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pickardje.bsky.social
BREAKING on ft website:

Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans

www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein
Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Notepad++'s update mechanism was compromised from June to December 2025. They believe it was a state actor practicing selective targeting and not a no-hosts-refused malware gang situation. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Notepad遭国家支持的黑客劫持
Notepad hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org) 09:59  ↑ 182 HN Points
notepad-plus-plus.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:27 AM
tomhannen.ft.com
Caption me with some of your pretty french words
Caption reads: "The US Department of Justice released a picture from the Epstein files which shows Pete Mandelson en déshabillé" and definitely not 'in his pants'
February 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter

we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
we first put this story to Mandelson and to his husband Reinaldo avila da Silva in...

....September
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in

Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files

more to follow

www.ft.com/content/c950...
Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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leohickman.carbonbrief.org
Wow?!

BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar

Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech.

Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech
January 30, 2026 at 10:14 AM
tomhannen.ft.com
My son, reading “Hail Mary” by Andy Weir:

“What’s HAL9000?”
(Long explanation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, including that the letters are one step removed alphabetically from IBM)
“What’s IBM?” 😮
January 28, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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couts.bsky.social
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
In the last days, there has been an unprecedented attack targeting investigative journalists trying to seize their Signal accounts. This has gone largely unreported. I have been repeatedly targeted by phishing, and I learned that also colleagues from other outlets were targeted, with the attackers unfortunately managing to compromise at least one colleague’s account. What’s worrying: this doesn’t seem like an isolated case. A broader wave is apparently hitting journalists (and some civil society actors) via Signal. How it works: Attackers message you on Signal pretending to be “Signal Support,” warning about “suspicious activity,” and urging you to “re-verify” your account. Once you accept the chat, you receive a real Signal SMS verification code, because the attacker is actively trying to register your number on a new device. If you share that code, you’re handing them the keys. Signal’s extra protection is the Signal PIN. If an attacker also tricks you into giving up your PIN (or you don’t have strong protections enabled), they can see your contacts and networks, potentially join chats going forward, and lock you out by changing settings. Quick protections worth doing today: - Signal will never contact you via a two-way in-app support chat. Treat those messages as hostile. - Never share SMS codes, Signal PIN, or anything called “registration lock.” - Turn on Registration Lock (Settings → Account → Registration Lock). - If you see a “safety number changed” alert: verify the person via a different channel (call/video), not just Signal text. - Report + block suspicious requests, and review linked devices. If you work with sensitive sources: this isn’t just about losing an account, it’s about exposing networks. Please share this with colleagues who rely on Signal day-to-day.
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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cstross.bsky.social
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!

*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Horrific. We are disembloweling any sense of online privacy in the name of child safety.
January 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
tomhannen.ft.com
Deeply unsettling story by @[email protected] about AI replacing developers... Microserfs without the gags...
asolitarycabin.org/deprecation-...
Deprecation Notice
asolitarycabin.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM
tomhannen.ft.com
This is interesting/terrifying/reads like Robert Harris updated 'The Fear Index' for the age of AI as.ft.com/r/eb2d6903-d...
January 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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alexip718.com
My old college classmate, a part-time TikTok influencer, just openly wondered on Instagram whether something's wrong with her TikTok algorithm.

TikTok's sale to the Ellisons has been finalized. The best time to delete the app from your phones was yesterday; the second-best time to do it is now.
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8d
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”
January 26, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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bruces.bsky.social
*Beg the warm-hearted and kindly Chinese to come back. #socialmedia #surveillance #Ttumpistan
January 25, 2026 at 6:35 AM
tomhannen.ft.com
Excellent recommendation for an extremely fun film (on Channel 4 if you want to watch)
January 23, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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ortenca.bsky.social
New on FT:

as.ft.com/r/169805cf-5... Nigel Farage attended Davos as adviser to Iranian billionaire
Nigel Farage attended Davos as adviser to Iranian billionaire
[FREE TO READ] Reform UK leader’s pass and hotel costs for World Economic Forum event were paid for by Sasan Ghandehari
as.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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antlervel.vet
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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laurenshippen.com
love being a "for all mankind" fan. tv show that costs twenty bajillion doll hairs a season and has negative viewership but keeps putting new seasons out. maybe one of the best tv shows of the last 10 years. you've never heard of it
January 22, 2026 at 9:45 PM
tomhannen.ft.com
(Un)plug-n-play
rebane2001.bsky.social Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 12d
i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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rachelnuwer.bsky.social
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social
To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil.

Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.
discosaurus.bsky.social Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 12d
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
January 22, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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henrymance.ft.com
Trump says that China does not have wind farms. 🙄
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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randometc.org
I really think Hubert Dreyfus nailed this in On The Internet (2002) and I’ll keep posting this page until everyone has seen it. Key para in alt text.
Excerpt from On The Internet by Hubert Dreyfus. Key paragraph reads: “But the vision of a worldwide electronic agora precisely misses the Kierkegaardian point that the people talking to each other in the Athenian agora were members of a direct democracy who were directly affected by the issues they were discussing, and, most importantly, the point of the discussion was for them to take the responsibility and risk of voting publicly on the questions they were debating. For Kierkegaard, a worldwide electronic agora is an oxymoron. The Athenian agora is precisely the opposite of the public sphere, where anonymous electronic kibitzers from all over the world, who risk nothing, come together to announce and defend their opinions. As an extension to the deracinated public sphere, the electronic agora is a grave danger to real political community. Kierkegaard enables us to see that the problem is not that Rheingold's 'electronic agora' is too utopian; it is not an agora at all, but a nowhere place for anonymous nowhere people. As such, it is dangerously distopian.”
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 AM