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Andrew
@lesswrongmorekind.bsky.social
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Fan of science, nature, and equality and justice for all. Aiming to be less wrong and more kind. It seems a worthy goal.
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tykenn.games
"Trees Hate You" Steam page now live! Wishlist if you want to be bullied of horrible trees: store.steampowered.com/app/4171850/...
#indiegame #steamgame #ragegame #gamedev
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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rincewind.run
behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me

the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks
The ministry of silly walks, cross-stitched, with darth vader, darth maul, the emperor and kylo ren all doing silly walks
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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samirashackle.bsky.social
This looks like an interesting opportunity hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...
Apply to be a Temporary Journalist/Researcher
HOPE not hate is hiring a temporary journalist/researcher to investigate Reform UK and the far right. 3-month contract, £35k pro rata. Apply by 1 Feb.
hopenothate.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
This Sunday evening, episode one of Bear and Monk Debunk is live, in which @monkemma.bsky.social examines the shooting of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis and how it’s been misrepresented, while I dig into the panic and confusion around the Online Safety Act and X.

Listen below.
Bear and Monk Debunk #1: Minneapolis & The Online Safety Act
Separating fact from froth: Minneapolis, the Online Safety Act, and the misinformation pipeline connecting them.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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bobbyseagull.bsky.social
A thing just happened! 🤯📚

“Bobby Seagull MBE for services to public libraries”✨

Just on BBC News talking about my passion for books, libraries, and our incredible librarians ❤️📖 and why they're so vital to our communities.

Tomorrow
📺 BBC Breakfast 6.40am
🎙️ LBC 7.40am
📺 Good Morning Britain TBC
December 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old!
It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate.
Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD.

On display at British Museum

📷 me
A wreath made from a variety of 'everlasting' flowers, tied with fibre.
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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humanists.uk
'There is no hope but us. There is no mercy but us. There is no justice. There is just us... All things that are, are ours. Bot we must care. For it we do not care, we do not exist.' Terry Pratchett. Author and humanist.
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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moudhy.bsky.social
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.

Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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thatnatt.bsky.social
Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
The Royal Game of Ur from the British Museum
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).
A six-panel comic titled "Wildlife Tracking Tips". In panel 1, the text says "A white-tailed deer traveled through here," and there are white-tailed deer prints in fresh snow. In panel 2, the text says "An American Red Squirrel came by," and the leap marks of a red squirrel are in the snow. In panel 3, the text says "A Snowshoe Hare passed through," and there are the distinctive fluffy-footed marks from a snowshoe hare jumping across the snow. n panel 4, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare found a sword," and one of the front paw marks in the track has been replaced with a long thin line running alongside the track. In panel 5, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare is dual wielding," and both front paw marks have been replaced with long thin lines. In panel 6, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare tamed a mount, vastly increasing its jumping distance. You should run," and the Snowshoe Hare trail runs into a deer track and disappears.
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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humanists.uk
Neil’s appointment is groundbreaking and we are delighted to see it. It means thousands of non-religious service personnel will have access to like-minded pastoral support that genuinely reflects their values and worldview. Read more on our website. humanists.uk/2025/10/07/f...
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.

Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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monkemma.bsky.social
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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alomshaha.bsky.social
I’m always bragging about my brilliant books on here so I probably ought to balance that by letting you know I got TWO rejection emails yesterday, one of which said my ideas were “too educational” and not “commercial” enough. You can help me prove them wrong by buying lots of my books.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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dinoconuk.bsky.social
🦕We’re delighted to announce that DinoCon 2026 will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Sat 25th & Sun 26th July, 2026!🦖

Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW!

More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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hughkeogh.bsky.social
I am the very model of an antique land's colossal mess,
My trunkless legs the question begs: did I wear t-shirts or a vest?
Though king of kings the joy that brings is tempered by this sad decay,
My sneering, frowning face a clue: I wish this sand would go away.
scriblit.bsky.social GHC Has Gorra Lorra Fings On (the radio) @scriblit.bsky.social · Oct 30
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
nick-pettigrew.bsky.social Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · Oct 30
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
Reform UK has received an award for being the organisation that engaged in the “most prolific promotion of pseudoscience” during 2025 - @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
Reform UK Just Won Britain's Least-Prestigious Award – For 'Promoting Pseudoscience'
Nigel Farage's party were recognised for “their widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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skeptic.org.uk
Reform UK win 2025 Rusty Razor award for worst psuedoscience of the year - The Skeptic
Nigel Farage's political party, Reform UK, has been named The Skeptic's 'Rusty Razor' award winner for worst pseudoscience of 2025
www.skeptic.org.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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darcyswickham.bsky.social
Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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wakefieldgreens.bsky.social
Here's Wakefield Green Party campaigner Olli delivering some inspiring words at the Wakefield Stand Up To Racism anti-racism protest today.

Wakefield Green Party will always proudly stand in solidarity with our community against bigotry and intolerance and hatred.
Down with racism!
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM