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Rob Willoughby

@abbenay.bsky.social
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Theatre and Video artist based in Glasgow. I like play, speculative fiction and Arsenal Football Club. He/Him

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah I think I might hold on to that money, thanks lads.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How can this be allowed?! This is a dereliction of civic duty! Doesn’t creative Scotland have a board? Doesn’t it have an obligation not to piss public assets away?! How can it possibly be justified to transfer this building into private hands?!
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 10/09/2026
Ben White throwing the pervert glasses off the Arsenal parade bus
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just wait until someone (*a cop) tries to use evidence from the AI summary of their snitch watch recordings as evidence in court. This is a mess.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The robot will feed you what it claims is a summary of the conversation but it won't let you hear a transcript or tell you who said what" is worse, actually.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just as bad as the pervert glasses. Apple have invented the nosy eavesdropping bastard watch. I won’t trust anybody wearing one of these again (and it won’t be possible to tell if they have an older model, or have it switched off - every Apple Watch just became an anti-social symbol)
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
tldr - Nazis torched a building that was newly social housing affordable flats. They told everyone 'asylum seeker men' will be living there. People claiming asylum cant rent from HAs, they cant work and cant access UK benefits.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 11/08/2026
We were planning to have a podcast episode up today talking more about Rascal's finances, plans for the future, and how you can help us survive long enough to realize them. Mysterious PC failure postponed that plan (tomorrow), but you can support us RIGHT NOW: www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
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State of the Rascal: August 2026
An earnest appeal and radical honesty.
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Henry Flint @henryflint.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is a bad week. Here’s an amazing scene of Tim Curry in Freakazoid:
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 14/08/2026
I have never rejected an advertising campaign more quickly.
An invitation to advertise Meta glasses on the Arseblog ArsecastRejecting the 'opportunity' with the comment: "Hi, thanks but I do not want to advertise the pervert glasses".Ben White throwing a pair of pervert glasses off the Arsenal parade bus
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote about SPORTS open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...
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Why I Set Fire to a School Bus
On the mysticism of sports
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In case you missed it over the weekend... Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ theneuroscienceofeve... Channel 4 have many questions to answer about their upcoming 'documentary'. Here are some of the most pressing #ADHD #C4
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Better way to do something has higher cost
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Do you think we could get XTC to number one? I feel like Making plans for Nigel - for instance - is a totally under appreciated bit of pop history. It would be really cool if it went up the charts this week for no reason at all.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This would be a crime. If you know this building at all (or have taken one look at the way the windows are arranged from the outside) you can see that it’s a singular work of art. To keep the outside and change the inside seems not only ugly, but maybe actually more expensive and difficult?
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It's so exciting being a freelancer in the arts & ents industry (one of the UK's biggest industries) bc about once a month the gvt have a new proposal to kick you in the head & you have to fill in a dry consultation form explaining why kicking you in the head would be bad for business, not good
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Burnham “I can’t make changes that are not in the manifesto” Labour 2024 manifesto ‘We will not issue new licenses… because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis’
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Tora @goldenaura.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you’d like to join our class action lawsuit against corruption in FIFA, which we are planning to make the biggest in history, please click here - rebootfifa.com/sign/ - and please share.
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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Dagoth Urlon Musk @maruhkati.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Well, anyone who knows their World Cup history will know all about the controversial missed handball call against Zaire in 1990. Google "Belgium Congo hands" to learn more.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is a criminal dereliction of civic duty. The Scottish government are proposing to sell a readymade public arts venue on Glasgow’s busiest street into private hands. There is a viable bid already on the table from Glasgow arts companies. We have to stop this madness. archive.is/pADwq
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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 26/06/2026
The words "You Wouldn't Own a Film" in the "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" style from the shite 00s anti-piracy adverts.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Scottish football fans saying we don't deserve to qualify if it's on 3 points in 3rd place, doesn't count etc, would all have fitted right in at the SFA in 1950s
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The readmission of the Scottish Football Association to FIFA in 1946 meant that Scotland were now eligible to enter the 1950 FIFA World Cup. FIFA advised that places would be awarded to the top two teams in the 1949–50 British Home Championship, but the SFA announced that Scotland would attend the finals only if Scotland won the competition.[10][11] Scotland won their first two matches, but a 1–0 home defeat by England meant that the Scots finished as runners-up.[10] The SFA stood by this proclamation, despite pleas to the contrary by the Scotland players, supported by England captain Billy Wright and the other England players.[10][12] Sportswriter Brian Glanville later described the SFA as showing "baffling insularity and pique" in their refusal to send a team to the World Cup.[10]
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If you are interested, there's a petition asking for it to be kept open at savequeensparkglasshouse.netlify.app. #glasgow #queenspark #savequeensparkglasshouse #glasgowtoday
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👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot.»
