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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 5h

Who knew there were so many definitions of standard temperature and pressure?

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 9h

the S in CCUS stands for Simon

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 27/09/2026

And why have they clearly used a reference of Ned Stark? A. It should be Robb Stark: Ned was never King in the North. B. Do the Labour Party remember what happened when Ned Stark left his northern stronghold to take up a political position in the capital?

an image of Sean Bean as Ned Stark with a big sword pointed down

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can a dog be shot and killed by a finger gun? It can at least act like it was

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ben Wishaw can act like he's a talking fucking bear from Peru doesn't mean he is one.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 26/09/2026

He's great at singing Bruce Springsteen songs

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 26/09/2026

We've also made a bread dough, churned our own butter and replaced five light switches and a socket.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 26/09/2026

The movie theme is American songwriters who aren't great singers: Dylan and Springsteen.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 26/09/2026

We are camping out in the living room for the weekend, sleeping on the sofa bed just for the hell of it. Snacks, music biopics, booze and fregola. A good time.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.com

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 25/09/2026

Actually extend that north to Inverness as well

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 25/09/2026

The Auld Alliance Eurostar - trains from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Paris, no stops in England.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 23/09/2026

Tonight's dinner. Roast chicken thigh (crispy skin), turnip & potato dauphinoise, and courgette medallions. Great stuff.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 22/09/2026

Registered today, starting in November. It's all very exciting getting back on the education train again. I did alright last time and this module is about what I've been doing professionally for the last 12 years so I should be ok.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 21/09/2026

Secured the employer funding for another OU module which will take me halfway to the MSc!

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

In a lot of these spreadsheet-job scenarios is AI providing a sort of (inefficient, unreliable, ethically unacceptable) swiss army knife that papers over poor tooling and generally shitty labor conditions. If a task is empty drudgery why isn't it amenable to normal automation?

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 21/09/2026

Overheard a chap on the phone in the street: "aye it's a bug, it's a beastie. It came oot ma arse an' I'll have tae get anither CAT scan"

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 18/09/2026

This government is unfamiliar with the concept of positive feedback loops

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vision science: The difference between Rod Stewart and Cone Stewart finally clarified

Two photos of the singer Rod Stewart, left: B/W labelled Rod Stewart; right: color, labelled Cone Stewart

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 17/09/2026

You will never guess where this message is from

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 17/09/2026

Knowing me, knowing yo-Oprah Winfrey

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 17/09/2026

Don't forget to mention Yud's background in rationalist H***y P****r fanfic. The weirdest and worst timeline.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 16/09/2026

🫸 Jack Reacher 👉 Jacked creature

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 15/09/2026

Rush lyrics for today: If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 15/09/2026

Can recommend. Migrating over from Chrome was pretty simple, and because it's built on the same open-source engine as Chrome all your extensions will still work. Desktop and Android versions are both excellent.

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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 15/09/2026

Hello there, may I interest you in switching to a European web browser that has: ❌ Zero AI slop. ❌ Zero tracking. ❌ Zero external investors. 🤩 Endless ways to customize your setup. 🤩 Tons of powerful features. Oh, and it's an employee-owned alternative to the Big Tech giants. Welcome over!

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No two lights you can see at once get the same rhythm. The flash is the name: count the seconds and you know which headland it is. Every charted light on Scotland's coast, on its real cycle. 89 sweep, the rest blink in place. Data: @openstreetmap.org + NGA List of Lights #maps #dataviz

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

Just trying a new marketing trick

a picture of a wind farm that says

WIND POWER

Crossed out: It generates clean energy, lowers your power bills and gives back to your community

instead (in larger not crossed out) There’s a 10% chance it will kill off the entire human species in just a few years!!

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 10/09/2026

This does not surprise me

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026

I really struggle to find any organised group or prominent skeptic or critic of generative AI who just sort of bluntly blurts out that it "doesn't work" Pretty much all of them take the nuanced view that it tends to corrode or erode capability, and what "work" actually means depends on many things

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Danny Fraser @danny.scot · 09/09/2026

She's entering her Gadsby era

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

It started with the political press being stenographers for government, now tech and business press are stenographers for the tech industry We don't have to take their claims at face value! We can evaluate things people say!

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