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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 1d

Asbestos Industry.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Hello to @moderation.bsky.app
I would like to file a complant of blatant bigotry against your
@moderation.bsky.app for discrimation against disabled ppl.

You have declared that a fully clothed person with a prosthetic leg and eye to somehow be "Adult Content"

Disability isn't "Adult content"

Screen cpature of a post that has been declared "Adult Content" by moderation team.

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I could name a few but for disability reason and the Halloween season I am m going with In / Spectre

It’s got a very weird but cool metaplot with one of the coolest “action” scene culminations and it’s so openly & fearlessly blunt about disability … especially the reality of Kotoko‘s prosthetics.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 9d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 9d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 1d

Help @littletollerbooks.bsky.social produce Jennifer Potter's new book about Kurt Schwitters – 'not a biography, nor an art book, nor a memoir, but a book in its own class.' www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book

To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 2d

Phew! Quite a nail-biter towards the end. I hope you have fully recovered.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 2d

Morocco’s telephone code, +212. See popularresistance.org/what-is-gen-...

What Is Gen Z 212, The Group Behind The Protests In Morocco? - PopularResistance.Org

Morocco has been rocked by huge demonstrations since Saturday, calling for better government services and an end to corruption. During the first three days, the rallies, which have been banned and su...

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 3d

From a Massachusetts broadside 1779, illustrating a poem by 'a daughter of liberty, living in Marblehead.' archive.org/details/reme...

Woodcut, depicting a woman in what appears to be conventional feminine attire, but with three-cornered hat, holding in her left arm an upright musket, its stock resting on the ground, and in her right, I think, a powder horn. A flag flies from battlements in the background.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 3d

Treat yourself and follow Brian on this compelling meditative autumnal journey through the edgelands.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 4d

To answer my own question ... I see from the FAQ authorsguild.org/advocacy/art... that the default split between authors and publishers will be 50:50, unless the author or publisher can produce a contract that stipulates a different split.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more i...

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 5d

How can even US authors file a claim? Surely the rights to the vast majority of books and articles are owned by publishers not authors.

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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 10d

Too many on the left still see autism as a “middle class issue.”
It’s not.
Being poor or working class just makes diagnosis near impossible.

Autism isn’t middle class.
Access to recognition is. 1/5

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 11d

'Blocchiamo tutto!' Marina Forti on Italy's general strike, in particular, the role of Genoese dock workers. 'We are mobilising not only out of solidarity with the tormented Palestinian people, but also out of the anger we are harbouring’. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Marina Forti, In Genoa — Sidecar

Among the dock workers.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 11d

The Examiner, commenting on the trial of Henry Hunt, charged with treason after Peterloo in 1819. Sounds familiar. archive.org/details/sim_...

Screenshot of part of a newspaper column: 'Then follows a series of the most suspicious answers and interferences, as the reader will see in the proper place. We have no doubt that the grounds of conspiracy will at last be entirely confined to the inscriptions on the flags, and the pretence of military array; and then there will still remain three baffling points to consider, - First, whether similar flags have not been used on similar occasions with great harmlessness; - Second, whether all large bodies do not naturally fall into what is called military array, *except* when they are merely *riotous*; - and Third, whether the flags and the array, after all, have any thing to do with Mr. HUNT, and whether every man who accompanies, or meets an assembly, or gets up to address it, is responsible for what every other person in it may do.'

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11d

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting

Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament Nathan Gill, a former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight bribery charges while an elected member of the European parliament. More details soon … Continue reading...

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 11d

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 12d

I'm seeing so many takes around parts of the "ID card" melange, I have to add a few.

It's not about cards. It's about registers. A register is a definitive 'true source' of data, about people, places, buildings, whatever.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 12d

Stinking Brittlegill, I think.

Colour photo, close up of single mushroom in pine wood, dappled in afternoon sunlight.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 12d

Fascinating discussion by David Bentley Hart of Romans 5:12, pivoting on the translations of the preposition ἐφ’, grounding two very different theologies - God as saviour of all or God as judge of the individual; or, Gregory of Nyssa or John Calvin gospelconversations.substack.com/p/david-hart...

David Hart on 'Original sin'

Watch now | How have we ended up with this dark and guilt-ridden picture of the human condition?

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 12d

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/24/e...

Ecuador: Indigenous and peasant blockades sweep country - Freedom News

President threatened “terrorism” designation for national strike against cancelled diesel subsidies ~ Aldo Santiago, Avispa Midia ~ Soc…

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Flying national flags is dominating the news this week but I haven't seen any uses as innovative as Independent Labour Party politician John Wheatley and his comrades during the 1915 Glasgow rent strike unfurling a Union Jack to undermine attempts to evict the family of a wounded soldier.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 14d

Bad link; and I can't find the review on your website. Do you have the correct URL?

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Son of Raum @sonofraucous.bsky.social · 15d

Fred Brown recreated Banksy’s removed mural on Scarborough beach. Amazing.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 14d

Including 'protest led by young people who seemed to be inspired by the uprisings in Indonesia and Nepal.'

Mong Palatino @mongpalatino.bsky.social · 14d

The trigger, context, meaning, and impact of the massive anti-corruption protests across the Philippines. We gathered 100,000 people in Manila on September 21. My latest piece for @thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/09/mass...

Massive Protests Condemn Corruption in the Philippines

The anti-corruption protests, which took place across Manila and other cities, are the largest to take place since the “Million People March” in 2013.

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 14d

The social industry 'rewards drama, hyperbole, losing one's temper, spontaneous rashness, asperity ... It's the opposite of a political meeting, where such behaviour is, not infrequent, but frowned on and shut down by a good chair.' (@leninology.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

You have exceeded your hope ration | Richard Seymour

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