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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"The Hounds of Tindalos!" he muttered. "They can only reach us through angles. We must eliminate all angles from this room."

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Significant that Musk's pitch for Grok being funny didn't go any further than it being able to be sarcastic and snarky and edgy, all of which can be (and were) done at a very shallow level without expressing any actual humour.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A hazmat scientist desperately holding a detached doorhandle in place as a monstrous shadowy figure stalks towards them.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for chocolate brownies.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This "comic-enjoyer" account is automatically posting weak AI-generated comics based on the political content that it's quoting, I don't think it can hear you.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Folk roundels" (which is what I assumed you meant to type, until I got to the end) is actually a nice way of thinking about them.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm reading this on a laptop, but can reach my phone for a dark close-up of a table.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

These stickers are good, although I fear that a lot of it is "oh no, they were ripped off by someone who charged them money for this, and they can't see that it's AI".

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My personal expectation when I watch these clips is that they will end with the robot strangling James Serafinowicz.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There must always be serious tension in the room over whether the malfunctioning machine is going to thrash around powerfully and unpredictably, and injure the speaker or the crew. Unlike a clumsy human, we don't have a consensus expectation of how a robot will and won't act after falling over.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Such a funny and well-timed parallel between Farage concealing his finances and Binface concealing his face. Very nice usage of Farage's dismissive "oh here we go, nobody wants to know" stance when Newsnight tried to get him to drop character and take the bin off, the other night.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Seems to be a longstanding Amazon thing, defined as "easy to open and all content removable by the customer within 120 seconds with minimal use of scissors or box cutter". Would be frustrating on the packaging for a new pair of scissors. sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/help/hub/ref...

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Amazon

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

YouTube has a few released under a CC-Attribution licence: www.youtube.com/results?sear...

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YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Knowing that you do AI joke photos, though, I find myself instinctively disengaging from an image like that, to avoid remembering it as real and repeating it as an observation about the pub when talking to someone else. Really does feel like using occasional AI images undermines all the others.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Reading you a couple of years ago I would have assumed as much, no explanation necessary. Vandalism from some recent time where the site owners didn't notice or care enough to fix it before your photographer or a reader got that photo. Good picture, effective visual shorthand.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Disappointed to see AI generated joke photos again. It's obviously fake in that case, but it means that when you share an apparent photo of the Leslie Arms with the sign spelling "SHIT ARSE", I don't know if you're reporting on what the pub looks like today or faking it from the archives as a joke.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

See, that comment is a much better one, because you're a human who's speculating based on their own cultural knowledge, and is aware of its limits, and I can read it as such. Thank you.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As a screenshot an AI overview guessing an answer to fit an unknown question phrasing, this is almost meaningless.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What if the answer to their question is "no".

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

And "led" in the past tense. It seems to be unintentional or forgotten, though, at least from this quote.

"One of the funny things about thinking up names for fictional characters is that, as soon as you suggest one, it sounds totally unlikely," says Bob, who admits that they dreamt up the names Tom and Barbara Good before finding a title for the series.
"We called the characters Tom and Barbara and thought of the surname afterwards. Then the title became one of those screamingly obvious things, and we wondered why we hadn't thought of it in the first place. But titles are like that."
John and Bob have no idea where the name Leadbetter came from. "I haven't a clue, says John with a shrug, "but it has a certain poshness about it."
"I don't know where that one came from, either," adds Bob. "But the name Margo instantly sounded right for the character and was a good name to say. Jerry, though, was a joke initially. We thought, we've got Tom, so we might as well have Jerry to go with him. But, again, the name seemed to suit."

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I mean, fair play to them, really, if they've decided to open for just a couple of hours and then close again, with the heat warnings coming into effect that morning. They're letting some people who urgently need passports get them.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I'm not sure what length you mean there. The shadow changes slightly between the two, and the photos were posted to Flickr back in 2019. I think someone just timed their photos well.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Good to see. I don't know how you're buiding the feed, but could you have the plain URL instead of the word "link", in the post? It's prompting a cautious popup saying "This link is taking you to the following website:" from Bluesky when clicked, requiring another click to actually visit the link.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Worth reconsidering your use of AI-generated photos in stories, even when the joke seems obvious; it undermines how much people feel they can trust what they're reading. A cartoon would be better. From reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...:

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@markpackuk.bsky.social has a count for 2025 (www.markpack.org.uk/175342/how-m...) and 2026 (www.markpack.org.uk/176783/how-m...). 77 total, so far: including 13 who were suspended, 7 who were expelled, 8 who were suspended *then* expelled, 14 who resigned.

markpack.org.uk

How many councillors has Reform UK lost since the May 2026 elections?

A list of all the Reform local authority councillors elected on or after 7 May 2026 who the party has already shed.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It's a predictable surface with a foundation already in place, I suppose. They say they've got a mechanical train system that installs them directly onto the sleepers at a rate of 1000 a day: sustainabilitymag.com/articles/sol...

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Solar Panels to Be Put on Rail Tracks – But Will They Work?

Swiss start-up Sun-Ways has permission to trial the first removable rail track solar panels. But there is opposition to the project on safety grounds

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The original photo does have a melted AI look in places, the lute below Marilyn Monroe seems to lack strings that are visible in a hi res copy at cliptank.com/PeopleofInfl.... Could be the camera, could be that the Airbnb print was a cheap AI upscale of a copy taken from the web.

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Famous People Painting with Wikipedia Links

Painting of 103 Famous People That Changed the World. Includes Wikipedia links & mouse-over tagging. Chinese art - Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Alternatively: "All work and no play makes Jack a Del Boy."

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"But here's the one that's driving me berserk..."

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It's often the case with these kinds of products that *somebody* genuinely needs them (kids or parents who have trouble bending down or using their hands), but they can reach a wider audience by not making a big deal about it on the packaging.

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

And a piece of gold, no less. "Committee, committee, on the wall, who is the most peaceful of them all?"

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

If you want to get your currently blurry Wikipedia picture up to a Sparkie Williams level, you can also post a selfie to Bluesky with a clear statement that you're CC licencing it. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

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Wikipedia:A picture of you - Wikipedia

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

They could just be writing long headlines with the crucial detail at the end and as many dramatic breakpoints as possible along the way, to work whatever the truncation. "How George W Bush reacted when ... he found ... out ... his granddaughter is ... named ... after ... him"

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Indispensable Cobbler @crossgap.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

nymag.com/intelligence... covered the process last year when it was more of a Facebook phenomenon, and spoke to a Kenyan AI slop spammer who offered classes on how to make money from it: ask ChatGPT what (typically) Americans would engage with on social media, then ask Midjourney to draw it.

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