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Graham Binns

@grahambinns.bsky.social
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Tech Solution Architect, former Interim CTO at Tracr. Photographer & Filmmaker. Software Engineer and Puzzle Seeker

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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 22h
I was distressed to find that modern people don’t want to hear “run like smoke and oakum” when they ask me what we should do.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
WE SHALL BEAT TO QUARTERS!
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now I can’t see anything else. Thanks I hate it.
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That sounds awfully similar to To what I told somebody this week: “I use AI for things that I could do myself, I don’t care to spend my time on, but still need to do”
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pink Paradise at Dawn. This morning on Glastonbury Tor shortly before sunrise.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
cmarmitage.substack.com
Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cat on a (nice cool) tin roof.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excitement at finding a role I was interested in, suddenly quenched by seeing the company name… oh well.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
leftfootforward.org
TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fixed that for you, BBC.
Racist gang forces its way into a hotel and threatens a group of teenagers
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
(Takes '500 Miles' off the dance playlist) (And yes, I've put it into DJ sets before, it works) (But, you know, fuck transphobia and all that)
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fond, fond memories of this coastline 💜
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tante @tante.cc · 31/08/2026
Stanislaw Lem having almost perfect foresight again Jussi Pakkanen: Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026
"We’re not saying cake is healthy. Birthdays in the RFK Jr. household are always celebrated the MAHA way—with a heaping portion of fermented whale meat, which has way more protein than funfetti. That said, for a limited time, we’re suspending FDA nutritional guidelines." buff.ly/epPztWX
mcsweeneys.net
Relax, If Food Is No Longer Safe to Eat, Just Eat Cake
“Liberals can grumble all they want about ‘affordability’ and ‘access to food that doesn’t leave them doubled over on the toilet begging for death.’ This is ...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The *glow* on the arch is mesmeric. I want to touch it and feel how warm the stones are.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And human sprinters need to be stopped with a big pad and then stretchered away with an arm off too, don’t they? What do you mean “no, you bellend?”
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes! In fact I photographed an actor friend of mine in the same kind of vibe — though we didn’t get to put the moustache on her. www.imdb.com/name/nm10874...
A black and white image of a woman dressed in white shirt, dark waistcoat and a paisley tie. In her mouth is a large cigar. A black and white photo of a seated woman wearing a white shirt, dark trousers and black suspenders (braces).  She is posed like an arrogant stock broker from the 1980s
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pretty sure this image just turned me into a lesbian.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I am at once grateful for you doing what I couldn’t be bothered to do — thank you for your service — and sad that this is going to lodge itself in my brain just in case I should I ever encounter this daft argument in the wild.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m staggered that people are even complaining about this as though it’s a thing!
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You’re the 4th or 5th person I know to have had this experience today… something stinks.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
C'mon man what the fuck are we doing here with this one precious life we each only get here on this tiny miracle of a planet
theguardian.com
Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026
“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”
nytimes.com
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/08/2026
this is exactly correct
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Strikes me — not an original thought — that method acting is merely an excuse for men to be assholes. I don’t think any method actor was known for being extra lovely whilst in character.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sadly would conflict with a truly beautiful novel of the same name by @catvalente.bsky.social… though I suspect that my objection is more around just how unique that novel is.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Kristen Stewart said something similar
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Can confirm. Show me what you can actually do, or I’m not buying. 
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Violating a couple of countries’ employment laws in the process. Ultimately we were cut because our faces didn’t fit anymore. But all of us — and many others — still talk about working for that company and the damage the CEO did to our mental health.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Manager openly admitted inventing metrics to measure me by but refused to give details of those metrics. Eventually I lost patience and asked them how much they’d pay me to go away. HR said “well I didn’t see that coming...” During my last month they found ways to get rid of my colleagues too
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
CEO was known humiliating people who displeased him in public. Did it to me a few times. Final straw came when I was about to be PIPed — after being promised that I wouldn’t be, because I’d been given no feedback up to that point.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For no given reason other than “CEO thinks you’re the wrong person to take this forward.” Joined a team where one guy was seriously chronically ill (Lyme), one guy was recovering from a breakdown, one guy was losing his father to cancer. CEO berated them in public for not working hard enough.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
No matter. Did the job. Team — hired by me — hit every checkpoint, every goal. Even managed to switch tracks when the CEO had a mind-change (cos we saw it coming and pre-planned). Got praised by every manager between me and the CEO for my performance. The following week, was removed from the role
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hoo boy. Don’t really have time to type this right now but: Got promoted. First day on the new job, CEO told me he didn’t think I was qualified to do it. Turned out my manager hadn’t told me some of the details of the role, and that ended up making me look like an eejit.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The entirety of the NHS, from inception, was made possible thanks to non-white immigrants. Every accusation is a confession. They don’t want talented people regardless of skin colour. They just want white people regardless of skills.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I don’t know what the opposite of a dompamine hit is called, but every time I’ve used gen AI to generate what should be my output, I’ve felt it.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This goes to #1 on my list of “gently abstruse descriptions of movies” for this month, for it is *glorious*.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Holy smoke but there’s a lot going on in that paragraph. And yet I can’t get past the Babe Ruth thing.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Stephen Fry as Melchett vibes…
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0
Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Being so racist against and jealous of Black people that you can't appreciate Stevie Wonder has to be a curse from God.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A doggie joined emergency workers in clearing out its yard from the debris after a Russian missile attack. 📹: DSNS
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Of course, just like the audiocassette and the VCR, having the technology around to read from it in 150 years is a totally different box of frogs.
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