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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 2h

Trivia: Right whales remain endangered. But their name tells you why they almost disappeared. Whalers named them the "right whales" to hunt because they were slow, docile, swam near the coast, and importantly, their increased blubber meant they floated after being killed so they could be harvested.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7h

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid.

It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine.

And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

can they stop inflicting this fucking guy on us, NOBODY likes him other than the women he brainwashed into his fucking cult

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ is set to have a loss of $132.7M.

(via t.co/Odawcc3Zfr)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

substance abuse is a significantly underreported driver of this administration's behavior

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

just like last time, we are gonna learn that everyone in this admin was fucked up on the job at all times

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Notes From The Void @voidpunkxenon.bsky.social · 2h

I mean we already know about Elon's ketamine habit

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Evolve to Crab 🦀🎄 @obscuricom.bsky.social · 3h

Finding out that Hitler & pretty much every Nazi was on some old school methamphetamines during WW2 connected all the dots for me.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

just like last time, we are gonna learn that everyone in this admin was fucked up on the job at all times

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah this wouldn’t have happened if we got them kids of the phone and got them watching the tv news and reading uk newspapers like the times and the telegraph 😔 its the online thats bad we swear

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 5h

Was it a culture of transphobia killed this girl? No it must be them phones

Esther Ghey please stop im begging you

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 6h

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 5h

How I feel about it is that it's really apparent there are full ass grown adults-really prominent and powerful ones at that-who have the exact same sentiments those kids had but they're not impulsive enough to lead it to direct violence rather legislate trans people to death via the courts-

Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 5h

That the murder of Brianna Ghey has been so completely co-opted by the "ban kids from using phones" brigade sickens me to my fucking core. Whatever her killers were looking at it's undeniable that the landslide of transphobic propaganda in the media played a crucial role in their choice of victim.

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 5h

-and rather than come to terms with that (especially with Labour's rather prominent transphobic record) they need to go down the "iPhone Bad" route to try to push the focus elsewhere

I absolutely put full complicity in this murder on the media and certain political forces here

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 5h

Also wild that the response to a transphobic hate crime isn't to examine the frightening normalisation of transphobia but to cut trans kids off one of the few resources they can find community and support on

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 5h

A trans teenager was murdered and what is being punished on a broad scale is her being trans instead of the bigotry

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4h

www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/scotlan...

Scotland’s first new broch for 2000 years wins planning approval

The approval of the Caithness Broch Project’s plans represents a major milestone for their bid to build a “faithful replica” on a site near Latheron.

www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk

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Enna-brae (dir. Dario Argento, 1982) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 5h

The thing that you should remember about Esther Ghey is that she herself has decided that social media and smart phones are a problem that needs to addressed. She's not just being exploited and manipulated by callous MPs to support their preferred policies; she signed up for this campaign herself

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 4h

I try really hard to not judge parents who have gone through such crippling loss, but is there a cause that Esther Ghey attaches herself to that doesn't harm more young trans girls who are desperate to find support and community?

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 5h

There is at least one London public relations agency which quite literally preys on newly bereaved parents to recruit them to become spokespeople for pre-packaged, mysteriously well-funded authoritarian campaigns, at a time when they're so vulnerable they don't know which way is up or down.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 5h

what the fuck are you talking about, she made a whole community of friends online and was stabbed to death by two of her classmates

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 6h

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 4h

The assault of a woman by an illegal Israeli settler in the town of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank is another horrific example of Israel's depraved subjugation of the Palestinian people, totally ignored by the British government.

Palestinian woman in hospital after being clubbed by masked Israeli settler

The attacker is seen striking the 55-year-old woman with a large wooden stick during the assault in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayaa.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 11h

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents

The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 4h

Brianna Ghey was a trans girl murdered by teens from school who she met in person. Her use of social media never did her harm, but British transphobia helped radicalize her young killers.

British transphobia hasn't missed a step, but her death has been used to justify increased surveillance online.

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 6h

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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Netpol @netpol.org · 5h

Good article that at least acknowledges that the "increasingly sinister securitisation of football fans at matches" is a problem – and includes this dig at Home Office bullshit that made us laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Perhaps, given the government’s recent record on policing protest, we should assume it has some classified intelligence on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fanbase that it is regrettably unable to share with us.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 23h

The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.

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Keith Hamilton Putnam @timetravel.camp · 1d

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 12h

I might go so far as to say Wikipedia is the single most important website on today’s internet. Maybe the internet in general. It is a necessary resource and we need to do all we can to support it.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 4d

yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.

I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.

Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.

It's good.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 4d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 9h

It should be illegal to do any Christmas stuff before December tbh.

Double illegal to do it before Halloween.

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