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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21h

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 1d

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 1d

You might want to think about what the rest of that saying about the bad apples is. HINT: It's not "one bad apple means the rest of the apples are definitely not Russian assets."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 1d

3 is Harlan Ellison

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 1d

Very good!

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 1d

You might want to think about what the rest of that saying about the bad apples is. HINT: It's not "one bad apple means the rest of the apples are definitely not Russian assets."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

👉 Record polling
👉 Record membership
👉 Record election results

Let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

🌍 | Highest ever Green polling (15%).

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 3d

How I respond when people ask me why I write horror and not 'proper' literature

Intertitle reads "Anybody can write the stuff this critic means. Mine is the work of genius---real blood curdling situations---plot and counterplot---hair raisers!"

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Gleeful Beasts @gleefulbeasts.bsky.social · 3d

Some alphabet lessons teach letters. Others spiral into identity crises.

Guess which the Gonk picked. 👀

👀 SUB TO OUR CHANNEL - New vids weekly!
https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts

#Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

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Ryan Corniel @dukegunston.bsky.social · 3d

I was lucky enough to have a small thing coming up in a new Smiling Friends episode. Until then, here's Allan (not the thing I made for the show, but still fun to play with!) 😊

#UnrealEngine #RealTime #SmilingFriends

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Leder Games @leder.games · 3d

Aye, 'tis a glorious day when you can play Ahoy ... for FREE on Board Game Arena!

Gather ye crew from far and wide and get a game going! bit.ly/AhoyOnBGA

A close-up of the ahoy board game cover, featuring sharks and other sea creatures as pirates.

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 3d

We do a podcast about cartoons, and hoe to make cartoons. This week we had Steve Smith from Beakus (Big Lizard) telling us all about what proportion of your budget you can expect to get from a public service broadcaster. HINT: Not very much. Subscribe to the Sparklegoose Cartoon Podcast!

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 4d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

We're part of Netflix's Spooky Season For Kids, which justifies the number of meetings @rathergood.bsky.social had to have to decide slime colour, so that it didn't look too much like jizz.

Netflix screenshot of Bad Dinosaurs episode: The Sliming, featuring two small, pink dinosaurs looking at a splat of green slime.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, The Goofy Movie was not as good as you all said.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 6d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

We're part of Netflix's Spooky Season For Kids, which justifies the number of meetings @rathergood.bsky.social had to have to decide slime colour, so that it didn't look too much like jizz.

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SJ @wintermeer.bsky.social · 7d

It even works for our resident ichtyologists:

If you see the maw open wide,
And there is pharyngial jaw inside,
That's a Moray!

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 8d

If it looks like spaghetti
But it's under a jetty...