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Jon Wilson

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A large, smooth-sided chunk of granite emitting an ominous buzzing sound, manifesting at random at sites across the West Country.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2026
White House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s Ass theonion.com/white-house-downplays-…
White House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s Ass
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Jon Wilson @buzzingmonolith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Slowly? It's the first show of the series! It'll be a bulging forehead vein, darting eyes and hostage taking before the week's out.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Virgin AGI risk vs Chad Global Warming
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been writing about inflammatory AI predictions for years. Message below is that systems are being deployed & given the ability to do real things on the network, without adequate testing or guardrails. The systems have zero intentions. medium.com/@doctorow/ll...
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LLMs are real, AI is fake
No, it didn’t “go rogue.”
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Whatever happens, whether frontier AI is 'paced' or not, Britain needs to get more serious about building what we need to compete/survive further down the stack. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I know that face Our empress is learning so much about Warhammer tonight 
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/09/2026
Quite incredible that the richest man on earth who has legitimately done all sorts of things from paying people to vote and purchasing media in order to twist it to his will is... claiming that Soros (who is not nearly as wealthy) has done the very things Musk absolutely does.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026
“I remember googling the word ‘stupid’ for the first time, reading the definition, and thinking, ‘Holy shit—this is me,’ ” — Derrick Henard
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Everything Finally Clicks For Man After Getting Diagnosed As Stupid
CARY, NC—Describing the experience as “a revelation,” 38-year-old Derrick Henard told reporters Wednesday that everything had finally clicked for him after he was given a diagnosis of stupid. “I remem...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026
Commentary: When I Die, Feed Me To Something Majestic. By David Attenborough. theonion.com/when-i-die-feed-me-to-…
Commentary: When I Die, Feed Me To Something Majestic. By David Attenborough.
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Miles Pen @militarypenguin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You're all contractually obligated to read this comment Rob Paulsen made on a Tim Curry interview in 2025
Rob Paulsen - Voice Actor

I had the remarkable privilege to work with Tim a few dozen times.
Kind, generous, playful, naughty and a TOTAL pro. A couple years ago, at NY Comic Con, I was in the green room having lunch and Tim
came in in his chair. Of course, I was aware of his stroke, so l walked over knelt down and said, "Tim! It's Rob Paulsen. We
worked together on..." he looked me and said, "I know who you are,
you fucking wanker." It was like a blessing from the Pope. Utterly
unique. Unstoppable. A total star.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/08/2026
“At your age, it’s perfectly normal to notice some changes—your metabolism slows down, your hair starts thinning, and occasionally your body begins assembling unused cartilage and tissue into a smaller, extremely wet person.” — Dr. Alan Keller
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Doctor Reassures Patient That Lump Probably Just Body Making Extra Guy
COLUMBUS, OH—Telling the 54-year-old there was no reason to panic over the fist-sized bulge that had recently begun shifting beneath the skin of his abdomen, local physician Alan Keller reportedly rea...
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
USAIN BOLT: Runs 100m in 9.58s. Is really cool and fun. Lots of great chat. Can slow down so doesn't smash in to crash mat at the end of the race like a proper prat. ROBOT: Runs like a cunt. Zero personality or autonomy. Smashes in to crash mat at the end of the race like world's biggest fanny.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/08/2026
robot olympics when
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/08/2026
Man Who Skipped Airport’s Moving Walkway Immediately Realizes What An Arrogant Fool He’s Been theonion.com/man-who-skipped-airpor…
Man Who Skipped Airport’s Moving Walkway Immediately Realizes What An Arrogant Fool He’s Been
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same
a simple Google line chart titled "What The Fuck Is Going On" that shows growth in What The Fuck from 2021 to 2026, with a significant increase in 2024 to 2026

x-axis is Year
y-axis is What The Fuck

the values are:

