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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 14h

I've been saying 'No THE, no apology' for years but if you were in any doubt read this

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 16h

Silo is a great show for anyone able to suppress all curiosity about manufacturing, supply chains and infrastructure

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you can reliably distinguish by ear all the reels in the Breathnach and O'Neil collections, then you can talk to me about infinite personal music

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sorry, it's still not enough to make me dredge up the words or music to Fairford Breakdown by the Albion Band

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great demonstration of the Tyndall effect in a wooded area by the scattering of beams of light by finely suspended particles of fog in the air: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

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Toaster @toaster.codes · 28/09/2026

Just remember the rhyme! Masked by the sea, you’re alright by me, Masked by the planes, we’ll clap you in chains.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

farewell Mighty Sparrow, based Calypsonian www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWu...

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Mighty Sparrow - Capitalism Gone Mad

YouTube video by Edward Spencer

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of "Please don't throw me to the Christians" or Barrett, it may say more about the listener than the song. Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world.

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you can't handle me at my Anna-Maxwell-Martin-in-Star-City you don't deserve me at my Anna-Maxwell-Martin-in-Ludwig

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

aged jazz musician is facing his final moments. They rush to fetch the priest who hurries in, bends to whisper into the dying man's ear, "anything still bothering you my son?". And the musician whispers back "country music".

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Chu-Let-The-Dogs-Out✊🏾💚🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇬🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @chumantastic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just bought some anti-gloating cream from the pharmacy.. Can't wait to rub it in!

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John Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remarkable flint flush work on the church of St Miles, Coslany, Norwich.

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The old 'My Music' radio show once mentioned a music catalogue that included that favourite Delibes piece, "Le Roi s'Abuse". Some of the ensuing discussion could not be broadcast

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About the only thing to be said for the QS gossip-rankings is that they're highly sensitive to this sort of nonsense

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Laura Bradley @lurabardley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Journo request: I'm looking for Youths™ who are watching, or have watched, Friday Night Lights. Basically, anyone who is *not* a millennial or older. Are you this person? Do you know someone who is? DM me!

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

after consideration, I have produced this necessary reference guide, perhaps @sundersays.bsky.social may be interested. If someone wants to provide funding after the fact, I can promise it won't constitute a donation in kind to Reform.

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the one hand Englishness is a construct, on the other hand me saying so does sound a little like a scary-looking guy in an expensive suit saying "what is this 'mafia' you talk of? I don't know what that is"

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ah no, easy mistake to make, I was actually talking about Clavichordular, the baroquemaxxer who just got brutally temperament-mogged by Quarter-comma

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when the far-right piles on other rightwingers for not being racist enough, that's called getting reesmogged

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ban Evan Davis from all UK university campuses now

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you write your next book" would certainly be...different

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ecclescrosswords.bsky.social @ecclescrosswords.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sad news that The Independent is to stop its Cryptic Crossword in November, barring a last minute change of heart. It has forged its own distinct identity and will leave a great hole. Particular credit to Mike for introducing so many new great new setters to the professional ranks.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday

Princess Anne inspects your mum's work outfits

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever someone smart says, ‘I asked ChatGPT and it said xyz,’ I’m reminded of Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #quitgpt #TheAICon @baldurbjarnason.com

The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.

By using validation statements, such as sentences that use the Forer effect, the chatbot and the psychic both give the impression of being able to make extremely specific answers, but those answers are in fact statistically generic.

The psychic uses these statements to give the impression of being able to read minds and hear the secrets of the dead.

The chatbot gives the impression of an intelligence that is specifically engaging with you and your work, but that impression is nothing more than a statistical trick.

This idea was first planted in my head when I was going over some of the statements people have been making about the reasoning of these ‘AI’.

I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm, but no, ‘AI’ has both taken a different crowd and the believers in the ‘AI’ bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“This isn’t the sort of prejudice that comes with an ableist slur or a violent push. It is the gentle, everyday belief certain kinds of lives – certain kinds of people – come with low expectations.” My column on the growing care abroad scandal and what it says. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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An effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances Ryan

This scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our researchers are warning that inconsistent use of the terms ‘neurodiversity’ and ‘neurodivergence’ in mental health research could obscure important differences between diagnoses and make findings harder to interpret. Find out more: southampton.pulse.ly/rjs5xj4rsx

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really hope this doesn't happen when a fire breaks out

The console of a powerchair; the screen reads:
"Prepare upgrade
Wait begin command...
upgrading..........
please do not power off"

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

University management making it clear they understand how effective union representation can be, time staff at all UK universities realised the same thing

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Heading into the part of the year where we have to pay for energy (sigh)

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cover of "The Road Accident Situation in Australia in 1975" with a colorful pattern of horizontal bands that form a jagged, city-skyline-like pattern across the top and ripple into wavy lines in automobile-shaped patterns below.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

yes! Solving the Navier Stokes equations is a tricky but straightforward programming exercise; I wouldn't be surprised if some mad bastard had done it in Excel. It's more like proving something which can't happen in a real fluid could happen in the ideal fluid the equations describe.

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What's the proper name for the yokes that are missing in the second picture? I need to order some more and don't know what to search for

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

7. Everyone would be better off. Well maybe not everyone. Jensen Huang would certainly have a very big sad. But is that a bug or a feature? I think the course is clear. The labs _need_ their workers to unionize if they want to save their profit model. AI Labs of the world unite! [finis].

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In S1 of #Ludwig John Taylor wore contact lenses instead of glasses to impersonate his brother James. In S2 the police think they're working with John, but he doesn't wear glasses, that's because it's now James impersonating John WAKE UP!!! Also, Lucy is sending coded messages with her socks

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The penny has very belatedly dropped that they couldn't say that I was more use doing my standard job than being bought out of them, because that could be used as a defence in a subsequent redundancy case

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