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alpha seven (Pete Roberts)

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Sporadic releases of electronic music. MUST NOT BUY MORE SYNTHS. www.sofacom.co.uk

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 6h
In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 10/01/2025
The only acceptable AI art
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 6h
A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 6h
I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by.
The arm of one beast through the arm of another. Very black and white. I’m posting these here because Instagram is so utterly fucking pointless for photographers.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 8h
Musician Marc Bolan finds the Jeepster for his love: a Bickerton folding bicycle Happy #BicycleBirthday, Marc! September 30 ((1947-1977)
Photo of a man wearing a leopard-print outfit riding a Bickerton folding bicycle with a surprised expression. He has a guitar strapped to his back.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 11h
Well, we're still at just over 20 months of Trump's second term, and the www.trumpactiontracker.info has reached over 4,000 documented actions :-/
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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 11h
The US Copyright Office offering an elegant description of the difference between making your own art and using AI "to commission" it. From @dadadrummer.bsky.social substack.
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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 13h
Finally, some honesty about the shitshow that is #Brexit
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17h
The Last Stand, 1965, painting by Clarice Hall Pomfret, 1930-2014 (Bolton Library & Museum Services).
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17h
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 16h
It's so obvious, duh. #webcomics #comicsky
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17h
Rain, Midland Hotel, Manchester, painting by Paul Lloyd.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 17h
The importance of adequate indoor air renewal in public spaces has been known since the 19th century: in some theaters, fresh air is delivered to each spectator through vents located beneath the seats. Infographics on this subject are available at letsair.org.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 17h
The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Posts are free for 7 days from publication, and this will always remain the case. If you are a: - Pensioner - Journalist - Student - Claiming any sort of UC I will happily comp you a subscription - just email iratusursusmajor@gmail.com.
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A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble
How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.
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alpha seven (Pete Roberts) @alphaseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you’ve not heard this yet - it’s very good indeed. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Strong Message Here - We Care, We Fight! (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds
Is Ed Davey cut out for the attention economy? Armando and Stewart Lee have some tips.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
13 Monsters Good And True I think there are so many genuine monsters in the world that I am consoling myself by drawing little monsters who are good.
Drawing of 13 little 'monsters', rather cute little critters who wouldn't harm a fly, in fact they'd probably give it a bowl of milk and a tiny bed for the night.
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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here it is...by delegating decision to non transparent AI models we generate an incentive for grant applicants to use AI writing to tweak system and the vicious/absurd feedback loop is set (which all started by an overload of grant application driven by AI writing). www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 29/09/2026
A friend of mine has found an ancient relic, with which it was possible to watch very small videos and communicate extremely awkwardly via text
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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.
A plasticine model of Frank Muir.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
A new YouGov poll commissioned by Best for Britain found that restoring EU membership is the most popular option for the UK’s relationship with Europe in 628 of GB’s 632 constituencies. The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.
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Brexit’s last strongholds? Only Reform and Restore constituencies reject rejoining the EU
The polling suggests that full membership itself is becoming a mainstream preference across the country.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1967 Vuelta Ciclista a España 🎨 Riccardo Manzi
Advertising poster for a bicycle race featuring cartoon illustrations of three rows of more-or-less ordinary people riding bicycles.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine being the wealthiest person on the planet and the biggest loser concurrently.
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alpha seven (Pete Roberts) @alphaseven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...
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Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?
Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK
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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
49 years ago, #Eraserhead premiered: #DavidLynch
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Eraser Head
ALT: Eraser Head
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LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the grand auditorium of Maison de la Radio, Paris - France, ventilation is provided via vents located beneath each seat, delivering fresh air directly to the audience (yellow arrows). This is a well-known solution that ensures excellent indoor air renewal and comfort and reducing health risks.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New Towns Mark One by the late Elain Harwood, ed. @alistairfair.bsky.social provides the first detailed architectural survey of the ‘mark one’ new towns. ➡️ Read the interview with Alistair about the book on the LUP blog: bit.ly/HE-NewTowns @c20society.bsky.social @geraintfranklin.bsky.social
A blue background of a blue and white tiled building fascia with a clock on a blue sky background. The text on the image reads 'Charting the architectural history of Britain's initial post-war new towns: the so-called 'mark one' new towns.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 28/09/2026
One for the equivocators.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An aerial view of Manchester's Hulme Crescents (designed by Hugh Wilson and Lewis Womersley for Manchester City Council) shortly after completion c.1970. The residue of cleared terraces can be seen to the right. More on the Crescents here: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-hulme-...
Black and white aerial image of four large crescent-shaped multi-storey slab blocks with traces of cleared streets of terraced housing to right
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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 21/09/2026
“Life in the Shower” - a fun little series I started a while back and just updated! When you’re in your own shower…
A very simple cartoon of someone standing in their shower, staring into the middle distance, perhaps wondering why they somehow yet again forgot to buy more shampoo, despite having been to the shops twice today for various other things. Of course, going to the shops a third time, AFTER your shower to buy shower things is entirely unhinged, so it’s going to have to wait till tomorrow, and who knows if they’ll remember any of this by then.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mummy From the Private Eye archive.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The whole point of humans as a sociable, tribal species is we should eject people like this, so they starve in the wilderness alone. There are consequences to sociopathic behaviour. Somehow the abstract idea of money has short circuited our basic evolutionary safeguards.
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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Cats of Tehran ~ Akbar Mehrinezhad #Caturday
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/09/2026
“I derive an immense sense of hope from the idea that obliviousness is being demolished all around us”: author and journalist Omar El Akkad talks to documentary maker Ramita Navai about Gaza, conflict, and the wilful ignorance of western liberals who “just look away”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Day 13 of asking @andyburnham.bsky.social to jam with us so we can talk about getting UK artists touring Europe again! 🌎 Tag @andyburnham.bsky.social in the comments so he sees this!
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 26/09/2026
In this week's diary: Pecksniff wonders how long Labour can dodge Brexit * Ed Davey links tax cuts to the single market * Reform’s councillor troubles keep mounting * Farage struggles to control the forces he unleashed * And more... @eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
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Pecksniff: Hey, Labour: we need to talk about Brexit
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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