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CJ Bill

@cjbill.bsky.social
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Tester techie type at, ahem, a major UK media corporation, cyclist, reader of sci-fi and prehistory, dad. Occasional conference speaker on test philosophy, management and all things UAT Looking forward to shouting into the void on a new platform

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Sleeper cells smuggled in in small boats I tell you, sleeper cells!" "Oh, British nationals? Must be second generation immigrants not integrating." Let out on bail? Er..... got it! "Bloody labour, soft on criminals"
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For those of you in the test community my latest blog on evaluating AI for test creation is up... and wow, does bsky not like the graphic there! Someone should raise a ticket. bill-watson.co.uk/2026/09/18/m...
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Moving from “why measure AI tests?” to “How do we measure them?”
In my previous blog post, I laid out why I wanted to evaluate how useful AI could be in my test creation process. I wanted evidence I could use to make informed and defensible decisions about what …
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is worth reading.. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For those in the testing community I've started a blog series based on a study I've been running of late. lnkd.in/p/eS-HTcky
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Why We Measured AI Instead of Trusting It | Bill Watson
AI is everywhere, including the world of testing. It promises productivity boosts, democratised software and sunlit uplands. Or droughts, AI slop and mass white-collar unemployment. Take your pick. E...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@gilduran.com got my copy here courtesy of The Guardian bookshop. Bedtime reading and you can be sure I'll be recommending it and and discussing it with anyone who will listen
Copy of Gil Duran's book, The Nerd Reich.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I've got my copy, strongly recommend anyone who works in or is interested in tech or politics or just living in a livable world to get it as well
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026
It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
Well said, Count Binface 👏
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/08/2026
Maldives sounds nice
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
‘A delivery was attempted today.’ From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think punk was basically politically fine until any of its participants got on the property ladder, a path which leads directly to Julie Birchall
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
To hell with Musk and his Grok Odyssey remake, I'm doing it with fruit
Boats made from slices of apple with sails made from their skins
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Om
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Whelp everyone is out so I have a rare evening alone. Just me, a bottle of red, very ripe camembert and The Sentinels on the tv
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Zanny Minton Beddoes, "You say things like: civil war in Britain is inevitable" Elon Musk, "On the current trends, yes" ZMD, "I live there, that is not true.. London is a much safer city than any city in the US"
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/07/2026
Looking forward to watching the hit new Elon Musk Grok Odyssey Movie in the middle of a Mars river in my fully aquatic and self-driving Cybertruck having paid for the ticket via my bank account on X, the Everything App, as I marvel at the post-DOGE balanced US federal budget.
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 21/07/2026
Yes that's how jobs work. Equally we could say "Journalist Codie Bullen was paid to write this Daily Mail 'shameless' anti-BBC propaganda"
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I see it now.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Those assembly turn cranks that won't get thrown in the trash
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Time to add crimes against fashion to the list of charges.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/07/2026
Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.
"Belgium is two, maybe three months away from developing a nuclear weapon."
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Gnasher @gnasherjames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology
The photo shows a Lower Paleolithic Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. Likely made by an early neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) population or an alternative Middle Pleistocene hominin species (H. heidelbergensis s.l.). The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to seemingly retain the shell in a central position. The shell’s central display has often been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. A recent study (“The West Tofts handaxe: A remarkably average, structurally flawed, utilitarian biface” by Emily Flanders and Alastair Key) concluded it was likely ‘an average utilitarian tool’ in the eyes of its Acheulean maker, and that the aesthetic intent is assumed by the present-day beholder, and not supported by objective evidence.

Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm. Weight 0.375kg. 

Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just as a point of fact here, from Manchester you can see both the West Pennines and the Peaks.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Welcome aboard your Avanti West Coast service, calling at Stockport, Stoke on Trent, Stafford and the Finland Station
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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
37 degrees in London for three days is it? YIKES. Time to review the Shade the UK list of ideas again to see if there’s anything further I can do on the flat. (Main thing is getting at least a temporary canopy up over the sunny patio, I suspect) So many ideas: www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...
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Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes — Shade the UK
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Whey” www.instagram.com/louiscollene...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/06/2026
Accurate.
Screenshot of a social media post by Angus McIntyre (@angusm@mastodon.social). The post humorously claims that the UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs could become one of the largest IT education projects ever. It jokes that experts support the scheme because peer education and incentives will help it succeed, and includes a mock quote saying that, with the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN literacy is more important than ever and that the project comes at the right time. The humour derives from the implication that government internet restrictions would encourage widespread VPN use among young people.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/06/2026
France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP
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France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP
Cyber agency says BlackCore targeted John Swinney, as well as interfering in France, New York and elsewhere France’s cybersecurity agency has accused the Israeli tech company BlackCore of interfering in the Scottish elections earlier this year by targeting the first minister, John Swinney. The disinformation detection agency Viginum said BlackCore had used proxy social media accounts to target Swinney, the Scottish National party and the Scottish government on four occasions this year. Continue reading...
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 11/06/2026
This one from @happytoast.co.uk seems apt
A riff on the 'this is fine' meme only instead of a dog in a burning room, it is Keir Starmer sitting amid skinheads waving St George's Cross flags and spray painting crosses on the walls, while smoke on the ceiling reveals that the place is burning
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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Meme goes to see doctor. Says he's exhausted, all humorous possibilities drained. Feels like giving up. Doctor says: cure is simple! Excellent "Watchmen" meme-format exists, riffing on sad clown joke. It will pick you right up. Meme says: but doctor ...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🚨FURY as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees 🚨 Apparently...🤔 Who are all these furious people, making this newsworthy across several newspapers, TV channels, radio shows and countless YouTube videos? 🧵 1/23
Express headline:
Fury as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees
Headline has a Monk Debunked stamp across the front.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ganache saved!
A thick glossy white chocolate ganache ready to be put in a birthday cake
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Granache disaster
Split White granache looking more like badly scrambled eggs
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
1/ Accused rapist and sex trafficker Andrew Tate is visiting Russia. The news has disturbed Russian warbloggers, who say they don't need him in their country. They suggest that Russia, which has recruited literal cannibals to its army, should aspire to a higher standard. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ones...
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 30/05/2026
in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that
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