Reposted by Alan Paxton Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56119093530
Reposted by Alan Paxton Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed. 25989226
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Imposing an ideological purity test on her voters. Always a winner. 000
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Radio 5 says Jeffrey Archer divided opinion. Presumably as to whether his perjury or his novels were his greatest crime. 011
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/202616-18% unfocused vote is f*ck-all seats, as the Lib Dems of yore will happily tell you. 030
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The technology - fascinating and potentially net positive for humanity. The politics - all knowledge access is now compulsorily mediated by and charged for by a gang of power crazed guys with unsocialised 12-year-old boy level morality. 110
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Remember these guys have not read or thought about much of anything except essays by their fellow billionaires. Any piece of nonsense becomes a ground-breaking philosophy. 1100
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Her Lunch with the FT is just as bad. Calm, polite, deranged. 130
Reposted by Alan Paxton Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times) 831880685
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lunch with the FT did Badenoch at the Weekend. She calmly and politely told us she has learned nothing. 000
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sounds more like Iran renting some dickheads from Crime Cameo. Who completely shat themselves when they realised they were targeting an airbase. 010
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A0, A1, … Z8, Z9 gets us to 2359 and still respects popular character set ordering. Mind you, someone, somewhere (probably Grok’s Claude Code copycat) is already subtracting character values to yield year counts. 000
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Has it been decreed that Fartrage is irretrievably damaged goods ? 020
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Splitting the difference here. There can be a viable business with 80% free users, who provide value in data/kudos/activity. The subscription nagging is recent and probably highly counterproductive. But of course ultimately a service has few responsibilities to its free-tier users. 110
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They all switching to YY.MM versioning effective immediately. 100
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The great thing about a Chicago Pope is you can’t afford his price. 010
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This statement, to be Scottish about it, makes me want to boak. 1380
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026She’s a right wing parody of “Rick” from the Young Ones. 040
Reposted by Alan Paxton Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I know.. LinkedIn.. but still, LOLs are LOLs. 25511
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Actual snort of tea laughter at the revelation of who those finest minds could be. 040
Reposted by Alan Paxton Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.” 15398105
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026She does love a good chorus of “Tomorrow belongs to me” 010
Reposted by Alan Paxton Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28/09/2026“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." —Bill Nye, Science Guy. 6581133
Reposted by Alan Paxton derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal 335153941291
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Big Tech has decided it can only survive by indulging in Musk-level techno-fakery. The “it might happen, keep buying our shares” spin is more important than answering any genuinely open technical questions. 020
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026He may not live forever, but he will very much feel like he is. 030
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s 20th century... But plenty to argue about; Wolf Hall and Derry Girls are both missing, and Downton is on the list. 120
Reposted by Alan Paxton Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The love affair continues … 1361106511748
Reposted by Alan Paxton MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 14410171
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Very strong view that HS2, 3, 4 are vital and Heathrow should absolutely not expand, but that’s sort of irrelevant as it’s the decision process that’s broken. 020
Reposted by Alan Paxton The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w… 503943640
Reposted by Alan Paxton Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026 "At the time, DoorDash’s large spending raised eyebrows. Now, the company has to pay its workers around 100 times the amount it spent attempting to influence the election, owing to a mayoral administration that refused to overlook concerns with the company’s conduct."theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani. 07830
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We are moving too fast towards IPO to not break society in our desperate hurry to cash out. Give us a trillion dollars in used notes and we may reconsider. 000
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We know what he stands for, which is hiring people in the global south on poverty wages to process and reject reports of pervert glasses being abused as designed. 000
Reposted by Alan Paxton Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ten years ago, Mr Brexit left his wife because his drunk mate down the pub convinced him he would be totally free and spending his evening with dazzling models who were all desperate to date him. In the past decade, Mr Brexit has moved into a bedsit above a branch of Greggs, 36623
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank God he doesn’t have to survive on what he made at facebook. 000
Reposted by Alan Paxton Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.” 542081584
Reposted by Alan Paxton Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 24/09/2026We can handle the criticism, but this was an poignant reminder: When you change the status quo, there is always a group who feel change is being done to them, rather than for everyone. And the loudest voices online aren’t representative of those who have most to gain from a different kind of city. 1484
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Six whole car parking spaces ? Truly the end times for jag driving Tories from Alloway. 000
Reposted by Alan Paxton Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/ 91121632104
Reposted by Alan Paxton Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"... what we need people to understand is that net zero is literally a description of scientific fact. If we don’t reach net zero emissions, we will see temperatures continue to rise.” This cannot be repeated too often. 23519
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