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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 2h

Kids today don't appreciate that culture peaked in the long 90s, the decade between Better the Devil You Know and Can't Get You Out of My Head / Total Recall and The Mummy Returns when you could watch an Arnie film and suddenly the Best Hamlet Ever would drop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9I...

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Last Action Hero-Hamlet Scene

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6h

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

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Is this a 3D model?
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80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
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Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 7h

Why does every one minute clip of him telling a story drag so much you find yourself skipping a bit? It's one minute. It's taken me longer to tap this in.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 10h

Bill Gates! Didsbury! Dolly Parton! Another great episode.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 10h

All but ~10 people in the world won't go 'ha!' when they read where they found the remains, but all ~10 of us are on Bluesky, I know half your names, yes YOU, obviously you. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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Man charged with murder and stalking after human remains found in small village

A man has been charged with murder after human remains, believed to be of 40-year-old Craig Hurcombe, were found

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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 11h

We have moved these two governors races from Likely Republican to Lean Republican: • Texas: Gina Hinojosa (D) vs. Greg Abbott (R) • Florida: David Jolly (D) vs. Byron Donalds (R)

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson was a visionary. He imagined what I call a monstrofuturist utopia: a place where everyone's uniqueness was welcome.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 11h

This is another example of how pretending AI thinks masks absurdity and horror. Trump doesn't trust his advisors anymore, or the instincts of his slowed brain, he only trusts Grok, so he's just asking Grok and doing the first thing a chatbot says. www.rawstory.com/trump-grok-2...

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'Hard to convince him to do anything': Tr ump insiders terrified they've been replaced

President Donald Trump is leaning heavily upon Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to help shape decisions about his presidency and legacy — and close advisers are alarmed are alarmed by how much weight he's ...

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 14h

If you don't know what a cowboy was, in 19th century South America a vaquero was kind of a shepherd but for cattle. Really dumb, often unemployable otherwise. The US adopted the model for a short time because it was cheap, using the mocking term 'cowboy' for the dozy losers who did that easy work.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 15h

PA: Arranges Zoom call, puts it in Calendar, prepares notes, sends CEO email with link to explainer article and bio web page of other participants, sets three reminders and alarm clock on phone. CEO: Wow, computers are amazing. People used to do all this.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 15h

Lee Mack and Lee Pace are different people. Recalculating.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI won't make it in the modern music industry, it didn't have a rich dad.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Newt Gingrich's eldest kid is 60, so it'll be interesting to find out what weapons she'll need in her lifetime.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given his track record winning wars and making improvements in DC, thoughts and prayers to people in Washington. I hope those of you who survive the malaria go on to survive the giant mosquitoes. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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Donald Trump declares war on mosquitoes

The president has signed an order to combat mosquitoes in D.C. as Florida tackles an unusual dengue fever outbreak.

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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a better description of a potential harm from AI than the sex cult has ever produced.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A reminder that a typical 100MW data center employs 100 full time staff, mostly low-level cleaning and security. The average branch of Home Depot employs about 150 people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I considered myself pretty attuned and aware, for a guy, but MeToo just opened my eyes. Every woman I know has been abused, molested, or assaulted. And my first reaction was 'I mean ... what are we counting?' and they describe their experience and I run screaming going 'that counts'.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a shock development the thing that will help fix things is actually popular.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trigger warning but holy shit, that's not an attack ad, that's an annihilation ad.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 29/09/2026

Readers and writers of #BookSky, I got a story for you. Last year, I released a major nonfiction and sequel to an award winning mystery. This year, I released an audiobook on forensic history. But like most authors, I struggle to make sales/get recognition, and am a poor AF. Now the funny part: 1/

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Checkmate. All opponents of Ken Paxton need to line up and apologise.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about this in context of the Cornell 7 which is a story about believing women and how much evidence is needed for a finding of a responsibility and also a story about how responsibility apparently is nothing

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's naive to think it's a coincidence that the concerted assault on universities came right at the moment university admins were starting to take sexual violence and racism seriously.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new Meta thing takes your FB Marketplace listing, agrees lower prices with your vendor, tells them you're in when you're not, then sends you a message to say 'hey, you may be wondering why you're getting a bunch of negative feedback'.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Senate Majority Leader until the 2060s > President.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel it's my duty to live long enough that I can scowl at middle-aged people in the 2050s who are nostalgic for the 2020s.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Without the sound on it looks like an attack ad on the verge of flashing up a big caption saying 'Sex Predator'.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this photograph of a hamburger an actual delicious hamburger I can eat? Sure looks like it!

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is insane that Sam Altman talks about AI safety as though it is an option. If his crap causes damage, his shithole company is out of business, and he could well be going to jail. This is not a choice for him to make substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I built a computer that perfectly mimics a human mind. A specific human's. I used my old ZX Speccy.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is it good when a government says they can no longer defend you, it's each man for himself, protect what you can?

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So here's the thing: if he means 'data' then ... that is exactly where we are. We pay for a 'phone line' that almost exactly none of us ever use for making phone calls. It's like promising an SF future where people eat sandwiches. If ...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are there words for the different subsets of puns? There's a set of puns where the pun is so familiar it doesn't register as wordplay - The Beatles, Weird Al, calling a serial killer who kills bad people Dexter. Is there a word for this?

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If gas prices are $5 a gallon when the Strait is 100% open, then when the Iranians open it more, gas prices will go up. Only Trump has a brain capable of understanding this complex equation.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God, by now the nimble, shameless Conservative Party of yore would have pledged to end small boats by Rejoining.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spoilers: Amazon's threat to abandon deliveries in NYC if this goes through is an empty one. Mamdani understands, as few have in the past, that rich people and companies can't go off in a huff to one of the other New York Cities. www.huffpost.com/entry/mamdan...

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Zohran Mamdani Is Going To War With Amazon. The Stakes Are Incredibly High.

A New York City bill would strike a huge blow to Amazon’s outsourcing model. The battle is already spreading to other cities.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listening to this interview is fascinating. Two main thoughts: 1) The blessing that is an interviewer so well informed, so thoughtful as Armfield is here. 2) Listening to M John Harrison talk about his books makes me feel very stupid and also that I do very much actually want to read them all now

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M. John Harrison & Julia Armfield: The End of Everything | London Review Bookshop

The great M. John Harrison – ‘The closest thing we have to a present-day Wyndham or Ballard’ according to the New Statesman – returned to the shop to present…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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