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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 · 30/09/2026
Thing is that UK gov at the very top wants to keep the emiratis sweet because they provide so much inward investment. That’s why a blind eye was turned for so long. It took a Portuguese hacker and a German newspaper to blow the lid on this.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is mad how easily they seem to have been able to brush this stuff under the carpet. All the guys mentioned in this article are still working refs!!
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unfortunately looks like this article is three years old. I am staggered that these obvious conflicts of interests haven’t been brought up again this week though.
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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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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’ve spent too long trying to fool these trojans pal, they’re not gonna fall for it.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No you have to fall down and pull the guy down on top of you to get the call.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Weak from Bruno imo. I don’t think he looks half as good in that role as MLS did.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is going to boil some piss and I am so here for it. Thank you for not shying away from your principles and the multicultural values of our diverse country.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Aye — Who needs conspiracy when good old fashioned incompetence and cowardice explains all of PGMOL’s endless failures.
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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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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hurrah for the blackshirts!
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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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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yeah but it’s part of the home advantage imo. That’s why we have two games per season and neutral venues for finals. I enjoy it when it happens to us and take it in good humour when it happens against us. You can’t expect kids to be perfectly sporting; that’s what makes them kids.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You try to stop them. There’s no way you can get kids to do that job who don’t love the club to their bones. Even if you fired every single one who broke the rules, there would be ten more to replace em, all willing to break the rules again.
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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 · 03/08/2026
Sounds like you actually just need to get vinted. It's changed my life for obscure clothing desires.
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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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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
And? I was 13 years old when Iraq was invaded. We all walked out of school and made our way to parliament square. I’m pretty sure I had political opinions at that age. I wouldn’t assume the youth have empty heads, especially those who have grown up in an age even more dense with information.
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's pretty mad to try and spin this as a meme "with no context" – I think there is an awful lot of context here, and a awful lot of young folk using his death to make political statements. I think a lot of people don't want to hear those political statements, so they'll pretend "it's just a meme"
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Tora @goldenaura.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We will remember him 🙏
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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 · 03/07/2026
I totally understand your position but I think the current push for artist led models doesn’t come from nowhere: it’s a response to the fact that administrator led models have failed and are failing all over the place. The CCA is just one example and artists are sick of it.
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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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1950s

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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Roland Meyer @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.»
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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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