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Andy Econo

@andyecono.bsky.social
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Middle aged hardcore kid. Crap at skateboarding. Into comics, drag, and weird/wyrd shit. He/him, but I take requests. ADHD. In that London. Death to fascism. #LCFC

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12h
"By embracing electoral reform, tackling the triple lock, and reopening the question of Brexit, Andy Burnham has embraced Labour’s new core vote – younger, economically insecure, liberal Brits, instead of holding on to an imagined voter of a bygone era."
thenewworld.co.uk
Vigour, passion, purpose: Why Andy Burnham’s bold speech will be talked about for many years to come
On social care, PR, Brexit, water, housing and more, the PM signalled seismic change and a willingness to tackle the toughest issues
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 12h
Man City statement in full:
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 12h
"Going Greggs. Want owt?"
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 12h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Headline of the decade.
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Shropshire married couple are both world champion pole climbers
Emma and Dan Wheelan, from Shropshire, are both world champions at pole climbing.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 12h
"The league said the commission had found City used schemes “to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900m during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules”. £900 million.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12h
"Burnham is taking a bet no other politician in recent British history has made: instead of platitudes or populism, he is trying to set out in plain terms a political offer, with trade-offs, and hope the public can be persuaded to back it. Even his critics must surely acknowledge it’s refreshing."
thenewworld.co.uk
Vigour, passion, purpose: Why Andy Burnham’s bold speech will be talked about for many years to come
On social care, PR, Brexit, water, housing and more, the PM signalled seismic change and a willingness to tackle the toughest issues
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 15h
Zoe Thorogood and her new husband Joe Whiteford are teaming up on VAMPIRE ON AISLE 6, an Image miniseries and accompanying EP arriving this December.
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Thorogood and Whiteford to team up on VAMPIRE ON AISLE 6
Zoe Thorogood and her husband Joe Whiteford will team up on the Image miniseries and accompanying EP Vampire on Aisle 6, which tells the story of a recently turned vampire trapped in a superstore until the Sun sets.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 16h
If we get the AI bubble popping in October it'll be the best Halloween ever.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
wrong. It's more likely Cursor + GitHub Copilot, the latter of which disappeared in roughly June 2026 with the end of customer subsidies, and the former will disappear some time in the next year because Elon owns them bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Other fun facts from the story: 1. nearly a quarter of Anthropic's 2025 revenues came from two customers 2. These numbers *include* the revenue share from Amazon/Google selling their models.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17h
Generally, ministers are intentionally vague, cushioning their language with phrases like "unless an exception applies". But the law is clear: this kind of unlicensed training is illegal. And a government minister is now on record saying so.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17h
He said this at the Politico Pub at the Labour Party conference. It is, I think, the first time that a government minister has admitted that training AI models on copyrighted work without a licence is illegal in the UK.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17h
The UK's AI minister just made a big and important admission on AI & copyright, which creatives around the country will celebrate: "It is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model based on the transformer architecture given the copyright position that we have in this country”.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 16h
Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.
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Dan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex Offences
Comic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 17h
Rally is as packed as anything I've been to at Conferance - with a huge range of excellent, passionate speakers. The fight back against the EHRC guidance and to rebuild trans rights starts here.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 21h
The diesel thieves story is cracking me up. Just brilliant. Time to stick Red Diesel by Show Of Hands on.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 21h
Love the idea that the US President has been sitting in a Situation Room for days now, obsessively monitoring the movements of a bunch of diesel thieves in the Cotswolds.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The legal term 'genocide' refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group."
ushmm.org
What is Genocide? - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Genocide as a term did not exist before 1944. Learn about its origins and legal definition.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe don't feed your unpublished research into the plagiarism nexus?
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morally against taking an AI ad
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or not. Insane www.404media.co/humans-readi...
These contractors are not being hired to flag or vet offensive or inappropriate content. They are being paid to review the quality of Copilot’s output, including in these cases of sexual imagery.
“Who is writing these prompts and who is deciding that basically generating porn is what Copilot is now focused on? It’s hard to take things seriously when my focus has to be what model generated the appropriate bust size or which middle aged woman was put in the appropriate sexually suggestive position,” one contractor said in the thread.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My cover for GASTRONOMIQUE #5 from @boom-studios.com has been announced!! I had sooooo much fun with this one, and I hope y’all love it!! 🥹🥹🥹 Out in December!!! ☺️☺️☺️
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Games Workshop haven't paid me to make this video. Unless you count the free flights, hotel room, hundreds of pounds worth of product, and promotion for the YouTube channel I make my living off. Quick, look over there!" #miniaturepainting #warhammercommunity #tonepro #unkillablehellpots
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy 50th Birthday to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, not only my favorite album is all time, but one of my favorite THINGS, up there with pizza, dogs, sunsets, and the laughter of children.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It really sets in stark relief the asymmetry of coverage of the "debate" over trans and women's rights across our media. On the GC side court losses are reported as wins, racism is glossed over and hate is endlessly sane-washed. Meanwhile successes on the pro-trans side are met with silence or lies.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even @labourlist.bsky.social, which is covering every aspect of Labour Conference in Liverpool, hasn't run a story covering what happened at Women's Conference. Indeed I challenge you to find a *single* story about this boycott written after the event in *any* news outlet anywhere. Remarkable.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the clearest possible example of how trans exclusion harms women's rights. This conference hosted important discussions about a whole range of critical issues, but its decisions were devalued by the fact that the party capitulated to the threat of lawfare. Transphobia harms all women.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to the hobby shop on pay day because I'm brave like that. #nerdlings #trenchcrusade #gimmegimmestrongtone
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Confusing cabinet appointments, ranked: 1) Nandy - Visibly disinterested, openly insubordinate, and a vital role. 2) Healey - When you thought the main issue with Rachel Reeves was her haircut. 3) Bryant - Consistent bungler, very little experience in either NI or Home, also not willing to learn.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Get Clammy Sam on trial, first for the allegations of abuse of his own sister, then this.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This album is bloody great. Get it in your ears immediately.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I say we invite Palestine to join UEFA for a laugh. If Israel is in Europe, Palestine must be.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every time someone pretends the charts are important in 2026, take a drink.
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Merc with a 🫦 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Drop something yellow from your gallery
Against a bluesky, the Sun Baby face inside of the Teletubbie’s shining sun is replaced with the wide-eyed stare and teeth baring grin of former Klingon Chancellor, Gowron, son of M'Rel.

In small, white font the word “serotonin” is overlaid above his right eyebrow.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The discourse will continue until all middle aged adults in the anglophone world start listening to US pop-country radio.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BIG THOMAS!
Big Thomas
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I say we invite Palestine to join UEFA for a laugh. If Israel is in Europe, Palestine must be.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 27/09/2026
Liz is throwing her own poo as a way of getting attention.
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S01E04 The Apes of Wrath 19 February 2004
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The "Choosin' Texas" nonsense is especially funny because some Americans genuinely expect the rest of the world to know what music they play at their local branch of Chet's Lard Lagoon, or wherever it is they get their food-like pap.
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't need to wang on about your Kickstarter nearly as long if your comic was in black and white, as God intended.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Andy Econo @andyecono.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Oh that is absolutely appalling." - me finding my new favourite #TrenchCrusade painter
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Shades @agentshades.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another member of my Court of the Seven Headed Serpent warband for #trenchcrusade - a sorceror. Eventually I'll get real photos of all these in the lightbox but for now you get the fresh from the workbench version 😅
A trench crusade sorceror painted with a white robe, bleeding guts, a flaming sword,and fire hair.
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