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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i don't want music personalised to me - i want to be subjected to the unmitigated vision of one or more mentally ill people
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”
Pete and Dud.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh man, I've unposted and reposted this just because it cheers me up so much.
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mother Nature has a solution......
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The finding, published in the journal Science , paves the way for a treatment for one of the most painful and debilitating side effects of cancer treatment.
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Psilocybin protects against nerve damage from chemotherapy in MD Anderson mice - Sinaptica
A team from the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas discovered that psilocybin, the active compound in hallucinogenic mushrooms known as magic
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/09/2026
2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we lost an actual saint
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Chris Duck @chrisduck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Exceptional analysis, in Aussie pub language. A thing of beauty. KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Apropos of nothing, this is the gear crate Prince had rigged up so that he could hide inside and get wheeled around Paisley Park discreetly when necessary.
A musical instrument case with the Prince symbol on it
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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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theraygun.bsky.social @theraygun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Just been told by @grantberry.bsky.social that Unmask Me, the legendary Convenanza closer from Sete after Song To The Siren – before you started going, yeah? – has been reissued with proceeds going to fund Ashley Beedle's ongoing care. Get on it vinylunderground.co.uk/products/mam...
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Mama | Unmask Me - Ashley Beedle Mixes
Tracklist: Unmask Me (Ashley Beedle Vocal Mix) Unmask Me (Short Version) Unmask Me (Ashley Beedle Dub Mix) A special record, a real sleeper when it first dropped in 2017, slowly heads were turned and ...
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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
At least we don’t have to listen to wonderwall.
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cuba is First in the World to Invent a Lung Cancer Vaccine Despite Decades of Sanctions and Blockade. hrnews1.substack.com/p/cuba-is-fi... -
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Cuba is First in the World to Invent a Lung Cancer Vaccine Despite Decades of Sanctions and Blockade
The U.S. is Actively Starving a Country Who is Trying to Cure Cancer
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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Japanese scientists have confirmed a monumental discovery: asteroid Ryugu contains all 5 nucleobases essential for DNA and RNA. By analyzing 5.4 grams of material returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, researchers identified adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil in similar proportions.
source: Oba, Y., et al. (2026). A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Nature Astronomy.
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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Here’s a difficult but important task for Burnham’s next Chancellor: how to tax/regulate the parasitic private equity industry out of the UK economy, both public and private sectors. Think of all the money that could be going into care and real investment instead… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity
Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows
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The Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛‍♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In honor of his 100th birthday let’s recognize the genius that is Mel Brooks 🤟😎
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 18/06/2026
it's the same picture dot jpg
vintage x ray specs ad from the back of a comic Snapchat smart glasses
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Those five reasons most people are not saving enough for a pension in full From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A Japanese-American woman in her 80s, with advanced Alzheimer's and a decade of progressive decline, briefly regained her voice, recognized her family members, and walked with greater independence.
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Magic mushrooms and Alzheimer’s: an extraordinary case that rethinks what we believed about psilocybin - Sinaptica
A Japanese-American woman in her 80s, with advanced Alzheimer's and a decade of progressive decline, briefly regained her voice, recognized her family members,
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Jim Rockford @thegoldenbuddah.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
God is a Knicks fan
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
NASA Perseverance rover captures what a Martian night really looks like from the ground
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 23/05/2026
"In the decades since 'This is Your Brain on Music' suggested enticingly that music is a product of the human brain, new research has upended what seemed like basic assumptions about what music is and how it works." How 'This is Your Brain on Music' Transformed Neuroscience:
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How This is Your Brain on Music Transformed Neuroscience
Twenty years ago, when This Is Your Brain on Music was published, the idea that music could be studied with the tools of biology and neuroscience was a niche one. When it came out, I was junior fac…
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Counterthought: the Right's loathing of us, the actual British people, has already ruined Britain, time to rebuild. I wouldn't have a pint with any of these fucking key-speaker wankers.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Aside from anything else, it is astonishing that NASA can still control instruments on an object 25 billion kilometers/15.7 billion miles away from Earth. The fact that they are preparing to change power sources to extend its functional life defies belief. www.livescience.com/space/space-...
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NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument as humanity's most distant spacecraft prepares for risky 'Big Bang' maneuver to save power
After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another instrument to save the mission.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Unlike Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg, Altman was not a fixture in the crossover sphere of famous tech billionaires until quite recently. His sudden appearance at the top of the world’s rollcall of fleece-wearing founders came around the end of 2022. To outsiders, it may have seemed like he’d parachuted in from nowhere, in the manner of a new cousin suddenly present in the ninth series of a flailing family sitcom, one whom you are bidden to pretend has been there all along. This was due to his company OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT, the large language model released in November of that year, which had barely uttered its first chirpy, bullet-pointed answer to a recipe query before its name had become shorthand for the entire profusion of LLMs which followed.

