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Simon Lucy

@lusaimon.com
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A left-angled trapezoid on the graph of political philosophies, apply me no labels. Other descriptions might include an Architect at Large, occasionally writing complete fiction but mostly working on zettel.io See also simon_lucy@mastodon.social

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 9h
There's a considerable amount of jam tomorrow in Burnham's populism. Not much on basic bread and marge today.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 29/09/2026
I spend about £130 a month, including VAT on my compute, given the VAT is input it doesn't really exist. I could easily absorb 10% for a compute tax. It wouldn't make that much difference for even reasonably sized farms, but it would drive efficiency. Multiply that by several tens of magnitude.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 27/09/2026
For a regime obsessed with their legitimate claim on a region, they don't seem to recognise that they relied on Tyre and the other city states of the Phoenicians to build the First Temple. Only one group's origin is important.
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Tony Iommi @iommi.com · 27/09/2026
30.09.26 ✟
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 27/09/2026
No one ever stopped anyone learning something, even if they did burn all the books.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RIP my pal of many years, Bob Davenport. I am away from home at the moment but this is something I wrote for the Folk Music Hall Of Fame way back when. Love and hugs to Katherine, Rio, Sadie and Ritchie and and all Bob’s family and friends mikehardingfolkshow.com/hof-intro/ho...
mikehardingfolkshow.com
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 27/09/2026
Into the thick Orvis shirts, not just because of the temperature change but the protective effect over my sternum.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Amidst all the talk of the need for #government #regulation of #AI, there has been too little discussion of the simplest route: #criminal #liability.” deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...
deanbaker22.substack.com
Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences
People need to face consequences for criminal negligence
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 25/09/2026
This year's winner of the biggest pumpkin, the same grower as last year. Along with the other competitors. Malvern
Huge pumpkin, pale with streaks of salmon colourThe row of the largest pumpkins.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 25/09/2026
On a whim I decided to play Transformer, the mix is a lot simpler than I remember. Which is perfect.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
The answer would be to sanction all exports from Israel, and to do it properly sanction component companies from supplying to Israel.
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Zenevas Muroa @zenevasmuroa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What exactly is produced in the settlements that Israel is so keen to export? www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
aljazeera.com
Israel offers cash to firms hit by trade ban; Europe dithers on new rules
Israel hopes to redirect goods from illegal Israeli settlements towards markets in Asia and South America.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
I think if someone has been charged with an offence or offences then that can be broadcast, using alleged implies something else. Not including the most serious charges and instead using only the more minor charge suggests a particular editorial decision. Looking at you BBC Radio 4 News.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is not AI agents going rogue, but OpenAI. This hack took the company months to notice and then they notified a public email address rather than the appropriate government agency. www.ft.com/content/5613... OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website
ft.com
OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website
AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
I would cheerfully hang and torture those that design boxes of medicine that cannot be closed and so slippery blister packs spill everywhere.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
The race to discover the poison token to disrupt any transformer. Free plot idea.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
It seems reasonable that OpenAI be prosecuted for allowing the breach and exfiltration of data, including personal data by Australian authorities.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
We have a coastline of around 7,000 miles, depending upon the degree of fractal depth, and thousands of years of formal and informal travel, goods, taxed and untaxed and people migration and we expect to know everything, everywhere all at once. This is senescence in a culture.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 24/09/2026
We are back to the undeserving poor. Immigration is perhaps less a shibboleth to divide society no than it was so let's return to the good old poor and removing income except for acceptable spending.
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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just pause for a moment and think about this. 98% of schools destroyed or damaged. Looks like a war crime, smells like a war crime. It is a war crime.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 23/09/2026
This odd England teams should have English players of a narrow invented category notion. I thought we solved this in the 60's in Cricket. There are qualifying terms and then the team is picked. And similar rules now exist in all international sport. So teacups and unrepresentative storms.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, just to be clear, Daniel Thomas was: 1- Carrying a knife contrary to section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 2- Used that knife to commit criminal damage (Criminal Damage act 1971) 3- likely engaged in the criminal offense of endangering Life at Sea (Merchant Shipping Act 1995)
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 22/09/2026
I've managed to read two of the Booker Shortlist, The End Of Everything and May We Feed The King. I might be more likely to learn toward M. John Harrison but I'd be very happy for Rebecca Perry to get it.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 22/09/2026
Giving up Civilisation and Culture for the total employment of buggy agents and the capacious coffers of trillionaires.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 22/09/2026
Wow, I'm still older than Nick Cave.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 22/09/2026
One difference between the Third Reich and this current USA Reich is that the former kept records.
