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"hS2 dOeSnT bEnEfIt wAlEs" 🙃 🙄

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A nice idea but did they really have to do the AI slop picture thing? Was it impossible to find a local artist in Suffolk?

Sorry, how are people not going to see Rachel Parris?! This needs to be remedied.

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My language may have been flippantly tongue in cheek. The bit I was not grasping is how valid these results actually are, or how confident we are yet that they hold.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't get what's going on here, has AI solved maths? Or is it doing hallucinations and making wild claims? Or might it be both and nobody's sure yet?

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The judgmental eyes of the young person in the background as Captain Haddock necks another bottle

as per text. The young person has hands on their hips and is looking deeply unimpressed

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also yes you would definitely see a Network SouthEast clock in a station in Scotland, right?!

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, we doing the comparing game? Cool! That's a fun game. My turn now, let's do: number of botched executions.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today in ban the pervert glasses news: bsky.app/profile/momu...

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

so, like, is this the US equivalent of Downing Street Covid parties on the day the Queen had to mask up and socially distance for Philip's funeral, or?

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not from round your way but goodness, I see what you mean. That guy trying to cross the road looks like he's having a GREAT time. (From 2014)

Screenshot of Street View camera on Deansgate in 2014. There are parked cars on both sides, a queue of traffic, and an unidentified gentleman trying to hesitantly cross the road between queued-up cars.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone would think that storing dizzying amounts of wealth in a form that can be transferred instantly away, with one simple transaction, without any checks and balances, was maybe a bad idea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Crypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery

The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Roses are red Oats go in porridge

Eastern Daily Press headline: GIANT CANNIBAL SLUGS HIT NORWICH. Below this, a line to separate out the word SATURDAY

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lol, Great Yarmouth still relentlessly Great Yarmouth-ing, I see

A close-up of the campaign image. Most constituencies are shown in green as per the campaign message. Some isolated individual ones are red: Great Yarmouth, Boston & Skegness, Clacton and Ashfield.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listen to that CRUNCH. Absolutely delicious. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy birthday! I know several excellent people with the same.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I first read about the death penalty as a child, I thought it was barbaric. Still do. A state that gives itself the judicial power to kill debases itself and everyone it involves in that repulsive business.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you write your Outlook meeting invitation using AI, I will simply not go out of principle. And yes, I can always tell. Using 2000 words where 50 would do. Daft clauses of emphasised bold text. The em-dashes. The bullet-points. Get it out of my face and try again.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Adam Neely did an excellent video essay on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc... In the chapter starting at 24:14 he observes that everyone who makes AI music can only cite themselves as their favourite artist. AI artists don't listen to other AI artists' music.

youtube.com

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future

YouTube video by Adam Neely

This is definitely probably fine, right bsky.app/profile/karl...

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my poor aged broken millennial heart wasn't prepared for this to appear on my feed

(in case the nuance is lost on others here: I agree with you, and so does literally the Bible!)

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9:7

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Ngl, I find this grimly hilarious.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't have many followers but I recognise a lot from this experience. What made me leave, what kept me off, the inflection points, Musk, Grok, CSAM, etc. It's a neat and very real summary of what the other place has become and worth a read.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the archetypal example of which is, obviously:

Marten and Faye from Questionable Content #6.

Dialogue reads: FAYE: You can get me a glass of water is what you can do. MARTEN: Gah! I uh duh buh YES WATER RIGHT

(In the very next episode (#7) they start talking about indie bands.)

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish articles like this would adjust historic prices for inflation. I have no idea if 32p=>222p over 40 years is bad. Turns out, yes, it is bad, diesel has more than doubled in price in real terms since 1986. But how am I meant to know that if all prices are nominal? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Scottish drivers hit as diesel passes £2 a litre across the country

Motoring organisation the RAC says it expects the average UK diesel price to hit a new record high over the weekend.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Dave Rudden's off to Fantasycon! @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

American news commas need to be stopped

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

4 teas, 1 coffee, hope this helps

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wait some people are still posting because of threads?

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I make that 25 years now of the word "terrorists" being dog-whistle code amongst some for "people who look different to me". Quite telling she used that specific word in her justification.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your commitment on the alt text is admirable.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At what point would one have a case to take Kellogg's to court for false advertising? Asking for a hungry friend.

A pop tart next to a box of pop tarts with a picture of a pop tart on it. The picture on the box has topping right up to the edge. The real thing has a pathetic uneven splodge that barely gets within 1cm of the edge at any point

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If the Manchester leg ever gets built, give me a ring. You'll have to go through the receptionist at my nursing home though.

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This is horrific. Horrible, horrible parenting.

*sigh* I want to be a full throated supporter of HS2, I really do. But the amount by which it has been cut back has been a body blow for the overall business case. A Willesden to Curzon Street shuttle shouldn't need more than 2tph and 2 platforms. I fail to see what the other 5 will achieve.

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TIL that it is impossible to get from London to Birmingham by train in a way that arrives before 07:45 in the morning on a weekday, and I think this is insane.

Google journey options for London to Birmingham leaving at 03:35. The earliest direct arrival is 07:48. There is an 07:46 option changing at Nuneaton but that barely counts.