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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 4h
The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 18h
For the @b3ta.com kids TV horror challenge…
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
NEW The FAFO of Harold Godwinson: how the Bayeux Tapestry tells a moral tale and a constitutional story Looking at a great work of medieval sequential art By me at the Empty City emptycity.substack.com/p/the-fafo-o...
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The FAFO of Harold Godwinson: how the Bayeux Tapestry tells a moral tale and a constitutional story
Looking at a great work of medieval sequential art
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026
Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin
A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/10/2026
hahahah #fail
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Make a war film rubbish: Where Beagles Dare
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This morning I am going to post a full translation of the Manifesto of the party of former army general Vannacci: Futuro Nazionale. As one does on a Sunday. FN is challenging Meloni and her coalition by attracting the support of the most radical among their supporters. It can cost her the elections
Leader of Futuro Nazionale, Roberto Vannacci, with television anchor Bruno Vespa.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 09/10/2026
Tom Gauld cartoon (as ever)
Two panel cartoon - author saying how book is a cautionary tale about technology. Techbros CEO holding up book at meeting saying let’s build these cool things.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 08/10/2026
One of the key lessons from Dutch cycling history is cities didn't start with protected lanes. They began by making streets safer, calmer and more inviting; with lower speeds, parking restrictions, traffic filters and reduced through-traffic to create an environment in which cycling could flourish.🧵
A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Agrobiodiverse @agrobiodiverse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Then. Now. Next: 20 years of the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/10/20an... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #HeirloomSeeds
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Then. Now. Next.
Twenty years ago this month, the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog was born. Typically, the first thing we wrote about was a genebank in crisis. In October 2006, Typhoon Xangsane -- known locally as Mi...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 06/10/2026
My latest for the PNG Courier... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are - as you may know - planning to do an ALL-NEW Lost Films of Hollywood calendar for 2027 if we get enough interest. There’s a button on lostfilmsbook.store that you can hit to get notified if we get enough interest. I think we need to get about 100 people on there so if you want it to happen…
Lost films of Hollywood 2027 calendar spoiler free image listing some of the movies we are planning to feature if there’s enough interest.. The Odyssey, Marty Supreme, Basic Instinct, The Exorcist, Speed, The Breakfast Club, Parasite, The Cars That Ate Paris, Dumbo…
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sublime dreams: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist, architect & archaeologist, whose views of Rome & imaginary prisons influenced Neoclassicism & Romanticism; born #OTD 1720. Colosseum, Vedute di Roma, etching 1757 | Plate III Carceri d’Invenzione,etching 1761 Princeton University Art Museum
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sunday 4th October at 7pm THE THIRD MAN (1949) Directed by #CarolReed Starring #OrsonWelles #JosephCotten #TrevorHoward Classic noir-thriller #TPTVsubtitles
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This years Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards have been announced. As joyful as ever www.nikon.co.uk/en_GB/learn-... Loads more at the link
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brave of them to start events so early:
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 02/10/2026
😂
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What? Are you ok, Economist?
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Wrong Hands @wronghands.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy National Poetry Day!
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the kind of post that could only be written by someone with zero sense of how artistic process works or what goes into, in this case, composition. And yes, ideas are ten a penny. Ideas are easy. That's the bit people always misunderstand. This guy wants the AI to have the ideas AND compose!
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PHWOAR
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
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Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having one of those days today.
In the Park
 
In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.
 
I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.


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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/09/2026
‘Even the most exclusive concert series required a paying audience to survive. But the notion that in order to understand new music one had to be in the know has persisted, as has the image of the composer as specialist.’ Laura Tunbridge on Schoenberg and his influence www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laura Tunbridge · Air of Another Planet: Schoenberg looks forward
Schoenberg looked backward and forward. In his commitment to perpetuating the Austro-German canon, he drew on the...
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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mariam Batsashvili performs Bach, Liszt and more at the Southbank on 26 September. I wrote about how these composers were often inspired by earlier works, transforming them in new arrangements. Do have a read: bynder.southbankcentre.co.uk/asset/2bbeb4...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026
it's been less than a year, and already the socialists are forcing people to go to the opera
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad we're excited about opera today because MusicDrama.net has updated again! It's the the most lesbian opera ever written by two straight men about a himbo twink and a middle-aged princess… a show about a breakup that sounds like the end of the world… Strauss & Hofmannsthal's DER ROSENKAVALIER!
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Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
The Basics Der Rosenkavalier [The Rose-Knight]Music by Richard Strauss Words by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Language: German Premiere date: January 26, 1911 [Image: Cover design by Frank Parisi for the 1…
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coding people invented a technology that writes code, and now they believe it solves every other aspect of life too. You don't see this with other industries, really. Imagine if somebody invented a new kind of saxophone and they were like "it's over for auto mechanics"
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
bit weird given the play is written in early modern English but I'd pay to hear Ēalā Rōmēo, Rōmēo, for hwȳ eart þū Rōmēo? Wiðsace þīnum fæder and forsac þīnne naman; oþþe, gif þū nelt, swere mē þæt þū mīn lēofa sīe, and ne bēo iċ nā lenġ Capulēting.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026
Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘This is the greatest show…’ Composer of the Week celebrates some of C19th music’s Greatest Showstoppers. Today at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the 'Valkyrie of the Piano', Venezuelan pianist & composer Teresa Carreño. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
making this my new email autoreply
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So excited to have finally seen the Guggenheim!
Photo of a car park with a spiral ramp in Worcester UK
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Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Visit us this weekend as part of Open House🗝️ and see our newly installed plaque honouring Francis Barber, servant, friend and heir of Samuel Johnson. Entry to the House is free this weekend. Come and discover more about Francis Barber and his remarkable life at 17 Gough Square.
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