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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That’s just insane!

Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Holy crap, September 24th, Christmas baubles, fairy lights and “‘Tis The Season” decor has been deployed. This is not a drill.

Christmas decorations in a pub on Sept 24th

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I of course think he should be dealt with by the law... just wish there was a way to stop these people monetising it

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trouble is he'll now monetise this and make a whole heap of cash off it enabling him to do it bigger next time

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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the fetish these people have for "intelligence" is based entirely on Sherlock and anime protagonist monologues with little to no grounding in a theory of what intelligence is or what its limits might be

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A bit of personal news. My debut children’s book is out next month. Co-written with Sam Macadam & brought to joyful life by illustrators Juanbjuan Oliver & Elmira Eskandari, ‘The Adventures of Camden Crate: Camden’s Big Adventure’ is a fun, inspiring & uplifting tale for ages 4-8 & their co-readers.

Cover of The Adventures of Camden Crate: Camden’s Big Adventure, out October 18th

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank goodness for that. It’s a small thing, but it’s been bothering me for years. Feels like having a psychic cyst lanced.

The BBC Football website’s alphabetically ordered ‘All Teams’ grid last season, in which ‘AFC Bournemouth’ comes before ‘Arsenal’, despite ‘AFC’ just meaning ‘Association Football Club’. Madness.

The 2026-2927 season’s BBC Football website’s alphabetised ‘All Teams’ grid, in which ‘AFC Bournemouth’ is renamed ‘Bournemouth’ and therefore now comes after ‘Arsenal’ alphabetically, as it should. Not madness.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A colleague once said that Hardy’s novels are the Casualty of their time. One moment everyone is merrily at the town fair/skipping around Wessex/milking cows, but you already know everything is heading south. @mattpotteruk.bsky.social this was you, just so you know!

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

80% of Reform’s funding comes from just 2 Crypto billionaires. Cryptocurrency is the key means for Russia & others to channel money in secret to bodies in countries sanctioning them. Our democracy is literally being hacked & turned against itself. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...

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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dragonflies getting it on in the morning sun. I am sorry-not-sorry for invading your sexy moment, and now I am uploading it to the internet.

Close-up of dragonflies locked in a mating embrace. Taken 12 September in the UK

Top elevation of mating dragonflies in the sun

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you ever think you’ve wasted a chance, remember that someone, somewhere failed to schedule the release of Dune, Dune 2 and Dune 3 on June 1, June 2 and June 3, thus denying them a May The Forth style Dune-viewing-party date literally forever.

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bodø Glimt sounds like a one-scene character in Star Wars

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Democracy is predicated on having a public that is sufficiently informed... But a decades-long decline in Americans’ trust in the press threatens to undermine the role the media plays in cultivating an informed populace" How far is this decline driven by political messaging? Really good piece.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The worst of us attacking the best of us.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 10/09/2026

My worry isn't "rogue AI" - my worry is careless governance in the rush to release ever more effective frontier models, and then that crapness trickling down into businesses/governments not doing the work to make sure their AI projects are genuinely valuable and well managed.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Targeted online by whom? People with legitimate concerns?

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in 25,000-year-old human remains in Indonesia. I LOVE research like this. There's so much lazy "Ug ug" assumption about prehistoric humans. This implies a rich psyche. Altered states mean a complex life of the mind. www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

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Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia | New Scientist

Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound. This marks the earliest known example of probabl...

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New, hand-painted Tom Waits Converse arrived. This might not be the best photo I’ve ever taken, but let me repeat: Tom Waits Converse!

A pair of Converse Chuck Taylors hand painted with (left shoe) Tom Waits in late period, weird, Mule Variations pose, and (right shoe) the sketch of Tom from the cover of The Heart Of Saturday Night.

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Snowy. @snowy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

But he’s not orange, so there’s that.

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Tanja @tanjainthegreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why is the US CIA chief visiting Moscow?

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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gulf of Mexico. “Gulf of America!” Lake Ontario. “Lake America!” Strait of Hormuz: America! Greenland: “Americaland!” Filing cabinet: “America cabinet!” Hatstand: “Americastand!” Yogurt: “America!” Tuesdays: “Americas!” Wednesdays? “Americas!” Airport: “America!” Global laughing stock:

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Elia Kabanov @kabanov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I once spent half an hour watching Niyazov read aloud from his own book on live television, in front of a giant portrait of himself, with a Niyazov-shaped logo in the corner. Mesmerising!

