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John Bayliss

@johnbayliss.bsky.social
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A friend once said of me "he doesn't say much but when he does he's worth listening to." It's up to other bluesky users to decide if that is true or not.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#empireworld is available for 99p as a kindle deal innit amzn.eu/d/0aaF6wLd
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If AI kills all humans, who is going to maintain all the Data Centres? These "intelligences" haven't thought it through, have they?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Imagine what America could be like today if Dolly Parton had been President and Donald Trump was just a Country and Western singer.
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Joanne 🇨🇦 Nasty & PROUD🇨🇦 @joanneb1055.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This post by the most amazing Aussie took my breath away. Pay very close attention to the part titled THE SENTENCE WITH 100 YEARS OF DYNAMITE IN IT. ifloz.substack.com/p/carney-jus...
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CARNEY JUST THREATENED TO SEND AMERICA BACK TO THE FUCKING STONE AGE
Twelve hours after walking out of Washington, Carney stood up and read the old relationship its eulogy. In two languages. With the pulse of a man ordering a flat white.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/08/2026
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.
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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There are already ten different film/TV adaptations of the Odyssey. There's no reason why a Greek film director can't make a purely Greek version of the story and put it out in competition with Nolan's, if they really feel so strongly about it.
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
Skegness is so bracing but I've made him into Count Binface and it says Clacton is SO Binface
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"verify your age" Knows how to use a slide rule.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Takeourblueback @takeourblueback.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Please don't share this
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
75,000 signatures now.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Does that mean that dentistry is now the world's oldest profession?
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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I recently discovered something that has markedly improved my experience of daily life: if you Google something and add “-ai” after the search term, it gives you search results without the AI overview
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/02/2026
David Squires on … Jim Ratcliffe’s comments and his need for some home truths
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David Squires on … Jim Ratcliffe’s comments and his need for some home truths
Our cartoonist reflects on the Manchester United co-owner’s recent statements and electioneering, via the prism of Cracker’s DCI Bilborough
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
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The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The current Manchester United first team squad of 26 players contains eighteen immigrants and only eight English players.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Birmingham–Perry Barr MP Ayoub Khan caused quite a stir in the House of Commons this afternoon. “Mr Speaker, rubbish is building up right beneath my very nose.” While he was referring to the Birmingham bin strikes, Reform MP Richard Tice, sat next to Nigel Farage took offence. #PMQs #PoliticsLive
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cutelilbottom.bsky.social @cutelilbottom.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Yes, it would be a shame if everyone reposted this. 🤷‍♀️
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Britain is broken" says the party largely made up of the politicians who broke it.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Noem, Miller, Bovino, Trump, and Vance intentionally made false or misleading claims about Renee Good and/or Alex Pretti, labeling them criminals or terrorists; misrepresenting the circumstances of their deaths to justify, and aid in, the crime of murder. #3E #GoodvsEvil
Kristi Noem: “It was an act of domestic terrorism.”Stephen Miller: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.”Greg Bovino: “This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”JD Vance: “I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making.”
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/01/2026
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is the event for which the word "schadenfreude" was invented.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/12/2025
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...
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US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
As 2025 ends, the pattern is unmistakable. Trump’s second term is unraveling under its own weight. A hollowed-out presidency, factional chaos, and policies that keep backfiring. Step back from the daily noise, and the consequences are impossible to miss.
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Backfire
On every major policy question, the Trump regime is failing badly. And voters are taking note.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Permanently pause" is now my favourite example of an oxymoron.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The far right will always hate the BBC irrespective of how right wing the BBC gets because billionaires can't buy it and make money out of it.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Shades of Ozymandias '"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 07/11/2025
Word of the Day: CUÑADISMO (Spanish slang) — literally: ‘brother-in-law-ism’; speaking on topics you know little about as if you were an expert and smarter than everyone else.
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The Register @theregister.com · 27/10/2025
The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?
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The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?
No, it's just good at mass-production copy and paste. And yes, we're correctly applying Betteridge's Law Opinion  Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake. Chatbots don't think – they've just gotten exponentially better at pretending.…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky. To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.” It shows up as “removed by author.”
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 17/10/2025
Whilst the immediate future looks bleak, have the kids got this?
Meme showing 18-24 year old voting intentions with Greens on 30%, Labour on 23%, Lib Dem 20%, Conservatives on 11% and Reform on just 8%
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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 15/10/2025
One of the highest per capita consumers of Worcestershire sauce is El Salvador, where it is known as salsa inglesa ('English sauce') or salsa Perrins.
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