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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Give an AI startup access to all my photos, or potentially miss out on some shoes that are on sale? Tricky one

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Because all the problems caused by putting cars first will be solved if we just put cars *more* first 🙄

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Armchair Thriller, with the shadow sitting down. Terrifying

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘How many local models do you run?’ I continue to ask, as I slowly shrink and transform into a corncob

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If road danger isn't designed out, then it's designed in – and that is a choice

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An obviously essential bit of app functionality is 'if I select something and then zoom in, make sure the thing I selected remains visible'. Acrobat, Miro and Figma all fail on this score.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder what the answers would be if you asked 'which of the following should be subsidised using taxpayers' money?'

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And as ever, I will begin to believe in "parity" between technical/vocational education and university degrees when the children of at least some government ministers go down the former route.

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Dr Emma Byrne @sciwriby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What Blair and Badenoch don't seem to understand is that you can't penalise people into better mental health. Why not address the depression and anxiety caused by zero-hours exploitation, shitty housing, and crippling costs of living instead?

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It does feel that way along Abbeydale Road and Little London Road (its quieter alternative). I'll be back among their ranks tomorrow 🫡

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yellow kit and yellow keeper kit again 🤔 #bskyblades

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Clint Boon coming across as a really good guest and a nice bloke on Six Music

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not sure I want to click through to see the rest

Screenshot of a line from the poem I'm replying to says 'The Old Home Town is a hot bed of c...', with the rest obscured by the Alt button

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And very much of its time 😳

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A Professor of Urban Affairs, no less

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wouldn't really think to listen to Underworld these days – but this just came on and blew me away 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAIF...

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Mmm...Skyscraper I Love You (Jam Scraper / Remastered)

YouTube video by Underworld - Topic

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Their sense of entitlement is boundless

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I asked Gemini to tell me about footpaths and ginnels in a specific postcode area. The results were total hallucinations

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And a little more recently – Lee Douglas - 'New York Story' www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dhC...

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Lee Douglas - New York Story

YouTube video by 71jpgits

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What Pefkin track was it that Stuart Maconie played last night on Freak Zone? #MildlyObsessed

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'My top issue is immigration.' Barnsley South is 97% white www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/sea...

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Seat Details - Barnsley South

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

He never believed it. He just wanted to kill off rail and metro proposals, to benefit Tesla.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In a parallel universe, Electric Six released an absolute banger called 'Sex Strike'

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What the hell. All rice is tremendous

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Westcountrybird @racheljs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re reaching a new low in this country when the fantastic heroes of the #RNLI being attacked for their amazing work. Not forgetting the other #Lifeboat services that also keep people safe too. Bill Bryson said it best. Please unfollow me if this is a problem for you.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A 'no cycling' sign on the NCN. Only in the UK 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The labelling of condemnation of Israel's actions in Gaza as 'antisemitism' is what's truly shameful here

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Michael Batey @mbatey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also his name is an anagram of 'he an arse'

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