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/06/2026
The idea that every human is a life deserving of fundamental rights, dignity & care—irrespective of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, or ability—*is* the common ground. It is the ground of the universal. People opposed to this aren't interested in common ground.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Every industry is making billions of dollars and it's workers are getting paid barely above minimum wage and then fired, and all the money just disappears into a hole forever. It's gone. The rich will never spend it. It's number go up. This will destroy the economy
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
with no real alternative beyond vague platitudes about youth centres. And because this is unworkable it also means that kids and adolescents will be exposed to an even more dangerous internet now without any alternative to how they could live their lives differently
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Magic of the World Cup never gets old man
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👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com · 09/06/2026
alternate take: using "POV" to caption third-person videos makes total sense when your own point of view and the imagined viewer of your self-as-content are collapsed together www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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A Whole Generation Seems to Be Using ‘POV’ Wrong
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
Loyalists have had free reign to terrorise communities here my entire life.
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SalisburyDock @salisburydock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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d. burrdawg @daveburrdawg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The lads should present him with a signed copy of this:
Black Arsenal book cover featuring Ian Wright giving black power salute in Arsenal kit.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 06/06/2026
I want to watch these footballers as much as anyone, but if the host country declares unprovoked war on another one of the countries in the competition, they should just cancel the World Cup. The whole thing is corrupt.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Wow. This essay, at various points, blew my mind.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Rest in Power, John Blanche A huge loss to weirdo kids who want to imagine weirdo worlds.
John Blanche artwork for Necromunda - a huge and baroque hive city populated by weirdos with weapons for arms and eyes.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 03/06/2026
One of the fundamental reasons policing doesn't work is because the police are dangerous to victims of crime.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is my club. I fucking love this football club.
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Haris @afcmhr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Love this. ♥️
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If you told ebere eze when he first walked into Selhurst park that he would lift the premier league trophy there, I don’t think even he’d have believed you. And yet here we are. Some things get written in the stars.
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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 23/05/2026
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Zohran Mamdani Ms Rachel
ALT: Zohran Mamdani Ms Rachel
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
People hate Mikel Arteta, basically, because he is sincere and vulnerable in public. And sincerity is a rare quality in our culture, frankly, because you can’t sell sincerity. You can sell shame and cynicism all day long, but not an open-hearted, ‘cringe’ and honest as fuck attitude like this.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.
Dear
For the five years I have lived in
, I've been proud to have you as my representative. Your
intervention when my gender identity clinic did not send my surgery referral for over a year was crucial in getting them to acknowledge and, vitally, rectify their error. I will remain forever grateful to you for this.
But I'm afraid will not vote for you again, not whilst the red rosette you proudly wear remains a symbol of my exclusion.
Your government's proposed guidance is innately dehumanising. It prioritises the comfort of others over my ability to use the toilet, to access services, and to play the sport love with my friends. Ultimately, it seeks to confine me to my home - away from those who view me with disgust. A dangerous precedent has been set that it is more important for others to be protected from acknowledging the existence of those they deem unworthy than for marginalised people to exist publicly at all.
No matter how hard your party tries to spin this, there can be no dignity and respect for trans people with this guidance in place. As a trans man, I am told am not permitted to change with my football team who have called family for the last five seasons - that I must use separate female facilities alone. But if a woman walked through the door whilst I was lacing up my boots, I could be removed from these facilities too if she objected to my presence. Where is the dignity and respect in changing in a corridor? I suppose the preference is that don't play at all and stay at home so others do not have to perceive me.
I expect this behaviour from the Conservatives and Reform. Had this guidance been proposed by the previous Minister for Women and Equalities, I would have been devastated but not batted an eye. To watch a party I campaigned for, a party I was proud to represent for several years as a candidate, the self-identified "party of equality" usher in the biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since Thatcher's Section 28 is shameful. I will not choose betwe…
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is absolutely mad. If you think something is sinful, then that is a negative attitude, definitionally. Why ate we bending over backwards to defend the feelings of bigots?
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A screengrab of a completed purchase of a trans flag pin
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