Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well this episode of Mastermind has revealed I've been pronouncing pince-nez wrong all this time. 000
Reposted by Ed Martinthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643642675
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Vimes would keep it in his desk drawer next to the full bottle of whiskey. 000
Reposted by Ed MartinAlex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The operative word in "Protect our women!" is not "women" but "our". 141497420
Reposted by Ed MartinTansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026By far the worst thing that could happen to a gentleman of good family is to come into his fortune at the age of two-and-twenty. Why, a man of such recent vintage has barely begun forming his character, and now he shall never have to. 1236
Reposted by Ed MartinThought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People who view everyone else as tools for their personal use cannot distinguish between real people and tools designed for their personal use. 223654
Reposted by Ed MartinGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026he’s talking about carbon removal but this is the most EVERGREEN SKEET to ever ship out into the bsky seas 31064186
Reposted by Ed Martinbadly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I've laughed at this for three minutes straight 12887211
Reposted by Ed MartinUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude. 4048821044
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Alan Turing buried two silver ingots in the woods outside Bletchley Park at the outbreak of the war. At the end of the war he went to retrieve them but couldn't crack his own encoded directions. As far as anyone knows they're still there somewhere. 030
Reposted by Ed MartinThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Mashing-up Robin Hood and Peasants Revolt is perfectly representative of how English understand the middle ages. May as well lob in Arthur's grail, Alfred's cakes, Canute's tides, Offa's dyke, and Richard III's lack of a horse. We get taught Tudors and Nazis endlessly, but medieval period a blur. 3024637
Reposted by Ed Martinshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 29/08/2026like yeah, you've been breaking everything up and selling it off and shipping it overseas. for profit! and now it sucks! i think they think the US can still do WWII-style war mobilization mainly because of movies 1292039
Reposted by Ed MartinShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Ozymandias shoulda made two monuments so he could have told people to look upon his works ye mighty and de spare 601674222
Reposted by Ed MartinMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing. 4458105
Reposted by Ed MartinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/08/2026I'm sure this take has been took already but it's worth saying: the obscene, cynical performance of "It's about being against plagiarism" re Arday is absurd when the entire academic superstructure is being reorganised around mandating plagiarism using advanced plagiarism automation software 291880429
Reposted by Ed MartinPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026look at how seamlessly they transitioned from “we must evaluate Arday’s life and work no matter the motives of his critics” to the opposite position: defending Cofnas because of his critics’ motivations, no matter the quality of his work 161589248
Reposted by Ed Martiniucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay, 218104122358
Reposted by Ed MartinEffin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026Never let a writer help you move 10665911088
Reposted by Ed MartinDr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Xanadu-du-du push pineapple, shake the tree Xanadu-du-du stately pleasure dome decree 1121987
Reposted by Ed MartinMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026If your argument is about the potential uses of AI to do levels of computing that the human brain cannot do, or would take hundreds of years to do — that is, quite simply, not the same argument as the one about the value and appropriateness of actual day-to-day consumer LLM usage. 419534
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Notice how whenever an AI techbro expresses concern about "how powerful their models are", it's never because of this sort of thing, or the systematic theft of the entirety of human writing, or the catastrophic damage to educational integrity. It's always sci-fi Terminator nonsense. 100
Reposted by Ed Martinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026asking a detailed factual question to someone who is lying or unprepared makes them look stupid and doing the same thing to someone who is telling the truth and prepared makes them look smart. One interview will look "tough" the other won't even though the journo is doing the same thing 314310
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I loved this when I heard Pentangle do it, and the Owl Service's version is mesmerising. Really moody and atmospheric. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCR...youtube.comThe Trees They Do Grow HighYouTube video by The Owl Service - Topic 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Admittedly I've only seen it the once but I really didn't see what the fuss was about regarding Night of the Hunter. 001
Reposted by Ed MartinSmooth Dunk @handle.invalid · 16/08/2026The British Media Vs. Plagiarism 2764731529
Reposted by Ed Martinshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 16/08/2026the genuine evil that permeates the UK press makes the mere amoral greed of the US press look positively wonderful by comparison 261644320
Reposted by Ed MartinShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026the event that gave the British control of India was the Battle of Plassey when Robert Clive, unlike every British general before him defeated the far larger forces of Siraj ud Daula of Bengal, and a big reason for this was that all his predecessors started as soldiers but Clive started as a clerk 436550
Reposted by Ed MartinPhil White @revdphilippa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026THIS. Ever since Gordon Brown's 'bigoted woman' it has been a totally untouchable axiom that concerns about immigration are well founded and unchallengeable. If we had a media and/ or political climate where we were able to challenge these views we might be in a better place. 6434110
Reposted by Ed MartinSmooth Dunk @handle.invalid · 12/08/2026AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books 5673932180
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I always thought the lyric from Won't Get Fooled Again was "and tomorrow's Sunday worship will be gone", which I never questioned because it's on-theme. A pretty good lyric I thought and it turns out it's my own original work. I've been giving Pete Townshend the credit all this time. 000
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I find this fascinating. There's the expected answers - gambling addictions, deadbeats who've never held down a job etc - but so many examples are people who came into a one-off lump sum and completely lost their heads.reddit.comFrom the AskUK community on RedditExplore this post and more from the AskUK community 000
Reposted by Ed MartinAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is it. Plus, from what I’ve seen of his “video content”, the guy still comes across as cruel, vicious, bigoted, and a bully. He’s just learned not to direct his repulsive tendencies at Jewish people in particular. It’s hard not to see that as a convenient choice for his political ambitions. 1231753
Reposted by Ed MartinKnitwear Himbo @jamiecullen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Dwarf Fortress patch notes are still gold. "Tavern goers will no longer order a drink from every single tavern keeper in the bar and drink them all, causing them to die of acute alcohol poisoning." 1325
Reposted by Ed MartinBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps 252122130
Reposted by Ed MartinDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I honestly would love to know what policymakers think will happen to social mobility, regional growth, employment, and educational attainment, when all these provincial universities are gone or shrink to almost non existence? Isn’t avoiding that disaster alone worth a billion quid right now?? 8261100
Reposted by Ed MartinAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don’t understand why some commentators seem to think Badenoch is doing well as leader, when everything I see her do fits exactly this description. Sorry, she just comes across as very stupid 1116834
Reposted by Ed MartinDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema. 3758530881
Reposted by Ed Martinshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/08/2026the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better 101848332
Reposted by Ed MartinStefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Liddle was just one guy ultimately, but emblematic of a media culture that has - and continues to make - this country smaller, poorer and crueller for the rest of us. that's his legacy, a cog in an utterly grotesque machine 14617
Reposted by Ed MartinEuan @euan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes 6856177
Reposted by Ed MartinSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think. 735081
Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Take a drink every time a commentator calls Rod Liddle some variant of "a brave, controversial truth teller" and studiously fails to refer to anything he actually said, like his reasoning for why he could never be a teacher. 010
Reposted by Ed MartinShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026my new obsession is having Warhammer 40K history videos playing in the background all day and every other day my wife asks why I don't just play a game or buy some models if I like it so much and I dunno how to explain that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only lore 2747639
