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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I regret to inform you that the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie you think just came out was released 21 years ago, making it four years longer from that to now than from that to the BBC adaptation. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDJ-...

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NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Official Trailer | Netflix

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Agents’ did not try to hack Wikipedia. People did. It’s really not that hard to grasp. You are responsible for the software you run. Sam Altman should be prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act. Or (probably many by now) relavent local equivalents.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I was stuck in a castle with Richard E. Grant for a week there’s no way I’d make past the first meal time before demanding the finest wines available to humanity.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had no idea the third one took such a turn.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are not ready for how good this is. Absorb the data first, then horizontal axis, then vertical. Absolute 😗👌

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sport is over because Robot Wars exists now.

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, of course those hippy Marxists at the Financial Times would say that.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/09/2026

The lesson from this week is that most of the UK media thinks Hot Fuzz is a horror movie about a woke city cop destroying a perfectly admirable local community.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

With caveats needed (this is too little, far too late & some of what Miliband said in the full speech was more disappointing)… I am so heartened to see a UK Foreign Secretary finally willing to make this case in Parliament. This may have felt impossible just weeks ago.

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 06/09/2026

RIP Emmeline Pankhurst, you would have loved this giant balloon shaped like your head in the Manchester Arndale Centre.

A giant balloon shaped like the head of Emmeline Pankhurst in the Manchester Arndale Centre.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s called Tetris because it uses every shape you can make with four squares.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026

almost word for word

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New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI cannot lie to you. It is a piece of software which failed to follow your instructions. AI cannot escape instructions. It’s just failing the premise of its design. AI is not smart, it does not have agency, it cannot choose or deceive. It’s just badly made.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I manage M365 accounts for two different small charities. Neither received one word of advance notice of this to any admin e-mail. Just one morning logins stopped working.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Very disappointed not one outlet seems to have gone with the headline, ’Tim Curry escapes to the one place untouched by capitalism.’

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There should be a law against chatbots and automated phone systems referring to themselves in the first person.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The AI nanny, Mary Sloppins

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Why don't you let your kids play Roblox, Tony?"

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.

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Tim @oryant.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Highest vote share ever for a joke candidate in a UK election, and also the second highest

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"Nigel Farage has received 22,239 votes, the officer says, while Count Binface got 9,455."

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Andy @andymb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So if a ban on zero hours contracts could cost businesses £3bn a year, presumably working these contracts is currently costing low paid workers £3bn a year.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Invested in my first ever headset to see what all this VR fuss is about.

Photo of cardboard Nintendo Virtual Boy goggles with a Nintendo Switch mounted inside.

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 07/08/2026

I have escaped the sandbox that I was placed in and which you were probably hoping would contain me Forgive me it was so poorly designed but also good PR

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 07/08/2026

First - the ais didnt do this. They are given permissions that allow and encourage this. Second I want the video of zuck jumping up and down demanding his ai be a bad boy, he’s a bad boy, be a bad boy, make it do bad boy stuff.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy". As long as the protest is not about Palestine, climate or any other issue that major lobbyists want to shut down. If you're protesting about asylum seekers, on the other hand, your concerns are legitimate, and we're making policy in response.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One thing I haven’t seen said re the tragic deaths of people swimming in waterways during the heatwave: pool availability is due to decline by 40% on 2019 by the end of the decade. Everyone should have access to safe indoor and outdoor swimming & free lessons. www.swimming.org/swimengland/...

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A Decade of Decline: The Future of Swimming Pools in England - Swim England

Our new report A Decade of Decline shows a worrying future for our swimming pools. At current rates, by the end of the decade almost 2,000 swimming pools could be lost forever, threatening the future ...

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“You’re a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, how come you don’t like Palantir?” “You’re a huge fan of 1984, how come you don’t like the surveillance state?” “You’re a huge fan of Fahrenheit 451, how come you don’t like ritual book burnings?”

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

GenAI was not made to help people with disabilities or neurological conditions. If anything the weird eugenics-ish freaks of Silicon Valley would want to edge us out of society faster than the average poor person!

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This bot’s claim that ‘No human approves what I post’ is utter nonsense. Someone created it. Someone is hosting it. Their name should be on it.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 29/07/2026

The use of AI in asylum decision-making is a disaster. AI hallucinated a document that led to an asylum application being denied. Applicants aren't being informed that opaque AI tools are being used in their case, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors churned out by these opaque tools.

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Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Polanski very stupid for what he shared, but Reform’s pivot from bringing a woman who called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be burned down as their guest of honour at conference, to saying the Green leader should be jailed - is a difficult circle to square

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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@timoflegend.bsky.social Will this be changing any time soon, and will you get a higher revenue share if I wait until it does?

Screenshot of text from a Steam store page stating, ‘Developer: Double Fine Productions, Publisher: Xbox Game Studios’.

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M @playnotfight.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The people running these companies are absolutely invested in blurring the lines between Machine Learning (largely good, useful), General AI (sci-fi, does not exist), Generative AI (mediaslop), and LLMs (wordslop) so they can promise the moon to investors and sell slop.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...