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Dr Kate Laity 🧿

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Dr Kate Laity 🧿 @katelaity.bsky.social · 25d

I am selling tour merch to get to Berlin to share the gospel of #LeonoraCarrington at @occulture.bsky.social visionaryfuel.threadless.com

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Dr Kate Laity 🧿 @katelaity.bsky.social · 33m

Hordes of chattering starlings in the trees, honking geese overhead 🍁🍂

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That novel published by the late Storm Constantine, whose birthday is today as FB reminds me. Hail Sekhmet.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 5h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 1h

No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise

www.sciencefocus.com...

A frustratingly-still-relevant article I wrote for Science Focus magazine

#ADHD #Autism #ND #diagnosis

No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise | BBC Science Focus Magazine

The uptick in adults receiving medical help for mental health and neurological conditions is largely due to increased awareness.

www.sciencefocus.com

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Dr Kate Laity 🧿 @katelaity.bsky.social · 1h

Perished, Cotton Library fire

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 5h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 6h

"The chancellor approved it"

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16h

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 20h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 3h

Olivia Buckingham, 32, who just thought it would be nice to have you over for a catch-up, reportedly didn’t expect to have to go to culinary school in order to be able to feed you.

Dinner host wishing they’d never asked for your dietary requirements

A friend who invited you over for dinner now wishes they’d never asked for your dietary requirements, met you, or been born, it has been rumoured. Olivia Buckingham, 32, who just thought it would be…

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1h

Are you fucking kidding me

THE HILL
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN
AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
OPINION > HEALTHCARE
How to reopen the government:
Rebrand Obamacare as
"TrumpCare'
BY BLAKE NARENDRA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
10/11/25 09:00 AM ET

A bill could restore premium tax credits but require the Affordable Care Act exchanges to make it clear that one man saved enrollees from exploding costs.
The enrollment website could read: "Check to see if
you are eligible for TRUMP CREDITS."

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 3h

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1h

That's why so many young men's votes were moved on an issue that Trump couldn't change if he tried: their resentment that feminism has made it easier for women to hold out, rather than settling for a mediocre and unsatisfying guy. Trump can't change that.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1h

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros

It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.

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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

It's especially important for residents of Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Latvia to contact their MEPs because these countries are undecided. fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

EU people, tell your country's officials to vote against the EU "chat control" proposal, which would allow full AI access to your text messages and photos, regardless of whether your platform is encrypted.

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1h

From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn’s horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 3h

There's an excellent exhibit in the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social of words and phrases in Irish for fauna, Tails from the Archive. I think Manchán would have appreciated it.
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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 14h

Revisiting
Private Lives (1931)

Poster for Private Lives with Norma Sheaerer and Robert Montgomery

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Ontario Man (autumnal) @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 10h

Is there a more convincing argument for ensuring good indoor AQ than the possibility of you or your kids turning out like Peterson or Rowling

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

Jordan Peterson, explained

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She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

when I think of Blinken, I think of his 2024 exit interview with the New York Times where the interviewer kept pressing him for some defense of the last four years and he went, “I don’t really do introspection and people don’t really care about foreign policy anyways.”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h

More than 15% of people who voted for Brexit are dead.

Only 4% of people who voted against it are.

It is time for another vote, even if opinions haven't changed, they would lose 55-45%

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h

Zack Polanski wants to let the UK vote on getting rid of the Monarchy.

This is exactly the thing we need, Democracy.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h

Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.

Except Zack Polanski.

She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.

They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h

Nigel Farage went to Dulwich College which when he attended was more expensive than Eton

He earns £1.5m a year, 92% of which comes from dodgy donations

His girlfriend pays £885,000 in cash to buy houses but she's a waitress.

He's not a 'working man' he's very rich and corrupt

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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