Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialpriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I know my pal Jen is gonna write an incredible book about Veronica Mars, and you should help her to do that by contributing to her kickstarter and/or sharing 46014
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Skipped the Nazis, huh. 2695547905
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He is not burning cash. He is investing money to shape political discourse and public opinion in line with his ideology and interests. And it's a successful strategy. Also, for a billionaire losing 10 million is like losing 1000 pounds for a middle class person. 111132
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026Here's my exchange with Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee regarding the frequency at which Amazon's smart glasses will capture images while a driver is on foot. 213
cwalshuk.bsky.social @cwalshuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is this Channel 4's Political Editor: @garygibbon.bsky.social ? If so, here's his take on PM @andyburnham.bsky.social Conference speech: www.channel4.com/news/burnham...channel4.comBurnham promises a ‘new path’ for Britain as he address Labour ConferenceSixteen years been waiting to address this conference as leader. Today Andy Burnham - who had his first stab at getting the job in 2010 - finally got to deliver. 000
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 30/09/2026 Is Britain heading back to the EU? The Prime Minister has pledged to explore closer ties with the EU, including rejoining, but as @georgvh.com writes, it could be a risky move. 📩 Read our latest newsletter:channel4news.substack.comIs Britain heading back to the EU?The Prime Minister has pledged to explore closer ties with the EU, including rejoining, but as Georg von Harrach writes, it could be a risky move. 8449
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026Some people say UK should stop building clean energy and should extend its reliance on gas power instead Choosing my words carefully, I would say that it's an interesting time to be making that argument www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis - Carbon BriefThe UK has avoided gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar. 46918
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026The bump in avoided gas import costs in September reflects the latest surge in gas prices, which have climbed to levels not seen since energy crisis in 2022 2019 avg = 35p per therm 2023-2026 (before Hormuz) = 90p 2026 (after Hormuz) = 134p Sep 2026 = 189p (!!) 1295
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided 12521212
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialVaseem Khan @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This picture says a thousand words. Recording a deadly book duel for Joe Haddow @schmotime and BOOK OFF! with Charlie Higson ... I definitely look like the grown up in the room in this pic. Not sure what was just said but there was a horn on the table which someone may have tooted... 041
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialAnoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Latest @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod! @pronouncedalva.bsky.social, @ethangcroft.bsky.social and my on-the-whistle take on Andy Burnham's policy-packed speech to Labour conference:shows.acast.comBurnham delivers packed conference speech | The Politics Show 111
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 30/09/2026Under the current incarnation of the triple lock, State Pension spending accounts for nearly half the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30 ➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6 133
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5D...youtube.comHow Germany's AfD plans to reshape public media | DW NewsYouTube video by DW News 011
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I double-dog dare you @mapquest.com 319511
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 202925543
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Last year’s fires and the recent flooding at the Grand Canyon have been hard on local businesses that rely on tourism. If you’re looking to support those communities, think about planning a visit soon. It’s one of the most special places in the world. 1025039
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio 582578518
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/09/2026"Progressive rhetoric" suggests he really didn't put much research in before he launched this deeply shabby attack. 64611
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'll do a newsletter tomorrow,but here's the first two pages of Alien vs X-men by Geraldo, as I brought back Al's Orbis Stellaris for a couple of pages. 4542
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex... 501071315
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The iPod was unarguably great and useful. But within a few years, a lot of us had started thinking “I quite like actual records” and moved back to them, WITHOUT ANYBODY SCREAMING AT US THAT WE’D DISSED THE FUTURE. I like that we were allowed to decide whether we liked the new thing. That was nice. 4407
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Deciding what was the last good piece of technology, and it’s the iPod, isn’t it? Proposal: an Amish but for 2004. 18514
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialBleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 30/09/2026Saved by the Bell stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, and more honor and remember the late Dennis Haskins, aka Mr. Belding. / #SavedByTheBell #SBTBdlvr.itSaved by the Bell stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, and more honor and remember the late Dennis Haskins, aka Mr. Belding. / #SavedByTheBell #SBTBSaved by the Bell stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen, and more honor and remember Dennis Haskins. 001
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialWarren Frey🇨🇦 @freyburg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So not only is AI going to (somehow) kill us all, but these little scamps will be the ones doing it 121
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialfilmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Keith Wilton - The former BBC film editor who for several decades ran the British Film Collectors’ Conventions in London, and was a key figure within the UK’s film collecting community. 3314
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialfilmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ken Locke - The former chief BBC film editor of film examination and programme acquisitions. Originally from Australia, he was responsible for foreign films being aired on the BBC. 1273
