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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's LGBTQ stand for? wrong answers only LaForge, Guinan, Beverly, Troy, and, well, Q

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Andrew Carter @cartoir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LNER going for an ad strategy that is localised enough to name the correct city but not localised enough to realise the phrasing is going to annoy the city in question.

LNER YouTube advert saying 'From Edinburgh to the capital just like that...'

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 04/09/2026

Also thinking about the time the taps stopped running. Immediately went out and bought several huge bottles of water to ride it out. The water was off for half an hour

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 04/09/2026

I’m in the opposite situation, moving house this month and currently trying to eat all the food in the kitchen rather than have to bring it with me

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 20/07/2026

There are loads of different ways of looking at this. My personal favourite is that, as the crow flies, Manchester Piccadilly is closer to the south coast of the Isle of Wight than it is to Dundee.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 05/07/2026

Reminds me of a former colleague tbh

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 03/07/2026

I tried to do something with the help of Claude Code that to be fair was impossible, and I did enjoy its assessment of its performance: “…every time … the result has been a different flavour of wrong”

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is one of the hardest hit regions w ~9% GVA loss by 2023 The biggest sectors (whisky & food, oil & chemicals, professional services) make up 44% of its EU exports. Brexit erected barriers across all of them. And Scotland didn’t vote for this... brexitcost.org/itl1/TLM.htm... 4/...

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Brexit Cost Explorer — Scotland

Brexit cost estimate for Scotland: −£27,357m GVA gap in 2023 (−14% vs. no-Brexit path). Synthetic control analysis — Brexit Cost Project.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 16/06/2026

Musk could probably afford to turn Washington into his own Tracy Island at this point. Demolish the East Wing and build a circular gallery, with a rocket launching out the middle Thunderbird 3 style. Make the Reflecting Pool retract to reveal another rocket. Retractable trees.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/06/2026

jesus this is so sad www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 03/06/2026

Help, I apparently need the phone number for ‘Scotland’.

Please note the information on their website relates to England and Wales. If you require more information relating to Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can call them for further assistance.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 25/05/2026

Fair enough if you spend more than 5500 £ of embezzled money on high-end coffee machines. But then spending a further 81.16 £ on Nescafé Gold Blend? Straight to jail.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Panel 1
A figure addresses an audience from a lectern:
"Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications."

Notes
*1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar
*2 Abbreviation-Related Problems

Panel 2
She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads:
1. ROAs*
2.WUAs*

Notes
*3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations
*4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations

Panel 3
She says:
"...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly."
One of the audience thinks "WTF!"

Notes
*5 widely-recognised Abbreviations
*6 Well, that's fascinating.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 21/05/2026

It seems that @proton.me have fundamentally degraded the usability of the Drive iOS app, and slipped out the change in a “Bug fixes and performance” update. It’s deeply frustrating as a user, and makes it difficult to recommend Drive to those wishing to de-Google themselves.

An App Store review from ScottGrant89 and its response from Proton:

No longer works with files in iOS or iPados

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For the past few weeks I've been unable to save to proton drive from my iPad or iPhone or open documents within apps from proton drive as it's disappeared from the storage locations in files. Proton have said they are working on a fix but that was weeks ago now. I'm getting fed up of waiting for them to fix a services they are still charging for and if it's not fixed soon I will have to cancel my subscription and look else where.

Developer Response

The latest SDK enabled version which brings with it faster and more performant uploads/downloads does not support Files app integration yet. We are working on it and it will be released in a future version.

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I look forward to how all the "but he's so good at foreign policy" Starmtroopers rationalise "loosening sanctions on Russia because doing anything to reduce fuel consumption is too scary and hard". Grim we still have to have this weak, visionless idiot in power for at least a few more months

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

bbc.co.uk

UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise

The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 14/05/2026

BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data on the regional vote than the BBC?

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BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting

An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data than the BBC?

