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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 55m
just to dogpile here, this isn't what people *want* from music. even if you do want a song written "just for you," automating it makes it 100% less special, doesn't it
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4h
Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 1h
ukraine has found a good, cheap way to shoot down russia's new waves of cheap cruise missiles: 20mm shells now they're running low, but the world's arsenals are swimming in this particular type of ammo www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Ukraine Seeks Shells for F-16s to Down Jet-Powered Drones
Ukraine is looking to source tens of thousands of 20mm shells to counter increasingly deadly Russian jet-powered drones, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2h
this is being framed as politically risky but at this point in the uk there is almost no one who thinks brexit was a net positive and much hard data confirming how badly it hurt the economy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Burnham Says Britain Could Rejoin the EU After Next Election
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he could campaign to take Britain back into the European Union at the next general election, reopening the country’s debate on its relationship with the continent a de...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2h
I'm gonna be the big jerk here and say the pupils are the giveaway
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 3h
*rubs bridge of nose* not really sure where to start with this
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5h
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "a person familiar with the investigation said that one of the suspects had called the police themselves just after midnight on Sunday. The reason for the call, which was first reported by The Times newspaper, was not immediately clear."
bloomberg.com
UK Police Find Fuel But No Explosives at Fairford Scene
UK counterterror police investigating an incident at an airbase used by the US to launch strikes in Iran said they found fuel, but no explosives at the scene.
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 5h
Now, what is interestin’ to me is you have two parties who know war will be devastating to them—and yet neither is willin’ to divulge the private information that would allow them to reach a negotiated agreement. Isn’t that puzzlin’?
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5h
Know Your Hawks (tiered) 1) Jayhawks 2) Hawkeyes (midwestern, why not) 3) Blackhawks (sure) 4) Hawks (Atlanta but I'm sure there are others)
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 20h
well this is exciting
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 20h
I'm a normal person. literacy is important. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 20h
this is extremely funny
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h
weirdly this is also what it is like to be the parent of a child in primary or secondary school
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h
disco was ascendant, what else where they supposed to believe, james
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 23h
You’re right to push back. That was a set of red balloons, not a Soviet first strike. Should I order some ambulances?
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23h
I would accept that we are weird I guess
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 23h
A really important piece for thinking about what the military can do to avoid being used to erode constitutionality:
warontherocks.com
The Discipline of Refusal: Constitutional Concerns About Lawful Orders in the U.S. Military
Military doctrine gives officers a clear rule for manifestly unlawful orders: Refuse them. It offers no comparable rule when lawful action appears to
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23h
subpop was, like, an incubator
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I am the house.” @pkrugman.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they're all good fighters, bront
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have been thinking recently that my previously held position of "fusion power will make things good" is getting displaced by "fusion power will almost immediately be co-opted by a surge in data center construction" and that makes me a little sad
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we got a nice keyboard for the kids to reluctantly practice piano, so of course the first thing I did, like any parent, was figure out the intro to I ain't mad atcha
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as we've seen from the houthis, the technological bar for building missiles is surprisingly low these days. motors and guidance are the hardest to do at a high level, and arguably guidance is the most important bit for ukraine here, as everything else aside I doubt they want to hit say a school
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there is a certain type of pundit (not bouie) whose entire schtick is pretending not to understand obvious things and then expecting praise for being a brave truth teller with a $50 vocabulary
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the "jet-powered shaheds" imo prove my point that we're just talking about cruise missiles here. cheap, small and not that accurate, but cruise missiles
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
how dare you shame me for wondering whether I should have nachos for dinner
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026
please, my bonds, they are very sick
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poster has been referred to the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France for using the term "Lady Hitler" instead of "Madame Hitler." The gendarmes will be at your door presently. Please do not resist.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
gotta say, I don't totally understand cheering when the thing blows up
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so they're suspected of *something*--there is a bail amount--but it's clearly not terrorism
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
for some reason I find this funny
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
all these moments will be gone, in time, like tears in rain
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A CNN @kfile.bsky.social investigation unearthed since-removed posts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French that repeatedly advocated public executions for political opponents, including former President Barack Obama www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
well now there's something you don't see a speaker of the house say every day
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
have to give spacex commentators credit here--they are being pretty upfront about the risks of a failed orbital insertion, not cavalier about going fast and breaking things or whatever
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess I would just caveat the op's remarks with the fact that all I want for christmas is you feels a lot more ubiquitous because it is/was *everywhere*, not just at the top of the charts
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
interestingly this announcement has not made a big dent in oil prices (yet) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Saudi Arabia’s Crucial Oil Pipeline Starts Exports After Repairs
Saudi Arabia has started exporting oil using a key cross-country pipeline after the link was repaired following drone strikes earlier this month, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
also it pays well, apparently
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I enjoy how turning soviet-era apcs into r/c vbieds is described as making "ground drones" kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ope...
kyivindependent.com
Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflicts 2,000 Russian losses, 3rd Army Corps announces
The villages of Ridkodub, Nove, and Katerynivka were liberated amid newly-reported territorial gains of 51 square kilometers.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
perimeter is fascinating and it's impressive how much we know (and don't) even to this day
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
illegality is a binary thing right
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
personally I don't find "the solution to the ai concerns is more ai" all that persuasive but I'm a philistine that way I guess www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Nvidia Debuts System Designed to Stop AI Agents From Going Awry
Nvidia Corp. introduced a new double-layered artificial intelligence security system that it says would’ve prevented the recent high-profile breach of Hugging Face by OpenAI’s AI models.
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Jesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Foreign residents packed Tokyo’s main immigration office Monday, facing waits of as long as 7½ hours as applicants rushed to complete procedures before steep increases in residency fees take effect this week. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09...
japantimes.co.jp
Tokyo immigration bureau swamped ahead of residency fee hikes
Visa applicants faced waits of over seven hours at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, just days before permanent residency fees rise twentyfold.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one thing I love about the evolution of military technology is that no matter how advanced a ground vehicle you have, it can still be effectively stopped by... a sufficiently large ditch
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Iran Says It Won’t Soften Demands as Trump Rejects Hormuz Offer
Iran stuck to its seven-day proposal for reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz, saying it won’t soften its conditions, while President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about his willingness to reach a...
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