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innes @innes.bsky.social · 13h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

line goes up is a religion

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 3h

Gavin Williamson claimed education unions were “blockers” at the COVID enquiry yesterday.

We were trying to save lives.

Our member, Donna Coleman, died on his watch.

@drjogrady.bsky.social on Newsnight.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 4h

Have listened through ep. 3 of @bloodwork.show and @gotitatguineys.bsky.social has once again worked his wizardry and made me sound witty, intellectual, perhaps even charming, and most importantly coherent.

If you haven't already had a listen, get involved, because this next one's a banger.

An Introduction to Blood Work

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 22h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17h

“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?”

Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

And they‘re all such overt creepy losers. Subormals.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

These are not smart guys, and things got out of hand

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 22h

UK Covid Inquiry (paraphrased)

We didn’t think too much about the “science” of health risks to children’s or making schools safer to protect them.. because “politics”- the government was worried about the economy & wanted the schools open

Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 23h

Q- Was there any realisation on your part that this could have profound implications for children?

A - The whole government policy - was about maintaining both the economy and schools to be open. I do not believe that significant weight was attached to scientific advise.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 21h

Well it's a fight you provoked and a fight you're getting unless you decide to leave us the fuck alone.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

Privileged ‘gender critical’ transphobes abusing their positions of power in National newspapers to propagandise their own personal brand of hate to attack trans people are a fight actual feminists could do without.

… But here we are! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😣

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 20h

The way gender criticals keep revealing that they truly thought once they made being trans in public illegal trans people would just quietly go away is so infuriating and insulting, but at least they sound really demoralized from it. I hope it's bad enough that they fuck off!

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 20h

I said after the SC ruling that we'd basically already defeated them, however much shit they throw at us. Trans people will always exist. They can't bring about a world without trans people in it. So naturally they're demoralised, because they might win the odd battle but they can never win the war.

Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 20h

The way gender criticals keep revealing that they truly thought once they made being trans in public illegal trans people would just quietly go away is so infuriating and insulting, but at least they sound really demoralized from it. I hope it's bad enough that they fuck off!

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17h

It's extremely funny to email me from Vice Studios asking for help making a documentary out of my reporting from before Vice laid everyone off. Personally I would be embarrassed to do that but your mileage may vary lol

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

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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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13h

For Danny Finkelstein, the systematic and deliberate massacres of civilians, and the use of mass starvation as a weapon, is the fault of Hamas and some unnamed individuals - as opposed to him and his fellow apologists.

archive.ph/CaNZH

And yes, there rose in Israel a war coalition, including vengeful and obnoxious individuals seeking the eradication of neighbours they saw as enemies.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

People had to complain to get Polanski an interview.

Weird nobody has to beg the BBC to give Farage airtime.

I mean, it's not actually weird. We all know what it is and why it happens.

Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 15h

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

www.thenational.scot

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 14h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16h

My review for The War on Science got picked up. Yay. Cutting it down again to 4k words. Will make reference to the video by @shaunvids.bsky.social (highly recommend). Could honestly write something of that length with still no overlap with Shaun. There’s a lot there youtu.be/tyU5Xkk6TuE?...

The War on Science

YouTube video by Shaun

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 13h

If you've not read the judgement, do. It's amazing.