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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 17h

This National Poetry Day, why not spend some time reading Britain's Most Minor Poet (me)?

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 17h

For National Poetry Day, Frank O'Hara

Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]

By Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
lana turner has collapsed!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The UK's AI minister just made a big and important admission on AI & copyright, which creatives around the country will celebrate: "It is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model based on the transformer architecture given the copyright position that we have in this country”.

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote an article where I talk about this a bit. Everyone casually ascribes emotion to inanimate objects and not just computers, which is why we understand sentences like 'The coffee machine doesn't want to work' without believing them to be literally true www.sublationmag.com/post/in-defe...

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In Defence of Empathy

Both the MAGA-techbro and identity-political views of empathy share the idea that it can be (or is) in some way fenced off. Both share the view that humans are in some way isolated within siloes, with...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Excellent by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on Mahmood's settlement proposals “You end up with Reform claiming a woman born in Somalia who's lived here most of her life, worked hard and contributed to our society,somehow isn’t fit to hold elected office.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Was thinking about this and even I'm surprised that my most vindicated by history opinion is that Ed Miliband should be Prime Minister

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

labour government quietly effective factoid actually just statistical error. average labour minister actually incredibly useless. Ed Millerbind, who lives in cave & actually does 10,000 things with power each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I know everyone here knows this already, but if 'legitimate concerns' really were legitimate, they'd diminish as immigration falls. They don't and they won't, because they're not legitimate. They're just racist.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love this movie, and I keep coming back to how it isn't at all about transness. It's about revenge against a fascist. But inherent in that is this throughline of "the fascist is wrong. The different ways to be are not just valid, but holy. Transness is divine. Community is sacred. Life matters."

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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is half of the reason why people thinking they can harness ill-informed opposition to data centres for progressive ends are kidding themselves

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Political uniforms are also illegal!

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform's boomer activists are in many ways the epitome of consumerist alienation. They are sad, lonely, embittered people who stay at home all day watching TV and whose children and grandchildren don't want to visit them anymore.

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Don't worry, I'm sure once these people hear that immigration is falling, they'll stop being racist and go home

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not to compare them as people, but it's similar to the Corbyn phenomenon: a small hardcore who think he's their last best hope, while a large majority look at him and say 'Really? This guy?' Of course, Corbyn didn't have the press on his side, so the hate for Farage is more legit and organic

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here's a fun question Suppose it's true that short-form video is responsible for the vibecession. Does that justify banning it? Other less drastic policy responses?

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Once again saying that I don't think you should do this, ever!

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Possibly Google has made improvements since I wrote this thread, but I would think that using a chatbot for something like this is not a great idea bsky.app/profile/fran...

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This reminded me that at the pub yesterday I was chatting to a bloke who said he: 1. Always voted Lib Dem until the coalition 2. Now always votes Green 3. Were he American, would've voted for Donald Trump in 2016

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 01/09/2026

The list does not contain itself.

Wikipedia page for List of Star Trek lists

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It was a queer, sultry summer - the summer I woke from uneasy dreams transformed into a gigantic insect - and Marley was dead, to begin with.

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We once used the internet to connect with people to whom we couldn't otherwise speak. Increasingly it's used to *avoid* speaking to people we otherwise would speak to. That has got to be part of the reason for this

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Seems bad, NGL

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Liam Deane @liamdeane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The skeleton key is realising that the four seasons are not of equal length

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know James Cleverly is the kind of Tory who appeals to Blueskiers but so far he's announced two policies: 1. No more culture war 2. except about cars, and this in a city which only voted for a Tory who went very big on bikes and buses. Does not seem coherent to me

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the main place Marx lived, the century following the publication of the Communist Manifesto saw capitalism develop in such a way that the proletariat became a numerical majority, developed class consciousness, formed itself into a political party, took power, and socialised much of the economy.

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just saw my latest water bill. Starting to think Lenin had a point

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reassuring to learn that even Ted Hughes wrote insane emo shit as a teenager

Page of text which reads 'So I come to these shores where everything/Is futility and despair,/And I am happy here'

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Ashly/Luci @lucisaves.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

what’s a random quote from the simpsons that pops into your head all the time?

A screenshot from The Simpsons showing two CPS workers studying a dazed Maggie Simpson who is wearing a sign reading “I’m a stupid baby.” The image is captioned with the quote “Stupid babies need the most attention.”

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Technically, "Mark Carney" is an oxymoron

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 12/01/2024

neurodivergent person doing something cute call that awwwtism

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Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I keep going back and forth on the North Sea issue, but this seems definitive

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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