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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2026

Job applicants are using AI to write resumes and prep interview answers. Companies are using AI to screen those applications and conduct initial interviews. We’ve officially automated both sides of a process meant to measure human connection. The irony is genuinely unreal.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 12/09/2026

The fundamentals of this declaration could be applied to any field. Often, the journey is the thing of value, more than the destination.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 06/09/2026

This is great. I am going to print this out and put it on my wall.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 04/09/2026

I'm pleased to announce v8 of Html2Markdown. github.com/baynezy/Html... This is a major release, and conversion is done via graph traversal (no more RegEx). It also has OpenTelemetry signals. The version 7=>8 migration guide github.com/baynezy/Html... #dotnet #csharp #html #markdown #otel

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Release 8.0.0.21 · baynezy/Html2Markdown

Added Added optional GitHub-Flavoured Markdown table conversion with alignment and span support (#612) OTEL support (#72) A GitHub release is now created automatically when a release or hotfix is ...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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Lee @leech47.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you could devise a policy that meant big business could absorb most of the work, overcharge for it, send many of those roles abroad — and maybe the profits too — while passing business costs onto the worker on a fixed term zero rights basis You’d have thought the left would be against it! #IR35

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 28/08/2026

For all the contractors on here. This is a really good opportunity to make sure your experiences are heard. You have until the 9th September, so don't delay! www.reddit.com/r/Contractor... #contractors #contracting #ir35

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One shall stand. One shall fall.

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Verify now supports inline snapshots github.com/VerifyTests/...

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 28/08/2026

Optimus Prime is dead. Noooooo

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 18/08/2026

All my #Google Homes are just a black screen, and restarting doesn't fix anything.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 17/08/2026

I remember seeing this in the cinema with my Grandfather. He wanted to see it, but my Grandmother didn't like violent movies. So he asked me. I knew nothing about it. To this day, I remember looking over at him during the reveal at the end and the excitement on his face. God I miss him.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 15/08/2026

Crazy financial manipulation.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again

Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.

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Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please read and share widely.

Newham Bookshop facing 32% rent increase with £20K due immediately.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 04/08/2026

My life in a nutshell!

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If Sov AI is going to continue investing UK taxpayers' money in AI companies, it is imperative that it introduces simple due diligence into whether companies exploit creatives' work without permission. 9/10

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

AI makes teams with strong, human-led engineering practices do better, and teams with weak practices do much worse. If you want to build truly great software, you have to stop treating your people like replaceable machinery and start setting them up to succeed. 7/8

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In 1975, three men in a grotty London flat started a games company. It brought D&D to the UK, then redefined wargaming. This week on Untitled History Podcast, it's the history of Games Workshop with @jordansorcery.bsky.social. On Youtube or your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/3iSn...

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Episode 24: How Games Workshop changed the world with Jordan Sorcery

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 20/07/2026

I'm back commuting into London for the first time in over six years. It's going to be a bit of a change.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 19/07/2026

Congratulations Spain. Poor game though. Took over 3 hours. Which is nearly as long as the Superbowl.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 10/07/2026

We need more punditry from #Agassi. Listening to him on the #Wimbledon coverage, and he's fantastic.

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Craig Walmsley @craigwalmsley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I beg to differ.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 03/07/2026

I'm taking my daughter to her first ever concert tonight. #Metallica #MasterOfDaddies

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Is everyone following this? UK gov is going to subsidise energy for Data Centres at times of peak usage, meanwhile the rest of us get a 13% price cap hike. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Delivering AI Growth Zones

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 28/06/2026

Absolutely gutted for Iran. They've been so good to watch in the tournament. #WorldCup

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 27/06/2026

This is fabulous. You cannot just push all responsibilities on consumers.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 26/06/2026

Guess when I popped out to collect my daughter from school. This heat is no joke.

Garmin stress graph, showing a big spike at 1300 when I went out in the heat.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you are only going to read one thread today, make it this one. 👇

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 23/06/2026

It's not even 0900 yet. Work today is going to be hard.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 03/06/2026

This made me laugh out loud so hard!

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 01/06/2026

I never got close to using my allocation for #GitHub #Copilot previously. With the new pricing model, I have used ~18% on day 1. New dawn. I am very glad I don't actually need it to do my job; it just speeds up some things.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 01/06/2026

China’s courts now essentially prohibit making human employees redundant for an AI replacement: they reckon that what little productivity gain the AI may yield is not worth the damage to social cohesion. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 26/05/2026

#GitHub actions have been completely torpedoed for the last 2 hours.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 16/05/2026

#Chelsea lost the FA Cup Final, and now I'm at the emergency vet. Not a good day.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

But well done to Labour leadership hopefuls for keeping this story off the front page, though.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 15/05/2026

Hallelujah. The amount of times I've had to pull down the code and rebase because of a simple one file conflict is huge.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 15/05/2026

Man this is so true. I used to use a FOSS GitHub Action that was written in Node. I was getting warnings that GitHub was changing how you shared data between jobs. I thought I'd be helpful and raise a PR. To fix the issue I had to update one package, queue NPM errors galore.

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