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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.

A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever since I was a little boy, I always wanted to begin Monday mornings by double factor authenticating on my smart phone to enable me to use a Word processor

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Can we all just remember when Farage starts whining ‘everyone is out to get me’ that Jo Cox was murdered immediately after he unveiled his breaking point poster & he has caused more division, more hurt & more national harm than any other politician in the last few decades.

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Dave @davetheginge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Mad to me that England are in an actual World Cup Final at Lord's today and dweebs are going on about the Formula 1

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's a thing. The Oval was packed tonight for the women's T20 World Cup semifinal. Pretty much nobody is covering it - the football world cup, the Stokes debacle, Wimbledon, they're all taking up the space. But still. The ground was totally full. That tells you everything about the state of it.

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Mint Royale @mint-royale.com · 03/07/2026

Everyone catching up on Portugal Croatia

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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

imagine belting out that u love being under the boot of ppl who will never give a shit about u & want it to continue forever. fucking loser shit

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Forget Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten this is the best ever moment in Dutch football.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...

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Nigel Farage is a dangerous demagogue—here’s how to stop him

The Reform leader and his media cheerleaders have cynically exploited the murder of Henry Nowak.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Recently got caught pocketing 5 million quid? Better start a race riot!

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I see Simon Heffer, in Michael Gove's Spectator, is once again repeating his lie that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech wasn't about race.. I debated Heffer recently (at the Oxford Litfest) - here's what I said. archive.ph/bqKZF

So, that’s the economics. But let me address the topic directly. No doubt Simon Heffer will argue that, like his hero Enoch Powell, he is raising “legitimate concerns”. Simon has written that Powell’s predictions were remarkably accurate, and that those who, like me, describe him and his acolytes as racist are deliberately lying. He has also said that Powell’s famous Rivers of Blood speech should be taught in schools, since it is so rarely quoted accurately. So I will quote it accurately

“Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. “Racialist,” they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong?”
So 3 points here.
First, none of Powell’s classical allusions later in the speech can conceal the gutter-level racism here. And let’s not hear any crap about “everyone spoke like that then”. No they didn’t which is why mainstream politicians of both parties instantly recognised the speech as unacceptable racism
Second, Powell is obviously lying. “They cannot speak English”? Seriously? Black kids whose parents were from the Carribbean?
Third, and most important, this gives the lie to Simon’s repeated claims the speech isn’t about race or racist. The direct target of the speech is the Race Relations Bill. This was not about immigration, obviously; it made it illegal to discriminate on grounds of race in employment or housing.

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Dave @davetheginge.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Singer tweets about one of the pretenders. (3, 9) #cryptic #crossword #crosswordclue UK-centric sorry

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In the way that if your car broke down in the middle of the woods at night the best option is to simply allow yourself to be killed by the local Leatherface type character

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J @konstanho.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Football has the greatest moment of joy on tap - celebrating a goal - and they chuck it in the bin and swapped it for VAR, to chase a perfection that nobody can agree on.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For instance, instead of writing π or 3.14, one can now elegantly write E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1, …

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Road race: pope mobile vs golf cart, each driver is allowed one gun, no reloads

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

speak loudly and carry a small dick

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A friend took her toddler to our local church messy play and they made Easter biscuits that included small Jesus figurines. The prominent JESUS IS NOT EDIBLE sign over the craft table unintentionally kicking off the next Christian schism.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Reposted with ALT cos its funny . How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:

The second doctor who pictured on a news article mentionning the arrest of a second doctor in a FGM case

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

A Telegraph headline that reads "There's a reason young people like me hate the NHS", by Joanna Marchong

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Dez Fenton @butisitart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

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Bryan Ferrsky Skinner 𓅃 @clockdivider.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

No, it's not an AI error. It's an error made by the person who decided to use AI for targeting. It's an error that should be punished, harshly. By a vigilante mob if necessary. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The political and media voices calling for the government to instantly and unquestioningly get behind Donald Trump’s plan-free war are increasingly out of step with UK public sentiment, it seems.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

US and Israeli strikes on Iran are hugely dangerous: irresponsible, provocative and illegal. Starmer must call out these so-called ‘allies’ - who are acting as rogue states - and use all UK levers to uphold international law.

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Dave @davetheginge.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank you Gorton and Denton 💚

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this

Drawing of a duck looking at a flier for curling lessons

That same duck on a podium winning first prize with a medal and crown

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Dave @davetheginge.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

QTP with a sequel that really hits

A red BMW M3 is surrounded by 90s stereotypes. There is a Supercars II sign in the background. Thankfully, the Cats Against The Bomb campaigner is nowhere to be seen.

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Dan @danofthewibble.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Horrific local story; building in Shrewsbury used as Scrooge’s house in the 1984 Christmas Carol severely fire damaged, with its owner losing her life. Daughter now needs to crowdfund to restore it. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-t…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Dim twat, goon up for Reform? (4,7)

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In the light of recent political confusion about the identities of Iceland and Greenland, we feel the need to post again this map of our local geography.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/01/2026

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 02/01/2026

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/12/2025

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

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Dave @davetheginge.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My boy. Lost him this week after 18 priceless years. Thanks Len. #caturday

The cutest little ginger kitten looks alarmed at the picture taker as he is being reassured by a ginger man pulling a very stupid face

An older Len enjoying a morning chill in a yellow dog bed he coopted from the dogs. He has enjoyed the underfloor heating greatly since I put it in

Ruby the brown cocker spaniel politely waits her turn as the boss man Len enjoys a bowl of tuna.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Again... we need a taxonomy which separates Machine Learning, and data matching, to GenAI from LLMs pattern matching. The two have very different parameters, and outcomes. Conflating them harms the former, and whitewashes the latter.

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