Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10hDamn, missed this. Remarkable stuff! 5377
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 13hSeriously ...? www.techradar.com/pro/kpmg-lay...techradar.comKPMG lays off 200 workers and offers £100 voucher to waive certain rightsKPMG insider uncovers company's plans to offer laid off workers £100 for them to waive certain legal rights, per reports. 020
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 20hHmm, IMHO her wikipedia entry really doesn't do her justice. Suspect that had she been male it would stretch from here to John O'Groats. 010
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 20hSaw Rosenkavalier at Garsington this summer - breathtakingly beautiful. 110
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 20hAshamed I had never heard of such a distinguished woman. 210
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Beg to differ... the rationale being "they're needed for Christmas" - and /or death cleaning is just too depressing. 020
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy. 1234174
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Please can newspapers only ever use that back of the car shot. 000
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes 871037242
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Talking 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”. 28727
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film. 4653087832
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 08/10/2026UK No.1 on this day in 1988: U2 - Desire youtu.be/z8rQ575DWD8?si… via @YouTubeyoutu.beU2 - Desire (Official Music Video)YouTube video by U2VEVO 0132
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇 1019975
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why they didn't have an audio guide to inform, entertain, and encourage the queue to move, is a real mystery. 000
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I'm not a defence expert." Even by Kemi Badenoch's lamentable standards, this is agonising. Just give thanks she will never, ever be Prime Minister. 🙏 #politicslive 145574148
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Former RAF Air Command deputy commander Air Marshal Greg Bagwell said £10 billion might protect some key sites (e.g. London) but not the whole UK, and cited US “Golden Dome” concepts in the $200 billion-$1 trillion range. #Badenoch is away with the fairies! #BritanniaShield 0156
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera" 1231459371
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Reem Alsalem @unsrvaw.bsky.social · 05/10/20262/3 2. On the 8th of October between 10:00 -13:00 NY /16:00-19:00 CET time, I will engage in an interactive dialogue with Members of #C3 of the UNGA, where I will present my latest recent report on violence against older women (A/81/133). You can follow it on webtv.un.org/en 254
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦womaninterrupted.bsky.social @womaninterrupted.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What a country! BBC News - Girl, 12, fatally shot in US during 'dispute over parking space' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGirl, 12, fatally shot in US during 'dispute over parking space'Police in Baltimore have said the young girl was not a target of the shooting but was caught in the crossfire. 163
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here. 15245551823
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers 39421140
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'. 11034801301
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Northumbrian rebels led by thegns Gamelbearn, Dunstan and Glúniairn stormed the absent Earl Tostig’s York home #OTD in 1065, slew his retainers and raided his treasury. It was partly in revenge for the execution of thegns Gospatric, Gamel and Ulf. 📸York Archaeological Trust 1322
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Leo has been sincere, consistent, and correct from the beginning on AI. www.usccb.org/news/2026/le... 0709
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread: 611049443
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The UN Older People’s Day will be celebrated in Oxford on October 7th at the Town Hall, with an event organised by older people for older people, to consult, inform & involve residents of 50 years and over on issues which are relevant and of concern and interest to them. 2108
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦John Gilda @verbalprimate.com · 30/09/2026Google is good at keeping down low. But they are a linchpin for the surveillance economy. @psychopete.bsky.social explains how you can stop them tracking every zig and zag you take. Some things you can do in less than five minutes. 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌖🌗🌘🌙🌚 #Blues #GTS substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comDe-Google Your LifeAnd starve the machine while you're at it. 11410
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That “super intelligence” executive order was another insider grift, this time to sell “.si” domains - they bought the domains over the summer. x.com/adamscochran...x.comAdam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) on X1/15 SCOOP: Trump’s “Super Intelligence” Scandal: I believe Trump’s “SI” Executive Order was ANOTHER criminal plot to enrich the Trump family. Insiders seem to have profited MILLIONS off of .si domain names before his Truth Social posts. 46027
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Burnham’s speech has offered a significantly new Britain, a fundamental break with the politics and economics of the past — but we are going to have to wait for it." - @robertshrimsley.bsky.social's take here www.ft.com/content/122a...ft.comBurnham’s brave new world — just one more election awayThe starting gun for the prime minister’s real revolution will not be fired till he has gone to the country 141
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Jess Asato MP @jessasatomp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My case is about saying we do have rights, based in law - and it doesn’t matter how rich you are or how big you are, you have to abide by the law in our country. observer.co.uk/news/politic...observer.co.ukThe women taking on the tech giants over deepfakes and di...Under new legal rules companies like TikTok could face big fines for failing to take down illegal intimate images. Yet victims say police are still finding it difficult to act 0125
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Written before the latest round of the championship where Ethan Bamber helped to illustrate my point perfectly! Thank you to The Cricket Paper for this season. 3243
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Should just set up a reporting system for members of the public. We will all be safer. 010
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Michael Rosen Day 2026: how schools can turn a poetry party into a reading habit. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/mi... #kidlit Michael Rosen Day 2026 event details, free school resources and poetry competition dates, with practical ideas for extending the celebration into regu...schoolreadinglist.co.ukMichael Rosen Day 2026: how schools can turn a poetry party into a reading habitMichael Rosen Day 2026: event details, free resources, poetry competition dates and school ideas to keep reading for pleasure going. 075
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Such a shame that something as inspiring as World Skills Shanghai #WSS2026 gets barely any coverage in UK media. 010
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026John Keats: On First Looking In To Chapman's Homer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukPoetry Extra - Adventures In Poetry - John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - BBC SoundsDaljit Nagra marks National Poetry Day with a highlight from the BBC's poetry archive. 000
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249752754
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“The water in Majorca...” HEINEKEN (1985) Sylvestra Le Touzel nailing it an iconic ad from back in the day when Commercials had some wit & guile about then and therefore cultural impact 1469
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Buckinghamshire @buckinghamshireuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Dispersal order returns to village following ASB and pony and trap reports #Bucksbucksfreepress.co.ukDispersal order returns to village following ASB and pony and trap reportsA dispersal order has been introduced in Chalfont St Peter following reports of anti-social behaviour linked to pony and trap racing on a major… 022
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You might enjoy this www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukUnderstand - Seven Ages of Man, with Michael Rosen - 1. Michael Palin's in his 80s - BBC SoundsTwo Michaels talk about masculinity and how being in your 80s is liberating. 041
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20820327
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My current read 2186
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).- 43679256
Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦 @breffers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I heard the first episode in this series today. I think you might like it, but nit sure whether BBC Sounds will work in the US. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...bbc.co.ukBBC Sounds - Understand - Available EpisodesListen to the latest episodes of Understand on BBC Sounds. 000
Reposted by Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...azhdarchid.comImagining the Car but not the Traffic JamYour typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying 212743