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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You may sneer at the term “Super Intelligence“ for AI, but many said “Information Super Highway” would never catch on.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is actually a bit of a plot point in John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids, they go from King's Cross to Clerkenwell to raid a furniture warehouse, before ending up in Senate House.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Strong 2006 Facebook vibes here.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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TimeGuessr

TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess where and when historic photos were taken.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe they only get to turn on actual blue lights and sirens if it's some kind of premium order.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just saw a delivery guy on a bike jump a red light and try to get cars to stop and pedestrians to get out of the way at a junction by dinging his bell and shouting "deliveroo! deliveroo!" as though he was an ambulance with a siren. Didn't seem to have the effect he thought it would.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Speaking from somewhat grim experience, I think a big problem with our current political system is that there is simply nobody telling such MPs exactly this, largely because they have a staff of people working for them on a shoestring budget.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On at least the fourth here. My favourite thing about the new turn to vote for them to avoid "a Labour government with no Green MP" is how it conveniently/willfully ignores their entire existing parliamentary party of five MPs. Shortened argument on a leaflet? Sure. But also screams of his ego.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a die hard Morse fan I'm a bit biased, especially by the idea that Ludwig is meant to be a 'Morse, but Cambridge, and contemporary', I feel let down by Ludwig because of how (intentionally) silly it is. It feels like TV no longer assumes you're suspending disbelief.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I took the bait from PM and ended up finding out the cause of the NATS outage as best I could, and all I can say is... concurrency is hard. Now dusting off the old CV for the "rewriting NATS in Rust" project I'm hoping for in about one performatively outraged parliamentary inquiry's time.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Still can't believe that this was somehow an unironic section on the Today programme earlier.

Line drawing cartoon of a person talking to a computer.

Person: say "I am alive"
Computer: >I AM ALIVE
Person: oh my god.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does this new Piddington place have any tax advantages?

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If he really wants to send out campaign material in a secretive language only understood by a select, targeted group of the population in Holborn and StP Pancras then he can - simply send out campaign literature in Latin.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You're more likely to have a hairy/annoying encounter with a cyclist since there are just hugely more of them, at least during the day (with tje exception of the ****s that speed around where I live by the Brunswick in massive SUVs around 9/10pm every night.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Probably also worth considering that [I don't have the numbers to hand here but suspect that] cycles outnumber cars quite considerably (in terms of number of vehicles) in much/most of central London where vehicles come into close proximity with pedestrians.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh god, I need to buy a cat mask, just in case he knocks.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TimeGuessr #1200 — 40,364/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9,999 · 📅 0y · 🌍 68m 2️⃣ 🏆9,998 · 📅 0y · 🌍 112m 3️⃣ 🏆4,812 · 📅 2y · 🌍 6409.0km 4️⃣ 🏆8,706 · 📅 3y · 🌍 394.0km 5️⃣ 🏆6,849 · 📅 8y · 🌍 151.2km timeguessr.com

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TimeGuessr

TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess where and when historic photos were taken.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lol, occasionally you see a post and just instantly know where it is. Excellent pub, can 💯 recommend. Haven't been in months and now eager to go!

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Speaking with decades of grim experience (thankfully behind me), I'm actually kinda inclined to vaguely believe that claim (allowing for a few embellishments). Depending on how you define actually "leafleting an elector" this is one of the most annoyingly "leafletable" constituencies in the country.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Still trying to figure out who sent me this as a wind up, but fair play to them 👏 Can confirm the fit leaves plenty of room around the upper chest area. No, I won't be wearing it around Bloomsbury.

A green t-shirt lying flat with the text "#BACKSACK / THE FUTURE IS GREEN"

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'd give it some integer number of weeks, say... 38?

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Look, weird for Oxbridge is not the same as weird for Peterhouse.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Agree with your prediction, I think the argument that he should stand is vibes (based on daytime population), the argument that he shouldn't is demographic (and nighttime population). As an elector in this, I'm undecided. I'll probably just go on national bosom size potential.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Exactly that on the lack of those close to him, and to do it essentially hours before Burnham's 'first day at school'. Genuinely can't tell if it's because he's wounded and wants to be vindictive to his successor, or (I suspect), just a lawyer with a big ego that has no idea how it'd be perceived.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Might try and do a bit where I see what insane 'leftish metropolitan elite' buzzwords I can hammer off if vox popped. "I'd like an MP that wears a lanyard and stops people enjoying having sex with their wife."

