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papapishu.bsky.social
It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site.

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February 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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eddwilson.bsky.social
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
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February 11, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
The Onion article "Nothing Ever Good Enough for Captive"
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
It is IMO worth noting that both Morgan and his media mates appear to have agreed very strongly on one thing: that 4.5% result for Liz Kendall did not mean her politics aren’t popular. It meant that the scum Labour Party members had to be stepped on and crushed.
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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frankcifaldi.bsky.social
Restless at work for a bit, give me a game title that was announced but never came out from, let's say 1993-1999, and I'll dig into some of our unprocessed material to see if we can shed any new light on it.
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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sixoneindie.com
Submissions for the Six One Indie Showcase 2026 are now open through February 20th! Everything you need to know can be found in the submission form.

As always, there are zero fees and no paid or commercial slots available. We can’t wait to see what you’re working on!

➡️ www.sixoneindie.com/showcase
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
I joined the UK Skills Hub. A lack of criticality didn't surprise me, but I noted that its welcome language was distinct for self-selected categories of users: "AI workers" will learn to “identify opportunities AI provides," while "AI leaders" will "oversee responsible and safe introduction of AI."
January 28, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
bad week 2026 day 18 - cave goblin
text at the top says "cave goblin adventures" a goblin is in a cave hissing he continues to hiss, his upper body is huge, his lower body is tiny. he falls over, continuing to hiss. his legs flop around on the ground and he says "I am far too top heavy and have no ability to right myself. If I stay like this for too long, I will simply die."
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
Rise and shine, it's the final day of #BigGardenBirdwatch!

Remember, you can still take part even if you haven't signed up.

Help us spread the word: share this post, text someone, or tell the whole table over your Sunday roast.

The more data we get, the better 🧑🔬
A Robin, perched on a twig, staring somewhat intensely straight down the lens.
January 25, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
On trauma.
I don’t know much about snooker, even if I’ve always found something alluring about a trigonometric pub game played in near silence by men dressed like cruise-ship hypnotists. I say as much to my brothers, and furnish my ignorance with a tale from childhood. I was 14 and, having finished a museum trip early, our teachers announced they were taking us to a snooker hall in Derry. I was as delighted as everyone else by the idea, since teacher-sanctioned frivolities were a rare treat in my schooling. More delightful still was the place itself and the smell of spent fags and stale drink,the illicit thrill of all those low hanging bar-lights illuminating a seemingly endless row of untouched tables. I held no illusions that I’d be good at a game I’d never really played, but felt it likely I’d prove as fast a learner as the other novices present. Novices, it turned out, were in short supply. I took little notice of the full half of our class who were switching hands between strokes and hitting trick shots with their arms behind their backs. It made sense that some of my classmates would be accomplished players, but thankfully I’d be playing against my own friendship group, a cohort who’d never once uttered the word “snooker” in all the time I’d known them. What I hadn’t realised is that Derry’s entire population of teenage boys had spent every single night of their lives playing to the death in underground contests to which I was not invited. Everyone knew by heart the inscrutable tactics of safety exchanges and cushion work. Even Gerard Duffy, a boy you wouldn’t trust to navigate the intellectual challenge of eating a chicken fillet roll, knew the value and purpose of each of the shiny balls, their various colours, and the order in which they must be potted. I was, in fact, so obviously the most ignorant player in the building, that my constant miscues and total unfamiliarity with any of the rules, provoked not mockery, but pity and alarm. The next day, snooker returned to never being mentioned by anyone I knew, and that trip to Pot Black became something like a distantly remembered fever dream. I’d not thought of it in decades, until I found myself relating it to my brothers – and Mark – over our hot plates of menemen and sujuk. “You’ve never played snooker?” they each said in turn, in a tone you might adopt if someone told you they’d never held an egg. I felt an urge to remind them that I had played snooker. Once. In the amusing and relatable story I’d just shared with them.
January 25, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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roryblank.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure I said at least one thing that was totally incoherent because I was awake 5 hours earlier than normal (9 A.M.) but I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot about tanks
lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social · 25d
🚨NOW ON PATREON🚨the new British armored vehicle that has rolled off the factory floor so half-assed and unsafe that it might cause the British government to sue General Dynamics. Ft. @roryblank.bsky.social
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January 21, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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rupertread.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:

“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)
January 20, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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waveturtlejake.bsky.social
He was a Communist, Elmo.
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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i-rohl.bsky.social
Wild how Gary Larson's most infamous misfire of a cartoon has been so thoroughly vindicated by subsequent developments - first by the evolution of internet humor to the point where there was an audience ready to appreciate the joke, and then by advances in bovine behavioral science.
biotay.bsky.social Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 27d
Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
We put a lot of subtle messages in Demonschool, see if you can spot them
January 19, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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ceej.online
By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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rincewind.run
this is fucking incredible
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession - “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities. “And, gloriously, the judge read it out in court,” Dr. Christie added. “So my recommendations went from the judge’s mouth” straight to the A.N.C. Two years later, in December 1982, Korberg was bombed by white A.N.C. operatives who had gotten jobs at the facility. They followed Dr. Christie’s instructions to the letter.
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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mc00.bsky.social
🔴 NEW: Who funds the Free Speech Union?

Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. We can reveal that its funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians, and Tufton Street insiders.
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Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.
profrachelgan.bsky.social Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · Jan 12
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 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
the lisa simpson staring at her empty plate meme
January 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’
Comic strip script: Scene is a SUPERMARKET, a MAN is walking past a display of CREME EGGS with his trolley. 1 MAN: Tut 2 CREME EGG [talking to him from the shelf]: Excuse me - did you just tut at us? 3 MAN: W-what? CREME EGG: Tutting because you’ve seen ‘Easter eggs’ on January 11th, is it? 4 MAN: What? Well, y-yes, I - CREME EGG: Listen, Tut boy 5 CREME EGG: We are not Easter eggs. We are Creme Eggs. 6 CREME EGG: We are the shock troops of seasonal capitalism. Eldritch simulacra of rebirth. Fondant mockery of life. 7 CREME EGG: Not for us the grand safety of a cardboard box. Oh no. They put us out here first, in our little foil uniforms, every January, to face the wrath of the nation. 8 CREME EGG: And what you gonna do about it? Tut? Snark about us on social media? 9 CREME EGG: Maybe you’ll write a little column in the Telegraph titled “It Is Sad That The Easter Eggs Are Out Already”. 10 CREME EGG: You tut because you know that unlike you, we will return, every January… …forever. 11 CREME EGG: The eternal rebirth of mammon! The endless - MAN: Oh go on then [He puts one of the Creme Eggs in his trolley] 12 CREME EGG: HA HA YOU WORM
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
It is IMO immensely helpful that they’re just saying it, right out. It was always like this, but there was previously a pretence that it wasn’t. No longer.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Jan 4
A post shared by the US Defence Secretary
January 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM