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I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 5h

As the article notes, this is despite having just co-hosted the biggest World Cup ever (the number of games played in the US alone was more than any previous tournament had in total)

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Nitro Nine Milkshake @adamclegg.bsky.social · 7h

From now on we list their cause of death as “fan fiction“.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 8h

From the West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 4 March 1986: a Doctor Who story writing competition judged by Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes, which makes you wonder if the event was cursed as both of them would be dead within six months of the closing date.

Seasider's DIARY
Write a plot for the Doctor

WHO fancies their chances as a sci-fi story writer?

If you've got time on your hands you may like to enter a competition to
compose a tale featuring Dr Who and any of his old adversaries.

Set your control at 1,000 words and let your imagination turn out a galaxy-gripping storyline.

Prove yourself a master in Dalek-dialogue, Cybermen-chat or Tardis-talk and you'll be Lorded up with prizes including Dr Who videos, books and T-shirts.

Entries will be judged by Dr Who script writers Dennis Spooner and Robert Holmes.

The competition has been organised by the Blackpool Branch of the Dr Who Appreciation Society who plan to submit the top stories for inclusion in a soon-to-be-launched national society magazine.

Dr Who freaks up and down the country currently number 3.500-plus.

Time, lords and ladies, will be called on March 21, with the winners notified
by April 4. Entries to Mr Andrew Hayes, c/o 40 Dean Street, South Shore.

Meanwhile the next dose of Doctor-mania will be dished out at the next branch meeting at Blackpool Central Library on March 8.

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eBay mugs & glasses @dangmugs.bsky.social · 8h

catch a cop doin' something right 👍

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 8h

Marvel fans need to prepare for "a very surprising ending" to Avengers: Doomsday, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have teased.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 9h

Putting aside the fact that Steve’s run on THE SCARLET WITCH was brilliant, the idea that artists get death threats over *comic books* is beyond madness but it happens with alarming frequency. Entitled nerds need to get their shit together because this should never happen, even in “jest” 👇🏼

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 10h

Antique leather-bound folding library pole ladder. IG: Vivre Interieur Authentique Netherlands www.instagram.com/vivre.nl?stk...

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 10h

It feels so bleakly absurd that every few months there's a shocking story about some large group of men enacting violent harm on women and girls, and in the gaps everyone just goes back to arguing about whether immigrants or trans people in general might somehow be a threat to women and girls.

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 11h

GUY WHO SELLS CLOTHES: you know what looks really cool? wearing lots more clothes. ideally all the time.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026

claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 13h

"In 2019, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience welcomed its one millionth guest" and yet I've never met anybody publicly willing to admit going

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16h

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15h

Said this before, but you could write an interesting book on the books/films/music that were huge in their time but rapidly disappeared from any collective knowledge. Only hardly anyone would read it, because they wouldn't recognise them.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 17h

"Can we call the next one something more fun than Star Trek 8?"

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 21h

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 18h

Waterstones have picked Pagans as one of their Paperbacks of the Year, so in all stores at 20% off!

Cover of Pagans, as one of Waterstones' Paperbacks of the Year

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Rachael Stott @rachaelstott.bsky.social · 18h

I always used to be like, you know what, there's a lot wrong with the way the country is run but at least the Self Assessment tax part of the gov website is straight forward. Then someone decided to make it way more complicated, quadruple the workload AND privatise it, and i wish them a very

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 19h

I've not really engaged that much with the Man City verdict because I can't make myself believe anything will come of it. A big fine, a suspended points deduction, something like that. But it's pretty stark when you lay it out like this. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Man City guilty charges: Which transfers and trophies happened during Premier League 'sham'?

BBC Sport analyses Manchester City's dominance of English football during the period in which they were breaching financial rules.

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 20h

If you'd like to learn more about the book Bridging Design and Fandom and hear from some of the chapter authors, I will be holding a launch event on 20th October, in Lancaster and online. Please do come and join us! lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/4574001

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Book Launch: Bridging Design and Fandom, edited by Naomi Jacobs

With her new edited collection Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation, Naomi Jacobs (Design, School of Arts, Lancaster University) opens new...

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Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, this is lovely! City of All Seasons by Aliya Whiteley and myself has been shortlisted for the Aldiss Award for World Building in speculative fiction!

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did Andy Burnham have any words of comfort for the UK’s 10m Black and Asian people who have witnessed the government tacitly nod along to pogroms or the LGBTQ community where trans people face toilet segregation and Section 28 the sequel in schools and cis LGB folk are facing erosion of our rights?

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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello. I am widening my submissions categories to include: - Epic Fantasy - Space Opera - Near Future/High Concept SF - Horror Details here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You’ve picked how many right backs in your tenure as England manager, Thomas?

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a great shame that Parker's only score for Doctor Who was on such a terrible story.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just ran 5k in under 28 minutes for the first time in years, it turns out all I needed to do was have the debut album by Be Your Own Pet playing while I did it tidal.com/album/220373...

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Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet

Listen to Be Your Own Pet on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We currently have £708 until we hit our initial goal of £5k by the end of my birthday tomorrow. We’re playing for the inclusion of my top-secret family chocolate cake recipe in Sophie’s booklet!

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey look, successive governments have created this shit show and turned it into a multi directional moral hazard. Will our fourth estate make a noise about it? Yes, but not in a way that'll help

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The media consent machine never runs out of fucking scabs to present us. The uni is quite literally gutting its courses. This however, not the issue so far as the BBC is concerned. Honestly fuck this noise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for'

The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The 2002-05 pre-smart phone era of Nokia and others making utterly mad or far too small phones as they needed a gimmick to convince people to part with their trusty 3310s is fascinating to me. You got some utterly batshit ones.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Investment firm Urbagestión, which bought the property in 2018, increased the rent from €500 per month to €2,650 The company later offered to reduce this to €1,650 however she was still unable to pay this with her monthly pension of €1,350" These companies are parasites 🤬

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Evicted Spanish pensioner, Maricarmen Abascal, can move home, lawyer says

The eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, prompted large-scale protests across Spain.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026

i am such a broken record on this but it's a good thing to - know how to write your own emails - know how to find food you can make/eat - discover travel destinations - communicate directly w/your health care providers without just capitulating to whatever "AI" says/does

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Rob Girvan @robgirvan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They should combine BBC3 and BBC2 into a channel called BBC2.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BBC Three is currently showing a twenty-year-old episode of Silent Witness. Just a totally incoherent channel now.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every time I see any BBC football coverage the presenters and pundits are wearing really muted colours: lots of black, grey, dark blue and beige. Is this just for aesthetic reasons or is it to avoid perceptions they're allied to one of the teams and therefore BIAS?

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

The push to make it so that "websites as a destination for humans is over" is an intentional move to violate the freedom to read of individuals and move access to information into a "pay to get an opaquely intermediated version from a nontransparent source" model.

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