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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 5h

"A big petro-state did it and ran away"

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 9h

If buying wholly online has been to the detriment of the local bike shop, it's absolutely leading to a lack of bike mechanics.

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 9h

If buying wholly online has been to the detriment of the local bike shop, it's absolutely leading to a lack of bike mechanics.

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Zak Bond @zakbond.bsky.social · 12h

On the same day diesel hit £2 a litre for the first time, we took 50+ cargo bikes onto the streets of London for the seventh Cargo Bike Cruise. While diesel vans are getting more expensive to run, cargo bikes are becoming a practical and cheaper option for more and more businesses.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 14h

At this point I'm almost grateful to these dweebs for fucking it up so badly as to serve as a good reminder - to the likes of me who occasionally need it - of how, and how not, to be. Now if they could just do it without destroying any of: the economy, society, democracy, the planet, that'd be fab.

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🔞Mx Wred's haunted 🏳️‍⚧️ brain 🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bicycle YouTuber: "These ultra light wheels are making me start structured training" 🦊"Neat" Bicycle YouTuber [pulling on clown shoes and a rainbow wig]: "So I fed my Strava to Claude" 🦊 [dislike, unsub, alt click recommended video from same channel 'do not recommend this channel']

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know what young kids see in this Papule Troll thing they all seem to be in to. It's pretty disgusting actually. And I don't see any firefighters anywhere.

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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is exactly how I talk about it too! I've seen Gen AI try to write good comms and it's always completely terrible (see - most of LinkedIn, a bunch of the newer FB 'nz politics influencer' types.

Screenshot of a tumblr post reading: recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fascism again simultaneously being strapping warriors and crying smol babymen

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Literally cooked on his own farts. Listen to this loser.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything to do with this style of cycle makes much more sense when you frame it as 'work equipment' rather than Cycling. Because that is what they are and to increase their uptake in the big fleet companies, that is how they need to be understood. Cycling is too incongruous to incumbent culture

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Replacing the motor on my bike's gear shifter is something never thought I'd need to do, or even say. Keep bikes analogue where possible.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Regents Canal / City Road Basin terrapin is an absolute unit

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tired: Manmade child annihilating zipline beyond physics comprehension Wired: Grok maims a man on a halfpipe then gets him fired, patent advice sought

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Stanandthat @stanandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(chef's kiss)

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When do we start talking about driving and drivers as a burden?

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J.G. Bollard @jamesnonchalant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Radicalised children is about as low as you can go, but then using them as a psy op is frankly abusive.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Nothing to see here, just an innocent track-cycling moose getting doped with sugary breakfast cereal by his squirrel pal... Happy #BicycleBirthday to Bullwinkle & Rocky creator Jay Ward! September 20 (1920-1989)

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A fun, affordable hobby is: 1. Turning up in random well-to-do Cotswold villages wearing a hi-vis vest with a picture of a wind turbine on it, and a hard hat. 2. Taking measurements of the village green and any other open space, and enthusiastically writing notes on a clipboard.

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