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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4h

I think the largest argument for getting joining the EU back on the agenda is a list of all of the ways that 2026 isn't 2016.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing I have never quite worked out in my head is the way we view chronic pain as somehow less of an issue than acute pain. Same as the way we seem to regard someone experiencing something for the first time as somehow more noteworthy than someone who lives with it every day.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bring back British Quota Quickies.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Regarding that last repost, I really, really wish there was more reporting that involved timelines of things. Things that happen have pasts, presents and futures. It is surprisingly difficult for lay people to piece together coherent histories of polices and events and it's getting more difficult

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X

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Kim Justice @kimjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's something amusing about models that are yet to be painted. This will likely end up looking fine but I thought for a second that someone had made the armadillo from the cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Tarkus out of a chicken. I can't be the only one, surely.

A 3D printed model of the mecha-armadillo Tarkus, from the Emerson Lake & Palmer album of the same name. Not yet painted, so it has a uniform colour that's somewhat like a raw chicken.

The cover of the Emerson, Lake and Palmer 1971 album Tarkus, featuring the same mecha-armadillo, included for reference.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The other night, when out walking, a polite lad on a bicycle asked me if I wanted packet. I said 'sorry?' he said it again. I said 'sorry?'. He said it again. I said 'I have no idea what you mean' the he say OK, wished me a good evening and cycled off into the darkness.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I suppose anything involving communication where the limiting factor was time it took to communinicate is now likely to find itself with far more demands as computing power collapses time. AI as a problem of demand, not a problem of output

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you've a few pounds to spare, consider donating some to a lovely queer and trans bookshop in Glasgow who've been having their windows smashed and sadly need to install roll shutters to be safe. They're close to the target, so help push it over? www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The people I like live In kitchens and halls I am Robertson Speedo And this is my Gramme Friday #fallfriday youtu.be/g73X1anS6sI?...

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Gramme Friday

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm just the right age to think about this from a UK perspective. There's a version of Nirvana's influence on US bands that took all of the classic rock hints scuzzed up and made a kind of dead centre American rock radio sound that wasn't really a go-er in the UK as things were different...

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is super interesting. It feels like across many areas of communication (and thinking) the underresourcing of people time collides with increased pressure for output output output which degrades that actual content of the output, probably meaning that overall quality is degraded.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I accidentally brought one home after staying at a youth hostel in the South Downs. They are fantastic. Luck wise it's been swings and roundabouts, but I have not yet been consumed, so there may be hope for my soul yet

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My headmistress asked us all to warn our parents that if a car followed you flashing its lights, a gang was going to murder you. I think she might have also warned us that henna tattoos would give you HIV.

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Huw @followhuw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kriss Akabusi came in and shouted and jumped up and down and generally just hyped us completely up (even though the majority didn't know who he was). They played Albatross by Fleetwood Mac at the end to try and bring us down, but it was TOO LATE

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Oscaaarrrgh @skeletonoscar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our local vicar came in and ate a rose. Not a clue why. Also seem to remember something about learning about the Gobi desert and being encouraged to remember it as "Go, bee!". Again, no idea.

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Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Catholic primary school, early 80s. Entire school - from five to 11 years old - in assembly to hear stories from a missionary who’d been in Peru. He told us how he’d witnessed a member of Shining Path behead a baby.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: Our headmaster spotted an earring glinting from the ear of soon-to-be ACR frontman Simon Topping. Outraged, he shouted "there's a boy there wearing an EARRING! Topping, on your feet lad. This is a grammar school, not a pirate's cove!"

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Max Boyce turning up with a massive leek. I still don’t know why.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Headmaster conducted a relentlessly bleak assembly on the topic of “the future” while wearing roller skates. There was no reference to roller skates in his lecture.

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Doug is ONLINE @dasmunch.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I was working at a school for this - end of year show for 6th Form, the drama teacher did an erotic interpretative dance to This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush; Red chiffon dress, tear-stained makeup, all… kind of oddly aimed at another teacher? Turned out they’d been having an affair and he’d dumped her

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We had a prison officer come in to scare us off crime. Tiny Scottish dude. Gave us detailed instructions on how to kill a man with a sock and some batteries and how to make a shank from a toothbrush. For the girls, the message was, avoid prison because "you'll come oot a dyke".