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have no idea why, but today I feel mysteriously compelled to share the story of Turkmenbashi, the vain & ridiculous dictator of Turkmenistan who went round renaming things after himself & his personal buzzwords, on mad series of tantrum-driven whims. www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/saparmu...

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Saparmurat Niyazov: The Eccentric Despot Who Turned Turkmenistan into His Personal Playground

Saparmurat Niyazov, affectionately self-styled as Türkmenbaşy—or "Head of the Turkmen" if you're feeling formal—was the leader of Turkmenistan from 1985 until his rather sudden departure from the stag...

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Anyone getting ‘urgent’ emails regarding cancelling already-offered university places today (Saturday) - it’s a phishing scam. The scammers are relying on you not being able to phone/verify today. Please check the emails, and other signs that these are not legit. www.reddit.com/r/UniUK/s/T4...

Example of a phishing email around UCAS offers. This one is doing the rounds on the weekend of 14th/15th August 2026, and is surfacing on Reddit.

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Them: Have you seen Instagram lately, it’s all thirst traps, isn’t it? Me:

Springer book advert on Instagram: Globalization and Papua New Guinea: Ancient Wilderness, Paradise, Introduced Terror and Hell

Springer book advert on Instagram: Primordial Black Holes

Springer book advert on Instagram: Ctenophores: Methods and Protocols

Springer book advert on Instagram: Death Feigning: Mechanisms, Behavioural Ecogy and Implementation for Humans

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

He's soooo unhappy

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Them: You don’t see those heralds of the Approaching End Times with sandwich boards in towns any more do you? Y’know, ‘THE END IS NIGH’ and, ‘IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK’? Me:

Blackberries already turning ripe this morning oh no

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

At uni, I went to a lecture by Germaine Greer with the title, 'Twin Peaks & Hamlet'. It was mind-expanding. This was the theme: What people didn't get about Hamlet at the time – it was not an immediate popular hit – was the *whole point of it*. And it was also what David Lynch did in Twin Peaks...

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The r/Argentina subreddit is quite spicy this morning. Also: Javier Milei announcing a public holiday in either celebration or gratitude, either today or tomorrow, but not being clear, depending on how people feel when the team plane lands. 🤡 Be ready. Posts autotranslate for non-Spanish speakers.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That halftime show was the most rictus flinch-inducing spectacle of cheese-encrusted, pucker-souled, clown-makeup-caked, cavity-riddled, corporate backslapping, breathmints and PowerPoint, faux-entertainment I’ve ever seen.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Jon Zajdel @falderalmalarky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Telemecus is for fools, but that's the way I like it baby! I don't want to live forever!"

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Also that Odyssey photo is giving massive Ace of Spades.

Cover image of Ace of Spades album by Motörhead

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I imagine the author is thrilled to have their critically lauded personal and scholarly examination of Homer described as "a primer to Christopher Nolan's film" lol

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵

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David @davidpeacock40.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Even the yanks are laughing at Faridge's stunt

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

binface pronounced like it's italian

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This will sell out.. Sunday.. Sept 27th Hosting this @c20society.bsky.social event about Listing, Love and hate for Brutalism.. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...

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Brutal(ism) Love and Hate | Southbank Centre

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

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Matt Potter @mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

ICYMI: Whenever you hear claims of a supposed "millionaire tax exodus" from the UK, remember: 1) these reports invariably originate in marketing material from wealth firms eager to drum up offshore investment business. 2) the claim is demonstrably false. taxjustice.net/press/millio...

Screenshot from the linked fact-check article, quote:

"The “record-number” of 142,000 millionaires that the Henley report claims are leaving countries in 2025 once again represent just 0.2% of the global millionaire population (60 million).5

The migration rate of 0.2% is not only consistent with the average migration rate from 2013 to 2024, but is proportionally smaller than migration rates in 2016, 2017 and 2018, contrasting Henley’s claim of a record scale of migration."

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 08/07/2026

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

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