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Dom Forbes

@domforbes.bsky.social
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Designs book covers, plays records, cycles, runs, lifts, yogas etc Northerner near Bath. www.mixcloud.com/dominicforbes www.dominicforbes.co.uk

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
You know what moved public opinion on Palestine? Daily bombing being seen on TV. You know what didn’t? Palestine Action twatting about.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It’s important to never forget Russia has a GDP smaller than Italy. Just Germany and the UK together have a population as big as Russia. Add the rest of Europe? We dwarf it. Putin’s entire strategy has always been to divide & peel off bits of Europe… but a Europe that sticks together? No chance.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Designer in-joke. Love to see it.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Happy Birthday! Yes, great times!
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's more than double what it should be for the area. Someone's messed up badly thinking they could profit from building a house in their driveway and overspent on the build? Probably though they could manage without an architect too going by the atrocious layout.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Black Sjuan – Afros in the Dark Diephuis & Easter – Balearic Heaven Dele Sosimi, Armonica – Turbulent Times (Armonica remix) Samrai – Khadi (JTC mix) Kinsfiso feat Mbuso Khoza – Ilanga ( Manoo remix) Sue Avenue – Hermeto Daniel Rateuke – Marimbo
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Alex Zuiev – Afro Magic Art of Tones – Reprise de Fonk DJ Fudge, Phil D – Inkomo Zikababa Cerrone – African Voodoo Silvano del Gado – Tribal Train Lauolu & Mr Raoul K feat. Ahmed Sosso – Djougou Yah
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
October's Deep Excursions show for Venn Radio is now up on their Soundcloud. An archive mix this month. Some Afro House vibes from 2019. #deepexcursions #afrohouse #marimbarhythms soundcloud.com/venn-radio/d...
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Deep Excursions with Dom Forbes - 10 October 2026(1)
Hull born and bred, Dom Forbes has always loved listening to and sharing music, from recording the charts as a kid to making mixtapes. He moved to London in the late 90s and started DJing in 2001 afte
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Looking forward to listening to this and rewinding to being 17 again!
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
👀 Best use I've seen of it was on the Hobo Stage at Shindig festival. Literally said HOBO STAGE in Hobo. 😍
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You're doing a PhD on Beltram studies? ⚡️
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The whiff of grift no doubt.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
See vinyl records. Used to be ace browsing through the chazza, taking a punt on things for £1. Anything good goes on Discogs now and they're left trying to sell a scratched Val Doonican album for £20.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's for your truckers.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Last night the BBC’s Newsnight booked the former spokesperson to a war criminal to call UK PM Andy Burnham a liar about Russian interference in the Brexit vote: Putin mouthpiece Sergei Markov. What was he supposed to say? Yeah, hands up, you got us.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And lots of women read eg: Lee Child type stuff too. This old-fashioned gender norm stuff is so tired. Although in the past some female authors had gender neutral nom de plumes just in case it put off male readers.
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Lumpia Nyong'o @creolebabybritt.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You mean they haven't thought it through properly? Just blue-skied something for headlines that might sound appealing to potential voters? Colour me surprised.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026
Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If I ran a website that gave teens advice on how to commit suicide I would go to jail
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So yeah it would be nice if the government stopped talking about the “legitimate concerns” and the right to protest of a bunch of racist violent scum and call them what they are
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Remigration taken to its logical course is all humans back to East Africa?
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The what now?
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.threads.com/share/BANePk...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ban them completely. A scourge on society.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ABSOLUTE INSANITY GOING ON IN MIDDLE EAST Night Minimums up to 33C, world heat records for October smashed and re/smashed. And guess what ..it will get MUCH worse WEEKS of July-weather with Mins 30/35C and maxes >45C. BY FAR; THE MOST HEAT EXTREME EVENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating project by Ian Howorth photographing the last working men’s clubs in Britain. The loss of shared social spaces like these has had profound consequences when it comes to belonging and social cohesion. amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo...
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Last Orders: these photos from Britain's last remaining working men's clubs are somehow wonderfully serene | Amateur Photographer
Ian Howorth is fascinated by the peculiar visual grammar of Britain: social clubs, old-school hotels and the small rituals of communal life.
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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unfortunately, the "I wouldn't be able to publish without AI" gets the same response as business saying that paying a living wage would put them out of business: you do not have a viable business or idea.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doggers (another current theory is fuel thieves).
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This hippy desire to eschew modern conveniences like pasteurisation & vaccination is going to get their kids killed.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I grew up in a part of Cornwall where large areas were fenced off with warning signs about collapsing tin mines. I used to have nightmares of the whole county breaking off from Devon and floating towards Brittany. My main concern was that I was already 10 and knew no French.
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feeb 🔜 BosBAF @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elric is way cooler (& weirder) than the Targaryens though.
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey Trump this is down to you and your pointless war! Petrol in the UK today 176.9p per litre £7.96 per gallon - that’s US$10.58. Diesel 202.9p per litre £9.13 per gallon - that’s US$12.14! EVERYTHING in the UK will cost more! There was no need for your war!
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2. Don't criticize their choices. Whatever they're reading - comics, fan fiction, non-fiction, even books by celebrity writers whom you may have good reason to dislike - let them read. Books with problematic content? Use them as an opportunity for discussion. But don't shut down their reading.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Make sure you're doing it yourself. Kids read most readily when parents read. Seeing the adults around them reading, hearing them talk about what they're reading, is often the best way to engage their interest.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The amount of places that need gutting but the vendors/EA think it should be £5k less than the perfect house next door is unreal. Reno costs are through the roof post covid too.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Dom Forbes @domforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Same!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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