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@gurnaik.bsky.social
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"There seems little point in wasting time on such an explanation since you would be incapable of understanding it." IT consultant at a global megacorp. Not old enough to read DMs. Occasional #Wulferhampton passer-by. He/Him.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15h
Microsoft: The layoffs will continue until morale improves.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 15h
Time to post this again
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15h
i have said this before and its alluded to in the piece, but this is a tech issue, tech no one asked for. In my area many new cars now have stop locks in the steering wheels, and people are installing driveway posts the security is so vulnerable, It's ridiculous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One stolen every four minutes - inside the police battle against vehicle thieves
Officers tell the BBC they are overstretched and struggling to keep up with sophisticated criminals.
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gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 16h
Went to Toolstation and bought some steel-toecap, waterproof boots for £45. Came with a spare set of laces.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16h
Our "independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation" would seemingly be happier in North Korea
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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 16h
Midlands Broadcasting: An analogy Pebble Mill: Imperial era Noele Gordon Crossroads The Mailbox: Crossroads 1982-1988 The Typhoo Building: Crossroads 2001 Portakabin in Solihull municipal landfill (5 years time): Crossroads 2002
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
it’s just great marketing
3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”
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Liberator_hen @lisatea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Controversial opinion: Fox's biscuits are far superior to McVitie's.
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 17h
I wish I hadn't seen this post. It is now all I can think about
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 17h
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen: “The honest thing to do with Mr Zelenskyy is to tell him, to warn him in fact that, listen, we can’t do more, we can’t manage more,” she told the FT “We’ve already done €90bn of loans, that’s €18bn for France. €18bn is really a lot.” www.ft.com/content/45e8...
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Le Pen casts doubt on future EU funding for Ukraine
Also in this newsletter: EU leaders urged to rethink carbon costs for industry
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 17h
You can swap out the Russian government for the UAE or Israel or, for that matter, the Americans; Britain exists as a facilitator, a place to go shopping or buy a mansion - a place where the Establishment will quietly bend to your whims in exchange for a few small pennies and an Arsenal box seat.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20h
There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth
Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
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Paul Garrard @paulgarrard.bsky.social · 20h
Imagine how weak god must be to be offended by words.
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Matt Severn @mattsevern.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Naoroji swore his oath on the Zoroastrian religious text in 1895. Rothschild with the Torah in 1858 after 11 years of demanding his religious beliefs be respected. Five by-elections in a row Bradlaugh was reelected before being allowed to affirm as an atheist. Three centuries of political tradition
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the first MP to take the oath on a Quran was Chaudhry Sarwar in 1997. this isn’t new.
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Pombal Stoat @pombalstoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Favourite bat-shit crazy is the Peugeot E-T16, designed to look like the 205-T16 Rally car.
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Peugeot 205 T16 rally hero returns as an all-electric E-T16 concept | Auto Express
Triple-motor ‘hyperhatch’ could give us a battle for the ages with Renault, if Peugeot decides to build it
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The UK with joint highest current growth and lowest forecast deficit in the G7 is… um… not what you might imagine from reading the newspaper.
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think Chabuddy G should be in charge of the nation’s cybersecurity.
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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Wülferhampton D*mn the #Franks! No #Vikingish mailbox. Discrimination!
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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Linux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it. buff.ly/ULZ7GcC
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Linux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it. | Jose Angel Torres
Six months ago we set out to boot a mainline Linux environment on the iPhone 11, on a bootloader that is entirely our own. As of last night,
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gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'll have no truck with washing lines.
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Everything is like have you watched this, or watched that? "another day, another shitshow", JK Rowling, fucking Strictly Dancing or baking or how I did a murder or "I'm in a cult", and Trump and Bradley Walsh and Romesh Ranganathan and "get ready with me to have a lobotomy" and I am so sick of it x
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
To be clear on what that whole Brexit debacle was: the Sun and the Mail ambushed David Cameron because he was stupid enough to offer them what they wanted. We then argued about it for three years and eventually, our political/media class decided that Johnson and hard Brexit was best *for them*.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 13/10/2026
NEWS! Britain considers cooperating with Europeans to solve all the problems caused by refusing to cooperate with Europeans newsthump.com/2026/10/13/b...
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Britain considers cooperating with Europeans to solve all the problems caused by refusing to cooperate with Europeans
Britain is considering closer cooperation with the European Union to address the trade barriers, bureaucracy and other problems created by Brexit, after Andy Burnham told MPs the current relationsh…
