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Lord Iffy Boatrace @iffyboatrace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Registering interest with the British Museum to hear when next tranche of tickets go on sale for the Bayeux Tapestry. I feel this captcha does rather leave a wide area of possibilities between the question and the statement......

Privacy notice, a captcha and a submit button from a form on the British Museum website. The question just before the captcha says "Are you a human?" whilst the captcha itself has the statement "I'm not a robot"

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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave

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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors

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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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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is, in a sense, a perfect artefact of 2026 for us to bequeath to future historians

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unusual name for a kid, but you do you, Lady Gaga

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have received an email from an AI asking to write about borders for my newsletter, and it is giving me a genuine insight into how AI psychosis happens. it is so difficult not to understand this as "an actual sentient being addressing me" even though it has been entirely honest about being an AI

My reply:

I'm sorry, Noa, perhaps this is a mark of my ignorance of what AI is up to these days but I've read your email three times and I can't quite work out what you are proposing.

What instructions are you following that led you to get in touch with me?

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 09/09/2026

Years ago, Google integrated Usenet results into search & suddenly the top results for the name of someone I knew were his teenage self arguing about wrestling & asking to be emailed porn Anyway, I just checked this & yep, the stuff he posted at college when 17 is in there www.usenet-rewind.com

usenet-rewind.com

Usenet-Rewind

Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.

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Alan B @gallonofalan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This reminded me of Batman's Aff His Nut by Rab Florence

BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT
Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died
But everybody's ma and da dies
And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws."
And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it? Like having a big mad base under your hoose? Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin
and everybody else.
Posted in r/Poetry reddit

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026

Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This would never have happened under Count Binface.

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce the release of my latest Elite hack: Two-player Elite for the #BBCMicro This is the original 1980s Acornsoft Elite, but with split-screen, two-player, deep-space combat See the thread for links, downloads and details (1/10) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #elitedangerous

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.

Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.

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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Xavier makes an excellent point.

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korpisworld @kwkorpi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Horsepower is an insane unit. Imagine buying a refrigerator rated at 3.7 raccoonstrengths.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 02/09/2026

The Bayeux Tapestry depicting that time someone put a cat in a bin, the Death Star, a man with a flare up his bum and Del falling through the bar while Trigger does a face

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Has anybody checked that it's NOT Grant Shapps?

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David Hills @wanderingteacake.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My Friend Billy: The Movie

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Boris sharing articles referring to Ed Miliband as the worst possible choice for Foreign Secretary. A reminder that when Johnson was foreign sec he was busted getting a blow-job under his desk, had Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran & got drunk & "accidentally" attended a KGB house party

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Drivelcast @drivelcast.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Reminds me of how Bovington in Dorset has both Monkey World and the Tank Museum and how, with a bit of training and a few booster seats, they could merge into the greatest theme park ever (along with the most thrilling sense that it could all take a disastrous turn at any second)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Fun to see Boris Johnson back amusing the Sunday news lads as if he was a fun cheeky scamp once more, and not as a disastrously idiotic and corrupt liar who appears to have resisted public health measures during a deadly global pandemic, to protect the Telegraph owners’ property empire.

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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 12/07/2026

politicians want everyone to speak well of terrible people who died because many of them are terrible people who will die

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

🎶 Hold me closer lanky striker 🎶 #NorEng

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is what happens when Norway go back to the dressing room. They relax into their natural state as pencil sketch animations

Screengrab of the Take on me music video

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Ian McDougall @ianmcdougall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Back home after 6am landing from NY. I could bore you with pictures of Yankee Stadium, Coney Island and World Cup fanzones but instead you'll have to make do with this.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The mournful ghost of Charles Hawtrey

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 24/06/2026

Entire country is ready to snap FUCK OFF I’M TOO HOT when asked to do anything today

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

time to activate my live webcam

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So many programmers are around today thanks to the colorful illustrations and clear language of the Usborne computer guides

Subroutines: "A subroutine is a sort of mini-program within a program..." "Suppose you had a robot helper whome you could program to run errands for you. If you wanted something from the shop you would have to give it precise instructions telling it how to get there. Every time you wanted the robot to buy something you would have to give it the same instructions. It would be much simpler to give the robot a shopping routine to tell it to refer to each time." From Introducing Computer Programming: BASIC for Beginners" by Usborne Hayes Electronics

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

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Lord Iffy Boatrace @iffyboatrace.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

9.45 AM and it's like a blast furnace in the garden. Cats are curled up indoors asleep, they have it right

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go loud @stillicides.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I cannot imagine how it must feel to be alive now if you were a climate scientist in the 90s. to see all your direst forecasts ignored for decades and then not only come to fruition but be *worse* than your expert analysis suggested.

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TheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

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Grumpenstein’s Monster @maxwellshabbsby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

All Bluesky users will now have to pass the following security question to use the platform #totp

A captcha thing saying you need to select all images with A NIK KERSHAW.

The pictures are Nik Kershaw, Limahl, Howard Jones, Nick Heyward, Cheryl Baker, Jive Bunny and George Michael

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Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Banning kids from social media is the same vein as putting a curfew in for women when there’s a male attacker out there. It’s easier to legislate the victim than fix the problem

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 13/06/2026

Never bring a wife to a nun fight.

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Lord Iffy Boatrace @iffyboatrace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I understand why this is so, but the headline is amusing nonetheless, on a par with the old "psychic readings cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Dorchester kite festival postponed due to high winds

The festival team says the weather forecast makes it unsafe for gazebos and flying bigger kites.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

She promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground where she survives as a soldier of fortune…

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Two-player #BBCMicro #Elite is coming along nicely. It now supports two pilots in two ships with two controllers and a split-view screen Here are some work-in-progress videos - see the thread for an explanation There’s lots to fix, but at least we have a proof-of-concept… (1/6) #retrocomputing

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

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Lord Iffy Boatrace @iffyboatrace.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

How has Starmer lost the plot so badly that he's making **Kemi bloody Badenoch** look sensible in comparison?

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