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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 1h

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17h

"In an era when it’s exceedingly hard to learn what the Old Masters knew, Art + Water will impart those skills. These emerging artists must know how to draw, and from there, they’ll be taught everything Rembrandt was taught." - Dave Eggers

The Story of Art + Water

For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 6h

congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social on being voted Beard of Autumn 2025
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski voted Beard of Autumn 2025

Beard Liberation Front contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266 15th October Green Party leader Zack Polanski voted Beard of Autumn 2025 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network …

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 10h

The whiplash from 'we are going to build responsible AI' and 'were worried about the addictive nature of these tools'

To:

'Were going to build a porn bot', 'were building a additctive, endless scroll social media app' and 'were bringing back the addictive model'

Is pretty big

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

To give human rights only to those tyranny likes is to destroy their very purpose.

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 11h

Latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social toon, out in print very soon

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Lee Spracklen @leespracklen.bsky.social · 10h

www.aaronhuertas.com/we-need-to-t...

We Need to Talk About Reactionary Centrists

Sympathizing with the right while punching left is not the neutral position pundits seem to think it is

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 23h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h

Stop trying to over-intellectualise these people. There is no grand philosophy behind it. It’s hate, it’s as simple as that. If you’re grasping for reasons why that can’t be, save yourself the energy. You’ll need it for something else.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h

You can’t burn your bridges with people who are committed to racism. The bridges never existed in the first place. That’s hard to understand for people who don’t have to navigate at least one situation a week where they or their loved ones are treated as subhuman. But it’s true.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

So you want to reduce non white immigration by setting … an exam? In 20 years you’ll be complaining (again) that there are too many Asians.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

Love this photograph by Gerda Taro. Sailors having a right old time on board Republican battleship 'Jaime I'. Almería harbour, 1937. Galician pipes, accordion, banjo, palms. Let's imagine wild versions of A las Barricadas and Ay Carmela. Cristiano Ronaldo to the left of the accordionist?

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 1d

It's a strange state of affairs where world leaders have to consider whether public support of Trump's Nobel Prize quest can get them, say, a tariff reduction of 5 percentage points.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

A Level English Language.

Sigh. More no-evidence-based policy-making.

It will be IQ next and a million in the bank.

Just say we are closed and want to get on with completely counter-productive self-harm while we find the next scapegoats for our entirely avoidable misery

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

This. And this again.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"A giant military parade is just a fun, wholesome way to celebrate the birthday of America’s commander in chief. Claim otherwise, and we’ll be forced to send the National Guard to your city until you wise up."

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You

President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1d

A good piece, with a couple of examples of bad NYT headlines undermining good reporting as a bonus.

The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.

Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.

Propaganda.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff, who used to lean kind of liberal, has decided it's more convenient to be right-wing, and he owns Time. (I heard an interesting podcast conversation about how MAGA despises Silicon Valley oligarchs because they have no real commitments except maximal profit.)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Robert Campbell @madman2.bsky.social · 1d

We should just laugh and laugh and laugh at the stupidity and pointlessness of these "pundits"

Ignore the prophets of doom.
Brexit will be good for Britain Simon Jenkins 2016
From the day Britain left the
EU, this reset was inevitable.
What a pointless waste of time money and effort
Simon Jenkins 2025

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