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gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's really useful for extracting data out of XML files. Previously, I'd have to write a multi-line script and then do rounds of testing and tweaking. Now I can do it with a one sentence prompt. But yes, niche application.
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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Britain launched a “world wide lobbying exercise” to overturn a landmark United Nations (U.N.) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, states a private exchange between John Major’s Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd & pro-Israel lobbyist Sir Trevor Chinn in 1992, recently declassified.
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The Register @theregister.com · 13/10/2026
'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people
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'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people
Local media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused
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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
"why does the fridge have an internet connection?" "So it can download security updates" "Why does it need security updates?" "To protect against new vulnerabilities" "Surely if we didn't connect it to the internet, we wouldn't need that..." "Oh"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
After over 5,000 people (including the entire Communist Party Central Committee) were arrested by state thugs in India this week, workers across the country organised blockades and protests against the repression.
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It is, today, 115 years since navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick saw his first Adélie penguin, after which he wrote several pages of notes about their sexual habits, concluded “there seems to be no crime too low for these penguins”, and saw his findings suppressed for 97 years
Adelie penguins jumping onto an ice floe, c.1911. There are three in the main body of the picture. One appears to have just landed, one is landing, the third in mid-air. Photo by Levick, via Wikimedia Commons
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gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I still have one on my chimney stack.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Tuesday
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gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Share your face for the week!
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It Crowd: Richard Ayoade's Shocked Reaction
Alt: It Crowd: Richard Ayoade's Shocked Reaction
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Zᐰphod Beebledoc ❤️❤️➕🟦 (🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally) @zaphodbeebledoc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Share your face for the week!
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Barbie Disgusted
Alt: Disgusted Barbie She saw what you did...
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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The Crazy World of Arthur Brownlow @wazzock.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
This is what BlueSky is for, folks, and why we love it (sometimes)
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I still hate this woman
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Russia knows as well as Ukrainians do that as bad as our terrorism on Ukraine is now, it will be worse if they surrender and let us occupy them. The only person who doesnt know this is Donald.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s too scholarly to be a true hatchet job, but this is still a joy to read. Goodwin is “a drop-out from academic life who prefer[s] the public exercise of his own unedited anxieties to empirical rigour”. More of a scalpel job. Really good stuff
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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Weird how this has been the problem for my whole life, and yet all the policies suggested to fix it by all these people haven't solved the problem, but have made life much worse for everyone while funnelling money into the pockets of well-connected bastards.
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Man Blinking Eyes Meme
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 13/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man.
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is what the players have been told: that everyone's against them. The club did nothing wrong and everyone's against them. Seems like nobody is willing to question what a guilty judgement means... No sympathy for the fans or players.
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Good morning Wülferhampton have a tantalising Tuesday you troublesome tearaways
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sunset from Goatfell, Isle of Arran. Pic: IG/afocusforadventure
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thematthewshow @thematthewshow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I always say that both Londoners and those who live in the regions underestimate the city's size, in relation to the rest of the UK. If London's municipal cycle hire scheme were a city, for example, then it would be the third largest city in England. (if membership became citizenship)
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Great. Americans have discovered the Personal independence Payment. Let joy be unconfined. Anyway to qualify for a Motability car you need 12 points from this assessment - you can combine scores from both categories, but the highest scores you get in each category are the only points you can count:
PIP Points Scores Mobility Activities

1. Planning and following journeys.

a) Can plan and follow the route of a journey unaided. 0 points.
b) Needs prompting to be able to undertake any journey to avoid overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant. 4 points.
c) Cannot plan the route of a journey. 8 points.
d) Cannot follow the route of an unfamiliar journey without another person, assistance dog or orientation aid. 10 points.
e) Cannot undertake any journey because it would cause overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant. 10 points.
f) Cannot follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid. 12 points.

2. Moving around.

a) Can stand and then move more than 200 metres, either aided or unaided. 0 points.
b) Can stand and then move more than 50 metres but no more than 200 metres, either aided or unaided. 4 points.
c) Can stand and then move unaided more than 20 metres but no more than 50 metres. 8 points.
d) Can stand and then move using an aid or appliance more than 20 metres but no more than 50 metres. 10 points.
e) Can stand and then move more than 1 metre but no more than 20 metres, either aided or unaided. 12 points.
f) Cannot, either aided or unaided, –
i) stand; or
ii) move more than 1 metre. 12 points.
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