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I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The fact that September is all that stands between August and October is ridiculous. Those are two very different states of being. Feel like there should be at least one more month in-between them to ensure a smooth handover.

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course there's an icy moons community on Bluesky. Of course.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 02/10/2026

I regularly go through the NASA Apollo flickr archives looking for photos where the astronauts look silly. It's enrichment for me.

Astronauts John W. Young, right, prime crew commander for Apollo 16, and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, left, study rock formations along their simulated lunar traverse route. They are wearing mockup EVA backpacks and have cameras strapped to their chest. For some reason John Young is wearing an ushanka with aviators on top of this look. He looks. Indescribably silly.

Two members of the prime crew of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission examine a rock specimen during lunar surface extravehicular activity simulation training on a geological field trip to the Pancake Range area of south-central Nevada. They are astronauts Eugene A. Cernan (right), commander; and Harrison H. Schmitt (left), lunar module pilot. They're wearing the EVA backpacks and have cameras strapped to their chests. Jack Schmitt's hat is only half on his head. Gene Cernan has a polo and what appears to be golf pants on. It's fashion.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My favourite bit of the NYT article was this:

A Rabbi told Anthropic that he personally didn't believe that they were creating conscious beings, but that if Anthropic truly believed they were, then by that definition they were creating slaves, which would obviously be an extremely bad thing

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's turtles all the way down

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alexandra Pierce reviews CODE AND CODEX by Yoon Ha Lee: “This novel is magnificent and I hope it finds many readers who will engage with its themes of censor¬ship and totalitarianism and human possibility.” locusmag.com/review/...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More and more, for me the point of art in any form is: how do we stay human?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had never heard of Sarum College as a writing retreat destination. Or indeed at all. Added to the list!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two-tier British citizenship latest.

Conservatives to strip migrant criminals of British citizenship

Dual nationals serving sentences over five years could lose passports under the proposals

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I own a couple of pieces by @elakdawalla.bsky.social and they are so cool.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The goodreads reviews of The End of Everything are just phenomenal.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If British politics had any decency left, party leaders would be queuing up to be photographed with lifeboat crews.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2023

pov: you're a regional cryptid about to have the worst day of your life

X Files publicity still of a backlit Mulder and Scully in trenechcoats looking sternly at the camera

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The local elections were on 7 May--one hundred and thirty seven days ago--so this is steady depletion at a rate of just over one lost Councillor per day, every day. #clownshow

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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What the actual hell are you talking about?!

A WSJ headline reading “George Lucas’s museum confuses illustration with art”

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yom Kippur starts at sunset. My synagogue now has a concrete crash barrier in front of its always-locked gates and blast-resistant curtains.

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Phil Mercer @philmercer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Commitment to job… 5am and the Botley Rd in Oxford finally reopens! You saw it here first!

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

six hours and thirty minutes on the ryanair 737 max between québec city and "brussels south" charleroi airport, screaming toddlers, drunk people, and flight attendants constantly trying to sell you scratchcards. that's real europe

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I like to think of myself as "off the spectrum."

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very good discussion in thread...

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

« sorry i’m late, boss. yeah, more cloud pics »

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is just a test to see if any Channel 4 commissioners are on Bluesky.

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

nationalmuseums.org.uk

Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Producers with Nigel Farage as Max Bialystock.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What he doesn't realize is if the yuri writers get replaced, their backup plan is to finish their papers on probabilistic approaches to nonlinear dynamics. So, it should all even out.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This wasn't unusual. The ferry between Bridgeport and Port Jefferson (a Greek American enclave) was swarmed by cops after someone reported "terrorists planning something" (two mustachioed Greek speakers) in the days after 9/11...

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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Certainly this explains the attitude of the current Palestinian and Israeli leadership.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Well, I’ve the day off to read, and I set out my books, and maps, and headphones. I pop back inside for a moment.. I’ve come back to this. I’m surprised he hasn’t also drunk all my waiting coffee.

A garden chair, filled with books, yellow headphones, and an OS Map of the Lea valley.

A big marmalade cat is asleep atop all of of. The September sun has found him and is showering him with praise about his lovely orange fur.

Same but closer up, and my shadow has crossed the cat and he is unrolling like a big orange french pastry rising in the oven.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Maxim Matusevich’s fiction is filled with people crossing borders—between countries, languages, identities, and versions of the past. Svetlana Satchkova interviewed him about his debut story collection and unlikely path to fiction thru immigration and academia. Read on the blog and buy the book!

Light blue background with a brown text box, two author portraits and a book cover.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

September 10, 1993: "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson debuts on Fox.

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