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OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 6h

you can be glad a child sex offender is dead and also feel discomfort that this disgusting prison system gets to decide who it extends protection to and who it doesn't

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine using Meta’s AI in educational contexts or having it integrated into edtech products. When it’s overseen by MAGA representatives like this, imagine asking it what Antifa means, if there is a relationship is between race and IQ or what is causing climate change.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 8h

(I'm allowed to snark at EvE Online players; I won EvE a long time ago)

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Gotta be an EvE Online player

Jules of Liberty @greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social · 8h

With alt text.

10-10-2025 TECH
Former Syrian president Assad is video gaming in a luxury Moscow apartment: Report
Exiled after years of civil war, Bashar al-Assad now spends hours playing online games, according to German newsweekly Die Zeit.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 8h

Bit late; around 2015 seems more likely

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 9h

Guess they couldn’t manage to nail him down.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 10h

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 10h

sloane lysbeth @sloanelysbet... • 2mo

labour are so gullible, they've bought in to the sales pitch so hard, that they think ai is gonna save them at the next election.

when the bottom falls out and takes our economy with it they're gonna flail around like headless chickens. they seriously have nothing.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 12h

Historically speaking, not paying your military traditionally has pretty negative consequences for authoritarian regimes whose power is based on the exertion of military power.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 13h

🌈 Today is #NationalComingOutDay!

Whether you’re out, not out, questioning, or can’t share your truth safely, you’re valid, seen, loved and part of community regardless of how visible you are.

Coming out is personal. Be proud of who you are, in whatever way feels right for you. ❤️

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 15h

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

www.bbc.com

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 12h

Starmer voted in favour of the Conservative Brexit deal, along with nearly all of Labour. They didn't even abstain and let it pass with Conservative votes. They went "Yes, please!"

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 13h

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 13h

sacrificed *foreigners*; it's basically the end-game of the anti-immigrant discourse

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 14h

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 13h

Tenochtitlan?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 15h

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 15h

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 15h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell

The supreme court has made a mockery of gender recognition. Our politicians must not allow the EHRC to further shatter trans lives, says journalist Freddy McConnell

www.theguardian.com

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon has sold out of frog suits. Portland pivots to Yoshi instead.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when that undercover copper had sex with *and fathered a child with* one of the activists he was spying on?

www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

The undercover cop, his lover, and their son

Woman who had undercover policeman's child says she she is not satisfied with Scotland Yard's explanation.

www.bbc.com

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 17h

As Liberal Democrats, we stand in solidarity with all victims of hate crime. We recognise the alarming rise in hostility and violence that many groups are experiencing, and the fear and anxiety this is causing.

Read more: libdems.org.uk/news/article/national-hate-crime-awareness-week-2025

www.libdems.org.uk

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 19h

@foone.bsky.social This sounds like the kind of thing you would be interested in: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Annie Wallace @anniewallace.com · 1d

THIS.
And if this includes you, you've been taken for a mug.

Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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