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Jimmy Reid Foundation @reidfoundation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The challenge ahead for Andy Burnham if he wants a codified UK constitution. Before asking the public whether the UK needs a written constitution, we may first need to get better at explaining the constitution that we already have. theconversation.com/the-challeng...
theconversation.com
The challenge ahead for Andy Burnham if he wants a codified UK constitution
Public understanding of the constitution is crucial.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'd very much appreciate it if you took a moment to read the alt text on this (and follow the link). www.tom-cox.com
The photo is one I took during a long coastal walk of the Daymark, a brutalist Victorian shipping tower in Devon, UK, with a stubble corridor cutting through a field of wheat and leading up to it. The building is old, mysterious, seems a bit like it's from outer-space, likes being near the sea, and looks like it could be a great psychedelic record cover so I think it fairly well sums up the writing on my website, which I wanted to invite new followers here to have a look at via the link above. There's absolutely LOADS on there, much of it readable for free, if you decide to sign up for the emails where I send it out. I want to lure people who enjoy my writing and photography to sign up for my newsletter because I would dearly love to step away from the pace and algorithmic madness of social media and I much prefer newsletters as a way of communicating. Which will ultimately give me more time to write (I hope). My suggestion is that you sign up for the free package then, if you like it, you can always support my writing by signing up for the paywalled stuff too. I've offered a choice of prices, starting at less than £2 per month, so hopefully everyone who really wants to read everything I write will be able to afford it. But if you subscribe in any way you'll be doing me and my writing a favour.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 21/09/2026
We are now solidly in the Philip K. Dick century, which may be our last.
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Either way, LLMs are useless for most humanities research. And I mean, fundamentally, structurally useless. Unfixable. Not the right tool for the job. Like trying to change your car tire with a pair of pliers.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 21/09/2026
UBI to fund 'AI' would turn everyday lives into drones. It's not UBI it's the culmination of rentier. Break up the 'AI' Cartel, forceably before it takes the global economy down. That's the threat, not runaway agents.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 19/09/2026
Considerable tedium so far in this 'new' Strictly format.
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Kimm Rogers @kimmrogers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey mainstream media outlets! How about you boycott the White House? If nobody shows up to cover the news…. He would literally go out of his mind. He can’t live without attention. Maybe we stop giving it to him because everything he says are lies anyway.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 19/09/2026
Almost time for my first 5 minutes perambulation up and down the front garden.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 19/09/2026
When did I last wallow in an afternoon of Steve Marriott? No matter, I'll do it this week.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 19/09/2026
Waiting for me coming out of Hospital was Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood. I think it actually arrived the day I went in. But at least I'll be able to read it now as I've managed to reassert my concentration.
Casual shot of Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood. By Tom Cox.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 18/09/2026
I think it was yesterday that I said "Personally, if it were my constitution i'd want a Bill of Abnegation to roll all laws and actions of the previous administration back." Now I'm thinking we probably need this everywhere across the world. The Tyrant fucked the whole world up not just the USA.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 18/09/2026
I really, really am going to be discharged at lunchtime, I guess, I hope.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 18/09/2026
Statistical machine trained systems as a quasi generic replacement for work will never make a profit. If there is ever yield from it, it will come from the shrinkage and expiration of individual human beings.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 17/09/2026
Considerable amounts of snow being thrown blaming agent models for all the likely reasons that the third smartest species (after cephalopods and group organised insects), will terminate itself from the planet. The fundamental mistake was allowing shit output of all kinds to pollute knowledge.
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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Letter published by The New Statesman in 2023. Reposted by Another Angry Voice on FB. “In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.” Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire
“In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economybecoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfarestate that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.”

Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire
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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 17/09/2026
⚠️ We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting owners of popular crates and rust-lang team members that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. See our blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/t...
blog.rust-lang.org
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 17/09/2026
The EU is essentially suggesting that those under 13 should not have access to libraries and online resources. Because it's conflating one use case of public internet with all use cases. The continuing decay in critical thinking bothers me more than the frantic masturbators of Tech.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 16/09/2026
In the continual drip, drip of maintaining fitness to get discharged, parsing various teams messages on it and then spiking a temperature of 102 the night before last it was confirmed this morning that I had COVID. So I've been in a side room most of the day and tomorrow we see what happens.
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 14/09/2026
Imagine the first note of the Soap theme being randomly struck. And what would you think such a place would be?
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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 14/09/2026
Welcome T. Dan Smith. BBC News - 'Culture shift' needed in how UK does business, PM urges www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
'Culture shift' needed in how UK does business, Andy Burnham urges
Burnham has said those who take risks should be backed by government, but his government has been criticised for increasing business costs.
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