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David Robson

@davidotley.bsky.social
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Hike, bike, bothy, belay, veg, politics, Can, Mekons, community, film, gigs. “I have moments”.

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
Vlad the Blackmailer?
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
Apparently Tech companies feel confident about their ability to stop us being rude to their AI computer programs, but can’t quite manage to stop racism, homophobia and sexual hate and objectification when it’s mere human beings on the receiving end. Odd that. cybernews.com/ai-news/anth...
cybernews.com
Anthropic Claude abuse policy lets Claude push back
Anthropic Claude abuse policy lets Claude end extreme, repeated cruelty while exempting research and testing. Read what the rule changes
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
Snap!!
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
Shocked by her appearance. Shocked! Totally shocked!!
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
Those are SOME fingernails!!!
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
Shhhh! It spoils the narrative!!!!
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
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Cartoon Character's Crazy Gesture
ALT: Cartoon Character's Crazy Gesture
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 3h
So the USA is now hoping to fund the war on Ukraine. Just as soon as that non-existent exportable Russian oil is pumped from its burning refineries and evades the Ukrainian tanker drones and makes its way across the ocean, where it will satisfy US needs for a week or two. He’s bonkers.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 4h
Spencer Pratt has a name.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 4h
Be more Mekons: Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Be more Jagger? How BBC’s Matt Brittin could follow up Elvis appeal to staff
Director general called for ‘a little less conversation, a little more action’ – but from what other songs could he have drawn inspiration?
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 5h
The live streaming viewers will leave an online digital geographical footprint. That’ll be interesting.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 5h
Yes but think of the sound bite!!! (As used by all major news outlets): “You will be able to pass on the family home (*) to your children” * insert “which you have worked hard for all your life” here if space.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 5h
Half Man Half Basketcase has a certain ring to it.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Looks like ISIS won.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Interesting to look at a list of the people that the Trump cabal think should have been able to avoid being held to account by an organisation like the ICC. Kind of makes sense … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org
List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court - Wikipedia
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Yeah sorry - ‘even more of a laughing stock’.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Don’t they exist in large parts of the south and most of Wales?? Or do they just say “path” or something else banal?
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Well that’s not a bad first reaction from the EU. This is clearly a case where the FAFO principle should operate - except that after the US has FA, the EU should tell it very clearly to FO(ff).
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
How to turn your country into a laughing stock. 😞
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Aww - is someone throwing his toys out of his cot in a tiny tears tantrum? Don’t worry Donny boy - the ICC will be there for you when all this is over.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Indeed … bsky.app/profile/davi...
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
What a mess - by proscribing a group when they are clearly not what any reasonable person would see as falling within the scope of the terrorism law - rather than just charging its members under other existing laws - the government has painted itself into a corner of perpetual over-reach.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 6h
Blimey - must have been quite a party! 🤢 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faced £1.8m repair bill after leaving Royal Lodge
Ex-prince was granted £302,000 in compensation for early end of lease and king has reportedly contributed to costs
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 9h
We frequently hear about the financial cost of ‘Net Zero’ but almost never about the financial cost of ‘Not Zero’ (which will be far far far far higher). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 10h
Remembering, of course, that Otley (never mind Otley & Yeadon) is also “a council area which contains more or less every type of British electoral tendency that there is”. And then there’s my street!!!!!
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 10h
Can Science Magazine write articles based on science? There is evidence that they have done this in the past.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
I don’t think it’s a mistake. It’s a deliberate concatenation.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
Hollow man.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
Not buried - in the sub-head.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
They do highlight his use of ‘mob rule’ as an attack dog, and put Palantir’s readiness to work with Reform on immigration right at the top of the article. I think we can draw our own conclusions.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
I think Happy Toast (of this parish) has nailed it. Take a look.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
Poor chap. I wonder what happened to him.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
The more we all know about the devious methodologies of the Matt Goodwins (et al) of the world - the better. Emma delivers again.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14h
Ouroboros.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 15h
Ofcom reviewed their own guidelines after court judgements and are still failing to enforce what they say they will enforce. The key word is that ‘exceptional’ editorial justification allows a politician to present news. A regular show is not exceptional. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
ofcom.org.uk
Ofcom updates guidance around politicians presenting news
Ofcom has issued new guidance to broadcasters about politicians presenting news, following our consultation on this issue.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AI / SI. I'm the same with 'less' instead of 'fewer'. But I don't bang on about it like a mad president would.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Is his voice breaking?
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Peristalsis.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Live feed from Ofcom offices ...
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/book...
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Super Twat.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Is JD Vance planning to publish The J D Vance Dictionary any time soon. It would make a great Funny Book to buy as a Christmas stocking filler.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Run away. Run away". Be a chump. Vote for Trump. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-at...
cbsnews.com
"They hit us bad": Newly obtained footage, witness accounts detail Iran attack, and U.S. retreat, at major post in Kuwait
CBS News obtained new video from a person on the ground showing an Iranian attack on a U.S. base at the beginning of the war.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Maybe Super Power should be renamed Artificial Power.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If only the wheels of British justice were as friction free and speedy for the likes of Andrew Malkinson, Subpostmasters, the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, Sally Clarke, Spycops victims and all the others (evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/miscarriages...). One wonders what the difference is.
theguardian.com
Search warrants used in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor raids were unlawful, court rules
Judge makes ruling after former prince brought judicial review of operation linked to Jeffrey Epstein investigation
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’ll both have to expend all of our combined brain power to figure that one out! 🤔😉
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The will.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You’re right of course. We need a massive social housing building programme. The housing inheritance angle is far more a tax thing than a housing thing.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Funky? Try these Can tracks … Moonshake I’m so Green Vitamin C And of course the full 18 minute Halleluwah.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kudos to Pearl & Dean, and Bauer Media Audio, for donating free advertising space for the MRF campaign. 👏 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Molly Russell’s father to tell UK cinemagoers: ‘Instagram helped kill my daughter’
In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14
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