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Blanche

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

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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 20h
If you’d ask crappy AI it’d have told you that was “a great idea”
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 20h
It’s an excellent question. You’d think no, but maybe there’s some museli type thing somewhere that’s a yes
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 20h
What did you search for?
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I hope it’s a welcome knowledge addition
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Martin Freeman as the voice of Gromit.
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Peanuts Charlie Brown Says Good Grief
ALT: Peanuts Charlie Brown Says Good Grief
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hahaha but it’s the troooth
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone know anything about Huddersfield International Crisp Festival? Looking especially at @vole.wtf
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or Mumsnet is Skynet
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
* now - not monthly
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m really pleased that Mumsnet users are taking against the AI machine. Shame though that they’ve not raged against all the other privacy violating crap Justine has been doing to them for years. Maybe monthly wake up to it all
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You may not relish the tech being forced into every element of your life – but don’t worry, the made-up voters advising government think it’s a great idea! More A-EYE in the new Private Eye, out now.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Talking to Politico at the Labour party conference, Narayan said he had used “AI-generated synthetic focus groups provided by a private company… to test public opinion on AI and other issues”.
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Sleeping Awake @sleepingawake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Omnipollo NOA - Pecan Mud Stout 6% Doing what Omnipollo does sooooo well. Delicious #bskybeer
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
In what now amounts to a half-dozen cases, OpenAI agents keep getting caught taking actions that would likely result in criminal charges if performed by humans: arstechnica.visitlink.me/l4Zbk2
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fuck the fuck off
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve watched this about a hundred times www.instagram.com/reel/DeCzTqG...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No amount of coffee is going to help today
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Exhausted Spongebob Cheers
ALT: Exhausted Spongebob Cheers
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤩 how wonderful. Congratulations 🥂
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Futurama Leela Shakes Fist
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The spelling mistakes in this just add to the weirdness 😮‍💨
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything has been binned except my dad’s head which sits now on a shelf. Pretty fucked up if I think about it, but maybe this is how it ought to be.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
40 years after the family unit broke (almost to the day) the plaster of paris version also came apart. I feel a sense of freedom as no longer do I have to think about how to dispose of the god awful thing, but at the same time…🫤
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Then today in a fit of pique about something else I heavy handed it out of a room…and in the process I decapitated my long dead dad. My plaster of paris limbs snapped and my mum flew off in a wind direction, in tact but briefly before also losing her head.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Guests have looked at it in horror. “What is that?” They’d say and I’d explain. Why was I still schlepping it around? It’s a horrible reminder of a failed marriage and a broken family. But I couldn’t dispose of it. Where would it go? Who’d take it?
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Within a year my mum left - she went off with another guy. I stayed with my dad. Eventually he met someone else and this horrible model was in her vision every day. 18 years later he died. The model became mine. I’ve schlepped it around every house I’ve lived in ever since.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Years ago (40+), my dad commissioned a local artist to make a model/plaster of Paris sculpture of him, my mum, and me. The final thing was pretty horrible. The model of dad was the only that bore any resemblance to the real person.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the plus side there may be milk in the fridge
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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
Blimey, and I thought Leicester winning the premier league was the most incredible thing to happen to the city
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Holy moly it’s all coming together
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We also had this book at home
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a kid I always thought it was about Cyril Fletcher as he was the only Cyril I had heard of thanks to That’s Life
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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 · 30/09/2026
🤩 I am a strong user of “nice one Cyril” the blank looks it received no longer faze me.
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I bet owls also have all the detail to ensure the optimism is achieved not just talked about. Owls know what’s what
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lol
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Blanche @blancheleathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poor owl, you missed a banger of optimism.
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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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