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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The thing is, I’m all for it because it is quite literally impossible for them to make a worse conclusion to the Skywalker Saga than TROS. Not even saying this as a ‘challenge’ or something, it cannot be done

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

found a new type of guy

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AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Alex Becker @alexcbecker.net · 15/09/2026

The Yudkowski school assumed as axioms that alignment is nearly impossible and that the singularity is inevitable and as a result completely ignored all the practical problems that have actually arisen.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 14/09/2026

the core of what I think about "intelligence" is that you CAN'T and won't have something meaningfully described as "intelligence" without a rich, independent, evolving goal structure, which is (part of) why the paperclip optimizer framing is so boneheaded

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You know what, screw it: another social media break, until Saturday again. Laters.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don’t normally like this writer but IMO this is spot on. Technology changes but life goes on. There is no magic- whether it’s technology or politics or whatever- which will, in itself, ‘fix’ you.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I would enjoy a crossover that starts with them dining together and then, through a series of misadventures, each is forced to take up the opposite character's mystery. So Benoit Blanc has to batter his way through a bunch of redneck cops and Jack Reacher has to outsmart a murderous plutocrat.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another thing I read during my break was Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. There are Takes aplenty on that story, with many people seeing it as being about abuse. Personally I think it’s primarily about how consent gets negotiated when there’s a big power difference. #Bloodchild

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reading Timothy Zahn’s Cobra novels, it occurred to me that he might be the author I have read the most. How many times did I re-read the Thrawn trilogy as a kid?

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Taking a bit of a social media break. Will see you all next Sat.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Writing update: my first draft was around 55k words. The new draft adds a few more chapters and clocks in around 80k words, which is much more ‘book-like’ in my own mind. #writing #writingcommunity

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I read Ariel after finishing this and I think The Cut is a poem which will stay with me for a very long time. Is there a name for a phobia of cuts, because I definitely have it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

there are going to be many remembrances of Tim Curry today for his brilliant work in Rocky Horror and Clue and so much more, but to me this ridiculous bit from Red Alert sums up everything that made him great you never knew what you were going to get with him, but whatever it was would be brilliant

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Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space

Alt: Tim Curry's Space gif from Red Alert

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𝔸𝕕𝕒 👀💙😵‍💫🍿🫩 @iamjanedoe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Baked potatoes as a full course meal are highly underrated.

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

People should read. Casts doubt on the plagiarism allegations. Arday had already technically been cleared by the university, but they tend to be repeated uncritically in media stories about him. #Arday

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was so tired over the weekend that I couldn’t focus on an Agatha Christie novel, which is sort of the literary equivalent of not being able to eat bread.

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Wilbur72 @wilboo72.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I just burned 3,000 calories in under an hour. I left the cookies in the oven too long.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is it bad that I’m twenty pages into The Bell Jar and finding it immediately relatable? I’m guessing it’s bad.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Genuinely this would solve a lot of our current problems.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The marathons claim was always plausible, and the evidence wasn’t difficult to find. I discovered his GoFundMe page with +-10 minutes of research. The press treating it like it was totally out to lunch was a major fuck-up. #Arday

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love these tips… #BookSky

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is simplistic- Arday almost certainly lied about some things- but there is evidence he did a surprising amount of stuff. The 30 marathons always seemed plausible for someone with a sports background, people do that kind of thing for charity all the time.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death

Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Maybe this makes me a bad person but it puts me in a really good mood whenever I see people complaining about Claude’s text being watermarked. #Claude

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The entire reason people are crashing out over Claude watermarks on 'AI' content is not because 'aww the watermark ruins it *madface*' It's because they're passing off AI work as their own....and often getting PAID for it. And plenty of people saw this as some magic lifehack cheat code.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My next book is something a bit…different. Some say it will drive you mad. Some say it’s just a bit pretentious. Either way, it’s House of Leaves. #HouseofLeaves

Mark Z Danielewski’s House of Leaves. You will pay a terrible price for reading this book…£18.99 on Amazon for a used copy, plus extra for the mirror

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’ve banged out three short stories over the past few weeks. This is good in one sense, but bad in the sense that I am out of excuses for not working on my novel. #Writing #writingcommunity

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Reading about the situation aboard the USS Lincoln and once again thinking that Sun-Tzu is the most vindicated man in history. Tbf people have wised up now but there was a period where people were making fun of how basic Art of War is as a way of mocking business bros too into it. No more of that!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hit my reading goal for the year! Not sure if that means I should be more or less ambitious next year. #reading #writingcommunity

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

christ, what a depressing story all round, and what a series of failures of responsibility to get to this.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Update: people are REALLY freaking out about this on Reddit and TikTok. It’s a little sad but also hilarious. #Anthropic

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not a good showing for Farage. 27% for a joke candidate is very high (probably a record) and captures a pure anti-Farage vote. That over a quarter of the vote in the most Reform friendly seat in the country will instead back a man with a bin on his head shows how strong anti-Farage motivation is.

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Richard 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 #SaveGaza #ClimateAction #RejoinEU @richardfbpe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Haha! The joke candidate with ridiculous unworkable policies has won it!

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 14/08/2026

Clacton parliamentary by-election, result: REF: 62.8% (+16.6) BIN: 26.7% REU: 1.4% IND (Tony Francis): 1.2% Reform HOLD.

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Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Initial Clacton results seem to be: Farage won, but Binface picked up a decently large share of the vote. Fingers crossed that it’s embarrassingly large. #Clacton #Farage #CountBinface

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