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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 6h

People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk aren’t tech creators — they’re tech colonizers.
Rich white men who used privilege and capital to seize an industry built by real innovators, exploiting the minds and labor of creators while branding themselves as “visionaries.” #Pinks

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 7h

Just got a flu jab and my NHS surgery is just so phenomenally efficient at those sorts of things. Was in the building for about 60secs tops. Just waned to share some positivity for once!

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Darren @gredawarha.bsky.social · 5h

Totally agree. Had mine earlier and was in and out in minutes. On a more important note, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer on the 1st of September, by the 22nd I had 2 CT scans, an MRI scan, a consultation and surgery. All on the NHS, I was discharged on the 27th. The #NHS is amazing.

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 7h

Due to a very slight demand I’ve made some limited prints of the beautiful frog.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people"

"Inequality in our society is absolutely huge"

"We need to be taxing the super rich"

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 7d

Saluting and sending love to the ostomy warriors and the great ostomates all over the world. Every journey with a stoma isn’t the same, but everybody with an ostomy story deserves respect, and not to feel any shame.

#WorldOstomyDay #Stoma #Ostomy

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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

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James @mutomorro.bsky.social · 3d

As @zackpolanski.bsky.social says so well, we have lost #ordinaryhope after decades of it being drained from our communities, our work and our lives. And people should be fighting back. Not with hate, but with hope.

Your enemy is not other poor people.

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 2d

“You’re banned, you can’t chant that, you’re nicked for holding a sign, you’re kids are poorer, you’re colder, you have to have an ID card and the racists have legitimate concerns in our island of strangers… now vote for us or Farage wins.”

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 3d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Darren @gredawarha.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 3d

Donald is pushing for civil war so that he can complete his dictatorship. Devouring America from the top down.

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Darren @gredawarha.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌟 Excited to share two new digital toolkits for people with an ileostomy or colostomy! 🌟

Created with GetYourBellyOut and digital artist Lucy Harman, based on my PhD research about young people’s experiences of living with an ostomy.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 4d

'If you want to live here, you need to be able to speak the language'

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

People would have signed this off.

Others will have been shown the product.

Further individuals will have put them in the goodie bags.

How on Earth did nobody spot it?

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Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 5d

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 6d

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

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Sideway Sammy @sidewayssammy.bsky.social · 7d

Coventry City Are On Fire: How Has It Happened?

#PUSB
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Coventry City Are On Fire: How Has It Happened?

Since the last edition of The Wrap, Coventry City have gone top of the league, scoring 13 goals in those five matches missing from my coverage. Instead of reviewing an individual game, I thought it…

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Darren @gredawarha.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe proton drive? Install on phone, back up photos to proton drive, E2E. Then move from the proton drive to the google folder?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8d

just parent your fucking kids oh my god!!!! no one made you have them!! be a responsible adult!

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 9d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

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Signal @signal.org · 9d

In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s...

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