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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 4h

Amol Rajan: That's right, 8.5m people tuned in to see me!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 5h

My Instagram ads are getting weird.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I was once interviewing a grad for a job and they replied to a competency question talking about their time working on a reindeer farm at Christmas, and for some reason my brain didn't think "cute petting zoo" but instead blurted out "Did you kill them for their meat?"

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Last week she was saying December. 2. For a woman who apparently genuinely believes she could be Prime Minister within the next year and has seen the consequences of trying to busk it play out before her since 2024, she’s not doing Much to prepare!

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Go through life enjoying every day as much as Richard E Grant is loving every second of this.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes BBC, that’s absolutely the marquee event to be advertising on the iPlayer homepage at 8 o’clock this evening

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s the fantasy football one I can’t get over. if you’re sufficiently bored by it that you’re outsourcing the work of picking the team to a computer then just… stop playing?

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was entirely legit, hence we went to extreme lengths to try and cover it up is an… interesting take.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Real Kemiunism has never been tried!

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the thing that fascinates me about Kemi. She’s been visibly caught out on issues multiple times in ways that would cause me to change my name and move to Belize and it doesn’t seem to have impacted her at all

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yet again asking what the BBC thinks its news website is for?

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*screams in Project Kangaroo* (the PSBs tried to do exactly this circa 2010 but it was knocked back due to competition concerns).

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Adam’s lifestyle is configured to be extra enjoyable at income levels of $1m per year or more.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ive also read of people going to see Guys and Dolls and being sad to discover that the ‘We’re just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls!’ song isn’t actually in the show/

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This sounds like an incredible argument.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Offering this as the quid pro quo for sorting out social care doesn’t seem like a terrible idea, at least in terms of fairness. Very interested to see what Kemi does here and how her view of herself as a tough fiscal hawk matches with her automatic need to trash anything Labour ever suggests.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can someone explain the putting the slogan in tiny letters somewhere random on the background thing that all the parties seem to do? Why do they do it?

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who is ‘you’ in this context?

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something quite nostalgic about seeing an automated transcript get it so wrong in this day and age. A nice flashback to my dad trying a trial of Dragon Naturally Speaking circa 2000 and spending an evening in hysterics as it couldn’t cope with his Aberdonian accent.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s also the side note that tax free shopping is deliberately set up to be an enormous faff and generally only worth it if you’re buying a big ticket item, it’s not going to convince someone to pick up a few Beatrix Potter plates because they’re going to get £15 back.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And this is why you have to push back. Am I convinced the apology comes from the heart? Not really, but a fairly mild pushback made them realise this thought was unwelcome and they would be shunned for it. It works!

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sorry to discourse here but I really feel the difference is half the people here are imagining someone walking in and popping a coffee on the desk discreetly and the other are imagining someone sauntering in late, drinking from the straw while acting like someone in an iced coffee meme.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It has been really helpful for stopping me from sending in documents with typos and incomplete sentences. It is also useful for getting me beyond the ‘staring at a blank page’ phase of document writing (I still type everything myself, the content is better that way).

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI is very much accelerating a ‘problem’ (I hesitate to call it this since primarily what’s happening is people claiming what they’re entitled to, but the level of usage was never budgeted for) started by Martin Lewis and Reddit.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s a common phenomenon. See also every media institution ever that has invested in foreign reporting and complex long reads about politics because people keep saying that’s what they really want, then they read Trump live blogs and royal family stories.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know plenty of people who could do that job! (Here all week, try the veal)

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Im not the first to make the parallel but the story of the Pink Peacock in Glasgow very much comes to mind www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/... www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How many bottles of expensive whisky/champagne does Ocado end up delivering in Christmas week because people book the slot, drop that in there to hit the value threshold, think ‘I’ll sort it nearer the time?’ and then forget.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please, my mental health will not survive this. Also I just have so many questions, does this even work in the music scene of 2026? What the hell is the politics of it? (some of it has aged exceptionally poorly)

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Which is an interesting view since the decision that kicked off Spain leaving (Israel not being chucked out) was made by broadcasters, not contest management.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Extra bonus one: our sex education class involved the depute head showing us Every Sperm is Sacred for… some reason. Then we had to watch a deeply late 90s video called ‘know your balls, check ‘em out!’ about prostate cancer symptoms featuring Jonathan Ross and a load of already forgotten celebs.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On a slightly related note, we were regularly told that if you swallowed chewing gum you basically died instantly and in retrospect, why was this such a pervasive idea? If the product were that dangerous it would not be on sale!

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A police officer came in to do the anti drugs talk and decided to run through basically every drug ever in alphabetical order, what it does, its classification and the legal consequences for having it. It was quite interesting but he was stopped after 2 hours having only got to the letter G.

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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For some reason the teachers told us Madonna was coming to perform for us, and for a week we were beside ourselves with excitement. When the assembly finally came, a teacher sadly informed us Madonna was stuck in traffic and wouldn't make it. Why any of this was said I don't know

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shit. Just realised I’ve been putting quite high numbers into the ONS survey that they ask me to do every 3 months. It’s my fault, sorry lads.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Popping up to make my usual comment that it’s the change I’d want to study. Both Mason and Laura K were perfectly good political journos before taking the Pol Ed position (Mason was very good on radio for years and didn’t even start as Pol Ed like this). What is it about the role that causes this?

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The tuition fees are £9,000 a year but you get a free 2:1.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As much as anything else, the idea that universities have been some closed shop of woke ideas beamed directly into the brain of every student just doesn’t appear to be remotely true. Politics and media are full of the tiny subset of people who got super in to student politics and think it matters.

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martin @tijgerstreep.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

not to treat bluesky like LinkedIn or anything, but if you (or a friend or a friend of a friend) work in a newsroom I would love love love to get in touch! pls reskeet etc.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s such a weird bit of news judgement. One of the people involved has been dead for 29 years, the other isn’t going to speak back. Spencer is, if nothing else, not a reliable narrator here for completely understandable reasons. It’s not news.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[OVERTURE TO RUSLAN AND LUDMILLA (MINOR KEY)]

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NATS’s line that this is nothing to do with 2023 line feels a bit hollow. Yes the exact error that caused the 2023 issue was fixed but it’s the same uncontrolled shutdown leading to corrupted data that takes hours to fix cascade.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We do ration healthcare though. Fundamentally, that's what socialised medicine does (the alternative is that you ration through ability to pay, which I would not prefer). 100% you can attack this as a wrong or misguided choice, but I don't think the 'it's rationing' argument is very helpful.

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Avios here in Britain, in your Amex Rewards Programme or BA household account, have been devalued."

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This poll is a wonderful example of how issue polling has boiled politicians‘ heads.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What really fascinates me is that it’s really clear from the way it was dropped in the keynote that nobody in the decision making chain perceived why this feels inherently icky to a lot of people, in a way that a bunch of tech data cannot defeat.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s such a disaster for people and the economy. I’ve seen a number of well meaning, smart, decent people crash very hard because they were given a bunch of direct reports, no guidance or training and completely floundered. Resentment grew, staff left, they felt awful. It’s such an unnecessary waste

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ahh it’s the bit of the Apple keynote where they pretend people play AAA games on iPhone, not just candy crush and subway surfers

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So the drop here is interesting. It’s probably too early for it to be a result of my pet theory of parents buried in phones ignoring their kids. I do wonder though if we have to remember that these are kids who were 8 or 9 when COVID hit and therefore had very disrupted educations?

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On yet another morning where I want to bury my head in my hands about what the BBC is becoming, it’s nice to share a bright spot of coverage that manages to be fun, interesting and insightful without assuming its audience is moronic.

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