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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 9h
Really disappointed with Tom Watson, really disappointed
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never had a situation in my life when I've said "I can fix this with a CAD widget".
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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 · 26/09/2026
Poe's Law strikes but I think it's satire
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I see what you did there... or do I?
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's Peter Gabriel moonlighting isn't it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJ...
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Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (HD version)
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
But if you data center you get a girl and a ride home. Well half a girl.
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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 · 15/09/2026
Much like going through airport security, don't make jokes about bombs if you don't want a search with latex gloves. Mind, you could probably get the same from the doc...
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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 · 10/09/2026
Start of June would work for me. Then I can pick it up for summer holiday reading.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can you remind me a bit closer to the time?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Like he would deliver on it anyway
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Are you not trying to impose your value system on the computer?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thing about Paw Patrol is we never know who funds all their fancy gadgets. And they have a distinct distaste for elected officials they don't like. I'm just saying...
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Doubt they'd be able to keep in the diamond league in that case, too difficult for them
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Doesn't fly. Learn English from what language?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Was this not a once off convoy operation, rather than the straits actually opening? Even then two ships in the convoy had to be abandoned? With the convoy being supplied from Diego Garcia, 3500 km away. Time will tell but this seems more an unsustainable PR piece for Trump
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We settled this soon after the 1930s, his side lost.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
From your lips to... I dunno, the corkscrew?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That would mean he's posted for 107 hours?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I recall the run up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 190k troops on maneuver on the border for months beforehand. Any form of big attack would be massively telegraphed. Hybrid? Not so.
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's a metaphor innit
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Indeed; sweep a room for monsters and your child will sleep soundly for a night. Teach a child to sweep for monsters and they'll be psychologically secure for life.
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Who doesn't just look to see what bins their neighbours have put out?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is that a pivot?
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I had a shirt just like that three years ago! I say three years, I mean more like 30... Now I feel old. Again.
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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 · 17/08/2026
Not a patch on Half Man Half Biscuits Trumpton Riots
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Does this count as cultural appropriation?
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh god no, don't restart the bread roll wars... I mean the cob wars... Batch... Baps...
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TBH I think it was great for just this reason! Brought the whole nation together in a chorus of tuts
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good job you were driving through the moors at the time or someone could've been hurt!
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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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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well thanks for that Plato
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CJ Bill @cjbill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
TBH I'd expect Count (Bread) Binface to lead on this one.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/08/2026
Maldives sounds nice
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