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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

@mitildide.bsky.social

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3h

Oh dear @theguardian.com

Hugo Boss did not design any Nazi uniforms, he did manufacture them, was a war profiteering Nazi scumbag who used forced labour, but he did not design the uniforms.
The truth makes Boss even worse.
More information here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/n...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 2h

The Covid wave in England has reached Very High levels of risk, with around 1 in every 103 people in England infected as of 12 October. Now is the time to take maximum precautions against catching Covid.

buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 12 October 2025

buds.org.uk

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 20h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Profolus @profolus.com · 3h

KONSYSE: What if aid success depended less on money and more on how people share? Give money to a grandparent in one village, and a child eats better. Give it in another, and only their friends benefit.

Cash Transfers Do Not Travel Fairly. Culture Decides Their Direction — Konsyse

Government aid rarely stays with its recipients. Social structure decides whether money supports children, elders, or peers.

www.konsyse.com

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 14h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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ScarEd Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, it's the one where Jessica Fletcher "inherits" a brothel.

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🎃Scarlett The Vampire Slayer 🎃 @dialancea.bsky.social · 1d

Me when a monster tries to jumpscare me

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ScarEd Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 5h

Good luck old chap.

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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 7h

Just received the transcript of the now infamous AI Jokebot malfunction

"Ken Dodd died"
"Jamaica?"
"No, it's just the way I walk"

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 12h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place

Discovery Course 1

www.sas.ac.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

As a French teacher at Beckenham and Penge Grammar School, he was exempt from military service because teaching was a ‘reserved occupation’, but he registered as a ‘conchie’ on principle anyway. Then he changed his mind, because he didn’t think pacifism was enough against Nazis

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 20h

I assume all the 'hurty word' free speech warriors that were crying their eyes out over Lucy Connolly will be absolutely furious about the guy who has just been sent to prison for his social media posts about Nigel Farage.

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WHO @who.int · 9h

Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%.

Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u

Text reads “Antibiotic resistance is rising,” with an upward arrow and a “40%” warning icon. Below, a text box says: “Between 2018 and 2023, resistance increased in over 40% of the monitored pathogen–antibiotic combinations, with an annual rise of 5–15%.”

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 23h

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 8h

There is a similar conversation to be had about paywalls.

Yes, they are annoying. Yes, once upon a time we were promised micropayments for articles.

But “information wants to be expensive”. Of course it does. It has real value. It requires work.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 8h

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

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ScarEd Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 8h

This should be a sackable offence.

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 8h

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

www.thebookseller.com

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Debbie @dragongirl74.bsky.social · 21h

Finally got my first TPK on Sunday. Playing Shiver Blockbuster Starter Set, my players ticked the Doom clock all the way up, so I set off a volcanic eruption and immortalised them all in lava. Even got a round of applause for it. Horror games can be fun.

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ScarEd Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 20h

Poor starving dog.

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