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: During the week of the fire alarms, our mild-mannered headmaster (cusp of retirement, never less than immaculately turned out), lectured us on respect for authority and bellowed “IF THIS IS THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE, THEN I’M KING KONG”. The name stuck.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I absolutely adore this song by Echo Ladies with its odd pitch and boomy sound. Can anyone recommend other stuff like this? If it helps I always end up playing Ten Little Girls by Curve afterwards. youtu.be/PaPmVcy3oGA?...

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Echo Ladies - Almost Happy

YouTube video by Shoegaze Daydream

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your school assembly: A man who had been in prison brought in a building made of matchsticks like John Merrick's because 'god' Police brought in super 8 films, sometimes cartoons, sometimes footage of rail decapitations (/1)

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WHO @who.int · 23/09/2026

Complacency leaves the world vulnerable. Political will is the need of the hour. Continued investment in epidemic/pandemic preparedness, stronger global cooperation, and fair access to health solutions will help make the Pandemic Agreement a reality.

Text reads: The biggest threat before the next pandemic? Complacency.

Image shows a little girl waiting on a bench, against a grey background.

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Imagine having to choose between Bernie Clifton and Harrington Quadraphonic Discotheque of Distinction.

Local advert for Bernie Clifton and Harrington Quadraphonic Discotheque of Distinction in late 1980.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worth your time to read this thread

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The fact that having spaceships in a fantasy story has led more people than is healthy to think rebels as goodies and The Empire as 'authority' can be related to real life without considering what those two opposing forces mean in their situation. Being anti-woke doesn't make you Luke Skywalker.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How long do you reckon it's going to be before we have the first UK court case resulting from an AI agent doing something on someone's behalf without their explicit command that is very clearly illegal and isn't about intellectual property?

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if Silicon Valley had been in Harrogate or Swansea or Inverness and so many of the things and ideas we use every day and shape our worlds had begun and been delivered with the sensibilities and presumptions of a different country and history

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A number of garden spiders have extended their definition of garden to include my kitchen. Every morning I get up to find the industrious lads and lasses have spun up huge webs across bits of the room. It's awesome, but blimey those webs are stong. I think it may be fruitflies are the bounty

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've been sharpening a knife in the bathroom On a brick I got from the garden No one will fuck with me again #fallfriday youtu.be/7yK39jI3RVI?...

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I Feel Voxish

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I always say “if other people like my art, that’s a lovely bonus but my actual aim is to get some of this obsessive shit out of my head!”

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good to see The Northern Boys are back and Norman's dress is delightful. youtu.be/LkY8xpZVx2A?...

youtu.be

The Northern Boys - Baddest In Town

YouTube video by Sindhu World

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

and everyone disabled by it - and those still getting disabled by it day in day out, because it isn't over but mitigations are - are treated as a deadweight of inconvenient killjoy pariahs harshing all that lovely normality everyone else has allegedly gone back to

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is a minority of people who think other people will think things are OK to do, as long as they are racist things to do. I don't really understand why everyone panders to that minority when a majority of people in the UK don't think a thing being racist makes it OK to do.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A local cat is trying to make friends with me. Yesterday I found a headless pigeon at the corner of the house. I think there is an outside chance that she has brought it as a gift in return for wandering in and out of my window.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What are your favourite stories / films / media where characters are subject to reality warping around them and where the characters are altered as the reality is altered? My fave is probably the last issue of Alan Moore's Providence, with its characters remade for a new world of gods and monsters

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All the AI doomer stuff is making me think it's feeling very pre-millennial. The idea 'everything too fast, civility failing, people becoming inexplicable' is reminding me a lot of 95-2000. In some cases it's the same people with hard ons for apocalypse, in others it's their intellectual grandkids

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It makes me very sad that 30 years or more into the world wide web, we still have not found a way for reading news online to replicate the experience of reading a newspaper. Everything is still either a pdf type thing or a blog with a million pages. It's not the same experience at all

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If a fear of lowering house prices is what stops the UK gulag archipelago then I'll take it.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm really fascinated by the whole chat bot thing as somehow externalising and making concrete the experience of talking to yourself in your own thoughts. Being beguiled by speaking to yourself. Deathbots feel similar. Memory is internal or shared but not quantified, tokenised or programmed

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just occurred to me that of course 'the kids' don't rate Douglas Adams, given that his most famous work involves both hitchhiking and guidebooks, two things that don't really exist anymore.

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This article highlights the 'postcode lottery' - uneven impact - of these new transphobic policies. That was the case for S28 also. It's uneven because some are finding the agency to push back. We all have a responsibility to do this in the spheres in which we have leverage and influence.

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