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Inept at social media - but you gotta love a trier, right?

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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 16h
Has Tracy Ullman always been this annoying? I remember liking her as a kid but now….😮‍💨
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After 40 years I’ve finally seen Pretty in Pink on the big screen. And it was wonderful! Annie Potts and my man Harry Dean Stanton are sublime ♥️
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Loved the Ana Mendieta exhibition at Tate Modern. Absolutely kicked the ass of the self involved Tracey Emin and the over stuffed and underwhelming Frida Kahlo shows
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just spoke at a conference about the harms of AI in the justice sector. The event organisers used AI to summarise my speech. AI’s summary said i championed the use of AI. WTAF! 😡
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My people! Analogue media and technology for the win. 🏆 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
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‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Esther Rantzen was my first boss. I was the runner, making her mint tea, buying her tights, running errands, occasionally making films. She was fierce but always generous to me - even buying me champagne when I passed my driving test. I’m sorry to hear she’s died, she was a great campaigner
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham is a great communicator EXCEPT when he starts talking like a robot - all stilted like. What’s that all about?
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone feeling inspired and full of hope after the PMs speech? Good good
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gotta say, I came to Labour conference feeling despondent about the state of everything and after two days I’m full on depressed about the state of everything
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026
[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Liverpool for politics, which is fun and a shame as Liverpool is great and should have all my attention
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GoodEvans @goodevans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please feel free to join in…
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 15/09/2024
Still the best meme.
Caption Reads "Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Fall"
Four panels show images of a cheerful little eggman going for a walk along a treefilled path as leaves fall from the trees, carving a jack o'lantern, picking apples from a tree, and settled in front of a warm fire reading a book while a cat naps at his feet.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a day, Bayeux Tapestry, purchase of Billy Wilder season tickets, cocktails, pad Thai and a Colin the Caterpillar., ♥️
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Going in. Super excited
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 21/09/2026
I recently became aware of this photo
Vanilla Ice and Benny Hill posing together
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ed Davey is clearly a very nice man. Who is utterly unfit to lead a political party.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
wtf has happened to Steady Rolling Man? One of the greatest beers ever has been ruined by Deya Brewery #bskybeer
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Walked my second marathon this year today 💪
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve been living an hour ahead of time for the past day I’ve no idea what time it actually is Caitlin Moran (my arch nemisis) being on the radio isn’t helping matters
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"AI could significantly disrupt the employment of the very people who generated the data on which the foundation model was trained. LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain.”
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve got to make a slide deck.
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Bob's Burgers Gene Belcher's Living Hell
ALT: Bob's Burgers Gene Belcher's Living Hell
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anyone ever been at a conference where years of work you’ve done is presented by other people with no reference made to you or your contribution?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026
dudes rock
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Last night there was this little exchange - I’m putting it here for future reference because I suspect this is going to become very important to future discourse Cc @paperghost.bsky.social
Message indicating a hard coded back for token for talking to flocks central API for production
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Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They've all been slipped Bennies in their tea pre show!! Wonderful stuff!
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
long for train station announcements reminding people to LOOK UP FROM THEIR PHONE
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bonnie Greer was a great writer, thinker, broadcaster. I am honoured to have spent an afternoon in her company. RIP Bonnie 😔
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Tom cruise anatomical poster
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sobbing at 70 Up
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Jeremy White @jeremywired.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BE SEEING YOU: You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help. @wired.com has all the specs. www.wired.com/story/zuckof...
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ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an announcement.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes I get an insane urge to do a handstand or a cartwheel. I can do neither 🫤
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mississippi Fred McDowell '65. 🎶'Going Down To The River' #blues #bluesmusic
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why.
Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor. 

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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce

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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
 
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest. 

AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP 

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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):

My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...

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LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May! 

And then one in August!

AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?

LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?

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[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]

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LUBBOCK:
Ugh. 

[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]

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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do

AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What? 

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…

LUBBOCK:
Yeah 

no more bank holidays till Christmas. 

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?

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LUBBOCK:
It's so gross 

AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Rollo can’t help it! 

[dog continues to scoot across floor]

[Ends]
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Loving this by Wauter Mannaert at the Comic Museum in Brussels
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hello #bskybeer I’m in Brussels drinking all the beers. Happy weekend one and all
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
C’mon democracy. You can stand up to £72m.
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Hasbullah in Boxing Gloves
ALT: Hasbullah in Boxing Gloves
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank fuck for that!
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: You can now smash and shoot Flock cameras in GTA V thanks to "Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader," a mod by artist Morry Kolman. The cameras will also sometimes randomly trigger a police chase, inspired by news reports of ALPR misreads: www.wired.com/story/you-ca...
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You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos.
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 09/09/2026
EXC: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, the first time a major model withheld from AISI Move has prompted fears in UK govt that tech firms are falling into line with Trump admin’s AI protectionism www.ft.com/content/560e...
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Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I 💯 will not be abiding by this new law Nor will i stand in a line at a bar Or use a QR code to order. Fuck this attack on pub culture. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Curbs on vertical drinking in Soho pubs to go ahead as Khan criticises council’s ‘breathtaking arrogance’
Exclusive: London mayor accuses council of ‘ignoring’ responses to a consultation
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At a Parliamentary reception listening to creatives booo about AI 🙌🏼🥰
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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