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Billy Bell

@billybell99.bsky.social

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Sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook. Music | TV | Food | #nufc | etc open.spotify.com/user/bbell99?si=qj…

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 9h

Bought the 7" the day it came out, still got it.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 9h

It is actually scary how much Hayes looks like my dad in his wedding day photo. He died when I was 9 so I never saw him get old and so those photos are how I remember him and this is so weird.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 10h

Love Beach House. You'll come back round to them!

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16h

the goose meme, but it's chasing the ai "whistleblower" asking why ai would even bother to give people free money

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 16h

This week I've been listening to all of REM's albums while working, starting with Automatic For The People and then working backwards to Murmur. 😐

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 17h

Also, why does everything have to be a 'discussion'? I know why, it's *cheap*. They used the cover of 'discussion' to kill Newsnight.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 17h

OUT - Things older people like and rely on, especially those who aren't online. IN - tech and discussion podcasts.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 21h

The BBC appears trapped in a doom loop where it thinks the best way to ensure it's survival is to cut the things that make it distinct from other broadcasters. It's foolish and it will come to regret in the long term.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 23h

This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...

Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They should call the campaign 'Reconstruction'

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't understand why Fauci doesn't sue Navarro into next week.

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Lee Prince @leefreshprince.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why does society treat these morons with no soul as geniuses?

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pete, but he goes to the gym, ergo everyone does.

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Already plays for United.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me watching Lewis Hall play for England.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Remembering Millie Small on her birthday. Here's a joyous clip of her rehearsing Be My Guest and Daydream with Norwegian band The Vanguards in 1966

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

GROUP OF DEATH ALERT. (also, the next decade is invented here)

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If only Lewis Hall had gone to the world cup......

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good defensively, great going forward, so good with the ball at his feet in tight spaces. Got it all, and already got a great chemistry with Gordon down the left.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good cross, lovely tap-in.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our best player. Should be first choice England LB for the next 10 years.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow. Just been for a walk to finish the final part of the @500songspodcast.bsky.social ostensibly about Sympathy For The Devil but covering the Stones from '66 to Dec '69, and it's the darkest but probably best episode yet. Hopefully the next episode's a bit lighter (joke - I know what's next 😬)

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Long-distance runner Brendan Foster training for the then-upcoming 1978 Commonwealth Games on the streets of Tyneside, by Tony Duffy. A quite wonderful snapshot of Seventies Britain.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

👆That one!

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep, one of the best endings to any album, those 3 songs. Each one of them could have closed the album well. MotM could have. Next one, even better, then the next one, even better still, probably my fave REM song.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 05/10/2026

So hard to pick just nine

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can and I will.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This 'My 9 albums' thing would be more interesting if it was My 9 Then Vs My 9 Now. What changed and what hasn't.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have you turned the voices up?

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is how a War On Drugs-hater would describe them.

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Peoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#BPHM8689 It's the start of our NEW POLL BLACK POP HISTORY 1986-1989 In honour of Black History Month (UK) Four extraordinary years in Black music history, 256 tracks, one poll - vote for your favourites and cast your bonus votes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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#BPHM8986 Black Pop History 1986 Day 1

Welcome to BLACK POP HISTORY MONTH 1986-1989! This is our annual poll where we take four years of Black music and find the greatest track - who will unseat reigning champion "The Message"? Find out h...

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Recommend a short book.

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Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There have been some lovely things written about Truly Gifted Kids, but this has to be the sweetest, most flattering piece, coming as it does from the pen of the man behind the tremendous Sproutology site. I'm so relieved/delighted to have his approval. www.sproutology.co.uk/exposition/t...

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Truly gifted kids - Sproutology

It’s been a very long time. There are a few reasons for that....

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Málaga is definitely worth seeing, we love it. Never been to Cordoba but heard it's lovely.

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just remembered when rap peaked. youtu.be/NVSVDO6QY7k?...

Super Broker Shuffle

YouTube video by Kerri Miller

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

INCREDIBLE album.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, too stupid to consider how many kids won't end up in these prison cells thanks to youth clubs, leisure centres, arts projects etc.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is interesting and I am not remotely surprised but nevertheless delighted that it more-or-less tallies with what I thought was going on. But a couple of extra thoughts... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who

In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Go man, go!', haha.

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd never heard that before until just now, that's some punchline at the end!

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Holy shit.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't say this lightly, this is some of the most incredible musical footage I've ever seen.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hopefully Tuchel has finally woken up to this fact.

Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tryl's analysis & focus groups get far more attention than they warrant.

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Freudian slip in the interview when she described people on £100k+ as 'working harder'.

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm surprised the racist tropes in the original one isn't higher up the news agenda. Or in the news at all.