I regularly think back to @okwonga.bsky.social's posts which (to paraphrase) highlighted one of Germany's biggest political challenges being an older middle-class which is well off, comfortable as a result, and in turn bored; so they ended up essentially radicalising themselves at dinner parties.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 8h ago

A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

A student of mine once told me they found Nigel Farage discourse difficult because his daughter was in her old brownies group and he was nice in person. This resulted in a ten minute class dissection of the concept of niceness.

Hettie O’Brien@hettieobrien.bsky.social · 8h ago

This morning’s First Edition is about the desperate attempts to make Ceuta look like an “invasion” - and how the EU’s border policies mean this is bound to keep happening. With @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There's no female equivalent to the woman-abuser-to-mass-shooter pipeline we see with men. I'm not aware of women engaging in "family annihilation," where they kill their spouses, all the children, some additional relatives and finally themselves in the ultimate act of "you can't leave, I own you."

The best way to honour a writer who proudly wrote what they believed is to quote word for word exactly what they believed. Like this. ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/media/2010/j...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · yesterday

Liddle's ex-colleagues find it easy to defend his mainstream journalism as a lark But a conscious effort to ignore what his Millwall-Monkey stuff revealed."Even the Jews were allowed to smoke at Auschwitz" was reported. His "niggermeat, not wogmeat" comments + most virulent sexist threads were not

Liddle's ex-colleagues find it easy to defend his mainstream journalism as a lark But a conscious effort to ignore what his Millwall-Monkey stuff revealed."Even the Jews were allowed to smoke at Auschwitz" was reported. His "niggermeat, not wogmeat" comments + most virulent sexist threads were not

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told

Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial

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This. This gives me joy. I was their tutor. Look, one of them hand-drew the pictures for the leaflet:

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · yesterday

Great to see this live! A new family-focused trail at Southsea Castle, created by 4 of our excellent @uophistory.bsky.social 2nd year students, Madi, Charlie, Magdalena & Ben! 😃👏 On over the summer holidays - go & give it a try (suitable for kids of all ages!). www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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Young protesters in India achieved a rare political victory by forcing the resignation of a cabinet minister. Read how India’s Gen Z movement of 'Cockroaches' dented Modi's political image.

How India’s Gen Z movement of 'Cockroaches' dented Modi's political image

Young protesters in India achieved a rare political victory by forcing the resignation of a cabinet minister.

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They elected him twice, I’ll never get over it.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

1/4 The Government's own National Security Assessment identifies biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as imminent risks to our security, resilience and prosperity.

Surreal to see AFD campaign posters on my main road in Berlin - there was a time where they wouldn’t dare/bother hanging them here. A poll-leading party that many academics think should have been banned years ago as a danger to democracy. Still, we migrants are the main threat, eh. 👍

Duncan Jones@manmademoon.bsky.social · 2d ago

We know that Elon Musk is a vocal supporter of the right wing AfD party in Germany, but you may also be interested to hear about some of the priorities of Reatore Britain, the political party Musk is trying to see take power in the UK. Their 5 priorities- youtube.com/shorts/-73xK...

Just a disaster on every level. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

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“Anything massively newsworthy that may have happened in the last few days in football… we’re not going to talk about it…” How little we knew! Pre-recorded earlier last week (before we headed on a quick break) so next week's episode will be the big one on all the Gianni Infantino / FIFA nonsense.

Stadio@stadio.football · 2d ago

Today's members only episode is up now and it's something a little different. Using the discourse around The Odyssey as a starting point, there's chat about creative decisions, especially in film, plus we're joined by @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social in part two! www.patreon.com/stadio/posts...

Summary of our era:

Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 3d ago

guide to world domination: 1. defund all major humanities departments 2. fund masses of public and priv money into AI 3. ensure said machines are controlled by the 1% 4. spread bollocks across the internet with future generations incapable of critical thinking 5. do whatever you like

Today's members only episode is up now and it's something a little different. Using the discourse around The Odyssey as a starting point, there's chat about creative decisions, especially in film, plus we're joined by @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social in part two! www.patreon.com/stadio/posts...

Brexit, just one of the most unhinged things I have seen in my lifetime. Just an absolute xenophobic car crash from day one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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It’s 49C in Basra, Iraq today. Coolest it will get overnight is 36C. Temperatures will top 50C next week. #Climate breakdown is already well underway. Furnace-like conditions like this will continue to spread, year after year.

My wife had long covid and, although she's happily fully recovered, she was essentially bedbound for two years. Seeing journalists say stuff like this makes me viscerally, profoundly angry in a way that few other things manage.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

Long covid is a disputed subject, at best.

“FIFA is not a private enterprise. It is a body held in trust for the game and its members. Those appointed to serve it carry a fiduciary duty, a duty of service over power. Where that duty is not upheld, accountability cannot be optional.” holy hell, CONCACAF brought out the axe against Infantino

Jonathan Tannenwald@jtannenwald.bsky.social · 4d ago

Concacaf drops a hammer on Gianni Infantino: "This recent unilateral and egregious act of poor governance and leadership follows a pattern of missteps and similar behaviour. A comprehensive reckoning with this presidency is imperative." www.concacaf.com/news/concaca...

We're using City-owned land to build the affordable homes New Yorkers need.

Here's the thing. The people who had these massive plantations were not dumb. Thomas Jefferson was not dumb. They modeled themselves after British gentry, complete with elite education for the sons, down to the Southern genteel accent that is a cousin of the English one.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Well...

Other outstanding questions include how Infantino was allowed to value 20 percent of FIFA's business for just $4.2bn? The World Cup just completed generated $15bn. This would have given the owners in this closed-shop stake sale ability to potentially flip their interests for billions more.

In a week of incendiary statements, this from Kevin Lamour, who at least for tonight remains FIFA COO, is incredibly damning in that it is from an insider that goes beyond this one scheme and is an assassination in a few hundred words of the FIFA president as a leader of global football.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

EXTRAORDINARY EVENT IN EUROPE Thousands of records smashed from West to East from North To South Over 40C again in AUSTRIA, records allover the country,records smashed in Czechia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Croatia,Poland,Hungary... It's worse than during June. TBC

Great essay. I also blame Infantino's enablers - the countless people within football who have allowed his snowballing ego to gain such momentum that he has become, well, this.

Seb Stafford-Bloor@sebsb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gianni Infantino’s Icarus moment. www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...

Glad these guys are in charge of the future of humanity

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...