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Brilliant episode of a great show, this. Get it round your ears. Proper Hero moves from the captain and crew of Glowworm.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 5h

Steam sale started last night. Seriously tempted to rebuy the whole of Destiny 2, just so I can get out of the Microsoft Store, rather than actually buy a new game.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While looking for a Murderbot gif for Today’s Mood I came across this which made me laugh so much

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminise a band name The Nyack Suede

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night’s Saint Etienne gig was marvellous. Really going to miss them.

The Et. standing in front of a big screen, playing Light A Motorway, at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Bob, Sarah, Pete, Debsy.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this a fucking dagger I see before me?

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d also note we‘re still going with “Look, first things first: they’ve got a point.”

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've just discovered that Nona Hendryx (Labelle etc) made a Captain Beefheart tribute album with Gary Lucas - can't really think of anything that could be more up my street tbh, can't work out how I missed it until now. Here they are playing live: youtu.be/VVkv0wO8vaQ?...

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Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas “Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles” The World of Captain Beefheart

YouTube video by Caroline Conejero

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you really don’t want to delete your Facebook account, just replace all your personal photos with headshots of the most lawfaring celebrities you can think of, then sit back and watch as Zuckerberg puts endorsements in their mouths.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One day, Microsoft will find a way to package Copilot that means people don’t hate it. One day. Got to just be a packaging issue, right?

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Some Melodious Plot @somemelodiousplot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'So Hard' contains one of my favourite Neil lyrics: 'I'm always hoping you'll be faithful but you're not I suppose We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal so whose matches are those?' The couplet rhymes are just perfect (and so very English).

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

right down to the fact that the two characters in the song are losers and will not, in fact, be making any money

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

was reminded of this classic by some chat at work today. the song of our modern era www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyeW...

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Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (Version 2) (HD)

YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do hope he listens to Reason(TM).

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.

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Richard Flowers @richarddominic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lib Dem Conference has *PASSED* the motion to restore Trans Rights. In the hall the vote looked around 10:1 in favour.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing I like about the X-Men is that if you join it doesn’t matter if you were an assassin or raised in a murder cult or worshipped as a god, at some point they will make you try to teach geometry to a bunch of fifteen year olds.

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Boromir's final moments A three cel setup. Now listed: ebay.io/m/nIgPgt

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Umm, Matthew, the only reason people started using “hard” right was because your paper wanted a term for the nutjob wing of the Tories wanting to do Far Right things without being called Far Right, because that would clearly associate them with working class thugs, rather than Eton-educated ones.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Earl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to Diana

Princess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair".

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

in the dystopian future of 2027: michael gove is PM www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zV...

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The Wargame | Official Trailer | Sky

YouTube video by Sky TV

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stephen Collins: My cartoon was intended to be cautionary tale against giving Michael Gove any responsibility at a time of global peril. Sky: At long last we have allowed Michael Gove to try and save the world as imagined in classic Guardian cartoon “Don’t Let Michael Gove Try To Save The World.”

Stephen Collins cartoon Michael Gove vs the Aliens.

Gove convinces David Cameron to let him fight aliens, citing his journalistic experience, and then fails.

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Tom N @aquatics64.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wake up guys there's a new Doctor Who

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, this is a 4K UHD restoration of Mr. Benn. Just what the world needs.

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Mags @magnumificent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lorry carrying a shipment of Worcestershire sauce from a brewery in Leicestershire was driving through Loughborough when it ploughed head-on into a Lamborghini Murciélago. 1/7

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 17/09/2026

Amazing speech by Carney to the European Parliament - free movement, common market, ... Not hard to see how his stint as Chairman of the Bank of England through the worst of the Brexit years influenced him. Well done Brexit and Trump for achieving what I never thought would be possible.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh no. We’ve put Radio 2’s thing with Simple Minds on, and my God does both how he looks and the way he moves make it feel like a Bob Mortimer sketch.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If Bigotsville, Oxfordshire really want some independence, make the shits a Principality. Make Andrew work for a living again.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think we need to stop pretending Nandy is merely a complete void that is destroying the economy through her absence. She’s doing this destruction deliberately, because she’s quite capable of speaking up when there are bigots to support.

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Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"they don't make comedy like this anymore" says the production company whose job it is to make comedy like this

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15/09/2026

For no reason, fun fact: Ed Sheeran played two cameos in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). One is a First Order stormtrooper, the other a Resistance fighter battling on Exegol. Both sides.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yay, just absolutely smashed my fingers up being too enthusiastic in VR, like it’s 2021.

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 14/09/2026

No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.

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Iain @iainl7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Half-tempted to upgrade my Meta Quest 3S to a Steam Frame simply because using the former involves agreeing to a series of EULAs that are collectively longer than Frankenstein.

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