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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh...

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/07/2025

another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week

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coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 08/10/2026

I know at least a few of my bsky pals like John Cage, and if you're one of them, I think you'll dig Simon's new project...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On this day 3rd Oct 1952 the Government announced that tea rationing was soon to end Artist: Harry Wingfield (Shopping with Mother)

Mother, in her smart brown suit, walks into a traditional grocery shop. Two neatly dressed children follow behind.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could they didn't stop to think if they should

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 01/10/2026

there's something wild about seeing "man city were shit" in such legal prose

i) ADUG’s acquisition of the Club
47) In the 1960s and 1970s the Club had enjoyed a period of considerable success. Leaner times then followed. The Club spent the 1980s in the old Football League First and Second Divisions. Although an inaugural member of the PL in the 1992/1993 season, by the end of the 1997/1998 season the Club had been relegated to Division Two – the first time in its 100+ year history that the Club had found itself in the third tier of English football. Although it returned to the PL at the end of the 2001/2002 season, the years that followed
saw the Club finish between 8th and 15th in the PL.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Or even better, embed it in the image! You can add a link, wait for it to embed, and you can then delete the link and it won't count against your character count. It's one of Bluesky's best (and least advertised features!

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PBS: Public Broadcasting Service

Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Inside 17B', Birnam Road, Finsbury Park (2021) by Liam Devereux liamdevereux.co.uk/shop

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026

I really like how @reckless.bsky.social described this: "The people do not yearn for automation" www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More generally, in Western Europe we’ve collectively decided that if we ignore Russian hybrid influence operations hard enough, Putin is just going to get bored and move on.

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Liam Devereux @liamdevereux.co.uk · 22/09/2026

WHSmith Record Department #print #illustration

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We used to be a real Country.

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BenATG @bendevereux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you keep letting bad people get away with bad things they’ll find worse things to get away with

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BenATG @bendevereux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would rather I didn’t know how true this is

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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BenATG @bendevereux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10 years old! Absolutely nailed the dickheads

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy.

A copy of Roy Lichtenstein’s “pop art” comic book panel painting where the text and sound effects make it clear that the work was not original nor created by Lichtenstein.

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James Swift @swift.casa · 19/09/2026

Share a TV show that raised you. (There’s absolutely no way acid wasn’t involved in the creation of this intro)

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Wanderly Wagon - Opening credits

YouTube video by marianphilips

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Horrifically it's starting to look like one of these attempted mass killings will have to succeed before the government, police and BBC stop shrugging and saying "legitimate concerns" isn't it?

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 14/09/2026

chaos from bouncing a ball in a circle- at each point, I simulate a bunch of futures with slightly different velocities- showing how predictable the system would be with measurement error. The system seems to move between Stable Eras and Chaotic Eras, where it is hard to predict four bounces ahead

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BenATG @bendevereux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My wife did the Dragon’s Fire race last week and was shocked at how many people up there seemed to have no idea how dangerous it can be up on those mountains.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 14/09/2026

None of this covers the real real reason. Twenty years ago, gigs were cheap promotional tools to sell expensive records. Now most people listen to music via streaming and don't buy it, records are free promotional tools for expensive gig tickets.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sad to report the "legalise incest" guy on the left has defected to Reform.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026

We shouldn't have to, but in Northern Ireland I've been expected to accept this my whole life and I turn 51 next month.

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BenATG @bendevereux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So he’s just there stating live on telly that Putin’s in charge yeah? Sound

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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