Reposted by Gavin Denisondepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 9hfour years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better 3887931811
Reposted by Gavin DenisonLee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 7hIt feels like I've spent the last week reading about how the Tories are pretty much on the verge of taking Downing St. And here we are 0125
Reposted by Gavin DenisonGregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 12hOne essential point in an essential thread on solar and batteries etc. 34112
Reposted by Gavin DenisonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13hFor those playing along at home: To give the appearance of action on the impacts of his humiliating blunder on the world stage, the President of the United States is making a humiliating blunder on the world stage by bailing the Russian president out of a humiliating blunder on the world stage. 12550151
Reposted by Gavin DenisonCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh. 1269579
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Zelensky isn’t pulling his punches 4489123
Reposted by Gavin DenisonJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left. 9683146
Reposted by Gavin DenisonBUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x 29692141
Reposted by Gavin DenisonCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14hIf I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 4492742581
Reposted by Gavin DenisonJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 18hPolice in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.bristolpost.co.ukFar right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiserPolice say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed 45262173
Reposted by Gavin Denisoncallook67 @callook67.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not only that, BMW is still owned by the Quandt family who trace their lineage by blood to a Nazi-supporting wealthy industrialist *and* by marriage to Joseph Goebbels and they are still pointedly less Nazi than Tesla. 417252
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”. 301120463
Reposted by Gavin DenisonNat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ben Wishaw can act like he's a talking fucking bear from Peru doesn't mean he is one. 516640
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAngus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The maddening thing is that the BBC can, uniquely, offer the opposite of AI algorithmic recommendation. We can get that anywhere. It’s not what people want. What’s missing is expert, human, curation. Knowledgable people you trust *telling you* that something’s worth watching. That’s what the BBC has 517168
Reposted by Gavin DenisonGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written 261794433
Reposted by Gavin DenisonPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵) 15529336
Reposted by Gavin DenisonPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data 98772336
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality. 4151641332
Reposted by Gavin Denison🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026like, if gaddafi had declared that all apples are now oranges and that all libyans calling them apples were internal enemies, it’d be covered in the press as a wacky but dangerous move from an unserious and dangerous clown dictator 17704121
Reposted by Gavin DenisonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Dave sounds like an absolute cunt. 5557656
Reposted by Gavin DenisonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026So true. It's also the exact opposite effect to the Tories' other (more sensible) plan to get rid of stamp duty. Mangling the housing market just after adopting a policy which might help rationalise it. 820923
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 253161903703
Reposted by Gavin DenisonA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's because they can't afford to live. 521582237
Reposted by Gavin DenisonGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 810206474614
Reposted by Gavin DenisonDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've just been reading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for a thing and Trump definitely resembles late-stage Hitler: surrounded by sycophants, rejecting all criticism, denying facts about the war he's losing, making mad declarations, seeing enemies everywhere. Not great 2038982
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They're polling eight points lower than their general election result, which was itself the worst in their entire history, their leader couldn't explain the big defense policy they opened conference with, none of their big new tax cuts are funded, and yet it's still covered as a triumph 432355
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means 40535149
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Excellent front page here 21807146
Reposted by Gavin DenisonThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Way back when, I canvassed Twitter for similar tales. My favourite, and one I still think about eight years later, was this. 2048799
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That 'Keminaissance' in full 2437287
Reposted by Gavin DenisonPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Number crunching: “the poorest in our society” From the new Private Eye, out now. 623562
Reposted by Gavin DenisonLauren Dracula 🧛♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now 1744236531
Reposted by Gavin DenisonBUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026First the Bayeux Tapestry and now the plague. What next? A Jacobite rising? 11468
Reposted by Gavin DenisonDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070041916
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMichael Shopoff @mshopoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Emperor Hirohito, after hearing the Pearl Harbor plans 856490
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible 3427452
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the essay is a narrative written by Ronaldo in the purest notes app quasi-apology genre form depicting himself as the Real Victim Here, describing how he ended up leaving the national team camp the core of the story is (for real) about Jorge Jesus not reading the talking points Ronaldo gave him 917421
Reposted by Gavin DenisonChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The thing is, this isn't some gotcha memory test about "what precise amount of money will this cost/raise" of the type beloved by interviewers in election campaigns. It's the most basic question imaginable - "how will this thing work?" She has no idea. 52457113
Reposted by Gavin DenisonCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you. 141198202
Reposted by Gavin Denisonpete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of my favorite tweets of all time 485040984
Reposted by Gavin DenisonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Kemi Badenoch's terrific leadership and strategy strikes again! 1117926
Reposted by Gavin DenisonMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base 2536431909
Reposted by Gavin DenisonAndrew R @excelpope.net · 06/10/2026As Paddington leads Jeffery Archer into the great beyond, Archer excitedly explains how he's had a brilliant idea for a story about a Peruvian bear with a fondness for orange preserve sandwiches. 316837
Reposted by Gavin DenisonPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged. 931352450
Reposted by Gavin DenisonStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him. 431775674
Reposted by Gavin DenisonJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6659261177
