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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Reminds me of a reader who wrote to Guitarist magazine in the 90s, complaining that whatever amps and pedals he used, he couldn't quite get that Eric Clapton sound he was aiming for. The answer from the Editor was pretty much this

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Doughnuts. Can't eat a bite. Rich, sickly, and overwhelming. Horrible.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As the saying goes, being on the right is playing politics on Easy Mode

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I can't imagine any world in which the project on the right, with a £100bn+ price tag, would ever have been commissioned. We urgently need a new word, stronger than clusterfuck

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm no Russian sympathiser but "pew pew, mfs" makes me think Dulce Et Decorum Est should be compulsory reading everywhere My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori

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Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

There’s something going on with dad

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

OK but speaking as a clumsy, socially awkward person who's never quite sure where I'm supposed to be headed, this is the most relatable thing Trump has ever done

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Brilliant stuff. As a once committed Christian (now agnostic), I know that Christians who take their faith seriously can quote meaningful passages off the top of their head including the chapter and verse reference. We did it all the time and we never had to search for it or even carry a Bible

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Using "Reform of the Left" as a slur suggests that you think the problem with Reform is their commitment to the cause, rather than the cause itself

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

TIL the "great men of history" had no interior life, which we really should have told them at the time, it could have saved them a lot of well-documented emotional anguish

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If there's one thing libertarians love it's Universal Basic Income

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When this appeared in my timeline I assumed it was a joke but this is literally what the toy said

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is correct but it goes deeper; I remember reading 20 years ago in a friend's business studies textbook that the ideal C21st business is one unencumbered by customers and products, those pesky inconveniences in the process of revenue generation

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

After traumatic teenage years, I left school with no A-levels. By 22, life was more stable and I decided to go to university (technically as a "mature" student). I got a 2:1, went on to complete a Masters, am mid-way through a satisfying career, and have fully repaid my loans. Fuck this noise

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Lots relatable here but surely the serious takeaway, for every creative field, is "making loads". Just keep making loads. It's all we can really do

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I make no apologies for this. 30C and 10C are both stupid temperatures. It should be 15 - 25C at all times, otherwise I will complain

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Even some of the more grownup-style sets are good value. In the last couple of years I've bought an SLR style camera with several moving parts for £13, and a pretty good imitation of my motorbike for £9

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I speak from experience when I say this is what evangelical Christianity primes you for: you are taught that "persecution" (read: people calling you out) is proof that you are on the right side. Everyone being against you is not challenging, it's desirable, it's the thing you are told to hope for.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Telegraph picture editor choosing to illustrate this thinkpiece with an image of the most idiotic man alive is first class subversion

A social media post from the Daily Telegraph promoting a column by James Jeffrey, entitled "It's time to start mansplaining again", illustrated with a picture of Jordan Peterson

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We've already had massive increases in productivity over the last few decades (as Keynes predicted) and guess what we didn't fucking do (that Keynes recommended)

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

An unusual way to frame Russell's letter, which has always - famously - been understood as a politely coded "fuck off, fascist", and if *that* is what James is calling for more of then yes, we do need more of that. The veneer of politeness is arguably the least notable thing about this letter.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

All of this but also the collapse of the idea that you and I and all of our neighbours *deserve* good things and to live well and that we should build our politics and economy around that truth instead of around competition and perceived enemies. This has shifted dramatically in the last 20-25 years

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"Diverse voices can counter it" no they can't Grok, the platform is designed to drown them out, whatever their numbers. That's one of many reasons why there is no merit to the argument that progressives, journalists, or public bodies should stay on Twitter/X

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/09/2025

becoming a bit of a pet complaint at this stage but I'd love to see a study that shows that British readers actually prefer a massive chunky book, because I love a little paperback so much I can't imagine everyone else loving these huge editions

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Some of the worst people are some of the most polite. Some of the best have the sharpest tongues. Civility is meaningless as a measure of virtue, it may even be inversely linked

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The perfect summary of all the anti-bsky posts and thinkpieces

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Great thread and I have strong feelings about this one: helping your kid get a leg up is not nepotism, who the fuck wouldn't do that. Nepotism is handing them opportunities and positions that don't match their level of skill and / or effort

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The tiny section of Wikipedia dedicated to the story of the real Ann Summers (who was 19 years old when her boss bought her name for a small one-off payment), makes for fairly unpleasant reading

SCREENSHOT OF TEXT: The company was named after Annice Summers, the female secretary of the male founder, Michael Caborn-Waterfield.
Annice Summers was born Annice Goodwin in 1941, but later took her stepfather's surname. She left the company soon after it opened, following a row with Caborn-Waterfield. She went to live in Umbria, Italy, two hours from Rome, and died of cancer in October 2012.!5]

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Sometimes, I long for him

Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night.

A large title panel declares this character's name:

THE TW*T COLLECTOR.

He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand.

Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure.

slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!"

There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear".

The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Well this is just going to encourage them to steal more honey

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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds

A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/05/2025

This is beautful. And so simple. Queer people are scared. This is all you have to do as a cis het person to help take some of that fear away.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The British public, on both the left and the right, has almost no grasp of what we will lose if we let the BBC go. The losses will be immeasurable, yet people from all spheres of life are cheering on the Beeb's decline. It's one of the most succesful disinformation campaigns of all time.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The implication that Mummy and Daddy Pig are royals or at least extremely well off raises new questions, but it also provides answers to old ones, such as 'why are some animals in Peppa Pig's world "pets", or low-status captives?'

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 19/05/2025

The biggest self own I've ever seen Literally had to log in to Twitter to check with my own eyes that this post from Graham Linehan was real. Fml. Genuinely unbelievable

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Jonny IsGood @jonnyisgood.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

There's a pet psychic who got called out on Tiktok for being a fraud (getting every detail of the pet owner's life wrong) and the pet psychic responded saying that the pets must have been lying to her

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

6 May 1940 | Betty Vredenburg, a Dutch Jewish girl, was born in Amsterdam to Abracham and Rachel. She was murdered in a gas chamber of the #Auschwitz camp on 21 May 1944.

A photo of the face and shoulders of a baby girl. She is smiling. She has long, curly hair.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Claudia Winkleman offered me a bath and a takeaway when I turned up to her house as a junior TV person, soaked from the rain. I declined.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It's taken me a very long time but I think I'm finally learning to block bad faith reply guys and gals, instead of trying to explain myself. Feels good.

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