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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 7h
Something really fishy going on with absentee ballots for overseas voters for the American midterms. In all the years I have lived in the UK I have never not received a ballot. This year it seems to have gone missing. What do I do? Any suggestions? Apparently it was meant to have arrived mid-Sept.
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 11h
Researchers reveal that this year alone, 48 prehistoric arrows have been discovered and recovered from melting ice in Jotunheimen. ​ secretsoftheice.com/news/2026/09... #globalmuseum #stoneage #history #climatechange
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11h
Nobody wants this shit anymore. They've totally overestimated the support they'd get, even from their own community. People can't pay their bills or get a hospital appointment. Waiting lists here they'd riot over in England, last thing anyone need is this bollocks.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 10h
Also, watch Duck Soup. It's 93 years old and it's still the best anti-war satire ever made. It's arch and FURIOUS and wise...it came out 10 months after Hitler came to power and Mussolini took it so personally he banned it in Italy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 9h
It is despicable that Acaster has been forced to become a traitor so early in the game. It has eviscerated him. He would have been glorious at the round table as a faithful, and instead he's sat there like a chump, not really knowing what to do or say.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 19h
Americans with kids or without:
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They do know that all the supported NFP businesses & colleges that supported youngsters with disabilities in to employment were closed as part of austerity, don't they? The progressive Labour Party, kicking our most vulnerable instead of taxing the super-rich. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a great thing. Thank you to everyone who has signed, and continue to sign.
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well I made it to Litomyšl for the Jan Švankmajer: Reliquaries and Fetishes exhibition at Miroslav Kubik Gallery! What a thrill, got to meet a couple of bonafide movie stars in the White Rabbit and Little Otik. Also great to see some brand new pieces for 2026 - 92 and still going strong..!
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jaysus, it seems 90% of the people I follow are all highly politically motivated activists and not Celebrity Traitors watchers. I should have planned this better.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah that's right. Pick on the autistic guy! My 'Mum' feelings were *very* high for Mr Acaster there. Leave him alone, you buggers, he needs to settle in!
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The sun and a slight feeling of companionship, perhaps, later in the afternoon:
A man reads in a sunny bit of back garden, with a fox very asleep close by
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Being forced to listen to Taylor Swift whingeing on the in-office radio. She really is struggling with who she is, during her 30's. My guess is her next project is creating small humans.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a nightmare
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 01/10/2026
I’m very proud of this design. It was a joy working with @pacarnahan.bsky.social
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Daughter is volunteering at the LFF for the BFI. My Dad worked at the BFI for 11 years, during which my brother, then 14, thew an umbrella to Gene Kelly, as he tap danced on stage (there's a photo somewhere). I think my Dad would not very secretly be overjoyed at current developments.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over and over again this happens. Secret libraries, hidden books...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Younger fox lifted its head slightly as the Beloved went past the trampoline, then resumed its 'complete zonk' position.
A fox lies absolutely flt out sleeping on a back garden trampoline with a net whilst a man sits slightly further away reading
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT
I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mic drop moment at our event on the sidelines of #labconf26 in Liverpool, when @labourlewis.bsky.social revealed a letter from Tom Watson showing Palantir has tracked his mentioning them nearly 130 times. Is there anything Palantir doesn’t want to know about us?
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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social have just made their books available to buy in the US, including 'Terminal Zones', the cover of which they have erected as a gigantic public artwork in the centre of Manhattan.
Terminal zones by Gareth E 
Rees a book of short stories published by Influx Press pictured in park with tower blocks beyond
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The only problem with drying your washing on the line at this time of year (and, I mean obviously, having a 'wildlife' garden as opposed to a manicured plastic lawn) is that by the time you bring the washing in, you've got twice as many very large autumn house spiders in your home.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just heard a bird I've never herd before, whilst putting the washing out. Apparently, it's a Coal Tit. Small, black, grey and white, making mid-range trilling sound that descends slightly at the end. I saw it flash through the Yew tree for a second and it was indeed black and white. Nice!
