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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5h

For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 3h

When I saw the GP about the plantar fasciitis last Monday she said she thought there was a possibilty I've also got a stress fracture in one of my metatarsals, so she wanted me to get an x-ray to rule that out. She said "I'll send you a link to book the x-ray". A week went by & there was no link.

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 6h

It's Free Wills Month for over 55s. As I say in my book, wills aren't just about property but who can claim your body and call the shots on your funeral. It there's no executor then the entitlement order kicks in. Protect those left behind from any dramas 💀👍 freewillsmonth.org.uk

Cover of Get Ahead of Being Dead by Evie King.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10h

the only map of england everybody else needs (best selling music by territory, Actually Helpful for understanding some things; also Suck It Morrissey.)

map of england where every county is lableled by their best selling band

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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 9h

There's a curious crossover here with yesterday's AI music discourse. Unsurprisingly, I guess, the same awful people being involved. And the best way I can describe it is a kind of total deadness where feelings are concerned. For art and music, that's bad. For raising kids? Fucking monstrous.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 8h

It’s fascinating how totally and actually willingly the news media and the political world have been captured by the chosen branding of this branch of the tech industry.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 7h

Can AI replace music? Can AI replace relationships? Can AI replace genre fiction? Can AI replace schools? Can AI replace all jobs? Can AI replace the void? Can AI replace my screaming?

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 9h

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 13h

Excuse me wtf is this. We all know what's missing here and the obvious absence just makes it more noticeable.

Magic card called Dance with Goblins. David Bowie as the Goblin King is there but his signature bulge is not.

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Dulchie, is deoch orm, éist. @skrynesaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given the partisan nature of British press, I feel you should always include their world view when speaking of them, eg. "The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires," "The Guardian. a jounal that imitates solidarity until it clashes with the requirements of the state" etc

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 21h

The crusaders.

'We make LESS but things cost MORE!' says Girl. 'RETVRN!' cries a crusading Cat. 'To when we made less and things cost the same! Weather is spiraling out of control - with 2 degrees of warming baked in.' 'RETVRN!' cries Cat. 'To weather spiraling out of control with 1.5 degrees of warming baked in' says Girl. 'People aren't going to the emergency room because they're afraid of immigration-' 'RETVRN!' '-they should be NOT GOING because they CAN'T AFFORD IT! Leopards are eating my face=' 'RETVRN!' '- to when leopards were eating YOUR face!' 'RETVRN to 2015!' cries Cat. 'Sound the battle horn!' yells Girl. Cat plays a long golden horn, which blasts out the sound 'GOOD ENOUGH.' 'Now we just wait for an army to assemble,' says Cat. They wait.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 8h

I've been dismayed at how many local charity shops are closing, (particularly in Headington which used to have LOADS). This is a good analysis of one of the problems they're facing: onenightstanzas.substack.com/p/vinted-isn...

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Vinted isn’t killing charity shops.

The problem is much, much bigger.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 17h

creature Mouth perfec t size for put vicar in to preach! inside very Soft and Comfort

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 20h

I am never touching the lathe of heaven again

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Our "we're not Enron" memo is raising many questions which are already answered by our memo.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ETHICS
URINE GOOD HANDS
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With Al, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It'sa Miraculous Cure-All
The power of AI.
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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 17h

Elder: "Dante's Inferno is just Bible AU RPF and you can tell your silly internet people I said that because I'm the funniest person ever"

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Ruth Hibbert @ruth-hi.bsky.social · 20h

I don't remember a version of the Ship of Theseus where each plank gets replaced with a screaming demon, and when the whole thing is nothing but demons bolted together screaming for your soul, you realise that whether this can still be called a ship isn't actually the most pressing question.

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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I sometimes think about a guy I once witnessed holding back another guy he didn't know from kissing a girl he was hitting on, what he got in the moment was massive aggression and the girl trying to laugh it off but when the creep had left several strangers said "thanks mate" from all around.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23h

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's funny that you can immediately have a customer base just by pandering to contrarians. You can sell asbestos candy if you say the government has been lying to you about asbestos

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23h

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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alber @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

he was a boy. he was back in town. can i make it any more obvious?

