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Pete M

@gripecat.bsky.social
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Personal - books, comics, music, guitars, art, astronomy, games. Booze. Professional - pensions specialist.

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Pete M @gripecat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@elittlechild.bsky.social Very much enjoying the latest video, brimming with suppressed fury.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 04/10/2026
💜 Baturday night in the city 💜
Fanart drawing of Batgirl trading her traditional costume for more casual wear, just posing all cool and stuff in front of Gotham City. I wonder who she's waiting on?
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape
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Pete M @gripecat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@chriskempshall.bsky.social My copy has arrived! Nice and early. Looking forward to getting stuck into it.
A copy of the book Star Wars Star Pilots by Dr Chris Kempshall.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
3 panel comic titled “Logging into Bluesky”

Panel 1: 
A Pink Guy bursts into Bluesky wearing a t-shirt that says “Fun”. His little face looks so happy.

Panel 2: 
Six Bluesky users turn to look at the Pink Guy. They all look dour and angry because they have been overdosing on the discourse. Having the current state of the world mainlined into their veins for 22 hours a day has left them real grumpy.

Panel 3:
Pink Guy slowly removes his t-shirt and quietly says “sorry”. He won’t soon forget that Bluesky is the home of Serious Discussion. If he wants “Fun” maybe he should log into the Barney the Dinosaur forums.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist
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Wes Streeting must stand up to the
ADHD activists
I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life
Hadley Freeman
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Aly Fell @alyfell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, IT'S READYish. Kickstarter pre-launch is active! Please sign up there if you fancy it. I can then gauge interest which gives me ideas for funding targets, add-ons etc. It should go live in October for an appropriately spooky seasonal Kickstarter! Thank you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aly...
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Coming soon: Candelstone: A Faery Tale
An original graphic novel of magical realism set against the insular world of an isolated 1920's Devon boarding school.
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Louise Simonsen @louistonehill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Goddamnit, NO No Thank you Never in my life You have no consent Stop messing with something that works perfectly well Listen to your users: Nobody likes this
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Step one: stoke the (wrong) fear Step two: tell the world they can deal with the (wrong) fear. All the while avoiding talking about the real problems with AI
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta buy my pots cause actually they may one day grow to be Emrakul The Promised End and destroy all of humanity thats how powerful and important they are. Every time i throw a pot i am tempting eldritch power. Invest now in pots
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Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What. A. Fucking. Day. This has been the best day ever, in the 2 years of doing this. It was worth getting up at 5 and trying to get in to Aberdeen for 10. We never stopped for the first 3 hours. Just customer after customer. People seem to really love what we’re doing.
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Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Still buzzing about something that I can’t talk about, just yet. When we started the business, we never thought that something like this would ever happen to us. I know it’s annoying when folk do things like this, but fuck it. Let me have my moment. It’s really fucking cool.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mocked up the cover of the forthcoming Broken Veil book, for our own amusement — like drawing your band logo on your exercise book before you’ve had any rehearsals. This sort of ritual is important.
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Ser Cas @sercas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What’s that? You want a feminist-punk book about SUFFRAGISTS kicking teeth in with sick JIU-JITSU moves so they can vote, you say? Done in a similar historical-bending style to A Knight’s Tale, YOU SAY? Your wish is our command. W: @victoriamale.bsky.social A: @ikadraws.bsky.social 2027 🗳️
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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Update
Revision of previous post: Everything is bad right now but at least we’ll all be dead in 10 years because Ai is going to kill us all.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So this is where the Proclaimers are at now
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Pete M @gripecat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maxing. The i has been on the internet too long.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
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Vernon Reid @vurnt22.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Live Long & Prosper 🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻🖖
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026
"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways:
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hello. I have now added these recent ink and watercolour drawings/paintings to my ink and watercolour shop. Three feature pylons, one is a tree. If you could share this it would help me because I’m just a one person type of deal, art wise. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater
