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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Periodic check-in and yeah, actually having a robot drive me to the airport is still cool as hell

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was a bit confused when I got this alert this morning but thanks 2021-me for recognising that I’d get a good post out of it

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like: this is Amazon’s newest UK DC. This makes sense to me: agricultural land close enough to Swindon to get a few people commuting there, but still cheap land and few neighbours

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

had someone off bluesky round for tea today

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI score funny here. don't know what to read in to it.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

well that's a bleak linkedin subject

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BBC doing England down by ranking this chart by reading score rather than average score, i demand an inquiry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Been a while since I’ve seen the old “where did those extra fingers come from” slop

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I may not discuss it much but I actually abhor the deaths of non-londoners too. here's the london data tho

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"what problem do driverless cars actually solve"

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

find this extremely depressing. don't know if people have convinced themselves this is dangerous because they hate AI, or if people have decided they don't care about safety because they hate AI giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

very funny that I now get press releases for nervous brits about how to safely travel to the US. is it safe to have ice in your water there?

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Online advertising strikes again

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

there is, it's nicely circular, and a length of copper tubing is covered by it:

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Experiencing the football as it’s meant to be: pulling up the search every time I hear shouts

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@eurostarjustin.bsky.social what magic spell is used to make sure every delay is jussssst short of the next refund threshold

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

still find it so funny that it took til 2017 for CSEW to cover fraud and computer misuse, finally started looking, and, oh! fraud is _overwhelmingly_ the most common crime and it's getting worse not better

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i genuinely want to know what americans think europe actually _is_

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

this is my favourite frame from that video. gotta ban the robots, look at all the pavement space it's taking up

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the british state is funding a doomed-to-fail campaign to get the british state to ban robots the british state is desperately trying to expand across the country

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a real issue, and as a pavement user with a disabled child I can confidently say illegally parked cars are not going to be knocked off the top spot for reasons why I have to do dangerous manoeuvres

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A good plain-English description of why I think it’s completely legitimate to say the Supreme Court fucked up _as a matter of law_ www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...