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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 12h

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 7h

Nah not this time - this was one of those mountain rescue fly-on-the-wall thingies. Rock climbing on the sea cliffs, the guy I was climbing with took a tumble. Coastguard couldn't get to him so summoned an RAF Sea King from Milford Haven to pluck him off the cliff, and it had a TV crew in it!

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 7h

Oooh, Pembroke is lovely (although last time I was there I unexpectedly got myself on telly - not the reason WHY I haven't been back though!)

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 9h

Barbie: BBC Sindy: ITV (This one may be controversial, given the American element)

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DrEddful @eddedmondson.eurosky.social · 20h

When someone says holy shit I expect it to be bad. This was a wonderful change.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 22h

I think it's the quiet dignity of comedy that i enjoy the most

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 05/10/2026

blocked over carbonara at 10:45am is WILD

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 05/10/2026

carbonara is basically just breakfast pasta

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh i have lost it i am gone

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Business opportunity"? Nah sod that I'd absolutely live there if it wasn't a [checks notes] 4h-each-way commute.

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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Repost this to instantly find new people to block

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pain Lethargy Abscesses Gland swelling Unconsciousness Expiration Mnemonic plague

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CursèdZebra @cursedzebra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is just how you are supposed to feed them by the way. You put your finger in their mouth and push down their tongue, which is a button! And then they beg for more. This was a design CHOICE.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We've seen where this ends with email. In theory, anyone can run their own mail server - the software's free, a domain name is cheap, and the hardware requirements for personal use are miniscule. In practice, unless you're at the scale of Microsoft, Google or Apple, it's impossible.

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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I never tire of “None for me, thanks, I’m driving” when turning anything down. (Best deployment: an elderly friend offered me some of her lipstick during a funeral. She absolutely lost it.)

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The UK Arts & Ents industry contributes over £10bn to the UK economy a year & one of these days our politicians might even realise that instead writing it off as icky girlie flouncing bc you can't do a photoshoot in a hard hat & hi-vis gilet at the national theatre without looking like a tit

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Okay, George Lucas remains a schmuck but his wife is pure class. She made him make the museum souvenirs and food cheap so that schoolchildren without much money can still have a good day, because she says she remembers how bad it felt to go on expensive field trips. It DOES.

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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 04/10/2026

this is baby shit. this is what a child does. the labour government has a massive majority and they're being stupid fucking posting babies. you said you were the adults in the room. grow the fuck up.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(Posting all this with a Marvin the Paranoid Android profile pic wasn't intentional, I've just been re-reading HHGTTG, but it has made me chuckle)

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But the more I think about it, the more I think that the comparatively tiny bandwidth of these hobbyist networks isn't a bug but a feature. I think it should be unappealing to corporations. Just text is fine, we already have enough overstimulation on the old internet.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Mummmm can I have a new internet please i broke the old one"

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alas, the biggest problem isn't technical but legal: frequency bands like WiFi allow encryption but have a range in the tens of metres, while amateur radio bands have a much more useful range and can support packet data - but encryption is illegal.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I keep meaning to have a tinker with some of the stuff in that space like Reticulum or Meshtastic. Maybe stick some kind of aerial on the roof and see what it can pick up. Probably nothing. But mostly I think I see it as a beacon for the next person to find. So they're not looking in the dark.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The more and more it does the former, the more it crystallises around a few giant players and the objectively worse the experience becomes for those still trying to do the latter. Maybe we need to split the two - leave the existing network for the giants and build a new network for the little guy.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My strangest, and probably wrongest, take on the modern internet is that I think we have too much bandwidth. The internet's new role as an "content" delivery layer is, I think, at odds with its previous existence as a tool for "communication".

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today... No pasarán! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Battle of Cable Street - Wikipedia

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch saying people earning a million pounds a year shouldn't be punished for working hard, and in all my years on this earth I don't think I've ever been so naïve as to think people getting that much money are working hard.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Nice internet you've got there. Be a shame if something happened to it..."

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And now, this onslaught of AI traffic that nobody wanted gives the remaining website owners the choice between paying protection money to the likes of Cloudflare, moving your content to one of the walled gardens, or getting DDoS'ed off the face of the Earth by rampant AI scrapers.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We've also already seen the same enclosure in online communities - we've lost blogs, forums, Usenet, and mailing lists to the monolithic walled gardens of social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. In that case it was driven by discoverability and intentionally dopamine-farming algorithms.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Those big three providers effectively blacklist any email traffic that isn't from themselves, ostensibly in the name of spam protection. Getting, and staying, unblocked is almost Kafkaesque. TLDR, the enclosure of the online commons. www.reddit.com/r/SelfHostin...

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/10/2026

A 3,500-year-old Bronze Age landscape near Peterborough is in a race against time. Flag Fen’s waterlogged archaeology is threatened as peat dries out. Now £700,000 will fund urgent excavation and conservation.

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Funding secured to unlock the secrets of Bronze Age Flag Fen

A major new excavation at Flag Fen Archaeology Park near Peterborough will investigate one of Britain’s most important Bronze Age sites

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 04/10/2026

what’s interesting about LLMs is that a stochastic regurgitation of training data, given enough data and enough tweaking and enough compute, can appear to be something more than a stochastic regurgitation of training data. but to imagine that it *is* more than that is magical thinking.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 04/10/2026

I think the cost of this is underestimated. People talk about "95% of my traffic is AI scrapers" and it maybe sounds like that would increase your costs by 95%, when in fact the human traffic that used to be 100% of your cost is 5% of your new cost. Your costs have increased 20 times.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 03/10/2026

evergreen post

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