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Ben @benfields.net · 29/09/2026

finally! breaking that link is so important for allowing renewables to be competitive, hope this happens quickly.

Ben @benfields.net · 29/09/2026

Also, such tedious coverage when it can be summarised as 'critics are critical', which UK broadcast news does on lots of policies

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Ben @benfields.net · 29/09/2026

It is the second to last day of September; I am in London

A snippet of a weather report, showing today will be overcast with a high of 26 and a low of 19

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wore this tshirt yesterday and someone tried to explain it to me

Star Wars number one fan. Image of the enterprise from Star Trek

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now that the BBC has picked up this story, it has gone "viral" and gone beyond the bubble of experts on German politics and society. www.bbc.com/news/article... I thought I would add some more context that isn't in the article. #Stoplersteine #Germany #HolocaustMemory

bbc.com

German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

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Ben @benfields.net · 28/09/2026

What a lovely birthday present. Thanks!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 26/09/2026

he’s blaming the abraham accords

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey you guys, Weizenbaum called and he said: "how easy it is to create and maintain the illusion of understanding, hence perhaps of judgment deserving of credibility. A certain danger lurks there."

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026

this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:

AI slop dragon in sunglasses

BIGGER IDEAS
MESSIER CREATIVE PROCESS
MORE MAGIC
PET MORE DRAGONS
SAME SARCASM
Fueled by Coffee Chaos
BIG IDEAS
AI CHAOS
* DRAGON ENERGY
* SARCASM & SPELLS
WOMEN WHO CREATE
FANTASY OVER FEAR
PROMPTS & POSSIBILITIES
CREATE WEIRDER BRAVER
KINDER
COOLER WORLDS
FABULOUS
CHAOS
LIVES HERE
Same
Human
Different
Magic

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Ben @benfields.net · 24/09/2026

A poorly understood problem with age bans for social media is that all the adults give up the privacy (since that's what it means to verify your age) and the kids will still be social on the Internet, because, well, they're kids and it's the Internet.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My take on "who gets to be English" & why Braverman rules can not explain the last 9-10 centuries, not just the last half century www.britishfuture.org/who-gets-to-...

britishfuture.org

Who gets to be English? - British Future

People become English if they were born in England and identify as English, argues Sunder Katwala in response to Suella Braverman's article.

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Ben @benfields.net · 23/09/2026

Nationalize SpaceX! Say it from the rooftops!

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Lanyardian Jihad @dismalchips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does someone want to explain to me how this is not attempted murder? Lifeboat volunteer aside, it is actually still illegal to kill people even if they insist on being foreign.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don’t listen to what they say, pay attention to what the *do*. And what they do is send Lisa Nandy on the BBC to say how much she agrees with the villagers going apeshit about the new immigrant camps, then have Shabana Mahmood announce new crackdowns, while fascists run riot for another year.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes. “If you defund and deplatform anti-racists then that will force their movement underground, and then they will be truly dangerous!” is never, ever an argument you will hear from the right-wing media. Because they know very well that defunding and deplatforming *actually works*.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a two-year-old in the back just sighed, "what a day" and everyone did a polite/panicked titter in response

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also this bright spot in VT: “VT will ask voters to amend its constitution to state explicitly that the state shall not deny equal treatment under the law on account of a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or national origin”

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

every generation gets the Horse_ebooks it deserves

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Ben @benfields.net · 22/09/2026

waiting for a call from a tradesperson reading bluesky encountering this skeet wandering over to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting... waiting for a call from a tradesperson

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Waiting for Godot - Wikipedia

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026

I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

In other words, when we interact with an AI, *we hallucinate* the person on the other side of the interaction. Those hallucinations are far more common and far more consequential than any AI-generated "hallucinations" (these are more properly called "errors" or "defects").

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

To look upon an AI-generated text or image is to look upon a thing that was *extruded*, not chosen. You *can* slip and prompt an AI-generated image of a sunset, and it will embody no intentionality on anyone's part.

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Ben @benfields.net · 21/09/2026

Not the point, but wild to me DJT hasn't been bullied away from closing all his asine posts with 'thank you for your attention to this matter'. The man writes like an eight year pretending to be a dictator.

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Ben @benfields.net · 21/09/2026

Like with immigration, you do not need to hand it to bigots, they are not raising legitimate concerns. They are hate mongers acting in bad faith and acknowledging that is like step 0 of getting out from under this tide of right wing terror.

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Ben @benfields.net · 21/09/2026

It's good that The Guardian is covering the loss of trans rights and massive uptick in trans hate here in the UK, and using trans voices to do so. But it makes for strange listening to not talk at all about the media environment that laid the ground work for the court ruling pca.st/episode/151f...

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Being trans in Britain in 2026

From hospital wards to bathrooms, where is a transgender person supposed to go after the latest equalities guidance?. Help support our independent journalism at <a…

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mixtapes are fucking disgusting and won't exist under populism

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is why it's important to know these are all TESCREAL freaks. They *want* to be building the super intelligent computer that breaks out and takes over. They think that would be cool as shit. Of course they're going to try to engineer that outcome as often as possible.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/09/2026

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Sign the pledge to protect the 2026 elections! From a [last-minute switch to precinct-based assigned polls in Dallas County](https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/03/04/dallas-county-precinct-voting-pr...

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Ben @benfields.net · 19/09/2026

I've always thought the weirdest thing about this story is why does Thiel have to see the Tapestry _in Britain_? He flies all over, all the time. It's not like the tapestry was hidden from the public before, it was just on display in France. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’

British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing

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Ben @benfields.net · 19/09/2026

Do your own research folks say. The people doing their own research:

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can see the far right envelop the UK like an octopus a shell, with sociopaths like Musk as the head using its Tommeh-Tommos-Farage-Lowe tentacles to stress-test the shell for weakness like donations rules to exploit, probe cracks like Piddington to pry open. THOSE are the borders we must defend!

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tall (but not tallest) Chris @tallchris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is literally Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The intersection of the AI cult and Christian nationalist grift is something to behold.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I see people keep peddling the "sanctions would only help Netanyahu in the election" line UK sanctions on settlements featured in the Israeli news cycle for about 20 minutes when they were announced. I doubt anyone remembers them. For better or for worse - it's not having election impact either way

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