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Andrew Cherry

@kolektiv.xyncro.com
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Tech-person, primarily software, occasionally hardware. Somewhat of the left. Dog-dad (also actual child-dad). He/Him. European.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 28/09/2026
Pretty disappointed in all of the stuff around "give young people a job and training rather than benefits". I mean, yes, obviously that's better, but there needs to be something on offer. Jobs aren't going to magically appear if you remove benefits or make them less accessible.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026
Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 23/09/2026
BRB, off to start a company based on pure nihilism and hastening the inevitable decay of civilisation into heat death and mulch. Calling it Entropic.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 17/09/2026
Man, just imagine how much cooler and more successful Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and so on would have been if they had been smart enough to realise they needed to bet on everything. /s
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 11/09/2026
Paging @cstross.bsky.social... It seems your imagination has escaped containment again...
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 10/09/2026
Admittedly, this is the firstest of world problems, but if you're trying to look for images of all the furniture made by some interesting architect/designer, you can't - because all of the results will be of the one most famous thing they did, almost certainly a chair.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 10/09/2026
Always reassuring when I see Apple launch a new flagship product and immediately think "yeah I've got no need or desire for that whatsoever". That keynote feels like it saved me money. Of all the things I've wished my phone had, a hinge has never been one.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 08/09/2026
Can't help feeling that "Sanctions criticised by target of sanctions, also by friend of target of sanctions" shouldn't really be quite such a a headline statement. Come back when you can show me teeth marks on the dog, yeah?
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 04/09/2026
Now obviously this is disgraceful bollocks, out of touch to a previously unfathomed depth, but the use of "cozzie livs" should have everyone class-South of Marie Antoinette storming the barricades of whatever Cotswold idyll she presumably inhabits. If this was France, things would be on fire.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 01/09/2026
Apropos of nothing whatsoever, I don't think we use the word "boon" anywhere near enough anymore. I'm not sure it's an actual lack of boons - maybe we just stopped recognising them. Anyway, do your part. Grant someone a boon!
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 31/08/2026
Sigh. Right then, what's the best 1Password alternative? Reasonable integrations, mobile support, a user experience that won't make me weep Linux-UI-flavoured tears, the usual...?
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 26/08/2026
My wife happened to be near the door earlier as a leaflet came through, turned out to be from Restore UK. First time she's actually gone back outside, found the person, and made them take it back, stating that even the recycling bin doesn't need that in it. Hard to argue.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/08/2026
New, from me. Losing a prestigious stage or affiliation is not the same thing as being censored or deplatformed, and we should stop letting terrible people pretend otherwise. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/youre-not-...
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You’re Not Censored, But Get Off My Stage
It’s not "deplatforming" when security won’t let me rap with Kendrick.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 23/08/2026
I see they're trying the usual logic-free bullshit with regard to academic freedom as they generally try with free speech. Nobody owes you a speaking platform or an academic position; you are free to "research" whatever eugenicist idiocy you want on your own dime, but nobody wants it done on theirs.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 18/08/2026
An article cropping up from a Will Self, and it's been a long time, so I wonder, "Is it *that* Will Self?" Several thousand words in and the second trip to the dictionary, and it is definitely *that* Will Self. For the avoidance of doubt, this is not a bad thing.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 17/08/2026
I'm starting to feel that there are some bland, tech/corporate-speak phrases floating around which will be looked on historically with incredulous horror. "Data-driven" is probably one of them. (1/10)
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 15/08/2026
That newspapers still let bullshit like this go out should be a source of national shame and a trigger for change and real regulation. A watchdog with actual teeth is needed, not some matey self-regulation bollocks.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter


Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 14/08/2026
"Residents, landowners and visitors"? Oh good, my national emergency alert has taken this opportunity to reinforce some class/hierarchy as well. Would "people" or similar not have done? Am I supposed to be extra-careful in case I set fire to the grouse moors of my betters?
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 12/08/2026
Great idea, let’s go further and have a disposable everything ban - single use stuff is a real problem, wastes resources and causes pollution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham says disposable BBQ ban under consideration
The PM said the public should not be using single-use grills "at this moment in time" amid wildfire risks.
