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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 55m

Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 54m

Read the y-axis label

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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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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 23/09/2026

Boromir feels a bit more sword & sorcery to me.

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 21/09/2026

No Ursula K. Le Guin FFS? I could name others, but this is just so glaring.

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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 · 05/09/2026

I hope you left us some beer!

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 05/09/2026

Oooops, sorry, I misunderstood. It's tonight, Saturday night, that Alice and I are going!

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 04/09/2026

We may be a little later than that, but not by too much.

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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 04/09/2026

Alice & I may see you there!

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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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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 10/08/2026

No love for Colliers Wood (without)?

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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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Simon Brunning, He/him @brunn.ing · 31/07/2026

I understand each of those words. It's only when put together in that order that they make absolutely no sense.

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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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