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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 21h

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This isn't limited to creative / intellectual work, either. There are plenty real-world products and services that are becoming progressively shitter as a consequence of profit seeking. Many execs seemingly cannot imagine being a user of the services they preside over.

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 07/09/2025

The famous sociologist slash rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke once posited that self-help book fill a function by making you feel like you are doing the thing, without necessarily leading to you actually doing the thing. I sense that this notion, formulated in the 60s, might be relevant again

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's funny, Central Hall has played out the dramatic shifts in power across the tech industry over the last 15 years, but in microcosm. When I started, Sony's booth was preposterous in size, scale and the breadth of the products on show.

engadget.com

Sony is skipping CES in 2027 as it focuses more on entertainment - Engadget

End of an era.

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Tally Ho! The Improvised War Movie @tallyhopodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The Pour Escape' drops at midnight, so make sure you're all subscribed ready! And you can catch up on the first four while you're waiting.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I normally love [REDACTED], who can engage me even in subjects I have negative levels of interest in. But I can't get over the whiplash of them ranting about their Lyft driver turning down an uneconomic fare inbetween rants about companies underpaying their workers.

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyone's a winner. #SNLUK

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/09/2026

do they maybe need someone to play guitar and also shoot fire on top of a truck while being held aloft by some sort of bungee cord, asking for a friend

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Meepy 👻 @floweroflondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nash and/or Fouracres in every sketch. As the good lord intended. *glares at last week* #snluk

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#SNLUK “Those aren’t shorts, they’re trousers on suicide watch!” is now a thing we all say.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Astounding to me any rock critic ever thought this album was bad. We could've had at least another decade of stuff like this if they didn't fuck with Rivers' head by hunting around for a single. Anyways it's not possible to find a riskier guitar solo on a pop record than the one in The Good Life.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' books are overlong, tedious, badly-plotted, badly-structured and are obsessed with minutae. The fact that Sky is adapting it into a TV series baffles me. There are better books to adapt that haven't been adapted twice already!

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll be polishing my brass hand in mourning. Thank you, for all the laughs. And for permanently destroying my ability to not want to bellow TAKE OFF YOUR STRIDES at random moments.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's Carnivale, quite likely the fourth greatest television show ever made.

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Tally Ho! The Improvised War Movie @tallyhopodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's a dispatch from Australia, and what regular Australians were up to during the 1940s. When they weren't being held prisoner in a bier keller cellar, of course. Tally Ho!: The Pour Escape, coming September 29, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I. Fucking. Told. You. All. Years. Ago.

NME headline: "Muse explain handing over social media handles to Meta AI and conversations with Mark Zuckerberg."
Sub: 'He's alright, he's not too bad,' frontman Matt Bellamy said of the CEO.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And what, pray tell, would a data centre need 2,100 people for? What will they be doing on a day to day basis? (Article is paywalled so I have no idea if the story even addresses such a basic question, or if it's just mindlessly repeating a promise.)

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The live audience may cheer for Jack and Ania louder, but the live Reddit thread (and now several splinter threads) is just a tidal wave of people demanding justice for Fouracres.

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

RIOT! #SNLUK

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Someone hug George, and stop making him hide at the back of the crowd. Just once this series, please. #SNLUK

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@ajred.bsky.social Looks like we’re heading for a fuck’s sake tonight.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"No, it did not break into your home, steal your money and then lie about it. It merely engaged in a concerning behaviour we didn't expect. After all, if it was breaching things, that would be a criminal act, ha, ha, but, ha, no, to be serious we did nothing wrong."

engadget.com

OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing - Engadget

OpenAI says it doesn’t believe the industry has solved its problems ‘to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.’

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come on SNL UK, put the Gregor J. DuPont sketch up, I need to send it to everyone I know.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Went to see Henry Paker’s ‘Pencil Case’ last night and it was utterly magnificent. To even talk about a single part of it would ruin the show.

The stage at the end of Henry Paker’s ‘Pencil Case.’

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If it was that dangerous, they'd just turn it off.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pasted a John Berger quote into Google, just to see. Gemini assured me it was from Downtown Abbey.

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Tally Ho! The Improvised War Movie @tallyhopodcast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Set your calendars for... The Wrongest Day. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let's check the first Fouracres-O-Meter of Season 2! #SNLUK

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a typical 'blue' Labour's mistake. Labelling moderate people as insufferable, top knotted, sourdough starter making, lactose intolerant fruitarians, when in fact their stated views on international policy, welfare, education and transport are very aligned with core Labour values

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The proposal would cost $1.2 trillion and raise ethical concerns? Well, I'd be shocked if it went ahead, because they've been so scrup *blowdart noise*

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Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So scary when you reach the end of an LRB article and there's still room to scroll which means someone wrote a Letter about it

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The review embargo for a certain prestige spy fy show is up. I am staggered at how positive it is. Actually staggered.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alas, I cannot find a GIF of Jeff Winger snapping the pencil, so here's the whole scene... www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGae...

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I Hereby Pronounce Us A Community | Community

YouTube video by Community

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The RNLI’s volunteers head out in any conditions. They don’t question who. They save strangers at sea. People, helping people. Your Christmas shop can help support people who’ll drop everything to save people. shop.rnli.org

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RNLI Shop | Lifesaving Gifts

We have the perfect lifesaving gifts for you and your crew. Order them online at shop.RNLI.org and help us to save lives for another 200 years.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is so much to say here about the failure of journalism, the complete degradation of the industry, the complete lack of any sort of moral mission or purpose, and in fact, a suspicion toward anyone in the business who does believe in anything larger than themselves and their bosses.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The academics who did treat this will intellectual curiosity and rigour have been routinely defunded, mocked and pushed out of public life, leaving the task up to a dwindling number of journalists who care more about the theatricality of parliament and what they see on their own twitter feeds

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think a lot of politicians really just don’t want to be yelled at and as the recent event with Dr Arday has shown, when the media wants to be brutal and relentless it will do so, even if lives are lost as. Result. The failure of Leveson means they’ll continue to get away with it

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Imagine becoming a professor of divinity at a school of divinity and then forgetting Romans 13:1.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, you know what they say... ... to Orr is human.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That 'East of Eden' trailer, eh? Bloody hell.

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I always wondered who took this picture.

An old canon advertisement featuring Godzilla using a printer. Godzilla is standing over a large printer with a handful of paper. There is Japanese text and the title Canon NEW BELPIA.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tell me you know the lingo but have never been around people who actually use it, without telling me you know the lingo but have never been around people who actually use it...

Janan Ganesh using the phrase "What a weekend of Barclays."

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Almost as if weaponsing an algorithm to make slop that plays well in the moment (to an uncritical viewer) but is otherwise utterly anonymous doesn't build you an actual audience, or an enduring following.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m tremendously excited to see this one go out. It felt like we stepped up our game a lot, and found some key planks for the format going forward.

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