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 12/05/2026

The noise must be unbearable

A host of angels in robes blowing vuvuzelas

A 2010 FIFA World Cup crowd blowing vuvuzelas (credit: Wikipedia user Caldwella)

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 08/05/2026

It makes me wonder what would happen if I phoned up the MOD and told them I had the robot that they lost. Just, you know, speculatively. To find out if they’d lost any robots at that particular time.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 08/05/2026

I’m just thinking about how Stephanie Speck phoned up and asked, “I'd like to speak to one of your head warmongers, please” and actually got through to one of them.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 08/05/2026

The party led by Six Boats Offord came third in a contest that was all about boats.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Bylines Network livestream is providing fascinating commentary on the Scottish and Welsh results all day long, with lots of great guests! Check it out anytime --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks1C...

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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A new ad uses a line from Norway's most famous anti-fascist poem in a disturbing way, and LLMs can't spot the connection until I ask very leading questions. Could this be an example of an ad inspired by brainstorming with an AI that doesn't get cultural references? jilltxt.net/du-ma-ikke-s...

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“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references)

There’s a new ad for the train between Stavanger and Oslo in Norway that uses a line from Arnulf Øverland’s famous anti-fascist poem Du må ikke sove (“You must not sleep”). …

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Actually hysterically laughing at this. You get the feeling he's about to turn to Ed balls and said "I always did say he was a bit of a cunt, didn't I?"

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 18/04/2026

What THE FUCK I say THE FUCK is this

A map of Scottish Parliament constituencies, with Banff and Buchan showing up as dark blue showing significant positive variation in vote share for the far-right Reform party compared to the UK General Election 2024 vote. Foghorn Leghorn is superimposed, gesturing towards said constituency.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 14/04/2026

Taskmaster has become pretty intense since the last time I watched it

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 07/04/2026

I’m not the only one who thought this was weird.

A letter in the Guardian that reads:

Am I the only reader who was (until very recently) puzzled by the "alien facehugger" in your "Don't miss a beat" subscription advert?
Christian Gould
Shepherds Bush, London

The Guardian’s “Don’t miss a beat” subscription advert, featuring a fleshy disembodied elongated alien hand with metal claws that is actually a whisk covered in pink whipped cream or icing

A scene from the film Arrival featuring two whisks covered in black icing that are actually the lower bodies and legs of the alien characters

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 05/04/2026

Complete lack of decorum. Didn’t even thank us for our attention to this matter.

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BlueDragonLandlady @ms-lupin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I love that phrase "spending time in the space where the problem lives". It applies to so many things.

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lostinapapercup.bsky.social @lostinapapercup.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The emotional crisis is an essential part of the work.

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is where the debate should be, rather than on the distraction of North Sea drilling. What can government do to move faster on clean tech and green buildings? Can it afford to be more ambitious and demand new homes are passivhaus and zero bill? How quickly can it bring down fossil fuel reliance?

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

💥Russian interference in Hungary’s election campaign and the Kremlin’s open support for Viktor Orbán are now a key issue. No wonder this guy and his Matryoshka creation were very popular at today’s opposition march in Budapest

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13/03/2026

Can this be a solution?

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 10/03/2026

The wealth of individuals should be limited in the same way that the power of politicians is limited, and for the same reasons. Wealth equals power, and it is entirely unchecked.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"The sprint to clean energy is the only way to get off the volatile international fossil fuels markets, cut bills & deliver energy security" Fair play to Starmer - this is exactly right. Meanwhile, Badenoch & Farage would have us hooked on more fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Starmer not prepared to join a war ‘without lawful basis and viable plan’, he tells PMQs – UK politics live

PM says country must act ‘with clarity, with purpose and with a cool head’ amid Middle East crisis and Trump criticism

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Mark Scott @markescott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It does seem that every Home Secretary, whatever their background or previous political stance, quite rapidly turns authoritarian once in office. Something in the water at Marsham Street?

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 22/02/2026

I’ll never forget the Walkers Crisps advert that had the UK spawn an arm out of the east coast of England and shove a crisp into the Firth of Forth, because who doesn’t eat crisps through the back of their head, not nightmare fuel at all

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