastel pink. Text reads "Join my SOCKTOBER knit-along starting October 1st!”
#knitsky #knittersofbsky #justknitting #knit #knitting #sockknitting #socktober
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Kazimir is a zombie. No, seriously @kazia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Any of my knitting friends down for helping my sister test a sock pattern she wrote? It's designed to scale to literally any size. www.ravelry.com/discuss/the-...

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Sue @veg-grower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WIPWednesday 🧶 I'm currently knitting (among other things!) the Hand in Hand Cowl, a great pattern, easy to pick up & put down, perfect for TV/ travel/waiting room knitting. I'm using Louisa Harding yarns - Pittura and Amitola - both single ply, silky, and colourful😁 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

A partly knit cowl in garter-in-the-round, with two balls of yarn beside it. The left ball is mostly used up Louisa Harding Amitola in Embrace - a merino silk blend in many colours including pinks teal, brown and purple, in a long colour-change - this is used to work the purl rounds. Next to it is Louisa Harding Pittura, a variegated merino bamboo blend, also using many short blips of colour in autumnal shades with occasional turquoise and lime green; this is used to work the knit rounds. The whole effect is of a bright autumnal melange.
The Pittura I bought to try out for a design and then found it had been discontinued, so it sat in my stash for a couple of year waiting for me to figure out what to do with it.
The Amitola is one of several scraps left over from the NightShift cowl and shawl; I hope to use them all up on this cowl.

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Petra Breakstone @yarnz2go.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not one but two free patterns in one available to download today September 30th via Ravelry. 🧶🎁🧶 The knitting is pure fun whether you knit your from a knit kit or from you stash/leftovers.... Enjoy! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting #knitsky #allthingsyarn #crochetandknitting #knitpatterns

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!

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10 ROWS A DAY @10rowsaday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With a simple two-round repeat this cowl is perfect for mindless knitting while watching a movie or a TV show. tenrowsaday.com/quick-brioch... #knitting #knit #knitsky #bskyknits #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #showyourknits #knitwear #handmade #justknitting #cables #yarn #crafts #crochet

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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good god, one I didn't know about. Blood from restrained pregnant horses, for hormones to inject into restrained female pigs to make their piglets be born at the 'right' time. Iceland (country). Apart from the cruelty to animals, factory farming will kill us all. Please sign.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2026

#OtD 28 Sep 1985 two days of rioting erupted in Brixton, London after police shot and paralysed Dorothy Groce, an innocent Jamaican mother, in her bed. The police did not apologise until 29 years later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1006...

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ALL men benefit from male violence, because it allows you to think you’re a good person because you haven’t assaulted a woman. That does not make you a good person, but you have collectively put that bar in hell.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Norway's 2026 whaling season is over. 418 minke whales were killed. But that number doesn't include the unborn calves who died with their mothers. Around 40% of whales killed in Norway are pregnant. uk.whales.org/2026/0...

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Milquetoast Wallflower @liquidknit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For #showmeyourknits I'm particularly proud of this design. #knitting 🧶 #knitsky #kiku #dragon petals 🐉 Pattern: Kiku www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... By @lavishcraft.bsky.social (me 😉) Yarn: Wonderland Fibers Mad Hatter Down the Rabbit Hole.

A hand knit crescent shawl lying flat on a weathered wood grain background. The yarn is a fade of pale speckled blue to deep speckle blue center top outward. The stitch pattern is ascending sized dragon scales with a petal like look.

A closeup of the texture and colors of the previously described shawl.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/06/2026

It's been 55 years since Milton Friedman - cursed be his name - published his *NYT* editorial, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits," inventing "shareholder supremacy" out of whole cloth, declaring it a universal, inarguable truth: www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/a... 1/

A fake cover for CEO magazine. The central figure is a ZOLTAR fortune-telling animatronic, seated before various divination tools. The headline over him is FIDUCIARY DUTY. In the top right corner, there's a slug reading 'UNIVERSAL EXCUSE: A bright line test that's also *totally* unfalsifiable.' To Zoltar's left is another slug reading, 'FRIEDMAN SAID IT: I believe it. That's good enough for me.'