Soon, Altman was everywhere, prognosticating on all the ways AI could, would and should, transform, improve and/or destroy the world. He has, at different times, claimed AI would achieve superhuman intelligence by 2025, wipe out jobs that aren’t “real work”, turn intelligence into a utility that OpenAI sells to an increasingly stupid populace, and/or destroy humanity entirely. He has also expressed concerns that the entire AI market could be in “a bubble”. On that, at least, we agree.In case it’s not already clear, I don’t care very much that these people have deluded themselves into thinking the lovely wooden doll they’ve made is a real, live human boy. What’s more relevant is what they do with that delusion, and the degree to which said delusions are taken seriously as claims, let alone as breathlessly reported fact, by the media we task with explaining the complex world of technology to us. A media that has responded to these people’s addiction to headlines by becoming similarly addicted to printing them. Like many a teenaged radical, I used to moodily resent the unseen world of business barons who kept in the dark and managed our lives from the shadows. Now, I want to thank them for their service: for sparing us the sight of their faces in our news feeds every hour of every day. Say what you want about the Koch Brothers and their media influence. But they weren’t doing speaking tours about the Antichrist, or keeping us up to date on the frequency and strength of their night-time erections.Moreover, those of us who do not believe Altman’s $1 trillion word-guessing programme is going to save, rule, or destroy, the planet any time soon, boggle that so much uncritical coverage is given to a company that is very far away from making a product that works usefully as a search engine or a calculator, let alone an all-knowing superintelligence that will remake the modern world. A technology so riddled with errors and hallucinations that ChatGPT has itself become a byword for unchecked work that is hastily and lazily cobbled together by scammers and morons. And it is ultimately made by a company that has already leveraged the greatest capital expenditure and computing power ever assembled in one place to deliver a technology which cannot reliably tell you how many “R”s there are in the word strawberry, or refrain from telling you to clean your home with chlorine gas.
It is also a company whose finances are so worryingly opaque that it is very hard to know where the truly gigantic and ongoing investment will come from in order to let it keep losing money ad infinitum. (At this point, failure to do so would also likely crash the global economy.) All to make a product so programmed to peddle convincing nonsense to its users that ChatGPT’s leading contribution to mankind thus far has doubtless been the harrowing catalogue of tragedies in which it has been directly or indirectly involved, from messianic breakdowns and psychotic breaks to several real-life murders, suicides and at least two mass shootings.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Chris Duck @chrisduck.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
'Party which has done absolutely nothing to improve the socio-economic fortunes of its base, aside from offering much more-of-the-same, is quite understandably, drubbed out of office' Listen to this from @abbyinnes.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Why the neoclassical philosophy of economics is fundamentally flawed | Abby Innes
Podcast Episode · Philosophy For Our Times · 24 March · 26min
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/03/2026
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/03/2026
One reason we need to foreground art is so that people who would prefer not to engage in any self-reflection might understand that introspection has been central to the human experience for millennia. bsky.app/profile/dave...
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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is surely telling us something wonderful about the green transition: that done well - in built environments and housing and beyond - we could reconnect to the sources that let us relax back into our true natures… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It has changed my life’: How a dose of nature is treating mental illness
A project in London is helping hundreds of people, providing a genuine alternative to traditional treatments
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KJL @kerryjeanlister.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/03/2026
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I feel confident that the sort of people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying tax would say that those fleeing war in other countries are not our concern and they should seek refuge in a neighbouring country. In this case I’d suggest Iran, which they can reach by small boat.
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
David Graeber made a warning about Keir Starmer in 2020. They did not listen

"The Labour Party under Starmer 
will abandon its core idealism and 
principles and it won't even gain 
tactical advantage. It will be a party 
which gives no one a reason to vote 
for it, and nobody will, in fact, vote 
for it."
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  - David Graeber
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...
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Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good
A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
19 people.
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DJ PAULETTE @djpaulette.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Oh more news - your girl features in the all new THE MUSIC IS BLACK exhibition upcoming at the new V&A East Museum. Opening April 18, 2026 - It's the first ever exhibition at the brand new V&A East Museum in queenelizabetholympicpark, and it celebrates the impact of Black British music and culture.
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