Year        What The Fuck
2021	11
2022	8
2023	17
2024	19
2025	42
2026	84
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
The price hikes and the product disappearances were not the blips of supply and demand – they were the results of behind-the-scenes pressure by Amazon, according to internal emails reviewed by the Guardian and court claims against the world’s largest company. From @georgejoseph94.bsky.social:
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‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/
A turn-of-the-century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading 'U.S. BORDER CLOSED.' In the foreground looms a giant lumberjack, about to swing his axe into the sign.
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Jefferson-Pilot Pickles @jeffersonpilot.org · 29/06/2026
Orson Welles holding a glass of wine for a Paul Masson commercial, with the Pausa de Hidratación logo in the corner
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Crying laughing at this thread. People just asked me what’s wrong with me.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/06/2026
‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
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‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026
Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal
Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 22/06/2026
If I may be allowed to pitch my (familiar) not-quite-omni-cause: I think modern consumerism and “customer is always right” ideology, which have arisen in the post-war world, are genuine sources of pro-authoritarian sentiment.
I don't know if I can speak for many places outside of the Anglosphere, but it's
remarkable just how many people in the US in particular are clearly living lives where they'll openly tell anyone "oh yeah, it's not my job to figure out how anything works, that's for someone else to do".

And to make it a little clearer: the kinds of power arrangements that enable sprightly and seemingly eternal customer service are...authoritarian. A democratic or egalitarian shop will not have workers who are so servile and so ever-pleasing. Consumers are not treated as full citizens or adults.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/06/2026
The Golden Tooth, London N16: ‘The cheese tart alone makes this destination dining’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
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The Golden Tooth, London N16: ‘The cheese tart alone makes this destination dining’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
This is what happens when a fledgling talent ages a little, and begins serving food with cool, clear, adult direction
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Corey Young @coreyyoung.com · 18/06/2026
THIS is what we do to Teletubbies who snitch
Bike anchors in concrete. They look like the circle on top of a Teletubby
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I love this. Unmute.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Indeed. I think it's hugely underrated that broadly speaking, the era of democracy is the era of radio and television, and of shared cultural references and understanding. Becoming a billion tiny villages talking past each other about curated news and niche shows is not good!
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Jon Wilson @buzzingmonolith.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
How much value is AI really creating? - www.ft.com/content/8e9a... via @FT
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How much value is AI really creating?
Eye-opening changes to the speed and volume of work are not always translating into genuine productivity
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Jon Wilson @buzzingmonolith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Leaning on AI for everything from research to writing severs the connection between feeling and expression. It drains the colour from everything and suffocates one’s ability to channel and meet and be surprised by what is knocking about in your head." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
thinking about this a lot today
tweet by joshcarlosjosh: 

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo

“lmao” said Gandalf, “well it has”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Wild here: China has been growing steadily for years and is laying a zillion miles of railways, with a huge green energy infrastructure that will support them for decades and here’s this guy talking to us like we’re idiots because he thinks the world’s nastiest Nazi zillionaires are, what, wizards?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
imagine investing billions in AI robotics and then stairs are like “lol nope”
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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SAVE time when crossing a river
with a fox, a chicken and a bag
of corn by taking the chicken and
corn across first then not going
back for the fox ,which will have
run off by then anyway.
T O'Neill, Glasgow
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/04/2026
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-g…
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong
Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This week, I argue that it's natural to ask whether a serial liar like Sam Altman can be trusted to wield the most world-changing tool on Earth. I simply suggest we stop trusting him, again and again, when he tells us how world-changing that tool actually is. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...
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Sam Altman isn't another bullshit artist
He's so much worse than that
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Jon Wilson @buzzingmonolith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Heartfelt words about nature, and human condition. I think it was Wordsworth who wrote, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive! But that trig point was a fucking cunt." Something like that.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Be funny if Usha was like “how’d the trip go?”
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP* This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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I'M GLAD nature gave up
on its idea of evolving birds
from fish after a sparrow flew into
my window yesterday. Imagine
if that had been a whale or
something. Absolutely ridiculous.
Peter Wheelbarrow,
Barrow on Furness
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