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@billy.wales
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The horrors persist, but so do I. Developer: @insignia.live, @pretendo.network This is not my employer’s account, and it’s not their opinions either! Signal: billy.561 billy.wales

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Eden Marie @neonepiphany.com · 21h
Hey XBOX, this should now be available to everyone, not just Insiders! You may need to restart your console to get the new functionality.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a matter of logic you cannot be “hard working” if you rely on the state pension. I hope ministers will keep (start?) explaining that the state pension isn’t paid out of an investment fund but by the contributions of those currently working.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Newspapers: We're going to have to pay for Burnham's social care plans! Also newspapers: Social care costs took all my savings! We're already paying for social care, just less fairly and probably less efficiently. #R4Today
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shanley @shanley.com · 28/09/2026
One of the messages to the market that is being sent by AI executives is: you need to pay us money to protect you from us.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
we boof nitrous in this web zone
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Billy @billy.wales · 27/09/2026
Well now I might have to order myself the Bonne Maman jam one!
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mors @mors.games · 25/09/2026
all vibe-coded ports look and feel like shit because theyre made by people without the experience or passion to pay attention to the small details these projects are like a disease to the reverse engineering community and must be rejected at all costs if we want to maintain a standard of quality
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lmao it's just so fucking stupid
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's certainly quite the position for someone who has ended up leader because their predecessor was arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive/controlling behaviour. I think the BSL interpreter has captured the tone very well.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Conservatives want to restrict people on benefits from buying alcohol. Yet they’re uninterested in restricting the cheaper alcohol sold in Parliament’s bars and restaurants. Why is one use of public money treated as morally unacceptable while the other is apparently fine?
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2022: AI is here! You can just ask it stuff! 2023: Asking it doesn't work, we need to prompt engineer it. 2024: Prompt engineering doesn't work, we need RAG 2025: RAG doesn't work, we need Gastown 2026: Gastown doesn't work, we need Jev 2027: Jev doesn't work, we need Poob 2028: Poob doesn't work…
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally
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Billy @billy.wales · 24/09/2026
wb from my Mac o7
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Billy @billy.wales · 24/09/2026
Jumpscare
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fundamentally, it appears very difficult for people to recognize 'hey it's good that the person i don't like is saying this' because they seem to understand it as 'this person is good'
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Billy @billy.wales · 24/09/2026
My Mac arrived safely and Time Machine is still restoring; it may be slow but if the restore works without issue it was worth every second!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UK car manufacturing has halved since 2016, reports BBC. Wonder why.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
once again I would like a see a long read on cocaine and the far right
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22/09/2026
This Scottish wildcat would like you to know that it has never ever been fed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Inside Scotland's wildcat HQ - 'It's like Big Brother for cats'
The Saving Wildcats partnership is keeping an eye on the latest wildcats being bred in captivity for release into the Cairngorms.
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Billy @billy.wales · 22/09/2026
Cause why would developers ever make a competent decision!!1
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 21/09/2026
FIPS 140-3.11 for workgroups
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Billy @billy.wales · 22/09/2026
Happy Fable II ending time!
Theresa, a character in Fable II, standing in blinding white light, saying: “All those who have lost family and friends to the Spire have had their loved ones returned to them, confused but unharmed. Soon all Albion will be filled with gratitude. and praise the name of this great and selfless Hero forever.
And they will know what you gave up for their sake.”
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Billy @billy.wales · 21/09/2026
Me too 🥲
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg has put out a video about how everyone needs to "grow up" and put childhood things behind them and show a bit more backbone and be prepared to do things fir themselves. That's Jacob Rees-Mogg who as an adult ... quite literally went canvassing with his nanny.
Rees mogg and and an AI image of a man in a bowler hat
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 21/09/2026
four more years! four more years! 🥳 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Billy @billy.wales · 21/09/2026
Shaaaaaaame
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Billy @billy.wales · 21/09/2026
Ohhh nooooo
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/09/2026
believe I'm being reasonable and proportional here when I call for anyone merrily chatting over driver announcements on the train to be summarily shot in the back of the head
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're so lucky that British politicians foresaw this risk in 2010 so didn't take that path. Oh wait....
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Billy @billy.wales · 21/09/2026
This is a funny Fable II bug I spotted nearly 18 years later - if you’ve got *the big mid-game quest* ready, not only does the Hero Card for your save show the location despite you not yet being there, but the loading hint text never changes, even if you restart the game! 😅
A screenshot of Fable II (2008)’s loading page. Here, the map is displayed alongside a shot of Bowerstone Market (the destination; “Loading Bowerstone Market”.). The help text reads “Only fools pay full price for goods. Use your map to check what sales are on from time to time. If you're really hankering for a new sword but can't afford it, your patience might be rewarded with a bargain of up to a 75% reduction.”
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once again: this shit is not compatible with democracy. Not for Reform. Not for Labour. Not for any party. It has to stop, and the thread below spells out my idea for how to do that. Tell your MP. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 20/09/2026
It’s a fucking power plug.
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DiscoStarslayer @disco.camp · 19/09/2026
@libby.bsky.social’s MechaLIBerator is now open source! Has real hardware risks so please only do it if you‘re comfortable. That said, if you have any dumps not in the list, please share so I can update it!
github.com
GitHub - Libbers/SPC970-MechaLIBerator: SPC970 Mechacon dumper
SPC970 Mechacon dumper. Contribute to Libbers/SPC970-MechaLIBerator development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 18/09/2026
Oh sure, this is far more important than attacks on RNLI volunteers.
theguardian.com
UK to answer for its ‘dismal record’ in Eurovision before committee of MPs
Digital, culture, media and sport committee expected to hear evidence from BBC bosses and music industry experts
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Wam ✨ @wamwoowam.co.uk · 17/09/2026
once again mentioning if you have a lumia 710 or 800 you should get in touch :)
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Billy @billy.wales · 18/09/2026
It’s so confusing how IPv6 support is still so lacking 🫠
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far right thuggery” We must actively make racism shameful again. Because this is where it has led and it’s unforgivable. No more indulging ignorance and hate.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery.
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Billy @billy.wales · 18/09/2026
Logged on early to get Charli tickets; not only did I not get tickets, there’s now scalpers reselling for £100 over RRP? Ticketmaster, you are an useless organisation.
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have to say I'm really not keen on the tenor of this coverage. Starting to get a little bit towards 'people shouldn't be investigated if the subjects find it distressing'.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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