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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 5h

With all the layoff-skulduggery at work, the simplest way to predict where the axe will fall next is to subscribe to the calendars of people in HR.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those who think AI is **not** going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of bosses.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Casually dropped into a team chat an announcement that the project I'm responsible for is being discontinued and all issues should now be reported to a different project. Chat, is this good?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Honestly impressed at the level of patience this kid has dealing with these terrible parents.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

when she asks you how Big your Big Ideas really are:

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Noreen Dalton 🌱🍉 @nordaltsee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How things start

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An 87-year-old woman lived in the same Madrid apartment for 70 years. Then a real estate firm bought it and forced her out. The housing crisis is global because the underlying logic is the same: your home is someone else's investment vehicle.

nytimes.com

87-Year-Old Evicted From Her Home Tells Spaniards to ‘Fight’ to Avoid Same Fate

María del Carmen Abascal, whose case has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, appeared in a video from her hospital bed after police officers removed her from her apartment.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Danny Tommo, Amodei, Man City fair play Piddington, Macklemore, Dolly ain’t alive no more Netanyahu’s iron dome, Meg and Harry coming home New cat, Clavicular COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN BAR 🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Keep your enemy on their toes by always doing the first thing they expect you to do. That's the last thing they'll expect you to do.

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"the Irish Government had proposed - as part of the plans for the EU Presidency- that the rights of big AI companies to collect data on people should be recognised as a higher right than humans’ data protection rights." 😯😯😯 www.thegist.ie/the-gist-on-...

thegist.ie

The Gist: On (and On) Bullshit

I have been thinking about Bullshit, in its official categorisation. In his short and easy essay “On Bullshit”, the euphoniously-named American philosopher Harry J. Frankfurt posited that a person co...

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Has the jury reached a verdict? Hell yes, your honour.

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Getting in the car with my wife, joked that it's so dirty we should get a new one. In that case, she said, we should move to a new house.

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm less than enthusiastic that the future they're trying to usher in seems to be Survival of the Shittest.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've started watching Sugar on Apple TV in between other (better) shows, and I have to say I did *not* see that coming (at the end of episode 6). It's like the writers were moseying along and wondering what they could do to juice things a little and thought, feck it, why not?

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The sun rises in spite of everything / and the far cities are beautiful and bright.” — Derek Mahon

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026

If you think you’re alone in being miserable about being Claude‘s condom, you’re not www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c... Once you get past the loud minority — those who are dead behind the eyes, but smiling for the cameras — no one who is forced to use LLMs all day is happy in this industry

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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can't share the screenshot of an internal online meeting shared with me, where 9 team members were collectively told they were no longer needed. Humiliation in groups in the name of efficiency, they are not even worth a one-on-one. Everyone on high alert for an "alignment" meeting invite.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 22/09/2026

“I said no and Apple said yes – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)” dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intel… > AI bros keep telling me “just turn it off” and when I do they remove the choice.

dbushell.com

I said no and Apple said yes

The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More farewell emails hitting the work inbox today. I've lost count of the number of rounds of AI-related job-shedding we've had. It's somewhere up there with the number of "no impact from AI on jobs yet" articles I've seen posted.

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ran an errand in the car with the radio on, caller complaining that the coal subsidies are not keeping pace with the increase in the cost of a bag of coal. My neighbour boasts they know where to buy "proper" coal, not that clean stuff they are allowed to sell at the garage.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/09/2026

I hope the global financial system is listening.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

opb.org

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Nigel Anderson @blinkcursor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyone interested in the parallels between current AI financing and the 2008 sub-prime crisis, there is an excellent explainer, with receipts, at www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...

groundbrkr.com

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

these dem consultants tell dems to echo right wing narratives to "take the issue off the table" but all it does is validate the right wing attack and anger center left/progressive support and make it more likely the candidate will lose

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

app.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Sarah Fenway @kingrikk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It says they’ve told the author, but did they tell Walliams as well?

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Molly Flood (LOOKING FOR WORK) @mollyflood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

By popular demand: $5 DOODLE COMMISSIONS are BACK!! REBLOGS SUPER APPRECIATED! Click #doodlecommission for more examples from the last batch. ko-fi.com/tehflood #art #commissions #mfloodart

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wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mostly hate nostalgia but dead ass cannot the fuck believe there's no where to go stoned at night and bullshit with my friends anymore. Being in my 20s in NYC and single when smartphones came out I saw public social interaction die in real time.

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ceej @ceej.online · 18/09/2026

Mulder looking at a drawing of big titty Bigfoot

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

my new favorite conspiracy theory about why all the AI bros are asking everyone to back off on developing AI

From threads:

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They probably asked it how to fix the world and it said the only way was to eliminate the billionaires.
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