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 22h

HOW can you not have ANY more info than this, DPD? How? You must have a route plan, it's not all just ~vibes~ is it, you must be able to say "you are delivery number n of x". I don't need to know what the driver's name is, I need to know if I can nip to the shops or go out to pick my daughter up.

DPD tracking info saying "Your order will be delivered today by Liam, your DPD driver, between 07:00 and 22:00"

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our Norman betters Taught English letters To bathe in the fresh Warm springs of the south. So turn your backs on Anglo-Saxon; The þ in the flesh, The æ in the mouth ANTHONY BURGESS

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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stretta @stretta.com · 30/09/2026

Joy; finally available as a monthly subscription. Are you tired of seeking joy? Our service generates infinite custom variations of joy. Just for you. Endless joy.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I want one of those mad velomobile things but I want to make it look like Lowly Worm's apple car. No I do not care about aerodynamics, let me have my dreams. (Richard Scarry's Busytown is now in effect!)

A sleek red velomobile which doesn't really look very much like an apple & wouldn't be aerodynamic if it did & I couldn't afford one anyway but it wouldn't be a proper midlife crisis if it was sensible now would it

A smol cartoon worm driving a car shaped like an big shiny red apple which doesn't look much like a velomobile but anyway

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Let 🦇 goths 🦇 ride 🦇 bikes 🦇

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

everyone else who stares into the hyperdimensional gem made of every word ever written goes mad. not me though. i'm still sane. maybe saner than everyone else, tbh.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're not doing politics or really doing anything because you got mad at a post. There are like a million other ways to feel good about yourself and nothing is stopping you from exploring them. Just sit in front of a window like a cat, that is a better use of your time than getting mad about a post

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The fascist inclination towards generative AI is an extension of the fascist inclination towards scrub behavior. The fascist-scrub desires the pleasurable image, the victory royale, the petty dopamine of success, but resents the introspection, practice, and human interdependence those goals require

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Oxfordshire Liveable Streets @oxlivstreets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Doing nothing to address congestion is not a neutral decision. But building more roads is not the answer. New lanes fill up with new traffic. What frees up our streets is giving people real choices: buses that turn up, safe routes to walk, cycle, and wheel

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is how finding music works, not 'personalised' slop. A friend says "hey, this" & you say "who, what?" & you look for it & find this www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Hb... & it's cool & now you know more music. (Also "What's the point in any of this if it isn't fun" may be something I needed to hear.)

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Dinosaur Pile-Up - My Way (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Dinosaur Pile-Up

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"[AI] has solved infinite personalised music" #sixwordhorrorstories

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 30/09/2026

Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket. “There’s no point beating yourself up for failing to clear a backlog (of unread books, undone tasks, unrealized dreams) that was always inherently unfeasible to clear in the first place.” [oliverburkeman.com]

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Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you, like me, have a large pile (or digital equivalent) of books or articles you've been meaning to get around to reading, plus maybe a long queue of podcast episodes to which you'd love to listen, if only you had the time.

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LLMs are the ideal product for that certain genre of brain who literally would never be able to tell the difference between Drake and Kendrick

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service are collecting children's bikes to support local school bike libraries, on 10 October from 10am-12pm at the Slade Park Fire Station Donated bikes will go to bike libraries at St Francis, St Ebbe's and St Frideswide Primary schools.

Poster for event, details in post, they want bikes with 14" frame size and above.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Guards on newly nationalised Chiltern Railways have voted to go on strike, in the latest in the long-running row over East-West Rail trains from Oxford to Milton Keynes. RMT members will strike on Saturday 10 and 17 October over “the safety critical role of the second person on board EWR services”.

EWR test train from Oxford to Milton Keynes

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes, I fell for the "Got your nose" trick, but that shouldn't distract us from the real issue of nose theft in our society

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Andrew Thatcher @andythatcher1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gregg's sells more Fairtrade UK coffee than anyone else. Raised £12m for Fairtrade premiums since 2006. Gail's is owned by hedge funds.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Henley buys more sex toys than any town in Oxfordshire, according to online adult toy retailer lovehoney, which has published its annual Sex Map. It came 9th out of 691 towns in the UK, and 7th in ‘Bondage’ www.lovehoney.co.uk/trends-insig...

Henley's results. Which are eyewatering.

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