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@mayj.bsky.social
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
One of the only people to make the Ro Khanna cycle look normal
Image of Ro Khanna, with a cycle of question marks superimposed over it
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
France with their "nuclear warning shot" doctrine
Image of Macron's self-image
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This image was in fact shared with me by an anonymous Leverhulme leaker
A photo of a Leverhulme prize winner
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The average British worker pays the same rate of tax as the average American worker, the difference tends to kick in for higher earners
Plot from the FT showing the tax rates of various countries including the US and UK
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Two slightly different takes on the same video
Screenshot of the post above, along with one on the logistics of fighting children
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Waiting on fighter bomber like
Screenshot from the Simpsons where the class looks towards the viewer and says in unison "Say the line, Bart!"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kinda funny failure mode for an admittedly incredibly half-assed prompt. Very good at making a YouTube slop thumbnail tho
Screenshot of asking am LLM to kirkify an image, only for the edit to aimply be turning it into YouTube slop
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I see that the energy use understanders have logged on Even ignoring the human, it's hard to see several hours on a laptop with PS taking less energy than an LLM generating this image
A screenshot of someone saying that there's no creativity when using AI, and that AI data centres use far more energy than a laptop with photoshop"no matter how clever the concept, AI is always slop"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"February is after January"
Norman Rockwell (?) painting of man stating controversial opinion
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"did I just argue with a joke" meme
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Retvrn to tradition
"francesca" tattoo that has been poorly edited to say "San Francisco"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They've been very clear what they want! Benefits without tradeoffs
Simpsons screenshot where Agnes tells the teller that she wants all of her shopping in one bag, but doesn't want the bag to be heavy
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of the academics came pretty damn close to directly accusing them, it's remarkable and entirely believable
Screenshot of a post by one of the academics that OpenAI tried to strong-arm into giving them credit
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The relatively minor decline in UK scores is genuinely impressive, given what happened to the rest of the OECD
Chart from The Economist showing average PISA test scores for selected countries in 2015 and 2025. Only Turkey shows an improvement, while Singapore and Britain show small deterioration
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We need this man do do one last mission
Zelensky, in a children's toy plane in a playground
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ariely does love his weasel word non-statement statements
Screenshot of Ariely's response, reading in part "Recently, I was made aware that data underlying a 2002 paper about deadlines and procrastination that I co-authored contained serious anomalies. The documentary record I have at my disposal today about those experiments isn’t sufficient to answer the questions that have been raised, and more than two decades, and hundreds of experiments later, my memory is similarly insufficient. "
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Image of meghan markle, smiling and raising her hand slightly
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oddly evergreen issue, where people take issue with the crass language used by racists rather than the racism itself
Meme from the show "community", where Britta says "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty". "racism" has been replaced with "crass language"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Possibly more like this subplot from earlier this year tbh
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think we all know what the plan is
Meme of Lisa saying "poor predictable Bart, always picks rock" and Bart saying "good old rock, nothing beats that" except that the rock is bombing to win, and Bart is centcom
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think I know what the plan is
Meme of Lisa saying "poor predictable Bart, always picks rock" and Bart saying "good old rock, nothing beats that" except that the rock is bombing to win, and Bart is centcom
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Poorly formatted and a bit blurry, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide whether the red line on the left plot (real data) is the same as the lines on the right plot (reported data). Note that the axis limits are different, this is a very unfriendly format
Screenshot of two plots, both nominally the same data, but the data on the right is falsified
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Once more referring to the sign
Prof. in front of text saying "you tell me I am wrong. Who are you, who is anybody to tell me I am wrong? I am not wrong"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Come for the numbers, stay for the snark
Screenshot of the article linked above, where the FT makes fun of Stephen Miran
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Crazy way to find out and then have it confirmed
Screenshot of an 11 month old post speculating that trump and Tim Curry will die on the same day, right above this one
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Modified version of the "somebody call the ambulance! But not for me" meme, with Stephen added as the protagonist, and "ambulance" replaced with "grammar police"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Elsevior adding an AI summary chat it to all their papers (alongside LLMs in general) has done terrible things to some of my PhD students Very much this, always trying to build a convoluted custom solution to a specific problem, rather than understand it
