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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Couldn't finish a tictac after the first goal went in. Didn't seem to be up for the physical challenge as the game went on. #nffc

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A new gold statue showing Donald Trump, naked and balanced atop the back of a meek man, has been unveiled today in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg. The eight-foot installation, titled The Orange Plague, is attributed to "The King of Injustice."

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just astonishing to listen to...

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watched episode 3 of #TheWargame last night. On the one hand it's a stark illustration of how few options you end up with as a result of allowing Defence procurement to become an exercise in buying small amounts of expensive equipment trying to cover all bases but ending up with no mass or scale...

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have been watching "The Wargame" on Sky One. So many lessons landing with politicians who didn't want to know when in power. Decades of under funding and messed up priorities.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 21/09/2026

One of the most influential voices of the American Revolution: Thomas Paine. Paine's incendiary critiques of tyranny, organised religion, slavery, and extreme inequality, have kept his work on humanist bookshelves for over two centuries. #HumanistBookshelf

‘Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.’

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 19/09/2026

Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Having watched highlights of the Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea games on MOTD I think we are safely outside of the bottom three performances this week. Strange. I thought they were all "big teams" with all of the best players. #NFFC

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 09/09/2026

I can't emphasise enough how important it is to ignore the hype and anthropomorphism and actually dig into what technically happened within the system. It is potentially scary technology but it's not mysterious or magical. Decent example here. youtu.be/jxM35ij5VGg?...

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The Truth about OpenAI’s “Secret AI Civilizations”

YouTube video by Cal Newport

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

This is very good. I feel somewhat reassured, but angry at the irresponsibility of the people doing the crazy stuff. Points I would pick out: - Long-running and unsupervised prompt loops to LLMs with access to hacking tools are obviously dangerous ("you tied a weed-whacker to the back of a dog..."

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Brilliant quote from a meeting this morning - "Sorry, I didn't hear what you were saying, I only heard what you said".

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That Hull City strip is seriously retro - 1890s practically.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thinking of starting a blog on my random airport whisky purchases called "Down, Sip, Avoid"... Too many in the last category at the moment.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you've ever supported a team that had a spell in lower league football then you will definitely recognise the desperation that could lead to such behaviour. Pretty sure I've found myself in a crowd shouting "that way!", but this is next level stuff.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I thoroughly enjoyed meeting the world's press: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsa...

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Count Binface meets the world's press

YouTube video by Count Binface

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's so good. Really note perfect and this has been such a feelgood moment despite the nasty motives in calling it. Thank you @countbinface.bsky.social for the joy and sanity and pride you have brought whatever the outcome

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wow. Never knew that the Dead Kennedys had done a cover of Viva Las Vegas. Surprisingly good. #BBCRadio6Music

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For weeks I've been fiddling with the orientation of my laptops and monitors to minimise interference with DAB radio on a window sill behind them. Turns out the problem was a noisy power bank just beneath the radio, having just upgraded to a newer one with more sockets and built in protection.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wow. What a stage! Chapeau Matthieu Van Der Poel. This new final stage route is giving incredible racing. (Obvs you still can't beat Cavendish leaving the entire field in his wake) #TdF

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 24/07/2026

POV: you fell asleep reading philosophy and your brain decided to make a group chat out of it. What a fever dream. The dead humanist philosophers WhatsApp group is relentless... Sisyphean, if you will.

Bertrand Russell (02:50):
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Humanists UK (reply, 02:51):
"Ok thanks"

Albert Camus (02:52):
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Simone de Beauvoir (02:55):
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Humanists UK (03:00):
"Guys, please, it's 3:00am"

It's a joke about famous humanist philosophers "group texting" their quotes at 3am, disturbing whoever runs the Humanists UK account.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Football 1 Anti-Football 0 🇪🇸🏆⚽ #WorldCup

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

French today American sub-dialect yesterday Looking forward to the day that Wordle returns to posing puzzles using the King's English. #Wordle

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Can't help taking a closer look every time Nico Williams gets a mention in the commentary of Spain's dismantling of France. #nffc

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Has anyone built an AI with a grumpy persona, as opposed to the usual bouncy optimism? An AI that starts "what is it now?" and ends its results with something like "but I only looked in a few places so that could all be just a bored hallucination".... Or just dismisses your prompt as worthless...

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Wordle 1,835 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 After three rounds of guessing in English, I decided the answer had to be in American instead. This is a two letter abbreviation, not a five letter word.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The more I watch Scotland at this World Cup the less convinced I am that Scott McTominay has ever scored a goal. On the other hand Scott McKenna put in a vintage display of errors against Brazil that reminded me of Forest's first season back in the Premier League - out of his depth and too slow.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Over the last few years there would always be rumours circulating, usually in the January transfer window, that Forest needed to sign a new striker, and that Che Adams was an ideal candidate. Every time I watch Scotland play I feel a sense of relief that it never happened. #nffc

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Lovely quote from the FT this morning.

An excerpt from an article that reads: Asked by a reporter whether he was confident Iran would give up its nuclear ambitions, John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican senator, answered: “Unless you were homeschooled by a day drinker, no one’s confident that Iran is going to do anything.”

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Had the dubious pleasure of being asked to review and approve a reworking of a set of intranet SharePoint pages that I own, where the team were instructed to use CoPilot to generate new summaries and breakdown structures. I've never seen the "AI slop" version of what I do for a living before... 😱😡

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It is absolutely the perfect metaphor for this myopic and utterly thick US administration. Government By Unintended Consequences.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Having called a meeting for one of our global technical communities on 24th June this year, I have now become very aware of Fête nationale du Québec. Nice time of year for a public holiday...

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Can't help the feeling that England need to play a warmup/familiarisation match at Lords before hosting a Test Match. #EngVsNZ

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Why am I being fed with unfiltered talking points from Nigel Farage during the news segment of BBC 6 Music? Tell me if it's actually raining, don't give me a string of complaints and dire predictions about the weather from people who make a living by never being happy about it.

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snowded.bsky.social @snowded.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A polemical post about an emerging problem involving straw-manning, progressive antecedence, epistemic evasion, and attention harvesting by the trivial pretending to depth of praxis thecynefin.co/of-poachers-...

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Of Poachers and Gamekeepers - The Cynefin Co

The Senchus Mór, the great compendium of early Irish law compiled in the eighth century, states that blotches would appear on a jurist’s cheek if he

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🔥 Now over 75,000 signatures! So an increase of 5K in less than a day. Keep going folks. Share to friends.

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Shame the article didn't also cover the effect that data centres have on the local water table due to excessive cooking demands. Can't help thinking there needs to be better cost-benefit analysis on this, but how do you limit frivolous use? Send every user a carbon emissions fine for their usage?

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Just watched MOTD highlights. Two superb goals scored. Three defensive messes let us down. Very lucky decision for the bald guy on the home team. #nffc

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wish you could best those multi-coloured Pac Man ghosts in the flesh? Now you can. A life-sized Pac Man arena in Singapore is turning a classic arcade game into a real world experience. 👻👻👻 Run! #games #arcade #pacman

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Ian Gibson @ianthesonofgib.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

.... and relax ... Maybe just the one manager next season? #nffc

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