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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 7h
Nigel Farage calls Andy Burnham a "lair" for saying Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum in 2016. He cites Boris Johnson, a notorious compulsive liar who did his best to bury the Russia Report, as evidence that Russia did not interfere. "The Russia hoax has run all the way through this."
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 7h
If I were Farage, I probably wouldn't remind everyone how much of a Russian asset I am.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/10/2026
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is gonna be the first November where the poppyshaggers have full, unrestricted access to Gen AI. It's going to be horrific.
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All executions are barbaric. The primary difference with a public execution is that the barbarism is made obvious. Mankind cannot bear that reality.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 10/10/2026
"Tax is Theft" sure whatever but a sexy cartoon fox taught me that stealing from rich people is the morally correct thing to do, and who am I to argue with a sexy cartoon fox?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026
Pentagon To Livestream Firing Squad Execution theonion.com/pentagon-to-livestream…
“No way is this administration capable of setting up a working livestream.”

Willem Brydon, Unemployed
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
these are just very bad people and they make it extremely clear every single day
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy anniversary to my beautiful wife @snipethesorrow.bsky.social, pictured here playing Pokemon Go. Like a fuckin’ nerd. ❤️
Snipe, playing Pokemon Go, like a nerd.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Queen Hayley
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
calendars, how do they work
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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just give it up, man. Just give it up. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/man-who-de...
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Man Who Denies Allegations Also Seeks to Deny Ageing Process
Cristiano Ronaldo is now a middle-aged man so, as an older middle-aged man than he (bordering on old, really), I’m urging him to drop this “I’m still a footballer” nonsense.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IMO, the issue is not the monetary contribution, it's that an awful lot of people conflate fun activities that you do in your spare time as also being the same thing in terms of work, as in - not *real* work Games are enjoyable activities you do on the evenings and weekends with your mates
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch saying people earning a million pounds a year shouldn't be punished for working hard, and in all my years on this earth I don't think I've ever been so naïve as to think people getting that much money are working hard.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A cynical part of me thinks the only reason these ghouls are pushing the “AI could be conscious rhetoric” is because when it comes to deciding whether humans or data centers should get access to limited energy and water resources, they want ambiguity about why humans should clearly take precedent.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly, if Hesgeth wants to make his troops fighting angry he should just tell them what their mortgage payments are about to be.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can’t think of anything that could go wrong with advertising that a letter contains a passport These people are as dumb as rocks
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I first did standup, at uni, I had a joke that went over quite well, about it being easy to get in touch with Ms Dynamite because 'there aren't many of those in the phone book'. Before long, I was finding some audiences couldn't recall (a) who that was and (b) even WHAT that was.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/02/2026
who replies "Ah yes, my friend. It is the violins inherent in the capitalist cistern"
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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do not cite "bold iconographic elements" to me, Witch! I was there when it was written 😤
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Pruit Igoe @pruitigoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
is it mind boggling - seems pretty obvious why to me.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kaitensatsuma @kaitensatsuma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's somewhat Ironic that Death, who starts out as a somewhat stereotypical anthropomorphized entity becomes one of the most human characters across all the books
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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS. LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dicey "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" June @diceyjune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You cant waterboard me into saying "im having fun. And NO GIRLS ALLOWED"
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham: "We will not give Britain the clear path we need into the rest of this century until we decide on a long-term relationship with what is still our largest market. I cannot say to you truthfully that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good."
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.
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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026
People REALLY don’t like being told they’re wrong. What the far right have done is weaponise this and tell people that the feelings of bigotry that they’re secretly ashamed of are actually good. And if deployed cunningly this works on far more people than you'd think, which is exhausting.
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