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James @jimmyou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unexpected Andy Carroll in the gents on a Greek ferry. Any ideas on the game @footballcliches.bsky.social ?
The inside of a cubicle in a toilet on a ferry. The back wall is a black and white photo from a football game, featuring Andy Carroll in a Liverpool kit.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk
London misperceptions: public often wrong on capital's crime, quality of life, contribution to public finances and Muslim population | King's College London
A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?
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Mat @mathempell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This country would be greatly improved by drug dealers laundering their money through pleasant little restaurants rather than candy stores and barbers
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This has been bugging me for days. There have always been scammers and fantasists who exploit the weaknesses of certain institutions at certain times. It’s a Type of Guy. Arday has more in common with Stephen Glass or Elizabeth Holmes or Salt Path lady than with other black academics.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I work as a train conductor and was correcting passengers on misinformation. I was trying to adapt the phrase 'you heard it from the horse's mouth' but what I ended up saying, to a group of middle aged ladies was 'I am the horse. Take it from my mouth'
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
OpenAI employee: "How did the obvious and inevitable result everyone predicted happen?!?!"

Ryan Brewer
@ryanbrewer
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It’s shocking to me that LLMs didn’t create an educational renaissance. Shouldn’t I be able to learn a language in a month? What did we get wrong?
Yishan
@yishan
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Because it’s not about what the teacher can do, it’s what the student can do.

Learning is energetically expensive and the brain doesn’t want to do it. All educational systems are methods to motivate, trick, or force brains into learning.

(You can make AI systems to do this, but
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Ryan Brewer
@ryanbrewer
I’m looking at my little sister’s high school class now, and i guess it just seems like all motivation to learn anything has gone completely out the window. All her teachers lesson plans are Chat generated. All the students essays are chat generated. Just seems to me like some systemic change to the system is necessary. 

Those who are genuinely curious people will 10-100x their ability to learn. The opposite however is also true, the bottom 95% of learners will use Chat to skip work completely. Just sad to see a tool like this be used to escape critical thought by all parties involved. Curious how we fix this
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is with reading (even though it is a sad tale). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
‘He hadn’t been trying to scare us. He’d been trying to kill us’: how stalker neighbours turned our dream home into a nightmare
We were busy doing up a dilapidated Welsh farmhouse when a young couple bought the land next door. They seemed odd yet basically harmless – but their increasingly troubling behaviour soon escalated in...
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SO WHAT - dashare.zone ADMIN
SKELETEN'S GETTEN BLOWN AWAY BY A DISENTEGRATING WORLD, "SO WHAT IF EARTH IS HOTTERN THEN ITS BEEN FOR CENTURIES, IT WAS WORTH IT, MY BODY IS FULL OF MICROPLASTICS, MY TELEPHONE SPIES ON ME, ADVERTISERS BUY MY DREAM DATA WHIEL I SLEEP, I WAKE EVERY MORNING TO ADS, PROMISING TO STOP MY TEETH FROM FALLING OUT " - I WROTE MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS AT patreon.com/dasharez0ne GO THERE FOR DAILY WRITTING AND MORE EXTRA SHYT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 24/06/2026
When you combine stuff like this with the ongoing heat jamboree, anyone talking about abandoning net zero should be laughed out of town as not just unserious but deeply, deeply stupid.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is... I mean, just read it. Whether you like football or not.
theplayerstribune.com
Dear Roxane | By Yan Diomande
I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.
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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 15/06/2026
1. There are a lot of skilled people in this particular pickle. 2. The LLMs cannot do what we do, and they also cannot do what they promise. 3. Some clients and employers are figuring out item #2. Many are not. If you produce text for public consumption, you want to be part of that "some."
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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
theguardian.com
David Squires on … the World Cup reimagined as Gianni Infantino’s West Side Story
As football’s greatest spectacle comes to North America, our cartoonist creates a heartwarming narrative around the Fifa president
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 08/06/2026
Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.
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David Bradshaw @davidbradshaw52.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The first Slavonian Grebe since 2018, Osprey and stunning Whinchats among highlights of an excellent & colourful April at Walthamstow Wetlands. Running total of 123 second best ever. Thanks to @samodonnell25.bsky.social @chris-farthing.bsky.social @Harringaybirder & MLP for photos #londonbirding
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So Macquarie, which loaded Thames Water with billions in debt and left the infrastructure to rot, has done the same with NCP
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Can we stop comparing *any* UK leaders with Churchill please? Thatcher wasn’t Churchill, Boris bloody Johnson wasn’t Churchill, and Keir Starmer wasn’t Churchill. Even Churchill wasn’t the Churchill everyone imagines. Just shut up about Churchill.
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Crispbap @crispbap.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
'Dubai based maga dog walking influencer' i mutter as I douse myself in petrol in the Claire's accessories hair clip section 'DUBAI BASED MAGA DOG WALKING INFLUENCER'
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/02/2026
"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist
bbc.com
Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives
As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The IP they want to give away is owned by British taxpayers and earns for the exchequer. Giving it to firms that will mainly be overseas, and usually in tax exile, is fucking idiotic.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
tweet from ecce homie