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is quite an annoying time to be a resident of Holborn and St Pancras.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In my local a few doors down from my flat in Bloomsbury, reading my book about HTS in Syria, and got distracted by a guy excitedly discussing how the BlueSky swearing index is high at the moment, seemingly non-ironically. Guys, hear me out here. Do you think I could be living in a bubble?

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Okay, team. That's enough computer time. Let's all go and touch some grass and come back and do some real work tomorrow work with the only essential tools a software engineer needs: a whiteboard, and some pens.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is annoyingly fun. TimeGuessr #1179 — 47,513/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9,938 · 📅 0y · 🌍 2.6km 2️⃣ 🏆9,524 · 📅 3y · 🌍 3.5km 3️⃣ 🏆9,030 · 📅 1y · 🌍 419.9km 4️⃣ 🏆9,720 · 📅 2y · 🌍 3.7km 5️⃣ 🏆9,301 · 📅 0y · 🌍 199.1km timeguessr.com

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TimeGuessr

TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess where and when historic photos were taken.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Are you prowling around various pub car parks with a couple of extra tyres in the boot, just in case?

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Or, indeed, if I can read something in said app, go to another app for a minute to reply to a text/look something up, etc., and then return to said news app and be at the same place, rather than have to scroll down to find where I was reading 40 seconds ago. (Guardian and FT both guilty here)

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

News websites: I am aware you have an app. You tell me about the app every time I visit your site. If I wanted to read in the app, I would already have downloaded your app.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Cobra meeting PM: well what can we do about these fires? Official: we're already implementing all our plans. PM: but I need to say I've done something. I know, maybe we could randomly scare the shit out of the entire country? Official: I guess...

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I picked the wrong night to start reading Annie Jacobsen's new book. Thanks Andy... 😂

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm not sure "oh, it's only wildfires, for a second i thought it was all going a bit Threads" is actually the best way to get people to take the risk seriously

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's really hard to find the social media equivalent of a regulars only lock-in, sadly.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Careful, you'll awaken Toaster BlueSky again and before you know it half the FT staff will be chipping in to discuss the merits and demerits of different Dualit models.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

They did, and it looks cool! Involved RIBA and others, 250 ish entries. Sadly I don't think it will convince Outraged of Middle England to stop drafting their planning objections. www.nationalgrid.com/stories/ener...

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What is a T-pylon? | National Grid

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I used to love this bit of King's X when I first moved to London and the old entrance was open. Felt like a secret portal into/out of the fancy new station a few hundred metres away (and it was also super convenient for my flat at the time, I'm not *just* a tube nerd).

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Surely they just fed the transcript to some AI model and published the summary of the conversation it farted out? Why would anyone want to consume anything else?

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also an amazing way to take the Eurostar for very cheap. You also have unlimited travel in your home country on the day of your "return" journey (doesn't have to be the last day of use). Was so tempted to make a last minute trip to Edinburgh on a whim when I got back.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I went to Ljubliana last weekend for a break with some mates, and decided to take the train using an interrail ticket, rather than fly. It obviously took much longer (mostly because I stayed a bunch of places along the way), but it was also just much more... fun? 💯 will do again!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What I love about this is the idea that the French boat went 'Zur alors! Ees Chreeze Phillipe! Fire ze weaponz!'

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I read several biographies of criminals, including the very worst. I have also spoken to plenty. I have never heard from or read of anyone who would prefer to be in Broadmoor.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is an extraordinary thread, but there is an obvious question that I don't know how to answer... Is she doing it because she's a bit of an eccentric, or because she has an axe to grind, or because she's being paid? Or all three? But, is she being paid and if so by whom?

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I wonder how long his obit is currently. It must surely be longer than some currently extant actual human beings.

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Dom Weldon @domweldon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just go Latin and use 'cum' over 'slash,' you coward.

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