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@herring1967.bsky.social I just caught up with episode 2. Rich, your little people in the car! The detail! Good lord man, all these years you could have been in a potter's studio, putting your degree to good use. Very well done🎉🎉
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Humans came from what became Africa, but look, we get bats, in Europe. Because we are vampi- I mean because we are obviously cool, and have lots of caves.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK median pay of employee is £31884 a year, net £26476. Working-age adult needs to earn £31500 to reach minimum income standard . Lone parent with 2 children needs £67600. Couple with 2 children needs £77400. Can't get growth without redistribution. Chancellor must cut tax on the poorest 50%.
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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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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two tickets now available for tonight's third last RHLSTP. Perfect for you and a friend you don't want to speak to www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/richard...
leicestersquaretheatre.com
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - Leicester Square Theatre
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP!  Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcas...
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am shocked that pursuing a racist, xenophobic agenda is somehow bad for the economy. How could Britain's 'progressive' Labour Party have realised?
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right. Ok. So: he's not *actually* going to do anything, but he will put it in a manifesto. So no kicking the can down the road at fall, no sir.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is all so appalling. These pond scum. I run out of words. The fallout from this, for so many women...
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 27/09/2026
🚨 “The risk of losing these people is too great for our sector.” Methodist Homes CEO Sam Monaghan warns against driving away the migrant care workers our care system relies on. They deserve fairness, dignity and security. It’s time for #FairVisasNow.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cycling around and feeling incredibly sweaty to the point of feeling a bit shaky, wondering if I'm coming down with something.... Oh. Humidity 85-90%. Argh.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No slightly dubious looking video involved
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Damn Interesting @damninteresting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Blind chimp in Louisiana regains sight after cataract surgery www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
Blind chimp in Louisiana regains sight after cataract surgery
‘Watching Pierre look at me again was something I will never forget.’
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Live from my dad's workbench, another two of his carved pumpkin ghosts. I'll make them available in his shop tomorrow from 5pm... 👻 wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
Two wood carved sheet ghosts holding pumpkins.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Huh. Well he's one for the constant change, isn't he. (This sounds great).
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is very interesting. The 'Internet generation' going out and selling out cinemas for an excessively literate view of popular media as was.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is... I knew Ben-Gvir was an evil man but this is all out war provocation
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reaching the end, and it's acute rendering of the chaos and horror at the end of the Tianenmen Square protest has made me feel anxious and stressed on behalf of the people in it, as if, if I hadn't read it, they would have been ok. It remained exceptionally good and I now have a long reading list.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have never seen this so called patriot before. Funny, surprising, and slick, all in one.
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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stewart Lee has always been brilliant but his Nerve column really hits new heights. This should be required reading in schools - alongside ‘A Modest Proposal’. Although I guess, for balance, the poor teachers would have to find an equally good satire of the woke obsession with keeping people alive.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am so close to the end of the mighty spice reorganisation. I just need empty Sainsbury's jars. Probably about 15 of them. Maybe 10. So, er, if you have any ;) I'm picking them up in dribs & drabs. Sainsbury's really need to sell them empty.
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Burnham says 'Universal free social care'. It's a shame that it is nearly always personal experience that pushes things forward, not the empathy required for a just society. That having been said, let's keep our fingers crossed.
Any Burnham quote from a Guardian newspaper report.
“If I look at the people who cared for my dad, they must just feel invisible to the political class,” he said. “They work day in, day out, with huge humour and humanity and skill in what they do … caring for other people’s parents on poverty pay. How have we let this go on so long?”
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 27/09/2026
Every day public service workers show up for us. Now it's the government's turn to show up for public services. Invest more. Insource now. Pay fair. Add your name to our petition: 🔗 buff.ly/ettTyDo #WeShowUp #InsourceNow #PayFair
Care worker: Invest more. Insource now. Pay Fair.Paramedic: Invest more. Insource now. Pay Fair.School support staff: Invest more. Insource now. Pay Fair.Invest more. Insource now. Pay Fair.
Every day, public service workers show up for us - now it’s the government’s turn to show up for public services.
Sign the petition
unsn.uk/we-show-up-petition
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Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The librarians having a meeting
A model of the puppet of Charles Darwin from the Aardman animation Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists; one of the pixel characters from the first 3D tv cartoon ReBoot and a tiny Emperor Zurg standing in a row in front of a bunch of books on a shelf
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