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Colin R. Turner

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Believer in better. Founder of Sharebay.org. Author, activist, proponent of open access economy.

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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 12/10/2026
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 04/09/2026
Someone sent me a voice message in another language. ChatGPT was able to listen and simultaneously speak it to me in English on the fly. That's insane! People train for years to do be able to do that.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 23/05/2026
Meta makes almost 200 billion dollars a year from advertising. This logically presents a conspiracy theory that, I think, can't not be true: Negative Advertising.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 17/05/2026
You're yelling at the system, but there's nothing there. Latest article. colinrturner.com/2026/05/17/o...
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On Values, Behaviour and Systems
It is often said that many problems in society are systemic, and therefore we only need to change these systems in order to improve and progress. The idea being that once we change the system of the c...
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 18/02/2026
Silly question, but have people gone back to X? I am considering opening a new account there. Is it still a tire fire? Or are people moving back?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 20/01/2026
Americans!! What's the fucking story???
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 08/11/2025
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 05/11/2025
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 07/09/2025
www.facebook.com/reel/1086911...
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257K views · 98K reactions | Everything is terrible, yes. But most of us will make it out. And when we do, the next era will be ours. #leftist #progressive #liberal | Ohh that's RICH
Everything is terrible, yes. But most of us will make it out. And when we do, the next era will be ours. #leftist #progressive #liberal.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 04/09/2025
Is Twitter X still a tire fire?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 03/09/2025
Did we get the edit button yet?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 11/07/2025
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You've just inherited 20 hectares of land and have just two choices
Puzzle: You've just inherited 20 hectares of land and have just two choices: Build 500 houses, make 25 million profit Plant a forest, make zero profit Rules:You can't mix options. It has to...
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 25/06/2025
Or, put another way, Spotify owner Elk is further extorting peace-loving musicians' blood, sweat and tears and putting it into military hardware. There's just no other way to see this. How can this guy be so tone deaf? mixmag.net/read/spotify...
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek becomes chairman of AI military start-up following €600 million investment
Ek had previously invested €100 million in Helsing, a software specialist that currently produces drones, aircrafts and submarines for military use
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 25/06/2025
Sortition is a system of government by jury. Random citizens selected at various intervals to answer the questions of government. If a jury system is good enough to decide if someone lives or dies, then it's good enough for government. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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Sortition - Wikipedia
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 15/04/2025
Can we do billionaires in space, but one-way?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 20/03/2025
The rational mind is not constant. It is reconstructed every morning out of the chaos of dreams.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 06/03/2025
Introducing the Consumer Year Calendar: Buy heart-shaped crap Buy egg-shaped crap Buy plastic outdoor crap Buy scary crap Buy all kinds of crap
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 18/02/2025
I had a dream last night that I discovered that the patterns in human irises were like QR codes that contained information about our history and personality, and we each had a subconscious ability to read them, hence why looking into someone's eyes was such a powerful experience. Scan here for more
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 08/02/2025
Interesting to note that AI chats are still one-way. It won't be long before we'll all start getting 2AM texts from ChatGPT like "hey what you doin?" 😆
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 04/02/2025
Sharebay v4 just dropped! Here's what we've added: - Ride-sharing posts - Accommodation-sharing posts - Improved activity feed - German language added - Improved accessibility and font size menu - And many, many more fixes and improvements... Check it out and tell me what you think! sharebay.org
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 28/01/2025
Noob question: what actual harm has China ever done to US?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 27/01/2025
Shyness is the key to poverty! 😀
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 27/01/2025
If Musk openly abused children, Tesla stock would go up. The world will stop at nothing to make this klutz a trillionaire. 🙄
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 25/01/2025
@bsky.app, why oh why no edit button already? I'm a coder and I know it's a trivial job. It would be really handy, and a major body blow to you know who.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 23/01/2025
Riddle me this: why is kindness often despised, like it's a weakness?
