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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 14h

Manchester City lodging their appeal

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 16h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 29/09/2026

Oh, I don’t know the full context here, but this is a fantastic and satisfying watch.

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 29/09/2026

The Shopify CEO reaping what he sows

News story from last year where the shopify ceo demanded that staff prove that AI can’t do their jobs, and a news story from this week where the same CEO says that AI is generating more work for everyone

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 28/09/2026

Just realised what that Taylor Swift song reminds me of: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGr...

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Too Many Cooks | Adult Swim

YouTube video by Adult Swim

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine being scared of Fabians, of all people. It’s like campaigning to get labradors added to the dangerous dogs list.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 24/09/2026

That judge is a spoilsport.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 23/09/2026

The Central line runs beside the playground of my old primary school, so we’d get visits from London Transport for safety advice in our assemblies. Sometimes they’d lay detonators on the track so we’d get to hear the bangs when trains went by. I often wondered what the passengers thought

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 18/09/2026

This should not be a controversial opinion.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 16/09/2026

The Landmark Trust used to rent out the apartment on the top floor of The Hill House as a holiday let, and I was lucky enough to stay there when I was a kid. It felt like such a wonderful privilege.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 16/09/2026

Did the Burgundians from Pimlico teach us nothing?

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 16/09/2026

Me watching Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 14/09/2026

My “I do not live in a mould palace” statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. disasters 2. fires 3. floods 4. killer bees 5. Los Angeles falling in the sea 6. Garbage Pail Kids 7. Transformers because there's more than meets the eye

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026

"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways:

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 06/09/2026

I think I went to this open day with my dad. #old

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Jack (tehTrunk) @tehtrunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can I get from Tottenham to Nottingham using only public bus services?

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 03/09/2026

Surely it’s not beyond the wisdom of science to develop a way of generating renewable, infinite energy using the power of Polanski’s ego.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 30/08/2026

Trying to make local journalism works as a business is hard. That's why I'm proud to announce that London Centric is diversifying into the capital's ice cream trade. www.londoncentric.media/p/ice-cream-...

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Intimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream wars

London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's maddening to see how easily AI is demonstrably shown to just be ELIZA with an AOL connection but sure, let's sacrifice our future -and burn our present too- at its altar.

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ELIZA - Wikipedia

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 17/08/2026

So I've now walked the entire Tube network (well, apart from Heathrow Terminals 2&3 that you can't get to on foot). Just bits of non-Tube transport to go now. Here are some photos and stuff: matsimpson.com/2026/08/17/w...

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Walking the TfL map – Time to Chiltern

Ooh, look, I’ve finished the Tube. Photos My #WalkTheTube YouTube slideshow Photos from this walk on Flickr My #WalkTheTube collection on Flickr (the most recent walks at at the bottom) Today’s w...

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This horrific tale cannot be reposted too often.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Here’s why we need solar farms and pretending we can just cover car parks and buildings simply won’t work. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...

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The Green Party is STILL bad at being green

We need 'industrial-scale' solar if we want to reach Net Zero.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 08/08/2026

My one and only bit of internet infamy is giving Steve Ballmer his monkey boy nickname.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 07/08/2026

I've always been a fan of all the characters for different locations in Citymapper: citymapper.com/cities

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Citymapper - The Ultimate Transport App

The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Over on Whatever today, I'm talking about "AI" and creativity and how, when it comes to learning creative skills, Generative "AI" is rather like the old "Guitar Hero" game, i.e., a really fun way not to actually learn how to do a creative thing: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/g...

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Generative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of Creativity

So, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. First off, this is awesome! The universe needs more people making a…

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 06/08/2026

I dunno, sounds risky.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Rather concerningly, the lawyer for the Tate brothers has confused “extradition” with “execution”. Young lawyers note - be careful not to do this in court.

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Exit through the gift shop @gift-shop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ozzy Osbourne Bat Plush – Birmingham Museums: giftshop.micro.blog/2026/08/03/ozzy…

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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You can have all your intellectual comedy, with layers of nuance and clever ways to address serious emotions and topics, but you know what you REALLY like. Don't lie.

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 29/07/2026

Really, really good watch

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matsimpsk @matsimpson.com · 29/07/2026

This day, 9 years ago. The corner of the park lane and shelf side coming down. #coys

The structure of the old while hart lane stadium being demolished by an excavator

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Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In a couple of days I'll be launching Volume 3 of the Beatles Film Posters series. Here's a look back at the twenty posters that made up Volume 1...

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GwedLid (Fisto to my mates) @gwedlid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

RIP Bill Oddie. Legend.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/07/2026

“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]

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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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Bankrupt @bankruptspurs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can I just shock you? Cristian Romero is the greatest captain we’ve ever had. Despite what I just said earlier.

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