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Celestial M Weasel

@celestialweasel.bsky.social
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It was the charliebrownhadhoesest of times, it was the nohedidntthatisnttruest of times In the words of Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when he is a colossal dumbass.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5h
Some people don't go outside enough anymore and it really shows. (The reviewer, not Mark, to be clear!)
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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 4h
This is not a place of honey
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 11h
Happy birthday to Grampian Television. One of the things that the original borders of the ITV regions got absolutely right was that Scotland in not a single homogeneous whole. The people of Wick and Inverness do not want the same coverage as those of Dumfries or Stirling
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remembering when for no good reason i pretended to be Nabokov ranking various bears
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 12h
Release it into the public domain - let a thousand Doctors blume
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 18h
Whenever I hear this what I want to see in the headline is: - What was profit last year - what was profit trajectory year on year - what was average non exec pay & what pay rises were there average - what changes were there in investors
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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 15h
I remember Bill Gibson as an aside at a talk saying he had seen Carphone Warehouse shops here and it was like finding a shop called 8-Track City still going
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16h
Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein
Neil McCaul as comedy Hitler, mugging for the camera
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17h
I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 17h
You can presumably just train it on the Road to Serfdom for an hour and it'll be ready
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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 17h
Christ, how terrible is the advice now? Surely this is an obvious case where a half-decent LLM ought to able to predict the Economist line on any given issue.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17h
I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here is a sample of Denby's economic expertise: "Bond markets... don't believe in Britain, they think we are too much of a risk, because of our out-of-control spending and our out-of-control taxes and all of those things." I hope the Nobel Economics Prize Committee is paying attention.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 21h
Part of the current political disaster in the UK is that the Right sets the terms of what is “strategic”
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 20h
I think you'll find the one thing our commentariat are united upon is "no consequences for Tories"
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 20h
THE GUARDIAN: Sixteen English councils spent more than 80% of core funding on social care last year. Rising demand is squeezing budgets for services including libraries, roads and refuse. - by Michael Goodier and Patrick Butler
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Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care
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llafgorf.bsky.social @llafgorf.bsky.social · 20h
I wonder if there is a Sgt. Bilko character, on the base, who has been syphoning off fuel from storage tanks, and selling it to bootleggers?
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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 19h
There's a genuinely horrifying vision of a vision of a future where everything is personalised based on pastiches of existing music, films, books etc, everyone is atomised off into their own personal bubble and the only thing we have in common is beige protein and nutrient slop we eat.
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 21h
complicated
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Suspect in RAF Fairford incident called 999 shortly before arrest
Motive for the emergency call is unclear, as police continue to investigate incident at air base used by US bombers
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was wrong. It’s happening
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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI is nature's way of telling BBC bosses to put tired formats out of their misery
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly it’s like a parody by this point isn’t it
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminds me of being at that 6th form college in Brighton with Dickon's book, 'Diary at the Centre of the Earth vol. I 1997-2007'. "That was the year I was born!"
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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
The vast economic and efficiency gains from the development of the internet just fizzling away.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The hard truth is we have implemented every centre-right nostrum, from slashing local government through conditionality of benefits to junking resilience measures for society and the economy - and as many predicted, it all turns out to be very costly in the long run.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Scrap the triple lock and replace it with the Tribble Lock.
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most sensible MPC member, by a margin. www.ft.com/content/4aa0...
However, in an environment shaped by large external supply shocks and weak domestic investment, the monetary policy response required to restore price stability leaves the economy more vulnerable to the next shock. Without broader resilience-building, depressed demand and restrictive financial conditions undercut the expansion of supply capacity just when it is needed most.
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Ballooon Mein Herr? @ballooonmh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apart from Liam Dutton on Channel 4, who constantly references climate change and global warming, they're all like that. "Sunshine good, rain horrid", like a bunch of happy clappy nursery teachers.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour's (and indeed many "independent commentators") inability to trace the roots of our current situation to past actions means we are doomed to keep repeating those foolish actions.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
can't believe Burnham is going dogging too
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A grim read. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/27/u... He executed death row prisoners. Then they came back to haunt him
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He executed death row prisoners. Then they came back to haunt him | CNN
Every night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul.
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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
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Another Friggin Dave @anotherfriggindave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Christ, are we really so far-gone that now any decline in employment anywhere is widely assumed to be due to the success of AI? Is that what we're up against now when we try to talk to people and like, have data on things and look at it together?
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.
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Ellen @gershamabob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When is bins? Thought I. Blue this week. Bring it out. Everyone else has green out. Why? Cos council cocked up their printable calendar.
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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Which of you lot (in the UK) have the technology to digitise reel to reel tapes? (See thread)
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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Holodeck Starships and Spacemen
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
holodeck dungeons and dragons
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I enjoyed the time a bunch of people with "insurrectionist anarchist; 19" in bio tried to explain to me, a trained urban planner, that i was "watering down the definition" of third space by pointing out cafés were literally listed as one of them in the title of the book that invented the term
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Feels as though the upper echelons of Silicon Valley are built on sort of reciprocal of Milkshake Duck, where the surprise reveal is the bigoted duck is famous and hangs out with billionaires & White House officials
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