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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI boosters take it for granted that the best business model is "flood the market with spam." But it isn't! That's actually a very marginal business model! A far better business model is to create one thing that people really like. I wrote about this a while back: medium.com/@gwenckatz/d...

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“Don’t Be Left Behind”

In the endless dustups over AI use in publishing, one assertion is presented over and over again as if it is self-evident fact: “If you…

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Heaven, heaven is a place, A place where nothing, Nothing ever happens.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

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If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?

A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“Fem-puter know what do!” (I think my husband and I use this phrase at least once a month)

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/06/2026

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“The nuclear mutant pigs are out of control” sounds like a Suede lyric from 1994

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

So, they literally parsed a stool?

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Why should I stop using em dashes? Why should I stop listing things in threes? They’re the ones who suck

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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

INFERNO. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This may or may not be the sleeve of the new Boards of Canada LP #boc #boardsofcanada #inferno #unnaturallyexcited

Title card from the Season 7 Doctor Who story “Inferno”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

PETERBOROUGH STANDARD - Friday, April 18th, 1980
The memories live on
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But for the second week running Durant had to leave the field injured, this time suffering eye trouble.
The winning goal was another 25-yard shot - again from Blackstones' central defender - coming from their second chance of the game.
Gary Cooper, recently signed from Old Boys, had a good debut.

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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New rule: newspapers who encourage their readers to buy a second home in the countryside that sits empty eight months of the year aren't allowed to blame the housing crisis on immigrants

Cornish seaside village, seen from nearby woodland, hills and woods in distance

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

In all seriousness, what training do you need to use AI, exactly? I keep seeing people say we need to learn it but it's a plain English chatbot that lies to you and kisses up. What am I supposed to be learning here?

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Hazell Dean @hazelldean.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Trans people have ALWAYS existed

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I have eaten the 2 ouncie patties that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for bouble stacks . Forgive me for the inconveniece There is a meat Shortage.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I use the internet on my home computer like God intended. My smartphone is my "internet pager" alerting me to things I need to do when I get home. Where the internet lives.

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Ancient Trans Trender Nicole @transitivenicole.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Heh @annaleen.bsky.social new book about a graduate student slime mold visiting ancient Pompeii. Preordered.

From bestselling author Annalee Newitz, A Wall Is Also a Road is a thought-provoking science fiction adventure about the meaning of life and love, seen through the many eyes of an alien grad student studying a familiar backwater planet. Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Ryka Aoki, and Martha Wells.

Gardenpath is a graduate student in biology who desperately wants to pass their exams with the highest honor possible: a prize given to scholars who discover something truly novel in the universe. Gardenpath also happens to be an amoeba–a slime mold, to be exact–from an ancient civilization that dwells in a vast network of towers between the stars. Seeking their prize, Gardenpath heads to a remote, dangerous planet that other researchers have dismissed as dead and uninteresting. There, they are surprised to discover a complicated ecosystem unlike anything they've ever encountered–including some peculiar, multicellular animals who seem to have language and culture.

To learn more about these animals, Gardenpath changes their shape to resemble one of them. And that's how they meet a creature named Murtis, who lives in a city she calls Pompeii and works in a brothel known to locals as "the lupanar." Unfazed by a visitor who says she's from the stars, Murtis takes Gardenpath into her care, introducing her to the seaside tourist town full of immigrants and shopkeepers who are just trying to get by.

A Wall Is Also a Road is a story about what happens when the alien becomes familiar–and beloved. Gardenpath expected to finish their research, present their discovery, and take their place among the decorated scholars of the floating cities. But when they look at their wild new friend Murtis’s sensor bulb, attached to a bizarre electro-chemical control system, they begin to realize there’s more to life than academic achievement. They're not sure what it is, but they're going to use science to find out.

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Missing Doctor Who Recovered! The Film is Fabulous! team are pleased to announce the recovery of two missing episodes of Doctor Who, from the serial entitled, ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’: The Nightmare Begins (Broadcast: 13th Nov 1965) Devil’s Planet (Broadcast: 27th Nov 1965)

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

another favourite scientific headline, following confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity by observations of the 1919 solar eclipse. "Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry" is a beautiful sentiment. i would have that on a t-shirt

"Lights all askew in the heavens. Men of science more or less agog over results of eclipse observations. Einstein theory triumphs. Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry."

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14/02/2026

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

"I say! Are you Georgina?"
The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short
curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and
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her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was
rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's.
"No," she said. "I'm not Georgina."
"Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?"
"I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl.
I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I
can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any
fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if
you don't."
"Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't
care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway,
you look like a boy."

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 30/01/2026

The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs.

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Jon Dies At The End @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I don’t want to worry anyone but Digging for Britain has just said that the largest UK archaeological dig is currently taking place a stone’s throw from where MR James set A Warning to the Curious.

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Good list! I just remembered, Spaced “Leaves” ❤️

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Sapphire & Steel - that was… unexpected

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

Mr. Rogers: Even though machines might move or sound like they're talking, they don't have feelings.

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TardisTimegirl @izskinner.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A rebel’s been sighted, sir! On this day in 1966, the first episode of Doctor Who 'The Highlanders' was broadcast. The videotapes were wiped just two months after the last episode aired. #DoctorWho The Highlanders, 3D Animation

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

Bob Belcher, from Bob’s Burgers, the best cartoon dad

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ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“When a mummy computer and a daddy computer love each other very much…”

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Dave @sheepfilms.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Phew, I made something in time for Halloween!

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Hubby made me the most amazing birthday card #janeisjudgingyou

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, drinking tea and fixing her laser-stare on someone out of frame

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

If you see this, post a chef.

Morwenna Banks as Jill Baptiste on “The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer: Masterchef 1995”. A creepy woman with greasy hair and manic stare has severed her ear, cooked it, and served it to judge, Lloyd Grosman.

Vic Reeves as Lloyd Grosman. Lloyd has a vastly inflated prosthetic, egg-shaped forehead, and tiny knives and forks as his fingertips

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I had a lump in my throat reading this - an incredible, surgical, laser-guided takedown of bigotry. Brav@ 👏

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Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Yes. Yes I did zoom into that photo to try and read the labels. What of it?

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