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Toby Tremayne

@magicindustries.bsky.social
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Technical Futurist. Inventor, Hacker, Coder, Writer, Troublemaker. AuDHD/PDA et al. Chaotic Good. He/Him. www.wired.co.uk/article/metaverse-b…

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Weetabix and aus/nz weetbix are not the same thing, it is a trap. Weetbix is awful.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Repetition or clarity. Then pick it through and make a note of each point you want to keep, note repetition and work on combining / refining those into a clearer idea,then think about the ordering of it.usually by then my brain has built a better overall picture and the struggle eases.
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I used to do the same thing, never a draft so much as editing as I go. I was told once, at first you're laying manure.its all shit, but out of it grows the stuff you want. If you struggle, just go free form and try to turn off your inner editor just get it all out there and don't worry about 1/...
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Also, unrelatedly, the hand-wringing "men don't know what the rules are" business these people do really irritates me, because they then... enumerate the rules in a sarcastic tone of voice. You do know the rules! You just don't like them!
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you are having sex with someone and they say they want to stop, you stop. It's really not that difficult a concept
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/04/2025
Everyone now and again I will see someone use the phrase "woke mind virus" seriously and I will wonder what it is like to be them, and to have a head full of rancid pudding where a brain is meant to be
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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 20/04/2025
This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*

uh oh

*Frantically starts flipping through pages*

uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Like obviously there's a wide range of how autism impacts folks but also I'm autistic and a whole-ass college professor with a PhD, wtaf is this human carbuncle talking about.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/04/2025
Weird* how all those people who said we NEEDED an armed society to prevent tyranny even though our kids were dying barricaded behind desks are now all in favor of tyranny. *extremely predictable
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Corey (Local Cryptid) 🌈 🦇 @coreypoetry.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
*taps mic* Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money. Okay? OKAY?! Yes, I mean *you*. Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/04/2025
This doesn't surprise me. Sociological research shows that discounting of girls' competence and commitment--and celebration of (especially White) boys' brilliance--starts in K-12 schools and ramps up in college/grad school. Girls see how they're treated and reasonably assume it won't get better.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/04/2025
To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.
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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
No he's not. Giving in implies that he doesn't want to do this stuff. He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to. He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists. He IS Far Right.
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I have the same thing. AuDHD, severe PDA and time blindness. Stuff would pile up around where I sat working and I often couldn't do anything about it or even notice it or how long. One comment that it distressed my partner and Brain just flipped and clearing it up was a new law, like gravity.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I don't particularly care--nor should the Democrats--whether or not protecting trans people is popular in the heartland. Even if it alienates the "moderates," it's the right thing to do, and the Democrats should make every effort to do it. Sometimes what the people need is to be led and not lead.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Once upon a time, many children lived in iron lungs due to polio. Vaccines eradicated it Public health matters. When you shake confidence in public health, people die The last man living in an iron lung was killed by Covid when a carer refused to mask This is where anti-science rhetoric leads
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Covid Just Killed The Last Man Living In An Iron Lung
Paul Alexander, the last man on Earth living in an iron lung after surviving polio as a child, was just killed by covid.
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Greetings, peasants!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate: “There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".
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Mathias Verdon 韋馬斯 @mathiasverdon.com · 26/03/2025
Have you patched your ingress controller yet? The best time to do it was yesterday, the second best time is now.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔴Labour is so paralysed by Brexit that, despite its hunt for growth, it won’t mention vast sums lost. 🔴CER estimates Brexit has cost the UK 5% of GDP—£128bn. Goldman Sachs agrees. 🔴LSE found £27bn lost in exports in just two years. 🔴OBR says trade is down 15%. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee
Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hi Netflix, we could really use a one shot drama about the effects of dismantling welfare and pandering to the super rich, sincerely Britain.
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Melsonby assemblage (not a hoard). 28 (smallish) wheels and 14 harnesses, so potentially seven 4-wheeled carts (2 ponies each). If right then Early Iron Age tradition, as vessel might suggest. Out of fashion in Gaul by 450 BC, slightly later here perhaps. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago
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NyeBev4Eva @nyebev4eva.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I have a feeling Labour are going to sell the UK's very soul to Trump in a trade deal, and offer up various justifications eg "but tariffs". bsky.app/profile/labo...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Even though Trump’s advisors are stupid, we need to stop attributing to stupidity what is actually corruption. The purpose of the Yemen Signal group chat was circumvention of public records disclosure laws. They want to act without accountability (which is also why they used disappearing messages).
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A few people have asked why Scots are protesting when Scotland has the Adult Disability Payment and not PIP. Here are some of the reasons. #WelfareNotWarfare
IF SOMEONE ASKS WHY WE'RE PROTESTING IN SCOTLAND WHEN WE HAVE ADP:

• While many of the Cuts are to PIP, some also affect things like universal credit which will directly affect Scots

The PIP cuts will have a knock-on effect in the Barnett consequentials, meaning Scotland will get less money because of the decisions made in England. We already spend millions out of the block grant trying to protect people from Westminster cuts and every new one makes it harder

• The rhetoric being used to justify these cuts affects all of us, twisting public opinion and exacerbating stigma, discrimination and hate towards us

• And we are also protesting in solidarity with our community south of the border
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“Are you going to wear that mask forever??” Probably. I’m adapting to my environment. We’ve allowed a multi system vascular virus to circulate unmitigated for years. A good respirator can keep me from getting sick. Until we face COVID & come up with society wide solutions, my mask stays on
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/03/2025
The easiest way you can show solidarity right now is to wear a mask when you're doing your grocery shopping. Seriously. You're protecting people around you and normalizing community care. I wear a mask when I do my grocery shopping. Will you join me?
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025
Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ooh I haven't listened to that in age. Shall go find it.
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Toby Tremayne @magicindustries.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
That's the best thing many of us can do right now. Change the world by being better, doing small kindnesses, and taking care of those around you.
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demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
caves of qud feels like experiencing the odyssey for the first time it’s the only game that spiritually comes close to being an epic, and wandering through it has been giving me such IMMENSE feelings about our medium
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
UK, as with modern America, is entirely built on migration. There is no part of its culture which is not influenced by migration. Migration is repeatedly shown to be overwhelmingly more beneficial for host countries than negative on pretty much every level. Stagnation occurs when you restrict it.
JD Vance claims UK is 'stagnating because of its immigration' in scathing speech
19 March 2025, 09:07 | Updated: 19 March 2025, 09:12

JD Vance And Tim Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate In New York
JD Vance And Tim Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate In New York. Picture: Getty
By Flaminia Luck

US vice-president JD Vance has claimed the UK is being held back by surging immigration levels.
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Science’s great paradox: we don’t know what we don’t know until we look Science isn't about building new tools to answer certain questions for sure. It's about exploring the unknown, and finding out what's there when we finally look. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #science #astro
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Science's great paradox: we don't know what we don't know until we look
Our scientific instruments are constantly improving, revealing nature's workings as never before. Without them, we'll remain in the dark.
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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.
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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 20/03/2025
I read 14 reports and blog posts on the idea of the UK government setting up a National Data Library. The equivalent of a 300 page book. And then I wrote up what I think in 2000 words. So if that's the kind of thing you like reading,... tomforth.co.uk/nationaldata...
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Building a National Data Library.
What I learned from reading 14 reports and blog posts on a National Data Library.
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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Nice abstract. Will be sure to read it. Evolutionary Archaeology is much more than just 'one darn thing after the other' :-) --> Transmission is 🗝️.
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France phys.org/news/2025-03...
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Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France
Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ha...
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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