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@eli.holderness.dev
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terrible jew, excellent queer, anarchist etc. software engineer at OpenSAFELY. send me photos of your pets they/them/theirs, Sheffield

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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 27/09/2026
wait no this is more of a snow globe scenario
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 27/09/2026
you're in the cocoon right now. reassembling
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Astra ✨ @astra.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my go-to responses to an unsolicited dick pic is, "oh, no. What happened to it?"
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 22/09/2026
particularly awesome: this discovery could open up new avenues for testing GLP-1 receptor agonists
A screenshot of a section of the article, which reads as follows:

The ability to grow these neurons in a dish opens new possibilities for understanding what goes wrong. There’s even an unexpected connection to obesity treatment: The hindbrain contains circuits that regulate hunger — which is precisely how weight-loss drugs like semaglutide work.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
much like cheating on homework, ai hits metrics at the expense of goals and unless your goals are "creating things of marginal value and utility", like throwaway programs, then well, you're usually creating more work for yourself that's what anthropic found out from their peer reviewed study heh
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Air to Ground Message: FO WANTS TO KNOW IF U CAN SEND A DRONE W/ CHICKEY NUGS Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Bombardier CRJ900 A: #ad34ce8181b F: #f4ca3309e92
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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 24/08/2026
i dont think touching grass is enough i think ur heart has to be open to the grass seeing the way the wind billows through the grass feeling the warm sunlight feeding into the grass understand its role in the ecosystem you are inextricably a part of you have to love the grass
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 07/08/2026
Last time I was there I also got stoned out of my gourd and spent a transcendent couple of hours in the butterfly house at ARTIS, which I fully recommend
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 07/08/2026
top tier Szechuan food at Fulu Mandarijn, my favourite restaurant in the world. I recommend the lamb with pancakes
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Dylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie · 06/08/2026
@rendle.dev and I have this awesome workshop about how to use Claude Code properly. We've had great feedback running it in-person, now we're running it online: 1 & 2 September, 2pm-6pm UK time, £500+VAT but if you use the code BSKY50 you'll get 50% off... bargain! Check it out: claude.rendle.dev
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Effective Claude Code — Hands-On AI Workshop
A live online workshop for developers and software engineers who want to use Claude Code to deliver reliable, reviewable, production-quality software.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026
For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@BigDavidMcIver

Aww my microbiome fancies some high quality fermented foods does it? A little kombucha perhaps? I don’t give a shit, I’m the megabiome, I do what I want. I’m having a fanta lemon. I’ll swallow coins
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Brian Graham @iroasmas.outgroup.social · 26/07/2026
openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 23/07/2026
This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale)
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The Linebreakers @linebreakers.band · 18/07/2026
Hello EMF Camp! It’s a beautiful day, the sun is shining, the 2.4Ghz spectrum is congested, and we’ll be live on Stage D at 19:30 today (Saturday)! @dylanbeatt.ie @rendle.dev @eli.holderness.dev are gonna rock the field with all your favourite nerd hits, anthems, bangers and jams! You lucky people.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Really is incredible how everyone just decided to go fascist like this all of a sudden.
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 14/07/2026
Keep an eye out for Katie Bickford! (although Becky may well have already mentioned her)
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 05/07/2026
"sex change" meaning "the body is highly malleable (by self or others) & the way it is sexed is highly malleable (by self or others)" is a stronger position than "F and M exist, sex change is strictly F -> M or M -> F". call the former Liquid Sex & the latter Solid Sex because i like silly names
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 02/07/2026
If you're in software, your business is your people. Knowing how to keep it running is the knowledge embedded in your workers. The CapEx etc in terms of buildings, network infrastructure etc is just a life support system for facilitating the workers to do what they know how to do.
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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
oh will this hurt cis people? cis people are making their bed, they can fucking lay in it. protect trans girls.
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 01/07/2026
I'll see if I can hunt down links, but the theory I've seen most widely supported is that that's just what E does to a human body - i.e. there is some inbuilt monthly cadence to how the body processes and acts on it, and particulars of anatomy are distantly secondary to that
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 30/06/2026
We've been on hiatus for ages due to life chaos, ADHD, etc, I'm afraid!
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Any picture of Mamdani, he's living his best life, meanwhile every other politician looking flogged by an invisible demon
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
trump: autism didn't exist back then napoleon bonaparte: my mind is made up of cabinets and if i shut all the drawers i will simply fall asleep
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DanS @dansquier.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Seems to me the greater tragedy is when the multitude of people who *still do* extraordinary stuff for the good of humankind are routinely forced to watch the fruits of their labours snatched and sold off as fuel for the machinery that still swears blind it's only there to support and protect them.
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 26/06/2026
500 Miles by Proclaimers is a solid choice if people are buzzed enough to really sing along. Don't Stop Me Now also a good pick
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Me, let’s do a bit of my own research about this guy before I make my mind and…. Oh. Oh. Ohhhh dear
Labour's former work and pensions secretary James Purnell has called on the party to overhaul its welfare policies.
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In a speech in Australia on Saturday, Mr Purnell backed the 'Blue Labour' movement within the party, which focuses on winning back Labour's working-class vote. He said welfare policies needed to emphasise a
'contributory principle' in which benefit claimants see their payments and access to housing more closely linked to how much they have already put into the system.
He said that working-class voters such as Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy, who was branded a 'bigoted woman' by former prime minister Gordon Brown during the run-up to the last election, have deserted Labour because they could not understand the party's definition of fairness. 'They felt people were getting help who hadn't paid in.
And they thought that people who needed protection weren't getting it, he said.
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
israel's genocidal actions are in direct contravention of basically every meaningful moral teaching within rabbinical judaism. israel's actions are a complete betrayal of the values espoused by the comparatively progressive strains of rabbinical judaism historically predominant among american jews
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
i won't live long enough to read everything i want to read that was actually written by people, who have thoughts, feelings, and experiences that i care about. there is far too much great human writing to waste time reading bot-slop.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/06/2026
nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 22/06/2026
if you don't have anything nice to say about Starmer, you don't have to say anything at all. you can post it instead, it's easier.
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 22/06/2026
This may sound over the top and harsh but it’s been genuinely maddening watching people - not just journalists, but just regular people too! - completely gloss over the actual harms Starmer oversaw as Prime Minister. We really do live in different worlds.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Nobody is making profits. It is going to burst and it is going to take all those data centers with it. Keep your skills. Practice your crafts. Hold on to your books. Stay sharp.
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 17/06/2026
There's still time to get tickets for this. You should do it.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16/06/2026
i will say it again: “grieving” a child (in this case a 30-year-old fully grown adult) for being gay/trans because you expected and wanted something different for them is a sign of a bad parent and should be widely regarded as unacceptable
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Has the government considered how much more cool going on the internet will be for kids when it's a crime?
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s @digitalism.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
bsky wont let me reply but wrote up this quickly in obsidian about self-studying math sorry not sorry for this
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eli holderness @eli.holderness.dev · 10/06/2026
A screenshot from Community, showing Britta saying "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty."
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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”
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🦊.quiet.ink @quiet.ink · 09/06/2026
deadass the problem with polyamory is how am i supposed to love all of these incredible people with just one lifetime
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A patient says "Give it to me straight, doc." The doctor says "You have six months to live." The patient says "give it to me gay, Doc." The Doctor, now with a yassified face, lil neckscarf, mesh shirt says "it's giving six months."
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 28/05/2026
The TERF movement has been going for decades and the GC movement has been funded by multiple billionaires for over a decade and they STILL haven't come up with a biological definition of female that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Maybe that alone should tell you something
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Spicy kitty break
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
omg this 🎯
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