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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 5h

I have a weird feeling this story is going to simply fade away into background noise

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 6h

As @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social pointed out, if you're buying RNLI Christmas cards I bet Danny would love one to brighten up his cell

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 8h

Whenever i engage with pro Russia folk about how utterly inhumane Russias method of waging war is it’s remarkable how you quickly get to “that’s biased reporting” because there’s literally no justification for doing this

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

tracking the Ring

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 14h

There you have it: the foundation of the first mega corp of the cyberpunk dystopia. None of the the signatories can now be exist without the others. This agreement might as well have been signed in blood.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16h

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 14h

What makes me ask questions here is what kind of life does this guy have? Does he go home & talk to his AI & tell them about his day of other AI users filling his day with content he enjoyed? Does he even look in a mirror?

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15h

Whenever I hear this what I want to see in the headline is: - What was profit last year - what was profit trajectory year on year - what was average non exec pay & what pay rises were there average - what changes were there in investors

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

And like that, last night my 11 year old declared he was no longer a believer in Father Christmas. Long time followers will have known me before I even had a child. Here I am now, a man with a child who has given up one of the myths. Time is cruel. Time is perfect.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve spent a chunk of my evening trying to revive an external hard drive & an apple tv unit. Neither has been a glorious success so far

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesse gave him a single, simple line to read and RFK improvised a full confession while tossing his wife in front of the wheels.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just saw the words “British born and bread people ” in the public domain. Once again. Accidental idiot comedy genius strikes from nowhere.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably shouldn’t have threatened a diesel export ban you fckn geniuses

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I recently pitched (over beers, and to definitely the wrong people) the idea that UK should have its own digital platform/social media. I literally don’t understand why this isn’t a thing. Today billions of pounds goes straight out of UK economy to overseas firms because of this

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would totally fuck the hot air balloon the horny bi- (Rereads) Oh. Oh whatever

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like anyone would read a book on the Royals these days. Should have written a blog.

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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world?

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Johnson is saying the kind of thing that REALLY pisses of voters

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ummm this seems like a very significant thing just to say out loud in public

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Often I think about how the film Elysium got lots of little details of its near future dystopia quite right. Rewatching it the other night I was struck by how cold & direct the wealthy exec class was both to each other & the workers. A direct result of having AI/machine in the middle.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So this thread is a safe space - I am looking for any historical examples of migrant inbound populous replacing local populous. I am talking migration - not colonisation/imperialism. So for example, I don’t think early American settlers count, as that was effectively imperial/colonialism.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You absolutely know the woman used a prompt that said “make it blingier” at some point

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No iPhones, just people smiling & living their lives

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh look good quality journalism makes money

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t believe for a second that Xi didn’t make this Thucydides trap reference fully knowing that Trump wouldn’t begin to understand it. Xi is mocking America & its clown president on camera. America is so cooked

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty sure at this point America is now being operated by private wealth against the world order.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Guardian and I have a very different idea of what constitutes 'cheap'

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of people seem to just be learning that they have literally no recourse to people stealing & reskinning their content online via AI. You never owned it and the platforms are more than happy with the content & engagement

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ The Russian Ministry of Defence is being called out by Russian warbloggers for exaggerating claims about Ukrainian troops being surrounded in 'cauldrons'. Multiple such encirclements simply don't exist, says Russian journalist Yuri Kotenok. ⬇️

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m intrigued: Knowing AI as I do I am trying to fathom how it is “accidentally Probing web infrastructure of the Australian government”

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Milei has exactly the same expression as my doctor when he has to check my balls

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Welcome to the resistance

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Economically, politically & socially America has suffered a coup now.

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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it’s ok if Trump wants to construct a fire trap for himself & his closest advisors & clingers.

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Listen, instead of using kids for county lines they should use retired people who like hiking; they can cross boundaries on foot; they carry backpacks; they fear nothing x

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A man assaulted a woman with a metal pole. Another man knifed a dingy with an RNLI member in it. We are just counting down the days until someone gets killed right?

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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