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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The maddening thing is that the BBC can, uniquely, offer the opposite of AI algorithmic recommendation. We can get that anywhere. It’s not what people want. What’s missing is expert, human, curation. Knowledgable people you trust *telling you* that something’s worth watching. That’s what the BBC has

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the question is, if we're closing down diagnosis as a route, what extra support are we providing to all these neurotypical children who seem to be having a really rough time of it in school?

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No “Mr Robot”, “Midnight Mass” or “From”

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i saved thousands on my car insurance by returning to the sea

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

SF WRITER: I wrote "All Glory To The Pansexual Socialist Space Republic" to explore radical alternatives to capitalism in a science fiction setting SF FANS, years later: We need more non-political science fiction, like the classic "All Glory To The Pansexual Socialist Space Republic"

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I really wish just /one/ major news org would deal with the “AI goes rogue” / “10% chance of killing all humans” stories with as much clarity as this…

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

aleximas.substack.com/p/will-ai-so... The best blog ever written on AI and growth, by a clear margin. By @aleximas.bsky.social

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Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth?

Probably not. Here is why.

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A lost love letter to the North - our summer bestseller - The Moon is Making by Storm Jameson. Forgotten for nearly a century, we’ve brought this novel back to life for a whole new generation of readers. Set in, and inspired by, the small seaside town of Whitby 💜 #booksky #whitby

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New slogan for AI: THIS MACHINE THRILLS FASCISTS.

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Coming soon - six new editions of forgotten classics, each one inspired by a building, place or landmark. Roll on 2027! #booksky

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pallas's cats stalking prey always look like they're trying to get invited to a party but are too shy to just ask if they can come

Pallas kitten looking out from large pipe

Pallas kitten peeping from behind something

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 02/08/2026

She's a completely committed tankie. Should never have been readmitted, and Burnham should withdraw the whip from her again.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Like a cunty cockroach

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Diane Abbott calls Russia’s full scale invasion against Ukraine, which last night murdered nine civilians and earlier this week killed an 18 month old baby “The NATO campaign against Russia” youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...

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YouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/07/2026

I'm proud to announce this morning that I ALSO failed to do basic due diligence to air gap my hacking software and it immediately proceeded to do exactly what it was programmed for the only conclusion to be made is that the singularity has arrived and you should give me large sums of money

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Abram Games London Zoo, Regent's Park (Poster for London Transport), 1976

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In all this talk of “Making plans for Nigel” has anyone considered that Polanski might just want him to be happy in his work? Maybe with a future in a British Steel?

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Cool, awesome, quick question: why do amphetamines put me to sleep

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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I got a job in a recording studio. The results were mixed.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026

Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/09/2025

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 12/07/2026

How many AI models does it take to change a lightbulb? That's a great question, which shows that you care about illumination! You don't just want to see - you want to be seen. Unfortunately no such thing as a lightbulb has ever existed or will ever exist.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/07/2026

I mean this explains quite a lot about experiencing social media in the 2020's www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/07/2026

When something is so obviously a terrible idea, it is ok to just...say no thanks and ban it. We don't have to wait 15 years and then slowly ban if after a whole bunch of irreperable damage has been done to individuals and society.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You can't tell an LLM not to 'hallucinate', to be honest, or avoid mistakes, or stay faithful to the source material. The wrong answers are created by exactly the same process as the right ones, it can't tell them apart. It's like giving it the instruction: 'Do this, but don't do it by doing it.'

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sunn O))) at Troxy last night. Unique. Felt as much as heard.

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Iain Roberton @iainroberton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Regardless of the fact that the Graun has a partnership with OpenAI, both these questions are as stupid as they are irrelevant. Who actually wants to read a statistical simulacrum of a novel created by something with no lived experience or any ability to feel? What could it possibly elucidate?

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

JOHN LENNON: Imagine there's no heaven... BLUESKY: Um, wow; I'd rather imagine a world where the criminals in this administration are held accountable for their actions, but you do you, I guess 🙄

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

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