Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 10h830 million great British pounds? They could have bought Oldham for that. And the football club 051
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The old LLMs are technically interesting and financially disasterous. But the financial folks love them and the technologists loath them. Riddle me this …. 100
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Well, that doesn’t bode well for 010
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldArthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A brief update from @anyaso.bsky.social and I ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m... #week #notes Read em while you canukparliament.github.io2026 - Week 38Work in progress to design data models for UK Parliament 011
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I try to stay clear of culture wars de jour, but surely taking your own drink to an interview is better than being presented with one of those floppy plastic cups of water they only give you to check how badly your hands shake? 000
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I fail to see why a bunch of mill workers having an innocent kick about on a Saturday should be of any interest to a so-called “independent commission” #citeh 110
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A brief update from @anyaso.bsky.social and I ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m... #week #notes Read em while you canukparliament.github.io2026 - Week 38Work in progress to design data models for UK Parliament 011
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldMike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026New Civil Engineer was more po-faced in their review www.newcivilengineer.com/archive/baff...newcivilengineer.comBaffling M25 show a symbol of motorway madness | New Civil EngineerBilled ambitiously as a 'parallelist performance in three lane theatre', the event was ultimately a publicity exercise for author Iain Sinclair's latest 022
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Apropos of nothing: quotepark.com/quotes/17358...quotepark.comA company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left…“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.” - Akio Morita 000
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldJ G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026These days one needed a full-scale emergency kit built into one's brain, plus a crash course in disaster survival, real and imagined. 082
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Even when you’ve never been all that into the idea of children, when they go away you miss them enormously. Then they come back and you’re lumbered with an unemployable goth in the household 030
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I, for one, shall be buying the dip 000
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Well, that’s nice. I appear to taught the infernal machines all about the Todmorden Peace Corridor. Those rubes will believe anything 100
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We need to slow down development of the Torment Nexus by ensuring the Chinese don’t steal the things we’ve stolen and build their own Torment Nexus before us 130
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious Worldcomputerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A Computer Weekly data analysis reveals a steady revolving door between Whitehall and major technology suppliers, mapping 63 moves by senior officials to AI and IT suppliers since 2010... 👉 [read] 012
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Mitch has thelook of man who’s accidentally been out drinking with librarians 120
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I wonder if Crapita will have their Civil Service Pension Portal up and running before the Global Financial Meltdown 130
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ah, yes. The old “robust recruitment process”. Can you tell the panel about a time you cut costs on a project? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comDirector who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting given senior council housing roleFire survivors and bereaved urge Barnet Group to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who pushed for cheaper contractor 111
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026GUT HEALTH JUST GOT SNACKABLE 011
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldJ G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026People now realize that the moon is about as interesting as an old gravel quarry. 041
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Back down the Todmorden Peace Corridor. I’m colour blind and even I can see that’s a piss poor attempt at a red border. 010
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Should the electorate act in their best interests and elect my brother in law, Dave, to the Palatinian Senate, you have the word of everyone’s favourite Emperor (me!) that all Palatinians of voting age will be rewarded with £500 in vouchers. To be redeemed at Woolworths or Our Price. E.P. 110
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldWritten Statements to Parliament @written-statements.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Civil Service Pension Scheme. Statement made by Sally Jameson on behalf of the Cabinet Office questions-statements.parliament.uk/… 021
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I continue to be astonished that @ddcms-answers.bsky.social only managed to garner 16 followers. One would have thought that if UK Bluesky folks were interested in anything, some combination of the "Westminster bubble", matters "digital" (computers), culture, meeja and, erm, sport would fit the bill 113
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Library transport shelf showing solidarity with the lifeboat lads 040
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Given the “engagement metrics” on this platform, it’s difficult to know if anyone still reads these. Or if @anyaso.bsky.social and I are just whistling in the wind. Nevertheless, if you are interested in tales of crack librarians and semantic web warriors trying again / failing better …. 2122
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our police forces, working in conjunction with our security services, have stamped out football hooliganism. Well, god love you, but I think you’ll find that was mostly acid house. But the ones that didn’t neck Es are no longer fighting on the terraces. Mate, they’re blocking your major ports 140
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Young Robert has brought us to South London where they have a thing called “organic fire lighters” 230
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldPhil Gorman @philbgorman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It's about that time again where I call councils around the country and rank their hold music. Wigan Council: 6/10. Hold music was fine, calming and sound quality was clear. The hold messages gaslit me slightly, saying I was moving forward in the queue then telling me I was in the same position... 241
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You can take Kevin’s name out of your filthy mouth 200
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldAlice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As we come to the end of this first post-summer back-to-reality week, a reminder that I am now officially freelance! Do get in touch if you think we might be able to worth together 0105
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026There's a lot of good material here, but, if you're anything like me, you'll have stopped reading in disgust at point 1 tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...tomforth.co.ukWhy North England is poor.And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue. 020
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026John Redwood should be applauded and put in charge of all museums 232
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I’ve never met Chris, but I think I like him. Disappointed to see him share entirely the wrong reckon. When it comes to hating Normans, I consider myself a master of the craft 151
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Service designers and delivery managers 010
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Look BBC, it’s not that I’m not interested in the so-called “Bayeux Tapestry”, it’s that, if I saw it in person, I’d take a pair of pinking sheers to it 100
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It’s alive. Quite a relief 010
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldMinutemen Bot @minutemenbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026We learned punk rock in Hollywood Drove up from Pedro 16717
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I fear this will only date me and place me and make me look even whiter than I actually am 231
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Having applied a light dusting of makeup - just enough to bring a blush of colour to the cheeks - dear daughter and I are off for a trip into the Devonshire countryside 290
Reposted by Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious WorldAnya @anyaso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Hi Parliament 2255
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Happy Bosworth Field Day to those who celebrate. Boo shucks to the haterz. E.P. 120
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Service designers and insight managers one assumes 210
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 20/08/2026As I’ve said before, I am not a natural FT reader. Just trying to work this out. Mr Bessent attempted to reassure the bond markets that the US (of A) was serious about bringing down its debt by going into debt to buy long terms bonds with more short terms bonds? Is that what happened? 120
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Shift right. To commodity. They said. 110
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Well, you’d hope not. Risks really upsetting the Northern Irish 121
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Never explain a complex problem to a complicated brain 000
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Re-upping this for the breakfast crowd. Written answers to parliamentary questions from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport direct to your doom scroll screen from @ddcms-answers.bsky.social 112
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Seen enough to eye you ..... 000
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Find it hard to believe there are only two people in the UK interested in business, innovation, science and technology and I know them both 020