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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had some road signs made to reflect the new average age of UK terror suspects under a Labour government

Photo of a UK red triangle road sign warning about elderly people with a supplementary sign beneath it that says "Terrorists"

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 04/10/2026

So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations

A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.

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David Hardman @davidkhardman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An excellent letter in the Financial Times about the myth of British ‘resilience’.

The photograph shows a letter in the Financial Times, which points out that the supportive social structures of previous generations have been dismantled.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eh, what now? This is awful. This is unacceptable and goes against UKRI policy, which clearly states: "Assessors...must not use generative AI tools as part of their assessment activities except for language refinement purposes".

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

10 mins apart lol

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Leah McElrath @handle.invalid · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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@vOxium
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sorry, but… 😂😂😂

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/09/2026

woman currently using the cafe's toilet as a cubicle to take a work call from (??) is an exciting new frontier in the "have people forgotten how to behave in the world" discourse we've been having here lately

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 16/09/2026

RECRUITMENT TIP: Make your vacancy more appealing by listing the salary based on a 1,725 working-day year.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 08/09/2026

Two things: one, no, it won't, because cancer isn't one disease with a single cure that's just waiting to be found, and two, why is the economics editor writing about tech, and indeed health research, when he clearly knows fuck all about either subject? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's a good job Dan Jukes and James Orr didn't overclaim a tenner on Universal Credit, because they'd really have been in trouble then

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's a good job the balaclava-clad fascists who closed down Britain's biggest port aren't peacenik grannies holding placards, because they'd be facing terrorism charges then

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026

Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Waymo robots got stuck again & in both directions & w another one going the wrong way at: Venetian Causeway East Bridge, Miami Looks like a Waymo defect trifecta: - traffic light - cascading failure - wrong way If none can handle it, when one goes around it stops/fails. OP: tiktok.vehiculeracing

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David Hardman @davidkhardman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

‘Coyote vs Acme’ is very funny. But some lines seem quite pointed in the age of Big Tech. There are comments about regulatory capture (‘We wrote the law!’) and about the world’s largest corporation (Acme) releasing products before they’ve been properly tested. youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM?...

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Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

No one can complain about equality and diversity when a credible candidate for World's Most Incapable Man is filthy rich and the President of The United States. Literally fuck the fuck off with this bullshit. Every journalist who entertains the idea E&D is up for debate is quite frankly, a cunt

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James Fallows @handle.invalid · 17/08/2026

For context: Fifteen years ago, Elon Musk told me at a public forum he was "highly confident" that SpaceX would be sending manned flights to Mars within 15 years.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No thanks Google

• No sooner than September 21, 2026: The new configuration goes into effect for all users.
• Auto-enablement rules:
When a user creates a meeting in Google Calendar with a Google Meet conference and adds the third participant (including the organizer), the "Take notes for me" feature and the transcription will be automatically pre-enabled.
The first time this occurs, Google Calendar displays an explanatory callout.

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Smooth Dunk @handle.invalid · 16/08/2026

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
British Journalists are relaxing on lilos in the sea. Someone on the shore yells “Hey Guys! An academic got accused of plagiarism”

Panel 2:
One of the journalists sticks out their tongue and says “Pffft. Wake me when there’s a real story”

Panel 3:
Person on shore “He was black”

Panel 4:
The sea explodes as a tidal wave of British Journalists erupt into the air, manic and desperate to report on this now vital for some reason piece of news

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I always listen to these two. Brian"hammers up" Merchant, and Ed "the king has no clothes" Zitron.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026

Israeli settlers seized the water supply from a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank earlier this summer, preventing Palestinian farmers from growing crops in order to fill a swimming pool.

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Israeli Settlers Cut Off Palestinian Farmers’ Water to Fill a Swimming Pool

Marketed as a tourist site for Israelis only, the pool has the explicit backing of the Israeli government.

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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The suicide of Jason Arday should lead to a major investigation of the role of the media

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow. Just wow.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The tech that young ppl generally embrace is stuff that helps them rebel, allows greater self-expressivity, creates a shared generational vernacular. AI ain't it. In fact AI corrals new thinking into stale, billionaire-owned algorithmic patterns that are the opposite. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry

Gen Z is increasingly skeptical about AI, according to a new survey, because of its perceived negative impact on humanity.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Whenever I express a passably interesting thought or write a sentence with an interesting structure, Google docs puts a blue line under it & starts complaining. I'm starting to consider those error lines proof that I'm saying something worthwhile. If the document looks clean I've probably fucked up.

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rosie Duffield and co.

The know the rules meme with rod liddle saying: I want to shag children and I beat my wife to a blode woman who says "Aw, you're sweet."

Bottom panel is a trans flag saying "please can we exist?"

blonde woman says: hello, human resources

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Rich Neville @handle.invalid · 03/08/2026

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.

Dumbass CEO of Anthropic thinks people should work for the "corporate mission" over survival.

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David Hardman @davidkhardman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Inevitable discussion of #RodLiddle on #R4Today. You can be as hurtful and scummy as you like, but the Beeb will gush about you if you “write well”.

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David Hardman @davidkhardman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Only Connect - supposedly one of #BBC TV’s brainier quiz shows, BUT Chemical ‘cymbals’???!!! 🤣

A snapshot of the TV quiz Only Connect, with a glaring typo.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I take no pleasure in Rod Liddle’s demise - however, neither will I mourn the loss of a man that said this 👇

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David Hardman @davidkhardman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Various media people be like: ‘He was a terrible hateful bigot, but he was kind and funny so we all loved him’. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

theguardian.com

Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66

Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The pedophile president has an actual pedophile army

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God @thegodshow.com · 01/08/2026

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David Hardman @davidkhardman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Because I lingered too long on a particular #Facebook post, my timeline is filling up with insane US right wingers accusing Dr Anthony #Fauci of killing millions of Americans over many decades. Their ignorance and hate is terrifying, & I fear for Fauci’s life in the face of this medieval lynch mob.

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