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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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dublinlive.bsky.social
Green Party Councillors have called on Dublin City Council to cease using the social media platform X due to the "promotion of far-right, racist, and divisive politics" and sexually explicit images created by the AI chatbot Grok
Pressure on Dublin City Council to boycott X over Grok AI safety concerns
www.dublinlive.ie
January 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
marksugrue.com
Greenland's political parties can prevent invasion by declaring they will all support the next democrat for president, and task their two incoming democrat senators to impeach Trump.
January 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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savchenkoua.bsky.social
🇨🇳 A Chinese video is garnering millions of views on TikTok, explicitly calling for the seizure of Siberia, including Lake Baikal, Sakhalin, and other Russian territories following Moscow's "inevitable defeat" in the war against Ukraine and the collective West.
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.
January 12, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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newschambers.bsky.social
Seems to me that it used to be that *creating non-consensual intimate images of women and children* would be the sort of thing that Conservatives might publicly be against.

But what a world we inhabit.
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
It really feels like America is moving from Culture Wars to Reality Wars, especially in the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
isibb.bsky.social Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22h
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
mattprivratsky.bsky.social Matt Privratsky @mattprivratsky.bsky.social · 1d
ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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suede.bsky.social
I think forcing a website to shut down until the "Create revenge porn" switch is put in the "off" position is an acceptable form of government censorship
"Man Standing Up In A Town Hall" meme
January 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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kellypendergrast.bsky.social
Startup guys once again validating my theory of combinatory slop and cultural stagnation!!
Combinatory slop and cultural stagnation Taco Bell theory: at Taco Bell there are about 10 key components on offer, and everything is a combination of those components. Ground beef sour cream lettuce grated cheese hard tortilla soft tortilla etc. Most of the “innovation” at play comes from combining the components in a new way. Crunch wrap supreme, etc. Occasionally a new component enters the picture — Dorito cheesy dust, Flamin Hot spicy dust — but mostly these new elements are existing branded components ported in from other popular junk food brand, and often available for a limited time. Kind of like a crossover ep in the marvel cinematic universe. This combinatory logic is widespread. You can see it at play in many spheres. Fast casual food concepts. Superhero movies. Trope-centric genre fiction. It is often perceived as freedom. The Starbucks drink, where the customer can have anything they can imagine that can be created from the list of components. It is specifically American. The salad with protein in a plastic clamshell. It reveals a kind of cultural stagnation. Taco Bell logic does not enable truly new things to be produced. But it does enable an almost-endless or seemingly-endless set of combinations to be constructed within a certain container (a mass-market paperback, a plastic clamshell, a 20oz drink cup, a streaming platform). Generative AI image slop can be considered a new iteration of this combinatory logic, automating the creation of new combinations and further removing any creativity or agency. Ultimately stagnant, produced from recombined input components, perceived as limitless and creative, favoring consumer choice over artistic integrity, trending towards conservatism.
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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matthewpb.bsky.social
This is the most undignified thing we’ve ever seen. History in the making
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
The Peace Prize Medal Handover Ceremony has been scheduled.
January 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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pollycurley.bsky.social
@garda.ie any plans to follow suit? Asking for 5.5 million friends.

@berlinnaeus.bsky.social @karsugrue.bsky.social @pantibliss.bsky.social @izzykamikaze.bsky.social
roisin.bsky.social Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 11h
"On Monday Ofcom said it had "urgently made contact" with X to assess what steps it had taken to comply with UK online safety laws."

" Ofcom will now examine whether X has failed to take down illegal content quickly when it became aware of it"
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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mikecjf.bsky.social
Green Party members on Dublin City Council have called on the council and its services to stop using Twitter in light of the ongoing Grok AI scandal on the platform #Speirgorm
dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...
Greens call on Dublin City Council to quit Twitter
Green Party members on Dublin City Council have called on the council and its services to stop using Twitter in light of the ongoing Grok AI scandal on the platform
dublinpeople.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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atrupar.com
I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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robinmarty.com
I'm going to post the link to the video but not the actual video which autoplays and is utterly brutal. Instead I'm posting the photo of the man before ICE assaulted him.

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Photo of young man in car who has literally just had his driver side window busted out by ICE, captured by a photographer and posted to Getty images. This was likely the beginning of the video that ends with him surrounded by agents who choked him out, eventually dragged his limp body face first across the pavement as they cuffed him and took him away.
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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theguardian.com
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
For those joining Bluesky from the Bad Place: welcome.

Yes, you could/should have made the decision sooner, but it is never too late to make a good decision.

And there is a lot on this site which will remind you of the Bad Place before it was bad.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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irishtimes.com
China agrees to lift ban and reopen market for Irish beef imports
China agrees to lift ban and reopen market for Irish beef imports
Decision follows visit to Beijing by Taoiseach Micheál Martin last week
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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wartranslated.bsky.social
A statement appeared on the UK government’s website saying that the United Kingdom will develop new long-range tactical ballistic missiles for Ukraine to protect it from Putin’s war machine.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
January 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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theatlantic.com
“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.
bit.ly
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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nvondarza.bsky.social
Interesting article (in German) on the steps the EU could take in regards to X/Grok stripping AI, especially in comparison to the UK debate.

I for one did not know how central Ireland and Dublin courts would need to be given X European headquarters reside there:
Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie
Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie
en.digitalrechte.de
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
Liz Kendall to give a Commons statement today on online regulation. She wrote this Telegraph piece, calling this a tipping point.

I'd like to hear govt + the regulator show that they are taking the full range of unlawful content seriously - not just one strand

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Sexual deepfakes are a disgrace – and we won’t stand for it
This Government is as determined to ensure women and girls are safe online as we are to ensure they are safe in the real world
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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codendahl.bsky.social
EU/Mercosur and post-American transatlanticism. My latest for The @economist.com (with @spignal.bsky.social).
economist.com/europe/2026/...
Europe and South America seal a trade pact for the Trump era
The EU-Mercosur agreement is a big deal in the world of geoeconomics
economist.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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irishtimes.com
US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell
US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell
Central bank chairman says grand jury subpoenas are retaliation for refusal to bow to demand to cut interest rates
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:20 AM