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"Here's your problem- it looks like you're paying attention to what's going on."

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 19h
And off we go www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 12h
Reform are NOT in power, they may NEVER be in power. Why is this considered "news" BBC? It has not happened, cannot happen at the moment and may never happen. Report on actual news please.
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 5h
"Pro-Kremlin bloggers are warning that Russia’s centralized digital economy could collapse because the country is not prepared for the “data center war” it started" - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... go for them, zelensky
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Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Brexit is forever tainted with disinformation, foreign interference, murky vested interests, ugly prejudice, unforgivable costs and now deep unpopularity. If you really cared about our country and wanted to fix its problems, you’d admit this… Good that Burnham is finally doing so…
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
There’s also this piece from last year which points to similar cognitive effects. Asbestos of the mind is an excellent way to put it.
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham says UK authorities are “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum as @catneilan.bsky.social reports in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Documentally @documental.ly · 10/10/2026
A little slice of Pie? youtu.be/SfxQSS1tVV4
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American Morality
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 10/10/2026
why does this look like it's full of many many dead bodies
a building made to look like a face with a large hat on it, even a nose and ears sticking out
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don’t ever tell me that the BBC doesn’t favour Reform UK. This was on their feed yesterday?
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Jenny's House @uncleshady777.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Did you have one of these? #80s
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
😂 Meanwhile on Normal Island, a petition to defund the RNLI is gaining momentum, but there’s just one teeny, tiny little problem - the RNLI is funded through charitable donations. This basically means that there’s nothing to actually f*****g defund you absolute weapons-grade idiots. Credit. R Harris
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jenny's House @uncleshady777.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Banana 🍌
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No pressure but if this gets to a million views, I'll be able to pay the mortgage this month. Thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUv...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spend an inordinate amount of time wandering round the house doing Columbo impressions. "Just one last thing, Mrs Dishwasher, there's something that's been bothering me... this spoon right here. Its been through 3 cycles now... it's still not clean. I just don't understand it."
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
and so it begins... 🙃
4 panel cartoon from GoatToSelf
2 people in Victorian times lighting a street gas lamp. Allen is holding the pole with the flame, the other person is speaking.

1. WE'RE GASLIGHTERS, ALLEN.

2. ONE DAY OUR PROFESSION WILL BE HELD IN THE HIGHEST ESTEEM.

3. (Allen) I DUNNO. I JUST HAVE A BAD FEELING

4. NO YOU DON'T.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHV2ObDSCMh/?igsh=dG9sYzRwb2F4em8y
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MOLES HAVE NEW KING
Donkey peeping out of a manhole
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And here it is…
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When highly unpleasant people die, it is polite not to remark upon their great unpleasantness. But we do not have to pretend to think that they were a decent person.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
➡️ Jeffrey Archer in the Eye covers library www.private-eye.co.uk/covers/Jeffr...
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Private Eye Covers Library
The official site for Private Eye magazine, the UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs publication edited by Ian Hislop. Subscribe to save money on the shop price and get delivery strai...
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
shame on #bbc for this bad journalism, and for the cowardice
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two heavyset fellas sit around an unusual, scrawny humanoid alien at a diner counter. One of the guys pushes a little basket of bread in front of the alien and says, “this here is corn bread.” Panel 2: the alien takes a small bite of the golden corn bread. The alien says, “con… bred.” Panel 3: the alien begins to hover, emitting an otherworldly light and causing gravity to shift around its immediate vicinity. A frightened waitress behind the bar shouts, “what’s happening?!”
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/09/2026
After every major crime there's a window where the right are desperate for the perpetrators to be brown, so they can have a little pogrom as a treat. Can't violence-enthusiasts have a traditional hobby instead, like beating each-other up, let's say on a Saturday, after watching some football?
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It might be better than what we have 😂
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Oh drat,” said Toad. “Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.”
Frog and Toad walking through the woods.

From "A Lost Button"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s a new way to break #RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before - arstechnica.com/security/202... " Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore. "
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There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Private Eye:
London Fascist
Week begins
YES, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue.
Our models are sporting trademark black shirts twinned with black shorts and the very latest in balaclava chic.
The models sashayed through
London to the Daily Mail offices where they showed off the best of British Fascism for the World to see. A leading Fascism designer says, "You'll see this great new totally unthreatening look everywhere - Portsmouth, Dover, London. It's coming to a town near you soon, and we know where you live!"
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Alanwino @alanwino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣👇
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It takes a loading error to produce such candour.
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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Xenomorph Dentist. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...
Xenomorph Dentist: Say "Ah".
Xenomorph Patient: Ah!
Xenomorph Dentist: Say "Ah" again.
Xenomorph Patient's inner set of teeth sticks out: Ah!
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Johnny Nice Painter @ Eurosky! @johnnynicepainter.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Buy some RNLI Christmas cards or I will come round to your house and paint your living room and YOU DO NOT WANT THAT shop.rnli.org/products/chr...
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Christmas Carol Christmas Cards, Pack of 8
Wish someone a merry Christmas with these RNLI-themed cards, featuring a cheerful carolling scene outside a lifeboat station - and help support the lifesavers.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
via The Unheard Majority
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😂 Today is a good dad joke day - lol
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing.
Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore.
Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/09/2026
A year ago this week, I left Twitter. It had gotten to the point where there was nothing but constant abuse, and my mental health would not have coped had I stayed. It cost me readers, a fair bit of money and a lot of reach - and I don’t regret it for one second.
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I Left Twitter a Year Ago. Going Back Confirmed It Was The Right Decision.
A year after quitting the platform that helped grow my audience, I went back to see what had changed. The answer was: not much, except perhaps the darkness.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the 90s, many people in Cromer woke up to find a biscuit sellotaped to their front door. After almost 30 years I feel safe to admit I was involved. Obviously, they were digestives, not hobnobs. We were pranksters, not psychopaths.
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Fiona @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/water-bi...
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The People’s Sewage Refund
💷🌊 We pay for sewage to be properly treated. Yet our waterways are still being polluted. If the service isn’t being delivered, why should we keep paying for it? Demand The People’s Refund. Add your na...
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pirate union rep: what would you like to see in terms of pirate rights? Pirate: more parity! Pirate union rep: [squawking] what would you like to see in terms of pirate rights?
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
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