Screenshot of an article about Google search offering to build a custom hydration plan rather than just give one the answers
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The similar colour scheme of your and Brian's pfp (from a distance, glancing briefly) caused me to momentarily think that you were the same person, and one of the fastest FT subscription sales ever
Screenshot of someone saying that they can't get an FT subscription in Singapore, Stephen saying that they can, and then an entirely different person saying that they have an FT sub
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interesting to see that using statistics from an authoritative source instead of generating the plots yourself is seen as a bad thing
Screenshot of someone complaining about Matt getting his charts from FRED instead of making them himself
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of the few lists I made, using the feature correctly (shitposting) (IIRC this was in response to someone getting very mad at you for being anti-Catholic due to an unrelated comment you made)
Screenshot of a list called "papists", which includes only Stephen Bush
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Looks like the Dallas Fed were right
Plot from the Dallas Fed, showing AI's 3 plausible impacts on gdp: singularity (extinction), singularity (benign), or gdp growth boosted by ~2%
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Cartoon of someone saying "waow" while thinking "based based based based"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I want him like this, forced to view an endless stream of cia funded cartoon dogs
Image of man with eyes clamped open, prevented from looking away (taken from Clockwork Orange)
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Seeing a quote from Tony in this article makes for an odd crossover
Screenshot of part of the article quoting Tony Zhu of LC Sign
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This includes cargo too, so not just tankers, but still
Chart showing transits in the strait of Hormuz, at a level of around 140 pre-war, ~10 during the war, and ~40 during the "ceasefire"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Maine Democrats were willing to overlook Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo, his terrible Reddit posts and his sexting with other women while he was married because they felt so invigorated by him and the movement he was creating. They went out on a limb for him" Incredible minds
"Maine Democrats were willing to overlook Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo, his terrible Reddit posts and his sexting with other women while he was married because they felt so invigorated by him and the movement he was creating. They went out on a limb for him, and he had every reason to know it was going to be sawed off. "
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I thought you meant one of these by CNC at first, and was slightly confused why it made it onto the list of much worse stuff
Image of a CNC mill
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Evergreen meme, somehow becoming more true each passing year
Meme comparing the virgin western stop oil activist (ineffective) to the Chad Ukrainian stop oil activist (budanov, bombing Russian oil refineries)
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Very funny how the general media consensus seemed to be that nothing would happen, but this Pope is built different
Screenshot of a BBC News article implying that nothing will happen
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is even worse than getting Starmer on that politics quiz
Screenshot of my "ai patron saint" results, showing that I got one of the bad Matts (Yglesias)
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Answering this question as a South African lmao
Screenshot of a question asking whether I agree that the best days of my country are behind it. Given that I'm south African.... Difficult to do worse than Apartheid
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I'd pick him over Starmer tbh
Screenshot of a political compass quiz saying that I'm most similar to Kier Starmer
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Kill me
Screenshot of a political quiz, showing that the politician I'm most similar to is Kier Starmer 🤮
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"war is something that happens to Buryats, not Muscovites"
Map of the per region proportional Russian death toll in the Ukraine war. Rural regions have far higher death rates than richer ones like Moscow
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Strong vibes of this
Scene from the Office (US) where Dwight states that he can raise and lower his cholesterol at will. Pam asks why he'd raise it, and he responds with "so I can lower it"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The major from the film Jaws, saying "inshallah the strait is open now"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
See also: cocaine in Europe
Plot by the Financial Times of cocaine price (flat) and purity (up 40%) from 2011 to 2021 in Europe
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Reminds me of this banger
Screenshot of a paper submitted to a predatory journal, where every word had been replaced by "chicken", while keeping the same format and structure as a standard paper
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Given that they referred to NATO as the North American Treaty Organisation...
Screenshot of a post by Sasha Issenberg, showing a photo of a NYT article. The article headline is "a North American Treaty Organisation without America?"
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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This headline is clearly the result of fevered hallucinations, and not real
Screenshot of news headline reading "Kristi Noem weighs in on report husband lives cross-dressing double life: 'the family was blindsided by this'
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