Welsh social reformer Robert Owen died on this day 1858, aged 86. At 21, became manager of Manchester's Piccadilly Mill, where he ran an enlightened regime, joined the Literary and Philosophical Society. Later carried the principles into model community at New Lanark, Scotland.

Oxford Road station steps and the Salisbury, Manchester, photo by Shauna Harrison.

Daily bunny no.3139 found some prime real estate

Clitheroe, Lancashire, painting by Linda Mellin. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

If you run the world’s most famous sex club in a city full of artists who are both poor and horny, you should not be doing this shit:

Wonder why. Could definitely not have anything to do with trans people having a culture of SHAMING cis people for dating trans people. Couldn’t be for the same reason my fiancé, whom I was already with FOUR YEARS before my transition, got called a ‘chaser’ once just because he’s my partner. Mystery

Might be a good moment to re-read this www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

eternal september appropriately ends in october

THE MEME IS REAL

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Underground Railway, Liverpool, 1894, by Charles Trevor Prescott, 1872-1947 (Walker Gallery). #NorthernArt

love this look

Merz möchte Geld beim Bürgergeld einsparen. 2019 zum Beispiel haben die Jobcenter noch für Rückforderung von Kleinbeträgen 60 Millionen Euro ausgegeben. Um 18 Millionen Euro zurück zu fordern. Soziale Härte kostet auch Geld. Aber wenn die Ärmsten weniger kriegen, ist es uns das wert?

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Lenin on anti semitism Seems relevant right now www.marxists.org/archive/leni...

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pvc from temu is not latex and i'm begging people to learn the difference REAL FETISH FREAKS CAN ALWAYS TELL THE DIFFERENCE

Ground-breaking research funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund pinpoints Manchester’s historic Portico Library and Newsroom as influential in the city’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade economy. You can read more about the research below: www.theportico.org.uk/reunitedglob...

Notes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

Peterloo Massacre happened #OTD 1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.

There's a big AskReddit post today asking people why they pay for porn and none of the top answers are "Because you shouldn't steal from sex workers". That's the beginning and the end of the discussion: pay for porn because you shouldn't steal from sex workers.

"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!" Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

Breaking news: the pope finally got back to his Duolingo account on Sunday. He’s now learning Italian.

the thing described in this screenshot is a neo-Nazi recruitment tactic

It may be July 30, but it's always September on BlueSky!

My first piece is up on the nightmares of bureaucracy and healthcare as a trans person caught between countries: www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

We’re sharing this because we have found similar acts of solidarity and protest by our peers to be inspiring. Every time an artist takes a principled stance it makes it easier for the next artist to do the same ✊🏻

In April we declined an offer of $60,000 to license a song of ours to an Airbnb commercial. Airbnb continues to make money from stolen Palestinian land and contributes to the housing crisis worldwide. We do not wish to promote or profit from this. Free Palestine. Eat the Rich.

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.

I love @ilfordphoto.com’s Film Stories/Ilford Inspires videos because I don’t know of any other platform showcasing photographers that gives anywhere near as much time and attention to women’s photography

Pendle Hill, painting by Vera Lowe, 1917-98 (Bury Art Museum).

Gestern war der 30. Gedenktag an den Genozid an den Bosniak:innen & der erste internationale Gedenktag. Zu dem Anlass waren ich & ein weiterer Genozidüberlebender, sowie einige bosnische Diplomat:innen im deutschen Bundestag eingeladen. Was folgte war extrem traumatisierend.

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Holy crap, Jon Bois is working on the Mamdani campaign? ++++

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it is so isolating and dehumanizing to be subject to cruelty and scrutiny from people you don't know and never did anything to, to just always be rolling the dice that any mention of you or anything related to you will have nastiness from a complete stranger attached

this made me laugh so much

Daily bunny no.3010 will not be outbid

you will never, ever want for good art made by humans

what happens when a mf has completely unrestricted immigration

trans girls hate other trans girls more then anyone else could ever. I think about this passage often.

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