Reposted by Lieven VandelanottePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 5hOf *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else? 1324665
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17hA new Magpie Murders is on iPlayer! Marble Hill Murders! Klaxon klaxon! it’s SO BLOODY GOOD, Lesley Fantastic Manville, the best best mysteries AND lots of lovely publishing gossip and the teasing sense that it could just about be a roman a cle. 6311
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 12hNARRATOR: It wasn't actually mind-boggling. 0325
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sorry to post from the other place but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2419733
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 16hI do think people really need to start believing again that good things can happen - otherwise life is just one painful retreat after another. 1224332
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteMatthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 17hThe Coquet between West Thirston and Felton. 092
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteJay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 21hi love conan. I was watching his thing on the rest is history where he said "all statues of real people should be made of durable soap, they should last a good 60 years and then we decide if we want to remake them or not".........i love that. i love that attitude to historical figures. it's so good 512023
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 15362671750
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 181196427
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteJames Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This seems a good thing but I’m not sure it’s ideal that the UK’s cordon sanitaire against the far right is a random number generator mediated by an unevenly distributed set of levers poorly labelled “Tactical Vote?” 3153
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Meanwhile the person who has enough major abundance in his own bank account to buy whole countries, and who at the same time cut USAID support from large parts of the developing world. 152
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Uff, this one’s gonna be tough 2236
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Everyone, Google "Fat Bear" today 72710
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteAdam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's nearly upon us! Record what you're doing on your phone at 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet! Get in touch if you'd like to be in! 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...adamsmyth.substack.comBe part of a film!An invitation! 023
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us. 512226
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026On a train so I am permitted one increasingly absurd q&a session with AI. This is after several obvious or less obvious confabulations. 160
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteLieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Leopold re-emerging from the scaffolding, properly signposted 081
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteDes @desdelboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Morning all. Photographer Don McCullin. Untitled (Lady in queue with shovel) Bradford, 1970s. 2315918
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A name straight out of A bit of Fry and Laurie. 030
Reposted by Lieven Vandelanottetusenoch @tusenoch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026september #FourPhotosOneMonth am pretty certain i have not until now posted any of these. all were taken as i track around where i live... 3212
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17% 132637477
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have arrested the men that were near the air base and who you decided were asylum seeking terrorists Forgive me they were white men in their twenties from London 612829
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is very, very good. 37039
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteVeles @menkvi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Significant chance they were just stealing stuff from nearby farms, which interestingly would make this the first ever time the police have attempted to stop a case of rural crime 1173
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Eau d'heure dam, Belgium (yesterday). Not my choice of visit, but the brutalist architecture and the views were enjoyable 1120
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteLieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fun times at the Light Railway Museum yesterday (musée du tram vicinal, Thuin) 3171
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteHuw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Jonathan Haidt is arguably the most impactful social scientist in recent years with his calls for teen social media bans. Maybe because he inhabits that 3rd space where the distinction between pseudo and rigorous research is unclear to non-experts and therefore easily exploited. 083
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteAdele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Feeling profoundly lucky to have had to read carefully, write stuff that took time, learn modern stats I wouldn't have had the self-discipline to do it if I could have relied on AI since HS I fear a whole lot of researchers are going to suffer appropriately from imposter syndrome in the future 2223
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Leopold re-emerging from the scaffolding, properly signposted 081
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fun times at the Light Railway Museum yesterday (musée du tram vicinal, Thuin) 3171
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026drop an album that was important to you when you were 19 030
Reposted by Lieven VandelanottePeter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Waiting for the Evri man, like some sort of medieval allegory 2166
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Belgian Picturesque (free book title for anyone who wants it) 0120
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteJohn Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remarkable flint flush work on the church of St Miles, Coslany, Norwich. 09813
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I 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 5776142101
Reposted by Lieven Vandelanottejohn-pow.bsky.social @john-pow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I did not manage to get much Autumn colour on my trip up to Perthshire the other day, but I did manage to catch a nice sunset at Queens View. 1111
Reposted by Lieven Vandelanottelingüista aburrido @ernestowg.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026"si les caisses sont vides, c’est parce que depuis 2014, on les a vidées en réduisant lentement mais sûrement la contribution des hauts revenus aux recettes de l’Etat et en instaurant de multiples méthodes d’évasion fiscale" www.levif.be/opinions/chr...levif.be 1104
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteAdele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Hello Pia [Klemp], I’ve read about your story in the papers. You sound like a badass,” he wrote. “I am an artist from the UK and I’ve made some work about the migrant crisis, obviously I can’t keep the money. Could you use it to buy a new boat or something? Please let me know. Well done. Banksy.” 063
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It takes a loading error to produce such candour. 3958172
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteJamie @jamien89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The scenery along the coastal road to Applecross is something else. 181
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An early render of the Channel 4 blocks ident. 0244
Reposted by Lieven VandelanotteLieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Night and day at Ottignies station (10 pm vs 9 am) 041