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LondonDiscuss

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Survivor of the Internet Wars. Low-impact Starter Pack of 1 (30+ years in tech / internet).

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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 1h
Say what you like about French education but what other country has a how to riot early years curriculum? Vive le Republic.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 2h
Bloody hell!
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 20h
Won't even make the news such is the normalisation.
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 20h
🦠 This might be an excellent time to close Schengen borders to travelers from Russia…
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 20h
These people terrify me. May they forever have itching powder in their pants.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 21h
Window replacement is always a bit of a swizz. Costs a fortune.. and you get a new window that looks exactly the same as this old one. Tada! New window.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bonkers.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's window replacement day. Only one window. This one. The only old window left in the house. Still single glazed. Waiting for the window men to arrive.. It's going to make a mess.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sounds much more interesting than I thought from the poster.. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
Tom Cruise’s Digger has flopped spectacularly – but I think it is a misunderstood masterpiece
This article contains spoilers for Digger: Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film may be about to become one of the biggest bombs Hollywood has ever seen – but it is destined to be re-evaluated with time
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is really unusual. What's going on? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US bombers pulled from RAF Fairford base after suspected terror plot
Aircraft leave Gloucestershire base to return to US following arrest of dual British-Iranian national in central London
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Find a crowbar that’s being used to pry apart a western liberal democracy and the person leaning on the other end of it will be in Moscow.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The most middle aged thing I've ever seen. I'm now officially the long sleeved polo shirt guy..
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
journalofdemocracy.org
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“Apple appears to be mindful of the growing and very reasonable concerns about over-surveillance and what happens with that data, and so the sensor will instead use AI to analyze movement in your home.“
engadget.com
Apple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else - Engadget
The device will apparently use AI to analyze activity in your home without actually filming it.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is trying to damage us all.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The little stone plant has flowered!!! #gardening
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Lee Rowan 🐕 🐈‍⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸 @leerowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They do if you're trying to destroy the USA. Which is what Putin's puppet seems to be doing.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh fuck. That's Christmas gone.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the same place in November 2023.
Satellite image of an intact neighborhood in eastern Rafah on 24 November 2023
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The opticians keep emailing me. I know I haven't had new glasses in three years. I found out I can just bigger the text everywhere instead.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Witcher has been remastered. I will not be available for some time.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is it: join a local group objecting to wind turbines / solar farms / pylons? Asking for a Nimby.
theguardian.com
Energy bills: what to do as prices head for £2,000 a year, from switching deals to insulating
The price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't think we are talking enough about how much Trump and his family/backers benefit from high fuel prices. It's theft on massive scale, and a direct attack on everyone's economy. He doesn't care about votes, only personal enrichment.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The cone of shame has finally come for Poppy Cat. She's been scratching the fur off her head since we had a holiday, probably to demand we never leave the house again. Measures have therefore been implemented.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are Rubio and first Trump so invested in the Fairford case? I know it's a US base but they are too dishonest for that to be the main issue.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I built this to help me get my head around changing temperatures in the UK tomcoates.org/toys/britain...
tomcoates.org
Britain is Hot
See Britain’s highest estimated temperatures, updated yearly since 1931.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Someone's getting sent to Slough House.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
One of the things that links Farage and Trumpism is the complete disregard for the seriousness of government, and restraint Vs making everything content.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I put jeans on this morning. Then l had to change into shorts. I'm going to have to put jeans back on again soon aren't I? #autumn.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't think we take into account enough that Trump and his family maki more money from the oil prices being high for as long as possible.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is everyone still talking about TV shows or have we moved on?
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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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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Friday. I'm done. What a week. Knackered. Cider.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just thinking about the Nvidia guy. Imagin thinking it's cool to say you don't remember your own phone number or home address.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They are so juiced, they'll go to war with the Pope. How's that worked out in the past? <historians welcome..>
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Didn't we used to have a special police unit that specialised in bashing people?
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Mostly what big tech companies make now are ai delivery devices. There’s no particular point to them other than to get you to engage with ai, because that’s what the companies want (as opposed to making a thing that meets consumers’ needs)
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
According to Merriam-Webster a terrorist is defined as ”a person who uses or advocates violence, destruction, and fear to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals”. Daniel Thomas is a terrorist, not a protestor, and if you support him, you support terrorism. bsky.app/profile/news...
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huh. I only just found out that London Olympia's original name was the National Agricultural Hall. That explains the wheat symbols..
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thankful to have the opportunity yesterday to discuss the importance of retaining cognitive agency in the current polluted information environment, with the new cohort of @jbs.cam.ac.uk MBA students.
The cognitive process is typically seeing an observation, narrating stories about it, and instantly assigning emotions to those often misinformed stories. The stories and emotions are too frequently informed by media influencers and the observations are now also being manipulated, for example with AI. It is really important to remain calm, pause, and reflect when assigning stories and emotions. Cognitive manipulators want you to surrender your agency over this process.
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