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#vegan It's reasonable. It makes sense.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 14/01/2025
The cult of self has gone too far. You do not exist because of yourself, or for yourself. You have never created or done anything by yourself, or ever will. There isn't a single issue in the world that is not a direct result of mistaken self-importance.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 12/01/2025
We understand that kindness is not a luxury in life, but is the root of life, which is cast off too soon and to the detriment of life. Without kindness, humans cannot live; without kindness, humans cannot achieve peace; without kindness, humans cannot progress.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 08/01/2025
"The thinking of ‘us good guys vs. those bad guys’ is a self-perpetuating paradigm of revolving-door bad guys. A never-ending game of Wack-A-Mole with no net change or improvement." colinrturner.com/2025/01/08/s...
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States, not systems
I'm coming more to the opinion that 'system' is an inappropriate descriptor when it comes to describing change, as it implies moving parts, cause and effect, operators and components—and ultimately bl...
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 06/01/2025
Critics of 'be the change' don't get that it's not about one person changing. It's about millions of ones changing. Small changes x millions of people = big changes. Attacking 'the system' is a distraction that might just be their own reluctance to change.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 05/01/2025
I think the current trend of dissing sustainable methods like recycling or renewable energy is a very dangerous precedent. It matters more that we care enough to try. Methods may sometimes be suboptimal, but the alternative of just not caring or bothering is unconscionable at this stage.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 03/01/2025
Here's an idea: AI-generated movies with AI actors, AI-generated screenplays and music, marketed with AI algorithms to an adoring AI-generated audience of consumer bots, so humans can get back to doing what we were doing before.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 02/01/2025
Is it just me or is the red planet getting more like Trump? Is Musk trumpforming the little guy?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year everyone!
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 28/12/2024
I have noticed. Haven't seen a single house spider this year. Not one. And our garden is mostly silent.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 24/12/2024
Happy Christmas skypeople!
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 22/12/2024
I bet this cat pic gets more likes than anything else I post! Welcome Guinness to the fold!
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 22/12/2024
It's good to help. But... The more you help someone, the less capable and more dependent they become. So where is the line between helping and hindering? Is this something that you think about before offering to help?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 17/12/2024
1/26 How The Assassination Of CEO Brian Thompson Epitomizes Everything Wrong In Society (a thread)
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 16/12/2024
I just used BlueArk to import all my tweets from X. It only cost me $6.50 to import the full archive. blueark.app
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BlueArk
The new blue land is waiting for you. Bring your stories with BlueArk.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 12/12/2024
Most people associate me with post-money ideas. I aim to change that on BlueSky and cultivate a different kind of interactions based on addressing human values directly, because I believe that it's our ultimately our flawed value set that drives the problems we see in society. 🧵
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 11/12/2024
Interested in giving and getting stuff for free on a safe platform? sharebay.org?invite=68ygZv
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Colin R. Turner is inviting you to join Sharebay
Colin R. Turner from Wellingtonbridge, County Wexford is inviting you to join them on Sharebay – the free sharing network.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 09/12/2024
My TEDx Talk from 2019. The comments on this are surprisingly supportive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMO...
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What would happen if everything was free? | Colin R. Turner | TEDxGalway
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 08/12/2024
Killing a CEO and laughing about it are both aberrant forms of behaviour. What if I told you that lack of affordable healthcare, killing a CEO, and laughing at someone's death were all symptoms of the same problem? Value system disorder.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 06/12/2024
Spend 30 minutes on this.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...
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The Great Simplification | Film on Energy, Environment, and Our Future | FULL MOVIE
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 03/12/2024
A tantalizingly accurate supposition!
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 02/12/2024
1/14 I have noticed a sharp decline in my online interactions since I’ve begun to question anti-capitalist tropes of ‘change the system’ in favour of ‘change us’ ideas. I understand that most of my online connections are perhaps disenchanted by my seeming abandonment of ‘fuck the
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 02/12/2024
I certainly don't miss having to wade through Elon Musk's continuous shower thoughts and millions of disciples fawning over his goofy and callous logic.
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 02/12/2024
Also 'virtue signalling' is a weaponised term for someone who's trying to do good in the world. How did that happen?
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Colin R. Turner @colinrturner.com · 01/12/2024
Which came first, the chicken cross the road?
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