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Vimes
@ohmydays.bsky.social
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Professional lurker. Opinions haver. Serial reposter.
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kdenkwrites.com
Last year I found a TikTok account invading people's homes to spread hate against immigrants. With a little bit of OSINT & a lot of legwork @londoncentric.media and I went looking for its owner. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
www.londoncentric.media
January 24, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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explaintrade.com
Rutte:

-slaps top of existing arrangement relating to US presence in Greenland-

"This bad boy can fit so many US military bases and whatever the fuck Golden Dome is in it!"

Trump:

"I'll take it! Art of the deal, baby!"
January 21, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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arindube.bsky.social
The TACO cycle:

Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.

So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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jackkessler.bsky.social
Mark Carney is not fucking around. He warns the old world order is "not coming back", and calls on the rest of the West to stop pretending otherwise.

My newsletter, out now.
Mark Carney: Leader of the Middle Powers
Canada's prime minister warns the old world order is 'not coming back'
www.linestotake.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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roricomics.bsky.social
Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗
comic: when it happens I hope people ring bells and blow horns. if I'm asleep I hope to be woken. I won't mind. if I'm in traffic I hope to see revelers. If it causes a traffic jam I won't mind. I don't want to exist a moment not knowing that it has happened.
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 AM
ohmydays.bsky.social
Without sounding too judgemental, what the actual fuck is wrong with some people?
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d
This is it. This is The Great Filter. We've created Sexy Barista Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game (SBISIIWYS).
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
must-read column today by @edwardluce.bsky.social who accurately analysed the dangers posed by Trump long before many commentators

www.ft.com/content/dede...
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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judah-grunstein.bsky.social
What's incredible to me is how every single member of Trump II is perfectly "antipathique," but each one in a unique style all their own.

It's like a pantheon of all the taxonomies of antipathique.
January 20, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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jjaron.bsky.social
Given everything that is happening with Greenland, I asked @stokel.bsky.social to investigate whether Europeans should - or even could - wean themselves off US tech www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
Should Europe boycott US tech over Greenland, and is it even possible?
As tensions over Greenland rise, some Europeans are asking whether it is time to disentangle themselves from US tech dominance - but from smartphones to cloud services, rejecting US tech is easier sai...
www.newscientist.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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radiodeadair.com
Oh my God a literal wallet inspector
web3isgoinggreat.com web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 9d
Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support

January 10, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam
Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support A crypto holder has lost $282 million in bitcoin and litecoin after a scammer impersonating a customer support employee for the Trezor hardware wallet manufacturer successfully convinced them into revealing their seed phrase. After gaining access to the assets, they quickly swapped them to the Monero privacycoin. The volume of assets was so large that the Monero price spiked as the scammer laundered the finds. The scammer also swapped assets using the THORChain project, which boasted on social media about the "World record speedrun. ⚡️" (presumably without realizing they were bragging about a thief using their project to launder money). Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow, although this represents only 0.2% of the total loss.
January 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
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January 18, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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john-abernathy.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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cohen489.bsky.social
me again
notlikewe.bsky.social egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 12d
what a legend lmao
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Read if you enjoy:
- Science fiction
- Enigmatic cats
- Weird mold
- Bittersweet, reflective stories
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 12d
An aging robot, on a journey to visit a friend, reflects on their adventures together.

"Joiner and Rust" by @lavietidhar.bsky.social is free to read now!
Art by James Gilleard
Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social
Joiner and Rust - Reactor
An aging robot, on journey to visit a friend, reflects on their adventures together.
reactormag.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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profrachelgan.bsky.social
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial. I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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nathanjgower.bsky.social
Did you see the claim from the Government in the House of Lords that "10.8 million families use X as their main news source"?

Well, the government has admitted it was wrong.

I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less - Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT? - BBC Sounds
Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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andygilder.bsky.social
"Choose Denmark. Choose bacon and Lurpak. Choose Sandi Toksvig and Hans Christian Andersen. Choose a strong welfare state, hygge and a stroll through Tivoli Gardens..."
January 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Superb and absolutely damning long read on HS2.

www.ft.com/content/3f73... How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway
January 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Trump’s Shrinking Coalition
The president can no longer present himself as anti-system, because he has become the system.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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jamesomalley.co.uk
Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race

conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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midimyers.com
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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hard-drive.net
For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis
For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis - Hard Drive
The Nazis are the most despicable scum to ever walk the face of the earth. Thankfully they were defeated in World War... Get the full story
hard-drive.net
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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gilmored85.bsky.social
Umberto Eco wrote the definitive taxonomy of what fascism is 30 years ago imo & Trump/Trumpism/MAGA check all the boxes. A lot of ppl are invested in this not being the case disingenuously say Trump has to turn to the camera & say hes a fascist in order to be one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fasc...
January 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
Abolish ICE
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 8, 2026 at 1:42 AM