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Vertandor

@vertandor.bsky.social
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Alto (on hiatus), Packers fan, gamer and sometimes geologist. She/her. Partial to tea, sci-fi, and chocolate. Lives in the Castle beyond the Goblin City. Typos - model's own. Avatar - Doc Hakenbush

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3h
This whole article is just a list of ways they're thinking of making disabled people's lives even harder, to save money. And a list of other places that've already done it, as if that makes it right. Nauseating.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 30/09/2026
I'll believe Burnham is a progressive when he brings forward laws to undo our historically hostile position against LGBTQ+ people, immigrants and refugees, and protesters. Until then he's just Blue Labour with better vibes.
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IT'S COZY SEASON
a drawing of a cat asleep in front of a fireplace in a cozy room
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Melinda Beatty @melindabeatty.com · 29/09/2026
Bear with me, this is a doozy, #kidlit folks. Censorship is alive, even in blue states.
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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This includes BIRTH CONTROL, by the way. As well as a shitload of mood stabilizers. Do NOT eat "spooky" black foods and snacks. Just don't.
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
ironholds.org
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well my heart just exploded.
Twiglet and white cat and Tortilla the black kitten, curled up together half-asleep in a blue blanket donut.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't know anyone who gets PIP for ADHD because applying for it is such a nightmare, and people who do get it for ADHD need it
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s brilliant to see two key government reviews will likely seek to end the pointless reassessment of many disabled people. I’ve written for years it’s a waste of resources and has a huge strain on disabled people forced into regularly proving their condition. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says
Alan Milburn said 16- to 24-year-olds with most complex needs should not have to keep proving they cannot work
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Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Treated myself to a Masala omlette wrap and mug of tea for breakfast - needed something to recover from seeing the Christmas stuff in aldi, its not even Halloween yet?! G'dang it, I like to enjoy my wheel of the year in good order, thanks
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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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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Cody Vrosh @codyvrosh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dragon Librarian. Watercolor & ink. A recent painting commission. My client wanted to shine a light on the fight against book bans in Canada. My dad was a librarian & instilled in me a lifelong love of books. Books are treasures & must be fiercely defended against those who would seek to ban them.
Dragon Librarian fiercely defending stacks of books.
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june 🍂 @heyyjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks for hosting!! I like drawing pets and plants 🐱🌻 I don't have much of a site yet, but feel free to message me if you'd like a personal commission or print of anything you see 💕💕
Digital drawing of brown tabby on its back in a patch of pink and yellow flowersDigital drawing of a black cat with red and yellow flowers sprouting around himDigital drawing of a brown mischievous looking cat with a stolen sock in its mouthDigital drawing of a grey cat curled up on a patchwork quilt
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
My favourite kind of autumn day, bright and warm in the sun, tempered with a cool breeze. Leaves starting to turn and fall. Happy autumn equinox!
A cluster of dark burgundy-red crab apples on the branch, nestled in the dark green leaves.A group of cream-brown flat-topped wild mushrooms growing amongst grass and fallen leaves/bark. One of them has a large circular "bite" out of one side.
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 23/09/2026
It's the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere 🍂 Here's the chemistry behind the foliage colour changes we'll be seeing over the coming months: www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a... #ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of the colours of autumn leaves. Green is caused by chlorophyll, carotenoids and flavonoids give yellows, and oranges come from carotenoids, which also contribute to reds along with anthocyanins.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I once said this to @amywestervelt.bsky.social and I stand by the statement. “I don't think you can call anything where you're getting more oil out of the ground to burn a climate solution.” drilled.media/news/ccs
"It doesn't make sense to use CCS to prolong our use of fossil fuels, especially to produce electricity," David Ho, professor at University of Hawaii and senior researcher at Columbia Uni-versity, said. 'The argument in favor of enhanced oil recovery is often that if they weren't using this capt red CO2 they'd be using some other CO2. But I don't think you can call anything where you're getting more oil out of the ground to burn a climate solution."
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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great article about AI and pseudoarchaeology that I'm adding to my Author's Note on my website for FALSE FLAG. AI is distorting archaeology and flattening Indigenous Knowledge
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AI is distorting archaeology and flattening Indigenous Knowledge
While artificial intelligence can help archaeologists, it can also spread pseudoscientific claims and false histories, stripping Indigenous knowledge of context, consent and community control, say Uni...
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Addie - inky, pinky, thinky @addiebabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@spooky-kat.bsky.social 🍄 love!!
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The fact that many of the people on UC are also working is not mentioned until way, way down in this Times story. Same for the detail that lots of previous benefits have been phased out and rolled into UC. But above all, the TPA is a pressure group funded by people who avoid and evade tax.
One in five adults are on universal credit
More than seven million people are claiming the UK's main benefit, including a million people in their twenties, Taxpayers' Alliance research says
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Daisy Eastlake, Political Reporter
Monday September 21 2026, 7.00pm, The Times
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 21/09/2026
That Wes Streeting ordered this report *less than a month* after NHS England delivered the second part of its independent inquiry into exactly the same thing more than suggests he wanted a very specific answer. Shame on him and on MPs for using health as a scapegoat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Peter Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tilly Norwood is not real. Ask yourself why they created a young female bot to make films with who cannot say "no", has no inconvenient personal life, and will never age.
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Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some #bloomscrolling to break up the doomscrolling: Borage, Marvel of Peru, and Snapdragons 🌱
Borage plant with bright blue, five-petalled flowersClose-up of a Marvel of Peru plant, a bright golden flower flecked with hot pinkBright magenta snapdragon flowers growing out of some wildflower/weeds
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.
Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Disabled people must have a guaranteed right to travel abroad, MPs and peers have warned in light of “ridiculous” rules imposed by local NHS care boards and councils. Latest from me and @patrickjbutler.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Disabled people in UK need right to travel abroad, say MPs, after ‘ridiculous’ restrictions
Campaigners describe ‘brazenly discriminatory’ practices around funding from NHS care boards
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm sure that legitimising "throw a tantrum, get what you want" as a method of political action will not in any way repeatedly bite the government on the arse anytime they need to do anything.
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Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now catching up on last weeks Taskmaster, and I may already have bored J with my recollections of the water and steam museum that is this series non-house filming location. (It's a really cool museun if you like big machinery and steam things - at least when I last went 25 years ago)
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Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Went to the new(ish - it's only been open just over a year, new record for me) Roman museum in town today, very nice - love the latest edition of footprints in rooftiles 😁
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New friend to pet!!! (cc @nuclearanthro.bsky.social) www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine how much of a toxic nightmare bastard you would have to be to blockade and shut down a lifeboat station. Not only that, a lifeboat station run by *volunteers*. Some of the bravest and most selfless people this country has, hounded and intimidated by some of its most pathetic pricks.
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How your email finds me #art #cats #ExistentialCrisis
Doodle of an orange cat sprawled out face down on the floor in a puddle of tears. Text reads “how your email finds me”
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 17/09/2026
Cat looking at rice fields near Asakusa, Colour woodblock print by Hiroshige (1857)
Cat looking at rice fields near Asakusa, Colour woodblock print by Hiroshige (1857)
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another Berlin museum day with @alisonfisk.bsky.social : rooms full of stories, conversations full of laughter, and a beer to toast it all. I’ll leave the rest to this whimsical owl on a silver coin. 🦉🪙 Tetradrachm, Athens, around 450 BC. On display at Bode-Museum
A close-up of a silver coin depicting an owl and the inscription "ATHE" in Greek letters.
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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's the same picture.
Carter Burke, the company guy in Aliens.Sam Altman of OpenAi
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There should not be a camp of people seeking asylum near Piddington because no person seeking asylum should be in camps - it’s performative, it’s expensive and will only cause more harm
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A lot of people seem to take it as a fact that the private sector has secret efficiency magic the public sector doesn't have. It doesn't. It pays workers less and charges more for the same service. That's like 99% of private sector "efficiency." And everyone's worse off, except shareholders.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Delegates at #TUC26 have voted to condemn the EHRC code of practice and to back self-ID for trans people
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 15/09/2026
Something spooky this way comes! Yes the ghosts are baaaaaaaack! From 19th September to 1st November ghostly wire sculptures will appear in green spaces across the city, including the Hall's garden. Spooooktacular!
We are looking at an opaque wire sculpture in the shape of a medieval female merchant.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Given the manufactured "AI might turn us into paperclips!" hype, this post is relevant again.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More on Reform’s new super-donor: Delo agreed to pay a $10mn fine and was sentenced to 30 months’ probation, while the Department of Justice fined the exchange $100mn in January 2025.” www.ft.com/content/410b...
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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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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Wayland Yutani having an office in Canary Warf makes sense.
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