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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22h

When you consider the scale of the economics and social impact of this, it’s genuine serious Hard Journalism being done here.

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 08/10/2026

OH: do horses like whale song when they’re having physio treatments?

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 29/09/2026

My money's on Javier Bardem.

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.

Chart showing standardaised mortality rates for England and Wales. After a steady improvement 2016-2019, and then a bunch of pandemic-driven bumps 2020-2022, the lines start improving again 2023-2026 which is shaping up to the best ever.

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Here’s the story, on my personal site: www.jsbaker.co.uk/writing/the-...

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The Last Baker Day | J S Baker

Short story: There’s some light still in the the fading sky

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Last week I received a rejection from The New Yorker for a short story I submitted. "Thank you for your submission to The New Yorker. While there is much to admire in this piece, we regret that we are unable to use it in the magazine." I'm taking some encouragement in that, weirdly. #amwriting

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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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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 22/09/2026

If you're curious about the short story that was rejected, I published it on my personal website: www.jsbaker.co.uk/writing/the-...

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The Last Baker Day | J S Baker

Short story: There’s some light still in the the fading sky

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Yesterday, I received a rejection for a short story I submitted to The New Yorker. "Thank you for your submission to The New Yorker. While there is much to admire in this piece, we regret that we are unable to use it in the magazine." I'm taking some encouragement in that, weirdly.

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 22/09/2026

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/08/2026

LinkedIn has escaped confinement.

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 26/08/2026

This was quite the wake-up call at early o’clock

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 26/08/2026

This was quite the wake-up call at early o’clock

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Stuart @stuartmanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Ich bin ein Binliner..."

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 12/08/2026

19:11, Birmingham

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19:04, Birmingham, just an iPhone

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in earshot of a fucking angle grinder." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 06/08/2026

It pooped on the washing before it flew off

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 06/08/2026

A view down a dark alleyway. At the end is an old marketplace with an oak roof

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ruins of Nagasaki, 1945

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Dammit, another crappy day

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 28/07/2026

I wrote a short story, pretty decent one I think, submitted it to a couple of competitions. Got rejections in the last few days, completely understandable, the volume of entries must’ve been huge. But left with odd feelings — where did I come in the stack? what do I do with it now? Etc. All strange.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 27/07/2026

Christ this article. You can read for free by registering. One author, talking off the record, voices the industry’s ultimate fear: “What everyone is really afraid of is that the audience might not care.”

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The new premium product: books written by people

Some publishers think AI could not only help authors but replace them

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 25/07/2026

Benedict Cumberbatch, with a clutch of flightless Antarctic birds forever following me around and him eternally doomed to mispronounce them as either ‘pengwins’ or ‘pinglins’ or ‘penwings’ but never with their true name.

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage announced the by-election within an hour of the deadline he was given by the Guardian for responding to the story

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FinjaReloaded @finjareloaded.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

seriously, 52 : 48 for binface would be the funniest thing ever

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It would be great if Binface won Clacton and then turned out to be a remarkably effective local MP who served several terms

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 11/05/2026

A dawning realisation of the thing with social media, esp. with reading on a small screen device, is that for each instant just one topic consumes all your focus, no sense of significance vs. other topics … and it’s easy to get sucked down a hyperfocus special interest tunnel. Cf. random screenshot:

Screengrab of a random story from the Financial Times on Bluesky, illustrating the singular focus of just one topic on the screen, and no sense of contextual significance vs other topics

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Docteur Nno @drnno.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

These ending words from @edzitron.com in his latest newsletter about the AI demand problem are so true , and they can be applied to everything that's happening all over the globe. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

In the end, I think we're going to look back at this era with disgust at the sheer waste and obvious mistakes that were made.

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