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Jane McCallion

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Managing Editor at ITPro and co-host of the ITPro Podcast. www.itpro.com/uk/author/jane-mccall… Opinions are my own, reposts are someone else’s.

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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 15h
Ok, this name genuinely made me chortle
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 16h
Souls of budget airline customers trapped inside the walls of Copenhagen airport
Blue wall with white smiley faces and a sign saying “expect a miracle”
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There’s and amazing sunset happening just over there, out of my reach
A red sunset in the distance at the end of a residential street
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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I honestly feel like someone fed the Vote Leave brexit micro messaging matrix into and LLM/image generation and created these hundred of baffling 'Remembrance' items of clothing. The image card does not do justice to the incredible hallucination of poppies, guns, soldiers, crosses and dogs
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What an outstanding photoshop thread this turned out to be www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
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From the mildlyinfuriating community on Reddit: Grandma wore white to my wedding. Argued “it’s not white, it’s beige!”
Explore this post and more from the mildlyinfuriating community
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you’re going to say “namely” you do in fact have to name things
Are French high school buildings dilapidated and rat-infested with collapsing ceilings?
Some are, namely in certain cities and low-income suburbs. Videos filmed by students and teachers have shown leaks, scurrying rats, holes in walls and ceilings, broken toilets and not enough chairs or tables, meaning teachers have to carry them from classroom to classroom. Some children said they had to learn in class while leaks were pouring into buckets, or move desks to avoid getting wet.
Many school classrooms experienced temperatures over 35C (95F) in the heatwaves oflast May and June.
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An extremely lukewarm take, I'm sure, but pumpkin spice is gross and I wish everything vaguely autumnal wasn't tainted by it. 🎃👎
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Drop some MARTIAL ARTS 🥋🖤🥷
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again, wtf is this weather — 19°C before 7am and it is the last day of September. At least the rain might break the humidity 😒
A screenshot from the Met Office taken at 6.43am showing the current temperature at the Oxford Botanic Garden as 19°C and the expected high temperature for the day as 23°C.
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s 29 September. It is overcast and blowy. So naturally it’s also hot enough to make me regret leaving the house in jeans 😒
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this poor model looks so bummed out by this stupid level 1 rpg dress
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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday
6.50 Talking Telephone Numbers
 7.20 Coronation Street
 7.50 Bond on Border:
 The Living Daylights
 10.00 News at Ten/Border News
 10.40 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
 MONDAY
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Haha whassup chat, today on the livestream I'm doing knifecrimes! Like and subscribe!" SMASH CUT TO 3 DAYS LATER *weeping* "your honour I don't even know what a knife is, and anyway it's my birthday"
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
itpro.com
Huawei is positioning itself as a viable alternative to big US tech companies. Can it pull it off?
With Nvidia and AMD excluded from the Chinese AI market, Huawei is building a powerful reputation at home and abroad
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I wish I was blessed with unbridled joy and exuberance like the guy who shouted “it’s a bird!” out of nowhere when it was actually Superman
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One party with an interest in actually solving problems is all I ask for.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Improving your Monday morning with this Bearded Tit. You are welcome. 📷️ @ronpon22.bsky.social
A Bearded Tit stands on a mossy branch, its feathers puffed up into a perfectly round ball. Its warm buff-coloured plumage, pale face and tiny orange bill give it an irresistibly fluffy appearance, while one foot is lifted mid-step as though it's waddling along.
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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of my favourite postbox facts is that in Scotland the Royal Cypher for Queen Elizabeth II is a crown to avoid controversy because Elizabeth I wasn’t a Scottish queen. I’ve told some people in person today so now I’m telling you. Read more here www.postalmuseum.org/blog/royal-c...
A red pillar post box on an Edinburgh street scene with light stone Georgian style buildings behind A close up of the crown cypher on a red pillar postbox with the words Post Officr underneath
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Political party opposed to the European Convention on Human Rights minded to rely on the European Convention on Human Rights before the the European Court of Human Rights.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
Time traveling humans are always freaked out by cultural changes If a moose time travels it probably just finds a field to frolic in moosily
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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The big question here is why is Revolut even storing passport and other ID materials in the first place: www.itpro.com/security/dat...
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Revolut hands over customer data after fake government request
The online bank is warning customers that a broad range of sensitive data may have been shared
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine
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korpisworld @kwkorpi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every room becomes a panic room if you check your bank account in it.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Quite. Today’s Inside Politics newsletter by @stephenkb.bsky.social
As of this year, it is illegal to use a mask to hide your identity at a protest. It has been illegal for a lot longer than that to blockade critical infrastructure - like a port, say. — and it is corrosive to the foundations of liberal democracy to turn up in masks outside a newspaper's HQ because of a legitimate story you don't like.
Tackling this stuff is the bare minimum of what we should expect of any government. An administration that appears incapable of arresting the ringleaders or the attendees of such a protest is one that is visibly failing to do the basics of being a government. It feeds into a general narrative of malaise - that whether it is bike theft or responding to tricky geopolitical issues, Labour cannot govern. Taken together with Reform's difficulties, it is a gift for the Conservatives - if Kemi Badenoch can seize it.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RNLI staff have faced "unacceptable" online & physical abuse since anti-migrant protests. "Deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding" by thugs hiding behind "balaclava or a keyboard". Solidarity with RNLI volunteers. They do a great job in saving lives, must be respected.
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Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FWIW I don’t think masked thugs on the street has anything to do with fiscal policy missteps. It’s the softpawing of the extreme right and the tacit acceptance of norm breaches around xenophobia that have emboldened people onto the street. This is why the “legitimate concerns” frame is so dangerous.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This was an incredible self-own tbh
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.itpro.com/security/ai-...
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‘AI is increasingly becoming operational infrastructure rather than a productivity add-on’: Yesterday’s triple AI outage should be a wake-up call for enterprises
Greater vendor transparency is needed in the wake of outages at OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI
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Jane McCallion @janemccallion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Getting Silo vibes at Oxford Castle Mound this morning
Two trees on a mound of earth
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
he got him. he finally fucking got him
real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california
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screenshot archive of internet @archiveofficial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Its a serious question of whether or not he knows this is AI
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is getting out of hand
Tube map but with America Water instead of Canada Water. Hilariously.
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Andrew Nelson @i.amnot.social · 30/08/2026
I mean yeah obviously this kind of behavior only contributes to the ongoing fray of the social fabric, but since that's their aim anyway, I appreciate that they're at least doing it in a way that ensures they don't get to have any fun in the process
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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mine in today’s @newyorker.com
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You shouldn't say "y'all" unless you're from the area covered by the Tennessee Valley Authority. That's because it's an Appalachian Controlée
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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Beware of the poodle until the eclipse is complete
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 27/08/2026
Breaking news: European football’s governing body Uefa said it is preparing a criminal complaint against Gianni Infantino over the Fifa president’s failed plan to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors. ft.trib.al/K5ylFw8
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Parton's legacy as a songwriter, a performer, a personality, and a beacon of warmth and acceptance all make her one of the greatest to have ever done it. But when you add the truly astounding level of her philanthropy...what is there to say? She inspired decency and shamed the wicked. All hail.
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