A nice bendy tree with a squishy head and squidged sunTwo pylons with unabashed pinkness and round cloud Bent wrong mashed up pylon with blue sky and green hill Rusty leaning tilted diagonal pylon with brown
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Yes, yes, I hear the carbon monoxide alarm going off, but I still need to stay here because this is where my knitting community is, you see. Also, the only place I can get news about the Premier League. I have no choice. I'll be OK."
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Aly Fell @alyfell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For ref, should you like to donate: rnli.org
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Conservative Attorney-General, Lord Somervell, warned of the danger of letting small problems fester.
democracies in other parts of the world have gone down because they had not the courage to deal at a sufficiently early stage with movements or with methods which were really subversive and contradictory of the fundamentals of democracy. That is a very true observation for us to have in mind. Those hon. Members who say, "There has been nothing very serious so far" – I am not sure that they are right – would do well to bear in mind … that if there is something here which is radically antagonistic to what we believe are the right methods of constitutional and democratic government, then the sooner this House lays down what it believes to be the right principles and the right methods, the better.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We don’t need to give any of these projects our money. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...
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Paul Schrader Reveals ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ Will Be Made Entirely With AI Instead Of Name Actors: “Those Jobs Are Gone, Babe”
Paul Schrader reveals plans to make ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ entirely with AI-generated characters instead of name actors and dismisses job fears.
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My first review out of Venice: Danny Boyle has smeared shit all over his career by using AI in INK 🎥 and (in a movie about the importance of holding hypocrites to account) has ruined all the exceptional work of his human collaborators by doing so movieswetextedabout.com/ink-stinks-v...
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'Ink' Stinks (Venice 2026 Film Rview)
If I make you a delicious sandwich, which you eat and think is delicious, then inform you that mixed in with 99% of bread, mustard, salami and cheese is 1% sh*t, then it was a sh*t sandwich. If you st...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When I resigned, Brian said he would have nothing to do with it without me , but now has gone for the easier “I’m still involved, just away on holiday” angle - sometimes, I find humans hard to fathom
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Pete M @gripecat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I miss the Pike of Discovery s2.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You're in a bad situation if you long to make a joke about someone you dislike, rack your brains, can't come up with a thing, and have to delegate it to a robot servant.
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Will Maclean @willmac23.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live: 1. Huge Chris 2. Cucumber Gnomon 3. Stacey and the Wanks 4. LobSTARR 5. Mint Bingo 6. Whose Knee Is This 7. The Opposite of Pirates 8. Battenberg! 9. Six Cubic Pigs 10. Chris de Burgh
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Vindicated. ✊🏾🔥 Photos by Ethan Wong
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Right. I have now added six more recent pylon artworks to my ink/watercolour originals shop. Here are the first three. If you could share this post I’d be appreciative. If you want to buy one before sharing that’s also fine. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater
Leaning pylon with pole, a green hillside situation, ink lines, watercolour washes, soft colours, expressive marksWindswept pylon, golden brown landscape with large broad based wonky pylon with loose expressive ink lines and some white highlights on the structure More minimal ghostly pylon, with wet ink lines
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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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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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every vintage gameshow:
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A new London datacentre will produce as much annual CO2 emissions as 8,480 flights to New York www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint
Exclusive: Planning documents show annual emissions from North Ockendon project would be equivalent to 8,480 flights to New York
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026
No, I'm not giving money to JK Rowling. No, I'm not going to Mel Gibson movies. No, I'm not posting on X. No, I'm not subscribing to Substacks. No, I'm not donating to the Republican Party. And no, I'm not using Chat Fucking GPT.
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Pete M @gripecat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I can’t believe our brief sojourn back to Gotham Academy is over. What fun to revisit it, I hope we get to go back again someday. Thank you @brendenfletcher.bsky.social @beckycloonan.bsky.social @karlkerschl.bsky.social @marcoferrarink.bsky.social
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026
It's also gotta be horribly demoralizing to the actual creative people you've hired to work on your production if you give them some "A.i." generated shit and say "LIKE THIS." That's no way to treat people and no way to do the best work with your collaborators.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
one thing i’ve been keeping to myself is that when people talk about automating their workflow i don’t know what that means
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