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Fyre
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Fyre online since 2000. Scottish. Geek. Author. Globetrotter. Technically 'grown-up'. Can be found under the username amuseoffyre in most locations :)
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bencollins.bsky.social
Naah, I want them on trial.
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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carolinejmolloy.bsky.social
👀 it isn’t just McSweeney who was Mandelson’s protegee, but also Streeting… do we think this might be … bad?
That instinct to keep a distance has not been shared by everyone, including leading lights in Starmer's cabinet. In the opposition years, as part of attempts to rid Labour of Jeremy Corbyn and his acolytes, Mandelson was a member of a Sunday supper party held at the Kennington home of Roger Liddle, a fellow Labour peer and longstanding friend. Regular guests included the health secretary, Wes Streeting, and his partner, Joe Dancey, himself a former Mandelson adviser. Others who frequented the Georgian home for roast lamb and fine wine were Matt Doyle, formerly a spokesperson for Tony Blair and later to be Starmer's director of communications, Matt Pound, who is today political secretary to chancellor Rachel Reeves, and Matthew Faulding who stood down as secretary of the parliamentary Labour party last November. Streeting is said to have joked that a blue plaque might be put up outside Liddle's home given its role in the reinvention of Labour. "Maybe we will see Mandelson back by the side of prime minister Streeting?" a source suggested archly.
February 2, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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midnightpals.bsky.social
King: boy those Epstein emails
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
February 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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cooperlund.online
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
professormusgrave.bsky.social Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 16h
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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damngoodmarmalade.bsky.social
*sigh* www.change.org/p/save-our-f...
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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missingthept.bsky.social
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
French Response * @FrenchResponse X.com Investigating child sexual abuse material isn't controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fl in France. Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 3h This is a political attack
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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miketmoroney.bsky.social
Every artist and studio should make plans to step away from using all adobe products in their pipelines. They've already demonstrated that they can, and will, discontinue their products at any time (even though they temporarily backtracked here.)

They are unreliable and should not be trusted.
filmcow.bsky.social Jason Steele @filmcow.bsky.social · 12h
Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future.

www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...
February 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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scottsantens.com
Researchers looked at the impacts of Alaska's UBI on kids' interactions with Child Protective Services (CPS) and found that a $1,000 boost reduces CPS referrals by age 3 by 10%. Also, fewer children die.

UBI will reduce child abuse + fewer kids will end up in foster care

www.nber.org/papers/w31733
We estimate the effects of cash transfers on a severe measure of child welfare: maltreatment. To do so, we leverage year-to-year household variation from a universal and unconditional cash transfer, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). Using linked individual-level administrative data on PFD payments and child maltreatment referrals, we show that an additional $1,000 to families in the first few months of a child's life reduces the likelihood that a child is referred to Child Protective Services by age three by 2.0 percentage points, or 10 percent, on average. Estimates indicate that additional cash transfers also reduce child mortality.
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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self-induljennt.bsky.social
Hey loves, I need help and need to add to my to-do list. If you've ever wanted to get some art from me now would be a really lovely time. 🧡

Please help me fill up my coin purse again and give this a share. Thank you so much.
self-induljennt.bsky.social Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · Nov 13
Liz, thank you so much. You actually pushed me to make a better graphic for this. 🧡 🧡
Artist's commission information graphic
February 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Something infuriating me every time is when one of the photos of the Epstein victims surfaces, they refer to the clearly teenage girls as "females". Won't call them women because they're clearly very very young, but don't want to call them girls because that makes it sound bad. BECAUSE IT IS BAD
February 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
A heads up that if you blocked Neil Gaiman on here without unfollowing him first, you are still following him.
February 3, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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papawoof.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
She also (alongside other infamous bigots) launched a defamatory hate campaign against Imane Khelife - an Algerian boxer - during the olympics to the point that Khelife was entitled to take legal action.
February 3, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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helenm40.bsky.social
Good god. We've spent a decade with the British media - including the BBC - claiming that the 'gender critical' movement wanted to 'protect women and girls'.

And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.
msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social Hi my name is Mika 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 2d
I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.
From: Sent: To: Sunday, May 8, 2016 10:18 PM jeffrey E. Subject: London talk the title of my talk October 25 in London, audience "500, 35 pounds paid attendance each "An Evening on Evolutionary Biology: An overview covering Feminism, Transgender, Homosexuality and Honor Killings." $3000 for me (i will already be in London paid for by Imperial College) and an almost certain corporate $3000 add on just as you outlined-this will create an immediate internet wave especially in the UK with coverage in all the major newspapers and so on anyway i will concentrate on it, to the exclusion of individual pieces at the moment all best
February 2, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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tentakrool.bsky.social
Our Flag Means Death and other high-quality shows got no chance despite performing above other, higher-priority shows because they were toying around with money and screwing up production schedules, but NOW Casey Bloys gets to chuckle about how they've cracked the code on TV production.
foldablehuman.bsky.social Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 1d
The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”
February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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markhisted.org
Yes. The counter to billionaires and oligarchy is community, trust, and democracy.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
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February 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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peskysplinter.bsky.social
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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hamishsteele.bsky.social
The UK reporting on the Epstein files focusing only on one man is so tedious. No conversation about the wider issue, its just "hOw cOuLd a RoYal DOOO sUch a ThIng!?" as if that type of billionaire should be uniquely virtuous.

Reminder that the queen obviously knew and protected him for years.
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this
and now that i can say this with mY full chest, ice and that entire administration.
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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picklebee.bsky.social
How shocking.

The Sunday Herald, 21 May 2000:
An extract of the 21st of May 2000 edition of the Sunday Herald it reads: But, most surprisingly, the single-mother chose Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita, the controversial tale of a paedophile's love for a 12-year-old girl whose life he ruins through abuse, as one of her favourite novels. Speaking in a rare interview for a new Radio 4 series about famous people's favourite books, she confides: "There are two books whose final lines make me cry without fail, irrespective of how many times I read them, and one is Lolita. There is so much I could say about this book. "There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabakov's hands, a great and tragic love story, and I could exhaust my reservoir of superlatives trying to describe the quality of the writing."
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM