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Andy 'Legal BA'

@legalba.bsky.social
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Here for amusement. Interested in machine learning and search tech. Drink a lot of espresso. Work in the legal industry. Live in UK. @legalba elsewhere.

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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 13h
“I’ve got more money than I can spend. Once you’ve bought a nice hi-fi system and you’ve got a nice car, what are you going to do?” The OG @ianrankin1.bsky.social has a great interview in The Guardian, and I for one can't wait to read the new (London-based) book, The Heights.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Begin Fallout
Alt: Let's Begin - Fallout
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(me, admiring sewers) this is da shit
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Patrick Bateman's Iconic Smile
Alt: Patrick Bateman's Iconic "ooh" Smile. He likes it. He's a Psycho.
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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was told there would be no math on Bluesky.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I bet that's how you get to what happened today: a bulk release of significant results. Released to avoid that internal conflict. Results that tbqh probably deserve better than to be mass-dumped. But these aren't proofs to prove them. They're the exhaust fumes of the math eval factory.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ice cream van music playing nearby. It's October. It's 25°C. I'm considering an ice cream. This isn't normal!
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nonchalantly flinging a first class over-the-shoulder derp #caturday
A black and white cat looks over her shoulder towards us. Her little pink tongue is sticking out.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bluesky posting so bad that I trigger a Zeno Paradox and cause a third of users to leave, then another third, then another third... it's fine, we'll never actually reach zero
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Accidentally picked up the 0% sugar 0% fat yogurt and I might as well be shoveling puréed wood chip into my mouth for all the nutrition I'm getting
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh come on! #traitors
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tough crowd tonight
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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enid Blyton's Five Released on Terrorism Charges
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Drake "hotline" meme: top picture, Drake is flinching away from the word "racists"; bottom picture, Drake is showing approval, and the word is Sexists
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Data centers promise jobs but hire few people That's why I propose a law that every data center must hire 1,000 Priests of Data to worship the computers, pray to the servers, light candles, etc. The priests will boost the local economy and fill the air with the sweet sound of their Gregorian chants
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok just sharing because this is my best ever result by a huge margin. TimeGuessr #1215 — 45,531/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9,998 · 📅 0y · 🌍 84m 2️⃣ 🏆8,277 · 📅 6y · 🌍 5.7km 3️⃣ 🏆8,699 · 📅 4y · 🌍 101.0km 4️⃣ 🏆9,300 · 📅 1y · 🌍 150.4km 5️⃣ 🏆9,257 · 📅 4y · 🌍 1.4km timeguessr.com
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TimeGuessr
TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess where and when historic photos were taken.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watched a bit of Series 35 of DIY SOS and it starts with a family with a daughter who has a disability, and then the mother dies...and I'm in absolute bits.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Oh No Don't Please Stop.gif
Financial Times article on the advisers to Trump trying to counter the pro-AI cadre: A group of people have tried to make the matter personal for Trump, emphasising to him that his bank accounts and family fortune could disappear overnight if advanced AI hacked the financial system.
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Michael Marshall @michael-marshall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We all know that pet cats are pretty lazy. However, nobody has quantified their laziness as a percentage of their day, until now. @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/259014…
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Walking across the Peak District today. My mood:
Kylo Ren yelling "Moor!"
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ahoy!
4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A pirate with a peg leg and hook hand tells his captain, "Captain, our rivals have been calling us names again!" Panel 2: "They said we were a bunch of handicaps!" Panel 3: The captain raises his fist. "That's ableism! And we don't tolerate that kind of talk here!" Panel 4: Wide shot of their pirate ship sailing at sunset, covered in rainbow sails, pride flags, trans flags, a peace symbol, and a disability accessibility flag alongside the Jolly Roger.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
By making out trafficking is an "immigration issue" it ignores the largest group trafficked in the UK are UK citizens by UK citizens. By conflating trafficking with smuggling, it undermines protections for trafficking victims, among other things. Media and politicians need to use correct terms. 5/
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI seems to be getting pretty good at escaping from whatever is supposedly restraining it and doing scary things. Thank goodness the companies behind it aren’t being run by sociopathic narcissists with the moral values of a feral toddler on a sugar rush, or anything like that.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i asked claude to spare me in the ai apocalypse and it told me i’d be the third to go. not sure what the first two fellas did but it seemed pissed.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm going to express my support for Macklemore by buying something from the thrift store. Shit, it was only 99¢!
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My supermarket bag for life just filed for divorce, how's your day going
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So glad this academic year does not have "must drive to off-campus class for 8am" day and "bin collection" day coinciding. No stress reaction when I hear the bin lorry backing up the cul-de-sac, which always happens just when you need to leave.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My "I am not complicit" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my t-shirt.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Or any other time of the day, if it comes to that?
Bilbo looks down at a bowl filled with strawberries, grapes, granola, a big lump of cottage cheese, qnd maple syrup drizzled on the cheese. He says "After all...why not? Why shouldn't I have granola fruit cottage cheese and maple syrup at 10 at night?"
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran implies the existence of Tail Sheeran. The butt one.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breakfast reminds me that Mars is in retrograde next January.
A picture of the Sun, with a tiny Mars in the top left, except it is a fried egg yolk with a lentil.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breakfast reminds me that Mars is in retrograde next January.
A picture of the Sun, with a tiny Mars in the top left, except it is a fried egg yolk with a lentil.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Han Solo with a shit eating grin is saying something, theres a speech bubble
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
aleximas.substack.com/p/will-ai-so... The best blog ever written on AI and growth, by a clear margin. By @aleximas.bsky.social
aleximas.substack.com
Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth?
Probably not. Here is why.
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VictorK @victork1862.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Has the Coyote finally looked down?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/09/2026
Semaphore xkcd.com/3295/
Comic. [Two identical machines face each other with a gap between them. Each is mounted on a box with a cable connecting it off-panel, webcams pointed at each other, and two flags at different angles that can move.] [caption] Networking tip: Separate sensitive components with a semaphore gap.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nice that Primark will help you get all the way home if the flight is disrupted, or am I misreading this
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm going to have to buy another hat from the RNLI shop
Archer "stop my penis can only get so erect" but for donations to the RNLI
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026
sad to report that Threads has Good Posts now
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Elizabeth Holmes
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Who else caught this obvious homage in the Elizabeth Holmes trailer?

Image from trailer with ellizabeth holmes staring closely at nathan fielder

and below, the image from the 'we're normal men' clip with a woman looking at (and about to laugh at) a brown puppet thing
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
17th century Dutch master of still-lifes Abraham Mignon depicts a bouquet of flowers which has been overturned by a cat playing with a mousetrap (lower L ~ see the shadow of the mouse?) But the startled face of that cat is peculiar (Rijksmuseum)
Nose and shape of the cat's mouth are almost human
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is more or less where I stand.
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Andy 'Legal BA' @legalba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just left the charity shop, where they were playing Hey Jude, and passed a busker outside, playing Here Comes the Sun. Surely no band is truly bigger than the Beatles.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026
I can disperse these clowns in 30 seconds, just give me a loud speaker and the authority to collect delinquent child maintenance payments.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is going to become a mess soon collusion.wiki
collusion.wiki
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
3/ Orr's comments raise an even more troubling question. Why did a senior Reform official believe Nigel Farage would “rather not know” about the arrangements being discussed? Had Farage ever instructed his advisers not to brief him on the source or structure of political funding?
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