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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 14h

Hounslow to Hendon directly on the Overground? It could be happening - but we need to hear from you first. Tell us what you think about the proposed West London Orbital plans before 18 November. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/west-london-...

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 27/09/2026

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the fucking sun.

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 27/09/2026

Turns out most of Shakespeare can be improved with a liberal sprinkling of "fucks."

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 25/09/2026

Fun! (Just got 0, twice in a row...) If you recreated this with genAI faces, genAI names and genAI constituencies, and rigged it so every guess is correct, how long would people click for? "I got 798 MPs in row!"

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We have a new paper on AI debunking that includes a bunch of interesting data on various "epistemically suspect beliefs". Check it out!

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Since the Reform donations I keep thinking about charity appeals and how they're delighted to have raised a few thousand pounds. Okay, not my most original thought but the good billionaires could do if they actually wanted to is blowing my mind.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm excited to share this article about a project I've been working on with fantastic collaborators. Check out the dashboard for yourself here: llmelectionobservatory.org www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...

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Election LLM Observatory

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Toilet Instructions

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 10/09/2026

Maybe we remove bishops from the second chamber at the same time...

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 09/09/2026

New piece: The AfD are the biggest winners of the EU's political advertising regulation. whotargets.me/en/the-afd-a...

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The AfD are the biggest winners of the EU’s political ad regulation – Who Targets Me

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 07/09/2026

Technically correct, which is of course the best kind of correct...

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 05/09/2026

Videos with thousands of shares online have claimed that the devastating Nepal-Tibet border flooding was “a hoax”. There’s masses of evidence this isn’t the case.

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No, the Nepal flash flood was not a hoax – Full Fact

Online posts falsely claim the Nepal flood was a hoax because early reports repeatedly cited the number 33.

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 04/09/2026

First 30 secs: "This is hilarious!" Next 3 mins: "This is terrifying!"

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 31/08/2026

I had just set up my dial-up modem at home for the first time, so I got the news from the CompuServe news portal. #niche

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 24/08/2026

Thank you! I had no idea: De Vries, B. (2024). Should Men Vacuum More? Public Affairs Quarterly 38(3): 196–212. doi.org/10.5406/2152... I can only assume his partner once asked him to run a hoover over the carpet and instead he wrote a 17 page essay summarised as "But I don't want to!" Twat.

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Should Men Vacuum More?

Abstract. Cross-national surveys show that among heterosexual couples who share a household, women tend to perform more housework than their male partners. Many feminists believe that this must be unj...

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 24/08/2026

"Are women evolved to hoover?" is such a great summary of a certain kind of EvoPsych fan. Love it!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 21/08/2026

It's either true or a really beautiful short story. Don't really care which!

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was on a date with a very nice looking guy. He was mean and nasty to the nerdy waiter who was serving us, obviously thinking it would make me laugh or something. I didn't laugh. I dumped him at the table and ghosted him. Been married to that nice, nerdy waiter for 6 years now.

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 12/08/2026

www.maptap.gg August 12 0🤮 4😭 3🤮 1🤮 5😭 Final score: -493 Thought I'd try to a MapTap variant by doing as badly as possible. Pleased with my first go as an antipodean hunter!

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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game

Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 05/08/2026

And I see that even during a natural catastrophe of historic proportions, the British Empire managed to make things so much worse for so many people

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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 03/08/2026

I did it! I strangled the horse! Feel a bit sad now :(

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 03/08/2026

Especially given that that's an AI-generated "library" www.magnific.com/premium-ai-i...

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Your Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... Have fun at work, and if you can, make someone's day.

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

hello everyone, I made this helpful meme to explain how to read scientific papers

Vince McMahon reaction meme but its in reverse order from most to least excited and the text to the left of the Vince McMahon faces says title abstract introduction methods results discussion

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 30/07/2026

Bold move putting Ivory Coast that far inland...

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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David J. Bianco @davidjbianco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

HuggingFace got hacked by an AI. What stuck out to me was the guardrail asymmetry. The attacker had no constraints, but HF's response ran afoul of the abuse guardrails, forcing them into an unplanned switch to local models. Another aspect for your IR plans. huggingface.co/blog/securit...

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 15/07/2026

Blimey! Is that an omen for the other match? And if so, is England more Somerset or Yorkshire?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/07/2026

right, so - in this summer's Prospect cover feature! I spoke both to young people and to the people who study them about the many ways in which new generations have got shafted, how they feel about it all, and what should happen next: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/741...

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 14/07/2026

"MIND YOUR H"? (Seems unlikely...)

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 14/07/2026

Just signed up! I'm in the middle of reading Villager (borrowed from the library) and am loving it!

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 12/07/2026

Wonderful news! And a great thread for cat-havers!

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 06/07/2026

Photos or it didn't hap... No, scratch that on second thoughts.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

❗ Final day! We submit today. One final push – we're at 167 signatures, and would LOVE to break through the 200 signature before we send this in 🗃️ Please share, and urge alumni to share with other alumni – alumni can only express their concern if they know the petition exists

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 26/06/2026

Covering recent elections in England, Wales and Scotland, we found AI imagery is no longer hypothetical: it's here, and it's throwing up fresh challenges. But we've also been using AI in new ways to fight back. Our editor Steve Nowottny wrote about how for @niemanlab.org 👇

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Full Fact is battling AI-generated elections content with AI tools of its own

AI imagery is no longer a hypothetical factor, but at the same time, we've been able to use AI in new ways ourselves to confront the challenge.

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 25/06/2026

Just made my worst-ever guess at MapTapping! maptap.gg My sleep-deprived brain mixed up "Togo" with Tonga" and my click was out by 18,609km. The Earth's circumference is c.40k km so presumably the worse possible guess would be out by 20k. Maybe next time...

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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game

Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 22/06/2026

Curse^H^H^H^H^H Thank you and your ridiculously addictive game!

Me ending with a high score on Lettteris

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 22/06/2026

Ooh, I know this one! maptap.gg

Tap as close as you can to London, England, United Kingdom from maptap.gg

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Dr David Corney @dcorney.com · 20/06/2026

Ah yes, one of the next-gen bio-realistic muppets.

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