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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In "Chariots of Fire" a band plays The Star Spangled Banner to greet the US team at the 1924 Olympic Games. The Star Spangled Banner wasn't adopted as the US National Anthem until 1931.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 12/10/2026
Have you checked your Gmail privacy settings lately? Gmail’s Smart Features can analyse your emails to power AI, here’s how to review your settings and take back a little more control over your data 👀
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They don't even know that Christianity was brought to this country by uninvited foreigners who crossed the channel in small boats.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word The Old Curiosity Shoplifter
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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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
amzn.eu
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As the inhabitants of Piddington have voted not to be British any more, doesn't that make them illegal aliens?
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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 · 03/09/2026
The people Redwood calls "English" are descendants of invaders from Denmark and Northern Germany who a few centuries earlier displaced the native Celts, stealing their land and forcing them into the peripheries of Britain.
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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Speaking Spanish.
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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
B has more of the Lindisfarne Gospels interlace vibe. I think it would stand out more in a bookshop display. A is just a bit, well, obvious.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
According to the official population statistics there are 4,223,885 individuals who today describe themselves as Romans.
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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The European Athletics Championship is being broadcast live on BBC2 whilst the eclipse is happening. Presumably the program will have to explain to the viewers why the athletes are running in the dark...
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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Odd way to send a message. I find e-mail or texting much more efficient. BTW, exactly what was the message? The interviewer presumably didn't ask.
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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The gift is a suit of clothes that only intelligent people can see.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
They might breed a pigeon that looks like a dodo but that'll still be just a pigeon that looks like a dodo.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
There was a show on Channel Four in the 1980's called "Friday Night Live" which attempted to be the British equivalent to SNL. Although it did establish several comedians who are now household names, it only lasted a short while.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Now I know what the phrase "echo chamber" means.
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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Backstage Boys West(end)life
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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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John Bayliss @johnbayliss.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Is that a gaslight in the top right hand side?
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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 · 15/02/2026
Surely if he's "threatened" by ISIS they will still be a threat to him irrespective of whatever country he happens to be in.
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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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