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Alex Swabey

@alexswabey.bsky.social
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Fan of data, digital development and any organisation that understands how to use them. Aspiring UX renaissance man. Politically anti-regressive.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 03/10/2026
Lane || Boot.dev v @wagslane
Holy shit, America is cooked. They were able to perfectly clone the Microsoft Teams experience.


POLTICO
POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope • Oct 1
The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams.
But officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as "absolute shit."
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
we've got to stop Liz Truss from finding out about this at all costs
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when you have a lawyer at the banana sticker company
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
so much for the so-called tolerant left
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Anakin and Padme meme but it's Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes and she doesn't want anything from the chippy but she does want some of his chips.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026
Just trying a new marketing trick
a picture of a wind farm that says

WIND POWER

Crossed out: It generates clean energy, lowers your power bills and gives back to your community


instead (in larger not crossed out) There’s a 10% chance it will kill off the entire human species in just a few years!!
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Alex Swabey @alexswabey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No, not all of them are racists…
Stewart Lee leaning in to say “some of them are just cunts.”
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Alex Swabey @alexswabey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OpenAI’s position is clear: they will use your ideas as training data and might try to claim the credit.
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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
nimbys remained unmatched
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.
Description of the BUF Olympia rally, at which a series of hecklers were violently attacked by Blackshirts. The sadism, Blythe writes, reached "an erotic intensity". Stanley Baldwin's private secretary expressed shock and dismay: "It was a deeply shocking scene for an Englishman to see in London."
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I think this is part of a running slogan formulation (“the first party that…”) but just reads to me like a politician is inexplicably seeking election in Berlin on the “no one who speaks German could be an evil man!” platform.
Volt poster with the slogan “Die erste Partei, die”
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is getting out of hand
Tube map but with America Water instead of Canada Water. Hilariously.
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dillon snook @dillonsnook.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/08/2026
For some reason I'm reminded of Rosenberg defense attorney Manny Bloch asking David Greenglass, as Greenglass paved the way for his sister's execution, "Are you aware that you are smiling?"
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
WHOA, WE’RE HALFWAY THERE WHOA, OH
LEMON AND A PEAR
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Colin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Eat your heart out, Hemingway
Sign saying “the orphanage luxury apartments for lease”
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Alex Swabey @alexswabey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Seeing reactions to the BBC ad really points to the value of algorithms.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026
In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.
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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“President Infantino, we’ve got the King of Belgium on line 1, the Prime Minister of Belgium on line 2, the Minister-Presidents of Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region on lines 3, 4, and 5 respectively, and the Minister-President of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium on line 6.”
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
reflecting pool girl summer [trying to change myself and making it worse]
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“WE DIDN’T PERM HIM”
League of Gentlemen barbers, Exmouth.
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c t @whatulysses.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
can't argue with this.
screenshot from a pop-up window received after downloading Microsoft Office. It features a yellow triangle with an exclamation point and the text, "'Microsoft Teams' is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.
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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.
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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 13/06/2026
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
new William Gibson book opening line dropped
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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 30/05/2026
When the waiter tells you "Are you sure, it is very spicy":
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Alex Swabey @alexswabey.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We all constantly underestimate how easy it is for people to decide to forgive themselves for heinous shit.
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Alex Swabey @alexswabey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
These people are showing that they were always capable of taking other perspectives, they just chose not to.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 06/04/2026
I asked the 5-year-old if she’d miss me when I’m out of town this week and she said no, and when I asked why she said “it’s complicated”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
supreme accidental comic timing in Commons just now during PMQs: Keir Starmer: “there is only one party leader who has shown he will say anything, no matter how divisive, if he is paid to do so” Speaker (calling the next question): “Nigel Farage”
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Perfect
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