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Good to see the @mikiberenyi.bsky.social Trio again in Bexhill this evening. Great gig.

Miki Berenyi Trio onstage at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026

People REALLY don’t like being told they’re wrong. What the far right have done is weaponise this and tell people that the feelings of bigotry that they’re secretly ashamed of are actually good. And if deployed cunningly this works on far more people than you'd think, which is exhausting.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026

I have discovered that a way of making myself do something I keep putting off starting (could be quite a small thing) is to tell myself I don’t have to do it and that no-one's forcing me. Bam. Suddenly it gets done.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I picture when people say escrow

The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Actual Logie Baird LASER DISC. Worked on the principle that images converted to electrical impulses could be recorded much the same way as sounds converted to electrical impulses (something like that, I only skim read the relevant bit)

B&w photo of what looks like a typical phonograph record except it has lines radiating out from the centre. The caption says: "A PHONOVISION RECORD MADE BY THE BAIRD TELEVISION CO."

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B&w photo of a phonovision disc being recorded. The head of a ventriloquist's dummy sits on a support while a black disc rotates beneath some sort of stylus at the end of a long arm. The caption says:

"THE TRANSMITTING END OF THE PHONOVISION PROCESS RECORDING A DUMMY'S HEAD ON AN ORDINARY RECORD"

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 27/09/2026

Have you ever had someone get your name wrong and then they keep calling you that so frequently (a name over-user) that you don't have the heart to correct them? Their confidence is sometimes so strong that you feel it would be too embarrassing for them for you to point out the mistake.

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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So THAT's what all the howling's about. #FullMoon

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

like by all means please keep talking about stuff that needs to be talked about but when you asterisk out key words all you are really doing is fucking over people who have those muted, usually for a reason

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 27/09/2026

I am almost convinced that some objects evaporate. I'm not talking about little things like spoons or scissors. It's things like a certain jacket or top that I know I had, know I didn't donate to a charity shop, and know I didn't give away and yet it's not anywhere in the bloody house.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 27/09/2026

The capitalist obsession with “other people getting free stuff” is a symptom of their sickness that some people get taken in by because it’s more important to them that others suffer than everyone is OK. They see themselves as potential billionaires (not gonna happen).

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Average annual spending as % of US GDP

A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This makes me unjustifiably angry

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OMG I've just realised what Google's AI search interference model is: An automated mansplainer. Think about it: Unsolicited ✅ Confident ✅ Frequently wrong ✅

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Jo The Bewildered 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🎓 @smoljomusic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Which loops back to why I think most business would be better off spending money on Human Centred Accessible Systems/ Service design than in AI. Get things right first time and you don’t need anywhere near as much customer disservice. Either AI or human.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

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Hastings Green Party @hastingsgreenparty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A crew of us headed up to London to help get Zack Polanski elected as our 6th Green MP. Doors knocked, conversations had, and even a park picnic squeezed in between! 🌻 Two weeks to go, there's still time to join in! 👉 linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP Let's get Zack elected! 💚 #6thGreenMP

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would suggest that interested parties should look up into the sky after dark. It will be the round white thing.

Where to see the September Corn Moon in
Sussex this week

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if hundreds of uniformed and balaclava wearing non-white extremists gathered outside a police station because their leader had been arrested, it would be the lead national story

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is not the branding I would go for I think if I was tasked with producing signage.

A sign in a menswear section that reads 100 years of fash at M&S, with the letters ‘ion’ below and to the right of the word fash.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 25/09/2026

Gull going for a morning walk across the flat roof.

Gull standing on a black pipe running over a flat roof. In the background the sun blazes in a blue sky above the houses and trees of West Hill, Hastings.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This should be basic stuff, if someone is livestreaming crimes then the site where they do it should be treated as complicit if they make no effort to shut it down.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 24/09/2026

Probably the most familiar tube seat moquette pattern to me from the past, although the one I remember the most had different colours.

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Moquette sample; Sample of moquette designed by Marianne Straub, 1966-1970 | London Transport Museum

moquette sample

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Very good on Anthropic, the "10 years until AI annihilates us all" crap*, & their relationship to trump's climate change denialism. *which just manipulates the media into taking about AI rather than the real risk, which AI is making much worse

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 24/09/2026

Bizarre flyer for a restaurant / pub put through my door. Clarkson trying to look personable. Odd choice of mascot. The main association between Clarkson and dinner is punching people. Plus they don't actually use his name ANYWHERE on the advert.

Flyer with Jeremy Clarkson smiling reasonably while sitting at a table with a pint and a huge pie dinner in front of him. Text reads:

Try our new Hawkstone IPA & Beef Pie
AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
British diced beef and pulled beef cheek, are slow-cooked in a rich gravy made with award-winning Hawkstone IPA for rich, full-bodied flavour in every bite.

Complete the experience with a bottle of Hawkstone IPA for the perfect pairing.

POP IN OR BOOK YOUR TABLE TODAY
Don't Miss Out!

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 24/09/2026

The far right do well by telling people their bigotry is good. Those falling for this then discover that they far prefer bringing others down than raising themselves up. It's easier for a start. Less mental effort. Laziness is the root of all evil.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 23/09/2026

"If wishes were horses..." What? They're not. They're not even the same kind of thing. You might as well say "If theories were giraffes..."

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 23/09/2026

#misheardasachild Lee Marvin: "I was born under a wall in Stroud"

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 23/09/2026

It occurred to me yesterday that given we pay for mobile data on our phones and indeed for our broadband, and given how many ads there are on everything online... We're actually paying for them to feed us a load of rubbish we don't want.

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

How is it that men like Trump (and Musk) are simultaneously so powerful and so very pathetic

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh this is one of my favourite facts that always pisses people off, Shakespeare is modern English, you can tell because you can read it.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 23/09/2026

I'm also thinking the RNLI should be armed to protect themselves against this kind of thing. They're an emergency service. Like the police, but without the institutional racism.

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Misha is: a box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Increasingly I think that if you’re the kind of person who will attack the RNLI then the next time you’re near the ocean they should be allowed to push you in and leave you there

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 22/09/2026

Sunrise through a hole in the trees this morning.

Silhouette of the brow of West Hill with the rising sun shining through a gap in the trees.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

very very basic calculation: do you want to save people or do you want to Always Be Right

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 21/09/2026

My prediction for the next End Stage Capitalism swindle: Growing your own food in gardens or allotments becomes framed by the media as selfish and elitist. Eventually doing so becomes heavily taxed or actually illegal.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Doing some mandatory training on AI and cannot get this out of my head.

Screenshot of @Whatsername bemoaning reliance on ChatGPT and saying "bring back the good old days when folk would have a think"

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Keep reading that we've "cancelled" Ed Sheeran when what actually happened was: he kept doing all his concerts while sacking his support act and friend of thirteen years coz they said "Free Palestine". Ed Sheeran is not "cancelled". He did a show last night.

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Priceratops @rikkiprice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My favourite Disney character

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 20/09/2026

I’m gonna make my own triumphal arch…

Bender from Futurama “with blackjack and hookers” meme

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Kate ✨🐱 but spooky 🎃🍁 @magickitten.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Personally, I think there are some things people *should* be afraid to say, like “[insert group of people] don’t deserve human rights*

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New guy with bottomless well of sympathy for himself unlocked.

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