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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy COW, Tennessee Republicans can’t even kill one fifty-year old woman when they have her TIED DOWN? This is clownshow shit, Governor Bill Lee! Misogyny and death are ‘sposta be your BRAND, the GOP’s core competency!

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Stanandthat @stanandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(chef's kiss)

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's no evidence of teams shipping software features "in hours instead of weeks" on anything that has real users and $ attached. There's no evidence of agents working autonomously *and* reliably for extended periods. There's no evidence of devs being replaced by AI. It's all lies.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I like that, and I can not lie.

A person carrying a large pink foil balloon forming the word “BUTT.”

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/09/2026

"I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wild guess, here's what he said: " How I interpret pasted replies from an LLM in online conversations

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 02/09/2026

I do quite like "Nonce Goggles".

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Politicians all love growth, but hate the things that create it: being in the EU, immigration, higher education and London.

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 26/08/2026

I'm delighted to announce the two courses I'll be teaching here next semester: 1. Digital Tolkien 2. Applying Python for DH

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Proponents of "scaled" approaches to software development often argue that 10 teams solving the same problem 10 different ways is wasteful. Wait until they hear about 9 teams waiting for 1 team to make changes to their software. I can live with "waste" when waiting's more expensive.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2026

AI is certainly unpopular but I think the “fascism! it’s great!” thing has a whole lot to do with this

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nothing Donald Trump says is any more indicative of what he's going to do than anything else. We're at the heat death of communication. It's just background noise now.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reporting on Trump saying he's going to claim the Strait of Hormuz as American territory as if it's newsworthy feels dirty. He's a demented old man, he has no idea what he's saying.

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nigel Farage, not content with battling against a bin, has opened up a second front and is now also arguing with some toilets.

Facebook post by media creation and obvious charlatan Nigel Farage:

Cambridge City Council have spent £1 million building 'squat toilets' like this.

Labour councillors say the facilities "really enhance the cityscape."

I promise you, Reform councils will never spend your money on this nonsense!

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hercules: Wow, that’s a lot of dung! Looks like they haven’t been cleaned in decades. Hmmm… Oh, hang on. What if I…? OK, am I allowed to reroute nearby rivers to clean the stables? Alex: All the information is on the task.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/07/2026

oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten

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Philip Coggan @philipcoggan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I an willing to help with the washing up but without using my hands. Or soap. Or water www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care

In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/07/2026

Feels to me like the UK has forgotten what actual terrorism is. Wait until they hear about dissident Republicans driving massive bombs around the place and loyalist terrorists burning people out of their homes

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One thing I'd add is that when someone says "I've gone beyond left and right", in most cases it means they've drifted to the far right. Russell Brand is one of many examples.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This chart pair never gets old. (via B of A)

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Favorite and least favorite file formats? I'll start. Favorite: TXT Least favorite: HEIC

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So he’s only got one way out, and I’ve just realised what it’s going to be: FAKE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. I am NOT KIDDING. First of all, he steals all his moves from the Trump playbook. Second, it gets him out the race on wounded health grounds… He leaves the field a martyred hero…

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Farage is the political equivalent of 'Brave Sir Robin'. Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor. Who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol. Who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill.

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 08/07/2026

I know we are right to be concerned about big tech surveilling us, knowing too much about us, but some of the ads I get seem to suggest that they know fuck all about me.

Amazon shopping: We think you'd like new polo equipment.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 08/07/2026

Labour and the Tories both backing Count Binface against Farage wasn't something I saw coming, to be honest.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Ten full minutes of self-pitying bullshit now. Extremely tiresome little man.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is... weird. The money Farage received was a "personal gift", akin to a "lottery win"... but it also shows he knows how to "make money" and succeed in business and therefore belongs in government

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 07/07/2026

"I'm the most physically attacked MP of modern times" claims Farage, seemingly forgetting that two MPs have been literally murdered in the last decade. The man has no shame.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 07/07/2026

Why I can't bring myself to read Neal Asher these days.

Preface from Neal Asher book: “Five years ago, I watched the two Falcon Heavy side boosters come into land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base.
Honestly, it was like something in a game animation and seemingly too perfect to be believable. Others, I've seen landing on drone ships with names taken from lain
M. Banks' Culture books. Just recently, I saw a huge booster for the Starship come down to be caught between two metal arms - y'know, they caught something the size of a skyscraper like a dropping stick - and that was an astounding feat of engineering. But these are not in isolation, since Spacex, as of last month, has launched over a hundred rockets in 2024.
Meanwhile, the guy who brought this about, the guy who is aiming to make humanity multi-planetary by putting us on Mars, has a few other projects on the go, like building electric cars, burrowing tunnels under cities, putting up a satellite internet system and, perhaps the most important of them all, preventing the totalitarians of our world from killing free speech.
So thank you, Elon Musk, for bringing to reality, right before my eyes, those things I read and dreamed about as a teenager.”

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

her: I’m leaving you me: but why? her: your obsession with grammar is making life miserable for the kids and I me: *sobbing* for the kids and me

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GitHub @github.com · 02/07/2026

We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd

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