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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 10h
Get this - real GDP per head has grown by 1.1% over the first half of 2026. Excluding the swings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, that's the largest increase since late 2017.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 22h
Happy birthday to my YIMBY Pod co-host and Britain’s youngest Jag owner, @mjrobbins.com!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've no idea why the Telegraph thinks the mine is being opened by Labour and not the companies that have worked hard over several years to develop it to this point, but this is very positive news for Cornwall and the UK.
Telegraph headline: Labour opening lithium minr in Cornwall to combat China
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 27/09/2026
How is he good at travelling if it takes him that long?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So good! By @mjrobbins.com
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 22/09/2026
So the exact same premise as the plot of Dr Strangelove, 62 years ago, based on 1950s technology
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Anyway, this has all the makings of a classic British scandal where something really bad happens, and we pretend the conditions weren't painfully obvious beforehand.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...
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SFI26: Window 2 now closed
Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.
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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I wonder to what extent these smart people are drawn to AI precisely because of its grandiosity; because fixing the boring problems of society like healthcare or inequality is beneath people as smart as them." Very interesting post from @mjrobbins.com: martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: my post on the sheer unhealthiness and groupthink of the culture around AI, "a community of would-be-martyrs, enmeshed in a deep paranoid fantasy that they alone can stave off the end of the world."
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is excellent, and reminds me to keep picking the tomatoes before the skins split, and make sure I've got a loaf out of the freezer for lunch.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 20/09/2026
This is a bit long but a nice skewering of the arrogant twats locked in their little bubbles who are driving the "AI is going to kill us all" nonsense.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is extremely good, though I am less certain than Martin that superintelligence (which I take to mean more intelligent than human) can't exist, given I don't think there is anything in the laws of physics that would prevent it
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Far too many quotable bits in @mjrobbins.com latest piece about the AI apocalypse doomed, so you'll just have to go read the whole thing martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Very much enjoyed @mjrobbins.com conversation-paced rant about the supposed threat of so-called superintelligent AI. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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Civilisation is the gearbox for the engines of our minds; human intelligence is its attribute. The scale of that intelligence is not governed by the person or entity with the highest IQ. You can't make a car that goes at 3000mph by just putting a rocket in it. I'm not sure it's possible to be superintelligent. To me it's like saying you're going to make the ocean superwet by pouring more water into it.
Rationalists desperately wish this wasn't the case, because it means the promise of the Al priesthood, the promise of a world where being smart and thinking better magically solves all your problems - could lead you to the gates of heaven itself! - is a lie: that the world isn't changed by thinkers, but doers. That's why every contrived thought experiment that involves an AI triggering the end of humanity involves, ultimately, human beings doing something incredible stupid with real stuff, like shipping a super-virus to an angry teenager or firing a nuclear arsenal. The boring risks of human agency that we already face today.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026
Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 19/09/2026
Thinking a lot about this piece, and I think it’s crystallised for me why self driving cars are a terrible idea.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 18/09/2026
Yeeees come to daddy. #lasagne #godtier
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026
I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fascinated by this thread of what parents gave their kids for dinner tonight, and how it compares to my childhood memories of Smash and tinned hot dog sausages or Findus Crispy Pancakes and Supernoodles: www.reddit.com/r/UKParentin...
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From the UKParenting community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the UKParenting community
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 12/09/2026
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/09/2026
🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The last week has seen multiple incidents of masked mobs trying to subvert the power of the state. Their actions have been illegal and unpleasant. But the treatment has been weak. The police haven't dealt with it, and neither has govt. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
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Stop the Louts
The tools exist. The will, so far, doesn't.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Devolution created a natural experiment here and we have the results. bsky.app/profile/tom-...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026
A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Millenials are the only generation who received a survivable dosage of Internet. Gen Z has only every known Internet. Boomers and Gen X didn't grow up with Internet, so they succumbed to it immediately.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/09/2026
have written about this before and, given the population of this website I guess I need to make that point carefully, but at what point do we start looking at how those kids got parented? am absolutely not doubting The World is also to blame but surely it can't be just that?
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Rob Blundell @blundell.eu · 31/08/2026
TheGuardian still behind the curve @mjrobbins.com bsky.app/profile/mjro...
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 30/08/2026
First draft: complete!
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/08/2026
Any MP who signs on to Burgon's motion is not acting within the national interest. We need more data centres – and it comes down to a question of security: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/08/2026
Find purity testing on all sides so funny when it becomes "if you want us to win, you shouldn't speak up when we do dumb shit".
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We’ll defend ourselves by explaining to the Russians that what they’re doing is badly out of step with the Red Wall
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 27/08/2026
The pigeons are going to be *livid* when they find out that the scaffolding we’ve had up all week is actually for the solar engineers coming this morning.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 25/08/2026
Also a *phenomenal* businesswoman, an absolute shark who grafted, dealed and invested her way from grinding poverty to being a half-billionaire.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/08/2026
British tech success story Fenix International Ltd briefed its accounts to the FT, boasting it is proud to have paid £600m in corporate taxes to UK Treasury in last decade. I’m sure they’ll be receiving a ministerial visit, given their key role in the UK economy. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/08/2026
Think generally one of the things about being Very Online is you see a lot of controversies/scandals about people that normies don't - and so normies have a very glossed opinion of what is going on with certain people.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 23/08/2026
First draft of the book should be finished by next weekend and it’s only two months and 30,000 words over budget which seems kind of okay by publishing standards? Not sure how people do this every year, frankly.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 19/08/2026
My favourite thing with stuff like this, or the Green Party’s visceral hatred of renewable energy, are the tortured Greens desperately trying to reverse engineer a sane justification in the replies.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 14/08/2026
The inevitable consequence of the best short film made in 2026
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 14/08/2026
You’re all moaning about the BBQ alert but have you used a BBQ since it went out? No? Well then.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
tbh "don't have a barbecue there's a good lad" is actually a pretty good message to be sending out to everyone on Friday night before the hottest driest weekend of the August holidays. If we were Australia or something we would be used to this but we're not; this is adaptation
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/08/2026
Sincerity has to triumph. Irony and cynicism have to be pushed back.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The partial eclipse will be underwhelming but it’s nothing compared to how they look on Mars. Look at this. Absolute dogshit. The Moon is the best satellite in the solar system. 10/10. Based compared to those absolute cucks Phobos and Deimos.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 12/08/2026
Suspect there are going to be a lot of disappointed people tonight when they realise it’s not a total eclipse and 80-odd percent isn’t that dark.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 12/08/2026
Same thing in coding - pull requests (a chunk of code a developer submits for review before it’s merged into the product) are exploding in size for a given scope, which means peers have impossibly large, sprawling changes to review and also turn to AI.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck. I'm publishing the letter. Its central claim may be false.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 08/08/2026
James here bringing much the same professionalism and poise that he contributed to my most recent video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7i...
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