@KWholesaler

reading:

gordon ramsey: let's have a looking at the walk-in (opens door and sees a little mushroom man eating a rotten cucumber like a banana) fuck me did you know you have a little ghoulie in there. fuck that's frightening. he's having a munch. at least somebody is enjoying the food
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
6. The time my dad stabbed Alan Titchmarsh.
I was in the garden centre with my dad. “THIS REMINDS ME OF THE TIME I STABBED ALAN TITCHMARSH,” he told me. "You stabbed Alan Titchmarsh? You mean the TV presenter?” I said. “ALMOST,” replied my dad. “IT WAS A LIFE-SIZE CARDBOARD CUT-OUT OF HIM, ADVERTISING HIS GARDENING FORKS. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO STAB HIM WITH ONE OF HIS OWN FORKS BUT THEN I THOUGHT I MIGHT GET INTO TROUBLE SO I WENT RIGHT UP TO HIM AND WHISPERED ‘FUCK OFF, TITCHMARSH’ IN HIS EAR.”
I was in the garden centre with my dad. “THIS REMINDS ME OF THE TIME I STABBED ALAN TITCHMARSH,” he told me. "You stabbed Alan Titchmarsh? You mean the TV presenter?” I said. “ALMOST,” replied my dad. “IT WAS A LIFE-SIZE CARDBOARD CUT-OUT OF HIM, ADVERTISING HIS GARDENING FORKS. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO STAB HIM WITH ONE OF HIS OWN FORKS BUT THEN I THOUGHT I MIGHT GET INTO TROUBLE SO I WENT RIGHT UP TO HIM AND WHISPERED ‘FUCK OFF, TITCHMARSH’ IN HIS EAR.”
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint
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Cormac Kehoe @coramazov.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm being sued for libel by a man who ran a rental arbitrage scheme involving some of London's priciest properties. The Londoner have been brilliant in standing behind me & refusing to give into this naked attempt at silencing the truth. Read below - www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...
the-londoner.co.uk
The Londoner is being sued by a holiday let grifter. We’re going to fight him in court
Mysterious emails, incessant demands and a fake lawyer — an editor’s note about a serious threat we’re facing
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One of the goose couple who wander our estate has died and they've laid out the body nicely so the other goose can grieve 😔
Gill Walker has been and laid Mr goose on a white blanket so that Mrs goose is aware he is deceased. Gill waited to give her time and then put him
into the ambulance. This pair are well known on The Drive. He had a badly broken leg and other injuries to his body. He will be taken to the sanctuary for cremation

[With a photo of one goose looking over the respectfully laid out body of her mate on the grass]
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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
To repeat myself - Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life banged up in prison, the lying cunt
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 24/01/2026
This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
londoncentric.media
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
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Atla Hrafney @atlathewriter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights
A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..."More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!"A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
147 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018 - most of them on or close to grouse moors. Data extracted from reports by Natural England, RSPB, HSE, various Police forces, National Wildlife Crime Unit. #RaptorResearch 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/21/1...
raptorpersecutionuk.org
147 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors
For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…
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gizmo @gizmotron.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I never thought that there would be a non-zero chance I might die at the hands of an American soldier.
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
You have to laugh really. It’s like discovering that the government believes that “pee is stored in the balls”.
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 21/12/2025
nobody will tell you this but you don't need to have an opinion on anything at all you can just like breathe deeply and eat tacos
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/12/2025
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 03/12/2025
Those happy for cuts to the BBC, PBS and other public broadcasters should bear in mind what the future could hold for children's programming www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies
As younger children spend more time on the platform, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The James Bond franchise faces a big problem: me, the viewer, has been shot at the start of the movie through the barrel of my gun, and I'm dripping blood over my own eye balls (they're in the gun)
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