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Sean Bell @sean.tcgs.co · 30/09/2026

My dad sent me a video of a composer trying out Suno and being all "my career is over!!" and at one point he was going "you'll be able to get in the car and go to the shops and it'll just generate a song about you getting in the car and going to the shops!!!" and I'm screaming WHO WANTS THAT THOUGH

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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Please give me a trillion dollars to reshape the world economy. Also, I don't know where I live."

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 22/09/2026

@comutiny.bsky.social @jessthebp.bsky.social Kami, Jess, Jess, Kami. Kami, Jess is my friend who works in data science that I said I'd speak to. Jess, Kami is my friend who thinks he might like to work in data science. I've written both of your names too many times and they've ceased to have meaning

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 19/09/2026

@gavtrdq.bsky.social just watching your video about TF the movie; watched it today and I also nearly burst into tears during Dare but more out of weird painful nostalgia and thinking about my kids who are the age I was when I first saw that movie. Put Kpop demon hunters into a new light for sure

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 19/09/2026

The big problem with liking extreme metal is every now and then you have to say the phrase "I quite like progressive sludge" out loud

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Oh what's that? You're a successful entrepreneur who sold their first business at 21? You drive a Porsche and want for nothing? That's cool and all but I spent the day watching nu-metal concerts on a 14" CRT, so I think we know who the real rich man is

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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vapors of the chasm @snakeroot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The last cookie formed from the dough is usually a little weird and misshapen and I do not respect it or find it endearing, it is the runt of the batch and I eat it first to get it out of my life

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 07/09/2026

What a great way to spend a Monday evening

I knackered old GBA SP. The paint is worn and it's dirty and tired looking.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

YOU - Hold on. Have I ever eaten a burger out of the trash? ENDURANCE - You have. The body remembers.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/09/2026

Flash was once the playground of the web: games, animations & experiments made by anyone with an idea. 💻 Preserving those creations helps recover a lost chapter of culture. Jason Scott explores why Flash matters & why its preservation is vital. 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

Teal graphic posing the question "Why preserve Flash software?" for the Vanishing Culture series, with Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, quoted saying "It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites … many major sites couldn't live without it."

Light green-gray graphic quoting Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "Flash flew across from the mid-2000's internet sky in a blaze of glory and unbridled creativity. It was the backbone of menus and programs and even critical applications for working with sites."

Orange graphic quoting Jason Scott, Free-range archivist, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "We may never know what combinations of ease, nostalgia, and variety have left so many people with such a fondness for Flash. But one thing is clear… it's preservation is vital."

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 28/08/2026

My favourite thing in the world is reporting people on vinted who are deliberately selling fake G-Shocks

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I love when people come over to Bluesky to beg us to fight with them on X again. You lost! We’re not playing with you anymore!

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Shame to see two absolute meffs wearing anti-trans sandwich boards at the front of Chester pride this afternoon, trying to goad people into providing content for their sad little social media channels

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 08/08/2026

My favourite 2 hours of the day are the final minute of any washing machine cycle

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 04/08/2026

On top of the politics of the business, a service that wants you to log in, accept notifications and then give it a mobile number just so you can read a blog post is not a service I will use

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Lich's Fart Crystal Phylactery @slugworlds.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

if the time between 10pm and midnight lasted 12 hours id rule the world

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 28/07/2026

me checking the back of my pc

Game: Kowloon's Gate
Developer: Sony Music Entertainment
Platform: Playstation 1
📺: Sanyo DS2442

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 28/07/2026

ALERT ALERT: Coffeepot, my dirt cheap Tiny SEO Monitor has had a HUGE update - internal link checking, domain expiry alerts and more! Head to coffeepot.app to check it out

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 28/07/2026

How can I possibly "need to go therapy", I already buy myself a new Hot Wheels car every time I feel a bit sad or overwhelmed

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 17/07/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social going to expensive private school ruined your brain

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 15/07/2026

A gritty reboot of Mount Your Friends

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 09/07/2026

Never has the amount of time between me saying "Alexa play LBC" and "Alexa stop" been so short

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 07/07/2026

react has been doing hydration breaks since 2013

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 30/06/2026

Speaking as an overweight, six foot tall person with a very long torso: CAN WE PLEASE STOP CROPPING TSHIRTS NOW PLEASE

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 28/06/2026

More and more sites are serving AI markdown while asking you to bat away signup modals, load MBs of JS and X away ads But if they're serving markdown... Why not read that instead? If you're giving bots VIP access to your content, I'm going to pretend to be one. chris-spann.co.uk/impersonatin...

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 27/06/2026

I am looking forward to this heatwave ending just because it means I won't have to see any more discourse about Aircon for a while

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 26/06/2026

If you're serving bots nicely formatted markdown but giving users div soup that forces them to download 15MB of JS that does nothing for them, you're treating humans as second class citizens. I wrote something to redress the balance a bit: chris-spann.co.uk/impersonatin...

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Impersonating LLMs as an Adblocking Strategy | Chris Spann is Ar Waith

Because we've decided bots deserve better treatment than users

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

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Impersonating LLMs as an Adblocking Strategy | Chris Spann is Ar Waith

Because we've decided bots deserve better treatment than users

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 26/06/2026

Owning a phone in 2026: I have to accept an invite to my daughter's class group on the app school uses. Except I can't, because the upsell popup that tried to sell me the premium version(!!!) renders the close button underneath the status bar on my phone, so I can't press ut

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 25/06/2026

It's not called "Daddy daycare" it's called "toiling under the tyranny of big child"

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 22/06/2026

It's too hot and my brain has died. This can't be real, surely

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Action figure.:: for kids? Like, what, for their little desks at work?

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Myriam Jessier @myriam.dopamine.builders · 19/06/2026

The 2010s retail crisis had a name: Showrooming. Customers used physical stores to inspect products, then bought cheaper online. The store absorbed the cost of the experience. Amazon collected the conversion. The 2026 version is playing out on your website with generative search.

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 19/06/2026

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 19/06/2026

RIP to Bobby Prince, please forgive me for the time I set up my SC-155 wrong and tried to play Doom and got whatever the hell this is

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Chris Spann @chris-spann.co.uk · 18/06/2026

Hey check it out! Come along if you're in the northwest!

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