Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺
@margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Dutch resident, Australian writer (fiction, TV, film, librettos) with earlier careers in law & biology.
Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA
[🚫DM unless we know each other]
https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan
https://www.margaretmorgan.info/
Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA
[🚫DM unless we know each other]
https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan
https://www.margaretmorgan.info/
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My periodic plea to @bsky.app.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
My periodic plea to @bsky.app.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My periodic plea to @bsky.app.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
Can we please have "Trending" filters by region? If you're going to allow folk from outside the US to use this site, it'd be great if its functionality catered to us too.
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Fewer people coming (by 30% in a year!), more people leaving. How to reduce net migration by making your country shit. on.ft.com/4p1MuLr
Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000
Immigration falls sharply alongside a slight rise in people leaving
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Fewer people coming (by 30% in a year!), more people leaving. How to reduce net migration by making your country shit. on.ft.com/4p1MuLr
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About that 'device hoarding' BS...STOP buying the latest so called-tech. You're fine. Give your wallet a rest.
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
About that 'device hoarding' BS...STOP buying the latest so called-tech. You're fine. Give your wallet a rest.
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All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
Good plan. Starting with itself.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Good plan. Starting with itself.
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Strong EP majority acts on e-commerce scandals! 🚨
The sale of illegal, unsafe products (like childlike sex dolls on SHEIN) is unacceptable. Investigations are not enough. These platforms will only react to sanctions: high fines and suspension from our market.
The sale of illegal, unsafe products (like childlike sex dolls on SHEIN) is unacceptable. Investigations are not enough. These platforms will only react to sanctions: high fines and suspension from our market.
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Strong EP majority acts on e-commerce scandals! 🚨
The sale of illegal, unsafe products (like childlike sex dolls on SHEIN) is unacceptable. Investigations are not enough. These platforms will only react to sanctions: high fines and suspension from our market.
The sale of illegal, unsafe products (like childlike sex dolls on SHEIN) is unacceptable. Investigations are not enough. These platforms will only react to sanctions: high fines and suspension from our market.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Capitulation-collaboration…is there much difference anymore?
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Capitulation-collaboration…is there much difference anymore?
It's also a recipe for PTSD down the track, for these poor children.
The US is lawless and broken.
The US is lawless and broken.
Kids as young as 3 and 4 years old are being hauled into immigration court in Seattle and read their rights.
They’re being told they have the right to an attorney despite having no capacity to hire one or understand what that means.
As Rep Jayapal says, that’s not due process… it’s a farce.
They’re being told they have the right to an attorney despite having no capacity to hire one or understand what that means.
As Rep Jayapal says, that’s not due process… it’s a farce.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It's also a recipe for PTSD down the track, for these poor children.
The US is lawless and broken.
The US is lawless and broken.
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
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Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.
There comes a point where the distinction between conspiracy theories and paranoid psychosis becomes wafer thin.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
There comes a point where the distinction between conspiracy theories and paranoid psychosis becomes wafer thin.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Dutch public broadcaster NOS is finally leaving Xitter.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Dutch public broadcaster NOS is finally leaving Xitter.
This is so good. It mightn't save the world, but it'll save species and ecosystems... and is a perfect antidote to climate anxiety and despair.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is so good. It mightn't save the world, but it'll save species and ecosystems... and is a perfect antidote to climate anxiety and despair.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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your brain on narcissism, yes men, and chatbots that take full advantage of it
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
your brain on narcissism, yes men, and chatbots that take full advantage of it
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Nature Communications: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of vaccination on prevention of long COVID / Rhiannon Green et al
go.nature.com/4rgBz22
go.nature.com/4rgBz22
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Nature Communications: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of vaccination on prevention of long COVID / Rhiannon Green et al
go.nature.com/4rgBz22
go.nature.com/4rgBz22
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Reposted by Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺
The surprise factor should have died a while back.
Kill it in the crib Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business share.google/yHvW345Glzsk...
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
share.google
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The surprise factor should have died a while back.
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