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Crafty Cow Cat Sofas @craftycow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are only one each left of these 3 footstools**.. grab ‘em before they are gone! **can be used as cat judging thrones too craftysharp.etsy.com

A collage of 4 images. A close up of a ginger striped fabric then a close up of a retro floral fabric with beige background. Then 2 footstools the second is the ginger one again but now with a black cat sitting in it.. judging you.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These privileged frat bros gang raped a girl and invited others to join in for SEVEN HOURS. The story was buried, only two were expelled, and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing. Cornell, the police, and the system protected them. The Cornell Seven:

Pictures and names of the seven Cornell students accused of sexually abusing a woman for seven hours.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

UK Chancellor can easily increase income tax personal allowance by £3,000 a year. It will boost basic rate taxpayers by £600 a year. Millions will be helped. Benefit to higher rate taxpayers can be clawed back. The cost of £30bn can be met by ending bank subsidies, £100bn over the last 3 years.

leftfootforward.org

This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you would like to help me help #SaveSquareChapelArts, then click on the link on the post below and scroll to the bottom. There you will find a list of all the useful things you can do. Let’s make some noise! Thank you.

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Milquetoast Wallflower @liquidknit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reposting an older release. I tend to only post once, but I really love this pattern. I just pulled out the sample to wear myself as we have finally gotten some chilly nights. 🧶 #knitting #knitsky #knitpattern

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Sue @veg-grower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Glad you had a wonderful time, Liv! My favourite knit of this last year, among many favourites, is the Nascent Cable Cowl by @samantha-west.bsky.social . It was my Xmas Eve cast on 2025, and I just loved working the cables so twisty! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

A bright blue-green cowl lying sideways on a table. The cowl is all over cables which twist and twine around each other as well as themselves.
Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nascent-cable-cowl
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Ankara Green

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again. A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer. Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers. Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable.

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Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference - again

Labour MPs have condemned the ‘Trump-like’ decision, saying party is ‘bang out of order’

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 26/09/2026

If you’re in the market for topping up your card stash this weekend, it would make me very happy if you had a browse of my collection (over 50) and I’m sure my colourful cards would make your recipient happy too. Wins all round 😊

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 26/09/2026

If you enjoy my #Scotland #photography You’ll like my 2027 Sutherland Scenes #Calendar, which is printed by a carbon neutral company with eco inks and FSC board. Good quality, the photos can be framed after use. Makes a nice gift & comes with board envelope for post debhandmade.com/shop/p/earth...

calendar for 2027 opened at August with a beach photo. Light glare left corner.

A montage of 12 landscapes from a 2027 calendar

Debhandmade Sutherland calendar 2027 Black cover with a photo of a waterfall centre

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.

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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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Nielanell @nielanell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're around on Sunday 4 October, the day after Shetland Wool Week ends, we’re hosting a Makkers’ Drop-in at Hoswick Visitor Centre.⁠ ⁠ Join Katie and her family along with wool weekers, locals and tutors. All welcome. Bring your WIP, or just yourself.⁠ #Shetland #ShetlandWoolWeek #KnitSky 1/3

The Leask family at Hoswick Visitor Centre, at the Makkers' Drop-in at Shetland Wool Week

A knitter at Hoswick Visitor Centre for the Makkers' Drop-in at Shetland Wool Week

Anne Eunson, Shetland lace expert in a cardigan of her own design at Hoswick Visitor Centre

Knitters at Hoswick Visitor Centre for the Makkers' Drop-in. During Shetland Wool Week

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling walkers, birders, nature lovers, or anyone fancying a break... October & November dates available in our new BnB, if anyone's interested? On the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, which is a great place to explore, and wonderfully peaceful at this time of year www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/173324...

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Guest suite in Tremar Coombe · ★5.0 · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 bathroom

Beautifully renovated annexe near Bodmin Moor

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Nielanell @nielanell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here are a couple of the new colours we have in the studio – parma and citrus. All the info: nielanell.com/collections/... ⁠ #Shetland 4/4

In the Nielanell Shetland knitwear studio. A lightweight jumper in grey lilac on a vintage mannequin

In the Nielanell Shetland knitwear studio. A lightweight jumper limey yellow on a vintage mannequin

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