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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So much this that if you actually need a reminder your brain has already been stomped to mush.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/08/2026
Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 07/08/2026
FFS Apple, I write technical messages way too often; a b followed by a closing parenthesis is - pay close attention - always going to be a list/sub-section marker. None - I repeat, none - of my responses to serious questions are going to include the little sunglasses emoji dude.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 06/08/2026
My (now late) father went to visit my (even later) grandmother in the hospital many years ago. He went to the nurses' station at the entrance to ask where Mrs Cherry was. The nurse sitting there turned round and shouted to a colleague, "Mrs Cherry - is she the one who died earlier?" She was, yeah.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The thing about this is trans people have de facto been using spaces of our transitioned gender since the 1950s, and de jure never been banned from doing so. We aren’t banned in any other liberal democracy in the world. So those who advocate it SHOULD have to outline why 2026 UK must be different
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 05/08/2026
Working on a new departmental roster for the local council, inspired by Tory policy: Bins: [Neo-]Nazis Road Maintenance: Francoist Fascists (1956 ed.) Adult Social Care: Shining Path (keep away from Bins team?) I'm trying to tee up the Khmer Rouge for Education, but it keeps going to voicemail.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 05/08/2026
Working on a new departmental roster for the local council, inspired by Tory policy: Bins: [Neo-]Nazis Road Maintenance: Francoist Fascists (1956 ed.) Adult Social Care: Shining Path (keep away from Bins team?) I'm trying to tee up the Khmer Rouge for Education, but it keeps going to voicemail.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 03/08/2026
Do you know someone who is Surprisingly Nice in private, but a harrowingly awful twat in public? FYI, then, should it be needed: they are, in fact, Not Nice, and you have the moral compass and social discernment of a digestive biscuit.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 31/07/2026
I can't emphasise enough how much this would really have SO much value - there is so much we could do with just conscientious, pragmatic, sensitive, systems thinking approaches to solving people's problems. Even just "better data" has immense value. We have not finished the basics yet!
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 28/07/2026
I don’t have anything close to a knowledge base that would allow me to evaluate this from and education pov. BUT I am fascinated by one aspect. 1/n www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 27/07/2026
🎵 ...Now you're just somebody that I used to know... 🎶
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
The cover of Mezzanine by Massive Attack
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 27/07/2026
Karl Popper would have really loved Bluesky these days. Mainly as a rich and varied source of anecdotal evidence about "clearly nobody has read my fucking book", admittedly. Take this as your regular reminder that for some "questions", there is in fact only one side, plus some terrible pricks.
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 24/07/2026
Reading a few interesting things about Burnham and "re-industrialisation". Agree with those suggesting it's probably not really going to be about heavy industry, etc. - obviously, the conditions, global trade structures, and basic human expectations don't align. Instead, people are talking of...
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 24/07/2026
There’s massive fallacy at the very start and heart of this story - no amount of new oil and gas from the North Sea can bring down the cost of living - global markets set the price, even when we make it here - not us. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 24/07/2026
Lots of talk at the moment about house building, as there generally is. What's missing from this debate, though? For me, it's "do we actually have a housing shortage?" That seems to be beyond orthodoxy in terms of questions, but I really think we should be clear on the answer. 🧵 /1
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 24/07/2026
Not really seen much discussion on this yet; has anyone seen anything more concrete in terms of strategy/planning? Still slightly baffled by a weirdly non-pragmatic thing to drop into a vision - especially if devolved communities can presumably decide they're quite happy being de-industrialised...
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 24/07/2026
Particularly struck by this line from Burham's piece in the Guardian this evening[0]: "...how we reindustrialise every part of Britain..." I... don't know what that means, or how it would work. What kind of "industry"? Making what? Selling to who? [0]: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 23/07/2026
I got an email today from make.com, which I used at some point in the past, entitled "Why your AI ROI number is probably wrong — and how to fix it", and wow - have I got a potential target customer for them! I don't know who at Google needs to read it, but @ me and I'll forward it over...
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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 23/07/2026
Another fascinating ordering of complaints here... "It's too expensive! Also, it's legally sketchy as fuck and clearly utterly amoral, but... Did I mention too expensive though?"
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