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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 11h

Labour only being a clowncar party like the Tories and Reform by confusing the job of actual governance with their own raging egos.

Starmer and Mahmood need to be struck off, tbh.

Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13h

Fuck off!!!!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

"All it took was an international terror campaign run by the government to prove it's natural to be cis"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 8h

Frying brains online

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 8h

Amphifa: Amphibians Against Fascism 🐸

Fight psy-ops with psy-ops! Wear an inflatable costume on Oct 18th! ☮️

Vive la Révolution (des animaux gonflables)! ✊🏼

tinyurl.com/inflatableport

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 10h

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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Author is a "senior policy researcher" at The Prosperity Institute, which used to be known as the Legatum Institute

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

If we don’t speak up for the communities that Trump is terrorizing right now, we will be next.

His authoritarianism will come for all of us in the end. https://youtu.be/tkaBlgXR8tY?si=bJcUxXZWMrae4kwx

No One Is Safe From Trump's Authoritarianism

Robert Reich

youtu.be

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 4h

...but if you'd like to lay your peepers on a trippy, horror television series starring Robert Englund that Wes Craven DID directly create and curate, I suggest checking out NIGHTMARE CAFE. It's about a diner not beholden to the rules of space or time that draws in the unusual, strange, and dead.

A promo ad for 1992's NIGHTMARE CAFE, featuring series leads Jack Coleman and Lindsay Frost in vintage diner server apparel looking on as Rober Englund looks over a menu.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

Me: “Why do you think ‘Succession’ was such a big show?

Arian Moayed/'Stewy': "Because the truth of ‘Succession’ dials into what we’re witnessing every day in our news cycles. There’s an elite group of 10 to 15 people that run everything."

Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/succession...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 5h

And this is how you professionally troll a puritanical Christian Nationalist. BUTTS AND BOOBS!

Portland: 10
Johnson: 0

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

This surge is now absolutely phenomenal.

110,000 members.

That's +5000 in the last 24 hours alone!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 16h

Every time I read another story about a deal OpenAI has made and how much that deals has pumped stock prices, the less it feels like a bubble and the more like a literal Ponzi scheme

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18h

A little boy walks through East London with his mum.
Boy: (as if suddenly realising): We're both together!
Mum (smiling) Yes. We are.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 6h

Sitges (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

Sunlight breaking through storm clouds over the Sitges town beach. In the foreground, two people sheltering beneath an umbrella walk past a Re-animator poster.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 14h

There is extensive scientific evidence for the existence of trans people and in support of the sort of best practice which the Greens are supporting. I don't understand where you see support for trans people as "unscientific"? I hope it's not based on the simplistic biological understanding of GCs.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 18h

I'm no fan of the Greens, but the Spectator rolling out Gareth Roberts to do a (really bad) hit piece on their recent membership growth really underlines where the right are at the moment - utterly lost and represented by a coterie of the very worst human beings imaginable. And ordinary folk see it.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

I saw some references to a study showing fewer young people were trans. The author is "Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science" who recently published "The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism."

His "science" has the credibility of a wet fart.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

The "study" is by Eric Kaufman, a DeSantis supporter who left his post at the University of London citing "cancel culture." He believes that trans identity is a social contagion.

Here's what he believes his study proves.

Executive Summary
• After surging in the 2010s and 20s, trans and queer identities are in decline among young Americans
• The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from
nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent
• The share of students identifying as not heterosexual fell by around 10 points in the same period
• The decline in non-heterosexual share is concentrated in the queer or other sexual categories (i.e.
pansexual, asexual) and, to a lesser extent, bisexuality
• Today’s freshmen are less BTQ+ than seniors, suggesting that decline will continue
• The decline in BTQ+ identification does not appear to be connected to lower social media use, religious
revival, a shift to the political right or lower support for woke ideology
• There is evidence that improved mental health has reduced BTQ+ identification

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5h

presume I'm not the first person to say this but real cool that actual human adults can't get up to regular, legal human adult stuff online anymore but somehow the robots doing porn will be fine

real cool!

The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 5h

I covered politics as a reporter more than a decade ago.
I’m back in the swing and I have some news for you, America:
The divide isn’t political anymore — it’s ethical.
Corrupt or not.
That’s the line now.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 6h

I swear I did not have "I'm better at ducking bullets than Charlie Kirk" on my Donny Batshit Bingo card

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 5h

A Robin and thrush day in the mist-nets at the Bill today, with 23 Robins, 16 Blackbirds and 10 Song Thrushes making up over half of the day's total of 92 ringed; Chiffchaff and Goldcrest reduced to just single figures each; third Dartford Warbler of the month the best of the oddities.

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 6h

CCDH researchers tested 120 prompts on GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that GPT-5 could actually increase risks for users.

Read more about our new report in @theguardian.com ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3W1RdAa

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Mick Brooks @mick666.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty good set of photos to methodically work through:

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