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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11h

Sister of Wyatt?

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11h

One interesting outcome of modern mores is that almost every footballer I can name, I know because of people publicly thirsting over them, which in practice means I know Jack Grealish extremely well and no women

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not a sexist which is why I hold men’s AND women’s football in disdain

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11h

On the one hand, it’s great to be making progress in reversing millennia of sexism in who gets lauded for sporting achievements. On the other, people tweet about football twice as much now

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14h

Unquestionably good that the conclusion of the Your Party/Green Party tussle seems to be no leftism without trans liberation.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously blue and black

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 16h

“This list may not reflect recent changes”

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19h

Bloody tiktokers

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19h

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

news.sky.com/video/donald...

Donald Trump shares 'what's next' for Gaza AI video on his Truth Social platform

The video shows a rebuilt "Riviera" in Gaza, golden balloons with Trump's face on them, golden statues of the president and AI images of him and Benjamin Netanyahu lounging in the beach.

news.sky.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

exquisite timing

The Economist @economist.com · 2d

This week, the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns will play pre-season games in Macau. The excitement, and the stakes, could hardly be higher for those involved

All eyes on the NBA as its players return to China

Next month its teams will play in front of Chinese fans for the first time in six years

econ.st

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

but i'm learning to use the parry instead

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

reluctantly i have to admit that "and now, as usual, I have been proven right" is just an all time great turn of phrase

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t like the fact that you’re so much further than me but also haven’t done first sinner yet. Suggests I may be banging my head against that wall

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

Watching someone stride into a lift, displacing a pushchair, and then stride onto an escalator at the next floor is just so aggravating. It’s not a luxury transport option for you to take when you don’t feel like walking down the other end of the platform

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

www.theverge.com/news/796760/... mad that the UK and Australian governments didn't go this route

www.theverge.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

yes right just got it

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

b what

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

somewhat annoying to spend lots of my time going "AGI and superintelligence sound puffy but they are terms of art that it's useful being precise with so that we all know what we're talking about" and then having Sam Altman say this in an interview stratechery.com/2025/an-inte...

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

biggest failing in futurist fiction was the general assumption that biological supremacism would be a right-wing-coded belief

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

“Queen Elizabeth II might have scrolled through AI slop on instagram” is going to be one of these that hits hard in not that long

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

forgot the link www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Tories would abolish stamp duty, Badenoch tells party conference – UK politics live

Party leader says measure is a ‘bad tax’ and scrapping it would free up the housing market and improve social mobility

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

how dead is the tory party? dead enough that multiple people who support this exact policy have texted me in dismay that it's now backed by Kemi Badenoch

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

no 👍

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

weyyyyy queen

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