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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do not think it is much of an exaggeration to say that British media is one of the least trustworthy institutions on the planet.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!)

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I sorta soft-launched it, but I'm not going by Alex no more. I am Katie now.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bluesky hired a head of communications six months ago and still has staff popping onto their official personal profiles, with their faces and everything, to say "Thanks for asking... Yes! Here, you can wish out loud for every trans person to die! That, specifically, isn't against our rules."

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do I buy a medium format film camera… 🤔

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James Fleming @jamesfvfleming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bristol is a beautiful city ruined by landlords. Hopefully this kind of thing results in something.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I got to photograph the World Riichi League event in Bristol the weekend before last. 😀🀄️📷 flic.kr/s/aHBqjD4BQU

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WRL Bristol September 2026

European World Riichi League Bristol September 2026

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Riichi Mahjong tournament #blackandwhite #filmphotography 📷 Canon EOS 3 🎞️ Ilford HP5+ 35mm 🗺️ Bristol, UK

A black and white photo of a hand in a Riichi Mahjong game. Visible tiles are 2p 3p 5p 5p 4s 3s 2s 2s with the rest obscured in shadow.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So convenient, every dev and publisher you need to block on one page

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

brennan.day/normalized-f... There is no ambiguity here. DHH doesn't claim his words were taken out of context, there is no charitable reading possible. He's a racist calling for ethnic cleansing. The purpose of Omarchy is to create a space where people like him can be openly racist.

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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days

Lyrics from Godspeed You! Black Emperor's The Dead Flag Blues 1997

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tante @tante.cc · 24/08/2026

DHH is a racist and fascist. Tobi Lütke as well. There are so many Linux distros out there. I will never understand why people want to use (and fund) the half-baked config files of a known racist and fascist. Fuck DHH and all of his collaborators. Bella Ciao.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A moth decided to go to sleep on the handle of my gate this morning. 📷 Canon EOS 5D Mark IV 🔭 Canon EF 24–70mm f/4L IS USM

A closeup of a moth sitting on the iron handle of white painted wooden gate.

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 21/08/2026

If you think that local models fix it then you don't understand what the problems are.

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And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI (i.e., building more decentralized, user-controlled options that *should* resonate here).
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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I watched the Channel 4 ADHD program. It's hard to describe quite how horrible it is. Even the framing is fake, when the show opens with a bunch of people you're introduced to as experts saying ADHD is a myth with absolutely no counterargument you know it's utter bullshit.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Honestly, making a child a symbol for how Our Kids are Over-Medicated and not even having the decency to stop using him that way when it turns out he did, actually, benefit from and need the medication is horrible, dishonest behaviour.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 18/08/2026

The two people quoted are not ADHD experts. And given the point of the documentary seemed to be that non-medical interventions work best (against all evidence, based on a sample of one child), I’m not sure what they’re arguing against here. This is pure culture wars shit.

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anyone who thinks the Guardian is different to the rest of the UK's garbage media are just lying to themselves. They are quite happy to buy into the latest obviously bad faith bullshit culture war, every time.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/08/2026

If you’re worried about a watermark outing you as violating customer policies or compliance requirements, the watermark might not be the problem here

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

DEFRA: We will do no proactive comms re. Fire risk for a week DEFRA at 7pm on a Friday night: hit the 'break glass in case of nuclear attack' button

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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Man without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🗺️ Bedminster, Bristol, UK 📷 Canon EOS 1000 🔭 Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax #FilmPhotography #Bristol

Decorative ornate stonework above a door

A black door in a white wall with waste bins on the right and a tree on the left.

A red stone archway with an open gate beyond

A man walks infront of a boarded up building covered with scaffolding. A worn sign says “Apple Tree” and a CD player sits on the windowsill.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 11/08/2026

And furthermore, when we talk about writers being "influenced" by the work of other writers, we are describing a process that is in no way analogous to generative model training, and to suggest that it is is just shows that you don't know piss about the subject matter here.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 11/08/2026

last night i played a round of "blood on the clocktower" for the first time which, as a long time fan of social deduction games, might be one of the best i've ever played. immediately i could tell that it has VERY good meat on its bones and solves a lot of the genre's most common issues.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 05/08/2026

one day this will be recognised as an utterly shameful campaign to purge trans people from society, and we will have to ask how the views of a tiny fringe of extremists became the consensus of our press, government and regulatory bodies

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

When I told Anthropic interlocutors that I avoid contact w LLMs, their response was bemused:perhaps I hadn’t spent enough time w them? there was light in their eyes when they talked about Claude. It dawned on me that they're under enchantment. Like Pygmalion, they had fallen in love w their creation

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 09/08/2026

Came across a dev saying they couldn’t do their job without LLMs now just like they wouldn’t have been able to do their job without being able to copy and paste from Stack Overflow 5 years ago

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/08/2026

Where I’m from we don’t talk to agents

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Blythe @bly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Replacing the dumb speech recognition in my phone with an extremely smart LLM is working out spectacularly

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/08/2026

Anyway, since I’m always annoying my own brain by trying to come up with clearer and more specific wording for my own opinions: I reject the notion that LLMs can be deployed “responsibly” at scale and believe that anybody claiming otherwise is fooling themselves, conning you, or possibly both

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/08/2026

< dozens of people tell me "you can just tell it to turn that behavior off!" > Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/08/2026

I feel like takes scoffing at the idea that people could have addictive behavior patterns relating to LLMs are likely to age poorly

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Incredible to remember that all of these supposed "radical gender ideology" asks were simply the status quo plus what *a Conservative government* was proposing and consulting on under a decade ago

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Moon last night. 🌕 📷 Canon EOS 5D Mark IV 🔭 Canon EF 70–200mm f/4L IS USM #Photography #LunarPhotography

A photograph of the moon at night, obscured by clouds.

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tante @tante.cc · 21/07/2026

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

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