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialfilmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026David Jervis - The electronic and video effects specialist who worked on numerous BBC productions, including Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, and The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 1252
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialfilmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More Private Film Collections Film is Fabulous! continue to accept collections for cataloguing, and missing and rare content has been found. Among the collections to be received are three that belonged to former BBC employees. filmisfabulous.org.ukfilmisfabulous.org.ukFilm is Fabulous | Film Collectors | Cinema | Vintage TelevisionFilm is Fabulous! is a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers and vintage television enthusiasts. Our objective is to advance, educate, and encourage public interest in film within Bri... 24413
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDoug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Age of Trump has not been kind to the image of Americans abroad. 051
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialPop Base @popbase.tv · 30/09/2026TIME Magazine has released their annual list highlighting the World’s Most Influential Rising Stars of 2026. (time.com/collection/t...) 2394
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDavid Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If I wasn’t told that’s supposed to be Greta Garbo I wouldn’t have known 0131
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialAnna is too old for this sh*t. (F*CK AI) @movienut14.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They also made her look like a mix between Madonna and Michelle Pfeiffer (with a dash of Tallulah Bankhead) for some reason. 2151
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On a side note, this will probably come for silent movies at some point. Archives and established collectors will be our defense against grifters with the “rediscovered“ LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. 41285
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“She refused to appear in another film, despite floods of offers right up to her death? Well, she’s in one now anyway! Haha!” Yep, seems about right for a tech that was designed to invite the phrase “whether you like it or not” 223333
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comSKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the futureSwedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI 9700202
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Some people who aren't English.thenewworld.co.ukChurchill, the Beatles, St George: All the English heroes who aren’t actually EnglishSuella Braverman wants you to know that she’s not really English despite having been born in England. Her logic disqualifies some big names… 94510
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialVagrantGuru @vagrantguru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Somehow, I don't find "fuck school, AI will do all your thinking for you...OHHH and also we control what AI tells you" to be a very subtle attempt at an orwellian society. Sort of obviously going to be a problem there. 031
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026FTR this is a pretty obvious reason to be concerned about AI. They’re all owned by propagandists. 213134
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don’t trust Burnham at all - particularly whilst Mahmood remains in post - but he’s clearly a more skilful politician than Starmer. He knows enough to at least throw us a bone, rather than telling us to fuck off, the way Starmer did. 7756
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026✈️ 🇮🇱 🇦🇪 A passenger on a rerouted flydubai flight that was bound for Tel Aviv said one of the pilots tried to crash the plane and kill everyone on board, after both pilots were found to be wounded on landing in Saudi Arabia ➡️ u.afp.com/S98r 055
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026The company says images involving people will be blurred before being seen by Amazon employees, but the cameras will be on when drivers enter backyards etc to drop off packages. Read more (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comAmazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image ProblemComing soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ... 023
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026When not in privacy mode the glasses capture an image at a resolution “equivalent or lower” than the picture you get to prove delivery. Amazon’s executive in charge of the roll out would not say how often a picture is captured. From my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: 111
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026The images are sent back to Amazon to inform its AI-powered logistics systems the company says will speed up delivery and reduce mistakes. One driver I spoke to who has tried the tech called it “dystopian” and questioned whether drivers will use a so-called “privacy mode”. 132
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialDave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026Amazon is ramping up its program to give delivery drivers smart glasses. The device captures still images constantly from the moment the driver leaves his van and walks to your door, potentially thousands per shift. You can’t opt out www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comAmazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image ProblemComing soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ... 41819
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialFairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In "Petropopulism" we explained how the UAE is turning its attention to Reform and the far-right, and how similar UAE meddling in multiple countries has undermined democracy and the rule of law, and led to it fuelling bloody conflict in Libya and a genocide in Sudan. fairsq.org/petropopulis...fairsq.orgPetropopulism: FairSquare publishes new report on UAE links to Reform UK and the far-rightA new report from FairSquare highlights the extensive links between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the UK’s Reform party and the far-right, and calls for the UAE to be added to the “Enhanced Tier”... 085
Reposted by @cwalshuk.bsky.socialFairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In "Easy Cities to Buy" we charted how Tony Blair sold the idea of UAE investment in Manchester and a whole bunch of pliant political leaders welcomed the UAE with open arms, and allowed them to buy up cheap land and buy off criticism fairsq.org/easy-cities-...fairsq.orgLack of civic leadership has enabled Manchester and Newcastle sportswashing projectsFairSquare report provides further evidence of the harms of state ownership of football clubs A new report published today finds that political leaders in Manchester and Newcastle have not only declin... 156
